Amen.
They won't listen though. The dishonest press simply won't relinquish their atheistic and evil world view because they have been challenged. Their liberal world view is their religion and their "salvation."
Posted on 02/20/2017 5:56:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The media smart set fixates on creating a narrative that explains the big picture of events and offers gripping examples. In that spirit, then, here’s a narrative to help them understand President Trump’s recent burst of activity:
He’s serving notice that he, and not the media, sets the nation’s agenda. And that when journalists behave like opponents, he will treat them like opponents, punching back harder than they punch him.
That’s the meaning of the president’s epic press conference Thursday and his tour of the Boeing plant in South Carolina and Saturday’s rally in Florida. As Milton Friedman said in another context, everything else is detail.
The catalyst for Trump’s campaign-like barnstorming was that, after a rough week in which Democrats in Congress picked up the loony left’s impeachment mantle, the president’s team looked outgunned and outmaneuvered. The emerging media narrative was that the White House was in chaos, riven by infighting, leaks, an unhappy president and an unhappier first lady.
Trump knows better than most that perception, even if it’s wrong, can quickly harden into accepted fact. He sensed danger and decided to take matters into his own hands.
Nobody speaks for Trump better than Trump, which is not always a virtue. But Thursday, he made a wise game-day decision to do his solo version of a reset.
The official business was to announce his new nominee for secretary of labor, a choice that was well-received by the few outlets where it wasn’t ignored because of the media punch-palooza that followed. (A good trivia question: Name the new guy!)
The president was deliberate in making his points, talking for more than 20 minutes about what he’s done to keep his campaign promises and how he’s unfairly depicted.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Trump would do well to stay on this same course. He would also do well to ignore the Media entirely if they keep up the phony charade. He really doesn’t care what the media thinks so he might as well left them be totally sure of his position(s).
Trump tweets short and to the point tweets that devastate the media. He’s a “headline” kind of guy.
The media responds with long drawn out wasted verbiage that complains about the tweet and explains themselves. The attention span of the average american is short, so Trump wins. The media is always on the defensive.
If Trump successfully restores economic growth so that the people sense real prosperity and opportunity and he secures the borders and enforces immigration laws, he will be successful. The Media, which is inherently hostile and Leftist, will be noisy, a perpetual threat but will not destroy him or cause him to fail.
The media fans the flames of protest and unrest. They place the power of the press above what is good for the country.
They were not elected to dictate policy. The should just report the truth.
I would say that Trump is missing the point. The most important point is, Why was the Obama White House spying on the incoming President? Why was Obama’s White House listening to the calls of the President Elect’s people? That seems to be the bigger issue. One President is losing power but is spying on the new administration before it can get power. How is this a peaceful transfer of power?
Why is that OK? Why is it OK for one administration to listen in on another?
The sanctions are also odd. The sanctions that come days before the Obama White House leaves power because of a very hasty investigation that only takes a few weeks and contains lots of assumptions and little facts seems more odd than anything else. And the President Elect has the rights to get rid of them and even to promise to get rid of them. Just as a President during the Vietnam war could promise to end the war. Or Obama could primes to end the war in Iraq.
I think this conspiracy should be about spying on Trump by Obama. Not about Trump and Russia.
Great line from the article that needs to be noted:
Something else Koch said also is relevant. He once called a journalist who was a partisan critic a “politician with a press pass.”
They truly believe they do.
They think they're a coequal branch of our government.
For too long, Republicans have let the media cement in people’s minds stereotypes of their members - Quayle is an idiot who didn’t know Murphy Brown was a TV show, Palin is a moron who said she could see Russia from her house, etc.
Trump refuses to allow that to happen.
And the media is going berserk.
Amen.
They won't listen though. The dishonest press simply won't relinquish their atheistic and evil world view because they have been challenged. Their liberal world view is their religion and their "salvation."
Because the media is grounded in hard-left ideology, it's perception of reality has no place for common sense. Hence, it cannot comprehend Trump and his supporters.
And it is difficult if not impossible for the hard-left media to change their ability to perceive without changing their political orientation.
Given that thesis, the hard-left media will keep focusing on the few obscure and irrelevant details about Trump that do make sense to them and completely miss what is actually happening.
It isn't so much that the media is dishonest as it is that they honestly just don't see what is happening.
I was all about Ted Cruz until after I watched one of Trumps rally’s. I stopped sending Cruz money and started sending it to Trump. Money well spent.
The media deserves every smack down it receives.
The media is used to Republican politicians (Romney comes to mind) living in terror of them. Game over. I love that Trump isn’t letting them get away with anything. Maybe when they figure out that they’re not going to win with this opposition strategy, they’ll start being real journalists and be invited back to the table.
Goodwin hits it out of the ballpark with this one.
I am not calling you fake news
I am calling you VERY Fake news.
(ILWT = I Love Writing That)
No big rush. His team will get around to that. He needs to complete his cabinet, the SCOTUS nominee and staffing the various departments, plus the need to replace numerous deep state cretins who reveal their hatred and need to be fired.
BO’B spies on PRESIDENT TRUMP?
So what is the difference between the X-PRESIDENTs spying and a male pervert making a film of someone in the women’s bathroom after proclaiming to authority, he was a she? That pervert will have a dandy time behind bars, unlike our X who has the wherewithal to travel around the globe at the expense of others. Both are subject to our laws, no matter what position they hold. Girdle them up and put them both behind irons.
Hey Rooster - you are so correct. They are so mired in their liberal philosophy that they cannot see what the average John and Mary can see quite clearly. So to them, they are not being dishonest.
I like the quote from Ed Koch about the reporters really being politicians with press passes. Nothing exemplifies this better than the MSM hiring all the Obama and Clinton admin staffers for their news reporters. It’s OK if they are on for opinion pieces - but really - George Stephanopolis - really? Yup - a politician with a press pass.
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