{"id":73474,"date":"2017-05-29T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73474"},"modified":"2017-05-29T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:58:54","slug":"democrats-are-colluding-with-the-media-to-create-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73474","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Are Colluding With The Media To Create Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by Emily Jashinsky<br \/>\nWashington Examiner<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=91212_pp&amp;videoId=32421701\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Camille Paglia is much more worried about the media than about the steady string of Trump-related scandals they claim to be uncovering.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday interview with the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, Paglia excoriated the press for its coverage of Trump&#8217;s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey and his alleged sharing of classified information with Russian officials.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a spirited panel with Christina Hoff Sommers hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenleadsummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Independent Women&#8217;s Forum<\/a>, the iconic feminist dissident, who serves as a professor of media studies at the University of the Arts, accused journalists of colluding with the Democratic Party in an effort to damage the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democrats are doing this in collusion with the media obviously, because they just want to create chaos,&#8221; she said when asked to comment on the aforementioned stories. &#8220;They want to completely obliterate any sense that the Trump administration is making any progress on anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The popular author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Free-Women-Men-Gender-Feminism\/dp\/0375424776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whose latest book was released in March<\/a>, pointed to early struggles experienced by previous presidential administrations to illustrate the media&#8217;s bias against Trump. &#8220;Obama&#8217;s administration for the first six months was chaos,&#8221; Paglia recalled. &#8220;Bill Clinton&#8217;s was chaos for six months. Nobody holds that against a new person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those two guys had actually been politicians!&#8221; she continued, noting Trump&#8217;s relative inexperience with government operations.<\/p>\n<p>Paglia&#8217;s assessment of media bias in the Trump era leaves little room for optimism. &#8220;I am appalled at the behavior of the media,&#8221; she declared. &#8220;It&#8217;s the collapse of journalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the <em>Examiner<\/em> reported in April, Paglia, who cast her ballot for Jill Stein last November, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/camille-paglia-transgendered-bathrooms-gave-trump-the-white-house\/article\/2620614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predicting<\/a> Trump will win re-election in 2020. &#8220;I feel like the Democrats have overplayed their hand,&#8221; she said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Though the news cycle has moved through plenty of additional scandals in the past month, it appears as though Paglia&#8217;s assessment of the president&#8217;s prospects has not changed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to voting Democrat again,&#8221; the acclaimed philosopher explained. &#8220;But the point is I feel that the media has so utterly lost its credibility that I think people are going to vote against the media again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/camille-paglia-democrats-are-colluding-with-the-media-to-create-chaos\/article\/2623299\">http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/camille-paglia-democrats-are-colluding-with-the-media-to-create-chaos\/article\/2623299<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}