The media talk about Him like he's sentient, brilliant, and thoughtful...

[PCIntern]

I'm listening to this commentator jabber on MSNBC that "The President" has many international affairs on his mind while at the Summit but has turned his attention at the moment to the "Democratic Primary Battle" and also "focuses" on that as well.

Hey! We got us a real innaleckshul multi-tasker for President, right? Just imagine: he's embroiled in the thick of the complex and arcane social, fiscal, political, and defense-establishment issues surrounding all of these countries, and the genius is that he can take the time to pay attention to the Opposition Party's goings-on. To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, "Look at the Brain on Donald!"

It is outrageous that he is afforded the mantle of competence and sanity.

[Ohiogal]

1. I agree! I'm so sick of it, too

On TV and in print .... I'm still having a difficult time tolerating hearing them say "The President" when they talk about his shameful ass!

He's a mental midget and morally bankrupt traitor but they all talk about him like he's a normal human being with thoughts and ideas and leadership qualities! uugghh

[smirkymonkey]

4. This is something that really bothers me.

It makes me question my own sanity. It's like, wait, he needs to be hauled off in a strait-jacket and they are just sitting there coolly discussing his behavior like he's a normal or even exceptional person.

Can we all stop pretending that this psychopathic moron is anything but bat-shit crazy?

I just want to beat my head against the wall.

[malaise]

5. +1,000

nailed it

[LuckyCharms]

7. And you hit the nail on the head...

The specific purpose of gaslighting is to make you question your own sanity. Gaslighting will always work unless you pointedly defend against it, and that is why it is so terribly dangerous.

[RVN VET71]

20. And hard to fight against

The MSM has to legitimize a serial rapist, racist xenophobe with the intellectual curiosity of a turtle's penis in order not to alienate those people who a) fanatically believe in this creature as the new Jesus and b) buy corporate products. Except for Fox, which will kiss the Leader's butt willingly and eagerly, regardless (maybe because of) the children he cages, regardless (maybe because of) his flaming ignorance of the true cost of war in terms of blood, bones, and skin, all MSM outlets know that they have to pretend to a kind of blessed both-sidedness in their reportage -- except, of course, for MSM folks like Rachel, Stephen Colbert, and others who are permitted, contractually, to maintain their integrity and not pretend, even briefly and for commercial purposes, that this Turd is a rose.

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. Here, let me help you with that.

[treestar]

2. They need a horse race

They believe that is how they get ratings. The drama! Neck and neck! The polls show Dotard losing to many of the Democrats running. So they have to build him up.

[watoos]

6. I disagree,

The M$M is not our friend. Making money is actually secondary to them. The M$M is complicit with the far right, even msnbc.

[Lonestarblue]

19. The media are corporations with profit expectations from shareholders.

More and more profit is their motivation, and Republicans kowtow to that goal more than Democrats, who often cost them money with higher taxes. Corporations and their wealthiest shareholders exercise the true levers of power in Washington. They are able to buy low-tax policies and continue the transfer of wealth from the 99% to the 1% by supporting the right candidates; namely, Republicans who care only for their own power and cushy jobs in Congress where they’re not really held accountable by voters for accomplishing anything.

Until more voters wake up and get rid of Republicans who support these policies, we will continue to decline as a country until we finally reach that breaking point where the 99% can no longer sustain itself. Do we then have uprisings, civil war, with secession of some states? Who knows? But we should take the example of Venezuela seriously—once a rich country, now a no man’s land on the verge of collapse caused by corrupt government leaders whose sole purpose was to enrich themselves, totalitarian policies, and corrupt police/military. Any of that sound familiar?

[treestar]

39. That's what I meant

They know the Dotard is behind. So they are going to build him up. And attack the Democrats with any silly thing they can think of. To try to get it more neck and neck.

[Cha]

42. The M$M had a big part in getting

the Psycho in the WH, and I think they want him back.. they couldn't care less about our country or the Planet.. only their craven bottom line.

They are the enemy

treestar!

[treestar]

46. That is for sure

Their bottom line - and that Orange Psycho's stupidity give them more stuff to cover. Cha!

[rufus dog]

34. While reading this I have MSNBC on, a commercial for Morning Joe playing

features Mika stating emphatically, 'Name one Democrat that can beat Donald Trump, name one!" followed by Willie Geist chastising some democrat for the "Parties Socialist move to the left."

So I'm not sure how anyone argues that they are looking for a Horse Race! All evidence points that they are all propaganda machines for the RW, just to varying degrees.

[treestar]

40. not sure, have to see a Republican ahead in the polls

in that case. To see if they build up the Democrat as a result, to create the horse race.

[Cha]

43. That's my thought.. they helped

put the Psycho in the WH and now they want the asshole to stay another 4 years.. Country and Planet be damned.

I hope mika and co has to eat their fucking words.

[Tech]

3. Don't they wonder why they were not allowed into meeting with Putin, but Russia

media was? At this point, any so called journalist that spews his crap a propagandist. Not a journalist!

[ananda]

8. He is ratings fodder.

If you boycott, that speaks.

[DemocracyMouse]

16. Yes!!!!! We should stop whining about the fake president and start protesting and boycotting...

all the apparatus holding the clown up: the media normalizing dysfunctional and illegitimate presidents —and illegitimate Republicans leveraged through extreme gerrymandering —AND the illegitimate supreme court justice who was installed after Obama's legitimate pick was blocked from a confirmation process.

We are under invasion people.

[zanana1]

9. The whole country should be forced to watch a documentary...

"Hitler's Rise to Power". It had me gasping at the similarities between him and Trump. The tactics they that used to rise to power are similar.

[PCIntern]

10. I've said this from the escalator ride forward

It’s out of the Nazi playbook.

