That was then This is now! Washington, DC —The mainstream media has gone bonkers as President Trump has bypassed them, their nasty spin and malicious editing. He’s done this with his tweets published directly to the world. Is this behavior unprecedented? Absolutely not! The constant whining and carping however is a new thing for our media! Okay most of us were not alive when our Socialist President, Franklin D. Roosevelt used and abused the relatively new mass media of radio with his then popular “Fireside Chats” . There was no barking out of hostile question by the press since they were only invited to broadcast the oneway chats and shut the Hell up. Frankly there was a huge literacy gap in the USA at the time and millions were unable to read newspapers. Roosevelt always got the first and last word. Roosevelt was a huge hero of the political Left as he did incredibly monstrous thi...