The media’s hypocrisy and hyperventilating in the age of Trump

[Commentary] The groupthink that has overtaken national media outlets is embarrassing. There is an intellectual climate so suffocating that even stating that truth, or daring to line up a presidential interview, makes one be seen as a member of a suspect class. Reporters don’t have to like Donald Trump. But they do need to stop hyperventilating long enough to approach the next four years with a balanced perspective and at least start pretending to once again be objective. As for those who attacked me this weekend for doing my job, facts are stubborn things.

[Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, hosts the MSNBC show “Morning Joe."]