In the past few weeks, the media has desperately struggled to construct Trump outrages out of thin air. The media hit a new low with its phony outrage over Trump calling Obama and Hillary the founders of ISIS. There was no similar outrage when Hillary Clinton called Trump an ISIS recruiter.
But then there are moments like this when the media makes it really obvious that it's not just biased, it's just trolling for one political campaign.
"Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim," is the Politico headline. "Hours after stating his claim of Obama as the founder of ISIL was "sarcasm," Trump says maybe it wasn't" is the subheader.
A. This reads like it was written by an obnoxious robot incapable of understanding colloquial human language
B. Politico and the rest of the press are very obviously manufacturing fake scandals and reaching new lows to do it.
Trump had eased off the claim Friday morning, blasting the media for seriously reporting what he suggested was a sarcastic comment. “Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) ‘the founder’ of ISIS, & MVP,” Trump tweeted. “THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?”
But during an afternoon rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump said his initial remark wasn’t “that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”
“So I said the founder of ISIS,” Trump recalled to the crowd, after accusing the president of being “so weak and so bad” that he allowed the Islamic State to grow. “Obviously I’m being sarcastic. Then — but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”
Actual human beings don't find this confusing. Trump's reference was sarcastic. Obama and Hillary obviously did not literally found ISIS. They did however help ISIS come into being through their policies. The statement is sarcastic, but it's also true.
The silliness of media advocacy has reached the point where Politico pretends that it doesn't understand how to process any of that.