We have heard it before. "Politics is a dirty business." How true it is. Not only for elected officials, but for the people who cover those elected officials, as well. Long gone are the days of Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite. Guys who certainly had their opinions and views on people and events, but we never really knew just how liberal Cronkite was until years after he retired to spend his days on his yacht. Now, we are treated constantly to journalists' opinions on those people and events, and this is having some serious consequences.
Social media destroyed journalism, gave no talent hacks and con men an audience to speak freely without any oversight in truths
— FontainesRazor (@FontainesRazor) April 28, 2026
People can no longer critically think or evaluate
The premise of who what where why when how is gone
Proof no longer matters
Opinions become facts https://t.co/s1k3or9Wls
Americans were horrified when, on Saturday evening, yet another attempt was made on the life of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) in Washington, D.C. We have heard many harrowing accounts of what went on by people who were there. This is the third attempt on Trump's life in two years. Sadly, it is an occupational hazard for presidents, but for this president, it goes way beyond the normal hazards.
But "Trump Derangement Syndrome," as we have come to call it, has been around since long before Donald Trump. One might argue that, in the days before the internet and social media, President Ronald Reagan was the first modern president to endure the precursor to a "syndrome." Those of us of a certain age can remember Reagan's back-and-forths with ABC News White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson. Donaldson asked tough questions, which is fine, but a vast majority of the media at the time portrayed Reagan as a doddering old man with a finger on the nuke button, or a "cowboy" who wanted a conflict with the Soviet Union.
Journalists are supposed to present the facts allowing followers to make their own opinions. Today's Journalist force feeds opinions not allowing anyone to form their own.
— 🇺🇸 Stu ✝️ 🇮🇱 (@Ecclesiastes_38) April 27, 2026
Subsequent Republican presidents were no strangers to increased media bias. But in 2000, along came George W. Bush. After one of the most hotly contested elections in American history, complete with "hanging chads," Bush was declared the winner in a Supreme Court decision, and for the media, it was on. They couldn't decide if Bush 43 was an evil genius or the incompetent "fortunate son" of President George H.W. Bush. After a 2003 interview on National Public Radio, where former presidential candidate Howard Dean suggested that Bush was "suppressing" the September 11 (2001) report, the late columnist and former psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer coined the phrase "Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS)." Democrats and leftists at the time went all in on BDS. Author Michelle Malkin even wrote a book, "Unhinged" in 2005, that chronicled unending cases of BDS that are strangely reminiscent of today, complete with photos of Bush with a Hitler mustache and an entire chapter called "Assassination Fascination."
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Rush Limbaugh was the father of conservative talk radio. Every conservative radio host and podcaster owes what they do to Rush. Rush was a favorite target of the left. In February of 2021, just days before his death, Rush wrote an essay for The Heritage Foundation entitled "Why Liberals Fear Me." In his usual pithy, no-nonsense way, Rush summed it up this way: "Liberals fear me because I threaten their control of the debate." As usual, Rush was spot on. After his death in February of 2021, the media and the left gleefully danced on his grave.
What happened on Saturday night is simple. It was the culmination of decades of fomenting hatred for conservatives, presidents in particular. My colleague, Nick Arama, pointed out the obvious: When you have a large chunk of Americans who only read and see the contents put out by the people in that room, what did they expect? No one should have to go through what attendees at the WHCD did. But does anyone think they will change what they do and how they do it? The answer to that is a big fat no.
"Too many journalists see their work as an opportunity to promote their own pet political notions, rather than a responsibility to inform the public and let their readers and viewers decide for themselves." ~ Thomas Sowell
— John Henry (@John_Henry_NC) April 27, 2026
