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North Korea: New York Times Columnist Whines About Trump's Diplomatic Process
Newsbusters ^ | March 9, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/10/2018 6:46:59 AM PST by PJ-Comix

Oh blessed diplomacy, hallowed be thy process as we worship at the sacred altar of Cordell Hull's striped pants.

At the New York Times it is mandatory that President Donald Trump receive little or no credit for his accomplishments. This seems to be especially true about the Thursday announcement that Trump will be meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by May. The Times columnist, Max Fisher, went out of his way to emphasize not only in his Thursday column (which must have been hastily written since the announcement came at 7 PM that day) but also in a series of tweets that Trump just wasn't following proper diplomatic protocol. 

We shall begin with Fisher's column but the real fun comes later in his tweets which, after the enormity of this diplomatic breakthrough seems to have sunk in, sound even more desperate in his attempts to minimize this Trump accomplishment which until recently most "experts" wrote off as impossible.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; northkorea
Notice how "well" diplomacy has worked thus far in denuclearizing North Korea.
1 posted on 03/10/2018 6:47:00 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

The left is genuinely terrified because if Trump pulls this off their entire construct is destroyed.


2 posted on 03/10/2018 6:52:04 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: PJ-Comix
I have not read the article... may read it.

Very curious about Tillerson taking ill in Africa. Timing and all. Plus reports he may not have been in the last-minute loop or part of the North Korea deal. Maybe he's a bit upset and showing by calling in sick?

3 posted on 03/10/2018 6:53:09 AM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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now on this issue more hand wringing and underestimating POTUS. National Review has a silly editorial, lecturing the president that there is no upside to a meeting. They assume he will be “played”........


4 posted on 03/10/2018 6:53:20 AM PST by GotMojo
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To: gibsonguy

I think you nailed it.


5 posted on 03/10/2018 6:53:41 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: gibsonguy

Liberalism is never having to say you were wrong.


6 posted on 03/10/2018 6:54:21 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Reno89519

Rex said the Kim meeting with President Trump was “no surprise.”


7 posted on 03/10/2018 6:55:25 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: GotMojo

Nobody plays Mr. Trump.


8 posted on 03/10/2018 6:57:14 AM PST by OKSooner (My brain is an amazing thing...)
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To: PJ-Comix

The left will never recognize anything Trump does as a success. Ever. I have shut out their raving as background noise. It’s degenerated into incomprehensible gibberish.


9 posted on 03/10/2018 6:57:16 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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Trump has been negotiating deals his entire life rather than reading about it in some dusty book.


10 posted on 03/10/2018 6:59:15 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: PJ-Comix

The NY Slimes also pronounced today that the 315,000 new jobs are the product of economic expansion over the last eight years.


11 posted on 03/10/2018 7:05:40 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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“Notice how “well” diplomacy has worked thus far in denuclearizing North Korea.”

I guess the like the Clinton policy on North Korea and the Obama policy on Iran.


12 posted on 03/10/2018 7:09:12 AM PST by Parley Baer
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The left can not help themselves. If they really thought the meeting between the two leaders will end in a disaster for President Trump they would be happy the meeting will be taking place.

Their worry is NOT that the meeting will be a disaster, but that President Trump will succeed where all others have failed.

The fact that the President is going to sit across from the leader we have been at war with for 50+ years is a victory in itself.


13 posted on 03/10/2018 7:17:48 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: Labyrinthos
The NY Slimes also pronounced today that the 315,000 new jobs are the product of economic expansion over the last eight years.

OK, Slimes, why did the jobs not appear two or three years ago? (crickets)

14 posted on 03/10/2018 7:19:09 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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It’s scary hilarious how the failed foreign policy geniuses of the last two decades are now warning DJT of the dangers of dealing with North Korea.

They are truly embarrassing.


15 posted on 03/10/2018 7:58:16 AM PST by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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