The media’s “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is shifting into high gear with just weeks until Election Day.
The latest example in our weekly Liberal Media Scream comes from a prominent New York Times columnist who is in such a panic over President Trump’s suggestion that he won’t immediately accept a defeat by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that he declared the situation “DEFCON 5,” the highest military alert.
Reacting to Trump’s remarks about accepting the election results, Tom Friedman launched an exposition on all the things that animate Trump haters. On Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, Friedman called it “the most frightening moment in my life.”
And he added his disgust with the Republican Party when he called it a “political brothel that rents itself out by the night to whoever will energize its base.”
Friedman on the Sept. 24 Anderson Cooper 360:
“I think what happened in the last few days is a six-alarm fire. I think it’s DEFCON 5. The president of the United States has told us, ‘Either I win the election or I delegitimize the election.’ Those are your choices, folks. And he basically is trying to break people’s will to really get people to say, ‘What the heck? He wants it so bad, just give it to him.’ I think this is, this certainly is the most frightening moment in my life. It’s frightening because of him. It’s frightening because he’s backed by a state-owned network.
“And it’s terrifying because the Republican Party has become basically a political brothel that rents itself out by the night to whoever will energize its base, whether it was Sarah Palin or the Tea Party or now, Trump. This is a party that went into its convention with no platform, no platform, and basically just said whatever Trump wants, we want. And if you’re not frightened now, if you are not terrified for what could happen, it’s not we might have a disputed election. It is we are going to have a disputed election, almost certainly, unless Trump wins, in which case I shudder to think what four more years of this would be like.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Friedman colorfully expressed the depth of the hatred and anger toward President Trump, which runs deep at the New York Times. His apparently genuine fear of the supposed disaster ahead if Trump were to win reelection shows why he and his colleagues will use all their tools to defeat him.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
