Bigfoot New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has a problem with President Trump, complaining that "We're Journalists, Mr. Trump, Not the Enemy." Kristof was upset about Trump's Phoenix rally speech, which targeted the mainstream media so exclusively there was nothing else for the reporters on the ground to cover. Sigh. If only President Trump denounced neo-Nazis as passionately and sincerely as he castigates journalists. What could be an easier task than distancing oneself from Nazis or violent white supremacists? Yet Trump manages to make it infinitely complicated – and then get [sic] distracted by self-pity and excoriate reporters for committing journalism. The key strain of his sulfurous speech in Phoenix on Tuesday was an extended attack on "dishonest" reporters (including at "the failing New York Times"). Notice that Kristof repeats the very Nazi canards that so incensed Trump to lay into the media in the first...(Read Full Post)