Members of the mainstream media are so obsessed with delegitimizing President-elect Trump that they don't even try to look professional anymore. The anti-Trump lynch mob ambushed Sen. John McCain on Thursday and desperately tried to get him to say that Trump's election was illegitimate.
The reporters intercepted McCain in a hallway following a Senate hearing on Russia's potential role in hacking the DNC during the campaign season. The only pieces of information to come from that intelligence hearing is that Russia phished DNC emails. Displeased with the lack of smoking gun, reporters from CNN, CNBC, CBS and MSNBC gathered around McCain like moths to a flame. Newsbusters provides a partial transcript and breaks down the way each of the reporters behaved even after their questions were answered:
MANU RAJU: Does it concern you that he continues to downplay the role of Russia in the elections?
EAMON JAVERS: Senator McCain -- Is there a moment you suggest the Russian hacking of the election didn't affect the outcome of the election itself. But Director Clapper pushed back and said, we don't know that. Where do you stand on that?
RAJU: But Senator --
JAVERS : Do you think Donald Trump's election is illegitimate?
JAVERS: Does that raise the prospect that Donald Trump’s election was illegitimate, Sir?
NANCY CORDES: Senator McCain, have you determined why the President-elect doesn't share the same concerns about Russia as many Republicans like yourself on Capitol Hill?
RAJU: Does it worry you, though?
CORDES: His team has suggested this entire incident has become politicized. What's your response to that?
RAJU: You said you don't think the outcome of the election was affected --Do you think that--
RAJU: Do you think Trump was helped by Russia's hacking?
MSNBC’s KASIE HUNT: Senator McCain, do you believe that Hillary Clinton's campaign was hurt by what happened with Russia's meddling in the election?
MCCAIN: As I said, I have no evidence. For the fifth time --
HUNT: I apologize. I missed it.
"I have no evidence that the outcome of the election was affected by the hacking," McCain repeated.
Evidence and answers to direct questions are not sufficient for the media, however, particularly when the answer doesn't fit their pre-constructed narrative.
