Jason Cohen at the Daily Caller reported that CNN weekend host Michael Smerconish appeared on the Mediaite podcast to discuss “How Trump Beat the Media and Won Re-election.” Host Aiden McLaughlin presented Smerconish as a “champion of moderation,” which would certainly make you stand out at screamy CNN. He said all the media bias had a “boomerang effect.”
SMERCONISH: I don’t want it all distilled into this one sound bite or conclusion, but at the top of my list, I’ll say it that way … It’s like a parenting lesson. The more that you tell people what they can’t do, what’s intolerable, you must not do this, you should not do this, the more they’re going to rebel. Maybe they would have ultimately come to their own conclusion and rejected Donald Trump. I don’t know.
But I think that the constant browbeating and the combination of the media…
