Don Surber: How the press disgraces the centennial of Armistice Day

Don Surber: How the press disgraces the centennial of Armistice Day
"The nervous breakdown by the press following America's election of President Donald John Trump continues as reporters belittle the parade in Washington commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I as "Trump's Parade."
I suppose the Bicentennial was just Ford's Parade.
And the ticker tape parade following the landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon was Nixon's Parade.

• ABC News reported: "President Trump’s military parade to cost at least $12 million."
• The Times-Picayune reported: "Trump's military parade expected to have over 7,000 troops."
• The Hill reported: "Thousands of service members to participate in Trump's military parade."

He's Mussolini, don't you know?
And he is a hypocrite.

• CNN reported: "Trump's military parade expected to cost nearly as much as 'tremendously expensive' canceled war games."

You see? He's a big egotistical hypocrite.
Never mind that we are celebrating the end of a gruesome war that killed 37 million people worldwide.
No, no, no, the deranged American press must ridicule President Trump all the time, no matter what happens.
Jarrett Stepman, editor of the Daily Signal, did something none of the reporters in Washington seem to do. 
He researched.
Military parades are almost as old as the republic herself.
President John Adams held the first in 1798 in Philadelphia, then the capital, to commemorate Independence Day. President Jefferson held them in Washington in 1803 and 1804.
"The largest military parade in American history was in 1865 at the close of the Civil War. To celebrate a Union victory over the Confederacy, President Andrew Johnson and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant presided over the Grand Review of the Armies in Washington, D.C., that included over 200,000 soldiers," Stepman wrote.
Fox News, which generally is immune to this apparently incurable disease, reported, "In 2014, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for a welcome home ticker-tape parade for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, calling it a 'longstanding American tradition.'"
Framing this commemoration as Trump's Parade is another reason people hate the press with a passion that once was reserved for hating Hitler.
Maybe the press should stop trying to stop President Trump and his supporters, and go back to its real job of reporting the news straight-forward and balanced.