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CNN's Stelter: The Media 'Need' to Start Calling Trump an 'Authoritarian' 'Strongman'
NewsBusters ^ | 4 Dec 2016 | Nicholas Fondacaro

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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KEYWORDS: drumpf; fakenews; media; mediabias; msm; trump; ussdrumpf
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To: mandaladon

Does that lady know there’s a dead badger on her head?


41 posted on 12/04/2016 3:31:04 PM PST by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: Bon mots
ooo... what was THAT about?
42 posted on 12/04/2016 3:32:00 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: mandaladon

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! :)


43 posted on 12/04/2016 3:32:06 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: mandaladon
Brian Stelter after receiving an atomic wedgie


44 posted on 12/04/2016 3:33:43 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: mandaladon

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.


45 posted on 12/04/2016 3:35:20 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: Navin Johnson

Bent over shoulder flyes with 5 lb. weights...what a damn pussy.


And he has to bounce like it’s 50 lbs.


46 posted on 12/04/2016 3:35:27 PM PST by Vic S ( David Rockefeller killed Larry McDonald (KAL 007))
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To: Bryanw92

Yup, and these jerks keeping digging the hole deeper to oblivion.


47 posted on 12/04/2016 3:35:48 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: mandaladon

Pure subversion directly from the CIA Domestic Operations Bureau, Media Desk.

De-legitimize, destabilize, overthrow.

Italy just flipped you goblins, you’re going down.


48 posted on 12/04/2016 3:40:07 PM PST by Mr. M.J.B.
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To: mandaladon

This year’s Keith Obermann!


49 posted on 12/04/2016 3:43:17 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: mandaladon
you delegitimize the press

Stelter, dude - that ship has sailed. The MSM was at the helm.

50 posted on 12/04/2016 3:45:06 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: mandaladon

And we need to start calling them the Alt-Left media.

Seriously.

It will enrage them.


51 posted on 12/04/2016 3:48:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: mandaladon

The Fake News Media calls for ratcheting up the fake news!


52 posted on 12/04/2016 3:51:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: mandaladon

And they called Castro “Cuba’s longest serving President.”

LOL


53 posted on 12/04/2016 3:54:28 PM PST by Kenny500c
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To: Navin Johnson

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.


54 posted on 12/04/2016 3:56:26 PM PST by stratboy
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To: mandaladon

Oh come on!

Nobody has even started to shoot the enemedia communist bastards yet, and they are already complaining!


55 posted on 12/04/2016 4:01:05 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: mandaladon

Maybe trump can get CNN off the air at the airports.


56 posted on 12/04/2016 4:03:18 PM PST by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: mandaladon
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.

With good reason!

Donald Trump bodyslams, beats and shaves Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania XXIII

57 posted on 12/04/2016 4:04:14 PM PST by dead
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To: mandaladon

I thought we didn’t like labels?

I am so confused. I need a safe space.

//sarc


58 posted on 12/04/2016 4:04:27 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: Navin Johnson

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.


59 posted on 12/04/2016 4:06:11 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: mandaladon

That’s why he talked to the democratically elected President of Taiwan. Because he is an ‘authoritarian’


60 posted on 12/04/2016 4:07:10 PM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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