Curtain Pull: How Trump’s Election Produced a Moment of Unintended Honesty

Below is my column in Fox.com on the response of media figures to the Trump victory on election night. The meltdown was a moment of honesty for some in revealing the bias harbored by many in the industry. That curtain pull offered a glimpse of the Great Oz that some will be difficult to unsee.

Here is the column:

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” Those words came to mind as leading scientific and media figures lost any semblance of restraint or neutrality in bemoaning the results of the presidential election. After regaining their composure, the public was told to ignore what they had just seen.

It was not surprising that the sweeping Trump victory last week produced near hysteria among some Harris supporters from women pledging to break up with men to others cutting off their hair to those pledging to flee the country (including one curiously announcing that he was “leaving the United States” for Hawaii).

It also may not be such a surprise that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul would label over half of the electorate as “anti-American” for voting for Trump or other Republican politicians. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that we are now officially moving into a dictatorship due to this democratic election.

It is the media elite that was most interesting to watch. Obviously, the response on MSNBC and CNN were expected as figures like contributor Claire McCaskill wept on air.

However, other news organizations like CBS News have long maintained claims of neutrality even as their networks were criticized for openly pushing the Harris-Walz ticket.  That included the alleged biased handling of the vice-presidential debate as CBS insisted that its hosts and journalists were completely neutral in the election.

Yet, after the election, there was CBS News anchor John Dickerson getting choked up on national television in an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Dickerson chose to go on a show that has been openly anti-Trump for years. Nevertheless, many were surprised that, even days after the election, Dickerson was still overwhelmed by grief.

Colbert asked: “How would you explain that to a 14-year-old today? How would you explain this election?”

“I’ll try not to think about my boys because,” Dickerson started to respond before losing his composure.

It was one thing for these late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel to tear up over the results, but this is one of the top news figures on one of the three top networks.

Thus far there is no backlash at CBS. That is in sharp contrast to the recent controversy involving CBS News host Tony Dokoupil who was immediately criticized by CBS for his criticism of an author for his anti-Israeli views as showing bias. Dokoupil reportedly was pushed into an “emotional meeting” with network staffers upset with his perceived bias in favor of Israel.

So how does CBS feign neutrality when an anchor gets choked up at the thought of a Trump victory? The answer is easy: The public is told to ignore it and trust a journalist who cannot even discuss the election results without fighting back tears.

That message was even more jarring at Scientific American. Once a popular, science-based publication, the magazine has been increasingly criticized for its political slant and pseudoscientific views. Much of the blame has focused on Laura Helmuth, the editor-in-chief.

After the election, Helmuth had a raving, profanity-laden meltdown on social media.

She called Gen X voters f**king racists”. She dismissed “solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f**k them to the moon and back.” She even added a condemnation to her fellow Indianans as “racist and sexist” for voting for Trump.

The postings dispensed with faux claims of neutrality, and many again raised long-standing concerns over the magazine’s direction. Helmuth responded by deleting the comments and just telling readers to effectively forget she said it.

In fairness, Helmuth was trying to separate her personal views from those as the editor-in-chief. However, her “expression of shock and confusion about the election results” parallels what many have objected to the political turn of the magazine in recent years.

In 2020, Scientific American broke a 175-year tradition of non-partisanship to endorse Joe Biden in the presidential election. Conservatives have complained about the tenor and thrust of the magazine, which was once entirely apolitical.

The point is that Helmuth’s rage is not confined to her social media account.

The public is again being told to ignore the man behind the curtain. However, much of the public has already left.

As I discuss in my recent book, The Indispensable Right, many in the media and journalism schools expressly abandoned both objectivity and neutrality years ago. The result has been a plummeting of revenue and readership as the public turns to new media and other sources for their news.

At the Washington Post, publisher and CEO William Lewis put it bluntly by telling the staff, “Let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right? I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”

Nevertheless, almost immediately after Trump won, the Post ran an editorial titled “The second resistance to Trump must start now.”

