In the latest evidence, the media have lost their minds over the election of President Trump. Outlets all over the country went nuts over Trump's senior advisor Kellyanne Conway putting her feet on a couch in the Oval Office while taking a photo of Trump with top officers at historically black colleges. This is what the picture looked like. Here is BuzzFeed's Deputy News Director. Shoes on the couch in the Oval Office. Here is certified nut job, Keith Oberman. Get your effing feet off the furniture, Kellyanne Pals. This isn't your home. Here is a digital organizer for Hillary Clinton. Conway with her shoes on the couch in Oval Office, consistent with general level of disrespect Trump team has shown. Here are some of the headlines. U.S.A. Today. Kelly Ann Conway puts feet on Oval Office couch. Twitter freaks. New York Daily News. Kelly Ann Conway photographed making herself comfortable on Oval Office couch. Twitter calls out Trump advisor for disrespect. Us weekly. Kelly Ann Conway kneels on Oval Office couch. Twitter freaks out. New York Post. Kelly N. Conway kneels on Oval Office couch. Sparks debate. The telegraph from the UK shows some class. Kelly Ann Conway accused of lacking respect after putting feet up on Oval Office couch. Oh no! The horror! Kelly Ann Conway put her feet on the couch, like a human. Even the Washington Post Chris Chaliza got this one right. He said, quote, This Tempest in a teapot is in a word dumb. In two words, incredibly dumb.

Of course, Chaliza then goes on to get one thing wrong. He equates Conway's conduct with that of President Clinton in the Oval Office, which neglects a few facts. First, Kellyanne Conway is not the president. Second, Bill Clinton's intern performed oral sex on him in the Oval Office. Kellyanne Conway kneeling on a couch is in quite the same thing as Monica Lewinsky

kneeling under the desk. Or having sex on top of the Oval Office desk with Clinton, as Secret Service members reported. As for the generalized outrage over a feet on the furniture in the Oval Office, President Obama routinely put his desk, his feet on the resolute desk, a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1890, but so did George W. Bush and

Gerald Ford. In other words... his feet on the resolute desk, a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1890,

but so did George W. Bush and Gerald Ford. In other words, everybody needs to come down.

If the biggest problem the media have with Kellyanne Conway is where she puts her feet in the Oval Office,

they are just awful at their jobs. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

So, lots coming up.

We're going to talk about Donald Trump's address to Congress that's happening tonight.

He's proposed his new budget.

We'll go through that and talk about what's good and what's bad.

And it will also talk about whether the Democrats are smart to hitch their entire political

future to bashing Donald Trump, whether that's a winning strategy or a losing strategy.

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Okay, so we begin today with the media.

The media obviously are overreaching right now, and the biggest advantage that Donald Trump has in the political debate is clearly the insanity of the media,

because he goes out there and he bashes the media, and everybody who is on the right side of the aisle implicitly loves this. We all love this because the media have it coming for 20 years, 20 long years, 30 years. I mean, going all the way back to Ronald Reagan, going back to Nixon, the media have been far to the left, and they have unfairly targeted Republicans. Like some targeting is fair, some is not, but the fact that Trump is striking back in the media, it works well for him. It works particularly well for him when the media continue to overreach and make themselves look insane. The left and the media have decided the only way the left is going to regain power is simply by attacking Trump, attacking Trump, attacking Trump. Now, I think what's in their mind is they think that they're going to do to Trump what they did to George W. Bush. They think that if they can just polarize Bush enough to get Nancy Pelosi and Obama in, they can polarize Trump enough to get Cory Booker or Elizabeth Warren in four years. But this neglects a couple of facts. First, George W. Bush actually had to do some pretty bad things as president in order to lose his approval rating and watch it plummet. Presidents who have over a 40% approval rating have a legit shot at re-election. If you're below 40%, basically you're toast. Trump right now is anywhere from 44 to 50%, according to Rasmussen, a little bit above 50% in terms of approval rating. If he sticks in that range, he'll have a legit shot at re-election.

And in order for a president to really drop below that range, he has to do something really bad. And usually that means some sort of economic recession or a war that is prosecuted poorly. With George H.W. Bush, George H.W. Bush was riding really high. Who's in like the 80s after the Gulf War? and then there was an economic recession, he plummeted down into the 30s.

George W. was in the 50s for the vast majority of his first term. After 9-11, he was in the 90s. After the Iraq War, he was in the 60s. He basically spent most of his first term hovering around 55, 56%. And then it was only after his reelection when the Iraq War really started to go south before the surge that his approval ratings dumped and tanked for the last time. Then there was a recession. So he had the double whammy and he ended up in the 20s. Right now, Trump isn't involved in any longstanding war. Afghanistan is still going on, but that's really not considered his war. He hasn't started a war that's going badly, and the economy is doing pretty well. So long as those two things hold true, attacking Trump isn't going to do a lot for the media, but that's not stopping them. They think that if they just attack Trump, attack Trump, that will alleviate their responsibility to not suck at their jobs. And if the left keeps attacking Trump, they won't have to run Democrats who aren't insane. So this is what you see from the media. So Mika Brasinski over at MSNBC, she says that Trump is clearly trying to create

a dictatorship. Again, over the top. Spicer defended the decision to limit the press.

I think that we have shown in abundance of accessibility, we brought more reporters into this process

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