[Wounded Bear]

29. It's a pretty standard authoritarian playbook...

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[BlueDawn]

23. Yes!

I couldn't agree more. I thought the same thing. Thank you for bringing up this documentary.

[dalton99a]

12. And not a damn word about his secret meeting with Putin

[KPN]

24. What secret meeting?

[William Seger]

26. None of your business

... which I assume means they only talked about their respective business opportunities.

[KPN]

27. Lol. Surprised I can still laugh. Good one. Exactly right.

[FailureToCommunicate]

35. It was broadcast on Russian state media. Don't you get that channel?

[Mc Mike]

13. The owners of CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, even the Guardian gaslight us like that, sometimes.

Put their thumbs on the scales.

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. If the MSM continues to deny reality the country is DOOMED.

[mountain grammy]

15. I can't even listen.. I can feel my blood pressure rising

everytime I hear the words president and trump together and then going on about what he's doing...... like he knows what he's doing..

[rainin]

17. They are clearly soul-less. It has made me sick from the very beginning.

We now know that we could have president Ivanka Trump and they'll treat her like she's qualified.

[SayItLoud]

21. Journalists, worldwide, need to act!

One of their own was butchered by MBS and tRUMP couldn't care less.

Why not one world wide day by every journalist protesting?


Every front page of every publication. Every headline on every new program and lede be about MBS and tie tRUMP, Kushner to him.

Let the world know how they feel, what they believe and what the truth is...turn the screws of journalism tighter on those who did it and ignore it.

The Nazis came for your neighbor and you did nothing. Then they came for you.

[spanone]

22. Our media is going 2016 all over again.

[paleotn]

25. They still can't wrap their collective heads around it.....

The fact that we have a complete imbecile in the white house, who has absolutely no idea what he's doing and no clue of what he doesn't know. Meanwhile, the country is running on a mixture of autopilot, momentum and nefarious presidential aids. From laziness and muscle memory, they keep wanting to place the template of past presidents on this dumpster fire and it simply won't fit. In fact, from the outside, it makes them look incredibly stupid to do so. One wants to just grab the collective media, shake them vigorously and say loudly and slowly....LISTEN! America is having a Caligula moment. DO NOT treat this as normal! It is NOT!

[PCIntern]

33. Great post. Thanks! nt

[onecaliberal]

28. We got us an illegitimate rapist. Full stop.

[ooky]

30. Yeah. This is why we need our own network.

A network with an objective for holding him accountable for what he really is.

[Wounded Bear]

31. Jingoism...

We want to believe we're the best country in the world, and we want to believe that our president is the best person for the job.

Or at least many, many Americans believe that way. Trumpler's political rallies resemble WWE matches for their entertainment value and to fire up the base. Trumplodytes' "love" of Trumpler is more akin to a toddler's love of their parents. There's no qualifiers for it, no allowance for criticism. Pure "my daddy can beat your daddy" schoolyard bullshit.

Patriotism has been reduced to adolescent high school allegiance displays. Pep rallies before the Homecoming game. Pure "Be True to Your School" crap. And of course, we're not allowed to choose the priciple and staff. We must leave that to our "betters."

[moonseller66]

32. What's so infuriating...

is the media KNOWS he's an unmitigated, pompous ass they need (want?) to support (for their money and their employer's) so much so that they have to find ways to couch their comments to make him look good.

I'm not sure how these "newsreaders and note takers" (that's all they are...journalists are extinct - they're even lousy stenographers!) can cash their checks or co-exist with friends and family with any kind of self respect. I'd love to meet one at a party but probably be jailed.

[LibDemAlways]

36. It's the job of the corporate owned media to pretend

that Trump isn't a lying, know nothing, ignorant, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, dictator worshipping, shit stirring turd. They prop him up by ignoring his stupidity, dismissing his nonstop lies, bringing on Repukes to defend him, and treating the giant shitshow that is his administration as though it's politics as usual. The suits in charge are the 1% who benefit the most when a Repuke (even one as horrific as Trump) is polluting the White House.

The Democrats will not get favorable mainstream media coverage in the runup to the election. The die hards don't care what he does, and they only watch Fox, so they live in an alternate reality anyway. Our best hope is that enough voters in swing states have seen for themselves that Trump hasn't kept any of his promises to them and never intended to.

[llmart]

37. This is how they "normalize" our situation.

There is absolutely nothing normal about where we find ourselves at this time in history. For the longest time, I could not understand how lots of DU'ers still watch MSNBC. Actually, I don't watch much of any TV news since I don't have cable. It's not only the Rush Limbaughs of the country that we can blame, but all the other talking heads that want to play both sides of the field so that either way in the end they'll come out looking like they were correct or in order to up their numbers for their masters who own the networks.

They know how to play viewers. One day we're praising and high fiving an anti-Trump statement one of them makes and the next day that same person is talking out of the other side of their mouth.

Boycotts do work sometimes.

[dchill]

38. Ratings!

[Mr.Bill]

41. All that and

blowing Putin, too.

[BobTheSubgenius]

44. And afforded it by MSNBC!!!

The idea that he has several complex considerations balanced within his brain at any one time is preposterous,

[DFW]

45. Trump has the intellect of a horny kumquat. The media knows it, but shuts up to get interviews

And useless interviews with Chuck Toad, no less.

Seven years ago, I got to spend an hour with the sitting president. Subjects covered were the upcoming re-election campaign, Republican electoral fraud, health insurance reform, budget deficit cutting, Syria, the Egyptian economy, and some etc. Obama was conversant in all subjects, no notes. I doubt Trump could find Egypt on a map. Hell, I doubt he would know on what continent to start looking.

[deaniac21]

47. I like turtles