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New York Post columnist, Michael Goodwin, appeared on Fox & Friends this morning. One of his contentions was that Trump's correct in attempting to build bridges with the leftist mainstream media. He used the New York Times as an example, believing that they can be convinced to open their minds and once again, return to unbiased reportage instead of spewing leftist propaganda.  

As one having great respect for Mr. Godwin, I’m not so sure that that’s the answer. Because, the general public is fixing the problem on its own. As last reported, the Times had 1.4 million digital-only subscribers and a a daily print circulation of 590,000, roughly 2 million people in total. Trump, however, received 62 million votes to date which means that he’s got a 60 million person edge in audience favorability. Thus, the best approach seems to be to simply ignore the Times and let it continue to disintegrate on its own.

Adding confirmation to the premise of reader disenchantment, FoxNews.com separately reported today: “The public editor for The New York Times said Sunday that the number of complaints the newspaper received over its coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign spiked to five times its normal level.

“Complaints to the paper included claims that its coverage was biased against Trump during the general election as well as accusations from readers that it favored candidate Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries. 

The publication's public editor, Liz Spayd, wrote.“My colleague Thomas Feyer, who oversees the letters to the editor, says the influx from readers is one of the largest since Sept. 11.”    

“Spayd says others are calling into customer care at multiple times the usual rate and had “a variety of concerns, including the election coverage.” 

Aside from media audience-shrinkage, national trends appear to illustrate significant movement away from leftists altogether, as also reported by FoxNews.com.

“Rep. Tim Ryan said on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory – combined with the GOP protecting its majorities in the House and Senate – sent a clear signal to lawmakers that “working-class” Americans had “flipped their middle finger to the establishment.” 

“I am pulling the fire alarm right now, is what I’m doing in the Democratic Party,” Ryan said of his challenge to [Nancy] Pelosi. “I believe we are in denial of what’s happened, and I’m pulling the fire alarm because the house is burning down.” 

“We better get our act together or we will cease being a national party,” Ryan said. “We are going to be a regional party that fails to get into the majority and fails to do things on behalf of those working-class people that were the back of the Democratic Party for so long.” 

“The problem is they talk to people in segments,” Ryan told The Washington Post on Monday. “Here’s our LGBT community. Here’s our labor guy. That doesn’t work. You stop becoming a national party.” 

As mentioned here yesterday, while socialists Sanders and Ellison will take the party backwards, Schumer hasn’t a shred of personal job experience in the private sector either. And what’s worse for them, after their party took a major shellacking in this election, none of them have an iota of an idea as to why.  

Reader, ObamaMessiahOfGOP, summed the Democrat party’s obtuseness this way: “Americans need decent JOBS.  J-O-B-S!!  Offering people "free college" (another farce) only to go work at a burger joint is not real economic progress or success.  Endless talk about raising the minimum wage only means you are failing to  create real economic growth with decent good paying jobs. 

“Democrats are the party of "businesses don't create jobs".  A party this stupid should never hold power again.” 

And, it certainly appears that ObamaMessiahOfGOP’s prediction for the party’s future is absolutely correct.  

And then, a different perspective on the “Hamilton” controversy came from Rush, as usual, yesterday. He took the time to step back and point out that it’s highly unlikely that the troop playing their roles have the slightest idea who Hamilton was, or what he stood for. Which is typical of today’s uneducated, highly vocal, whining, spoiled liberals. 

Rush explained: “The actor who spoke to Pence, Brandon Victor Davis, said, "We hope this show has inspired you."  You know what the show's about?  I mean, it's Hamilton.  It's about a vice president who shoots a political rival and gets away with it, Burr, in a duel.  Do you know that Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk?  I wonder if the people in this cast have any idea who they are lionizing and celebrating.  This guy's Donald Trump.  Alexander Hamilton was a huge nationalist.  He did not like states' rights.  He wanted a massive federal government.” 

So, once again leftists have proven that while most things they rail against politically aren’t factual, those that are true are usually quite damaging to the greater public in general.  

What’s also quite interesting is reportage from dailymail.co.uk/news showing that RadarOnline investigated whether or not the Hamilton actors had voted and revealed many hadn't in years.   

“Dixon's records show he didn't vote during president Obama's reelection bid in 2012. 

“Javier Munoz, playing the titular role of Hamilton, registered to vote in 2006 and voted in the mid-term elections, but hasn't been on record as voting since.  

“Seth Stewart, who plays Thomas Jefferson, voted in 2008 when Obama ran for the first time. He did not vote in 2012.  

“Okieriete “Oak” Onaodowan, who players James Madison and Hercules Mulligan, registered to vote in 2005 but hasn't been on record voting since.” 

Illustrating that, although these two-bit phony’s will avail themselves of a captive audience in a Broadway theater to admonish those perceived as adversarial, they won’t even bother to take their own time to vote, which is the most powerful way for citizens to voice displeasure. 

Yet, despite the movement away from liberalism and Trump’s astounding presidia win, he may already have guaranteed himself to be a one-term POTUS presiding over a hoodwinked electorate. 

Daniel Halper @nypost.com, wrote just this morning that “President-elect Donald Trump won’t subject Hillary Clinton to a criminal inquiry — instead, he’ll help her heal, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.” 

Kellyanne Conway told the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe: “I think when the president-elect who’s also the head of your party … tells you before he’s even inaugurated he doesn’t wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone and content, to the members.” 

Conway, now on the Trump transition team, said in her interview: “Look, I think, he’s thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States, and things that sound like the campaign are not among them.” 

And in that short phrase, Conway likely lost countless followers for her boss. Because, if voters can’t count on those promises made while campaigning, what was the purpose of his campaign? In fact, he now sounds exactly like Bill Clinton’s wife, who admitted to Goldman Sachs that she had two agendas. One for the public and another, which was for herself and those who paid for her assistance to them.     

Conway went on to say: “I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that’s a good thing.” 

But that’s a far cry from the  the second presidential debate in October, a much harsher Trump vowed: “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception.” 

And now, he’s in precisely the same position as Bill's wife, whereas he outright lied to his constituents as he deceived them himself. 

Oh well, although he’s only been POTUS-elect for two weeks or so before self-destructing, it sure was nice while it lasted. And now, we’re right back to politicians as usual, which really isn’t all that surprising. 

That’s it for today folks. 

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