The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency

[Nanker]

After all these years... he’s still dead. 

[/dev/null]

7 hours ago, DC Tom said:

 

How's General Franco?

 

6 hours ago, Nanker said:

After all these years... he’s still dead. 

 

Or maybe that was a DNA cloned corpse to make us think General Franco was dead.  When in fact he is still alive in Hitler's secret South American bunker

 

Gregggggggy, how's our History Channel pilot working? Can we maybe tie it all in with Oak Island?

[Thurmal34]

For those advocating for or at least supporting this administration’s plan to use child seperation as a deterrent to coming to this country can you shed some light on why you support it?

 

Additionally, if you do support the plan, can you help people understand why there is no tracking in place?

 

i.e. if immigrant A seeks asylum, gets detained, her kids get taken, it’s documented that there is no system to track them. Why is this our administration’s plan? 

 

 

[3rdnlng]

20 minutes ago, Thurmal34 said:

For those advocating for or at least supporting this administration’s plan to use child seperation as a deterrent to coming to this country can you shed some light on why you support it?

 

Additionally, if you do support the plan, can you help people understand why there is no tracking in place?

 

i.e. if immigrant A seeks asylum, gets detained, her kids get taken, it’s documented that there is no system to track them. Why is this our administration’s plan? 

 

 

Please link to this "documentation".

[Azalin]

13 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Same story. THIS time it'll work.  

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/393618-msnbcs-deutsch-equates-trump-voters-to-nazi-guards-if-you-vote-for-trump-youre

 

You want more Trump? This is how you get more Trump.

 

FTA:

 

Nazi and concentration camp comparisons have been made by others during the debate over the border policy, including by former CIA Director Michael Hayden, who tweeted a photo of a Nazi death camp with the caption "other governments have separated mothers from children."

 

Let's forget for a moment the nearly comedic level of hyperbole routinely doled out from certain outlets on a daily basis, and take a moment to consider how insulting statements like that are to concentration camp victims, not to mention how it takes away from just how bad nazi Germany was.

[DC Tom]

17 hours ago, Thurmal34 said:

i.e. if immigrant A seeks asylum, gets detained, her kids get taken, it’s documented that there is no system to track them. Why is this our administration’s plan? 

 

 

 

Lack of a plan, actually.  I'm dead certain the administration implemented this zero-tolerance policy without giving any consideration to whether or not CBP, ICE, and HHS (which is who ultimately ends up with the kids) had any sort of mechanism to work together.  

 

Which - again - requires a legislative solution, not executive.

[B-Man]

In a remarkable show of unity, the liberal press launched a coordinated effort to distract voters’ attention from the booming economy, President Trump’s summit with North Korea’s Kim, the DOJ Inspector General’s report and the collapse of the Mueller investigation with a ginned-up controversy over temporary separation of illegal immigrant children from their parents at the southern border.

 

Otherwise known as law enforcement.

 

 

On a short-term basis, the ploy has had some success. President Trump’s job approval rating has dropped to 46% in the most recent Rasmussen daily tracking poll, and news about the economy, etc., has been taken off the front pages, to the Left’s relief. But there is good reason to believe, I think, that these successes are only temporary.

 

First of all, Trump’s approval rating hasn’t taken much of a hit, given the coordinated and deliberate media effort. Assuming it doesn’t drop further, 46% is toward the low end of Trump’s recent range, but hardly a catastrophic decline. And there is zero evidence that the faux controversy has impressed Trump’s electoral base, as his triumphant visit to Duluth last week, to name just one example, illustrates.

 

More important, the current flap sows the seeds for a Trump and GOP comeback, for at least two reasons. First, the Left has gone too far, as always. The facts of the border controversy have been systematically misrepresented by the press and Democratic Party politicians. The most visible symbol of this misrepresentation, if by no means the most important one, is the current Time magazine cover. As you probably already know, the girl on the cover, who has become the symbol of the administration’s supposedly inhumane policies, was not in fact separated from her parents. The whole thing, as far as she is concerned, is a hoax. 

 

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Worse than the Left’s lies and distortions are its fascist tactics. A gang of socialists confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a Washington restaurant and hounded her out the door. Even worse, another gang of Brownshirts descended on Nielsen’s house in a “protest.” They shouted slogans and played loud recordings of children crying. I’ll bet the neighbors loved that. People hate these despicable tactics, and they will rebound against the Democratic Party.

