Liberal Media Hacks Say Challenging Election Results Undermines Democracy… Unless You’re Hillary Clinton
Before the election, the media was in hysterics over the possibility that Donald Trump might not concede defeat if Hillary Clinton was declared the winner. Now that the election is over, and Trump won, the media’s reaction to Hillary Clinton actually challenging the results is … tepid? At best?
During the third and final presidential debate, amid concerns that voter fraud would become an issue, Donald Trump said that he would accept the results of the election after taking a look at it “at the time.”
As Trump told moderator Chris Wallace in October:
I will look at it at the time. I’m not looking at anything now. I’ll look at it at the time.
What I’ve seen — what I’ve seen is so bad. First of all, the media is so dishonest and so corrupt, and the pile-on is so amazing. The New York Times actually wrote an article about it, but they don’t even care. It’s so dishonest. And they’ve poisoned the mind of the voters.
But unfortunately for them, I think the voters are seeing through it. I think they’re going to see through it. We’ll find out on November 8th. But I think they’re going to see through it.
Trump was simply reserving his legal right to challenge the election if there was suspicion of voter fraud. Hillary Clinton referred to Trump’s comments as “horrifying.”
And, taking their cue from the Democratic nominee, the media reaction to Trump’s statements was apoplectic.
The New York Times: Donald Trump Won’t Say if He’ll Accept Result of Election
CNN: Donald Trump refuses to say whether he’ll accept election results
Huffington Post: Trump’s Shocking Answer On Respecting Election Results Is The Only Debate Moment That Matters
The Huffington Post was particularly startled. The very day before the election, Julia Craven wrote an article recounting the history of a contested presidential election in 1876, noting that “civil unrest” and “fears of a second Civil War” were among the concerns of the American people during that time.
Forecasting a situation where Trump lost and refused to concede to Hillary Clinton, Craven anticipated 1) The legitimacy of the president would be undermined; 2) violence from Trump supporters would break out; and 3) Trump’s refusing to concede would undermine the integrity of “democracy itself.”
Now, it is important to note two of those things have happened since Trump’s victory. First, the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency is being undermined by large groups of malcontents parading around, flipping off buildings and protesting and tweeting #NotMyPresident. Secondly, there have been incidents of violence after the election … from liberals and Hillary Clinton supporters.
As for the liberal media’s concern over an election challenge “threatening to upend a fundamental pillar of American democracy,” that was then, it seems.
Now that the Clinton campaign is jumping on the Green Party bandwagon to challenge the results after wacko-liberal Jill Stein raised millions of dollars for a recount in Wisconsin, the silence from the editorial pages of America’s major newspapers is deafening.
Check out this reporting, and compare it to the headlines above:
ABC: Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Joins Wisconsin Recount
Washington Post: Clinton campaign will participate in Wisconsin recount, with an eye on ‘outside interference,’ lawyer says
New York Times: Hillary Clinton’s Team to Join Wisconsin Recount Pushed by Jill Stein
CNN: Clinton to join recount that Trump calls ‘scam’
Politico: Trump rages as Clinton helps recount
And then there’s the Huffington Post, who ran this milquetoast headline:
“Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Says It Will Participate In Wisconsin Recount”
Now, let’s be very clear about something: The Clinton campaign is entitled to challenge the results of the election if they believe something is amiss; that is their legal right. (Just as the Trump campaign had the right to reserve concession if they believed incidents of fraud manipulated the results.)
The issue is not with calls for a recount — it is with a biased liberal media disproportionately applying their scorn and hysterics because they’re playing team sports for the Democrats. (For more from the author of “Liberal Media Hacks Say Challenging Election Results Undermines Democracy … Unless You’re Hillary Clinton” please click HERE)
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