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."
And Cardinal Richelieu said that he himself was the State, "L'Etat c'est moi". How totalitarians think!
He’s the one at the peep hole watching everyone have fun! lol
White House Reporter: ‘We Are Not the Enemy of the People, We Are the People’””
Blatant lie number 5 million saying the old media are the people. Old media still smarting from so many republican victories when they thought sure if they could put a muslim faggot in the WH, they could put a criminal, commie, bitch to follow up. The old media empire is in fact, based on lies, half truths, and imperial propaganda they spew, ENEMY #1, to all the freedom lovers.
1. Karem almost sounds hopeful such a thing happens.
2. Projection is the sign of an I'll mind
3. For all the derision the Media has poured on "those people" (i.e. the sort that voted for Trump), you would think they would do a little introdpection, especially when comparing say, the behavior of Tea Party types to the behavior of Antifa, Occupy Wall Street, etc. Additionally, why do the latter get a pass while the siccing of the IRS on tea party groups is not only ignored, but condoned by the silence.
4. If such an event were ever to occur, my response would be: "James Hodgkinson" fired the first shots.
5. My disdain for people like Karem is not because of their profession, but because they're entitled a**holes whose consciences would not be bothered one iota if "those people" suffered in pursuit of some Leftist ideal.
That has already happened .'Antifa'. Perhaps you recall the name James T. Hodgkinson . He's the leftist POS who shot congressmen at a baseball game. CNN is an enemy.
Absolutely. We live in an age not of State run Media, instead it more resembles a Media run State.
He’d be the first to lose his credentials. “Who wants to be next?”
White House Reporter: ‘We Are Not the Enemy of the People, We Are the People’
They just can’t stop can they.
More fake news. They think they are the people, LOL.
And just because I SAY I’m the Easter bunny doesn’t make it so.
The lame stream press has NO justifiable claim to represent the American people. All they can do is to try to brainwash some with a steady diet of b.s. every day, year after year.
Reporters are their own Race ,LOL
My tag line says it all
The Media are complete, utter Sociopaths: We hated you LOOOOONG before President Trump was elected.
It’s already happened numerous times.
And these “reporters” complaining about being held to a high standard.... They are the ones who should be held to high standards.
They turned a blind eye fawning with thrills running up their legs to eight years of someone ruling by presidential fatwa. And now they go as far as making up stories about President Trump and his administration just because their chosen one lost fair and square.
Trump gets 50% of the vote but 90% negative coverage. The press is the enemy of the people.
I'm 'worried' Karem will come and kill one of my grandchildren... and I have as much proof for that position as he has for his stupid insulting comment.
Nope.
Bull Soetoro!
A: Two of them get public credit.
. . . and “the MSM” wants to shout down.We deplorables are "enemies of the people."
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