 

Second, the ultimate effect of the “separated children” flap is to focus attention on the immigration issue in general, and the flood of illegals crossing our Southern border in particular. The problem for the Democrats is that they lose this issue. Voters realize that the bottom line is, Democrats favor lots of illegal immigration, while Republicans oppose it. The GOP wins this one every time. In a mere year and a half, the Democrats seem to have forgotten that Donald Trump is president largely because of his stance on illegal immigration.

 

So, annoying as the “separated children” would-be crisis is, conservatives shouldn’t panic. Its long-term effects will be neutral in the worst case, and more likely positive for conservatives and Republicans who stay the course.

 

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/is-the-democrats-separated-children-ploy-working.php

[B-Man]

 

The memo is out! Chuck Todd & Andrea Mitchell join Dems in expecting GOP ‘hypocrisy’ over vacant SCOTUS seat

 

The announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has the Left gearing up to call “hypocrisy” on Republicans:

 

But Dems need not worry about having to spread those talking points all on their own, because as often is the case, they have the mainstream media backing them up. Case-in-point, NBC News’ Chuck Todd & Andrea Mitchell:

 

 

I wasn't aware of this but apparently there's a presidential election this year, at least according to our unbiased "referees" at NBC.

 

 

Quote

 

Guy Benson

✔ @guypbenson

 

1) It’s not a Presidential election.
2) That was the Biden/Schumer standard.
3) Obama’s second SCOTUS pick was confirmed in August of a midterm election year (2010).

 

 

 

 

[Golden Goat]

Whoopi, today, on The Shrew: "Get out of my behind. Get out of my vagina."

WTF? Was that intended for Ted Danson?



 

[DC Tom]

On 6/23/2018 at 9:04 PM, B-Man said:

Even worse, another gang of Brownshirts descended on Nielsen’s house in a “protest.” They shouted slogans and played loud recordings of children crying.

 

I have to admit, though...that's a pretty good one.    Better than the usual 50-year old chants they repeat.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

 

Brian thinks you're stupid. 

[Deranged Rhino]

...And then Brian deletes it because he knows he's busted: 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

Not Trump exclusive just hilarious Shep hyperbole: 

 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

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(because she's JUST a socialist)

 

 

[Tiberius]

On 6/21/2018 at 10:40 PM, B-Man said:

Father of the now famous photo of the little girl crying says his wife/child were never separated at any time by authorities, that his wife was seeking a job (not fleeing violence), and that he is upset w/ her for taking his child on the dangerous journey http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5869829/amp/Father-two-year-old-face-child-separation-crisis-speaks-out.html …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Corrected" Cover

 

 

When you guys elect a POS clown, you kind of have to expect a circus to follow. 

[LB3]

3 hours ago, Tiberius said:

When you guys elect a POS clown, you kind of have to expect a circus to follow. 

Give yourself some credit. You did just as much if not more to get him elected. Be proud of your contribution.

Edited June 29, 2018 by LBSeeBallLBGetBall
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[row_33]

6.5 more years

 

dig it

 

[njbuff]

5 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Not Trump exclusive just hilarious Shep hyperbole: 

 

 

 

There aren’t enough fists in the world to punch Acosta in the face to the satisfaction of the people.

 

What is wrong with that guy?

[B-Man]

HOW CAN YOU TELL IT’S OVER FOR LIBERALS?

 

I don’t think the Germans have any standing—or will ever have any standing—to offer up something like the cover of the most recent issue of Stern, but perhaps it’s just another indication that the global left is taking its cues from America, where reductio ad Hitlerum has been the default Democratic attack on Republicans since the end of World War II. But always remember Rule #1 of liberalism and their media toadies: conservatives—and conservative politicians—are “divisive.” (You don’t even need a Cracker Jack decoder ring to know that “divisive” is lib-speak for “disagrees with liberalism.”

 

I know I’ve gone through this litany before, but it bears repeating some of the history of this yet again:

 

• Let’s start with the front page of the  New York Times on October 25, 1948: “PRESIDENT LIKENS DEWEY TO HITLER AS FASCISTS’ TOOL; Says When Bigots, Profiteers Get Control of Country They Select ‘Front Man’ to Rule DICTATORSHIP STRESSED Truman Tells Chicago Audience a Republican Victory Will Threaten U.S. Liberty.”

