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Much of the items in the news today concern the POTUS's snubbing of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to hold a campaign-style rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, attended by a roaring, appreciative crowd of supporters.

And if one regards how that group he cold-shouldered, and the MSM in general, demean and belittle him, Trump’s avoidance of their get-together was a proper decision indeed. 

Evidence of press hostility can be seen in an article by Gideon Resnick @thedailybeast.com, who can’t keep negativity toward the POTUS out of a simple report regarding Trump’s Pennsylvania visit.   

Resnick headed his article: “Donald Trump’s Spell Hasn’t Worn Off—And It Might Never,” followed by the subtitle: “His rapturous show kept fans enthralled on Saturday night as the populist hero came to speak to his people.”

However, after setting the premise of the POTUS’s popularity among his “people,” Resnick begins with a quote from the end of Trump’s nearly hour-long speech when he read a 266-word sonnet by Al Wilson called “The Snake.”

According to Resnick, Trump “yelled”  the words “‘Take me in tender woman, take me in, for heaven's sake. Take me in, tender woman,’ sighed the vicious snake.” 

From there, Resnick presents his slant on Trump’s verbiage, writing: “This iteration of the campaign-show favorite was dedicated, as Trump put it, to Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly. If the subtext wasn’t evident enough, it’s about the deceptive nature of immigrants and the risk that they pose to the security of the United States. And if you’re inclined to believe so, it could be about the president himself. 

“Donald Trump has been president now for 100 days, and in that time he has had two travel bans blocked by the court system, failed to deliver on the repeal and replacement of Obamacare, and not started building the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s a short timeframe, but until recently, it was the one upon which Trump was basing his successes.

“But none of this was particularly relevant, because the fake news media had done a bad job accurately portraying the freshman politician’s methods of running a country and Trump was there to preach the message on the mountain—straight from his lips so it wouldn’t be twisted by CNN and MSNBC.” 

And in those three paragraphs, Resnick has demonstrated that the MSM and he himself, simply don’t understand how and why Trump was elected in the first place and why his “rapturous show kept fans enthralled.” 

And that’s because it’s only the MSM and their dwindling leftist audience that's keeping an itemized scorecard. In reality, however, all Trump’s supporters care about is that he’s on their side, fighting the establishment for them, isn’t a politician and from their perspective has accomplished a great deal in 100 days versus a swampfull of recalcitrant, complacent politicos.

Which is also why, with the exception of a few hard-line conservatives, Trump’s performance to date is appreciated by so many of those who voted him into office that he’d rather spend an evening among them than a room full of left-leaning elitists.  

Further proof that Trump’s efforts to date are having significant positive effect for him is seen in a piece by Michael M. Grynbaum @nytimes.com, who unintentionally illustrated the POTUS’s damaging impact on the MSM.   

In support of the MSM’s journalistic prowess, Grynbaum writes: “Loud cheers and a palpable sense of defiance broke out when the president of the Correspondents’ Association, Jeff Mason of Reuters, declared with sermonlike ferocity, “We are not fake news. We are not failing news organizations. And we are not the enemy of the American people.” It was the longest ovation of the night. 

That was followed by mention that “Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, seated on the dais, reminded the room of journalism’s power, and Mr. Woodward articulated the subtext of the evening when he addressed Mr. Trump directly, saying, “Mr. President, the media is not fake news.” 

However, what the supportive commentary illustrates isn’t that the MSM is honest and forthright in reporting. Instead it shows them as being in a self-created, shrinking, corner from which they must now defend themselves.   

What’s more, aside from losing credibility and image from fake news reportage and the continual failure of news organizations, there seems to be a colossal failure of talent as well. 

That can be seen in Hasan Minhaj, of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” ending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night by blasting President Trump in a night that mostly focused on the First Amendment. 

Minhaj said: “We've got to address the elephant that's not in the room.  The leader of our country is not here. And that's because he lives in Moscow. It's a very long flight. As for the other guy, I think he's in Pennsylvania because he can't take a joke." 

And if that’s all that this group can offer, they’re all a joke. 

Reader therealtexassoil summed it up this way: “The worst rating as any dinner has ever had 

“So who watched it ? 

“So who went to it?” 

That’s it for today folks. 

Adios