Rachel Maddow and others call on networks not to broadcast Trump coronavirus press conferences

Legal Insurrection ^ | 21 March 2020 | William A. Jacobson

[Steely Tom]

The Trump press conferences are a problem for the anti-Trump media, because they give Trump direct access to viewers with minimal filtering by the networks.

Donald Trump’s daily press conferences, attended by numerous senior health and other officials, are a must-watch. Enormous information is provided by officials, and Trump signals where he thinks the crisis is going. Trump spends an hour or more taking reporter questions, some of which are hostile.

The press conferences almost certainly have large audiences, and have contributed to polling that shows strong support among the public for Trump’s handling of the crisis.

This is a problem for Democrats, as I reported in Biden has all but disappeared during Wuhan coronavirus crisis, as #WhereIsJoe? trends. Biden’s disappearance has been noticed by Democrats, particularly Bernie supporters. Peter Daou, a longtime Hillary supporter, tweeted his frustration:

People, I mean this sincerely: #whereisjoe?

Trump is in front of the cameras every day, reassuring people, putting on the appearance of “leadership.”

Where is #Biden? Why isn’t he dominating the airwaves??

And: Two new polls show Trump with majority approval on his handling of the #pandemic.

If Dem leaders think this crisis will definitely damage him, they are greatly mistaken.

If they cede the appearance of leadership to him, it’s a major problem.

That’s pretty rich coming from someone who worked for the two newspapers that pushed the Russia-collusion hoax for three years, almost alwasy based on anonymous source that didn’t pan out.

But calls to shut down the live press conference broadcasts are even richer coming from the queen of Russia-collusion conspiracy theorists, Rachel Maddow.

Maddow, you will recall, is an Alex-Jones-level conspiracy pusher, the difference being that Jones has been deplatformed while Maddow has a prime time show on MSNBC that feeds off Resistance paranoia and venom. I covered Maddow’s history in Again We Ask: Why Isn’t Rachel Maddow Treated Like Other Crazy Conspiracy Theorists?

Here’s Maddow using prime time to call for the media to censor Trump:

“I know we ought to be getting used to this kind of thing by now, but I’m not. President Trump today, again, just flat-out wrong in public about this malaria drug that has gotten stuck in his mind, quite some distance from the facts,” Maddow said on her show.

“If the president does end up saying anything true, you can run it as tape but if he keeps lying like this every day on stuff this important, all of us should stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it’s gonna cost lives,” she added on the program.

There is a chorus of liberal journalists and activists calling for the networks to stop the broadcasts, under the #StopTheBriefings Twitter hashtag.

I hope Trump does the briefings and takes questions 7 days a week. These are the most transparent sessions I’ve seen in any president in my lifetime.

The media can criticize Trump all it wants, but the call to censor the press conferences simply confirms that they are not journalists, but as Prof. Glenn Reynolds says, Democrats With Bylines.

[kiryandil]

We have to remember that her bosses are trying to bail the little slut out of a lawsuit by admitting in court that she lies on her show.

Caught In Defamation Suit, Rachel Maddow’s Legal Team Admits: She Should Not Be Thought To Be Presenting FACTS On Air
December 30, 2019
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/caught-towering-defamation-suit-rachel-maddows-legal-team-admits-she-should-not-be-mistaken-be

Maddow lawyer Theodore J. “Ted” Boutrous Jr. argued that the liberal host was clearly offering up her 'own unique expression' of her views to capture what she saw as the 'ridiculous' nature of the undisputed facts.

'Her comment, therefore, is a quintessential statement ‘of rhetorical hyperbole, incapable of being proved true or false,’ he said.

Translation: My girl Rachel is a lying newswhore.

Just checked: Her case has been postponed to May - because of the coronavirus.

    

[NFHale]

She’s miserable enough as it is. She has to live every day being an assh*le and knows it.

[Dahoser]

I see no upside to Biden doing much now while the whole world is fixated 24x7 on covid-19. However I did read that Biden wants to give daily briefings which would be ridiculous.

And quite revealing. Try to imagine Plugs conducting a press briefing half the scale of the daily ones conducted by the President. Five questions in he'd be so lost and babbling that even his own family wouldn't vote for him.

[RetiredTexasVet]

And the Madcow speaketh ....

[familyop]

That’s why they call her Rachel Madcow!

[rovenstinez]

She probably is already preparing her words for the night of election when Trump is elected for a 2nd term.

[Sooth2222]

You can see what Marxism did to her outsides. You can imagine what it did to her brain.

[Viking2002]

Someone needs to remind this diesel-fueled bull dyke that this is an election year. If she thinks she has all the answers, she can toss her strap-on in the ring and go mano y manette with Slow Joe. She can otherwise go pound sand.

[alabama_heart]

I think the networks have a responsibility in a national emergency to shut down people like her and get this scum off the air. I won’t hold my breath.

[TigersEye]

Breathtakingly irresponsible.

[odawg]

These vile two legged snakes are afraid that Trump will comfort the nation and they just cannot have that.

[Sam Gamgee]

Mr Maddow

[TigersEye]

Leave her in place. She and her colleagues will bring themselves down and the companies they work for. Possibly in riot-fueled rages against their lies and irresponsibility.

[Datom69]

“that’s a great question”.......has just been overtaken by....”it’s gona’ cost lives.”

[kempster]

Maybe more people can die. Rachel needs to be taken off the air.

[TomGuy]

Those broadcasts must be going right, rather than left.

Trump’s handling numbers are showing increasing support, currently in the 55% range.

No wonder Maddow and the Left want Trump off the air, just as they want his rallies cancelled.

[djstex]

Madcow foaming OUT OF HER Mouth AGAIN.
Give her a shot of Reality ...Again!
President Trump is Yours, Mine and OUR President!
Shut Up and get over it already! :) We are in this together silly stupid woMAN! ;)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

That was HER? No fricking way.

[clintonh8r]

Rachel Mangirl.

[upsdriver]

The Congressional Dems control the media. This is censorship.

Seems to me that it's Trump in control of the media. :p