Posted on 10/30/2016 4:14:11 PM PDT by Hojczyk
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer called out Donald Trump for encouraging hostility toward journalists who cover his rallies.
Blitzer pleaded with Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway for the Republican nominee to take it easier on members of the press.
"They go to all the rallies, they're in this pen, he points to them, he sort of eggs the crowd on to go after them," Blitzer said. "And they're a lot of young journalists there. They're scared sometimes."
"I know them all, I respect them all," Conway began to answer, before Blitzer cut her off.
"He shouldn't be doing that," Blitzer fired back. "Could you talk to him and say to him, 'Mr. Trump, we only have a few days left. These are hardworking young journalists. They deserve some security.'"
Conway attempted to partially shift the blame to journalists themselves, who she said were being overly negative in their coverage of Trump.
"Their Twitter feed is for some of them, we've done an analysis, 85, 90% negative towards Donald Trump," Conway said. "You didn't hear anything good to say? There's nothing good to report that day that you would actually put in your Twitter feed? So I think the responsibility has to go both ways."
Trump supporters have redirected their anger to embedded journalists at his rallies. Some have described unusual levels of hostility they've encountered on the campaign trail.
On "The Situation Room" on Tuesday, Conway said she would relay Blitzer's request to the candidate, who she said was "probably watching right now."
If Trump was, the message fell on deaf ears. About 20 minutes later, at a rally in Tallahassee, Florida, Trump blasted the press once more.
"There is nothing more corrupt than those people," he said to roaring applause. "They are a corrupt group."
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Tough! Until “Journalists” start doing their job as ethically as I did IN SEVENTH GRADE - they can suck it. This is the impact of decades of malfeasance and malpractice!
Journalists are typical bullies. They love to dish out abuse but they can’t take it. Real reporters on the other hand are a ruff and tumble bunch without degrees.
“There should be a revolving set of reporters from outside of D.C.”
That would help. Especially if more local and regional reporters were given a crack at the big-league stories. Without access, what do the national reporters have going for them? Good haircuts? Great expense accounts? Yes, and, perhaps a few other things too. Talent, objectivity, and credibility — not so much.
Give him some slack. Even when he knows he’s going down, he’s still in there slugging, trying to hurt the nation one little bit more before he falls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUexzDFhWtM
LOL! We are well mannered, we might yell and taunt you, but really, do your job like an old Gum-Shoe and Trump will have nothing to bust your cohones over!
Thanks to Donald Trump the corruption has been exposed in every corner of that cesspool on Crapitol Hell.........;)
I have a suggestion and a diplomatic solution.
After Mr. TRUMP is elected President of the United States of America on November 8th 2016, the Press SHALL.
1: Report only factual information without commentary.
2: Up front distinguish commentary and opinion as such.
3: Report factually and honestly all government malfeasance; both Democrat and Republican.
4: Shall not color reporting with innuendo (pro or con), penalty for doing so is cause for loss of FCC license to report or publish anything.
5: Shall NOT SPECULATE on outcome of leaked or discovered information.
6: NEWS programs shall only report facts of matters in the news.
7: COMMENTARY and OPINION programming shall be identified as such at each commercial break.
They SHALL conform to this methodology for a period of seven years, eleven months, and thirty days from the start of the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION on 20 January 2017.
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