Posted on 09/16/2016 6:49:36 PM PDT by Enlightened1
CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield and Dylan Byers bemoaned the mocking and distrust of the American media by Republicans and Donald Trump on Friday, with Byers saying it undermined the American political system and Banfield likening it to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
After playing a clip of Trump gleefully telling his audience in New Hampshire on Thursday that his press pool was going to be late, Banfield wondered why the crowd would cheer such news.
“Do people not realize or are they forgetting that other critical element of it?” she asked. “Either you have a media, or you have what I witnessed in Saddam’s era … where you never got to actually call yourself press or you’d go to jail for it.”
Byers, CNN’s media reporter, discussed the recent Gallup poll showing only 32 percent of Americans trust the media to report the news accurately. Byers wrote a story saying the drop in trust was “fueled by Republicans,” of whom only 14 percent trust the press. His report did not mention recent controversies involving the mainstream press assisting Democrats or left-wing causes through editing techniques, such as Katie Couric’s deceptive documentary edit of gun rights advocates or CBS taking a critical remark out of Bill Clinton’s recent interview about his wife’s health.
Byers said it is a “serious problem” that Trump, who often rips the press, is taking credit for increasing distrust in the media.
“When you start celebrating restriction of the media, when you start mocking the media, that becomes a serious problem for the very foundation of the democratic project and the American political system,” he said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpf_UUGPFWU
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Iraq’s media used to parrot their Hussein and the drive by media parrot’s our Hussein.
I hope under a Trump presidency we see the beginning of the end of these libtard lying media pukes! Excuse my rude language,
MSM, liar liars bottom lines on fire.
Buh bye, Walter Cronkite: He lost the Vietnam War for us on TV, Had American Blood on his hands.
I saw him say, “The war is lost,” on TV. We believed him. I was small. He was truthful, right? Walter Cronkite?
Yeah, journalists. You’re liars. And you have blood on your hands.
Poor little sore ass dimwits...we don’t have a democracy...it’s a Constitutional Representative Republic. Frickin’ mouth breathing morons.
The “media” has become just another part of the democrat fascist propaganda machine the same way academia in this country is nothing but an indoctrination and recruiting tool for the same democrat fascists.
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Precisely correct. And if the news media and academia are not soon subjected to popular condemnation for propagating anti-American ideology, it won’t be long before this country is destroyed by the ignorance of its own people.
Respect is earned, not legislated, CNN.....
The media mock themselves every time they publish.
Uh, no, idiots, it’s you members of the Democrats’ Ministry of Propaganda who are undermining the American political system, and, fortunately, more and more voters are waking up to that fact.
Mock, mock, mock, mock, mock, mock!
Excellent graphic!
Are they hanging Mark Twain in effigy yet?
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
“I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.”
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They just don’t get it, do they.
Kneepads Banfield is too stupid to realize we see that the media has chosen a favorite political side, and that so-called journalists manipulate stories to augment their favorite side and to disparage their opposition. This new reality is more of the same, that results from leftist takeover of education that has propagated its destructive worldview and squealched the ability of students to evaluate.
I agree the mocker media IS undermining the American Republic.
If the media can refer to Trump as Saddam Hussein, then turnabout is fair play. If they can’t take it...tough s**t.
The fourth estate has become a fifth column.
The people assigned to find and tell the truth now see it as their job to spread propaganda and hide the truth when inconvenient to the cause.
When you have turned the job into the opposite of its intent, yes, you’re distrusted.
I know dat’s right. Funny how a little of your own medicine doesn’t taste so good does it?.......GO TRUMP.....;)
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