Posted on 05/10/2018 6:17:20 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Karem: One of Trump's supporters could harm a reporter 'to prove their worth to the president'
Playboy White House reporter Brian Karem blasted President Donald Trump's continued criticism of the media Wednesday, declaring of himself and the White House press corps, "we are the people."
Karem, who also serves as a CNN political analyst, added he was worried one of Trump's supporters would harm a journalist "to prove their worth to the president."
Trump aroused the ire of the White House press corps Wednesday morning when he suggested potentially yanking media credentials, calling the press "corrupt" and "Fake News" in a tweet. He also suggested negative news about his administration was "fake."
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?
7:38 AM - May 9, 2018 106K 77.4K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy White House Correspondents Association President Margaret Talev said in a statement that such a move would be "an unconscionable assault on the First Amendment."
Reporter April Ryan, who recently suggested press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wanted to physically fight her, said without the press, "you don't find out the necessary information that is coming from this White House."
"It's not about us," she said.
Karem said Trump's rhetoric about the media was dangerous.
"I've always been worried about the guy who's working a county fair somewhere in Montana; it's his first year on the job, and somebody who wants to prove their worth to the president is going to go out and harm that kid who's freshly to the field of reporters," he said.
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta made a similar statement last month during an interview with Variety. He said a Trump supporter who might be mentally unstable could hurt a journalist if Trump kept up his attacks.
Karem said it was not possible to play "error-free baseball," saying Trump held the media to a higher standard than himself.
"He makes us the enemy. We're not the enemy of the people," he said. "We are the people. We are the people represented in that room … We have to be fair. We have to be fair. That's all there is to it, but at the end of the day, that cannot mean that we do not point out the foibles of a president who by saying this, proves he's unfit to hold office."
If you have to tell everyone that you’re not an enemy of the people, then you probably are an enemy of the people.
Wow, another 10kw proggie projector.
For today’s typical journalist, it IS all about them. They are mostly narcissistic, SJW, edu-indoctrinated, Godless attention whores.
And it is THEY who want to hit someone, to actually ball their fist and hurt someone they detest (a Christian, patriot, NRA member or pro-lifer will do just fine). THEY are the ones that want to actually see blood, and we all know it.
HA!!
Touche’
Why aren't the media worried instead that their anti-Trump rhetoric could anger a Trump supporter to the point of harming a "reporter"?
“We are not the enemy of the poop...”
I don’t know why he’s down on county fairs.
They have a lot of Karem’s work at county fairs.
The kids have to shovel his writing out of the stalls every day.
The whole leftist ideology is the enemy of the people.
He is Playboy Magazine’s “White House reporter.”
“And we’re concerned if a mentally unstable democrat could be influenced by CNN’s reporting to hurt a pro-Trump supporter....which is a far more likely scenario.“
Let’s ask Congressman Scalise what he thinks.
L
Touche’
Frankly he should be.
He is my enemy.
Or maybe CNN and its fellows could inspire a weak minded Democrat to shoot up some ‘Pubbies while they’re playing baseball...
Oh. Wait...
WH press corps is the enemy.
who hate America
The Enemedia has elevated SPECULATION and UNPROVEN CLAIMS to always being TRUTH. I would love to see Kathy Griffin PROVE that she has received death threats from Trump supporters. And everyone else who SPECULATES about the possibility of being harmed by Trump supporters.
Wrong. You work for the opposition.
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