I am a fan of the press, whether in print or television. I grew up anticipating the delivery of the Washington Post before school and my great-uncle coming home after work with a copy of the Evening Star he had picked up at the local market or liquor store. I am from a family of readers. Another of my uncles read the Sunday Post from cover to cover, sometimes taking hours. He would stub out his Camels in a nearby ashtray while spilling his coffee with fingers covered in smudged printer’s ink. I, like most of my friends, would first turn to the sports pages to check on the Washington Senators, Bullets, and then-Redskins, depending on the season.
The lazy letdown of the news media bruises my soul…
If I were a citizen of the UK, I could understand the Daily Mail or the Sun papers chasing Princess Kate Middleton around and examining her family photos like the Zapruder film (back and to the left). I do not wish any harm to the princess, but why American media is devoting so much time to whether she is sick and using a body double or doctoring photos is the least of America’s concerns. I suppose the conspiracy culture of America lends itself to ignoring the obvious and not accepting the philosophical principle of Occam’s razor, which states the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.Simply put, the most reasonable sets of facts generally solve the problem.
Meanwhile, back here in the Colonies, the press is trying its best to make Donald Trump the equivalent of Joe Biden. Their qualifications, stability, loyalty to the country, and competence are nowhere near equivalent. The Trump administration is being examined prefaced with the newest phrase, “Trump-nesia.”Elise Stefanik, the Chair of the Republican Conference, recently asked whether you are better off now than four years ago. During the Trump regime, people were wiping with coffee filters because of a toilet paper shortage. Hospitals had to order refrigeration trucks to put grandma on ice like a Sunday roast because the former President chose to ignore a health crisis, saying it would disappear in the summer.
Schools closed during the Trump administration. The Biden administration reopened schools. Small businesses closed or failed in the thousands and are in a resurgence under Mr. Biden. Unemployment reached 13.3 in May of 2020 before Mr. Trump left office. It is at 3.9 percent now. Another of Donald Trump’s advisors [Peter Navarro] went to prison yesterday, and the Trump administration is contemplating rehiring Paul Manafort, who served two years of a seven-year sentence for witness tampering and obstruction of justice, to name a few. All charges that arose from his “alleged” collusion with the Russian government.
Admittedly, prices are up, but one can walk into a grocery store and see full shelves, unlike in the Trump years and his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Joe Biden worked through the supply chain issues and gave free COVID-19 testing kits to any American who wanted them. Nurses are no longer Facetiming families so they can say goodbye to mom or dad—the ill-conceived tariffs on Chinese goods cost Americans in the form of higher prices. Mr. Trump's policies were based more on animus than reason. Travel bans, caging children, even threatening to send COVID-19 protective gear only to red states. His tax cuts for the rich exploded the budget. President Biden lifted millions of children from their impoverished plight—the answer to Representative Stefanik’s question is a resounding YES! America is better off now than four years ago.
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