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M E M raised this in another topic, I felt it deserves its own topic. It's an ongoing situation.

VENTING ABOUT PRESS, TRUMP HAS REPEATEDLY SOUGHT TO BAN REPORTERS OVER QUESTIONS



That's an example of "fake news" right there in the headline from this Washington Post piece. A more honest headline would be "Trump CONSIDERS WHAT TO DO, with a RUDE AND DEFIANT MEDIA THAT TREATS HIM DAILY IN A WAY THEY WOULD NEVER TREAT OBAMA".


The latest situation with CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, she was shouting questions over a meeting with a foreign leader, to the point that she was interrupting the event itself. It's not that her two questions were inappropriate, but as Trump said privately, the WAY she asked them, shouting over the event in an attention-whore grandstanding Jim Acosta sort of way.

The meat of the article is a bit more fair to Trump, that he has three times as many press meetings as his predecessor and is much more available to answer questions. And at least accurately report that it is not the questions that annoy Trump, but THE WAY they are asked.

On the occasions I watch Sarah Huckabee-Sanders' daily press conferences, or conferences with the president himself, or even his former White House physician Ronnie Jackson, I am almost daily astonished at the level of rudeness of the press to the president and his staff.
I cannot emphasize this enough: these reporters would NEVER treat Obama the way they treat Trump every day. And I don't blame Trump at all for his reaction to it. I'm not him, but it offends me, and just makes me hate the liberal media even more.



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When he declares the press as the enemy of the people he reveals himself as the true threat.


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Beyond some off-the-cuff sarcastic remarks about how he should ban them because they are so biased, Trump has not done so.

And as I pointed out above and in the other Charlottesville topic, Obama was:

  • far less available to the press,
  • Obama had reporters arrested for exposing his administration,
  • Obama tried to shut out Fox News entirely from White House press conferences as "not a real news channel".
  • Obama also (very similar to Trump with CNN) took shots at Fox News all through his 8 years.

It wasn't enough that Obama had every other print and broadcast news agency on his side and acting as his PR wing, Obama had to try and shut down the one channel that dissented and didn't selectively omit negative coverage of him.


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Trump calls the news media the "Enemy of the American People"

He's done that several times so don't even bother trying to claim otherwise. The lump of shit also equates a negative story about him as fake. It's an indefensible position for those that truly value democracy.


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 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Trump calls the news media the "Enemy of the American People"

He's done that several times so don't even bother trying to claim otherwise. The lump of shit also equates a negative story about him as fake. It's an indefensible position for those that truly value democracy.



We've discussed this before. I'd argue that the news media has become a cog in the machine of Cultural Marxism, part of the conspirators to undermine our democracy and collapse our Constitutional democracy and re-make us into a socialist globalist European style utopia.

And it would appear that an overwhelming majority of the population agrees with Trump that the news media has become an enemy of the people. A majority of both Republicans and Independents have ceased to trust the liberal media. And Liberals only trust it because it's confirmation bias for what they already believe.

I think on the specific subject of the political coup against Donald Trump's presidency, where FBI,, CIA and intelligence agency powers have been misused and weaponized to slander and depose a sitting president, the news media have betrayed the responsibility they were entrusted with, and have actually helped the coup rather than objectively cover what is happening.
https://www.conservapedia.com/Russian_collusion_hoax
Likewise with the weaponizing of the IRS against conservatives 6 years ago. And on the prosecution of Lois Lerner, where (like with Hillary Clinton) the case was deliberately thrown by FBI/DOJ, and the media barely covered it. That is truly scary. It is no surprise that without media pushback, Democrats were emboldened to even greater abuses of power.

Likewise, rather than exposing the pushes toward mob rule and attacks on conservatives, the news media have also selectively omitted coverage of, abdicated responsibility for, and actually sided with, the mob. Mob rule is perfectly okay for the liberal media, so long as the mob they favor wins. We are headed for a Democrat/liberal Kristallnacht on conservative America, and the media is nowhere to be found.

So while Trump has said that about the news media, and he has said not all the news media are fake, "but many of them are awful people", there are plenty of examples to back that statement up. That they are not only deliberately deceitful in their coverage of conservatives, and especially of Trump in particular, but that the media are far-Left participants in the Cultural Marxist/globalist conspiracy against the United States itself.

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 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
When he declares the press as the enemy of the people he reveals himself as the true threat.


