The media's Civil War against Don from Queens

Charles Hurt:
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And there is no one more racist to these sheltered snowflakes than Don from Queens.

To these elite, the “otherness” of President Trump makes them feel so uncomfortable it drives them utterly mad. The fact Mr. Trump beat the whole political system and sits across the Resolute Desk from Kanye West is simply more than they can bear.

So he must be racist. And, somehow, so is Kanye.

Then Mr. Trump wanders into one of the most epic moments of Civil War history during a speech last week in Ohio, birthplace of legendary Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

“So Robert E. Lee was a great general,” Mr. Trump said. “And Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia. He couldn’t beat Robert E. Lee.”

Cue the media, who somehow went wild over Mr. Trump complimenting Gen. Lee as a “great general.”

As anyone who has ever studied four minutes of Civil War history knows, of course, Mr. Trump’s comments are totally and completely factual and accurate. Lee was a brilliant tactician whose battlefield genius is still studied today. The war likely would have been over in one week if Gen. Lee had not sided with his home state of Virginia.

Also true is that President Lincoln was driven to distraction by all his great generals who were terrified to send their big beautiful armies into actual battles against the fearsome Gen. Lee.

That is, until he tapped Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, whom Mr. Trump sought to compliment there in his home state of Ohio. As if this is the first time a politician has ever complimented a home crowd’s favorite son.

Mr. Trump went on to say Gen. Grant was also a “great general” and that he “knocked the hell out of everyone,” referring to Gen. Lee and the Confederate Army.

Gen. Grant, Mr. Trump noted, also had a “drinking problem.” Thank goodness President Lincoln did not nominate him to the Supreme Court.
Lee was a great general, but probably was not the best one in the war.  That would have been Stonewall Jackson who understood how the machinery of war had changed tactics and also understood maneuver warfare.  Most of the Union Generals before Grant who came up against Lee and Jackson were defeated.  Grant was able to take advantage of the numerical superiority of the Union forces and the manufacturing base that supported it to defeat Lee and the Confederacy.

What is clear from the episode is that many in the media have allowed their Trump hatred to overrule basic reporting requirements.  The misreporting of this story is a classic case of fraud by omission.  The reporters focused on the setup of the story and omitted the punchline as a way to make Trump look racist.  They used it to fit the Democrat narrative that Republicans racist bigots etc.  It is a nonsensical argument meant to frighten some in the Democrat base.  It is the same reasons they tried to make Kanye West out as a racist.  It has become the Democrats big lie and the media is in on the scam too.

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