Media needs to be impartial in the delivery of news

In any future debates on media “impartiality,” remember this.

On the day before Election Day on the ABC Evening News, speaking of the voting outlook, the supposedly impartial David Muir led off with, “... and today’s polls show the vote is too close ...”

An unbiased newscaster would have finished that sentence with “... to call!,” with barely contained excitement because his raison d’etre is to have his viewership enthused to have important topics, like a tight election contest, presented by people like him. (In contrast, how boring must it have been to report on Stalin’s election outlooks?)

But David, dejectedly, continued with, “... for comfort!” Uhhhh, whose comfort, Davie? Yours? Your corporate handlers? Their Democratic Party overlords?

It may fairly be said that the only thing worse than a Trump Presidency would have been Clinton Presidency 2.0, with it’s affirmation of the dictatorship of the academia/media/entertainment elite. It’ll be fun watching the scramble to watch them back away from their expectation of Hillary’s coronation.

Richard Ceonzo


Tough times ahead for the country following election

The first thing I did when I woke up was check to see election results.

When I saw who won I got sick...

It wasn’t just that my neighbors across America actually voted for a cross between Senator Joe McCarthy, Sarah Palin and L. Ron Hubbard but that our republic and Supreme Court are now going to be decimated over the next four years by a Republican Senate and an egotistical bully.

Naomi Canaan


Next time, look for candidates who care about ordinary folks

Many seem surprised at the presidential election result, but Thomas Frank predicted its likelihood on July 28, in The Guardian.

Back then, the Republican Convention heard speeches denouncing big business, free trade agreements, loss of middle class jobs, opposing foreign wars, and calling for breakup of the big banks, positions long championed by liberal Democrats, most recently by Bernie Sanders.

The Clinton response tacked in the opposite direction, with a pro-Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal vice president, big business and Wall Street campaign contributions, and tough talk about a no-fly zone in Syria.

I doubt Donald Trump will deliver on those sentiments expressed at the convention. His party’s legislators generally have opposite views, and Trump’s tax plan favors the wealthy, so the struggling working folks who voted for Trump, after being abandoned by the Democratic Party, may wind up with very little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was smart enough to understand that there were lots more ordinary working people than rich people and captains of industry, an insight that eluded the Democratic Party leadership and their candidate eager for big money contributions.

Those Trump voters, and the middle class, have missed opportunities for candidates who actually care about them and have fought a lifetime for those liberal positions that attracted them. People like Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders. Look harder the next time.

For the people who led the Democratic Party into the current and recent disasters, resignations are in order.

Frank Stoppenbach

Red Hook

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