The problem is that, when “people are not reading your stuff,” fewer may be inclined to join a second resistance after rejecting the first resistance. Many are likely to doubt that a CBS anchor who could not even discuss the Trump victory without losing his composure will view the Trump Administration objectively in the coming years.

Even fewer are likely to believe assurance from figures like Helmuth that she will regain “editorial objectivity” after denouncing anyone supporting Trump as dumb racists.

Of course, if you believe that over half of the country is “dumb,” you may believe that they will just forget post-election meltdowns.

Maybe they are right. It was once said that “chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.” The problem is that, if this election proved one thing, it is that many voters clearly felt like they are being played as chumps by the media and political establishment.

Telling people to ignore what they saw did not work for the Great Oz, and it will work even less for the legacy media.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster, 2024).

181 thoughts on “Curtain Pull: How Trump’s Election Produced a Moment of Unintended Honesty”

  1. americans will never have to ask again “how could the german people, with eyes wide open, elect such a vile fascist dictator?” its happened again- here- the americans who voted for this vile seditious sex criminal will have to answer the same questions the germans did- i’m deeply discouraged that 70 million citizens surrendered their rational brains, their ethics and their morals to vote for ths depraved convicted felon

    1. Your Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is showing. Take Xanax or get yourself a frontal lobotomy. It will do us normies a wonderful service.

    2. Well, the good news is that 78 million voted for Trump and not the deranged sex criminal

    3. and I’m disgusted that you swallowed the MSM BS that Mr Turley was discussing – you appear to have bought all the alphabet soup lies about President Trump – hook, line and sinker. Rush Limbaugh was talking about you when he used the term “low information voter.” 80+ million voted for Trump; 70% of Americans said the country is on the wrong path. This is a battle between Good and Evil – wake up! The democrat platform is anti-God and that is obvious but not to the secular left!

    4. can you honestly even define ethics and morals? Ethically and morally it’s ok to kill a nine month baby in the womb? It’s ethically and morally ok to take kids away from parents that won’t allow the kid to subject themselves to a doctor that will defy his oath to “do no harm” in a transition surgery? Ethically and morally you think God makes mistakes? Ethically and morally you think there is more than two sexes? You’re an idiot! You’re the depraved individual!

    5. You were voting for Democrats who had Harvey Weinstein on the open door policy guest list in the White House for SIXTEEN YEARS before Trump ran for office. Despite the close protection details of first the Clintons and then the Bidens warning them that their best friend and best bagman ever, Harvey Weinstein, was a serial pedophile and rapist. You voted for that.

      And you voted for President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers both before Trump ran for office and after Trump ran for office. You didn’t mind THAT vile sex criminal. You still don’t.

      But tell us how you’re truly offended by vile sex criminals again. Or sedition – like illegally commissioning and paying foreign spies to write a “Trump-Russia Dossier”, and then use the Attorney General and FBI Directors to be your STASI, perjuring themselves to FISA courts to destroy a president in office.

      If you want to see what depraved and vile looks like – it’s staring back at you and a bit less than 70 million of your fellow Commie Useful Idiots in the mirror every morning while you brush your teeth.

      You DO at least know what dental hygiene is, don’t you?

  2. Thank you Professor Turley for your insights. The Bias is “out of the Bag.” As you have mentioned, “Much of the Public has already Left” (i.e. you can fool All of the people some of the time; and Some of the people all of the time…..).

    Again, maybe we should be thanking the Media for their intractability. The media’s recalcitrance is a continuing reminder of why they left; and won’t be coming back.

  3. The real reveal was the disingenuousness of the right’s ‘election integrity’ obsession instantly being exposed.

    1. Actually the reduction of Dem votes in an election that was not obstructed by Covid makes it more likely that (1) the Biden vote was really fishy and/or 2) that the GOP was paying attention this year and the fix couldn’t be done.

  4. If you have women of childbearing age in your life, where will you be if they get raped and become pregnant, or if they are pregnant and develop a life-threatening complication that requires termination and there is no OB-GYN who will help her? Everything I wrote about Trump is true

    Gigi, does that “truth telling” Include your repeated claim that part of the Trump and/or Republican election platform was his promise to pass a federal law making abortion illegal? DESPITE the Dobbs decision clearly saying that abortion is a state issue, not an issue that any federal president can legislate?

