This Week's Top Five Stories

Your weekly update of the most popular content from The Federalist. Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray [View this email in your browser]( 1. Obama’s Incompetence And Chaos Far Eclipsed What’s Coming From Team Trump By D.C. McAllister The claims of incompetence are rushing like a torrent from every direction and with such hysteria that you’d think the chaos of Armageddon was upon us. --------------------------------------------------------------- Many in the media are warning that President Donald Trump is incompetent and doesn’t know what he’s doing. His ignorance, they say, will mean the downfall of the republic. The hysteria is unwarranted and merely part of a Democratic Party campaign to oust the president and derail his agenda. [Full Article]( 2. When President Obama’s National Security Advisor Lied, The Media Laughed By Jullie Kelly It’s somewhat ironic that this email was disclosed the same day the anti-Trump universe was spinning into the stratosphere over Michael Flynn’s resignation as President Trump’s national security advisor.--------------------------------------------------------------- Buried deep beneath the Michael Flynn hysteria this week was Judicial Watch’s release of newly obtained State Department documents related to the Benghazi terrorist attack on September 11, 2012. One email confirms—again—that the Obama administration knew the day after the attack it was not a random act of violence stemming from an anti-Muslim video. That was the excuse shamefully propagated by top Obama administration officials (including the president himself) and swallowed whole by a media establishment desperate to help Obama win re-election six weeks later. [Full Article]( 3. Four Recent Examples Show Why No One Trusts Media Coverage Of Trump By Mollie Hemingway The media would like to imagine themselves heroes in their war with Trump. If they don't improve quickly, they'll fail in their task. --------------------------------------------------------------- One may have hoped that the media would respond to their 2016 failures and resulting lack of credibility by reforming. Instead, it seems that many in political media are quadrupling down on the mistakes that served them and their readers and viewers so poorly in the lead-up to Donald Trump’s surprise victory in November. It’s impossible to track all the ways in which the media are leaning into their bias, their unnecessary hostility, and their abandonment of journalistic principles. So let’s just look at a few examples from the last few hours. [Full Article]( 4. Barack Obama Welcomes You To Donald Trump’s Imperial Presidency By Paul David Miller The president can lay aside Congress and multiple Supreme Court rulings because he now has the power to simply choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore.--------------------------------------------------------------- On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively suspending enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. The provision, requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty, was the eye of a seven-year partisan maelstrom over Obamacare. [Full Article]( 5. Here Are The Media Hottakes We’d See If The Chronicles Of Narnia Were Released This Year By John Ehrett Here's how our politically obsessed and ideologically sequestered press would report on C.S. Lewis's classic children's fantasy series.--------------------------------------------------------------- The press has certainly taken its lumps lately—and they’re not altogether undeserved. As Federalist contributor Tom Nichols points out in his new book The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge, a great deal of journalism currently exists more to confirm its audience’s preconceived notions than to inform them about reality. [Full Article]( Copyright © 2015 The Federalist, All rights reserved. You are receiving this e-mail because you opted in to receive e-mail updates from TheFederalist.com. Our mailing address is: The Federalist 8647 Richmond Highway Suite 618 Alexandria, VA 22309 [Add us to your address book]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( The Federalist · 8647 Richmond Highway · Suite 618 · Alexandria, VA 22309 · USA