Trump says won't move White House briefing room, will pick who gets in

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

President-elect Donald Trump said his administration will not move the press briefing room out of the White House into a larger space but will choose the media representatives who go into it, according to an interview with Fox News.

-snip-

"The press went crazy, so I said, 'Let's not move it.' But some people in the press will not be able to get in," Trump told "Fox & Friends" in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.

"We have so many people that want to go in so we'll have to just have to pick the people to go into the room - I'm sure other people will be thrilled about that," he said. "But we offered a much larger room because we need a much larger room and we offered to do that, but they went crazy."

"And they'll be begging for a much larger room very soon, you watch."

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-media-idUSKBN1521OD

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And the childishness and vindictiveness continue on full display, every time Trump opens his mouth (or tweets).

[safeinOhio]

1. Front row will be all

Russians.

[leftynyc]

3. And breitbart and

every white power publication out there.

[oberliner]

4. RT and Breitbart

Maybe Pravda as well (and Sputnik).

[dalton99a]

6. Yep, the real news people from Master Putin.

[COLGATE4]

7. Don't forget the newest in the Fox-style

reporting - OAN

[oberliner]

11. Also World Net Daily

And a few other favorites.

[COLGATE4]

12. WNT and Alex Jones' spews are in a (lower)

category yet again. But you're right - look for them to be front row center at the 'new' Press Conferences.

[oberliner]

16. And get ready for questions like: "Exactly how great is your plan going to be?"

And other such fluff.

[Cooley Hurd]

31. Jeff Gannon/Guckert will have a new, non-prostitute gig...

...well, he'll still be prostituting, just not sex.

[oberliner]

43. Wow - I'd forgotten about him

What a throwback.

[Docreed2003]

2. So his bootlicking ball washers will have primere access and the actual news agencies will have to p

Pound sand??? Seems about right from this narcissistic turd

[Botany]

5. Let me guess who gets picked

RT, Breitbart, Alex Jones, Fox,snd so on.

This was a coup.

[kairos12]

8. Russian News Service will have the front row.

[cyclonefence]

9. Let the walkout by MSM begin

I'd like to see msm ignore his stupid press conferences, except to report on each lie, identifying it as such and reporting the truth.

[mopinko]

29. no kidding. let them prop up a pool camera,

let him spew, then ask him questions on twitter.

[DK504]

35. I don't think they are strong enough to do that.

All the media heads are to interested in profits.

[LenaBaby61]

53. All the media heads are to interested in profits.

So true @ the corporate media heads IE: Les Moonves.

They'd follow that sexually assaulting, racist, dumber than a bag of horse manure and traitor to hell and back if it meant good ratings and big advertising buy dollars.

[KittyWampus]

41. That actually is a good idea. Or have one designated person, like CSpan.

[joshcryer]

10. Oh, no, he's right, TMZ to ABC to PBS will want to be there.

It's the reality show Presidency, and he'll make himself available. Days in and days out. This is the FDR Presidency the left has desired for years. A President who makes themselves available for everything.

Only he's a fascist. And we won't like what we have to hear.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Can't wait to see how these press "tough guys" all rally around the way

they did when Obama rightfully put Faux in their place......

[COLGATE4]

14. I'm shamlessly stealing this joke from another DUer

(whose name I regretfully don't remember) with apologies:

Q. What has 30 eyes and 17 teeth?

A. The front row at a Trump presser.

[tavernier]

56. What has a thousand eyes and four teeth

A trump rally.

[skylucy]

15. Oh brother.

[Roy Rolling]

17. We will see

Legitimate news media will not cooperate with any scheme to flavor the news from the White House.

The inmates of the newsrooms have taken over the asylum of corporate media. This is where real journalists break ranks with suck-ups.

[exboyfil]

26. Really

You forgot the sarcasm tag. After the run up to the Iraq War and this election cycle the only independent voices will be marginalized at best.

[Roy Rolling]

30. true

But I think rank-and-file media people feel betrayed by their corporate bosses. They are journalists, not corporate bosses sucking up to Trump for ratings and ad revenue.

Rank-and-file journalists don't give a rat's ass about ad revenue.

Let's hope.

[watoos]

18. This is pretty serious shit

What Trump just said in not so many words, Say bad things about me and you're banned.
Will the M$M fight back or will they not risk being black balled?
I expect he will go after the internet next, opposing net neutrality.

[Lindsay]

19. Remember the old saying,

"Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it"?

We've complained for years about the corporate media. Who expected we'd get state-approved liars and bootlickers as a replacement?

[TheBlackAdder]

20. Front row: FOX, Breitbart and Russian Times. There is no second row.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

37. All other seats are reserved for Trump's personal cheering section. nt

[yallerdawg]

21. Somebody must have told him...

antagonizing the press didn't work much for Nixon.

And he has noticed his terrible "ratings" have gone down to lowest level ever for a new president.

Although he tweets "negative polls" are FAKE NEWS.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. #fakepresident

fake as his hair

a servant of himself, not of the people

[Cooley Hurd]

32. I miss ol' Jack Anderson...

[NewJeffCT]

39. now he's also claiming he doesn't like tweeting

and doesn't have to do it - sure, but he really needed to tweet about Arnold Schwarzenegger, Meryl Streep, Hamilton, etc.

