Here are my observations and opinions on my selected news of the day.

THE SOUR GRAPES OPPPOSITION MEDIA – By now you are aware that the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC/MSNBC and CNN (formerly known as the mainstream media), leaped headlong at another opportunity with a story that would surely end the Trump presidency.

BuzzFeed, the sensationalizing “news” outlet that published the phony Russian dossier, contended that it had obtained information from anonymous sources that the president had instructed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress.

The “get Trump” opposition media, eager to nail the president, went with the story without any evidence that it was credible, using phrases like, “if it is true,” “this could be the final nail in the coffin,” “blockbuster,” “bombshell,“ and, of course, “this could lead to an impeachment citation.”

They had the president all but found guilty. It went non-stop for nearly 24 hours on the cable networks until a representative of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office rode in on a white horse to announce that the story was not accurate. Oops.

What was the media’s response? There were no apologies to the president or their readers, because they were just reporting what was in the news. It’s their job. After all they reported “if it is true.” The leftist Washington Post stated that it was “dissecting its possible implications as their reporters were unable to independently confirm (the story). Nice try, Post, inadequate.

“Mueller didn’t do the media any favors tonight, and he does do the president one,” said CNN’s Chris Cuomo.

A grief-stricken Rachel Maddow at MSNBC said, “But he’s (Trump) still a bad man. Don’t stop trying to impeach him just because BuzzFeed may have screwed up, and anyway maybe BuzzFeed’s report is false but accurate.” What?

Lawmakers, too, saw this as an opportunity to attack Trump. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who I believe carries his own microphone around the House of Representatives just in case, called the allegation “among the most serious to date.”

Democrat Joaquin Castro tweeted @JoaquinCastrolx: “If the BuzzFeed story is true, President Trump must resign or be impeached.”

New York’s Jerrold Nadler was careful to use “if,” in his statement – “If Trump did tell Cohen to lie, that would constitute criminal activity.” – but he couldn’t help himself. Whatever happened to ‘I cannot comment because I have not seen any evidence of its authenticity?’

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S COMPROMISE OFFER –President Trump outlined an immigration package on Saturday that should prove that he’s willing to give as long as he gets funds for border barrier work. You really didn’t expect Nancy Pelosi to say, ‘Okay, that’s a start, let’s sit down and talk,’ did you?

“Dreamers say no way to Trump DACA deal,” was the headline in the left-leaning Arizona Republic Sunday. Karina Ruiz, a DACA beneficiary who is director of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, accused the president of attempting to use Dreamers as bargaining chips. In fact, that’s been the strategy of Democrats since the Obama era, constantly referring them as children when the average age is 24. Democrats want to add them as voting citizens.

“With me as a Dreamer, I couldn’t support a temporary deal,” said Antonio Valdovinos De La Mora, 29, of Phoenix.

MY VIEW: Dreamers, as illegals, have no standing to demand anything from the United States. While the Trump offer does not include a pathway to citizenship, it does provide them with an additional three years of protection from deportation. That should give Congress time to create legislation with a pathway provision if Dems come to the table and negotiate.

OTHER VIEWS: Fox political commentator Brit Hume wrote @brithume: “… Democrats stand to get a lot if they negotiate. But so far they seem interested only in humiliating Trump by denying him any wall funding. Maybe the mainstream media will hold them accountable. Hey, a guy can hope, can’t he?”

Charlie Martin writes @chasmartin: “I just want to repeat this prediction for the record: If Trump offers the DACA compromise being discussed, the Democrats will refuse it and the legacy media will report that Trump wasn’t making a serious offer and is unwilling to compromise.

YOU JUST CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP – The media has attacked the Trump family for the past two years. On Friday, CNN’s John King again turned the network’s hate machine on Vice President and Mrs. Mike Pence. He wondered if the conservative Christianity espoused by the Pence’s disqualifies the Second Lady from Secret Service protection.

The story that Karen Pence is teaching art at a Virginia Christian elementary school apparently caused King’s underwear to wedge as he asked if it mattered that taxpayers pay for her housing, Secret Service protection and subsidize her life.

Others on King’s panel tried to soft-peddle his remarks in an attempt to get out of the segment, but “King ended the show by offering a pathetic defense, asserting that everything is fair debate,” because “we live in a democracy,” commented Curtis Houck of NewsBusters.

The AP’s D.C. bureau chief Julie Pace suggested that someone can hold whatever views they want so long as they don’t publicize it; to which Houck sarcastically responded, “especially if it runs afoul of societal norms … got it.”

As I have frequently mentioned here, Democrats and the liberal media are not comfortable with religious freedom unless it involves Islam.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT in view of the above three stories, offered by Roger L. Simon of PJMedia:

“Journalism, as a profession, does not exist. We know generally or specifically what qualifies one to be a cardiologist or an astrophysicist or even, heaven help us, a lawyer.

“What credential makes one a journalist? A degree from the Columbia School of Journalism? Anyone can be a journalist. All you have to do is start typing.

“Whether they write it or speak it and wherever they do it, they’re all basically pundits.”

“It wasn’t always that way,” Simon acknowledges, generally referring to the era before Watergate, when Woodward and Bernstein got turned into movie stars “because they could answer the phone.” Since then, those entering the journalism field began seeing themselves as the next Woodward or Bernstein.

He recalls when journalists were working stiffs trying to make a living, not cultural heroes.

          May God bless the United States of America.