[Hoot Gibson]

^^ You're probably exactly right in what you have said here Hoot. I just find it difficult to accept the likelihood that there are so many professing the belief that the Russians helped get MR Trump elected in 2016. The concept is past just being gullible. Even to the point of providing a plausible cover for those who so desperately want to see the traditionally conservative values of our founding destroyed, that they will willingly fake the role of useful idiots. The other alternative is that they really are useful idiots. A nation killing prospect in either case and the violence associated being much more like the trappings of a pre WW2 Germany than any political movement worthy of America.

I found it difficult to accept too, TRT, but the more that I have watched video clips and read tweets made by reporters from CNN, MSNBC, and other media outlets, the more I have realized how much disinformation much of the public consumes. In many places in this country, if you subscribe to a basic cable package, then CNN is your default cable news source. Have you listened to the CNN daily conference calls that James O'Keefe has been releasing over the past few days? Hearing how Jeff Zucker and his staff plot what Trump news to cover and which news to ignore is a real eye opener. Most CNN viewers have no idea that Hillary Clinton cooked up the Russia/Trump collusion hoax or that there was a documented meeting to discuss her strategy that Obama, Biden, Comey, and John Brennan attended.

Fox News was the last cable news channel to make any attempt at fairness in how they cover the news. Then, I watched as four "info babes" interrupted former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, as he criticized George Soros. (Actually, only two of them censored Gingrich, but the other two failed to defend his right to speak.) When Tucker Carlson attacked Sidney Powell for not providing him with ALL of the evidence that she planned to file in her Georgia and Michigan lawsuits, I decided that I had had enough of Fox News. The only shows that I ever watch on FNC now are those of Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs, and I do not watch them on a regular basis.

All on air reporters have Twitter accounts and it is scary how ignorant many reporters are of the news - and I know that statement will be taken as evidence that I am a conspiracy theorist.   But most schools of journalism are dominated by very liberal professors and most news organizations are owned and managed by individuals with a very liberal bias. Most reporters are on a short leash to cover the news that their corporate employers want them to cover and cover that news the way that they want it covered. Most young reporters seem to work their shift and then tune out the news when they are not on the clock.

I believe that it is a matter of time before NewsMax and OANN fall under liberal control as well. Buying controlling interests in successful American media companies is a cheap way for the CCP, Soros, et al., to manage American public opinion. It has been a sad process for me to finally realize that the British tabloids, Al Jazeera, and Russian propagandist outlet, RT America, are less politically biased than our own news media.

There are still a few exceptions of objectivity in the mainstream news media. Catherine Herridge of CBS News is an excellent investigative reporter who, for some reason, seems free to report on Donald Trump and conservatives (I still do not view Trump as a conservative) objectively.

One of Trump's biggest accomplishments, IMO, has been to fully expose the political bias in our national news media. The bias has always been present but years ago, liberal journalists were encouraged and rewarded for making an effort to separate their own political bias from their reporting of facts. I had a great deal of respect for journalists like Tim Russert and Sam Donaldson. They asked tough, but fair, questions of politicians, regardless of the party affiliation of their subject.

Supporters of the imbecile President-elect wannabe, Joe Biden, who want an honest, objective opinion of the man who won their vote with an almost non-existent campaign, should watch some video of how he was covered by liberal journalists when he ran for president unsuccessfully the first time. He was even ridiculed by Eleanor Clift for his rampant dishonesty and stupid, easily verifiable lies. There was virtually no critical news coverage of Biden's 2020 "campaign." Biden is very dishonest and he is a very bad liar but that does not matter much when most people watch a progressive, lapdog news media, which is very good at deception.