[yallerdawg]

44. He is a pathological liar.

We must get accustomed to understanding what he says is meaningless - but hold him accountable for everything he says.

No liar should get a free pass.

[greymattermom]

22. So if CNN doesn't get a seat in the press room

they shouldn't cover him.

[oberliner]

46. They can't not cover the POTUS

Not an option.

[bettyellen]

52. They can stop quoting him without using he word "claimed" to modify it....

Because his lie to truth ratio has been off the hook for too long.

[wordpix]

23. a WH press pool reporter I know told me

the MSM is beefing up its WH staff from one or 2 reporters each to 8 or 9. No doubt Donnie doesn't like that---more chance for digging up the many layers of dirt on Pee-OTUS.

She also told me that the briefing room is so hot and crowded even before the new reporters coming in that someone fainted.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Wow, this is disturbing.

So in other words, we've got Fox, Breitbart, One America, Infowars, RT, and maybe all those weird websites your right-wing Facebook friend keeps sharing on your feed.

Everyone else need not apply.

This autocracy thing....it is actually happening. We're really going to do this?

[bucolic_frolic]

25. He's treating it like a private enterprise

Government belongs to the people

Sunshine gives us better government

I hope he's going to fail

[wordpix]

57. get ready to impeach over ties to Russia & biz conflicts of interest in

3 mos, my guess

[bucolic_frolic]

65. About a month ago

somebody asked me what was going to happen

my off the cuff, inebriated reaction? 'war by April'

He must create a diversion to take the heat off his ethical conflicts

You've reinforced that little thought at the back of my head

[turbinetree]

27. Oh, boy I just can't wait to see this jerk deplaning from Air Force 1, and can't wait to see

this fascist sexual predator signing into legislation the first bill to gut heath care and then the dismantling of public education, and just imagine him doing this in the Oval Office, can't ya just wait, and then if and when he has a press conference all the Breitbart and Fox and friends propaganda machine will dress up like, oh I don't know ---------------zippy the clowns, with the red noses and orange hair, floppy red shoes, baggy pants, and suspenders.

While that is going on the 65 million human beings that voted against your racists ass, will be demanding that you are impeached the first thirty seconds after your racist U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, you got it the same racist that voted down the 1964 Voting Rights Act swears you , because zippy you haven't released your tax returns. to see who is bribing and blackmailing you and your family and friends


Hey trump I know that I said this before , but in my own childishness ways I want to tell you , Breibart, Fox, your cabinet of criminals, and treasonous jerks such as yourself and the Congress, and the fascists congress -----------------


FU you and the horse you road in on

[wordpix]

58. beautiful rant, turbinetree, and the clown imagery is

just too good. Maybe dress like Zippy for some of the marches and rallies with signs identifying Fox & Friends and the racist, anti-environmental, anti-science, anti-education Congress. A clown-turtle with the face of McCONnel, for example

[turbinetree]

63. I also like your description

what we both should have added, is this Devos character, yep you got it, the same family, that ran "Blackwater" mercenary services in the name of there "god", while the "taxpayers" were paying this zealot crew millions while a combat soldier in Iraq or anywhere in the world was making less than $45,000 a year to get a bullet based on lie, and now there head worshiper of all gods of fascist wants to be the head master at the Department of Education, so that she can go around in 3 to six months and plant her Michigan theme of s*** on the rest of the country when it comes too public education failing, so lets makes schools in "corporations".

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-family-foundations-heritage-americans-prosperity-blackwater


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/blackwater-paravant-unauthorized-weapons-afghanistan-levin


I just typed in Mother Jones and Blackwater, now called Xe, and this witch has the audacity to say that guns need to be in schools because you know those giant brown bears or has we animal lovers call Grizzlies, might come a prowling on school grounds-------------------------

[jalan48]

33. He's controlling the message much like the Defense Dept. did during the Iraq War.

He's making the press pliant through the use of embedded reporters.

[Sunlei]

34. Republicans allow their Leader to block press access to Americans government.

Republicans allowed and backed! that creep to run for president.

[wordpix]

59. with a Drumpf-filled SCOTUS, R's will do anything to grab all the power

they still don't have it ALL, but they're working on it

[onenote]

36. The White House Press Correspondents Association is going to go batshit over this.

The WHPCA was founded in 1914 in response to rumors that Congress was going to decide who could attend white house press conferences. They decide who sits where in the briefing room and they, I believe, handle the credentialing of reporters for white house briefings.

[NewJeffCT]

45. will they?

or, will they bend over for access?

[hibbing]

48. They will grab their knees and...n/t

[keithbvadu2]

38. There will only be five authorized press passes... Limbaugh, Jeff Gannon, Fox, Breitbart, Pravda

There will only be five authorized press passes... Limbaugh, Jeff Gannon, Fox, Breitbart, Pravda
.

[KittyWampus]

40. The Networks/Cable News need to coordinate. They need to agree to

pre-set questions and if Trump doesn't respond to one, the other person asks same question.