CHICAGO, Oct. 25 — A Republican victory on election day will bring a Fascistic threat to American freedom that is even more dangerous than the perils from communism and extreme right “crackpots,” President Truman asserted here tonight. . .  “Before Hitler came to power, control over the German economy passed into the hands of a small group of rich manufacturers, bankers and landowners,” he said.

Tom Dewey? Seriously? I know he had a rather funny looking mustache, but his plausibility as a would-be Hitler was punctured by the famous putdown—was it from Alice Roosevelt Longworth I think?—that Dewey looked like “the little man on the wedding cake.” (True, that was back before liberalism demanded two men on every wedding cake.) Of the man whose most provocative line in his stump speech was “Ladies and gentlemen—the future lies before us!”

 

• Or recall the rhetoric about Barry Goldwater in 1964. California Gov. Pat Brown said that Goldwater’s convention acceptance speech “had the stench of fascism. . .  All we needed to hear was ‘Heil Hitler.’” San Francisco Mayor John Shelley: The Republicans “had Mein Kampfas their political bible.”  Most of the media was happy to amplify this chorus. Columnist Drew Pearson, for example, wrote that “the smell of fascism has been in the air at this convention.” The Chicago Defender ran the headline: “GOP Convention, 1964 Recalls Germany, 1933.”

 

• Then, of course, there was Ronaldus Magnus, who was definitely Hitler after winning in landslide in 1980. I collected some of the reactions in the first few days after Reagan’s victory, which included the head of the Joint Center for Political Studies, which the Washington Post described as a “respected liberal think tank,” who said: “When you consider that in the climate we’re in—rising violence, the Ku Klux Klan—it is exceedingly frightening.” Fidel Castro said right before the election: “We sometimes have the feeling that we are living in the time preceding the election of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.” (Funny, isn’t it, that Castro’s views were indistinguishable from so many American liberals. I guess this explains a bit about their love affair with him.)  Claremont College professor John Roth wrote: “I could not help remembering how economic turmoil had conspired with Nazi nationalism and militarism—all intensified by Germany’s defeat in World War I—to send the world reeling into catastrophe… It is not entirely mistaken to contemplate our post-election state with fear and trembling.” Esquire writer Harry Stein (later a convert to the right) said that the voters who supported Reagan were like the “good Germans” in “Hitler’s Germany.”  Alan Wolfe of Boston College wrote in the New Left Review: “The worst nightmares of the American left appear to have come true.” And he doubled down in The Nation: “[T]he United States has embarked on a course so deeply reactionary, so negative and mean-spirited, so chauvinistic and self-deceptive that our times may soon rival the McCarthy era.” Democratic Congressman William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.” Verbatim? Shouldn’t he have abused literally instead?

 

• Then there was the arrival of the Republican Congress in 1994. Liberal Democratic Congressman George Miller, said the morning after: “It’s a glorious day if you’re a fascist.” Rep. Charlie Wrangel, commenting on proposed GOP budget cuts: “Hitler wasn’t even talking about doing these things.” (Actually I think we have to give him a point here, because it is literally true that Hitler didn’t talk about entitlement reform and tax cuts.) Another Democratic Congressman, Major Owens, said: “These are people who are practicing genocide with a smile; they’re worse than Hitler.”

 

The left just can’t help themselves when the “side of history” doesn’t conform to their will. The immediate default to reductio ad Hitlerum is a sign of the senescence of contemporary liberalism, of a creed that can no longer think. If “Literal Hitler” did actually appear amongst us—perhaps from some advanced genetic experiment or an AI bot gone wrong—the left would (will?) likely embrace him. Because Hitler was a socialist, don’t forget.

 

 

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[Koko78]

8 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

That's a man who loves his country.

3 hours ago, njbuff said:

There aren’t enough fists in the world to punch Acosta in the face to the satisfaction of the people.

 

What is wrong with that guy?

 

He wants to trash Trump while making every story about himself. He's not even trying to be a journalist anymore, and hasn't been one since January 2017 (if he was ever).