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Posted on 02/06/2017 11:16:24 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Because no president will ever again play by your rules
Joe Scarborough tried last week to warn Donald Trump that there’s no way Trump can win a war with the media. The media will always have a bigger megaphone, Scarborough insisted, and if nothing else they can outlast and outtalk any president. This has been conventional media wisdom for decades.
And it’s wrong. Trump has already won his war with the media, no matter how his presidency goes. Even if his presidency goes badly and he’s constantly under siege by the media - to the point where his approval ratings crater and he fails to win re-election - the media are mortally wounded. They will never again be the force they once were.
One of my guilty pleasures is Trump’s tweets. Even the “stupid” ones. He’s playing them. It is a fascinating thing to watch. They are irrelevant and only good for laughs now. And I’m getting some excellent laughs out of it. :)
I wish Trump would sick the investigators on Morning Joe.
Joe who?
He’s playing them with this nation ban EO too. After the courts affirm the President has the authority over immigration, they’ll have no leg to stand on when he starts deporting illegal aliens.
Why would Trump investigate my morning cup of coffee?
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Trump has a no hitter going into the 7th inning and the media hasn’t even got the bat off its shoulder.
He won the Election with all this.
It’s true... Donald broke their back
Broke Back Media loves homobama long time!
President Trump broke the media on that day in June 2015, they haven’t been in their right minds since...
Good Job President Trump!!! The American People are behind you 100%!!!
The “mainstream” liars are increasingly irrelevant. During the election I saw better, more accurate analysis on YouTube. The source? A strange, 20-something pagan dude with a laptop and mic set up in the corner of his bedroom. He covered and predicted it better than the gigantic “news” organizations. The legacy media are whistling past the graveyard.
Their bias has been forever revealed. Reagan gave the media a run for their money, but Trump is the grand master at calling them out by name, and hammering them back.
Trump was the one that finally told them that they have lost.
Might be a good time to review what Thomas Jefferson, that great advocate for freedom of the press, had to say on matters such as those we witness today:
"At a very early period of my life, I determined never to put a sentence into any newspaper. I have religiously adhered to the resolution through my life, and have great reason to be contented with it. Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers, it would be more than all my own time and that of twenty aids could effect. For while I should be answering one, twenty new ones would be invented. I have thought it better to trust to the justice of my countrymen, that they would judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me, and what they knew of me before the epoch since which a particular party has supposed it might answer some view of theirs to vilify me in the public eye. " --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 1798. ME 10:58
"[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226
"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155
"My opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful [is]... 'by restraining it to true facts and sound principle only.' Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224
"Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2nd, Probabilities. 3rd, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more than authentic papers and information from such sources as the editor would be willing to risk his own reputation for their truth. The second would contain what, from a mature consideration of all circumstances, his judgment should conclude to be probably true. This, however, should rather contain too little than too much. The third and fourth should be professedly for those readers who would rather have lies for their money than the blank paper they would occupy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:225
"An editor [should] set his face against the demoralizing practice of feeding the public mind habitually on slander and the depravity of taste which this nauseous aliment induces. Defamation is becoming a necessary of life, insomuch that a dish of tea in the morning or evening cannot be digested without this stimulant. Even those who do not believe these abominations, still read them with complaisance to their auditors, and instead of the abhorrence and indignation which should fill a virtuous mind, betray a secret pleasure in the possibility that some may believe them, though they do not themselves. It seems to escape them, that it is not he who prints, but he who pays for printing a slander, who is its real author." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:225
You know, the guy who left politics after a young woman died in his office. She fell and hit her head on a desk, is what I believe was said.
What this guy and the lamestream media fails to understand is more and more Americans have come to learn to not trust them. Without those Americans, Trump would not have won. The lamestream statist media with all their lies and deceptions was a huge reason Donald Trump won the election.
Let them be in denial and continue to watch them meltdown. It’s funny to watch. It’s only going to get worse for them.
CGato
Garrison is very clever. You have to really look at his cartoons.
Noticed in this one: nobama has a cigarette in his hand. Killary has lost a shoe, just like she did before being tossed into the Scooby van. The “f” in fake news is the Facebook f.
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