Frankly I think they should just not go at all. Trump lies constantly.

Or just agree to have one pool-camera and one pool-journalist.

[oberliner]

47. They won't

Doesn't work that way.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

42. FOX, Breitbart, RT and, of course, InfoWars!

We'll finally get questions about demons and lizard people!

[keithbvadu2]

50. Did he put Vick's Vaporub in his eyes like Glenn Beck?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

51. Probably.

I doubt that he really believes that crap.

[wordpix]

60. stable personality, much? Should not be a gun owner

[Buckeye_Democrat]

61. Agree!

Although I'm not sure if he really believes that nonsense or if he's like a minister preaching the world will soon end... before carefully counting the money in the offerings basket.

It's sick behavior either way, as far as I'm concerned.

[Mc Mike]

49. First, li'l bush spent years denying actual press members like Helen Thomas access.

Denying actual writers press passes, giving fake writers passes instead, got caught illegally paying shills like Armstrong Williams to write lying positive stories.



Then, right at the beginning of the Obama Admin, Prez O mentioned that Fox was not news, just a repug propaganda outlet:

"...the network’s heavy coverage of some of the more intensely anti-administration activity at town-hall-style meetings on health care and Mr. Beck’s remark that Mr. Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people.”

The first real shot from the White House, however, came when aides excluded “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace” — which they had previously treated as distinct from the network — from a round of presidential interviews with Sunday morning news programs in mid-September.

“We simply decided to stop abiding by the fiction, which is aided and abetted by the mainstream press, that Fox is a traditional news organization,” said Dan Pfeiffer, the deputy White House communications director. Later that week, White House officials said, they noticed a column by Clark Hoyt, the public editor of The Times, in which Jill Abramson, one of the paper’s two managing editors, described her newsroom’s “insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.” The Washington Post’s executive editor, Marcus Brauchli, had already expressed similar concerns about his newsroom.

White House officials said comments like those had focused them on a need to make their case that Fox had an ideological bent undercutting its legitimacy as a news organization. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html

If you read the article, you can see how the entire US press establishment jumped all over the Obama Admin and leapt to the defense of poor Fox 'News'. The Times article even notes a 'correction' to their original reporting. They 'accidentally' got the timeline wrong, and said that the Obama admin's objectionable exclusion of Fox occurred on Tuesday, October 20, but the actual date was Thursday, October 22. In other words, the NY Times, with Hoyt and Abramson at the wheel, didn't just think that they should be more tuned in to Fox's issues, they jumped into the fight on Fox's side right away, with a 10/23 article. And lied and pretended that it took 3 days for them to respond to this earth shaking ' unfair attack by the Dem Prez' on a 'servant of the people' 'press organization'.



Now, the repugs are coming into power again. Time to let the Prez attack the press, all the time. He has his flunkies threaten the press, he attacks them from the stage at events, encourages his more deranged followers to get really mad at the press, denies any press he doesn't like access. His people death threaten journalists like Ioffe and Eichenwald.

But now the dominant paradigm from the right is "He's our president, and can do what he wants. Treasonous press."

And the piece de resistance for the whole issue is how the righties are trying to screw reality's head on backwards on this issue. Trying to find the Times coverage, of the 'Obama attacks press Freedoms' issue, brings up a ton of rightie fake news sites screaming and crying about how "Obama did it, and got away with it, and nobody complained. Dem propaganda. Dems attack press freedom. It wasn't reported by Librul Media!"

Obama's admin was right when they attempted to call out Fox for its blatant repuglinazi propaganda. "Unbiased" sources like Hoyt's Times, Tapper at ABC, and Brauchli's Post forced Obama to recant right away, and pretend that Fox isn't just swinish far right repuglinazi propaganda. Now the jaded Mandarin is doing to the press exactly what the repugs lyingly said Prez Obama did to the press.

And the repuglinazis get to pretend that Obama got away with it, and that anyone who mentions dRumpfenfuhrer's nazi attacks on the press is a hypocrite. "The repugs and the truth are the real victims here, and so is repug freedom of the press."

So they get to commit the crime, and simultaneously project the guilt for committing the crime onto the people who they're committing the crime against.

They're not geniuses, they're actually not even very fucking smart. They just have a ton of money, and a ton of access to and control over the media.

[WhiteTara]

54. So much for a free press.

So much is going to die after the OrangeAnus takes over our country. Without a free press, we won't even know.

[appleannie1943]

55. Anyone that speaks the truth can forget about access. Liars and nutjobs only.

[Paladin]

62. Looking forward to a vigorous protest by a newly-courageous mainstream media.

In my dreams I am.

How about it, journalists? How much of this shit are you willing to put up with? Just how long does the new regime get to wipe its ass with the 1st Amendment? Just how close to the edge does our democracy have to get, before the necessary blow-back takes place?

I want my country back.

[pansypoo53219]

64. petty baby man. this is what the MEdia wanted for ratings. a pox on the worst.

[aggiesal]

66. Remember, when McCheetohead makes a decision ...

that decision will benefit him, not the country, not his constituents, not even his voters, just him.

This certainly looks like it will benefit him.