Varney: The mainstream media is a disgrace
Mainstream media is deliberately undermining a president the elites 'can't stand'
FOX Business' Stuart Varney on the mainstream media spinning negative news in response to their hatred for Trump.
FOX Business’ Stuart Varney, in his latest “My Take,” argues that the mainstream media has lost its mind in the last five years, being consumed by hatred for President Trump.
“We have been saying it for years and we'll say it again now: the mainstream media is a disgrace,” he said. “They can't get over their hatred of President Trump. It colors every broadcast, every front page. Whatever the president does, it’s wrong.”
Varney said he’s not alone in this thinking, as CBS News’ former president Van Gordon Sauter wrote, “The liberal-leaning media has passed its tipping point… America won't reunite until far more people can look at a news story and believe it.”
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“In short, ‘journalists’ have lost their credibility,” Varney said.
President Donald Trump speaks during a listening session with African-American leaders at Ford's Rawsonville Components Plant that has been converted to making personal protection and medical equipment, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Ypsilanti, Mich. (AP …
For example, he said, a headline in the New York Times this morning reads, “As meat plants reopen, companies won't say how many workers are sick."
“An important story, got it, but this is the day after tens of millions broke out of the house and started to open the economy,” he said.
And Varney said the TV networks run with stories they read in the elite papers.
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“The Times is their bible,” he said. “Read it in the morning. Put it on TV at night. The result is a never-ending stream of anti-trump bias. It’s always negative.”
Varney asked: Where’s the coverage of the Memorial Day Weekend “mood shift,” or rising lockdown protests? Just like the Russia investigations and impeachment, he said, “don’t expect objective reporting from much of the media.”
President Donald Trump points during a "Rolling to Remember Ceremony," to honor the nation's veterans and POW/MIA, from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House, Friday, May 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“How about the spectacular Trump economy?” he said. “It was only three months ago: Nah, Obama did that! Tax cuts to produce growth? Nah, a giveaway to the rich! Income inequality! It is an endless list of negative spin. A deliberate undermining of a president the elites just can't stand.”
Varney again quoted Van Gordon Sauter, saying, "news organizations that claim to be neutral, have long been creeping leftward, and their loathing of Mr. Trump has accelerated the pace."
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“And back to my first line,” Varney said. "The mainstream media is a disgrace.”