Column: The Hit-Job Parade of Anti-Trump Authors
Anderson Cooper 360 – 08_58_10 PM
By Tim Graham | September 16th, 2020
It must be fall campaign season, because our incredibly tilted Democrat media are rotating through a series of authors ripping into President Trump. Start with the most overpraised journalist in Washington, Bob Woodward, who is almost as old as Joe Biden, but is still trotted out with great fanfare as the conquering hero of Watergate.
Everywhere he went, it seemed Woodward was asked to declare that Trump’s term in office has been “worse than Watergate.” Tony Dokoupil on CBS insisted no one died in Watergate, while Trump is somehow responsible for the vast majority of deaths from the coronavirus. On 60 Minutes, Woodward colorfully described the president as a lethal pile of dynamite.
No fact-checkers were requested.
In the same week, the networks also lavished attention on two discredited actors in the Trump scandals, former FBI investigator Peter Strzok, dismissed from the Mueller probe for flagrantly partisan text messages, and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, fresh from serving a prison sentence. Trump’s niece Mary Trump is still squeezing big money out of her lurid psychological profile on Uncle Donald. She calls him “The World’s Most Dangerous Man.” It helps with the royalties.
Now notice that there isn’t a single author with a deeply critical book on Joe Biden. Somehow all the publishers in America weren’t at all interested in the half of America that might buy that book. A librarian trying to help a reader interested in Biden might try to suggest Woodward’s Washington Post colleague Steven Levingston and his book from last October, helpfully titled Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership. The publisher Hachette touts it as “A vivid and inspiring account of the ‘bromance’ between Barack Obama and Joe Biden..”
Potential buyers of that book were sold with explicitly anti-Trump terms: “As many Americans turn a nostalgic eye toward the Obama presidency, Barack and Joe offers a new look at this administration, its absence of scandal, dedication to truth, and respect for the media.”
You’d have “respect” for the media, too, if they lied about the “absence of scandal.”
Pro-Trump authors are being ignored by the “mainstream” media. Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a best-selling memoir Speaking for Myself, but somehow she is considered beyond the pale, even though she hasn’t been to prison like Cohen.
Washington Examiner reporter Byron York has a new book out on the Mueller probe and other Trump scandal inquiries titled Obsession: Inside the Washington Establishment’s Never-Ending War on Trump. Liberal journalists will probably dismiss the book because it’s published by staunchly conservative Regnery Books.
The networks that were so deeply invested in the fantasy of Russian government collusion with the Trump campaign won’t want to hear York explaining that Robert Mueller’s team of Democrat investigators knew early on that there was no proof of collusion, but they dragged the whole charade out past the midterm elections.
Black conservative Candace Owens has a brand-new book out titled Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation. That is published by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon and Schuster. Does anyone think CBS will lavish attention on this book as they did for Woodward, a Simon and Schuster author?
The Democrats running the “news” media and the book-publishing industry have stacked the deck against Trump, just as they did in 2016. Once again, they expect their merciless onslaught against Trump to usher the Democrats into the White House. Once again, they cannot imagine why half of America treats them like relentlessly partisan pseudo-news outlets.
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