Posted on 02/18/2017 11:45:49 AM PST by Kaslin
On Wednesday morning, Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan explicitly advocated that since Trump administration spokesmen are liars, they should be denied any admission to the network Sunday talk shows. She called up Sunday show hosts and demanded it. Can you imagine the Post arguing in 1998 that the Clinton administration should be denied access to television because they were obviously lying about Monica Lewinsky? Here’s Sullivan’s conclusion:
There is no reason to be surprised about the public statements of the Prevarication Administration.
But there is reason to doubt whether giving proven liars a regular platform is something that ought to continue. Truth matters. [Emphasis hers.]
Sullivan, like the rest of the liberal media, was furious that Trump spokesman Stephen Miller defiantly projected an unproven “everybody knows” cynicism that there’s a substantial voter fraud problem in New Hampshire. Sullivan, like the rest of the liberal media, didn’t see anything wrong with black Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings offering no proof on the same show as he proclaimed “there are millions of people, I'm sure, who have not been able to vote that should be able to vote.”
Stephanopoulos fought Miller tooth and nail, but Cummings was given a free pass.
Now let’s wonder how Sullivan in 2012 – then the Public Editor or reader's advocate of The New York Times – evaluated Susan Rice lying on all the Sunday talk shows about the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi was a spontaneous protest gone wrong, caused by a YouTube video. Put “Margaret Sullivan” and “Susan Rice” in a Nexis search of the Times – you get nothing.
Perhaps Sullivan would argue that Rice wasn’t relevant to the newspaper’s coverage? Sullivan did write about complaints that the Times was displaying bias by placement on Benghazi congressional hearings, refusing to put them on Page One. (Because, obviously, the Clinton haters shouldn’t win.)
Sullivan <actually wrote in 2012: “I see no evidence that The Times is pushing the Obama agenda, overtly or otherwise.” Now who sounds like “The Prevarication Administration”? Who is a team player, a spokeswoman like Kellyanne Conway?
This Sullivan campaign obviously doesn’t extend to Dan Rather or to Brian Williams. Sullivan doesn’t mind if they show up on television and decry the Trump liars – as they shamelessly do.
This is how Sullivan reported on her Ban the Liars crusade:
Should proven liars continue to be given these platforms, especially on the Sunday-morning talk circuit? At what point are some administration officials no longer welcome in these influential national forums?
I asked John Dickerson, host of CBS’s Face the Nation, and George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC’s This Week, that question Monday. Both thoughtfully made the case that it’s important to have administration spokespeople on their shows, even if they don’t say much that’s useful or spout falsehoods.
“If they are representatives of the White House, then the bias should be for taking them on the air,” Dickerson said. The key is to provide context, he said — sometimes with a discussion immediately following, and, when appropriate, to do what he calls “adjudicating,” meaning pushing back, asserting established fact through repeated questioning, as he has often done.
Or sometimes, Dickerson says, viewers are best served by letting such guests speak freely, and then let “an informed and wise” viewership make its own judgments.
Stephanopoulos, who pushed Miller hard on the lack of evidence for his voting-fraud claims, told me that he was a worthwhile guest.
“Miller was elaborating on the president’s own assertion,” he said. “So it’s critical for us,” through questioning Miller as his surrogate, “to hold the president accountable.”
The Trump administration is a month old, and somehow the Post’s media columnist thinks White House aides should have no place on a Sunday news program. For four years? For eight? This, from the same people who pound the table if The Washington Post is denied access to Trump for 48 hours.
Excellent
If it weren’t for double standards, the media would have no standards at all
Jeff Bezo and Ms Droopy Eyes certainly value freedom of speech except of course for conservatives.
This is what the Left does — try to stop free and opposing speech. First by saying it is racist or something else and then by banning it. That is what is happening on colleges, and now apparently the media wants to do it.
Why are liberals all so ugly
Susan Rice?
Just as with Trump’s Press Conference, the Liberals ignore 95% of what was said and zero in on the 5% that may need further clarification in their fact checking. Trump saying he had the most EC’s (for a Republican Candidate) since Reagan for instance.
Miller told Clintonopolus numerous proven examples of Voter Fraud yet the hanging curve ball was all about New Hampshire. Clintonopolus kept going back to it while ignoring everything else Miller said.
Then I read later in the week that there were at least 1200 Voters who are registered in both New Hampshire and Massaccusets. Trump and the Republican Senator lost by less than that.
Turns out New Hampshire has Election same day Registration and they accept out of State ID to do so. WTF?
beat me to it.... my first thought exactly
Ha Ha Ha! One, I doubt they would care. Two, this is absolutely outrageous.
The Washington Post is at all out war against the president of the USA. Bezos can rot.
Watch me smack myself in the face with this frying pan!
Yeah, do, do it.
Trump should ban them from press meetings. Same for CNN. Other networks and media outlets deserve to be there too.
I like the idea of putting them on ROTATION.
It’s impossible to even watch Fox! These idiots are still questioning Trump’s Russian ties when there has never been one ounce of evidence to support such a discussion.
Nobody tells the truth, at all.
We don’t need to interview these people to spread lies about them.
We’re journalists. :)
Wow! How dumb is Margaret Sullivan?
The Trump Administration would not be hurt by a ban but the Sunday News shows would.
Didn’t she start the fake news meme and, when it was directed at the leftist media, she wanted to stop it?
Another Obamite leftist off her meds.
Wait a minute. Why did you post her mug?
But now to the subject at hand. If every liar was not invited on to the Sunday talk shows, there would be no program to watch.
I watch the Sunday cable news programs regularly and the demand for the truth far exceeds the supply of hosts and talking heads to provide it. All, and I mean ALL, of these people have agendas and lie to the camera all the time. It is disgusting what is allowed to pass for the "truth".
This woman's concern for the truth would seem an important point, except for the fact that she works for the Washington Compost, the biggest fake newser around. Maybe she doesn't understand the meaning of "irony" or "hypocrite".
Since the media thinks everything is about them instead of the "news" they are supposed to be reporting on, maybe her idea is not so bad after all. Bypass the media and go straight to the public via Twitter, Facebook and other media outside the Washington Cesspool of liberals.
It would only take but a few days before the media would be howling that Trump's administration won't come on their programs. They get their ratings from these Trump folks and not from a bunch of anti-Trump liberals sitting around on a panel blasting everything Trump.
That is what liberals do. They are masters in this.
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