Posted on 07/02/2017 5:56:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former talk show host Phil Donahue appeared on MSNBC Wednesday morning to analyze the relationship between the media and President Trump. Donahue told the press to be "big boys and big girls" and not get in "the punching game" with Trump.
Donahue said this all began in 2011 when the media made a joke out of Trump and now he is the one who is laughing "and giving them a middle finger."
"The people who are beating up Trump are the people that are getting beat up by Trump will fall of their own weight," Donahue said.
MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle took exception, likening Trump's treatment of the media to the KGB.
"How do you do that when the president is taking a page from the KGB playbook, fake news media, let me deligtimate the media. And even this idea the news media elite, the liberal elite, most journalists work really hard for not a lot of money. So this idea, these elitists, that's hard to take," she said.
"We have a rah-rah media," he said. "We worship the White House, the president and his power. And they missed the guy in the midwest whose working long hours without a pay raise whose kids can't pay back their college loans and they read in the paper where a hedge fund guy made a million dollars on Thursday. You know, you can't do this to people."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
“taking a page from the KGB playbook, fake news media, let me deligtimate the media.”
The stupid, it burns. The KGB didn’t “delitimate” (sic) the media. They controlled them with an iron fist. Took them out back and shot them, like the deep state did to Seth Rich.
I suspect Stephanie Ruhle heard of the KGB for the very first time last year as part of Hillary’s election failure excuse, and not a second before.
That isn’t the only “banana” the enemedia has a grip on.
——Don’t look like you have a glass jaw,” Donahue said.——
Wow... The news reader anchor had to ask what that meant...
These people really are living in a bubble...
Donahue was refreshing honest about the problem with the media....
Internet post of the week!
These mediatards think the first amendment applies only to the press, not the president. For the first time in history we have a Republican who swings the hammer back at them every time he’s slandered or lied about.. and the media starts having epileptic fits. I hope Trump has set the precedence for future Republicans. You don’t go groveling on your hands and knees. You mock them, ridicule them.. and lash out at them.
Wow.
Of all the people I would have thought would sound like he actually gets it, Donahue was the last person.
He is saying, that (many) in the media, are thin-skinned and taking offense at their treatment. BUCK IT UP buttercups. You are not supposed to be popular. You are supposed to REPORT ON NEWS.
He sounds positively reasonable.
Something that every Republican except Trump has been doing for years.
I suspect you are right. The MSM tends to be historically completely illiterate.
Donahue is getting old. He might be feeling guilty unlike Rather. Face it. The game just may be over. They lost.
Actually, it's the current regime in Russia that shoots journalists. Back in the KGB days the Soviet government didn't have to threaten the media because they were the media.
Not the only one laughing at media . . . It’s too easy!
Yeah, and her lament for po’ journalists who work so hard “for not a lot of money” rang very hollow. Like a high class call girl wringing hands for her “sisters” tricking on some dingy street (but the empathy goes no further).
Alinsky swings both ways! The press is baffled. Trump wins!
Phil Donahue is married to Marlo Thomas. Thomas serves as National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which was founded by her father, Danny Thomas, in 1962.
Eric Trump in 2016:
“I am incredibly proud of the strides that this charity has made in the past 10 years and the $16.3 million we have raised for the children of St. Jude.”
- Eric Trump Foundation
The point is that any of them that got out of line were disappeared. So, of course, that almost never happened.
We All lose it seems.
Phil had integrity.
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