Media trying to cover up Obama screw ups with attacks on Trump

Michael Goodwin:
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Never mind that unemployment is at a 17-year low and the stock market is at historic highs, or that it’s boom times for consumer and business sentiment. The economic recovery is going global, but Trump, we are assured, deserves zero credit.

The knee-jerk anti-Trump coverage shows that the media didn’t learn anything from its biased performance during the 2016 campaign. It’s still shilling for Democrats, with the left’s political talking points echoed in headlines, articles and broadcasts.
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Take, for instance, the two most important moves Trump made last week — changes to ObamaCare rules and decertifying the nuke deal with Iran.

It just so happens that those two items are the signature achievements of the former president. It is also a fact that both were sold on backs of lies to the American people, and that both are falling far short of their promised objectives.

Changes are not only welcome, they are necessary. Yet from most of the coverage, you get the idea that Trump is messing with per­fection.
But does anybody honestly believe that ObamaCare is not failing in fundamental ways, and that every provision is sacred as written? If so, how to explain the exorbitant premium increases for those in the individual markets and the fact that one-third of the nation’s counties offer only a single insurance ­carrier?

And don’t forget Obama’s personal promises: you can keep your doctor, and you will have lower cost and greater choice. It was all a lie.

But still Trump is the bad guy, even though he campaigned on a promise to repeal ObamaCare. Congress has failed, so Trump is doing exactly what Obama did on so many occasions — using executive orders.

Then there’s the Iran pact. Obama committed the US to a deal that was deeply flawed, both in content and scope. In addition to paving a way for the mullahs to get nukes, it completely ignored the fact that Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism and, rather than curb the aggression, the deal has emboldened Iran.

As Trump said Friday, “We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more ­violence, more terror, and the very real threat of Iran’s nuclear breakthrough.”
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This is a pretty good indictment of the media's coverage of the President.  Unfortunately, it probably will not be the last because when it comes to Trump the media is determined to be unfair.   It has dropped all pretensions of professionalism when it comes to reacting to the President's actions and policies. 

It still has nostalgia for a President who embraced screw ups on both foreign and domestic policies.  Obama's retreat from Iraq and his toppling of the Libyan government were strategic debacles on a grand scale.  Obamacare has done great harm to millions in the individual market, and the media ignores it.  They there were the IRS scandals and the Fast and Furious scandals.  The media just pretends these things either did not happen or were not scandals.

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