Ben Shapiro readily admits that he is not a fan of Steve Bannon, pointing out that Bannon is one of the worst people he knows. But he still defends Bannon’s comments about the media yesterday and Trump’s overall critique of the media to CNN’s Brian Stelter and Carol Costello, explaining to them why Trump and Bannon are right about the media:

Shapiro’s main premise is that the media is not fighting on behalf of the American people, that when it defends itself against Trump’s accusations, it’s doing so on behalf of itself.

He also points out that one of the reasons Trump is winning a fight against the media is because people know the media is biased against him, far more so than they were of Obama.







It’s no secret that the media is more hostile to Republicans than Democrats, and that couldn’t be more clear when it comes to recent presidential history. Just look at how hostile the media was to Bush 43 versus how welcoming they were to Obama.

And now with Trump we’re going to see that same hostile approach that Bush 43 got all over again. We certainly saw it in the election.

That doesn’t mean Trump is undeserving of all the criticism he gets. We all saw what kind of campaign Trump ran in his path to the White House and it was a pretty ugly show from start to finish.

But he’s president now and while all of that has not been forgotten, he’s obviously trying much harder to be presidential and he should be given a fair shake by the media.

In other words, they should act on behalf of the American people. The problem is they’ve acted so long in their own self interest that even if they suddenly changed and became the fair and skeptical media the people want, they simply wouldn’t believed because their reputation is no better than trash at this point.