Media must eat humble pie

“THE American people have spoken, but we still support her” is the message from the Cape Times and other newspaper houses worldwide.

When Democrat-elects take to the polls, they do so with the full and powerful support of the liberal press worldwide.

No Republican candidate can expect positive, or even balanced reporting from a global institution that cannot help itself but to support the candidate that its staff socially align with.

Ronald Reagan (Rep), a great president with a powerful political presidency, was labelled a buffoon and a make-believe actor by Democrats and the press in the 1980s.

George W Bush (Rep), a president under trying times with increased global terror strikes against democracy and on American soil, was rabidly condemned both at home and abroad by the politically correct left, as was his father, also a Republican.

Now, before even taking office, Donald Trump was ridiculed and mocked by the popular media.

Hollywood actors (no bastions of conservative living themselves) berating him for his locker-room talk that pales into insignificance when held up against their own actions, or even those of president Bill Clinton and notorious previous political Democrat womanisers that have held office.

And candidate Clinton herself, teflon and bulletproof darling of the press corps, could do no wrong.

Dragging her heels to help to American soldiers and staffers under siege in Benghazi, resulting in their deaths under her watch as Secretary of State.

Compromising intelligence e-mails that she stored on a public server?

Her membership of the taxdodging Clinton Foundation.

A politician and Watergate Baby groomed for presidency practically from birth.

No, this is a case of the press needing to go back and lick their wounds. They have thrown their lot in and backed a losing horse, now they must eat humble pie.

Overwhelmingly, and against the press’ own predictions and hopeful wishes, the American people have cast their vote for a conservative.

Under a working democracy, this must be accepted, but we will not see this happen.

Instead, expect the new American president to be mocked, vilified and ridiculed by the liberal press until a Democrat does again take office in the White House.

Expect that he be labelled as a backward, ineloquent, big-businessfunded totalitarian monarch as all Republican presidents before him have been, regardless of the job he does.

Pity the man in those shoes.