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Why Trump wants you to hate the media
cnn.com ^ | 2/18/17 | Frida Ghitis

Posted on 02/18/2017 5:18:25 PM PST by ColdOne

(CNN)If you watched President Trump's astonishing press conference on Thursday, you might be forgiven for concluding that the most urgent problem facing America is that the media "is out of control." Some media "is fantastic," the president allowed. But on the whole, journalism is plagued by "false, horrible, fake reporting." It's clear that America's new President has chosen his new best enemy. Now that the campaign is over and it's not very useful to drive the crowds into a frenzy of hatred against Hillary Clinton, Trump has found the new direction in which to focus his supporters' animosity. But this time, the anointed enemy serves an even more useful purpose.

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To: Bodleian_Girl

and according to subscription rates and tv ratings, a heck of lot of peoplemdo, and its been going on a very long time before trump.

guess we wont see this reported. /s


41 posted on 02/18/2017 5:47:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ColdOne

CNN = Fake News


42 posted on 02/18/2017 5:49:03 PM PST by DanielRedfoot (Viva Le Deplorable)
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To: ColdOne

I’ve hated CNN since prior to 1997. I especially hated it after GWB got elected. They have always been filthy leftist liars. I look forward to their permanent demise.


43 posted on 02/18/2017 5:49:09 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: ColdOne

We’ve hated the MSM for decades.
This is just first time we have had a politician who doesn’t collapse like wet toilet paper when the press goes after him.


44 posted on 02/18/2017 5:49:27 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: ColdOne

To CNN: You have no power here...


45 posted on 02/18/2017 5:50:42 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: unlearner

very good post! they did start it! LOL.


46 posted on 02/18/2017 5:55:24 PM PST by ColdOne (( miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne

Oh Frida, it’s a simple matter of the law. Did you not read the President’s tweet? How is it that the President of the United States can call CNN an enemy of the American people?

Hint: Because he has proof.


47 posted on 02/18/2017 5:57:01 PM PST by Peter Gunn
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To: DuncanWaring; RushIsMyTeddyBear; ColdOne; LS; knarf
After the press conference the other day, I remarked on how Donald Trump sounded like one of us, and a fellow Freeper said this:

"...Some in a position to know say that Trump’s close advisors have been reading FR for a long time. It’s not a coincidence that our concerns, including our bitter dislike of the MSM and the GOPe, is reflected in DT..."

I don't know if that is true or not, but even the possibility...that fills me with hope.

48 posted on 02/18/2017 5:58:08 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: ColdOne

How old is Frida? Because he/she/it doesn’t sound quite grown up.

Americans have known for decades that those portraying themselves to be reporters and journalists are liars.

It’s not a ‘Trump’ thing Frida. He’s just the first to come along and punch back, and your heroes at CNN and elsewhere hate that he fights back.


49 posted on 02/18/2017 5:59:46 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: DuncanWaring; RushIsMyTeddyBear; ColdOne; LS; knarf

Oops, sorry folks-pinged the wrong people from the wrong thread!


50 posted on 02/18/2017 6:00:18 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: ColdOne

Isn’t Frida the CNN reporter wearing the diaper, over there in the cage?


51 posted on 02/18/2017 6:01:53 PM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: rlmorel

I don’t know if that is true, but Steve Bannon is 100% Freeper in spirit. He shares almost all the concerns we have, the distrust of insiders, the media, and above all, he has read “Rules for Radicals” and is one of the few people since Lee Atwater to get it.


52 posted on 02/18/2017 6:02:19 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the 4Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ColdOne

She has a disease...her name sounds like it.

The self-importance disease these people have is boundless.


53 posted on 02/18/2017 6:02:49 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: ColdOne

She has a disease...her name sounds like it.

The self-importance disease these people have is boundless.


54 posted on 02/18/2017 6:02:51 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: ColdOne

We hated the lying media long before Trump.

Finally we have a president who represents us and articulates our outrage.


55 posted on 02/18/2017 6:03:51 PM PST by nonsporting
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To: ColdOne
Why The Media Wants You to Hate Trump

If you watched the CNN press coverage of the elections last fall you might be forgiven for concluding that the most urgent problem facing America is Donald Trump. But after manufacturing fakes news for years and even leaking debate questions to Hillary Clinton it is clear the prissy drama queens that call themselves the press corp are beginning to realizes they might not get to sit with the cool kids in the high school cafeteria anymore. Worse than that they will have to revert to their former lives as band geeks and year book editors.
56 posted on 02/18/2017 6:08:34 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: rlmorel

Wow.


57 posted on 02/18/2017 6:10:41 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!! Shadilay!)
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To: ColdOne
Trump is being quite restrained in his response to the lying leftist media.

I want for the White House press briefings to become reporter roasts. Force the reporters to defend their lies, spin, and biased story selection. Do it again, and again, and again.

It's hard to believe, but there are still people who live inside the mainstream media's leftist propaganda bubble.

Pop that bubble.

58 posted on 02/18/2017 6:13:25 PM PST by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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To: ColdOne

They are completely clueless!


59 posted on 02/18/2017 6:14:20 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: LS

I watched an interview Stephen Miller had with Stephanopoulis, and boy, Miller is DEFINITELY someone on Trump’s team who gets it as well!

Watching Trump’s press conference the other day, I had a solid grin pasted on my face the entire time!


60 posted on 02/18/2017 6:14:53 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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