POLITICS: News media dug its own grave with absurd Trump coverage

This isn’t a column. It’s an obituary.

Donald Trump’s improbable, historic, decisive victory on Tuesday showed us that the so-called free press is dead and buried. 

Outlets from CBS to NBC to ABC to CNN to MSNBC to The Washington Post and The New York Times and countless others like Politico and The Atlantic went all-in on defeating Trump with overwhelmingly negative and oftentimes patently dishonest coverage — and they failed miserably.

Weeks of their electioneering couldn’t bring the voters to their side.

Headlines alone reveal how they served as de facto surrogates for the Kamala Harris campaign. 

The Washington Post: “Another night at the Garden: How Trump’s rally echoed [a Nazi rally] in 1939” 

The New York Times: “Harris and Democrats Lose Their Reluctance to Call Trump a Fascist”

Politico: “Meet the sleeper conservatives who could help fulfill Trump’s promise to be a dictator on Day 1”

The Atlantic: “Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini” 

And when the election results actually arrived, the mainstream media reaction was unhinged, insane and unintentionally hilarious. 

Trump and J.D. Vance won going away — not only by sweeping every swing state, but by winning the popular vote, the first GOP ticket to do so since 2004.

They thereby stripped the Democrats and the media of any chance to cry foul about the will of the people being superseded by the Electoral College. 

So without any controversy over the tally — and after propping up the worst presidential candidate in history in a fruitless effort to get her over the finish line — these activists posing as journalists had nothing left but unfiltered and unhinged emotion.

And it was delicious to watch as the returns came in. 

Take David Axelrod on CNN, for example. The former Obama strategist is usually rational, but with his candidate losing so badly, he could only play the hatred card. 

“Let’s be honest about this. Let’s be blunt about it: There were appeals to racism in this campaign, and there is racial bias in this country, and there is sexism in this country,” Axelrod argued. 

Yup. That makes total sense: A candidate rejected by Democratic voters in the 2020 primaries is the victim of racism and sexism.

That’s a hell of a way to talk about your own party’s base. 

How about MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough? He also played the gender card, arguing if that Kamala was a tall guy from the South, he would have won. 

“If she were a 6’4″ white man from — from Arkansas or from, you know, Florida, and she ran a good middle-of-the-road campaign, talking about reaching out, do you think she would be losing by that much?” he railed.

Yes, she would have.

Because the cost of living is sky-high, crime is driving people out of blue cities and more than 12 million have entered the country illegally. Gender has nothing to do with it. 

And what’s a media critique without calling out Sunny Hostin of “The View,” who managed to play the elitism card in slamming white female Trump voters who don’t have a college degree like she does.  

“Black women tried to save this country again, last night,” Hostin said. “What we do not have is white women, who voted about 52% for Donald Trump — uneducated white women, is my understanding.”

In related news, just 37% percent of Americans overall have earned four-year degrees. Nothing like alienating a good chunk of your viewers to make a point. 

But nothing says loco quite like former CNN/MSNBC/Current/Fox Sports/GQ/Twitter troll Keith Olbermann, who claimed that “Russia has committed an act of war against this nation” by allegedly threatening to bomb polling stations in the swing states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona. 

There is, of course, zero evidence of this. Thankfully, Olbermann has promised to move out of the country in the event of a Trump win. 

One can only hope. 

Overall, according to the Media Research Center, Harris received 78% positive coverage to Trump’s 15% across ABC, NBC, and CBS in the three months before the election. 

Talk about a disconnect with the viewing public, considering Trump may win 312 electoral votes. 

Come January 20th, the 45th president will become the 47th president. 

Don’t expect the media insanity to stop until January 2029. 

Fortunately, fewer and fewer Americans are actually listening.

Joe Concha is the author of “Progressively Worse: Why Today’s Democrats Ain’t Your Daddy’s Donkeys.”