Yesterday, Washington Post hack Chris Cillizza made this laughable tweet about the media and their obvious bias in favor of Hillary Clinton:
Let me say for the billionth time: Reporters don't root for a side. Period. https://t.co/dhH8eherOR
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) October 16, 2016
| 96% of campaign contributions of more than $200 come from media hacks to Clinton |
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This is of course the same Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post’s who Twitter profile reads:
One of the dumber and least respected of the political pundits. — Donald Trump
I think Trump nailed that one about Cillizza, especially if he is stupid enough to think that we believe his bullshit.
Now comes this, of the $200+ campaign contributions to Hillary Clinton so far this election, 96% of them have come from the media! Yea, no bias there right Chris?
So far about 430 media hacks aka “journalists” have given $382,000 to Hillary Clinton (and that was just as of August).
New Yorker television critic Emily Nussbaum, a newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner, spent the Republican National Convention pen-pricking presidential nominee Donald Trump as a misogynist shyster running an “ugly and xenophobic campaign.”
What Nussbaum didn’t disclose in her dispatches: she contributed $250 to Democrat Hillary Clinton in April.
On the nation’s left coast, Les Waldron, an Emmy Award-winning assignment editor at television station KFMB, the CBS affiliate in San Diego, swung right in July, shooting $28 to Trump.
And Carole Simpson, a former ABC “World News Tonight” anchor who in 1992 became the first African-American woman to moderate a presidential debate, is not moderate about her personal politics: the current Emerson College distinguished journalist-in-residence and regular TV news guest has given Clinton $2,800.
Conventional journalistic wisdom holds that reporters and editors are referees on politics’ playing field — bastions of neutrality who mustn’t root for Team Red or Team Blue, either in word or deed.
But during this decidedly unconventional election season, during which “the media” has itself become a prominent storyline, several hundred news professionals have aligned themselves with Clinton or Trump by personally donating money to one or the other.