When they support statism and socialism, coverup misdeeds of politicians they support, oppose others having free speech and go out of their way to sensationalize the news, rushing out stories that turn out to be false, they kind of are.

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Most of the media is owned by large corporations that enjoy capitalism so not really sure what you feel crosses the line there. I guess if you consider the free and independent press the enemy of the American people now I wonder how far your party is going to take us down the rabbit hole.


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A lot of corporations, or at least their CEO's, favor statism because in a state-run capitalism model, if they are among the favored, they reap billions from statist policy and no-bid federal contracts.

For example the largest health insurers spent millions on TV commercials in favor of Obamacare, because once passed, it would reap them billions in guaranteed business, as Comrade Obama's insurance mandate required every American to buy their product.

Likewise GE and its executive among Obama's favored elite, Geoffrey Immelt, also received a contract that netted GE billions.

It's a myth that "the rich" are all Republicans. Big business actually favors Democrats, because regulation favors the largest corporations, because it drives their smaller competition who can't as easily absorb the cost of new regulations out of business, and increases market-share for the ones who are left.
Democrats don't have a good explanation for why Republicans are the party of "the rich", but somehow all the most prominent billionaires such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, and companies like YouTube, Twitter, Amazon and Facebook are clearly Democrat supporters. More than that, act as Democrat authoritarian enforcers helping with their corporate power to shut down free speech and control the message in favor of Democrats by every deceitful abuse of power available to them.



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When was Trumpcare starting btw? Or is just spending more money with less people covered it?


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And plenty of wealthy people donate/buy GOP candidates. The tax breaks are for them for starters


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 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Most of the media is owned by large corporations that enjoy capitalism so not really sure what you feel crosses the line there. I guess if you consider the free and independent press the enemy of the American people now I wonder how far your party is going to take us down the rabbit hole.


The mainstream press is less "independent" and more a DNC super-pac at this point.

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I think it's their job to report on the President. Trump obviously supplies a lot of negative stories. You would be complaining they weren't doing more if he was a dem. The conservative coverage running with the Trump propaganda is just surreal. Just imagine how awful he would be without anything holding him accountable?


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Except the press DIDN'T report on Obama the same way. They failed to warn us about Obama's radical leftism and long association with Leftists. Even though the information about Obama was right there and hard to miss, it went unreported.
And at every stage the media partisanly favored Obama's presidency, flying cover for him with the most supportive spin possible, or just selectively omitting negative coverage.

One example: At this point in Obama's term the economy was still crashing, we'd lost literally millions of jobs, home prices were still depreciating and we had a surplus of about 2 million foreclosed homes. (I personally know 3 people who lost their homes in that period.) But the media was pumping Obama up saying Hey, we're already in recovery and we just don't know it yet, unemployment is just a lagging economic indicator.
Conversely, with Trump they are constantly downplaying the growth that is obviously a direct result of Trump's policies and deregulation. The best economic performance numbers overall in 20 years. The lowest unemployment for blacks, Hispanics, women, high school dropouts, and paroled inmates EVER! And the media's reaction? Largely unreported, but when they do, they say GLOOM DOOM APOCALYPSE! It's only temporary, it will tank soon. Paul Krugman actually told people immediately after the 2016 election that the stock market is going to crash because of Trump's election, get out of the stock market now! Clearly, the liberal media were and are trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy, to try and destroy the economy, to destroy the COUNTRY ITSELF just to undermine Trump.

I'd also point out that Trump and Obama's poll numbers at this point are virtually identical, and many days Trump is a point or two higher. That's with the media as the wind at Obama's back every step of the way, and with the media slandering and tearing Trump down every day, based on absolutely no facts. Despite Trump's great performance, the media portrays it negatively.

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I think your problem isn't the press lying but the big fat piece of shitt liar currently stinking up the WH. He's racked up thousands of lies and he isn't even at the half way mark. The media is far from perfect but trump generates the negative stories. Right from the beginning with the size of a crowd for his inauguration!


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That was actually Sean Spicer, not Trump, beginning his first day on the job as press secretary. His point was that there was a very large crowd, far larger than the media portrayed it, and when you take into account the millions who watched the inauguration online, it was at least as large and viewed as Obama's inauguration, if not larger. And that many were prevented from reaching the area of the ceremony by security. As the liberal media did and still does often with Trump campaign speeches, the media deceitfully tried to hide in their coverage how large and enthusiastic the crowd was.


