“Nah, the news media isn’t biased! It’s just right wing Faux News lovers who say that! The news media OTHER than Fox is fair and objective!”

I get these protests all the time, and I am considering being more direct and unpleasant in my responses when I do. For this statement is either proof of ignorance, stupidity, or dishonesty. There is no fourth option, and the recent example I will now describe shows why.

Earlier this week, a woman noticed a four-month-old girl in a locked car in a New Jersey Kohl’s parking lot . She screamed, alerting passer-by Steve Eckel, the New York Daily News reported.  Eckel called 911 but didn’t wait: he used a sledgehammer to break a window in the car, rescuing the cooking child.

During an HLN interview on cable TV,  the retired New Jersey police officer wore a T-shirt with the legend, “2016 Trump for President.” Yet when the CNN headline news channel ran the interview an hour later, the message was blurred out.

Would a pro-Hillary Clinton, pro-Obama, Black Lives Matter, Planned Parenthood, anti-gun or virtually any other non-obscene message or image be so censored? Never. My assumption, if I saw such a blur, would be that the T-shirt was wildly offensive in some undeniable way, making that blur a slur on Eckel’s character.  (A pro-Trump T-shirt doesn’t exactly speak well of him either, but that’s irrelevant.)

Of course, to the left-wing hordes that occupy broadcast media news and editing rooms, a simple election slogan favoring the Republican nominee for President is regarded as wildly offensive, and they certainly don’t want a pro-Trump sentiment being associated with a hero who saved a baby. Might get Trump some votes—cognitive dissonance, you know—and we can’t have that.

CNN is trying to elect Hillary Clinton and clothesline Trump. That’s why it fact-checks Trump’s speeches as it broadcasts them, but not Hillary. That’s why it gives minimal coverage to Clinton’s still expanding e-mail scandal, preferring instead to flog every idiotic comment Trump makes—and he makes them virtually hourly— as if it’s the Gettysburg Address. CNN’s website runs ridiculous opinion pieces like this one, extolling mega-jerk Colin Kaepernick’s fact-free and self-serving “protest” against America as “speaking truth to power,” but has never permitted the opinion that this is also what many American think Trump is doing as well. (Actually, Trump is just as incoherent and almost as dim as Kaepernick, but at least his blather has national news significance. This just in: for several days, the 49ers bench player has been wearing socks depicting police officers as pigs. You know: truth to power.)

Note also who picked up on CNN’s partisan censorship. The Daily Caller. Newsbusters. The Washington Free Beacon. The Washington Examiner. Newsmax. Instapundit. TheBlaze. Breibart (yechh.) BizPac Review. Where are the mainstream, a.k.a. Clinton pimping news sources? Well, they don’t care, because they feel the same way CNN does, and in less obvious ways do the same kind of thing every day.

Isn’t it obvious why a right-biased news media is essential if the so-called mainstream media arrogantly, constantly violates its duty of objectivity?

Actually, I see one non-right news source covering the censorship: the Washington Post. Pretty good job of coverage by Erik Wemple, too, except his conclusion:

“HLN executives should strain their vocal cords in issuing apologies to Eckel.”

Eckel? Just Eckel?

How about apologizing to the Trump campaign?

How about the Republican Party, that HLN treated like the KKK?

How about CNN viewers, who were intentionally deceived so the candidate CNN is dedicated to defeating (and whom it greatly assisted in getting the nomination by giving him free airtime) can’t even get the benefit of an ex-police officer’s T-shirt?

How about the American public, whose democracy CNN and the rest of the mainstream media is openly attempting to warp to meet its own partisan goals? How about them?

After enough of the conservative media started screaming, CNN/HLN issued a mea culpa, saying, “We blurred the logo and shouldn’t have; it was done in error.” A spokeswoman added in an email that the blurring was not common practice for non-political interviews. At least not yet, since it couldn’t slip it past everyone this time. Then again, she might have noted, The All Wise and Correct Journalistic Establishment isn’t usually fighting to get the first woman President elected and save the nation from a fascist.

By error, the admission by CNN  means simply, “Gee, we thought we could get away with this, and obviously couldn’t. Oopsie! We’ll try to make our slanted anti-Trump/ pro-Hillary coverage more subtle….for a while.”