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We usually have no time for media types like Keith Olbermann. But his recent, foul-mouthed Twitter blast aimed at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos got our attention.

The first six months of the Trump presidency has seen a portion of the country lose its collective mind, with the press playing the role of lead nutter, and chief enabler. How to explain this? It goes beyond a mere liberal bias, says Thomas Frank (himself a man of the left).

Remember when the New York Times decided to print a long-debunked lie about Sarah Palin?

Journalist James O'Keefe of Project Veritas has had a field day with CNN producers and reporters.

That didn't take long.

We have long known the press doesn't like Republicans, loathes conservatives, and absolutely hates Donald Trump. Still, they do insist that their coverage and stories are balanced, and they themselves are committed to nothing but the truth.

National Security Advisor Henry McMaster pushed back, in a big way, against a Washinton Post story that a

That the old media is hostile to the new Administration is not a surprise. But that hostility has become something more -- or at least it has in the eyes of a few key media watchers.

The press is in a snit (still) over Donald Trump's press conference. Trump took exception to, and had a verbal altercation with, CNN reporter Jim Acosta. Trump called CNN "fake news." Acosta took offense, and loudly demanded an opportunity to reply. Trump shut him down.