    Part of your problem Gigi, is normal women are different than you: they have to worry about the cost of living expenses every month.

    Rather than worrying about shopping for your next elective recreational birth control abortion every month as you do.

    As a result, they’re concerned about the cost to raise their children the cost of living – as opposed to your obsession with hoping with a federal law that forces every state to provide elective birth control abortions up until the moment the umbilical cord is cut after birth.

    Are you here because you were an even poorer performer at work as a back alley whore? Versus the lack of talent you display here as a lying political apparatchick?

    1. DESPITE the Dobbs decision clearly saying that abortion is a state issue, not an issue that any federal president can legislate?

      Dobbs does not say that, or anything like it. All Dobbs did was move the subject from the judiciary to the legislatures, both state AND federal. There is nothing to prevent Congress from legislating a national abortion law, either requiring states to allow abortion, as Democrats want, or banning it, as some Republicans want.

      1. “Dobbs does not say that or anything lioke it”

        Wrong. I have a copy of Dobbs right here: Give us the page where we can find your version of Dobbs to read for ourselves.

    2. The prevalence of pregnancy due to rape ~2.4%
      The prevalence of cardiovascular adverse events from mRNA COVID vaccines ~ 30-40%

      CV adverse events can be detected by objective measurements.
      “Rape” is in the eye of the political party, e.g. Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick

      A study based on the World Health Organization (WHO) database (VigiBase) documented the highest number of cardiovascular (CV) adverse events in patients receiving the BNT162b2 (Pfizer−BioNTech) COVID‐19 vaccine. This study categorized 30% and 44% of CV adverse events as severe upon vaccination by BNT162b2 (Pfizer−BioNTech) and mRNA‐1273 (Moderna), respectively
      Yasmin F, et al. Adverse events following COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: A systematic review of cardiovascular complication, thrombosis, and thrombocytopenia. Immun Inflamm Dis. 2023 Mar;11(3):e807. doi: 10.1002/iid3.807.

      Almost 2.9 million U.S. women (2.4%) experienced rape-related pregnancy during their lifetime.
      Basile KC, et al. Rape-Related Pregnancy and Association With Reproductive Coercion in the U.S. Am J Prev Med. 2018 Dec;55(6):770-776. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.07.028.

      1. 10-sec. Google search:

        “What is the rate of myocarditis with mRNA vaccine?

        A pharmacovigilance study by the company Moderna® that is currently in the preprint stage contains data on more than 151 million individuals. In this study, the incidence of vaccine‐related myocarditis was 0.95 per 100 000 individuals and was highest in men aged 18–24 years, who had received two doses of the vaccine.”

        That’s 0.01%. If your “30-40%” figure were true, the mRNA Covid vaccines would have been halted during the first clinical trial of 2000 individuals, because 600-800 suffered cardiac inflammation.

        How can you parrot such absurd numbers? Did you doodle your way through 5th grade math?

        1. Half a second neuronal synapse in a functioning brain:

          cardiovascular complication, thrombosis, and thrombocytopenia > myocarditis

    3. Another Murder the inconvenient children in the womb fascist. Yep! Your TDS is showing. You should be in a Red Riding hood and cape of that dufass show the Lactating Maids.

    4. Actually, evil people like you relish in the thought of murdering innocent babies for the sake of your own convenience. Sadly, you use a statistically insignificant percentage (rape and incest cases) to scare people into believing your “cause” is somehow morally acceptable, it isn’t.

  5. Ask yourself this one question: Do you know anyone in your large circle of friends, family, co-workers and even people that you are just acquainted with who cried due to this or any election? I am not talking about “famous” people that you have seen on television, I am referring to “real” people.

    Now try to imagine very successful people, people that make (I can’t say earn) millions of dollars a year for what they do for “work” and ask yourself if you can imagine any of them sobbing like a little girl because Kamala Harris, a politician that they all disliked only 6 months ago) lost the election.

