The media is completely tone deaf. They are running around the country claiming that President Trump is dividing the country, but a poll taken on that matter shows that people by far believe the media is dividing the people and that includes a plurality of Democrats as well as Republicans and Independents.
Overall people say the media is the one doing the dividing with 64%. 56% say Trump is dividing the country. 46% of Democrats, a plurality blame the media. 80% of Republicans say it’s the media and the Independents say it’s the media at 67%.
There are two remarkable things about this poll. The first is how tone-deaf the media are to how they are perceived by a massive majority of the country, even by a plurality of their fellow Democrats.
The national media constantly harp about things like “division” and “partisanship” but always do so within the context of bashing Republicans, specifically Trump.
One notable instance occurred on Monday when CNN’s Don Lemon perfectly crystallized the establishment media’s approach to “unity.”
“We have to stop demonizing people,” the left-wing Lemon said as his words that followed demonized white men: “The biggest terror threat in this country is white men … and we have to start doing something about them.”
The other remarkable thing about this poll is that Trump is a politician, a position that cannot avoid a certain amount of divisiveness and partisanship. But our media are supposed to be neutral, which means they should be about as divisive as a baseball umpire.
Let’s see how the media spins this one. They may not spin it at all. They may just ignore it altogether.