Is the System Rigged? You Betcha.

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Is the System Rigged? You Betcha.

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By:Pat Buchanan | October 18, 2016

 

"Remember, it's a rigged system. It's a rigged election," said Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Saturday.

 

The stunned recoil in this city suggests this bunker buster went right down the chimney. As the French put it, "Il n'y a que la verite qui blesse." It is only the truth that hurts.

 

 

In what sense is the system rigged?

Consider Big Media—the elite columnists and commentators, the dominant national press, and the national and cable networks, save FOX. Not in this writer's lifetime has there been such blanket hatred and hostility of a presidential candidate of a major party.

 

"So what?" They reply. "We have a free press!"

 

But in this election, Big Media have burst out of the closet as an adjunct of the regime and the attack arm of the Clinton campaign, aiming to bring Trump down.

 

Half a century ago, Theodore White wrote of the power and bias of the "adversary press" that sought to bring down Richard Nixon.