Today was the day when more than 200 newspapers attempted to prove that President Trump is a paranoid nutjob
Aug 16, 2018 20:41:22 #
Today’s the day when more than 200 newspapers will attempt to prove that President Trump is a paranoid nutjob for thinking a coordinated liberal media are colluding against him by colluding to run 200 coordinated editorials against Trump at once. That’ll show him!
https://www.westernjournal.com/200-newspapers-colluding-coordinated-action-trump-august-16th/
Actually, it’ll just show us all that Trump’s right, but only if anyone bothers to read this. It’s like the old question, “If a dead tree paper falls on its sword for the Democrats and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?” At the link, a terrific article by Andrew Malcolm on what he calls the “briar-patch level genius” of the media in colluding to attack Trump for accusing them of colluding to attack him.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/08/15/coordinated-newspaper-editorial-campaign-against-trump/
Malcolm spent 40 years in newspaper journalism, and wrote quite a few editorials himself, but he explains why most Americans have grown to viscerally distrust these pompous elitists lecturing to them from the editorial page, and it began long before Trump entered politics. They didn’t listen when all those newspapers endorsed Hillary Clinton, and they’re certainly not listening now. That’s why, for all of the power these editors think they’re mustering by attacking Trump collectively, most Americans won’t even read the editorials, and even those who still subscribe will likely send them unread to the bottoms of their bird cages the next day.
Another interesting take: this anti-Trump editorial blitz was organized by the Boston Globe. They have accused Trump of launching a “dirty war on the free press.” But as the Boston Herald reminds us, Trump has yet to shut down a single media outlet (he hasn’t even put any reporters under surveillance and spied on their phone and email records, the way Obama did, and they worshiped Obama.)
But do you know who has abused its political power to k**l a newspaper? The Boston Globe! The Globe used its connections to destroy one of its competitors. In terms of success at k*****g outlets of the free press, the current score is Boston Globe 1, Trump 0. Here are the details:
http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/08/lucas_the_globe_conducted_own_dirty_war_on_free_press
The idea that the low approval of the news media is the result of Trump accusing them of bias and f**e news is like blaming your venereal disease on the doctor who told you have it. Public distrust and distaste for the liberal media had been building for decades before Trump came along. It stretches back to the 1930s, when Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Walter Duranty was whitewashing Stalin’s atrocities. Flash forward to the ‘60s, when Walter Cronkite and CBS demoralized Americans by reporting that North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive was a terrible defeat for America when it was actually the opposite.
I’m also old enough to recall Ronald Reagan being characterized as a dumb, belligerent Hollywood cowboy who was going to get us into a nuclear World War III. George Bush was too nice to assail, so they attacked Vice President Dan Quayle every day for four years. The bias picked up steam when they ignored Bill and Hillary Clinton's scandals I knew only too well, instead marveling at how “power crackles from Bill's jeans!” Then we saw the vicious treatment George W. Bush got (the first example of the media sowing distrust in a p**********l e******n came with the “selected, not elected” narrative, even though the media’s own Florida recounts showed that Bush would’ve won a recount.)
With Obama, the bias became so fawning, it was almost embarrassing, like watching your kid sister throw herself at the varsity quarterback. But the 2016 campaign was the first time the news media jettisoned even the pretense of feigning to claim impartiality and declared themselves to be “with her,” which is why Republicans keep rewatching their stunned E******n Night tears on YouTube over and over while munching popcorn and laughing hysterically. After going from watchdogs to lapdogs overnight for Obama, the media’s instant self-righteous t***sformation into attack dogs the second Trump was elected seemed even more preposterous.
And that only takes us up to the night T***p w*n. You see, the media had squandered its journalistic integrity and reputation for fairness and accuracy long before Trump came on the scene. I spent a year or so writing a book about their arrogant disconnection from most Americans outside the NYC/L.A./D.C. bubble, “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy,” and it was published six months before Trump even announced his candidacy.
https://www.amazon.com/God-Guns-Grits-Gravy-Dad-Gummed/dp/1250060990
Do you know how I knew that many Americans held the media and political establishment in contempt? Because I live and travel in “flyover country,” and I heard it everywhere: from cab drivers, factory workers, hotel desk clerks, small business owners and all sorts of other “deplorables.” I wrote the book to try to warn them that if they didn’t come down off their high horse, the people were going to do something drastic and knock them off it. Well, they did. If the only solution the media can come up with is trying to climb back up on the same horse, then they shouldn’t blame Trump when they end up on landing in the manure again.