    Imagine the head of surgery at Big City Hospital crying in front of cameras. Imagine the CEO of a giant multi-national corporation wailing for the cameras. Imagine the head of a 400 lawyer law firm crying his or her eyes out over an election. You know none of that would ever happen and yet Kimmel, the CBS “news” guy, Claire McCrapskill et al get paid more than all the execs I cited and yet they expect us to believe they are crying real tears??!???!

    After the Kimmel and CBS guy went their respective ways, got in limos, went to the local expensive steakhouse, ordered a $100 bottle of wine and laughed their heads off.

    It is all just another scam and grift!

      1. ” In that, corporations rule the planet.”

        When the Marxist unions allow them to.

        No way the teachers unions, SEIU, Autoworkers, longshoremen, etc and there tens of millions of votes and hundreds of millions of money to fund political campaigns would have any Marxist influence and control over either politicians or corporations, of course.

        Nah, that can’t be true… the unions say it’s the corporations.

      2. Corporations are simply many people acting together. They are a convenient tool for people who want to achieve something that no one of them can afford on his own.

    1. McCaskill was crying tears while saying she was SO PROUD of Harris’s campaign.
      It was a horrible campaign. Harris couldn’t answer the most basic, predictable questions. She forfeited numerous opportunities to make a good impression with the public – didn’t even try.
      McCaskill gives out participation trophies for political campaigns. So long as they’re her party.

  6. Of course, her very choice of venue betrays her biases. She’s only on BlueSky because she thinks she’s punishing Musk. She’s taking it personally that non-anointed “experts” are allowed to speak now.

  7. Many great milestones in my life: Hillary Clinton didn’t become President, Trump re-elected, Obama’s plea to black men to vote for Harris rejected. Many more I hope to see: NYT declaring bankruptcy, all of Epstein’s pals named and convicted, overturning of all J6 convictions.

      1. Funny you mention this because as we look at the Senate leadership fight, I thought this morning the only thing I can think of Mitch McConnell has done for many of us is he kept Merrick Garland out of SCOTUS.

        1. Yes. As though any other Senate leader of EITHER party would have gone against the existing precident that judicial nominees from a lame duck president made to a Senate controlled by the opposition are pretty much dead on arrival.

          Bush’s last judicial nominees to the Democrat controlled senate as the lame duck president in the last months of his presidency ended the same way as Merrick Garland’s nomination did: the nominations were not proceeded with and the three appeals court positions were filled by Obama after he won the election rather than McCain.

          Mitch McConnell did nothing beyond what a senate leader of either party would have done in that position. Thanks for at least following the precedent.

          Old Airborne Dog

  8. Does fake media really think we believe their fake emotions? Those displays are nothing more than pablum meant to sustain their stooge viewers. And how an an adult or even a near adult would fall for such staged theatrics is indicative of the problem.

  9. Scientific American has been a leftist magazine as long as I can remember. When the book “The Bell Curve” came out (1994), Scientific American went ballistic and made all sorts of negative editorial comments, rather than just present reasoned discussions. So, there’s a minimum of 30 years of leftist history at Scientific American.

    1. Yes, indeed. I used to be an avid Scientific American reader in my youth (decades ago). Then they published an article about a subject that I happened to know quite well. They didn’t just mangle the facts, they added a political slant. This subject was about as apolitical as they come, so if they were willing to do that, I realized that I certainly couldn’t trust them to honestly educate me on any technology subject. I haven’t picked up the magazine since, it’s useless to me.

    2. It’s been longer than that. I cancelled my subscription in 1980 over their liberal bias.

    1. “Falsehood in one instance, false in all” Thank You. “Scratch a liar, find a thief.”

  10. Let me coin a new term – “The No Information Voter.” Limbaugh came up with the “Low Information Voter” term, but I think many of the Democrats are NO Information Voters, because there is absolutely No Information that will change their minds. DeMac here, and GiGi are good examples of that. Just like drunks and drug addicts and loose women in their 20’s and 30’s, they will not change their minds or behavior until something bad happens to them personally.

