Posted on 08/12/2016 9:19:57 AM PDT by ColdOne
Noah Gray, a CNN producer covering the Trump campaign rally Thursday in Kissimmee, FL, uploaded this video to Twitter showing a Donald Trump rally attendee shouting at journalists covering the event. "Go home!" he said. "You are traitors! I am an American Patriot!"
When asked his name, the man replied: "I am a Patriot! And your name is 'Traitor.'"
"To be clear, the man came up to me as a was typing & said what I put in quotes, and then I started filming him & his interactions w/press," Gray Tweeted later in the evening.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
That’s a great tag line and does sum up the condition of those living in the establishment “bubble”.
“A little raw in the delivery, but this is the basic frame that I see as the most effective. The opposite of a globalist is not a “nationalist”, it’s a patriot. And the opposite of a patriot: traitor.”
I like that.
I have long called myself a nationalist (long before Trump came along), but I have increasingly preferred the term of patriot.
That’s a given.
I began to realize how unlikely an epiphany is for any of them about twenty - twenty! - years ago:
A smug local (so-called) journalist published a condescending editorial in a semi-major newspaper admitting the overwhelming (about 90%) “liberal” bias in the press. He justified it by saying that those were simply the positions any “right-thinking” person would take.
About that same time, that same newspaper published a diatribe by a local woman denouncing that same paper for its “right-wing” bias! This came mere weeks after that paper published its editorial endorsements for candidates in that Fall’s election: 100% Democrat.
These two events illustrate the dual narrative that is their mantra:
1) Journalists are more objective and reasonable than the average, ill-informed, citizen.
2) Journalists are so unbiased that they get criticism from “liberals” just as they do from conservatives.
The contradiction of the two is irrelevant to them. You can bet that paper proudly published the editorial (See: we know better than you, so shut up and listen), and eagerly published the letter (See: we are so fair minded, we get hate mail from both sides).
They're slowly getting the message.
Sounds about right...
Maybe we should all start giving out name as "John Galt" when MSM approaches us. But would they even understand?
Probably not.
Having had personal contact with more than a few “reporters” before they decided to deem themselves “professionals and/or journalists” (and a special interest group)... flipping them the bird seems to me to be a reasonable automatic reflex response.
Excellent. Josef Goebbels is another appropriate name for the media “reporters.” His “reporting” style seems to be their model.
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