If you haven't already added The New York Times to your list of "Media Outlets Losing Their Minds Over President Donald Trump's Continuing Successes," here's your chance.
The once-vaunted purveyor of "All the News That's Fit to Print" ran an op-ed on Sunday under the headline "One Thing Helping Trump’s Approval Rating: Some People Are Not Paying Attention," in which the author proclaimed:
Voters were more likely to approve of President Trump’s job performance if they had not been following some of the major news stories of his first 100 days in office, a recent New York Times/Siena College poll found.
Not to digress, but I wonder if the Times and Siena College conducted a survey with the same question about former President Joe Biden during his disastrous presidency.
Anyway, the author, Times poll developer Ruth Igielnik, condescendingly dismissed Trump's inflated approval ratings by claiming Trump supporters don't pay all that much attention to what Trump is doing at any given time.
Here's more, via the Times (emphasis, mine):
President Trump’s strategy to "flood the zone" may be working to keep his approval rating from sinking even lower.
Voters who have not heard much about some of the many major news events from the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s second term have a higher opinion of the job he is doing, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll.
A little under half of the 42 percent of voters who approved of the job Mr. Trump is doing as president said they had not heard much about at least some of the ups and downs of his administration’s decisions.
Mr. Trump has traditionally done well with lower-information voters, so it is perhaps not surprising that they are more inclined to support his presidency. These voters are also notoriously difficult for pollsters to reach, making it challenging to track their exact impact.
My favorite and most hilarious part of the article came when Igielnik actually wrote:
One inevitable complication in understanding how attention paid to stories in the news corresponds with political support is that consumers can design a media diet of information from only one side or perspective. Some outlets pass over entire stories, and the language used by different outlets is sometimes so wildly divergent that people may not even recognize two stories as being about the same topic.
Stop the tape.
Memo to Ms. Igielnik:
You're joking, right? I mean, to suggest that only Trump supporters are guilty of "designing a media diet of information from only one side or perspective" is beyond ludicrous. While it's true that conservatives tend to watch Fox News or Newsmax, surely you aren't suggesting that Democrats don't pretty exclusively watch CNN, MSNBC, and the so-called legacy media," right?
Lying by omission is still lying, Ms. Igielnik.
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Look — and let's be real, here.
While both parties have their share of low-information voters, the Democrat Party has for six decades lied to minority groups, sucking up to them even more so every time an election season rolls around. Besides, if Democrat politicians actually told the truth, they'd never win a presidential election again.
Again, let's be real.
We've reached a political point in this country where people who regularly pay attention to political goings-on — on both sides of the divide — watch and read news and opinions with which they already agree. In many cases, they do so for purposes of perceived validation — or to cheerlead for the favorite commentators.
If your favorite talk show host on Fox News or CNN says what you already believe, chances are you feel justified in believing it, as well. Whatever "it" is.
The above said, it would be hard to find an objective voter anywhere in the country who doesn't believe — even if he or she won't admit it — that 2025 America under President Trump is a far cry where we'd be if the fraudster extraordinaire, Kamala Harris, and her goofy sidekick Tim Walz, were running the show.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.
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