  11. * Professor Turley, I’m taken by the difference in competency between private business and government officials. When I see people like Lauren Boebert or Anna Lina Luna or Cortez and Tlaib and so so many others writing laws, budgets etc for such as Ken Griffen, Warren Buffet, Gates, Fink and so so many others the people need to pare back government to essentials only as these competent people, the best and brightest just aren’t willing to serve.

    Politics and Economics …

    1. * There’s something wicked in the food supply. Our foods like shrimp, salmon are bypassing something and packaging in China ( stolen) and send junk back at 90 dollars and up per pound while importing the same from Vietnam and Thailand at 10 dollars per pound. Americans are getting world crap to eat. Same for cotton. Americans get spun plastic called coton.

      Asap limit on exports of domestic products while disallowing imports. These foods are loaded with pesticides. Try apples make your throat swell and shrimp diarrhea vomiting.

      Reserving my take on the election until I see the product. Skeptic and cynical..

      1. * Let’s see the domestic food supply on American tables. Clean and well inspected and processed at spotless plants and packaged and distributed here. Then I’ll believe but they’ll just smack a false label on it the dishonesty is so ingrained.

        1. * There’s something wicked in the food supply…. Americans are getting world crap to eat. Asap limit on exports of domestic products while disallowing imports.

          * Let’s see the domestic food supply on American tables.”/i>

          Where in America are you prohibited from choosing foods that are labeled as being grown or produced in America? It must be serious wherever it is, because in this small 5,000 person city in Montana, supermarkets all have organic isles to walk down to select what foods meet the standard of American origin. Beyond the supermarket chains, there’s the local Hutterite and Mennonite colonies, the local farm to market local shops, etc.

          Wherever the place that prohibits the sale of domestically produced foods, it must be serious if we need to go Democrat to legislate what people are allowed to buy, because government needs to do that because Americans are too stupid to know what’s good for them.

          Whether it’s electric vehicle mandates accompanied by restrictions on conventional engine vehicles, coal and nuclear power generation plants, or banning imported foods.

          Marxist totalitarians who tell me that they’re looking out for me by using government power to control what I’m allowed to buy go well beyond just annoying me.

      2. Shrimp from overseas are farm raised and fed human waste products. Only eat wild caught fish from your local market. FDA is gone!

  12. The Democrat Party, consumed with the soft bigotry of low expectation for the intelligence of the low information voter was buoyed up by the fact that these political hacks could never respect a constituency which would raise any of their ilk to high office, something which these voters continued to do, ad nausem. The Democrats shot crap with the citizenry until, much like a spring, it no longer bounced back. It snapped and hit them in the face!

  13. I keep wondering where those 11 million votes for the democrats went that Kamala could not reach. Did Joe hide the keys to the vault where the votes were stored so she never had access, even as he endorsed her. Or did he just misplace them and then forget it all.
    Last question-are the secret service agents guarding Joe after 1/20/2025 going to have to qualify through Memory Care Training.

  14. The analysis of the election is not complicated. Trump was selling lies and hate. And that is what Americans wanted. We are not the greatest country. We are a failed country. We deserve every pain that Trump will inflict on us. I hope Trump crashes the economy and destroys democracy, because that is what we voted for. Harris was a good candidate and ran a good campaign, and she never had a chance.

    Americans are hateful, spite filled losers and the world will never see America as a beacon of light again.

    1. “Anonymous” … b/c you don’t have the courage to give a name, even a false one.
      The truth is, in the days since Trump’s election, Hamas has called for an end to the war; Putin wants peace talks in Ukraine; major manufacturers have announced their intention to bring manufacturing back to America during Trump’s first year in office; Qatar has expelled the Hamas leaders it has sheltered for a long time; the EU has announced they will buy oil from the US, not Russia; Mexico has agreed to help the US stop illegals from entering the US; the migrant caravan is hemorrhaging members every day; and the stock market has hit a record high, as has Bitcoin. So good luck with your ill wishes – it’s just too bad you don’t realize that if Trump succeeds, we all succeed. You should want that.

