Trump campaign's Brad Parscale calls media 'criminal network'

The Hill ^ | 07/17/20 05:49 PM EDT | JOE CONCHA

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Brad Parscale, who was recently demoted as the campaign manager of President Trump, called the media a "criminal network" and "America's biggest enemy" in a Friday tweet, drawing criticism from journalists on social media.

“The media is a criminal network that has very few honest people,” Parscale tweeted to his more than 735,000 followers. “They have zero intention to tell the truth. I have seen so many live in fear of a negative story. I am happy I get to continue to fight with @realDonaldTrump against America’s biggest enemy, the media!”

The media is a criminal network that has very few honest people. They have zero intention to tell the truth. I have seen so many live in fear of a negative story.

I am happy I get to continue to fight with @realDonaldTrump against America’s biggest enemy, the media!

— Brad Parscale (@parscale) July 17, 2020 Parscale was replaced as campaign manager by Bill Stepien on Wednesday as polls continue to show the president trailing Joe Biden nationally and key battleground states. Parscale will stay on as the campaign's digital strategist and will serve as a senior adviser.

Stepien had served as deputy campaign manager before being promoted.

The reaction to Parscale's remarks about the media drew swift reaction from members of the Fourth Estate on social media.

Parscale bragged in this article about how he planned on flooding social media with misinformation, conspiracies and lies about Biden https://t.co/L9f7lQnLc1 https://t.co/Ta119mkmQy

— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) July 17, 2020 The media -- on all sides -- is made up of humans, who make mistakes. It should be challenged & criticized. But to say the media is "America's biggest enemy"? Bigger than Nazis, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Covid-19, murder hornets, people who drive slowly in the left hand lane? Insane! https://t.co/CwvaMJfYI6

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Presstitutes is more accurate than “journalists”.

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The Hill is part of that criminal network.

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The AP — all the wire services — are violations of the Sherman AntiTrust Act of 1890. That’s been obvious since 1890, but they were “too big to fail” as long as their mission - the conservation of expensive telegraphy bandwidth in the dissemination of the new––endured.

But in the Internet age, “expensive” is not a description of "telegraphy bandwidth." So in that sense, yeah––they are criminal. They have the effect of politically homogenizing journalism.

It took half a century, but the fatuous New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision––which prevents Republicans from winning vindication in court when they are libeled by Journalcrats––has created “the media” in its increasingly virulent form.