The results of a recent research poll signify the astonishing resentment the American people have toward the press. According to the study, the vast majority of the country distrusts the liberal media. Talking heads at CNN and MSNBC dedicate their livelihoods to lambasting the duly elected President, yet they are puzzled as to why the population holds them in low standing.

During a segment on Friday's Tucker Carlson Tonight with author Robby Soave of Reason Magazine, Fox News host Tucker Carlson wondered: "And so, the press is what it is. They have taken a highly partisan, very aggressive position against a sitting president, fine. Why not just admit it? Why lecture the rest of us about how they are objective?"

Soave discussed the pompous attitudes among many in the media, and their refusal to analyze their biased reporting:

But they, the people you are referring to I mean, they their smugness is so consuming. They really believe that they are just, you know, holding the powerful to account. When it's clear it's an anti-Trump entertainment news network, right? Like this isn't news at some point, it's literally just providing entertainment fodder for people who already hate the President....Tons of the American people have turned against them. Their confidence in the press, their lack of confidence in the press is at an all-time high. You would think that would prompt some self-reflection. It clearly has not.

Carlson acknowledged, “well, in fact, they assiduously suck up to power,” and later added that journalists were "desperately unhappy people." He then posed this question: “Do you think they believe it when they tell us it's all about the facts? They know they are lying, right?” Soave responded by speculating the motive behind the lies is egotistical and power driven:

People can convince themselves that they are not lying when even deep down they know they are right. If the incentives are that powerful. If they are -- everyone is going -- or their viewers or someone is going to tell them no you are so great. We love what you are doing. There is a temptation there to believe the best myth about yourself that you can come up with.

Once a large portion of your prospective audience despises you, it may be time to rethink your priorities and admit to your shortcomings.

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