I am a lucky person. On weekday mornings, my alarm clock is Sweetheart coming through the bedroom door and handing me a cup of hot coffee.

The ritual dates back to the early days of our relationship. Since January 20, there’s been a new component.

He hands me coffee. My line after “Thank you” is:  “What fresh hell today?”

Sometimes he knows, because he watched the news. Other days, he tells me about the videos he watched and whether the dog has made her outdoor by-product deposit.

This morning, though, I owe a thanks to a fellow poster on Celebitchy, the high-end mind-candy celebrity gossip site for answering my daily question. Posts about the most banal of topics (the Clooney/Beyonce-JayZ twins, Kardashian-du-jour, etc.) are elevated by the site’s writers, and taken to a completely other level by its commenters.

They are, for the most part, a highly intelligent and thoughtful group. I don’t post as much there as I might because {job/Mom/pet care/other responsibilities} but I am a great lurker and have even made a friend there.

CB has been posting about the Trumps since election season, and is keeping the community updated on a regular basis about what’s happening. Those posts are informative on a lot of levels. Many of the commenters live outside the US, so we get a global perspective on how his antics are being received. I should add here that most posters are not his chosen demographic, so if you are all hyped about how “Great” America is becoming in the wake of the election, what you find on CB will not please you. (Just read the Selena Gomez and Angelina Jolie posts.)

Anyway, on a post titled “Donald Trump tweets that the media is the enemy of the American people,” from yesterday, commenter named justjj posted this:

 

This was my response:

I copied and pasted the survey below, so no one has to click on the site. And to anyone else who is either totally sick of winning and/or thinking about Germany in 1933, you’re not alone. (Based on some of the questions, it’s been up since before November but note that it has not been taken down or changed. Forgive me for not bothering to remove the extra bullet points in the spaces between questions. Someone has to get to the dog park!)

 

Mainstream Media Accountability Survey

• Do you trust MSNBC to fairly report on our campaign?
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• Do you trust CNN to fairly report on our campaign?
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• Do you trust Fox News to fairly report on our campaign?
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• On which issues does the mainstream media do the worst job of representing Republicans? (Select as many that apply.)
  • Immigration
  • Economics
  • Pro-life values
  • Religion
  • Individual liberty
  • Conservatism
  • Foreign policy
  • Second Amendment rights
• Which television source do you primarily get your news from?
  • Fox News
  • CNN
  • MSNBC
  • Local news
  • Other
• Which online sources do you use? (Select as many that apply.)
  • Drudge Report
  • Breitbart
  • National Review
  • Weekly Standard
  • Free Beacon
  • Daily Caller
  • American Spectator
  • Red Alert Politics
  • Other
• Do you trust the mainstream media to tell the truth about the Republican Party’s positions and actions?
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• Hillary Clinton still gets a free pass from the media as she continues to lie about sending classified information on her secret server.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The mainstream media takes Donald Trump’s statements out of context, but bends over backwards to defend Hillary’s statements.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The mainstream media failed to cover the fact that Bernie Sanders LEFT the Democrat Party.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The mainstream media needs to do more to expose the shady donations to the Clinton Foundation.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• Political correctness has created biased news coverage of both illegal immigration and radical Islamic terrorism.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The RNC was right to drop CNBC as a partner after they failed to fairly moderate the October debate.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The mainstream media hardly reported on the fact that our small-dollar fundraising nearly MATCHED Hillary’s Wall Street fundraising machine.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The mainstream media played a critical role in electing President Obama and is now attempting to do it again for Hillary Clinton.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• Contrary to what the media says, raising taxes does not create jobs.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• People of faith have been unfairly characterized by the media.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• American history is being rewritten by “social justice” activists.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The media has not done its due diligence to expose ObamaCare’s many failures.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The media wrongly attributes gun violence to Second Amendment rights.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• Coverage of the Tea Party movement has been deliberately negative.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The media has turned a blind eye to Planned Parenthood’s worst actions.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• Americans are not fully aware just how much waste there is in the federal government.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The fact that the man who set up Hillary’s server was granted immunity should be a bigger story in the press.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• More time is spent covering fake “scandals” involving Trump than real scandals involving Hillary and our national security.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• In order to preserve whatever journalistic integrity they have left, the mainstream media must come forward and admit Hillary LIED about her secret server.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The media uses slurs rather than facts to attack conservative stances on issues like border control, religious liberties, and ObamaCare.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• If Donald Trump said or did half of the things Hillary Clinton has, the media would effectively end his candidacy.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• The media purposely tries to divide Republicans against each other in order to help elect Democrats.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion
• We should spend more time and resources holding the mainstream media accountable.
  • Yes
  • No
  • No opinion

 

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