Posted on 07/23/2017 9:00:38 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Last year, after President-elect Trump picked Jeff Sessions to be attorney general, The New York Times editorial page called the Alabama senator “radical” and “extreme” and tarred him as an unrepentant racist and xenophobe.
Last week, after Trump criticized Sessions and others, the same editorial page suddenly discovered a new fondness for Sessions. The Times now insisted that Trump had impugned his “integrity” and that of others “who have spent their careers respecting and protecting” the law.
It’s not likely that Sessions is grateful for the embrace. He knows he’s just a pawn — dirt when Trump embraces him, and a saint when Trump criticizes him.
Media hypocrisy doesn’t get any more blatant.
Unfortunately, what’s past is prelude to the coming battles. The president, shuffling the deck of his team in preparation for a showdown with special counsel Robert Mueller, made a big move in naming Anthony Scaramucci his new communications director, leading press secretary Sean Spicer to resign.
Scaramucci, a successful hedge-funder whose soft speaking style belies a passionate core, had a solid debut Friday. I trust he enjoyed his one-day honeymoon with the White House press corps.
Starting now, he’ll need a long fuse and an appreciation for the ridiculous if he hopes to fix the president’s relationship with reporters. Reputations and facts are expendable in their race to bring down the president.
Yet it’s also true that to succeed, Scaramucci must keep his boss on message. Trump’s tweet storm Saturday morning about various topics is a good example of a bad habit — it does little to advance the repeal of ObamaCare, tax reform and job creation.
Instead, the president’s eruption is the news, making it easy for the press to ignore for another day the substantive topics that matter to most people.
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It’s all very brilliant of President Trump’s: “Watch what I say, not what I do”.
The lazy, bitter, biased media doesn’t know how to do research or hard investigation....they only report on ‘tweets’ or their own supposition.....all the while, Trump and his team are fulfilling his promises quietly and efficiently.
Brilliant obfuscation;)
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