Reince Priebus: White House Will Fight Media Tooth And Nail Over Trump Coverage

[still_one]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media “tooth and nail” over what it sees as unfair attacks, with a top adviser saying the Trump administration had presented “alternative facts” to counter low inauguration crowd estimates.

On his first full day as president, Trump said he had a “running war” with the media and accused journalists of underestimating the number of people who turned out Friday for his swearing-in.

White House officials made clear no truce was on the horizon on Sunday in television interviews that set a much harsher tone in the traditionally adversarial relationship between the White House and the press corps.

“The point is not the crowd size. The point is the attacks and the attempt to delegitimize this president in one day. And we’re not going to sit around and take it,” Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The sparring with the media has dominated Trump’s first weekend in office, eclipsing debate over policy and Cabinet appointments.

It was the main theme at the Republican president’s first visit to the CIA, at the press secretary’s first media briefing and in senior officials’ first appearances on the Sunday talk shows.

Together, they made clear the administration will continue to take an aggressive stance with news organizations covering Trump.

“We’re going to fight back tooth and nail every day and twice on Sunday,” Priebus said.

He repeated White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s assertions on Saturday that the media manipulated photographs of the National Mall to make the crowds on Friday look smaller than they really were."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reince-priebus-white-house-will-fight-media-tooth-and-nail-over-trump-coverage_us_5886148ee4b096b4a232f4aa

[SHRED]

1. "Tooth and nail"

Because apparently they have no brains to use.

[bdamomma]

4. that sounds about right.

the Media needs to hit back hard.

they are threatening the fourth branch of government.

[KittyWampus]

7. brilliant response.

[SHRED]

9. Ah shucks...thanx

[forgotmylogin]

14. I'm glad they have their prorities straight.

I mean, fight tooth and nail for Trump's "virtue" as opposed to tooth and nail for the American people.

[SHRED]

15. Fantastic observation

Thank you.

[enough]

2. Not a good strategy if they're going to keep telling blatant lies

that can be easily checked and rebutted.

[shraby]

3. The media should boycott the administration. Don't invite any to the t.v. news interview shows,

don't go to the white house press room. Don't print anything white house press releases that are not factual. Give the trumplodytes a run for their money.

[mreilly]

5. The problem with that...

... is the right-wing fairy tale factories like Breitbart and InfoWars will still happily be given access since they will say whatever Trump wants them to. If the regular unbiased media boycotts, then the ONLY news coming out of the White House will be whitewashed lies and propaganda. That's what they want.

[SHRED]

8. Exactly

They need to expose these frauds and boycotting won't do that.

[Justice]

6. Internally inconsistent

He repeated White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s assertions on Saturday that the media manipulated photographs of the National Mall to make the crowds on Friday look smaller than they really were

So it really is about crowd size.

[dalton99a]

10. "You shall catapult the propaganda"

[GusBob]

11. Fiddle while rome burns

this is all so petty

grow the fuck up

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Good to see that they've got their priorities straight

While the rest of us are worried about real-life things that actually affect people, it sounds like they're going to be spending the vast majority of their time arguing over whether the media is reporting what and how they want it to. Super.

[world wide wally]

13. The news media doesn't realize the power they have over Trump.

If not for all the attention they give him, he would resign today.
It's time for them to stand up to these assholes