I mentioned in Jan 2018 when Trump was at Mar A Lago in Palm Beach, and I drove by, and was astonished the hundreds who held signs, and to my surprise that all but about 5 or 7 (who were all together holding mostly one sign) were OVERWHELMINGLY supportive of Trump. Even on local news, that wasn't portrayed fairly or accurately. But I was there.

About a month later, Trump was there a second time and I drove through WPB and Palm Beach again, and it was the same. Overwhelming support. Again, not portrayed accurately on the local news.



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 Originally Posted By: M E M
...big fat piece of shitt liar currently stinking up the WH. He's racked up thousands of lies and he isn't even at the half way mark...



When will you realize just how petty, unhinged, and completely lacking in fairness or objectivity you reveal yourself when saying these things about Trump?

AGAIN: I despise the Obamas and the Clintons, but I limit myself to their record, the ugly malicious things they've done, and their poisonous Alinsky/Cultural Marxist anti-American ideology, how they've weaponized the IRS, DOJ/FBI and intelligence agencies against their political opposition and against the American people.
http://archive.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511

You have overwhelming liberal media picking apart everything Trump says, with a bias that is polar opposite the daily PR service and free pass they gave to comments by Obama. And that free pass of Obama's CLEAR radicalism gave him a free path to the White House, when it is precisely the media's JOB to warn us.
The "Fourth Estate" and all that.

But as the media has done with Comey/McCabe, Peter Strzok/Lisa Page/Bruce Ohr/ Nellie Ohr/The Russia Dossier/the Hillary Clinton Campaign, rather than expose corruption and protect the public from corruption (as they did during Watergate), the media HAVE BECOME PART OF THE CORRUPTION AND ENABLED THE CORRUPTION BY HIDING IT! They have been completely on the side of Team Obama/Hillary. Whose fingerprints are ALL OVER these FBI/DOJ/FISA surveillance abuses, and should be in jail. There is NO WAY the "control freak" Obama administration, DIDN'T know what was going on. They pulled the puppet strings.
Strzok and Page in their texts: "The President wants to see everything."

As I said before, pseudo-factual sites like Factcheck and Politifact are 100% liberal run, with a veil of objectivity, when they are in truth overwhelmingly liberal propaganda sites, that only 25% of the time evaluate Democrats as "partly true" or "not true". What they often do is take statements by Trump and other Republicans that are 100% true as spoken, but they strain to label it was "partly true" or "mostly untrue" by bringing the comments made in a context that wasn't included or particularly relevant.

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Media Research Center, Media Bias 101


The evidence is just overwhelming.

As with every president, he does have his errors and remarks where he resurrects issues that would otherwise go away. But I still prefer Trump's approach, where he fires back at media bias, rather than just ignoring it as George W. Bush did. Which in Bush's case made him look guilty, as if there was nothing he could say in his defense to deny allegations.

Trump, on the other hand, is a Republican who fires back and exposes the media for their deceptions on the public. And as G-man said, for their acting like a Super-pac of the DNC, rather than making any pretense of being objective journalists.
Let's look at this in honest perspective:

Ronald Reagan was portrayed by the media as an "amiable dunce" at best, and as a mean entitled rich guy who hated the poor, and was dangerously incompetent, for the entire 8 years that he REBUILT THE COUNTRY.

G.H.W. Bush was likewise protrayed as an entitled rich guy who was not smart enough to be president, and out of touch with the American people, too rich to understand the problems of average Americans.

W. Bush the media also hated and (despite that he was an outstanding and bipartisan governor of Texas who got a lot done) was portrayed as an idiot, another entitled rich kid unworthy of the presidency who only got there because of family money. And as exemplified by Whomod and the like on these board during his entire presidency, a hand-wringing evil plotter of "blood for oil" conquest of oil rich nations to control the world's oil supply and enrich themselves. Well, make up your mind, is he an idiot or an evil genius? Now they like W., because he attacks Trump. But during his 8 years, his press was comparable to the liberal media attacks on Trump.

