Posted on 11/30/2013 11:16:56 PM PST by grundle
T.J. HOLMES, SUBSTITUTE HOST: Bob, you covered the White House for a long time. You’ve been around, and you were shaking your head there the whole time and wanting to chime in. What is it?
BOB FRANKEN, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Well, let's use the "P" word here. This is propaganda when it comes from the White House: government covering the government. It’s not what you’re supposed to do in the United States of America. But we have an administration, every president gets to the point where he dislikes the press. It’s that simple. And every administration tries to manipulate the press. But this is the most hostile to the media that has been in United States history. Not only do we have this thing where they’re…
HOLMES: Wait, you would go that far?
FRANKEN: I would go that far.
HOLMES: The most hostile in history?
FRANKEN: The most hostile because first of all, we have the situation where they are in fact shutting out the press. And by the way, when they say you can't have every photographer in, they know full-well that there's a thing called a pool, which is to say you have one representative from each of the media that represents all of them and shares the pictures and the sound and all that kind of thing. So that's totally disingenuous, which is a polite word.
But the reason I say most hostile is because of the Justice Department moves that they've made against the press. Obviously they have a contempt for the journalistic process. Those of us who are in journalism, of course, believe that it is vital if you're going to have informed electorate as opposed to one that’s been propagandized.
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they worship him though
Stockholm Syndrome
The “media” thinks they have it tough, they should be Americans. Talk about the White Hut being hostile to somebody. The Sioux treated Custer and the Seventh Cav better than the Obama regime is treating Americans.
Tax audit.
He is treating the media like that. He got what he wanted from them. They sucked up all they could to get him elected. They ignored stuff so that "their guy" would get elected and now he doesn't need them and he is turning on his heels and ignoring them.
Too bad, so sad.
They entertain an entitlement mentality, that’s what they get.
Well some lessons need to be learned the hard way.
Te media are part of the HIVE....
Yes.. O’Really, Greta, Kelly, and “Eddie Munster” Cavuto as well..
I’m sure they will be swooning for Hillary though. In fact, this is probably part of it. Right now they are lying to themselves to try to recover their dignity and appear objective before they throw themselves at Hillary.
Not a hive. The Bible calls the news media “the Harlot.”
They know what they do for money and power.
That may stop when they start executing journalists, like Nicolae.
For these guys who totally foisted an Obama on us to start griping now about the monster they’ve helped create, just further points out how liberals never seem to think anything through to it’s obvious conclusions.
The White House forbids reporters from taking photos & releases their own in a first.
Obama reads everything from a teleprompter. You can’t get more propaganda than that.
I think you're on to something here.
I wonder if the MSM will call Hillary a “quitter” when she runs in 2016?
As in Ceausescu?
The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? Inquiring (informed) minds want to know.
Yea, him. Zero is aiming for the same administrative model.
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