      1. Trump has “succeeded “ in squandering millions he was gifted and inherited and still took bankruptcy 6 times. Trump has “succeeded “ in convincingly lying about the state of our economy being disastrous and that America is headed in the wrong direction and suckering people into believing that he can deliver soaring personal wealth and precipitously lower prices for food and housing—just like he “succeeded “ in suckering people into believing that Mexico will pay to build a wall.

        Trump is a liar and con artist without any conscience who will say and do anything to get what he wants—- which is power, attention and adulation. His campaign was nothing more than a compendium of lies, misogyny and racism, pandering to fears about nonexistent migrants killing and raping women, our country being in shambles and empty promises to create wealth and lower costs for food and housing— without any meaningful plan for how to do it. And he barely got 51% of the vote— which isn’t even close to a”blowout “.

        Where is the proof of the claim that Hamas is ready to give up or that Putin wants peace talks? Putin didn’t invade Ukraine just to turn around and give up. WHAT “major manufacturers “ have suddenly announced plans to return to the US or any of the other things you claim?

        1. “pandering to fears about nonexistent migrants killing and raping women,”

          Here is Gigi again, spreading the lie that these people never existed. Honestly Gigenius, do you think no one recognizes you?

          Jocelyn Nungaray
          Lake Riley
          Rachel Morin
          Homeless Woman Coney Island
          13 year old Queens park
          36 year old woman in Bronx

          Serial RAPIST
          Eduardo Sarabia, 40, was arrested Monday with a 26-year-old woman raped in his SEX DUNGEON ON WHEELS

          Maynor Francisco Hernandez-Rodas, raped a child in Mass
          Carlos Vazquez, raped an 8 year old in Baton Rouge
          Christian Geovanny Inga-Land, raped 12 year old in Central Park
          Wilson Castillo Diaz, raped 5 year old on Long Island
          Elmer Sola, THREE Seperate rapes in Nantucket
          Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, rape of18 year old and sexual assault of 14 year old in Nantucket
          Manuel Antonio Figueroa Vega, sexual assault of 7 year old
          Elvin Lopez Lopez, Erick Lopez Lopez and Jesersson Lopez Lopez GANG RAPED a 12 year old in Florida
          Nilson Trejo-Granados, shot and killed a 2 year in
          Alonzo Pierre Mingo, shot and killed 3 people in their home, Minnesota
          Jose Guadalupe Menjivar-Alas, who was previously deported four times between 2009 and 2015, was arrested in the deaths of Melissa Powell, 47, and her son, 16-year-old Riordan Powell, on Dec. 12, 2023.
          Jose Santiago Chairez was arrested and will face charges of capital murder and aggravated assault for the murders of two sisters in TX

          Haitian illegal immigrant charged with raping pregnant woman at Massachusetts migrant motel

          This is the SHORT LIST. There are hundreds if not thousands more, not to mention the rapes of migrant women and girls on both sides of the border.

          One can only hope tht Gigi gets to be raped and assualted to within an inch of her life (death is too good) by three of these imaginary thugs.

    2. I guess Trump just forgot to act like Hitler, crash the economy, and destroy democracy the first time he was president. Either that or he had all of those items on his to-do list, but he was so busy he just never got around to them.

    3. * Not from the world you’re in. The USA is a fabulous place. For every person there’s 10 opportunities. A person has to work at failure unless you’re handicapped mentally or physically or emotionally and they’re working on that.

      Areas of neglect do exist. Handicapped vets is one. Soc sec is supposed to buy only food. The rest has to be paid for before retirement. It is a meritocracy in that it takes some smarts to navigate the opportunities.

      It’s a safe place with opportunity and freedom. Some are born socially handicapped and they’re working on that, too.

      They closed the population and its like a ladder as the movement is upward always deleting the lowest rung through education, training and skills. Technology is on the up and manual labor is kept only to provide jobs.

      As you lament think of other nations. Southeast Asia or USSR. Compare and contrast and keep trying.

