When Opinion Trumps Facts

I enjoy watching the morning news, and really enjoy listening to reporters insert their opinions to news stories, but mostly I enjoy listening to Gayle King try to hammer home the idea that Trump acts unpresidential. Rarely have I heard any reporter that wasn't on Fox News try to hammer home a theme like that, but to her credit, she sure tries to make the audience believe that world is coming to end with Trump as president. Her blatant bias drips of viper venom dripping from the mouth of a doped up liberal spewing campaign slogans of the Hero she worships.

Don't get me wrong, Gayle King isn't the only one giving her opinion on news stories. Her cohosts do a good job of adding their opinions and distracting from the facts. But at some point, the bias needs to be toned down or maybe it is just for ratings that we get the see the spectacle of opinion masquerading as fact on our morning news programs.

If we close our eyes and search our memories we can find great examples of presidents being presidential...Oh, wait, you can't think of too many examples from the last forty years.

The last president liked to play golf and shoot hoops, but he sure knew how to rally his base. Remember when Obama made an angry constipated face at Putin. I bet Putin probably soiled his old Soviet britches when he saw that face.

How should a president act? According to Gayle King, a president should act presidential. I really haven't heard her give any good examples, but it doesn't stop her from trying to throw around the idea we are all doomed because Trump isn't her man.

I feel Trump acts in ways to distract us from what is really going on in the world. The stock market goes up and down on a weekly basis. We rarely hear anything about the rest of the world because we are so caught up in the world of the wack president. What CRAZY thing did Trump do today?

Sure, it isn't fair for me to just pick out one example of how the news is more opinion than fact. When reporters are allowed to insert opinions we lose sight of the facts and become a little dumber for it.

I don't condone any of Trump's behaviors and find it upsetting that the Democratic leadership played along with the game and didn't seem to know that they were taking part in the greatest show on earth when they debated the border wall in front of the media.

The days where facts trump theatricals are long gone. Our news is spewed from the mouths of attractive commentators parading around as serious journalists and our nation doesn't seem awake to this fact.

Yes, there are people that aren't duped by the actors playing reporters on the television set or smartphone screen, and they probably don't get upset about the fact because they don't watch the morning news.

At some point, I might stop watching the morning news, but right now I watch because I want to see if they will top yesterday's performance with something crazier.

I guess we are just stuck on stage wishing that the future gets better actors and a bigger budget because the actors we have now are making a farce of a once great idea.