Posted on 01/09/2018 11:11:09 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
His book is a window on the bastardization of news.
After a year of scoffing at the claim that Trump’s supporters take him seriously, not literally, journalists are adopting essentially the same standard in their defense of Michael Wolff’s book. Sure, the book is riddled with errors, they say, but it still contains a larger “truth” about this presidency.
That’s not the standard journalists apply to Trump’s tweets. If he gets any detail wrong in one of them, that becomes an obsessive story. How unpresidential, they gasp. No such gasps can be heard about Wolff’s book, which combines small errors with big ones — from misspelled names, wrong ages, and misidentifications to false quotes and embellished scenes.
Wolff appeared on Morning Joe the other day and its hosts informed him that he had botched various stories regarding them. But they didn’t seem to mind. They shrugged it off quickly and the gibbering about Trump’s “recklessness” resumed. Wolff’s book was treated by one and all as a useful piece of anti-Trump propaganda.
Wolff is nothing more than a breathless gossip, of mostly trivialities hyped up into grandiose claims. It tells you everything you need to know about the bastardization of news that a checkered gossip columnist can now present himself as an oracle on presidential “fitness.”
Oh, how the media longs for a grave and sober presidency — so much so that journalists want Oprah to run for it. Perhaps President Oprah could appoint Wolff to the Supreme Court, what with his great expertise on our Constitution. Suddenly gossip columnists are experts on the 25th Amendment. Wolff has informed us that it applies to Trump.
In another age, a gossip columnist pontificating on what amount to deep questions of political philosophy would have a bucket of water dumped on his head.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
For those who didn’t already know, Trump has exposed journalists for the lying vermin they are.
Democrat-Communists know they appear to be hypocrites, however their fact is that their political party is the most intellectual, most knowledgeable about issues & solutions, compassionate, diverse and ecologically sound.
There is no reasoning with people with that mind set.
This is why Donald is taunting them to pieces. Having taken leave of anything like truth, they can’t do anything but fume and sputter and say sillier and sillier things.
Now, old-fashioned liberals would fare a whole lot better. Because even if they preferred to see a certain point of view, they didn’t carry it past the truth.
The televised negotiation among the House and Senate leadership, hosted by President Trump, just ended Mr. Wolff’s 15 minutes of fame.
Great Point!! Wolffe’s book is the EPITOME of FAKE NEWS!!
***Trump has exposed journalists for the lying vermin they are.***
I still remember hearing on the news when NIXON “had sex with a Chinese woman in Hong Kong” on his first trip to China.
Turned out to be a typical journalistic lie.
Rush is talking about that right now.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.