    4. The analysis of the election is not complicated. Trump was selling lies and hate. And that is what Americans wanted.
      ===
      Losing sucks, deal with it. Stop blaming the WINNERS for you incel morons running a LOSING candidate. There are consequences for lawfare and MSM lies and propaganda, and you just experienced it.

    5. I was one 14 million Americans who voted for President Biden in his 2024 primary. He was the nomination fair and square. George Cloney had a big Hollywood Fund raiser for Biden. Called him mentally competent. After 1st debate Cloney said Biden had to go! Who elected Cloney to steal 14 million votes? You can call it a insurection, voter suppression or a threat to Democracy. Hollywood completely control Democrat Party! They lost millions of votes!

    6. My stomach went into a knot reading your comment. Which candidate did the name-calling? You had me at confused.

    7. The analysis of the election is not complicated. Trump was selling lies and hate.

      Is that you Whoopy Goldberg? Rachael Maddow? Jimmy Kimmel? You’ve been saying that for days now – got anything new?

      We are a failed country…. Americans are hateful, spite filled losers

      Oh wait! It’s Barack Obama!

      Did you ever look at yourself and think that maybe the majority of Americans didn’t think the answer to the Obama/Biden/Harris problems wasn’t to elect a qualified brown vagina DEI hire?

      America failed you by not wearing the same beer goggles you wear while pronouncing that brown vagina DEI hire as a good candidate.

      Whoopy/Jimmy/Rachael/Barack/Michelle… it’s obvious why you hide behind the username “Anonymous”; you don’t want your family to disown you out of abject shame.

      But if you hope to win us over, how can we have a discussion where you try to persuade us when you won’t use your real name here as you do while on cable TV

    8. Pretty good imitation of a spoiled brat. Hoping the nation fails so you can say “I told you so!” Well, that’s just plain mean-spirited. Maybe a cute narcissism. Thanks for the lesson.

  15. Wasn’t it conservative news and media that attacked Obama’s Christian minister?

    When that lie didn’t stick to the wall, conservative media invented the Obama is a secret Muslim practicing Sharia law.

    When that lie didn’t work, conservative media invented the Kenyan Witch Doctor lie about Obama.

    If you are a racist man up and be honest, don’t invent lies!

    1. Obama’s Christian minister was Jeremiah Wright. He is famous for his anti-American diatribes from the pulpit. Those include sayings such as “God damn America,” including asking God to “damn” America in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This is the person who Obama said was his mentor for many years. Obama sat at his feet for many years and then falsely claimed he had never heard any of those controversial statements.

      Conservative media was willing to report the truth about all of that; the liberal MSM was not willing to report it.

    2. Wasn’t it conservative news and media that attacked Obama’s Christian minister? When that lie didn’t stick to the wall..

      Those pointing out that Jeremiah Wright was a racist minister that had been preached race hatred to the Obama’s through the 20 years they attended his church were wrong?

      If that was a lie, why did a strong black man like Obama swiftly abandon his virtuous preacher when people claimed he had been preaching hatred of white Americans and America? Rather than defend his minister?

      If you’re a contemptible Black Nationalist racist and Democrat street thug from Black Liars & Marxists, it’s obvious that you always show up here to lie under the name “Anonymous”.

    3. Obama is a racist queer. He’s married to a man. He was born in Kenya just as his brother says… Yes he hates white America.

  16. The only reason this wasn’t a 100% landslide was because the Republican President Elect has been dragged through the propaganda machine for nine years.

    When will the elite so called “experts” own up to the fact that this was an election that sent a message to the fringe left that their policies are bizarre and harmful?

    This election was not about these self absorbed elite and media personalities. It was about the shameful exit from Afghanistan. It is about the wide open border, the disregard for law, criminals running free, men playing in women’s sports, elitists who cannot define what is a woman. That it is okay to snuff out the life of a child until the moment of birth.The list of the dystopian bizarreness goes on and on.

    Turns out that Americans don’t like this! I hope some of them do leave this country. It might prove instructive.

    1. * it’s an avalanche. The reason is mixed. If you wanted to lose an election just slot in Harris at the last minute was good enough.

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