Richard Clarke: Why everyone warned about Trumps Russia ties couldnt believe their eyes

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3. Clarke is missing the elephant in the room

which is the media already had their pre-cooked, easily digestible post-election narratives...

1. Hillary erred by not going to the rust belt states she assumed were safe, Hillary was a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign, she was dull and nobody really liked her anyway.

2. Trump's populist rhetoric and unvarnished authenticity resonated with the almighty white working/rural classes (who are the only voting block that really matters) because the Dems have abandoned them and are out of touch.

3. Racism/Sexism/Voter Suppression/Bernie-or-Busters/Greens/The Comey Letter/WikiLeaks were non-factors...


I've worked in media... We hated ever admitting we got something wrong, and that was back in the day when you HAD to do it out of professionalism... But in the so-called 'new media', nobody ever admits to anything... And not only would the media have to admit being wrong, they would have to confront their own appalling lack of diligence in how they covered Trump the candidate versus how they covered Clinton... So far, aside from some brief lip service in January I've seen nothing to indicate the media is willing to take a long look in the mirror and come clean about their culpability being so hellbent on ratings and manufacturing a down-to-the-wire horse race... This failure was *intentional* and created by willful ignorance after the fact. Clarke is being way too kind to these people.