Why Donald Trump faces 'unfair' media scrutiny, and how he's trying to take advantage of it

OregonLive ^ | August 15, 2016 | Douglas Perry

[hiho hiho]

(Someone has stopped taking their meds.)

[HarleyLady27]

Trump has played the media this whole election season and isn’t about to quit now...

Hillary isn’t going to make it, she will fold after the first debate if not before...

Our next destination folks riding on the Trump Train is The White House!!!

[bigbob]

Most people, including many FReepers, are missing a key point: less than 10% of Americans trust or have a favorable opinion of the media. THEY think they have all the answers and have great influence, but We the People disagree!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Safe for what? Civil towards whom? The lunatics are running the asylum.

[HiTech RedNeck]

She will muff, but nobody around her will tell the empress that she is naked, and will soldier right on to her November rebuke.

[FreedomStar3028]

If not Trump, then Hillary.

Safe for treason, safe for everything not American, safe for Hillary and media pundits bank accounts, freedom and livelihood.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And the media is whining about how Trump is playing this skepticism.

Well guess what, ye golden pens. You earned it....

[FreedomStar3028]

I imagine there will be massive riots in major city centers if Trump wins. Obama declares martial law, and we don’t even get a new President.

[kiryandil]

Douglas "My Lips Are Glued To Hillary's @nus" Perry wrote: "So many of Trump's lies and misdirection are transparently ridiculous..."

That's weird, Doug - us conservative peasants think that so many of Hillary Clinton's lies and misdirection are transparently ridiculous - but your lying, corrupt Media won't make the slightest effort to point that fact out.

Trouble may be purchased cheaply, Dougie - but the refund may be more than you can bear...

[Bullish]

I’m not a fan of the moderate liberal Howie Kurtz. He always seems to give the left wiggle room even when they’re caught red handed. However, when he gets a republican in his cross hairs he always fires both barrels.

Kurtz is off my list of those I can stand to watch at Fox news.

[HiTech RedNeck]

They are “transparently ridiculous” to small narrow minds.

[dowcaet]

Will American voters decide, however legitimately frustrated they might be about the economy and the political status quo, that Trump’s outrageousness is unworthy of them?

His outrageousness? Hillary selling national security and trade secrets to the highest bidder, and keeping them on her own illegal private server is not outrageous to you Mr. Perry? Trump is not the one who destroyed the economy with that crushing 19 trillion dollar debt. He’s not the one who has proposed ruinous economic policies that has left nearly 100 million Americans out of the workforce and forced 50 million or so to seek public assistance to survive. The media knows damn well the majority of the American people are mad as hell at both Republicans and Democrats, and at them too. Yet, they have only one stated purpose and that’s to get Hillary to the White House at any cost.

[Reno89519]

I sure hope to NOT see her naked.

[dragnet2]

Any decent reporter must acknowledge that Trump here is saying that "Second Amendment people" -- that is, gun-rights proponents -- could take matters into their own hands to stop a President Clinton.

This is 100% cow flop.

Or are the lying media pretending not to know organizations like GOA, NRA etc are extremely powerful organizations backed by millions of voters and cash?

Pathetic!

[kiryandil]

Small narrow minds don’t understand what it means to live under a lawless head of state.

[Maurice Tift]

   his response to 50 Republican national-security professionals publishing an open letter in which they insist Trump "would be the most reckless president in American history."

  I couldn't find Frank Gaffney in the list of 50 Republican national security professionals and he's the only one I can remember that has impressed me as someone who is both informed and truthful. I looked him up and the press now refers to him as an "islamophobe." I really can't say that I understand the meaning of the word "islamaphobe." It's used in a derogatory sense, but I often interpret is as meaning "realist." I think these particular 50 security professionals understand that Trump doesn't need them. Trump is a realist who doesn't need politically correct advisors.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is a set of small narrow minds that imagines it is in control of the state... until, of course, it ISN’T.

[HiTech RedNeck]

My guess — an indirect slam at Trump as wanting “yes-men.”

Well anyone who thinks Trump merely wants yes-men needs only to look at Mike Pence to see the refutation to that.

What Trump doesn’t want is people who will actively undermine good sense, not people who will never challenge details of political approaches. These 50 critics signed a joint statement; they didn’t just independently disagree with Trump. This spells a special kind of trouble.

[AndyJackson]

moving over to Rupert Murdoch's conservative news channel

Once about a time, far ago and a long way away, a good witch and a fairy godmother....

[AndyJackson]

god I hate spell check

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