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 ...
Not only do the media not know anyone who voted for Trump, they don’t know anyone who knows anyone who voted for him.
It's hopeless to go against him! LOL
When I was a teen, I used to listen to Radio Moscow. After the USSR fell apart, Radio Moscow would spend time to correct stories that they had reported inaccurately while the USSR was in charge. For instance, they told about a (US?)plane that had entered USSR airspace and was shot down. According to the official report, it was brought down with a single missile. Radio Moscow's corrected report years after the fact was that it had taken at least 3 missiles to shoot it down.
Since the US news media has been disseminating leftist propaganda freely, without coercion, I suppose that we will be waiting a *long* time for it to go back and correct any of its fake stories.
I never thought I would agree with Phil Donahue, but even he knows fake news stories are not going to benefit the people writing them and certainly not the likes of CNN
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