The Great American Leader-Media War

THE GREAT LEADER, who is soon going to start restoring national greatness, yells yet another big lie, which his smiling supporters either ignore or lap up, while the news media identify and correct the lie. Furious, the great leader condemns the media, accusing it of horrible crimes, the worst being opposition to the great leader. Cleverly, the great one tries to ignore all media members who ask fair questions, expose his lies, and fail to be obedient followers. The glorious thing about the United States is that, in a war between the media and the president, hypothetical or real, you'd have to put your money on the media, and for that, let us thank the dear lord, or in the case of progressives, the divine cosmic force. Between the two, you want the media to bring down the president; they are far more replaceable. Everyone complains about the media at one time or another. My personal favorite is to complain about the number and length of commercials on television. Sure, Clinton and Obama complained about the media. And, as we all know, everyone tells lies. Its hard wired into humans to tell lies. But we do, usually, have limits of tolerance. Trump the great leader wanna be tells way too many ridiculously obvious lies, and complains about the media way too much, almost as if he were whining like a pre school brat. The media brought down Nixon, it can bring down Trump. Ultimately, of course, Nixon brought himself down, and only Trump can de-Trump Trump. A few too many outrageous lies, conflicts of interest, illegal overreach of his powers as chief executive, or collaboration with the Russians to steal the election from Hillary will do it every time.