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babylonsister

(171,054 posts)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:34 PM Jan 2017

Trump Disgraces The Presidency By Attacking Meet The Press For Not Pushing His Propaganda

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/08/trump-attacks-meet-press-giving-propaganda-minister-kellyanne-conway-time.html

Trump Disgraces The Presidency By Attacking Meet The Press For Not Pushing His Propaganda

By Jason Easley on Sun, Jan 8th, 2017 at 12:25 pm


President-elect Donald Trump ignored all of the world’s issues and instead focused his wrath on Chuck Todd and Meet The Press for not giving Kellyanne Conway more time during their interview to push lies about Russian hacking.

Video of Conway’s Meet The Press interview at link:

Trump was outraged that Conway’s propagandistic answers about Russian hacking having no impact on the election did not get more airtime.

In less than two weeks, Donald Trump is going to be President Of The United States. To prepare for the highest office in the world, Trump is spending his time attacking Chuck Todd and Meet The Press for not giving his senior adviser/chief propagandist more airtime to pushing the false narrative that there is no evidence that Russia succeeded in influencing the presidential election.

Trump is going to spend his presidency badgering and bullying media to make sure that his false, misleading, and inaccurate statements are reported as news. The free press is under assault. The tweets from Trump are not only the insecurities of a petty man. They are also an effort to turn the press into state-run media.

There are a million different issues that any president-elect should be concerned about, but Donald J. Trump continues to prove that all that matters to him that media exists to flatter, promote, and inflate the Trump ego.
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Trump Disgraces The Presidency By Attacking Meet The Press For Not Pushing His Propaganda (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2017 OP
If only there were real journalists left. tecelote Jan 2017 #1
These Real Journalists Best_man23 Jan 2017 #11
when even a toadie like Chuckie Todd DonCoquixote Jan 2017 #2
Let's get real at this point. Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #3
If the Intelligence Report Does Nothing Else Best_man23 Jan 2017 #12
Looking back to the Campaign. Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #16
The press core is the trump propaganda core angrychair Jan 2017 #4
+1000. (nt) Paladin Jan 2017 #5
Ditto! nt chowder66 Jan 2017 #10
When the media see's low approval numbers they'll change their tone because they're feckless at best uponit7771 Jan 2017 #14
Stuff it, Trump C_U_L8R Jan 2017 #6
The whole freaking KGOP is a disgrace Achilleaze Jan 2017 #7
One thing Trump does know is that the media is the most powerful force in American politics world wide wally Jan 2017 #8
Poor Chuckie gordianot Jan 2017 #9
The press deserves every dump Shitler takes on them. onecaliberal Jan 2017 #13
i have no doubt that he will try to curb our freedom of the press. no doubt at all. spanone Jan 2017 #15
Let's see his sorry ass "live" defending Russia. ALBliberal Jan 2017 #17
At the end of the day these journalists and ALBliberal Jan 2017 #18
chuck todd is an asshole but for some reason he doesn't like kellyanne conway JI7 Jan 2017 #19

tecelote

(5,122 posts)
1. If only there were real journalists left.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:38 PM
Jan 2017

Trump would not have won.

We have entertainers pretending to be journalists.

Best_man23

(4,897 posts)
11. These Real Journalists
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 07:37 PM
Jan 2017

Would have torn tRump and all his surrogates new orifices

Edward R Murrow
Walter Cronkite
Chet Huntley
Helen Thomas

Feel free to add to the A list, no media horses please.

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
2. when even a toadie like Chuckie Todd
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:40 PM
Jan 2017

is not considered enough of an ass-kisser, you know things have gone south.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Let's get real at this point.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:02 PM
Jan 2017

Trump is playing the so called Media for all it's worth. My fear is,the so called Media will collapse like a wet blanket. Remember,the Media in Germany opposed Hitler for quite some time and then it collapsed to a Propaganda Machine for the Reich.

Best_man23

(4,897 posts)
12. If the Intelligence Report Does Nothing Else
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 07:40 PM
Jan 2017

It should galvanize what media we have left in this country to push back against the fake news and Orange Voldemort's noise machine.

After what the Intelligence Report stated about RT, Americans need to call their cable providers and ask them to drop RT from their lineups. I don't get RT, but if I did, I would block it from my cable box.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
16. Looking back to the Campaign.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 07:59 PM
Jan 2017

We knew who were the Media all in folks with Trump and the GOP. History tells us this,Media does not take well to criticism. The usual is to continue what makes them money and circle the wagons never changing the Narrative. Remember all the pro Bush narrative from 2000 and again in 2004,well another GOP Election and the Infotainment Journalist's have fallen in line once again. Here on DU,we butchered Bush/Cheney pretty good,did the Media change,well you know the answer.

angrychair

(8,690 posts)
4. The press core is the trump propaganda core
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:03 PM
Jan 2017

I'll change my mind:

*When they start asking serious questions, directly to trump and his surrogates and demanding actual answers (not word salad, no fake news stories and no false statements)

*stop letting trump surrogates on their shows to monologue for 5-10 minutes straight and then move on to their next segment leaving the trump surrogates unchallenged and unanswered.

*When they start actually addressing trump's criminal actions in a serious manner and with as much effort and vindictiveness as they did with non-criminal actions of Clinton or Obama or Sanders.

*When they actually challenge the insanity of a president-elect using a social media app as a tool to bullly and abuse and intimidate people as well as to air half-baked policy positions with no foundation in reality.

*When they humbly and without reservation, apologize for having a live video on full screen of a empty podium, for almost 30 minutes, that trump would eventually walk to while the Democratic Party candidate was small screen with no audio for that entire time while giving a speech at a large event

The so called "press" does that then I may consider believing they are the press and not a bunch of elementary school newspaper "reporters" pretending to be real journalists.

world wide wally

(21,740 posts)
8. One thing Trump does know is that the media is the most powerful force in American politics
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:39 PM
Jan 2017

regardless of what anyone else might say

ALBliberal

(2,339 posts)
17. Let's see his sorry ass "live" defending Russia.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 08:07 PM
Jan 2017

Won't happen. What an absolute coward asshole jerk. Sending the women folk to
Defend his dirty business. Disgusting.

ALBliberal

(2,339 posts)
18. At the end of the day these journalists and
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 08:11 PM
Jan 2017

Anchors were raised in AMERICA. I have faith that their patriotism will overcome his narcissism.

JI7

(89,244 posts)
19. chuck todd is an asshole but for some reason he doesn't like kellyanne conway
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 08:16 PM
Jan 2017

i noticed he has a different attitude when he is interviewing her .

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