In contrast, the Trump-Hating media on the other side made a much bigger deal over the President’s “cruelty” than his comment deserved. Like most of their attacks on the President, this verbal vomit was non-substantive, something he said rather than something he did, and at worst conduct with no negative impact on the nation or its welfare at all. But this is a pattern that extends back to the speech that launched Trump into politics, when the news media pretended he had said that all Mexican immigrants were killers and rapists. You can list the other distortions (White supremacists are “good people”, etc.); yes, its disgusting. Nevertheless, their perpetual smear job doesn’t justify Fox News hesitating to report Trump’s routine verbal excesses when they reach a certain magnitude, which the ‘Glad he’s dead!’ message did.
At this point, the only aspect of Fox’s reporting ethics that is consistently more palatable than its Axis competition is that Fox News isn’t actively trying to undermine the elected President of the United States and advance the agendas of his political and international foes. In terms of the network’s inclination to distort, cherry-pick, bury and spin events and facts to advance its own political agenda while failing to give the public the straight information it needs and has a right to know, however, its journalism is as flawed and indefensible as its competition….except for MSNOW, of course
MSNOW doesn’t even attempt to engage in journalism.
An incident like Trump’s bitter attack on a recently perished public servant should not be given exaggerated significance, but it is still valid news. The character of our President is always relevant, even when, as in this case, an episode placing it in context is hardly surprising.
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Pointer: Steve Witherspoon
Ethics Alarms 
Trump’s comment was unworthy of any president for any reason about any person. Period.
It’s also unworthy of any sane person in general, but Trump is such an incomplete, bitter, emotionally immature man that he cannot overlook even an insignificant slight. There was never any chance he could be even remotely civil about the death of a man who tried to destroy his first presidency.
Which brings me to the elephant in the room. Mueller did as much to damage the presidency as anyone in my memory, at least as much as Trump, alongside the dancing demons of the day calling themselves Democrats as well as the Leftmedia. I can’t blame Trump one bit for hating him and wanting to urinate on his grave. I expect him to do the same thing to any of his unethical Democratic castigators who happen to shuffle off this mortal coil before he does.
What I can blame him for is further debasing the office by saying so in public. And I do. It is unworthy of the office and unworthy of any male over 12 years old. It is, in my view, a statement of weakness and insecurity — the words of a junior high school bully.
As you can no doubt tell, I’m with you here all the way, in every respect. There was no need for him to say anything about Mueller. Nobody would have expected him to express sadness or condolences.