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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe news media is driving me insane. Trump is now a strong leader because
he bombed a airfield and threatened countries. Obama was a weak leader compared to trump? Many people in the news media are saying this.
Obama killed thousands of terrorists with drone strikes. He killed bin laden. He took out many of the top terrorists. Obama was in the process of destroying ISIS. The news media gives very little credit for what obama did as president. Obama kept us out of wars. Isn't that strong leadership?
Is this really happening? Am i nuts or is the news media nuts.
Will the news media call trump a strong leader if he starts a war by accident?
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)who thinks trump is great. Trump likes to try to put Obama in a strange place.....and Obama was
a great President.
I do believe you when you say "what if he starts a war by accident"...I don't think this is any accident.
Trump LOVES these BIG bombs........
I hate Trump!!! We need to get rid of him somehow...
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)panels virtually every single night to cheerlead for Trump (Lewandowski is gone but the other ones are still there plus a new one every now and then). I have noticed (as the op says) a distinct turn in our media since the Syria bombing -- yesterday Wolf Blitzer was even blathering about how this bombing makes Trump LOOK like a strong leader.
I have also noticed that CNN (not sure about majors like cbs or abc) has not been covering the new material regarding Russia from our allies in any detail. The shit if really hitting the fan, and for the most part CNN has been ignoring it in favor of dumb little bits on what the Moab looked like and diagrams of the supposed ISIS tunnels and images of the Syria airfield. They mentioned the Russia investigation a few times last night but it was buried -- following stuff about the bombing of "ISIS" in Afghanistan, which was an obscene joke, and the Syria strike, and how North Korea must be terrified of the tough guy Trump. I thought my husband had put on Fox, and I am not exaggerating.
shockey80
(4,379 posts)They were having a giant circle jerk over trump this morning. Trump strong,obama weak.
onecent
(6,096 posts)want to shake...
shockey80
(4,379 posts)The news media very rarely reported on these strikes. Every bomb trump drops will be a breaking news event. That is what is going to happen. This is nuts.
get the red out
(13,462 posts)I was afraid this would happen. He will be "strong" enough to let the nukes fly.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)being what it is, the talking heads must parrot the corporate line of their bosses who are co-opted by the ratings and profit games and those who OWN those media outlets. Hell when NPR was co-opted during the Iraq/ongoing Afghanistan conflicts, I just shook my head and turned them off, although I would listen to 'Car Talk'. When Dan Rather was sacked, during the 9/11 episode of our history, by CBS for telling the truth about boy bush and his rather questionable past, I was through with our so called news disseminating outlets that just became infotainment outlets for the masses. NOTHING ELSE.
You know all this is to take the heat off boy-potus and his russians connection(s) all the way up to putin, taxes and the p****grabbing nature of the boy-potus. Also while this is going on our republiKKKan Congress is making hay in destroying our way of life.
Obama was the strong one and quite successful in the war against those with no discernible conscience, at least to me. Clinton while in office waged a similar campaign against the terrorist with great success, just like Obama, but because the cruise missile is quiet and those leaders discreet, we barely knew.
This big bang nut job the despicable deplorables in media and elsewhere are applauding is just a clown boy who bannon is letting play with his 'toys'. Do not be fooled, a I wrote a little while ago, we are slowly slipping into a major world engaging, people and earth destroying, conflict as the heat rises on boy potus, bannon, miller and kushner.
These people have NO concern for us and no perceptible conscience and should NOT be in the positions they are. Trust your own instincts, DO NOT be led by these people, although they may destroy us.
Have no doubt, we are in the beginning stages of a war that will destroy us or in the least diminish our world power and millions are going to be destroyed. Putin, Bannon, Miller, Kushner and their puppet boy-potus ARE psychopaths with no detectable conscience.