The competition was fierce, but there's little doubt that the New York Daily News was in the upper echelon of publications which came down with a serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome during the presidential election campaign.
We can now say with confidence that a major contributor to that posture at the Daily News was now-departed executive editor Rich O'Malley. On his way out the door, O'Malley, who had been with the paper for 11 years, posted 23 tweets. The first eight were classy expressions of gratitude. Boy, did it ever go downhill from there.
The next 14 tweets treated the election of Donald Trump as the end of the world.
They also portrayed Trump as a person whose agenda must be stopped, apparently by others in the press (Warning: some profanity; HT Hollywood Reporter):
This might conceivably be tolerable if it weren't for the fact that the candidate O'Malley's paper supported was (and still is) a criminal (FBI Director James Comey asserted that Hillary Clinton committed crimes, making her a criminal; that she hasn't been arrested or tried doesn't matter), was (and still is) so obviously and objectively corrupt, and was (and still is), as William Safire observed in the New York Times 20 years ago, a "congenital liar."
O'Malley's compliments to Shaun King are especially, well, rich, given King's own track record as a fake, phony and fraud.
O'Malley's final pair of tweets betray his belief that his mission is to "change the world." Rich, if that's really what you want, I'll bet Think Progress and others in the fever swamps are hiring. They might even pay well, given all of that George Soros money they have.
Especially after the agenda-driven "reporting" and "fake news" he and so many others in the establishment press inflicted on us during the presidential campaign, O'Malley would be well-advised to revisit the importance of conveying who, what, where, when, why and how factually, accurately and fairly.
It's almost uncanny how reporters and editors who pretend that they can be fair and balanced while they're in their perches blow off unhinged far-left steam the minute they get a chance to do so without suffering immediate career consequences.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
