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Brokaw Frets to McCain: Trump ‘Turned the Country Against’ Media
MRC NewsBusters ^ | 11/02/2017 | Kyle Drennan

Posted on 11/02/2017 10:40:26 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

In an interview with Arizona Senator John McCain for Thursday’s NBC Today, Senior Correspondent Tom Brokaw invited the Republican lawmaker to attack President Trump and painted the liberal media as the victim: “In the course of your political career, especially as a presidential candidate – as I learned first hand – you had some mixed relations with the press. The President has no use for the press, he has turned the country against us, in many ways.”

McCain was quick to agree with Brokaw’s whining: “Yeah, I think the role of the press is more important than ever before. I hate the press, okay? But the fact is, without a free press in this country, a pillar of democracy is destroyed.” 

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KEYWORDS: 5thcolumn; brokaw; brokejaw; fakeamericans; fakenews; fifthcolumn; kissmyring; liberaltears; mccain; media; mediots; msm; presstitutes; usefulidiots
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To: ForYourChildren

The media turned against the country!


41 posted on 11/02/2017 10:56:22 AM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: rlmorel

I don’t rightly know.........................


42 posted on 11/02/2017 10:56:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Responsibility2nd

‘60s ? That media was covering for two sex predators that stole the 1960 election.


43 posted on 11/02/2017 10:56:33 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: ForYourChildren

Isn’t McCain the moron who voted for “official” reporters to have special legal status and protections unobtainable by citizen journalists? Isn’t that the same thing as a state sanctioned press?


44 posted on 11/02/2017 10:56:45 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: All

How DARE all you insolent FReepers mock and ridicule a RESPECTED MEMBER OF THE PRESS LIKE TOM BROKAW???

Don’t you people realize that he’s the LEGITIMATE PRESS unlike anyone who disagrees with him???

He filters the new for us and decides what we’re going to be thinking about so we don’t strain ourselves with too much liberty and freedom and we should bow down and be grateful to him for using his enlightened liberal mind to tell us what to think!!!

[/sarcasm]


45 posted on 11/02/2017 10:57:07 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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To: Red Badger; rlmorel

It looks like it comes from “George of the Jungle.”


46 posted on 11/02/2017 11:01:15 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: rlmorel

It’s from George of the Jungle.


47 posted on 11/02/2017 11:01:19 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I never saw that movie, even though I like the star, what’s his name.....................................


48 posted on 11/02/2017 11:01:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Decades of lies are coming home to roost


49 posted on 11/02/2017 11:05:08 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Red Badger

Brendan Fraser. I haven’t seen it, either. I just sourced the quote from the clip.


50 posted on 11/02/2017 11:11:55 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: kabar
Exactly. We don’t have a “free press” that is doing the job it should be doing. The MSM has become a propaganda arm of the DNC.

Which effectively means we don't have a "free press." We have a captured press monopoly for one party.

What we really need is a free press that is not controlled by left wing ideological forces.

51 posted on 11/02/2017 11:12:42 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: fieldmarshaldj

This is true.

And I could have gone back 100-150 years ago when the media was commonly known as Yellow Journalism and liars like Hearst and Pulitzer actually conned our country into the Spanish American War.


52 posted on 11/02/2017 11:13:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: ForYourChildren
Since when is opening a door and inviting the public in to look around, turning the country against ANYTHING ?


President Trump is a gracious host.

53 posted on 11/02/2017 11:13:46 AM PDT by knarf
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To: Col Frank Slade
Most people in this country hated the media long before Trump ran for President.

Since 1992 when I saw them use their power to deliberately manipulate the people into believing the economy was bad under President Bush.

I realized back in 1992 they were a Democrat propaganda system, and I've hated them ever since.

54 posted on 11/02/2017 11:14:00 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ForYourChildren

What Brokaw and McCain ought to be discussing is which one of them is going to kick off first.


55 posted on 11/02/2017 11:16:15 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: ForYourChildren
McCain having problems with the media?

BS

McCain is the single biggest leaker source and friend the media has in Washington .

Back in his 1999 Run for the Republican presidential nomination a reporter asked John McCain who exactly was the constituency he represented.

McCain unhesitatingly replied, “ The press (media)”

56 posted on 11/02/2017 11:16:34 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: ForYourChildren

are the lefties then against free press(by their own words) when they attack Fox News?


57 posted on 11/02/2017 11:17:48 AM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: ForYourChildren

The media turned the American people against the media. President Trump just pointed that out in a manner that the far left media could no longer ignore.


58 posted on 11/02/2017 11:18:28 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ForYourChildren

News Flash Tom...my opinion of the Lame Stream Media was formed long before Donald Trump ran for President. Donald Trump’s campaign and election just made the obvious even more obvious. The media, for the most part, are nothing more than the propaganda arm of the DNC.


59 posted on 11/02/2017 11:18:59 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

And Trump simply had the guts to say what a very large portion of the public has been thinking for YEARS, Mr. Brokaw. It’s one of the reasons we elected him: because he is the first person in a very, very long time who could HONESTLY take the oath to defend this nation and her Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.


60 posted on 11/02/2017 11:19:06 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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