...OUR JOB’ IS TO CONTROL ‘EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE THINK...
That's good, because I'm scared a little, of what I think, myself.
Posted on 02/22/2017 6:04:00 AM PST by Red Badger
Controlling "exactly what people think" is the job of the media, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski boldly declared Wednesday morning.
While discussing President Trump's entreaties to the American people to remain skeptical of the press, Bzezinski worried that if the economy turns south, Americans may end up trusting him over the media.
"And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think," Brzezinski said. "And that, that is our job."
SCARBOROUGH: "Exactly. That is exactly what I hear. What Yamiche said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. They go, 'Yeah you guys are going crazy. He's doing -- what are you so surprised about? He is doing exactly what he said he is going to do.'"
BRZEZINSKI: "Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job."
The comment failed to raise any eyebrows from her co-panelists. Instead, her co-host, Joe Scarborough, said that Trump's media antagonism puts him on par with Mussolini and Lenin.
SCARBOROUGH: "It’s the -- it's the ground noise that he is throwing out there also, whether he is questioning, Mark, the legitimacy of federal judges to do what they have done since Marbury v. Madison. It's when he says the media is the, quote --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Enemy."
SCARBOROUGH: "-- 'enemy of the people', where he sounds like Mussolini or Lenin which obviously causes concern that phrase right there makes him sound more like a dictator in training, when he sends Stephen Miller out and says, basically the president has absolute power, he shall not be questioned."
Scarborough also accused Trump's base of having a "blind spot" on the issue of illegal immigration.
"We have an economy, let’s face it, we have an economy that is built on illegal immigration," Scarborough said. "We have an economy that is built on that. That is why I say why don’t you just legalize it?"
Every now and then a little truth leaks out.................
Jobs, cheaper housing, less congestion on roads...you’d think Portland and Seattle would welcome these things. HA! Only if produced by rent control and billion dollar a mile choo-choo trains.
It’s the left, Jake.
I especially love it when guests and Joe talk over her. Even they think she is an intellectual lightweight.
Pitiful. Alt-Left birthmother.
She wouldn’t even make a good wet nurse.................
Not so surprising that all she has is her father’s coattails. And even those are pretty suspect.
She and Scarface deserve each other.
He’ll dump her after a couple of years, unless they are going to try the Carville-Matalin gig for a while.............
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAXXNEZxq8U this is the accompanying video of her slip.
Daddy would have been happy in Communist Poland, don't know why he ever left.
This just the kind of arrogance that people like me in flyover country despise.
As I have posted elsewhere, in 1955 at a National Broadcaster's Convention Edward R. Murrow gave a keynote speech on dangers of editorializing the news. He said that basic news reporting was important and editorial content must be labeled such and two should not meet.
Mika and her ilk want to and have gone beyond even what Murrow would deem ,not just wrong, but is in truth despicable.
If this is the view of the MSM then it is just as Goebbels and Stalin would like. It is not just over the line but a perversion of what the First Amendment stands for.
The so called Free Press has squandered it's rights and it's responsibilities and this why they are now looked upon askance and the provocateurs of the “Fake” and “Unreliable” News.
Exactly. They have abused their status to where they now report opinion as news, rumor and innuendo as facts and truth be damned..................
I agree - get’em moving. When they clear out all the riff-raff, I suspect Trump will do some deal for the illegals who are hard-working, tax-paying, well-assimilated.
If he does any sort of deal like that it will piss off his base...me included.
If she had one, she just threw it to the floor and stomped it with her high heels!
Anyone who wants to control what We the People think is an enemy of We the People.
Trump named you well, Mika: "Enemy of the American People">
Here’s the deal I would do for illegals over 5 years who are upstanding workers and contributors to our society, presuming we want a deal after the criminals are out.
After they pass an English language and Constitution test, and oath, I’d levy a $10,000 illegal entry fine on them, one year to pay. This could raise about $2 billion. These funds would go to building the border wall.
We would encourage Mexico to create a illegal fine loan program, which would go to those who can’t pay.
Everyone would be happy. The former illegals could stay, and we would get our wall, paid by Mexico.
It’s a plan but to say that ‘Everyone would be happy’ does a disservice to those of us out here who just want them gone.
While I’ll agree that the bulk of the aliens are from Mexico but don’t forget that we have them from all over the world.
Time to move them out.
They can always signup with a labor contractor to come back and do the jobs Americans don’t want to do.
No Mika, you don't. Your comments prove that.
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