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http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/08/trump-attacks-meet-press-giving-propaganda-minister-kellyanne-conway-time.htmlTrump 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 worlds 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 Conways Meet The Press interview at link:
Trump was outraged that Conways 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.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)Trump would not have won.
We have entertainers pretending to be journalists.
Best_man23
(4,897 posts)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)is not considered enough of an ass-kisser, you know things have gone south.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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)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)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)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.
Paladin
(28,246 posts)chowder66
(9,066 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)The power and respect of the Presidency is earned,
you don't inherit it.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)selling America out as it is...
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)regardless of what anyone else might say
gordianot
(15,237 posts)Did he have to change his pants.
onecaliberal
(32,816 posts)spanone
(135,816 posts)ALBliberal
(2,339 posts)Won't happen. What an absolute coward asshole jerk. Sending the women folk to
Defend his dirty business. Disgusting.
ALBliberal
(2,339 posts)Anchors were raised in AMERICA. I have faith that their patriotism will overcome his narcissism.
JI7
(89,244 posts)i noticed he has a different attitude when he is interviewing her .