Posted on 01/14/2017 12:27:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
So now we know: This is how it's going to be after Inauguration Day, too.
When coverage falls afoul of Donald Trump, the soon-to-be-president will feed the media itself into the news grinder. As Matthew Continetti wrote in the Washington Free Beacon, the new administration is going on permanent offense; Trump will invert the usual equation to subject individual journalists and their employers to scrutiny and slashing attacks of the kind usually reserved for public officials.
Trump started Wednesday's cyclone of a press conference with a warning sheathed in seeming compliments: Thanks for the restraint in holding off on all those salacious and unproven allegations about my personal behavior, and the claims of collusion between my associates and the Russians! And don't tick me off if you want any more of these press conferences.
It had, after all, been a half-year since Trump last held one — a hiatus which he ascribed to his displeasure with reporting about him.
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I forgot the link:
Everyone has an opinion.
npr....go p8ss up a rope. Go f yourselves. Wait...not the second one, they might like fn themselves. Just go p8ss up a rope.
Pres. Trump should make the MSM take drug
tests to get rid of the sociopaths who get
PCP from the “US” State Dept.
Yep. Get your Twitter account rolling and get your Tweets directly from the prez, Kellyanne and Bill Mitchell. I’ve had a blast there, even while all these Freepers ripped the place.
Well this should bode well for an amusing sight.
We’ve long wished that presidents would stand up for what they supposedly stand for.
We’re getting our wish. Donald Trump will be political Christmas, all year round. Even if the gifts are sometimes ugly sweaters, we know they are from the heart.
Hit ‘em again!
Hit ‘em AGAIN!
Harder!
HARDER!!!
Please. Please. Please defund NPR! How could anybody say they are for making the government smaller and more efficient and still fund NPR in this era of media glut?
When their knees start to buckle, offer them a helping hand up, then knock them down again.
A snort or two of the "chit" gets production going.
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