Mike Huckabee
https://www.westernjournal.com/200-newspapers-colluding-coordinated-action-trump-august-16th/
Actually, it’ll just show us all that Trump’s right, but only if anyone bothers to read this. It’s like the old question, “If a dead tree paper falls on its sword for the Democrats and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?” At the link, a terrific article by Andrew Malcolm on what he calls the “briar-patch level genius” of the media in colluding to attack Trump for accusing them of colluding to attack him.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/08/15/coordinated-newspaper-editorial-campaign-against-trump/
Malcolm spent 40 years in newspaper journalism, and wrote quite a few editorials himself, but he explains why most Americans have grown to viscerally distrust these pompous elitists lecturing to them from the editorial page, and it began long before Trump entered politics. They didn’t listen when all those newspapers endorsed Hillary Clinton, and they’re certainly not listening now. That’s why, for all of the power these editors think they’re mustering by attacking Trump collectively, most Americans won’t even read the editorials, and even those who still subscribe will likely send them unread to the bottoms of their bird cages the next day.
Another interesting take: this anti-Trump editorial blitz was organized by the Boston Globe. They have accused Trump of launching a “dirty war on the free press.” But as the Boston Herald reminds us, Trump has yet to shut down a single media outlet (he hasn’t even put any reporters under surveillance and spied on their phone and email records, the way Obama did, and they worshiped Obama.)
But do you know who has abused its political power to k**l a newspaper? The Boston Globe! The Globe used its connections to destroy one of its competitors. In terms of success at k*****g outlets of the free press, the current score is Boston Globe 1, Trump 0. Here are the details:
http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/08/lucas_the_globe_conducted_own_dirty_war_on_free_press
The idea that the low approval of the news media is the result of Trump accusing them of bias and f**e news is like blaming your venereal disease on the doctor who told you have it. Public distrust and distaste for the liberal media had been building for decades before Trump came along. It stretches back to the 1930s, when Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Walter Duranty was whitewashing Stalin’s atrocities. Flash forward to the ‘60s, when Walter Cronkite and CBS demoralized Americans by reporting that North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive was a terrible defeat for America when it was actually the opposite.
I’m also old enough to recall Ronald Reagan being characterized as a dumb, belligerent Hollywood cowboy who was going to get us into a nuclear World War III. George Bush was too nice to assail, so they attacked Vice President Dan Quayle every day for four years. The bias picked up steam when they ignored Bill and Hillary Clinton's scandals I knew only too well, instead marveling at how “power crackles from Bill's jeans!” Then we saw the vicious treatment George W. Bush got (the first example of the media sowing distrust in a p**********l e******n came with the “selected, not elected” narrative, even though the media’s own Florida recounts showed that Bush would’ve won a recount.)
With Obama, the bias became so fawning, it was almost embarrassing, like watching your kid sister throw herself at the varsity quarterback. But the 2016 campaign was the first time the news media jettisoned even the pretense of feigning to claim impartiality and declared themselves to be “with her,” which is why Republicans keep rewatching their stunned E******n Night tears on YouTube over and over while munching popcorn and laughing hysterically. After going from watchdogs to lapdogs overnight for Obama, the media’s instant self-righteous t***sformation into attack dogs the second Trump was elected seemed even more preposterous.
And that only takes us up to the night T***p w*n. You see, the media had squandered its journalistic integrity and reputation for fairness and accuracy long before Trump came on the scene. I spent a year or so writing a book about their arrogant disconnection from most Americans outside the NYC/L.A./D.C. bubble, “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy,” and it was published six months before Trump even announced his candidacy.
https://www.amazon.com/God-Guns-Grits-Gravy-Dad-Gummed/dp/1250060990
Do you know how I knew that many Americans held the media and political establishment in contempt? Because I live and travel in “flyover country,” and I heard it everywhere: from cab drivers, factory workers, hotel desk clerks, small business owners and all sorts of other “deplorables.” I wrote the book to try to warn them that if they didn’t come down off their high horse, the people were going to do something drastic and knock them off it. Well, they did. If the only solution the media can come up with is trying to climb back up on the same horse, then they shouldn’t blame Trump when they end up on landing in the manure again.
Mike Huckabee
Aug 16, 2018 20:43:05 #
Aug 16, 2018 20:49:04 #
woodguru wrote:
The senate came down with a hard rebuke of the president calling media f**e news.
"The Senate"? Really? Got a link?
Aug 16, 2018 20:57:14 #
woodguru wrote:
The senate came down with a hard rebuke of the president calling media f**e news.
Trump: "My, that's a beautiful baby you have there!"
Media: "Oh, that's nothing‑you should see his photograph?"
Written in 1962; The Image: A Guide to Pseudo Events in America by professor Daniel J. Boorstin.
"Pseudo events" = f**e news.
Aug 16, 2018 21:39:06 #
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