Murrow: "We Cannot Defend Freedom Abroad By Deserting It At Home"

Now boarding: the Magic Bigot Ride, next stop 1960.   

48 hours from now, the Electoral College will tragically rubber-stamp the misinformed public's choice (by a combined 78,000 votes in three states, less than 3% of Hillary Clinton's winning popular vote margin of 2,800,000) of a fraudulent, mean-spirited buffoon who plans to destroy fundamental, popular, successful American institutions while reversing decades of progress for women and long-suffering minorities.

It is at this very point that the so-called "mainstream media," denounced and derided by conservatives despite superficial coverage that worked in DT's favor, should be reminding the public of what's at stake (everything), how we got here (fraud) and what the electors can do about it (step in to prevent the unthinkable: the inauguration of DT).  

Under the Constitution, electors are not bound to any candidate.  They are completely entitled to become "faithless" electors, with a responsibility to block dangerous boors like DT.

The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States.  --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers No. 68

This is a defining moment in network newsrooms.  They can continue to follow the easy path as if this is a traditional U.S. transfer of power.

Much better for the country, they can allow top-rated talent to do what a free press is supposed to do: BEFORE the deal is done, identify the nominee's disqualifying problems with fraud, inexperience, dishonesty, selfishness, lack of transparency and... Russia!

60 Minutes could dedicate its entire hour to this takedown and earn its biggest rating ever.  McCarthy was harmless compared to Trump, yet the senator was hit hard, with surgical precision, by Edward R. Murrow.  DT has earned the same treatment.  Does anyone in media have the skill and the will to challenge the Electoral College to save the country from this generation's despicable demagogue?

If the career con man succeeds in taking office, January 20th becomes Turn Back the Clock Day in America.  Destination:  1960.  Board that Magic Bigot Ride.  If you're a minority, take a seat in the back.