Posted on 07/19/2016 6:02:48 AM PDT by rktman
As presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump arrived in Cleveland Monday afternoon, he was greeted by NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer hectoring him about the “tone” of the GOP convention, which had barely started: “There’s been so much violence in the country in the last couple of weeks. People are on edge, they’re tense. You add to that the passion that comes with political debate and there are people who are truly afraid that things could boil over here in Cleveland.”
In the interview, aired on Tuesday morning, Lauer demanded Trump promise to keep convention speakers in line: “Would you be willing to make a pledge to speak to everyone involved in this convention and say, ‘Please tone down the rhetoric’?...So can you say to the people who are going to take to that podium this week, ‘No personal attacks, no vitriol, keep it civil’?”
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Matt, we would be more open to your comments if you weren’t a Democrat operative.
Matt Lauer...
What a nothing burger.
Walter Cronkite CBS and Chet Huntley NBC were very much on the Left, but it wasn’t as blatant as what we see today. It was done more through story selection, what they chose to report or to ignore. Arnaud de Borchgrave novelized that practice in ‘The Spike’. David Brinkley NBC provided some balance. I can’t recall who anchored ABC back then, maybe Howard K Smith.
And of course there was the pervasive moral preening associated with the Northeastern position on the Civil Rights and antiwar movement.
Trump should quote that in a speech, name Obozo as his source, and listen to the silence or the spin as the fur flies.
Don’t the little piggies sequel when they are forced to face the truth?
This is a political convention. This is the kind of event that is made for rhetoric. Do we really want to sound like Mike Dukakis or Walter Mondale?
This is a political convention. This is the kind of event that is made for rhetoric. Do we really want to sound like Mike Dukakis or Walter Mondale?
The leftist bias was easier to conceal; for most folks in the '60s, NBC|ABC|CBS (or their local paper) was IT ... the only source of information. Walter Cronkite (for example) could be lying through his rotten teeth every day, and nobody outside the business or outside the event would ever know.
Some time back in the early 1980s, I participated in a couple of events that got news coverage. Said news coverage was barely recognizable. It really crystallized for me that the media were lying their faces off.
“The leftist bias was easier to conceal; for most folks in the ‘60s, NBC|ABC|CBS (or their local paper) was IT ... the only source of information. Walter Cronkite (for example) could be lying through his rotten teeth every day, and nobody outside the business or outside the event would ever know.”
Good points. Reed Irvine started Accuracy in Media back around 1970... a valuable little newsletter that was maybe the first outside source on the Right to keep watch on press and the big networks.
But if you didn’t know of them, and 99.9% of the public wouldn’t, it was hard to find good criticism of the media’s duplicity and partisanship. You could suspect it but you’d be pretty much on your own. Today with the internet and sites like FR the press has a much harder time hiding what they are up to.
“Tell Matt Lauer to F*** off.”
+1,000,000
It’s just Matt Lauer trying to pose as The Moral Authority putting Trump in his place. Trying to scold Trump as if he’s a child.
“And will he ask the same of Elizabeth Warren, aka “Stands with a Stick Up Her Butt?”
Ha! I thought her injun name was Stands With Fist...In Her Butt!
I happen to catch some of the convention on ABC, during almost all of Giuliano’s speech, they had running commentary, dismissing, schewing his speech, it was so unbelievably bias, I had to turn it off and go live on the computer.
I happen to catch some of the convention on ABC, during almost all of Giuliano’s speech, they had running commentary, dismissing, schewing his speech, it was so unbelievably bias, I had to turn it off and go live on the computer.
Advice from your enemies, Donald.
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