Mark Levin is Chantecler, the rooster who believes that his crowing causes the sun to rise.
Posted on 03/01/2017 3:09:05 PM PST by mandaladon
CNN reported Wednesday on a senior administration official admitting that the White House intentionally misled reporters ahead of President Donald Trump‘s congressional address in order to get generate positive press coverage as part of a “misdirection play.”
Multiple reports Tuesday indicated that Trump would embrace a more moderate tone on immigration and would announce that he was willing to negotiate granting millions of illegal immigrants legal status. Most of those reports, cited to a “senior administration official,” came immediately after anchors lunched with Trump. Some of those outlets then just attributed the claim to the president himself.
But when it was time for Trump to actually give the speech, he said nothing of the sort. CNN’s Sara Murray complained the next day about “the bait and switch that the president pulled when it came to immigration yesterday. He had this meeting with the anchors, he talked about a path to legal status.”
“Basically they fed [them] things that they thought these anchors would like, that they thought would give them positive press coverage for the next few hours. A senior administration official admitted that it was a misdirection play,” she reported.
Host John King wondered why reporters should even trust the White House going forward. “It does make you wonder; so we’re not supposed to believe what the senior-most official at the lunch says — who then they allowed it to be the president’s name says — we’re not supposed to believe what they say?” he asked. “Maybe we shouldn’t believe what they say.”
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Please explain just where he has “pushed his base” so far????
Wouldn't basic human nature be to 'burn' this person who burned you? Have vindictive liberals suddenly become honorable? I don't think so.
Just something to think about.
“I doubt there’s a senior official willing to tell CNN that there was misdirection. I bet it is fake news about yesterday’s fake news.”
Indeed.
“senior administration official” = “rumor” = fake news
Hey MSM: SURPRISE!!!!!
Chalk this all up to more Trump "WINNING!"
He has always said the path = go home and get in line legally.
He is just getting started. ..its going to come.
Btw.. Take a look at who he picked to replace flynn...and what that guy said about radical islam.
Look..just remember what I said about ivanka over the next months...and watch her positions. They are far more left than bannon.
It is tedious.
Unless the “Senior Administration Official” has a name, it didn’t happen.
The only provable track record of intentional lying belongs to the Media.
> “ ... a senior administration official admitting ...”
Well CNN, no doubt you were punked and deservedly so.
But I’d like to hear who is your ‘senior admin official’ because it could be one of the more favored trusted news outlets that is punking you liar-skunks.
But you just want to blame it on the White House.
If I was with Fox, OANN, Townhall, etc. you know, one of the favored outlets that values reporting the facts, I would come up to you with a big smile, knowing how bad you felt about no longer being allowed in the news inner circle, and what would I do?
I would tell you a whopper that I know you would report as fact.
And why would I do it?
Because you’re in the doghouse to stay and I want to make sure to do my part to see you stay there.
My question has nothing—zero—to do with what I do or don’t believe. It has to do with your premise. You said there were too many people at that meeting for the report to be a lie. Well, what does it matter how many there were, if no one is talking? And how do you know someone is talking, if all you have is Fake News and unnamed sources?
My theory is that Trump wanted to catch the Dems flatfooted. They needed to respond to his speech. So he leaked a fake version, and the Dems prepared a response to it. Then he hit them with what he’d been planning to say all along, and they were deer-in-the-headlights gobsmacked.
What did Trump say about “Radical Islam” in his speech last night???
Trump Psy Opps :o)
Exactly....
Not my point. ..I recognize that I am in a minority here...because most want to claim everything is fake news.
Just watch for the clash between bannon side and ivankas side as time goes on . Not everything is fake news..
Mark Levin is Chantecler, the rooster who believes that his crowing causes the sun to rise.
As Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, says: evidently there’s no limit to how many times Trump can use this same ploy on the MSM, and have them fall headlong for it Every Single Time.
LOLOL- that is the best Levin description I’ve heard.
Bless you!
Sigh..havent you been watching DC for decades.
It leaks like a sieve....for decades.
Unnamed sources are the name of the game in DC...doesnt make it fake news
Heh!
It was one of your points or you would not have mentioned it...Did you watch the speech???
If you did, you heard Trump clearly bring up “Radical Islamic Terrorists”.....
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