Posted on 12/04/2016 3:15:28 PM PST by mandaladon
CNNs 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 Clintons claim that Trumps 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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Does that lady know there’s a dead badger on her head?
How about you @sshats just call him, ‘Mr. President.’
MSM Death Rattle. And GOOD!
Best. Election. Ever. EVER!
President-Elect (LOVE THAT!) Trump gets under all the right thin-skinned skin! :)
This should be a learning opportunity for the Left. There is a reason why our Constitution describes limited government. We should all agree to get back to the Constitution.
Bent over shoulder flyes with 5 lb. weights...what a damn pussy.
And he has to bounce like it’s 50 lbs.
Yup, and these jerks keeping digging the hole deeper to oblivion.
Pure subversion directly from the CIA Domestic Operations Bureau, Media Desk.
De-legitimize, destabilize, overthrow.
Italy just flipped you goblins, you’re going down.
This year’s Keith Obermann!
Stelter, dude - that ship has sailed. The MSM was at the helm.
And we need to start calling them the Alt-Left media.
Seriously.
It will enrage them.
The Fake News Media calls for ratcheting up the fake news!
And they called Castro “Cuba’s longest serving President.”
LOL
To make it worse, he’s cheating by rocking his body to get the weights up. His lack of proper form, 5# weights, and 98 pound weakling frame provide further evidence of his physical weakness.
Oh come on!
Nobody has even started to shoot the enemedia communist bastards yet, and they are already complaining!
Maybe trump can get CNN off the air at the airports.
With good reason!
Donald Trump bodyslams, beats and shaves Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania XXIII
I thought we didn’t like labels?
I am so confused. I need a safe space.
//sarc
Plus he is bouncing his back. That is doing more harm than good. It’s better to do them slowly and correctly, that flapping around like his fly n a bathhouse.
That’s why he talked to the democratically elected President of Taiwan. Because he is an ‘authoritarian’
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