Likewise John McCain, who Democrats and the media loved while he was attacking Bush and his fellow Republicans, all during the W. Bush years. Then suddenly, the media portrayed him as another entitled rich kid who wasn't that bright and graduated at the bottom of his class from West Point, who was CRAZY from being tortured as aa POW in Vietnam, who was a warmonger, who really wasn't that bright and would collapse the U.S. economy. After he lost the election and no longer had the potential to take the White House away from Democrats, suddenly they liked him again, especially when he was attacking Republicans.

Likewise Romney, portrayed as another entitled rich kid who was buying his way to the White House, and with Bain Capital, not only didn't understand working class people, but was actually destroying them and their steel worker jobs just to add more millions to his bank account. Another out-of-touch entitled blue blood.

And then Donald Trump, who they portray with all the same not-too-bright, out of touch, entitled blue-blood and racist portrayals they've used on every other Republican for 40 years. The only difference is the calls for violence and uncivility against Trump and his supporters. It's the same narrative used against Reagaan, G.H.W.Bush, W. Bush, McCain, and Romney before him, just with a greater call for uncivility (i.e., intolerance) and outright violence.
Because Trump is essentially a racist Nazi who is dangerously crushing freedom in America, pushign us back toward segregation, suppressing freedom of the press, abusing federal power, and threatening to start wars, right? So any uncivility, any violence, is justified, because you can't just stand by and let another Adolf Hitler seize power and take the nation down the same path to destruction. Or so the fanatic rationalization goes. A fanatic rationalization openly shared by many in the media, who think it is their holy mission to stop Trump, and openly say so on air. (Never mind that Obama was a far worse offender in every one of these categories, UNREPORTED BY THE MEDIA.

And most importantly, that abuse of power by Obama continues spinning out of control even after he's gone, with the abuse of the DOJ, FBI and other intelligence agencies, and abuse of the FISA court to spy on the Trump campaign and the Trump administration, abusing federal power to impement a coup on false charges against a sitting president.


So.... spare me the melodraama that Trump is somehow a unique threat to freedom, and mentally unfit to be president. That is what Democrats and the liberal mdia have said about every Republican since Reagan, and Trump is treated no differently, he just dared to get elected, and therefore has to be stopped.
It's all false narrative, and no substance. Because Trump, for whatever Twitter antics, is quantifiably improving the country. And all the true radicalism and destruction of Coinstitutional democracy, all the obstructionism and corruption, is all plainly visible on the Democrat side.

Discovertheenetworks, Barack Obama listing (as one example, that leads to most of the other Democrat radicalism and corruption. Unreported, of course, by the "Yay Team!" liberal media)
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Obama's birth certificate was front page material for months. Trump actually generates his stories like he did that one for Obama. When do you hold him accountable?


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 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Obama's birth certificate was front page material for months. Trump actually generates his stories like he did that one for Obama. When do you hold him accountable?


What newspaper had an Obama's birth certificate story on its front page ever, let alone for months?

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You can easily google it and see that it generated many stories and actually it isn't over the course of months but years. And that ignores Trump actually being held responsible for the press he generates by his own actions.


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 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
You can easily google it and see that it generated many stories and actually it isn't over the course of months but years. And that ignores Trump actually being held responsible for the press he generates by his own actions.



The fact that Obama did far worse as president on the same issues (attacking Fox News as not a real news agency, attempting to ban Fox from White House press conferences, arresting James Rosen and another reporter for talking to an Obama-administration leaker, doing electronic surveeillance on the Associated Press...) and it barely made a ripple in the liberal Obama-Newspeak media, belies that rationalizatioin as completely false, M E M.


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 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
And plenty of wealthy people donate/buy GOP candidates. The tax breaks are for them for starters



Mark Zuckerberg: Democrat
George Soros: Democrat
Warren Buffett: Democrat
Bill Gates: Democrat
Jeff Bezos: Democrat
Geoffrey Immelt: Democrat

Yes, because all the billionaires and captains of industry are all Republicans, right, M E M?

Come on, man, give me a break. For you and other demagogues on the Left, wealth only becomes evil when some ratio of the time it is used to fund Republican campaigns.


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 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Obama's birth certificate was front page material for months. Trump actually generates his stories like he did that one for Obama. When do you hold him accountable?



I'm not sure exactly what your point is on this one.

In the media, it was portrayed as Republican racists who were demanding Obama's birth certificate. And as my posts for 9 years here back up, I never considered this the best issue to attack Obama on, that it just played into Democrat hands, because it's very clear that Obama was born in Hawaii, where both his parents met and attended college.

