Great article!!
Posted on 01/27/2017 3:33:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Notice how each story knocks the preceding story off the front pages and the evening news? Once the inauguration attendance became a story, no one was talking about Russian hacking.
All the while, Trump is taking body shots from the media. Letting them believe they are effective fighters, standing up for truth, social justice, and their favorite left-wing causes. They think they have Trump on the ropes. Yet behind the scenes his agenda marches along. Rope-a-dope.
Look at what Trump has accomplished in his first week. Withdrawal from TPP. No money to foreign nonprofits promoting abortion. A halt in federal hiring. Executive actions chipping away at Obamacare ahead of repeal and replacement. Oil pipelines moving forward. A freeze on new regulations. Limits on government agency social media use. And yes, a reiteration of his promise to build a wall on our southern border and a temporary ban on refugees.
*snip*
The added benefit is that, by covering nonsensical stories, the media is rapidly using up the little credibility capital they still have. Much like George Foreman throwing punches like a madman, tiring himself out. When Trump actually does something controversial, which he certainly will, the media will be beyond exhausted, having nothing to throw at Trump.
Anything they say in the future will be labeled as “fake news”, a term the media coined, now in a delicious irony being used against them. Like the boy who cried wolf, their outrage over non-stories today will only make them that much less believable in the future when they have something important to report.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ping
In the now immortal words of Jake Tapper, the MSM is getting rick rolled.
Their whining Trump won’t grovel in front of them is just too delicious to watch.
All that winning while they chase more fake news.
CNN just said Trump is obsessed with crowd size.
They’re beating that horse to death exactly a week after the inauguration.
More fake news.
Great article!!
I had to laugh at the first full Presser on Monday when Spicer was asked at least a half a dozen times by as many reporters why Trump was still obsessed with the attendance thing.
Just who is it that is obsessed with it?
Trump is an absolute master at enticing his opponents to play his game. The media, particularly, is insane. it runs aghast at every red herring Trump throws at them, all the while completely missing the substantive issues he is dealing with by the dozen, everyday. I will never grow tired of winning.
The Left/media are similarly obsessed with the “3 million illegal votes” issue.
I say they’re going to be sorry they harped on that, and didn’t let it die when Trump said it during the campaign.
Totally agree. While they are writing about stupid stuff major things are being accomplished. The media wants to blast Bannon for telling them to shut up. Actually it’s good advice and someday, if they ever wake up, he can say Told Ya!
Trump is moving forward on so many fronts simultaneously that he neutralizes the socialist press from using their usual “pound it into the heads of the collective” strategy. Without a couple days to program their slogan army, they are reduced to griping about who’s telling the truth.
“Squirrel.” HaHaHa.
The guy filing in for Tucker last night fell for it too. President said he could let Obamacare fail but that would not be the right thing to do for the American people so he won’t. On the show they even showed the President saying the full quote but their brains could not process beyond the first sentence.
Trump is not a See Spot Run guy but, to his credit, he is speaking plain English so the American people can understand him (if they choose to). The media is trying to find Spot.
There insanity is the result of living in the Liberal echo chamber.
I keep waiting for one of the Liberal networks to get tired of the awful ratings and wonder to themselves if perhaps they should move in the general direction of the Center.
There harping on things no one cares about
therefore there not going crazy over the things he has done
Plus people want what he is doing done they could careless about the details
Only old people watch the news
...Steve Bannon — former Executive Chairman to Breitbart News — tells the New York Times’ Michael Grynbaum that the “elite media” has “no authority” to report on what the American people want out of newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump.
From the New York Times: Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by an election outcome few anticipated, and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration.
“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call. “I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.” .......
“The elite media got it dead wrong, 100 percent dead wrong,” Mr. Bannon said of the election, calling it “a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there.”
“The mainstream media has not fired or terminated anyone associated with following our campaign,” Mr. Bannon said. “Look at the Twitter feeds of those people: they were outright activists of the Clinton campaign.” (He did not name specific reporters or editors.)
“That’s why you have no power,” Mr. Bannon added. “You were humiliated.”(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Trump's DOJ needs to investigate this as possible voter fraud:
ITEM---Journalists Dined at Top Clinton Staffers Homes
Days Before Hillary's announcement of her candidacy
Wikileaks via Breitbart ^ | October 17 2016 | Ezra Dulis / FR Posted by grey_whiskers
ITEM..... Several top journalists and TV news anchors RSVPed “yes” to attend a private, off-the-record gathering at the New York home of Joel Benenson, the chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, two days before she announced her candidacy in 2015, according to emails Wikileaks published from John Podesta’s accounts.
ITEM---The guest list for an earlier event at the home of John Podesta was limited to reporters who were expected to cover Clinton on the campaign trail. --snip--
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ITEM---Wikileaks revealed earlier that late night talk host Stephen Colbert, and his team at Comedy Central, were making TV episodes at the request or order of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) back in April of 2013.
So, viewers thought they were vote-smart because they’re informed by a comedian, yet same said comedian was doing Hillary’s bidding the whole time.
ITEM----I hope talk hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Maher, Seth Myers, Trevor Noah and Conan O’Brien have their lawyers on retainer and speed dial.
ITEM....because if the Trump Administration uncovers that the DNC and the Clintons were directly working with any member of media and their writing staff during the 2016 Presidential election, they could be charged with violating Federal election laws.
Trump is a master parent. The media is a little baby. He gives the baby attention by shaking his keys in his left hand, all the while cleaning up the baby’s mess and Making America Great Again with his right.
They are going to have to swap out the reporters for ones with very high IQs.
People with high IQs are not behaving like the President is dumb. They are flying in from around the World to tell him that are going to invest in “his” America (not Obama’s, Clinton’s, Ryan’s, McConnell’s, Schumer’s).
This is Trump’s America... just many in DC do not realize it yet... yet!
“Trump Playing Rope-a-Dope with the Media”
Damn right! For example, watch the results of the voter fraud investigation, no doubt he will prove the allegation.
It is 7:15am in DC. No doubt the President has already accomplished more today than I will. Every morning I wake up feeling completely inadequate.
Mr. President, please stop winning... or, perhaps, sleep in a little bit.
OPSEC demands a minimal press pool around President Trump.
We must NOT allow the MSM to advertise and blab information that will jeopardise people and security just so they can get their daily buzzfeed.
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