Apology not accepted from Media

There was a stunning confession by a Florida newspaper (from the Washington Times):

A Florida daily newspaper is apologizing to readers for not being objective enough in its coverage of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

The Daily Commercial, which serves Lake and Sumter counties, recently issued a “mea culpa” admitting that it hadn’t taken a balanced-enough approach to the 2016 presidential election.

“Because we have limited space and resources, smaller papers are generally limited to covering the horse race — the day in-day out happenings on the campaign trail,” the paper explained in an open letter.

“Trump, who has been a big personality since he burst onto the scene as a major New York developer in the 1980s, could never seem to stay focused on his message — immigration, American jobs, international relations,” it continued. “He instead has devoted so much of his air time to saying outlandish things and picking fights with anyone, even his own party, who disagreed with him. He has demonized Republicans and the media, and then he wonders aloud why so many people and institutions have turned their backs on him.

“In short, he has been his own worst enemy by creating daily controversies with his words and actions instead of dominating the news cycle with the message that got him this far,” the paper said. “Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has been bland on the campaign trail, not giving the media anything to latch onto.”

Excuse me? A presidential candidate has broken the law and been involved in a huge conspiracy to cover it up, extending all the way up to the president of the United States, and you call that "bland"? What news universe are you living in?

Continuing:

The Daily Commercial said the media have undoubtedly been biased toward Mr. Trump, and that bias had trickled down to their paper.

“Trump’s every utterance, no matter how innocuous, is now parsed, analyzed and criticized by a litany of political pundits,” the letter continued. “The wire services that the Daily Commercial subscribes to churn out stories almost daily that fact check Trump, which is warranted given his penchant for exaggeration and duplicity. Yet those same services turn out so few stories that fact check Clinton, who also has a strained relationship with the truth.

If this were the only election where the MSM has done this, this apology might be acceptable. Unfortunately, the MSM has been doing this to Republicans for decades. Anyone paying attention has come to realize that the Republicans are the only major political party held accountable for their actions. Heck, Libertarian Gary Johnson got held accountable for not knowing what Aleppo was, yet they ignore Hillary Clinton's ignorance on her own emails? Trump is perpetually hounded by his off-hand praise of Putin, as well as every former employee who has a second cousin that has a contract with the Russians for copper tubing, while the Media whitewashes the Clinton Foundation's donation from the Russians to get access to American uranium WHILE CLINTON WAS SECRETARY OF STATE?

But we know why the MSM does it: George W. Bush was Hitler, right? (although the Media did recommend the Iraq War too) And don't even get me started on the evils of Ronald Reagan, who only brought us out of the quagmire of the 1970's. At least the Media got Watergate correct, even though every Republican since then is Nixon in their eyes.

Case in point: The New York Times' Charles Blow's editorial, "Trump Is an Existential Threat". Here is Blow's argument in a nutshell:

Donald Trump is a bigot. 

Donald Trump is a demagogue. 

Donald Trump is a sexist, misogynist, chauvinist pig. 

Donald Trump is a bully. 

Donald Trump is a cheat. 

Donald Trump is a pathological liar. 

Donald Trump is a nativist.

Even I will agree with all that. But there is one point where he misses: Trump is NOT a criminal. or at least he has never been convicted of a crime. Blow even irresponsibly mentions, "the rape of a 13-year-old girl", except Trump was never convicted of that. The judge threw it out of court.

Blow only mentions Clinton once:

I try to think of it in terms of weariness with Washington and with D.C. insiders, the Clintons in particular, and dynastic democracy in general. I try to think of the intense Clinton distrust and even hatred that exists in some quarters, sentiments only exacerbated by things like this never-ending email saga. But then I hit Donald Trump...

...and hit him again and again and again. Somehow that thought about Clinton's flaws got lost.

Quick comparison: Clinton versus Trump, on facing accusations of wrongdoing.

Example A for Hillary Clinton is from last July's statement from FBI Director James Comey, exonerating Hillary in the email investigation:

To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.

Example B for Donald Trump, from Charles Blow's editorial:

But then I hit Donald Trump, a real estate scion who has been sued nearly 1,500 times and is currently being sued for Trump University deceptions and the rape of a 13-year-old girl.

Now you answer: Which candidate has been held accountable more?

By the way, if you think the email scandal is the only illegal thing Hillary ever did, you didn't live through the 1990's.

Disclaimer: I wouldn't vote for Donald Trump if you paid me. However, for a large enough donation to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary would vote for him. And the mainstream media would look the other way.

As for the Media apologies, like my mother used to say to me, with a stern look on her face, "You're sorry for what?" Then when I told her, she'd say, "And what are you going to do about it?" Until I hear the Media's answer to the second question, I am not accepting the apology.