The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency

[B-Man]

 

Sure seems to be working around here.........

 

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump-Hating Media Lying More and More to Keep Low-Info Dems In a Rage. 

 

“Author Bob Woodward has crawled out from under his Democratic patron rock with a book he hopes will permanently damage President Trump’s hopes for re-election. He accuses Trump of downplaying the coronavirus threat in the early days of this year.

 

Like the ‘very fine people’ thing, this is based on deliberately misrepresenting something the president said, the context of which is plain to any fourth-grader.”

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

Jon Karl is just as repugnant as the question he asked Trump during today’s press conference.

 

And they wonder why so many people mock and dislike them.

 

Watch:

 

Sorry, Jon, but Trump isn’t putting up with your games today.

Then again, it’s not like Trump puts up with the media’s games any day but still, this was bad even for Jon.

 

Surprised they didn’t ask about the good news about the economy …

 

JUST KIDDING. We know exactly why they didn’t ask about the economy.

 

 

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/09/10/a-terrible-question-trump-shuts-jon-karl-down-for-asking-repugnant-question-about-woodward-interview-and-boom-watch/

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

...LMAO...special thanks to KEMP realistically known as "Mein Kampf"......a cubic zirconia "gem"......

[BillsFanNC]

 

[B-Man]

NY TIMES EDITOR AFTER BLAMING SARAH PALIN FOR INCITEMENT IN THE TUCSON SHOOTING: ‘The right is coming after us.’

Ross Douthat sent an email telling Bennet he was wrong and Bennet promised to look at it again in the morning. Another editor sent an email to Williamson asking who was responsible for the line about political incitement and Sarah Palin. Williamson, who apparently hadn’t noticed how much Bennet had revised her draft on this point said that had been in the draft all along.

 

Then, sometime shortly before midnight, Bennet sent an email to Williamson: “Are you up? The right is coming after us…” He must not have slept much that night because the following morning he had sent an email to his team at 5:08 am: “Hey guys — We’re taking a lot of criticism for saying that the attack on Giffords was in any way connected to incitement.… I don’t know what the truth is here, but we may have relied too heavily on our early editorials and other early coverage of that attack. If so, I’m very sorry for my own failure on this yesterday. … I’d like to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible this morning and correct the piece if needed.”

 

So if you’re following this closely, Bennet went from not knowing what was true in the early afternoon, to knowing in the evening that Palin was responsible as he rewrote the editorial, and then back to not knowing the following morning. The Times’ lawyers want to say that this proves it was all a mistake, i.e. he didn’t know he was wrong. But how can that be so if he stated he didn’t know the truth before the rewrite? Once he’d admitted that, wasn’t it his responsibility to research the connection before stating categorically that it existed? But Bennet claimed in his deposition that he never looked at any of the links provided to him, including the one Williamson had buried in her draft.

 

Read the whole thing, which is a classic example of what W. Joseph Campbell would call a media-created myth that refuses to die.

 

Perhaps only a victory by Palin in her defamation suit will finish this lie off. As John Sexton writes above, because Palin is a public figure, victory “won’t be easy but the judge in the case did agree it’s not impossible because the Times’ work, in particular that of now-former editor James Bennet on this piece was spectacularly awful.”

 

 

 

 

 

[BillStime]

DJ jr and the shooter will all rot in hell 

 

 

[B-Man]

‘Just a coincidence’!

Identical media spin on Dems blocking coronavirus relief bill shows that ‘the talking points are in’

[BillStime]

 

[Q-baby!]

1 minute ago, BillStime said:

 

It’s always someone else’s fault! 

Trump is the poster child for mental illness. 

[B-Man]

 

[Q-baby!]

8 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

Maybe he didn’t want to ask tough questions because he didn’t want him to storm off like a child? 

[Buffalo_Gal]

On 8/29/2020 at 7:26 AM, Buffalo_Gal said:

Not Trump, buuut...

Clinton judge. He dismissed the case, appeals court sent it back to him, and now he is letting  it move forward...

The editorial referred to a January 2011 shooting where six people died and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was seriously wounded, and said Palin's political action committee had before that shooting circulated a map that put 20 Democrats including Giffords under "stylized cross hairs."

 

Sarah Palin can sue New York Times for defamation: court ruling
 

A federal judge on Friday rejected the New York Times' bid to dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit over a 2017 editorial she said falsely linked her to a mass shooting.
 

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said that while much of Palin's case was circumstantial, it was strong enough for a jury to find the Times and former editorial page editor James Bennet acted with "actual malice by clear and convincing evidence." in publishing the editorial.
 

Rakoff scheduled a Feb. 1, 2021 trial.
 

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Continuing on with the Sarah Palin defamation suit:

One thing I noticed in the article is the partial-retraction tweet has a lack of RTs. The original explodes, the (partial) retraction is a "meh." The "msm" has been playing this game for quite some time.
 

 

[BillStime]

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

 

[The Frankish Reich]

Has the mainstream media been all too delighted to rip Trump? Yes.

But you gotta admit, the guy makes it easy. Many of these from the "best people" he hired (from my memory and some googling, not from some bs political tweet):

- Rex Tillerson, Sec State: "effin' moron"

- Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence: wonders what Russia has on Trump that causes him to be so hesitant to criticize Putin

- Tony Fauci, NIH (the only one here that Trump didn't hire): attention span is a "minus" figure

- Steve Bannon, White House Chief Strategist: the Trump Organization is a "criminal enterprise"

- Jim Mattis, former Defense Secretary: the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people

- John Kelly, former DHS Secretary and Chief of Staff: I agree with Jim Mattis

- Anthony Scaramucci, short-lived Communications Director: "the guy stinks and he's a racist"

 

That's just the people that immediately come to mind. 

[Deranged Rhino]

1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Has the mainstream media been all too delighted to rip Trump? Yes.

 

Not "rip Trump", sow the seeds of division by claiming he was not only elected through theft and treason, but hyperbolic (and baseless) claims that he's both Hitler and Stalin reborn. The media has always leaned left, but even with W in office they never strayed past a certain line of decorum. That line evaporated in October of 2016 -- not because Trump was worse than other people who came before him -- but because he was a direct threat to the establishment powers themselves. 

 

Passing it off as just "Trump asked for it" is to miss the forest through the trees. 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[TakeYouToTasker]

“Reliable fact-checking from non-biased, reputable sources.”

 

 

[Koko78]

4 hours ago, TakeYouToTasker said:

“Reliable fact-checking from non-biased, reputable sources.”

 

 

 

Gotta love how it's "Mostly False" that Biden said that, then they proceed to quote him saying it...

[Koko78]

Former federal prosecutor says Trump admitted to Murder 2nd!

 

You know, if you're hyper-partisan liberal dumbass with a political narrative to push.