How the New York Times blew the Trump tax story

 

 

Tuesday, September 29, 2020
 
New York Times story on Trump's taxes may go down as the biggest disaster since the Hindenburg.
An overblown opportunity that allowed the newspaper to flex its muscles over nothing.
You know it's bad when even a socialist Like Bernie Sanders blows the story out of the order when he posts the fact that this was not exclusive to Donald Trump and that almost all super rich people do exactly what Trump did.
But this is the problem when you have a batch of media who have stopped living in the real world and assume things about the masses that are simply not true.
The Times was desperate to create a Watergate out of something that really does not hold water.
There appears to be even some suggestion that they didn't get the right documents and they are certainly not producing them to prove their case.
This is a lot like The Atlantic piece that used questionable unnamed sources to slam the president and yet can't come up with a viable defense when the facts are challenged.
But it also shows some deep flaws in the thinking process of media these days and how out of touch with ordinary people they are.
New York Times And The Washington Post and some of the other liberal media are more common with socialism than they are with capitalism so are out of touch with real  people.
Like Bernie Sanders, the elite and arrogant media like The Times think all poor folks want is three meals a day, good healthcare and a place to live and that socialism will satisfy them.
But many poor people see socialism as a way of getting what rich people have and the minute, they find out socialism is only free food, free healthcare and a roof over their heads there will be riots.
Poor people don't hate the rich so much as envy them and poor people want to be rich so that they can put other poor people around.
So what New York Times piece saying how rich people like Trump got away without paying taxes, it doesn't resound the same way the reporters would expect.
Yes other people are pissed off but not because Trump got away with it but because they didn't think of it first so they could do the same thing.
Not paying taxes is a national right people have always tried to divert.
That's why so many people got angry at the new federal code that took away loopholes and made it obvious hell States like New Jersey over tax their middle class.
But again we live in one world and media lives in a total bubble and assume things about the masses and our reaction.
The New York Times And The Washington Post spend so much time trying to manipulate us into believing things they want us to believe that they don't realize that we might believe things of our own and getting away with not paying taxes is one of those things.
this is far, far different from Watergate where media was able to paint Nixon as a crook, someone who did all kinds of dirty tricks and head slush funds and such.
That kind of world is beyond the reckoning of ordinary people, we had to take the word of media as to whether this was a bad thing or not
But to have three full pages and the whole front page of the New York Times exclusive to a story that said somebody got away without having to pay taxes seemed a little bit excessive – even to people who otherwise hate Trump. This reporting is a lot like celebrating the launch of the Titanic. You know no good was going to come from it.
Perhaps media needs to start hiring people with more practical sense, somebody who hasn't had their parents paying their tuition to journalism school. Times journalists maybe need to get real jobs to understand what real people go through to understand just how pathetic this coverage was and how inept.
People may be gullible but they're not completely stupid and so seeing The Times spend so much ink so soon before the election and particular before the first debate they begin to catch on to the fact that the New York Times may have some other agenda than the public good.