President Trump Has Been Far Too Nice To The Mainstream Media

Townhall.com ^ | February 20, 2017 | Kurt Schlichter

[King Moonracer]

The media is completely unrepentant. They keep saying Sweden has not had any terrorism in 5 years, while Trump was talking about Rampant crime by muzzies.

[Kaslin]

What is GAB.AI?

[Kaslin]

Didn’t you hear him say on Thursday at the press conference that he watches FOX and Friends, because they are fair, (which they are) and he likes them?

[Kaslin]

Well after they were bitching because he called on Katie Pavlin from Townhall.com the day before; and remember she asked him and Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel, which was the purpose of Bibi’s visit. He invited them the next day. He invited them the next day and let them know what he thought of them.

[Kaslin]

kinda raw coming from townhall

I don't know what you got against Townhall.com? Townhall.com didn't write the op-ed. Col Schlichter did, and if you don't like his style than don't read him. I love his columns and so do many others

[Kaslin]

That’s schlichtered. His name is Schlichter, not Schlicter

[sit-rep]

well if you don’t like differing views, don’t post

[central_va]

The daily presser is obsolete. One a week for Spicer and once a quarter for Pres. Trump.

[teeman8r]

the h is silent

but thanks for your adherence to spelling

[binreadin]

I'm beginning also to think that Trump is punking the press with his supposed “mistruths.” Take his recent remark about “what happened last night in Sweden,” for example. Well, when pressed he said he was just talking about something he saw on TV, but this morning on CNN they are actually trying to whitewash the immigrant crime in Sweden, and by this point, that means everyone knows that this means there is terrible immigrant crime in Sweden. It's like Pravda in the USSR. The more they complain about the Russians, the more they act like them. More and more of the immigrant crime and unemployment is coming to light as the Swedish citizens themselves are pushing back against their dishonest government. Trump's remarks will only energize the common man in Sweden, and we can look to a big government shift in the future, similar to what we are seeing in France and Germany.

[CMailBag]

I emailed FoxNews Sunday and told them they should change the name to “NeverTrump Sunday”

[relictele]

The new right/alt-right alternative to Twitter.

They’ve been going round the houses with Apple and Google who keep rejecting their app for obvious reasons.

[MortMan]

I think Schlicter’s humorous bombast serves a purpose here, although I agree the 50 shades subject is disturbing.

The left has long used ridicule as a weapon, while the right has chosen to remain above that level of discourse - most often leading to the right being eviscerated in the eyes of the public. Schlicter is sometimes over-the-top, but the ridicule embedded in his prose serves a very important purpose - to get people’s attention.

Ann Coulter writes in much the same style.

[relictele]

Interestingly, I have uBlock original as an adblocker and the Townhall link(s) won’t load if it’s on.

Of course, the cheeky beggars have 43 (43!?!) trackers and beacons enabled on their page per Ghostery stats.

Any self-respecting entity doing business with Taboola and their sick, disgusting, bizarre ads is no longer self-respecting.

[relictele]

-> uBlock Origin

[sit-rep]

Oh I understand fully whats happenin here... I just think it lacks a little class. Freepers are always so quick to scoff at others for grammar, tact, language etc... I say stay consistent. maybe I shouldn’t have said anything...

[Bobalu]

It’s a Twitter clone...without the censorship.

https://gab.ai/

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It would be ironic that the media hates it when a politician tells the truth, except no one still believes the media is in the truth business.

The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.

The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certaindegree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

Think about it: everyone learns language at their mother’s knee. And we trust our mothers implicitly. Skepticism is learned - with great difficulty - after we have learned to believe.

“No one still believes the media is in the truth business” - but still we struggle to keep from believing “The News.” That is why we find it so valuable to be able to pool our meagre stores of “incredulity” here on FR.

[Little Ray]

Well, until he breaks out the wood chippers, he will always be too nice to the MSM.

[Kaslin]

I did never watch them, nor did I watch the briefings.