Posted on 02/17/2017 3:53:06 PM PST by Pinkbell
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 60m 60 minutes ago
The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
They aren't the enemy for the left as leftists enjoy praising all networks (except Fox) and adore papers such as The Failing New York Times and The Washington Compost. A new tactic of leftists is to go the Twitter feeds of whiny political reporters like Jim Acosta (who literally had a drawing a "fan" gave him showing him with tape over his mouth as though he has been silenced). They go there, fawn over them, and call them the saviors of democracy from Trump (who they believe is Hitler). Trump daring to criticize these people is against democracy according to them.
The media hysteria feeds them, and they feed the media, and that brings us to this Trump Tweet. This has sent them overboard. They are Tweeting feverishly from their bunkers where they are hiding from Putin that Trump must go, it's the end of democracy, blah blah blah.
For the record, the press has treated conservatives differently than liberals for years because the majority of reporters are liberal. Only 7.1% of reporters identify as Republicans, and even the Washington Post reported this study:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/just-7-percent-of-journalists-are-republicans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/?utm_term=.2e20c99347ca
A lot identify as "independent" which is a cover that fools no one.
It might be worse under Trump, but it would be bad with any Republican. The coverage differential of negative between Trump and Hillary was massive:
http://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2016/10/25/study-confirms-trump-received-vastly-negative-news-coverage-clinton/
They engage in Groupthink. Recall how every media outlet, after Trump's convention speech, used the word "dark" to describe it - articles all posted around the same time:
https://onsizzle.com/i/headlines-think-the-media-got-the-memo-in-acceptance-speech-1595712
You would have thought they would get a new adjective for Trump's Inaugural speech, but nope, they all stuck with "dark":
http://heatst.com/politics/media-agrees-donald-trumps-inauguration-speech-was-dark/
They suddenly remember how to do journalism when a Republican is in office. If the media isn't lying flat out (which they sometimes are - see my CNN article), they are lying by omission by only telling half the story (like about the refugee or illegal immigration situation) or by going harder on Republicans than Democrats to make Democrats look better. Could you imagine if Benghazi, Fast and Furious, or IRS scandal occurred under Trump? They'd be calling for impeachment! If they applied the same scrutiny to a Democrat president as they do to Republican presidents, I wouldn't care, but they don't. This also includes editorializing in articles and overt bias on Twitter.
When the media relentlessly attacks Trump in partisan fashion and tries to find a way to impeach him (their ultimate goal), they aren't just attacking him, they are attacking the voters who supported him and the positions he/we stand for. The media doesn't understand Trump voters and flyover country, and they don't care to. If they did, they would have a newsroom with more diversified thought. They don't. They just don't get it. While millions of Americans cheered Trump's press conference and thought it was excellent, a parallel universe splashed across television and newspaper headlines where Trump (who by the way predicted perfectly how they would react) was crazy, unhinged, and out of touch with the U.S. Want proof they don't get it? See this Tweet by Joe Scarborough:
Only a FAKE PRESIDENT would declare the First Amendment to be the enemy of the American people.
https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/832717936401883137
It takes an impressive amount of mental gymnastics to arrive at such a conclusion from Trump's Tweet. I don't recall Trump EVER declaring the First Amendment the enemy of the American people. I recall Trump calling out the media for overt bias and relentless attacks that reverberate off of him and also unto his supporters who have few voices in the mainstream press to represent their view. The media seems to think that the First Amendment entitles them to write whatever they want WITHOUT criticism. If you are going to wage a partisan war, media, don't whine when you are hit back. If the press coverage was fair, then maybe we could talk, but right now, the only people who consider it fair are partisan fellow liberals and a handful of virtue signaling RINOs. Joe Scarborough, however, is a fake pundit. Trump isn't following the playbook of most Republicans - which is roll over and beg the media to be nice to them. It's refreshing.
ABSOULUTELY!!! WOOOHOOOO President Donald J. Trump. Thank you,sir.
UNBELIEVEABLE representation! WOW!
(Quit watching and listening to all media for several years. It will become crystal clear to you.)
“programmers” are your worst enemy.
You will know it.
Stephen Hayes is there to give the Bill Kristol NeverTrump globalist perspective, since he does not appear as odious as Kristol. However, it looks like Hayes is slowly morphing over time into Wolf Blitzer.
I remember his outrage when Trump first suggesting a temporary ban on mass Muslim immigration into the country.
Obviously, if a media organization continually lies to the American public in order to push an anti-American globalist, socialist agendas then it is fair to describe them as an enemy.
Did anyone see or hear Chris Wallace in for Bret Baier this evening? He said to the reporter on his immediate right, the conservative reporter at the table....he said to her after some remarks she was making in favor of the right....”don’t forget which side you are on...” It seemed like a threat.
I'm all ears for any ideas on how to do this. The "media" probably own a trillion dollars in broadcasting assets. Conservative media can't touch that. They have a monopoly, and because of government licenses, it is a government protected monopoly.
Yes, we need to break their monopoly, but how do we do it?
I stopped watching Fox, when MeAgain tried to lynch Trump at the Iowa debate that he cancelled.
So I don’t know.
She was the straw that broke this camel’s back last May too. lol
I love Judge Jeanine but I’ll watch her opening remarks on Youtube.
Actually, he’s specifically targeting CNN. How can that be against the first amendment? Obama routinely slammed Fox News and no one from CNN had a problem with it.
I was just going to post that. Hayes has been embarrassing himself regularly lately.
Dah!
And without any facts. They literally are making up the most damaging stories they can imagine, with no evidence whatsoever.
They still keep on about the supposed Russian hack of the election, and as of yet, have offered no details or evidence that would actually indicate the Russians had done anything of the sort.
On the other hand, Hillary took millions of dollars from Russia in exchange for giving them 1/5 of our uranium supply, and the media has yet to cover that actual story.
Right arm! Right arm!
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.”
S. ALinsky
He should have taken a Poll at the Press Conference.
If you Voted for the Butcheress of Benghazi, raise your hand.
> Joe Scarborough: Only a FAKE PRESIDENT would declare the First Amendment to be the enemy of the American people.
That’s not what DJT said, although it’s a convenient diversion from accepting criticism.
Democrat Pat Caddell said it first. The mainstream media is the enemy of the American people.
Come on, Trump. Concentrate on fixing the mess. You already made your point about the press.
The media is going to become EVEN MORE unhinged and biased and lose even more credibility.
Come on, Trump. Concentrate on fixing the mess. You already made your point about the press.
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The point is to make them double down and double down again and again with biased and untruthful stories in lock step with each other until even the biggest nitwit can see that they are exactly as described , the opposition... 180 degrees from the “objective” persona they assign to themselves.
Yep, DJT is out to do to the MSM what he did to Bush and Clinton and after yesterday I think he has a shot. They are completely irrelevant outside of LA, NYC, Boston and DC.
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