He went on to mock Trump reminding that panel “This is the first president-elect we've ever had who is in the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. -----------LOL I didn't know that!
Posted on 12/04/2016 3:15:28 PM PST by mandaladon
CNN’s Brian Stelter took his anti-Donald Trump bias to new heights Sunday during his show “Reliable Souses,” where he argued that the media had to start referring to the president-elect as an authoritarian. “I talk to international correspondents who say to you, ‘This is exactly what authoritarians do. This is what strongmen do. This is what happens in authoritarian regimes,’” he claimed, “I think we need to start using those words on TV, at least, to discuss the possibilities before us.”
“What you do in an authoritarian regime is you delegitimize the press,” he continued, as he asked former Fortune editor John Huey if he could see Trump cracking down on the press. Huey agreed and said that Trump practices “the classic techniques of a demagogue.” And according to him, one of the techniques is “to create the idea that someone out there is the enemy.”
“And he started with Mexicans, he moved to Muslims, and sometime in the middle of the summer he really started to focus on the media,” Huey explained, while praising Stelter for being, “one of the first people to pick up on that.” Come to think of it, Hillary Clinton’s claim that Trump’s supporters were a basket of deplorables falls into that narrative.
Huey continued to smear Trump by surmising that, “So these are demagogic techniques and you can look at them very seriously because they do smack of authoritarianism.” He went on to mock Trump reminding that panel “This is the first president-elect we've ever had who is in the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. So there are elements of promotion here.”
The CNN host had George Washington University professor and former CNN Washington Bureau Chief, Frank Senso, on the program where Stelter inquired,
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He went on to mock Trump reminding that panel “This is the first president-elect we've ever had who is in the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. -----------LOL I didn't know that!
So what do they call Obama? Weakman?
Looks like they are following Mark Levin’s lead.
Congrats Mark.
Did they ever call the feckless fool on the hill that? Rabid leftist buffoons.
Hat tip To Mark Levin for giving MSM their talking points.
Glad I passed up CRTV.
HE is delegitimizing the press, not Trump
Yes, by all means, call Trump a Strongman. Then point out how different he is from Obama, who was... a Weakman?
>>“What you do in an authoritarian regime is you delegitimize the press,”
The press delegitimized the press. Perhaps someone should read them the story of the boy who cried wolf...and then explain it to them in painstaking detail.
Bent over shoulder flyes with 5 lb. weights...what a damn pussy.
Where is the fairness in that?
CNN is just a coven of troublemakers. They should be hopeful Trump does not really apply painful pressure on them soon so they remember that the election is over.
Who really cares? We all know what CNN does. I think they are competing with MSNBC for the most Trump lies. Fun to see their ratings drop.
Who’s the tranny?
I was thinking more along the lines of ‘patriotic American with balls’ but whatever floats their boat, or rather their sinkin ship.
Sunday during his show “Reliable Souses,”
Was he soused when he said this?
Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame? Strong Man. Seems to match if you ask me...LOL
All it will do is further diminish the credibility of the media. To the extent they have any left.
They certainly needn’t wait until he actually becomes POTUS. I sure most of their scathing critiques are already written. What he actually does is irrelevant-they just don’t like him!!
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