Why the Media Lose to Trump [too much fake news]

Real Clear Politics ^ | 1/13/2017 | R. Lowry

[catnipman]

The best thing that happened to Donald Trump all week is that BuzzFeed published the raw Russia dossier about him.

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By publishing the uncorroborated dossier, BuzzFeed has associated the Russia issue with fantastical rumors and hearsay.

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BuzzFeed’s incredible act of journalistic irresponsibility represented the press leading with its chin.

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Its decision to post the document has to be considered another chapter in the ongoing saga of the media and Democrats losing their collective minds.

[catnipman]

Rich Lowry is a POS, but he's absolutely correct about the damage to the overall credibility of the fake stream media done by the CNN/Buzzfeed publication of the bogus Trump dossier.

This whole thing is blowing up in the fake stream media right now, and the great thing about it is that publishing, republishing, and commentary about this fake report is finishing off the tiny remaining credibility of the fake stream media because people will truly no longer know who to believe anymore.

What’s happening now is exactly the predicable endpoint of the fake stream media’s massive bias, massive lies, and massive omissions of the actual truth, namely finally wrecking their dwindling credibility on the shoals of absolute chaos.

[Baynative]

Watching the Trump team handle the liberal posturing and the Fake Stream Media have been absolutely enjoyable.

Seeing the Fake Stream Media being stomped into the mud reminds me of the line in the excellent movie, 'Lincoln Lawyer' when Matthew McConaughey told the prosecuting attorney; "You're bleeding to death from one thousand cuts and you don't even know it".

[snarkytart]

Yes, but the media live in a bubble, and will just publish fake polls showing that their attacks are working so they’ll continue. Even though we know better. They’ll never stop or admit anything because leftist totalitarian globalism is their religion. They just keep talking about how their polls show DJT is not popular blah blah, yet he’ll keep winning and fighting back. In two years the dems will lose more and they globalists will scratch their heads saying “well the polls said...” what happened! ha!

[Grimmy]

There’s another, possibly even bigger, reason that the MSM loses to Trump.

The MSM is swamped with people so incompetent that they still believe communism to be a viable concept.

These are people too horribly stupid to be capable of relating cause to effect over time. These idiots can not discern fact from fiction.

Their entire ideology is idiocy for idiots and no one but fellow traveling idiots trust a word they say, even when they’re try-harding to be accurate and honest.

[ichabod1]

They screwed us as citizens by shilling for ‘illary but they SCREWED THEIR OWN BASE by FAKING the polling reports and guaranteeing her victory, depressing their own turnout. That was the death rattle, I don’t know what to call the current mess.

[arthurus]

They are so concerned about proving themselves to be on the “right side” of everything that they make themselves appear to be as obviously incompetent as they are.

[snarkytart]

DJT should do very little press conferences ..just keep using twitter, and do press releases for good news or if something major happens. Screw standing there and taking their questions all the time. Obama barely did any either.

they lose

[Grampa Dave]

Yo, Rich Lowry, the Russians had nothing to do with this fake news.

Only idiots, mediots, and Never Trumpster would be saying that at this time.

[arthurus]

If he does press conferences he should only permit proper news sources to attend, like Breitbart and Drudge et al, perhaps Real Clear Politics for “balance,” at least so long as RCP is not belligerent.

[ichabod1]

I noticed Lowry snarking that he was ‘weak on details of how he’s going to replace Obamacare.’ I thought, he doesn’t have to give you details now. Elections have consequences, and well, he won.

Now, I think Donald J. Trump will give us LOTS of details and that the terms of the negotiation will be public, unlike before, and we’ll see real transparency. But today? He owes them nuthin!

[gr8eman]

I disagree. He should use press conferences to rebut the fake news. He should name names and call them out in a prioritized manner. He should take the puppet masters to task and bring it to the American people!

[Grampa Dave]

DJT should do very little press conferences ..just keep using twitter, and do press releases for good news or if something major happens.

We don’t miss the “old gotcha” press conferences with the whining and lying liberals attacking our president. Mediots lying and telling us what to believe and how to vote!

Official Washington is being traumatized by the tweets of Donald Trump.

Politico has chronicled the pearl clutching concern by the inside the beltway types over Trump's tweets. It seems Trump speaking directly to the people via Twitter is causing a crisis among politicians and lobbyists, who just don't know how to handle it as reflected in the article title, Trump’s Twitter feed traumatizes Washington.

[euram]

It wouldn’t surprise me if it turns out that National Review or some of its resident #nevertrumpers were involved in this “dossier” business. I suspect most of them are every bit as insane as anyone on CNN, Buttfeed, and MSNBC.

[Balding_Eagle]

If he does press conferences he should only permit proper news sources to attend, like Breitbart and Drudge et al, perhaps Real Clear Politics for “balance,” at least so long as RCP is not belligerent.

Nope, most of these 'news sources' need to be kicked around hard, and Trump and his guys are the only ones who can do that.

And, as a nice bonus, we get to watch and laugh.

[catnipman]

“They screwed us as citizens by shilling for ‘illary but they SCREWED THEIR OWN BASE by FAKING the polling reports and guaranteeing her victory”

very good point about the fake stream media screwing both sides! and probably one of the main reasons the fake stream media is pushing “the Russians did it” narrative: “see, we didn’t REALLY get it wrong after all, we simply didn’t account for “Russian hacking”.

[catnipman]

“DJT should do very little press conferences”

i agree, and he should also take Newt’s, Hannity’s, and O’Reilly’s advice to break up the elitist, incestuous DC White House Press cabal’s daily press briefing and replace it with something brand new and different.

[Cheerio]

Educated in the millenial colleges

[snarkytart]

Yes! That’s a great idea. It gets him nowhere fighting with them in front of cameras. Yea he smashed them, but that gets tedious. Let them whine and cry, but don’t provide them with any attention. Keep using twitter and use a rally to his voters, like he did after he won.

[Boardwalk]

The media is losing their shit!

[snarkytart]

Just think about what the left and the globalists are losing! Trump is going to dismantle Obamacare..LMAO. That has driven them crazy. Along with stopping the flood of illegals and refugees that if let run amok would have America a third world country in ten to twenty years with wealthy lefties ruling over everyone. Their wet dream is drying up and they’re losing their minds. The death throes of the globalist.