As we mull over some of the finer moments and landmark achievements of the past eight years, and if we can do it without suffering cardiac arrest, we might wonder what ever has happened to that classy professional division of the media called investigative journalism. Fear not my good friends, they have not died, they have not moved on to real jobs. They took an eight year vacation.

Media now start investigating…

But hey, they’re back. All around the country, they have begun to slither into press rooms and editorial staff meetings. The long hiatus has come to an end. Brusque faced journalists gradually crawl from their cobwebbed retreats. They have begun charging up the old handheld devices, fine-tuning talking points and brushing up on the tried and true rules for radicals.

It appears that the usurpation of our government by Barack Islam Obama and his leftist America hating ideology may be about to come to an end. Now, finally, the media can get back to work. Back to doing what they do best. That is, creating deception and interfering with anything and everything that will heal an ailing America. With the Democrats in power, there simply has been no work to do, nothing to investigate, nothing to inquire about. No scandals, no treachery no treason, no extortion, no bribery, no collusion with terrorist governments, no gun sales to drug lords, no forged birth certificates, no unfortunate drownings of Hawaiian officials, no nothing.

Abusing the privilege

Not so now. This Donald Trump guy sure looks to be providing fertile ground for investigative journalism. A multi-layered and nationwide examination of Mr. Trump would serve two purposes. The most important purpose will be to get him to fear someone will twist and distort every word he utters. Using the special privileges the Founding Fathers awarded them, the snakes have crawled out of their dank holes a bit early. They will begin anew the devastation of a conservative candidate. Over the years, they have pretty much culled their ranks of any lingering closet conservatives and anyone else with an ounce of integrity. Now they are ready to go back to work.

When the media becomes the government

For those who may not be aware, the Founders knew that for a free nation to endure the government must be prevented from interfering with the press. As a result of this declaration in the First Amendment, courts have regularly protected individual journalists and media organizations from prosecution or lawsuit for misleading or erroneous reporting. The Founders certainly did not anticipate that the entirety of the media would become a branch of the government. The mouth piece for and the propaganda wing of the government, when the leftists are in power.

The press can and does, daily, subvert and bastardize the rights of the press so many Americans died to provide and preserve. The press has become the very government the Founders dreaded. The modern media has undermined a constitutional right provided by the Founders which had the intent of protecting the people from government and have turned it into a tool of tyranny, for the government.

Nothing new

What they are doing unfortunately is far from new. They ignore or barely cover the most egregious crimes, lies, misdeeds and destructive policies of the left while building mountainous misrepresentations out of the tiniest Conservative mole hills. These vicious fabrications are more than just an effort to create an untrue intent or scenario. They are much more repellant and treacherous than that. They are meant to shut up the opposition. Because they are meant to force fear into the spineless politician thereby preventing him from getting his message out. In short, they are meant to infringe on the First Amendment.

For example, how many times have we heard from not just the RINOs but also those who are supposedly in support of Trump that he needs to “stay on message, tone it down, don’t give the media an opportunity to attack”? That he needs to be very careful of what he says and how he says it. Intentions good or not, these people are either stupid or ignorant of leftist tactics. If they have not seen nor realized that it does not matter a whit what or how Trump says anything, the press is free to declare it, offensive, racist or xenophobic. That means, my good friends, he can say nothing.

Political cowardice

The only way for Trump to avoid having the media twist, redefine and misapply his words, is to keep quiet and read only from a well prepared, watered down and Democrat friendly speech. In other words, shut up! How many times will the Republican establishment play this losing game? Apparently there is no limit. If you care to take a stroll down memory lane, recall the exceptional success they had in their handling of McCain and Romney. Donald Trump will not acquiesce. He will not shut up and sit-down. Win or lose he is a man, and a leader. And he will let no one deter him from saying and doing what someone needs to do. If the American people are not ready for that, it will be too bad for this country. But, it appears they are.

The Republican establishment has been infected by the disease of political cowardice and has been for many years. The game plan of the leftist scoundrels has been effective and the Republicans intend to not stop that streak. In fact they are trying to infect our candidate, our leader, our nominee with the same “yellow fever” that has long ago melted their spines.

As the excitement rises and the thrill of the hunt grows, the media stands ready once again to shut down and shut up the opposition. But hold on, there’s breaking news. Donald J. Trump is immune. His DNA and genetic code repels weakness and fear. He will Make America Great Again.

Reprint from TPATH