Posted on 10/09/2019 4:18:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
Politico posted a curious headline by senior media reporter Michael Calderone the other day: "News anchors fight back against GOP senators' refusal to condemn Trump." At this point, is it really news that "news anchors" are fighting the GOP?
Calderone in this case refers to CNN's Jake Tapper and NBC's Chuck Todd. Let's address them separately.
"Tapper proclaimed on Sunday that no Republican Senate or House leaders would appear on his show 'State of the Union' to defend Trump," Calderone wrote. Tapper told Calderone that "he doesn't think it should be controversial to say 'using your political office to push foreign nations to dig up dirt on your political opponents' is empirically wrong, as he implored Republicans to say on his show."
But Tapper wasn't done lecturing. "This is a precedent that will destroy the concept of free and fair elections," he told Calderone. "It's not really picking any sort of bold moral stance to say that you can't have that. I don't know why so few people are willing to say it." Calderone then noted no Republican senator has appeared on CNN or MSNBC since Sept. 25, when "Ukrainegate" began.
This is remarkably disingenuous. We're in the middle of an impeachment inquiry, and CNN and MSNBC have been eager to remove Trump from office since the day he was elected, at least as eager as the Democrats. This is simply undebatable. Why should Republicans' avoidance of these channels be a scandal?
A better question might be this: What took so long? Republicans accomplish nothing by appearing on MSNBC and CNN other than giving them some notion of nonpartisan credibility, something they manifestly don't deserve.
Tapper and his fellow anchors are fiercely decrying foreign-government interference in our elections, or governments being badgered into interfering. But when you start talking about how the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign, they consider it a crackpot "conspiracy theory" from the Fox News crowd. You can't talk about how the Hillary Clinton campaign paid a former British spy to dig up dirt on her opponent from Russian government sources. That hypocrisy about inconvenient facts is why this impeachment effort is so ridiculous.
Then there's Chuck Todd, who Calderone notes "became visibly exasperated" with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson when Johnson refused to accept his line of liberal questioning on "Meet the Press." When Johnson suggested questions that Todd should ask former Obama CIA Director John Brennan about Team Obama's conspiracy to ruin Trump, Todd yelled that "Fox News conspiracy, propaganda stuff" was being unloaded on his show. He goaded Johnson and said, "Can we please answer the question that I asked you, instead of trying to make Donald Trump feel better here that you're not criticizing him?"
That's not the half of it. Todd wouldn't let Johnson finish his sentences and instead constantly interrupted him and argued with him. Then he turned to Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, threw him puffy questions and let him speak uninterrupted for long paragraphs. Todd did the same for Brennan.
This is not new for Todd. The week before, Todd rolled out the red carpet for Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and set him up to explain his Trump-ruining plans for the coming week. Then he fought tooth and nail with House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, complaining he wasn't answering his questions and was spreading "bizarre" Joe Biden conspiracies. Scalise shot back that Todd was reading Democratic talking points.
It's now a consistent pattern on Sunday morning shows -- puffballs for Democrats, the third degree for Republicans. Is it really scandalous that Republicans are sick and tired of it?
Rush is right. The press IS the Democrat Party. They are running it and are determined to run it over the impeachment cliff. Sorry, Nan, it ain’t your show anymore.
Be advised, Globalist FoNews poll says that 55 percent want PT impeached. They have 48 D!!, and only 12 I!! This poll is WORSE than all other polls.
D for Der fuhrer!
I haven’t watched any of their crap shows in years. They’re quite a joke.
President Trump is truly an amazing man to be ostracized and attacked and ridiculed daily by the media, the democrat base, the democrat legislators and he is STILL able to accomplish all that he has done....Never has a democrat President EVER accomplished as much GOOD as President Trump has in two and a half years...
One democrat President did accomplish an equal amount of bad for the country in eight years though...
All Trump needs to do is revoke broadcast rights due to lack of equal time for the right. If and or when he connects media collusion to the democraps, it will be easy to prove and easier to remove.
Bump
Does any sane person consider Tapper and Sweeny Todd to be real journalists/newsmen of any consequence or integrity? They long ago left their integrity and ethnics at the door of the Leftist, Hate Trump, Hate America crowd.
Now they are nothing more than a bunch of screaming idiots, sounding like the guy who jumped over a large candle and set his balls on fire.
There is no limit to mental and ethical corruption and these two twins of dishonesty prove it every day in every way.
How are you supposed to counter the idea that screaming at or overtop of someone is a valid debate tactic for argument? Especially those of the next or even a next generation after that?
Here are people paid millions to do just this. It’s more than merely unreasonable.
I think of the progress they could have made on health care, immigration, homeless, etc. if the democrats loved our country MORE than they hate President Trump.
This is a take off on a Golda Meir quote...
“We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”.
We will only have progress in America when the Democrats love our country more than they hate us. & More than they hate our president.
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