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Media watchers blame hostility toward reporters on Trump
Sacramento Bee ^ | May 25, 2017 | TAMARA LUSH

Posted on 05/25/2017 2:36:24 PM PDT by artichokegrower

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To: artichokegrower

I heard about the altercation on WMAL this morning. I wondered how long it would take them to blame it on Trump.

Btw, I don’t think we know what happened. I have heard two versions of the story.

Of course, the press will run with the side of the story they like. Since, the election is today, it won’t matter what the truth is.

His girlfriend, Michelle Fields, taught him well.


21 posted on 05/25/2017 2:56:12 PM PDT by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: artichokegrower

Sorry MSM but we intelligent folks have hated you buttwipes for years and years.

Live with it, because we know you are incapable of change.

And our hate grows.


22 posted on 05/25/2017 2:59:43 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: artichokegrower

They

Are

NOT

Reporters


23 posted on 05/25/2017 2:59:57 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: dforest
Heck, I have hated those bastiges since way before Trump


24 posted on 05/25/2017 3:00:44 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: artichokegrower

I hate those FERS!!!


25 posted on 05/25/2017 3:04:37 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: LucyT

Has anyone seen his bruised and battered body and the results of the CT scan the reporter had? /s (if needed)


26 posted on 05/25/2017 3:04:39 PM PDT by azishot
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To: artichokegrower

There might be something to this.

Trump knocked them down off their self-erected pedestals. And he didn’t do it subtly like when W ignored helen thomas.

But telling them to their faces that their lying will be be allowed to stand is a far cry from physical violence.


27 posted on 05/25/2017 3:05:13 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: mountn man

Love it! LOL


28 posted on 05/25/2017 3:05:34 PM PDT by dforest
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29 posted on 05/25/2017 3:19:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: artichokegrower; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; RoosterRedux; ...
These ‘basement dwellers’ that are being called reporters are a complete joke...

but in another sense they are doing harm to people, nations and safety of not only American Citizens but those in other countries...

UK police stop passing Manchester bombing information to US over ...

https://www.theguardian.com › World › UK News › Manchester Arena attack

We are trying, through President Trump, get a coalition of nations to combat terrorism in all facets...with their ‘basement’ tactics they are endangering this...

From the article of the Manchester Bombing, the UK said it would no longer share information with the US and it's reporters...bad idea there...the only way we can keep ourselves informed is by sharing ‘CORRECT’ information, not lies, no grandiose garbage from ‘basement dwellers’ but honest facts of who the terrorists are, where they came from, how many and who is supporting them...we cut this off and we are in a big danger...

These ‘basement dwellers’ lie at a drop of a hat, take for example the story coming out of Montana today:

Montana GOP Candidate Allegedly ‘Body Slams’ Reporter - NYMag

nymag.com/daily/.../05/montana-gop-candidate-allegedly-body-slams-reporter.html

But when this ‘basement dweller’ was interviewed later, this is what she said to another person:

Montana Assault Witness Changes Story, Says No Neck Grab | LifeZette

https://www.lifezette.com/.../bombshell-montana-assault-witness-changes-story-admits...

There have been many of these reports going out, take for another example the lies that are being told about Russia influenced our National Election...many people have stated and also the one responsible for finding out the truth has said there was no collision involved, but now it has made a tricky situation with the US and Russia...

So when you read the New York Times; New York Post; Washington Post; Washington Examiner and many others, remember that the people writing these stories (and most of them wouldn't be put to print in a fairy tale book) they are being written by ‘basement dwellers’ that then go to the first talking head and radio show hosts to ruin the standing of Our Great Country and ruin also a lot of peoples reputations, when in fact the ‘basement dwellers’ are the ones that need to be ruined...

30 posted on 05/25/2017 3:21:11 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Paladin2

“...a wave of hostility toward journalists that President Donald Trump helped generate.”

Let’s correct that:

a wave of hostility toward journalists that journalists helped generate.


31 posted on 05/25/2017 3:22:37 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Man, the stupidity is hard to take!

Try suggesting obama is the instigator/agitator for the hate and riots.


32 posted on 05/25/2017 3:29:46 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: HarleyLady27

sounds more like a slip and fall than a ‘body slam’


33 posted on 05/25/2017 3:33:17 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: DoughtyOne

How about the hostility towards the police that Obama created. It resulted in how many cops being killed?


34 posted on 05/25/2017 3:34:25 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: HarleyLady27
I guess the most effective way to combat these "basement dwellers" is to spoil their reputation.

In years past, the partisan journalists waw themselves as "changing of the world" and making it more socialist.

But since Trump has been attacking these people, they've become very defensive.

I'm not so sure they can brag as much to their girl friends about their line of work. If they live in New York City, no problem -- their circle of friends is limited. But when they go home for Thanksgiving in Iowa, they ultimately learn the world sees journalists as vile creatures who manufacture fake news. Wonder how many uncomfortable dinner conversations have occurred in the last two years.

Barnum & Bailey circus folded this week. And in part, it's because the clowns, make believes, and freak shows have gone to the newspapers and nightly TV talk shows.

Ridicule and laughter at these clowns is the way to hurt them. If the average Deplorable laughs at them, then long term, their voices lose an audience.

And Trump can add to his trophy collection :- )


35 posted on 05/25/2017 3:57:44 PM PDT by poconopundit (FR: Self-Reliant Lovers of Liberty who can't stop the Chatter)
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To: HarleyLady27

Jacobs (former DNC activist) baited Gianforte and got the response he wanted.

Baiting is going to happen more and more and longer and harder.

You want a republican to lose an election ? Bait him to get him to whomp you during the campaign.


36 posted on 05/25/2017 4:12:46 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: artichokegrower

I’ve had feelings of animosity towards reportes since walter cronkite in 1968.


37 posted on 05/25/2017 4:14:52 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: artichokegrower

I have been hostile towards reporters for 30 years, and president Trump has nothing to do with it.

No, I haven’t kicked a reporters ass.

Although, it’s not too late...

5.56mm


38 posted on 05/25/2017 4:19:36 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: artichokegrower

I agree. The man was pure evil. IMO < he could have been charged with a number of things.

I believe at some points there he was inciting to riot.


39 posted on 05/25/2017 4:59:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: artichokegrower
For months, Trump, first as a candidate, now as president, has attacked the media, calling it dishonest, branding it the "enemy of the people" and accusing it of putting out "fake news.”
Journalism has been dishonest, the enemy of democratic republicanism - and fake news - since memory of living man runneth not to the contrary.

And recognition of those facts long predates the presidential run of Donald Trump.


40 posted on 05/25/2017 5:37:05 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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