The demand for Obama's birth certificate, that every other presidential candidate provided, is a legitimate one. The allegation that he was born in Kenya is completely false, and even the likes of Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly quickly reported that. It was a fringe of Republicans who bought and promoted that narrative, NOT the Republican mainstream. And certainly not me.

The Obama-Newspeak media also neglected to report that:
1) it was the Hillary Clinton campaign that first raised the slander narrative that Obama was not born in the U.S. and demanded Obama's birth certificate,
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2) it wasn't racist and unique to a black presidential candidate, the same slander narrative treatment was given to John McCain, alleging McCain was "not a U.S. citizen" and therefore not eligible to be president, even though he was in truth born at a U.S. Naval base in Panama. (Which again, was a slander campaign begun within the Hillary Clinton campaign, that the mainstream media minimally if at all reported.)


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the Hillary campaign did it has been debunked so many times. You can't even hold Trump accountable for his own birtherism or well anything he says or does. Dictators proclaim free and independent press as the enemy of the people. Trump regularly making that declaration should bother you.


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 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
the Hillary campaign did it has been debunked so many times. You can't even hold Trump accountable for his own birtherism or well anything he says or does. Dictators proclaim free and independent press as the enemy of the people. Trump regularly making that declaration should bother you.



It's beyond dispute that the Hillary Clinton campaign stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders, rigging the result with leaders in the DNC, and self-incriminatingly revealed in the Wikileaks exposure of internal DNC e-mails, including those of Donna Brazile, and Debbie Wasserman-bitch-cunt-Schultz (the latter of whom was immediately rehired the same day as her DNC chair resignation by the Clinton campaign). And Donna Brazile, despite her corruption, was enbraced as Shultz' replacement as head of the DNC. Both evil and shamelessly corrupt. As is Hillary.

All Donald Trump did with the Birther issue was ask for Obama's birth certificate. He didn't say Obama was born in Kenya, he said every other candidate has shown their birth certificate, and if the birther allegation is false, then Obama should have no problem producing his birth certificate. And like so many other things Trump does, many other people tried to get Obama to do so, but it was Trump's public pressure that caused a drop in Obama's polls that finally got Obama to reveal his birth certificate.


And Trump's off the cuff comments about "fake news" CNN and liberal media doesn't bother me, because it is so demonstrably true. Almost every day there are more examples of the media alleging things that a day later are proven false. The Kavanaugh sex allegations disproven by over 60 of the women who were allegedly assaulted in their public statement yesterday. Allegations from Woodward's new book disputed by the White House officials allegedly quoted as "pure fiction".

So often they are annonymous allegations with no named sources (i.e., MADE UP) that they would withhold the story for if the same allegations were made about a Democrat.

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The fact that Obama did far worse as president on the same issues (attacking Fox News as not a real news agency, attempting to ban Fox from White House press conferences, arresting James Rosen and another reporter for talking to an Obama-administration leaker, doing electronic surveillance on the Associated Press...) and it barely made a ripple in the liberal Obama-Newspeak media, belies that rationalization [that Trump is the worst offeender regarding suppression of the media, and the media is therefore justified in lashing out at Trump with every weapon in their media arsenal] as completely false.



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 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
the Hillary campaign did it has been debunked so many times. You can't even hold Trump accountable for his own birtherism or well anything he says or does. Dictators proclaim free and independent press as the enemy of the people. Trump regularly making that declaration should bother you.



I fully answered that above. Trump is not a birther, he just humiliated Obama publicly about Obama's evasiveness, and caused Obama to drop in the polls until Obama finally, after four or five years, to finally release his birth certificate, as every other 2008 candidate and previous candidate had years before.

Trump in a nationally covered power-play, humiliated Obama. That does not make Trump a birther. It just means that, as in so many other areas, Trump was able to make it happen and make Obama finally concede his birth certificate, where many others had failed to.

That was his opening shot on Obama.
He has deliciously followed through by legislating or executive ordering away virtually every last vestige of Obama's failed cultural marxist America-destroying presidency. Obamacare (defunded at least), The Iran Deal, repealing crippling taxes, slashing regulation, closing the open borders, rebuilding our gutted military, crushing ISIS in Iraq/Syria. All of it.


