Posted on 07/05/2018 10:25:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
July started with a lull. On the Monday before Independence Day, the news network morning shows led with the oppressively hot weather. The normal feverish panic about living in Donald Trump's America was missing for a few hours.
You can count on CNN "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter to stay true to the trash-Trump parade. At the liberal Aspen Ideas Festival, he interviewed Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron. Stelter claimed to speak for the crowd when he began asking: "Are we living through a national emergency? And if so, how in the heck should journalists be covering it that way?"
Baron replied that it isn't his place to answer that. His newspaper's role "is to cover very aggressively this administration as we would cover any other administration." He claimed, "We're not in the business of sort of characterizing the era."
This is preposterous. The Post greeted the Trump presidency by posting a new motto on the front page each day: "Democracy Dies in Darkness." It sells T-shirts with the motto to other liberals. By contrast, during Barack Obama's presidential transition in 2009, the Post promoted to national editor a journalist who wrote gushy captions for a coffee-table book titled "Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs."
Most Americans would suggest that the Dow Jones Industrial Average being up 5,000 points since President Trump's inauguration and the unemployment rate being 3.8 percent is not a national emergency. But then again, most Americans aren't journalists.
The silliness continued. Stelter told Baron, "The media critique from the left is that this is a crisis and thus journalists have to cover it differently than Bush or Obama or other past presidents."
Baron acknowledged the Post is "more blunt about calling out falsehoods" than it was previously "because there are so many of them and they're so blatant." Then he added: "Steve Bannon tried to call us the opposition party. We don't see ourselves as the opposition party and we're not inclined to embrace the notions of some people who would like us to be the opposition party. We're an independent news organization. We're independent of all parties and all ideologies."
Baloney. Baron simply cannot believe that, unless the Kool-Aid is stronger than we thought. Wouldn't it be fun to find out just how many Washington Post reporters and editors voted for Hillary Clinton over Trump? If a single Trump voter could be found in the newsroom, that would be a surprise. How "independent of all parties" would the Post look then? We found in 2016 that among the Post employees who donated to candidates for federal office in recent years, 15 donated only to Democrats and one advertising sales manager gave to $200 to former Gov. Mitt Romney.
Stelter kept pestering Baron from the left in Aspen: "Your famous line is that 'We're not at war; we're at work.' ... But if one side is at war and the other side is a pacifist, doesn't the pacifist lose?"
This may be the one occasion where liberals discuss the benefits of war and the pitfalls of pacifism!
"It's not the way that I would frame it," Baron explained. "(W)e have the greatest credibility when we do our jobs honestly, honorably, accurately, fairly, diligently, energetically, unflinchingly."
Our media have shunned any notion of objectivity under Trump. Activists like Brian Stelter keep urging top editors to oppose, rebel and resist, and they wonder why their own approval ratings continue to sink lower, and lower, and lower.
We are opposing, rebelling and resisting against big corporate media—what comes around goes around...
To be fair to the host. We are in a national emergency if we are members of the Democrat party.
Thay went for a bridge too far. It cost them. It will cost them more before it’s over.
CNN *is* having a “National Emergency”...people all across the country are TUNING THEM OUT for the fake news and dire, liberal, hatred that they continually spew on a daily basic.
That’s an “emergency” for them...not the rest of us.
No, not a national emergency...that would be the case if Hillary had been elected, as millions streamed across our borders, Iran and North Korea continued testing and improving their rockets and nukes, and the federal SWATstapo (BATFE) prepared for mass confiscation raids.
No, what we have now is the beginnings of the restoration of our Republic, and a complete and total melt-down of those whose (f’ed up) worldview is crashing down around them more and more with each passing day. IOW, you have a large number of lunatics who cannot deal with reality, being suddenly forced to deal with reality...courtesy of Donald Trump and the Deplorables.
Hey, “Donny T and the Deplorables” sounds like a GREAT name for a rock band!
“His newspaper’s role “is to cover very aggressively this administration as we would cover any other administration.”
You mean like you covered the Obama administration??
These people are so FOS. Your job to to lap dance for your globalist masters and betray America. Treason is job 1.
Some organization might consider giving CNN the American Quisling Award, for their continuing, seemingly endless commitment to destroying our heritage. Or maybe just an award for the leading sociopathic loons in the media.
A Democrat national emergency? Time to clean-out my sock drawer.
“We’re an independent news organization. We’re independent of all parties and all ideologies.”
They must assume everyone is an idiot. This is so condescending; no rational person would believe such obvious nonsense, and even they should be smart enough to recognize that instead of lying to us even more.
They believe it’s a national emergency that the American people went off script in 2016.
Well, look at who their supporters are for your answer..............
Our society has truly turned “soft”.
How many of us grew up without air conditioning altogether? We survived.
How many of us remember the summer of 2000?
How about the Summer of 1980?
And many others where the temperatures made this Summer’s (so far) temps look rather mild.
As a child of the late 70’s/early 80’s, growing up with nothing but an attic fan for “cooling” - and who still went out and rode his bicycle, mowed the yard, washed the car, etc. - I just cant’ help but shake my head at all the alarmists and snowflakes.
I mentioned the summer of 2000, which here in Arkansas started in May that year - when we had 15 days over 100 degrees in MAY. That Summer went on to see (at least in the town I lived in at the time) 75+ days over 100 - It wasn’t a “dry heat” or any other supposedly safer/more comfortable version of Hades on earth... We didn’t have widespread deaths. Yes - farmers and their hands, construction workers, etc. experienced heat exhaustion and such - at the same rate as usual in Summers here in Arkansas.
I remember quite well - droughts. They happened 100 years ago. They happened 50 years ago - and they still happen today. Yet somehow today, it is a product of “manmade global warming/climate change”. And it supposedly has caused the serious outbreaks of wildfires. Never mind that the management practices of much of the lands affected by these fires has changed. Far less controlled burns are conducted. Further - if someone is going to light a fire that is against the law - during a burn ban, and let it get out of control (the current big Colorado fire) - that is going to happen. You have buttholes all over.
As I sit here in my air-conditioned office - I thank God for Air Conditioning. But I also question whether it has been overall a positive for our society.
Officially - we have not yet hit 100 degrees here this year. It is July 5. It is the typical hot (93 degrees F) of Summer- well, actually a few degrees less. Humidity is very high (typical) even though we are on the low side of rainfall totals.
Me, for one. Even our schools didn't have air conditioning, in Florida!......................
For those who wonder HOW this CRAP gets on TV!
“Are we living through a national emergency? And if so, how in the heck should journalists be covering it that way?”
I propose Brian pours lighter fluid on his hair and lights it on fire on the air, to show his viewers how serious the emergency is.
LOL!!........He’s bald!..........................
For those who wonder HOW this CRAP gets on TV!
The next poster suggested that Stelter pour lighter fluid on his head and light his hair on fire.
I think he already did!..................
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