All the News That's Fit to Slant

I did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. In fact, I can still remember howling with laughter when he declared his candidacy, thinking he was a total joke suffering from delusions of grandeur. Things have changed, and I now consider all his attackers to be the jokes, and certainly suffering from delusions of grandeur.

The thing is, reporters don't actually do anything themselves. (Having been one myself for many years, I speak from personal experience.) They don't create any usable products or perform any usable services.  Instead what they do is annoy people by calling them on the phone or chasing them down in public to badger them about what they have been doing. Then they write it up as best they can remember and turn in their impressions to an editor who then edits the hell out of it, forever eradicating the thoughts, ideas and any shreds of intelligence the reporter may have included. The final piece is altered to fit the editor's or publisher's desires. The reporter is merely an errand boy or girl who brings the quotes sprinkled throughout (unless there are no quotes but instead a series of references to "reliable sources").

Gloria and her hair helmet.

On TV, it's all about the look, with reporters strutting their stuff like Hollywood stars on the Red Carpet. Anderson Cooper, who probably has perfect vision, dons his trendy glasses, then omits them when his outfit commands it. Average-looking women like CNN's Gloria Borger and Dana Bash spend hours every day having their makeup professionally applied and their hair professionally styled so they can appear glamorous on TV, just to do one thing and one thing only: Trash the President of the United States as they have been instructed by their bosses.

Joy and her African braids.

Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, Joy Reid, she of the formerly very straight, very short hair, has taken to sticking on a set of dreadlocks to make sure you understand she is an African-American before she trashes the President. As for Brian Williams, the former respected anchor at ABC News who disgraced himself with a pack of lies years ago during Hurricane Katrina but got a new job anyway, oh please.

So now, after almost four years of this non-stop nonsense, I will be voting for Donald Trump in November, as he is just about the only person I ever see on the news who is simply himself (with his real hair, as ridiculous as it is). And if you ask me, he's done a damn good job with this whole pandemic thing, despite the constant, ceaseless, never-ending bitching and moaning of those leeches who get paid a ridiculous annual salary (Anderson Cooper $11 million, Joy Reid $1.5 million, Brian Williams $10 million) to magnify Trump's every misstep and hide all his good deeds.