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Even if Trump was making the kook aid and not drinking it himself doesn't mean the birther label doesn't apply. I think it makes him worse to be honest. I of course can't speak to how Obama felt about Trump's birtherism but it made me feel sad that he was able to build a base of support with a lie.


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Trump at White House press conference, Wednesday 11-7-2018, after mid-term election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvfqUMg10uM



The uncivility toward the president by a media that despises him is on full display throughout. And I wish this was just one press conference I could point to, but it's really EVERY press conference Trump has.

They treat Trump in a way they would never treat Obama or Clinton. And if any reporter did treat Obama this way (the way EVERY ONE of them treats Trump) they would accuse that reporter of racism or misogyny or at least uncivility.

When asked where uncivility in politics is coming from, Trump rightly says look no further than the media. That is where uncivility begins and ends.




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In particular was a part where CNN reporter Jim Acosta had already asked a few already rude questions, and then descended into "Are you a white supremacist, Mr. President? Are you a racist?" type of grandstanding, at which point Trump told him to sit down and give the microphone to another reporter. A White House intern walked over to take the microphone from Acosta, and as she did so, Acosta brushed her hand away. She reached again and grabbed the microphone to take it, and Acosta gripped harder on the microphone and refused to let her take it. She knelt down on her knees to wait, to draw herself away from being the center of attention, and finally after another minute or so Acosta finally gave her the microphone.

Laura Ingraham said some in the media are now calling him "Jim Accost-her" for his treatment of the girl.




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The "Obama was born in kenya and therefore not eligble to run for president" narrative was created by a Hillary Clinton staffer.
Period, the end.

If Obama had simply presented the documents that every other presidential candidate presented, there would have been no margin for Trump to question whether Obama had a U.S. birth certificate. MANY YEARS AFTER OBAMA HAD NOT DONE SO, Trump publicized the issue, and publicized Obama's nondisclosure, to the point that it began to hurt Obama politically and make him decline in the polls, at which point Trump was again able to do what no one else could do, make Obama disclose his documentation of citizenship.

And I again point out that the Hillary Clinton campaign began the same false narrative against John McCain in 2008, alleging he was not born in the U.S. and therefore not elegible to run for president. (McCain was, of course, born on a U.S. naval base in the Panama canal zone, and certainly a U.S. citizen and able to run. And likewise Obama was born in Hawaii, where both his parents met and attended college, so Obama also is a U.S. citizen and on that criteria able to be president. So it isn't "racist", the same tactic was used against McCain, and last time I checked, McCain was white.)

As far as CNN and other Trump-cited "fake news", when newspapers and network news channels consistently release an unprecedented number of news stories where they cite anonymous sources to accuse the president, or deliberately report stories that are proven to be factually untrue about the president, or in their zeal to report something negative about the president repeatedly get the story wrong, all in an effort to damage the president politically, they are in fact "fake news" and factually innaccurate. Deliberately and maliciously innaccurate, and by choice an instrument of the opposing party on a holy mission to damage and destroy the President.
And Trump has repeatedly said that it is not all news that is fake news, not even all those who report negatively about him, but only those sources that are partisan against him and deliberately dishonest.

As this....

List of examples of CNN "fake news" false reports:
https://www.taskade.com/v/ByzMWWQkql

and this...

President Trump's list of "top 10" fake news reports of 2017
https://gop.com/the-highly-anticipated-2017-fake-news-awards/

...are just a few representative samples of.


There is pretty much a false narrative launched by the liberal media at least once a week, often exposed as inaccurate just a few days later, and never apologized for.
The unbearable snottiness with which White House Press and other reporters treat President Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and ANY Trump official, is daily proof of their partisan bias against the president. AGAIN: a way they would never treat Obama or any of his officials.

And on the media's selective omission of the facts that would vindicate the president in alleged "Russia collusion", and their failure to report on the abuses of the Hillary Clinton campaign, the abuses and collaboration by oficials of the FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA, and the filing of deliberately fabricated FISA on false evidence, where branches of government were weaponized against Republicans to bring down Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
And similar earlier Lois Lerner IRS abuses also largely unreported, similarly dismissively reported to fly cover for the Democrats.

In these specific cases where the news media have abandoned objective pursuit of the truth, have partisanly chosen sides, have suppressed knowledge of a nation-threatening conspiracy, the news media (those participating in the malicious false reporting, suppression of facts, and cover-up) are in fact the enemy of the people that Trump has identified them as.


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