Sam Donaldson: What Jim Acosta is doing is exactly right

CNN ^ | June 11, 2019 | Sam Donaldson

[EdnaMode]

Reading Jim Acosta's new book "Enemy of the People" is like watching a train wreck in progress, with passengers bracing for the inevitable crash.

Friends and critics agree we have never seen a president like Donald J. Trump, whose disdain, even contempt and apparent hatred for many members of the press is almost daily on display.

Acosta cites instance after instance when this President and many of his staff show that they are bent on interfering with the ability of reporters to bring the public an accurate account of the administration's stewardship.

For most of his adult life, President Trump courted the press, lived for its attention, even for a time pretended he was someone else when calling reporters to sing Trump's praises. Whether now he truly believes that the mainstream press, as he says, reports "fake" news and is the "enemy of the American people," or that such language is simply part of a tactic meant to stoke the anger of his "base" while escaping an objective accounting of his actions doesn't matter. The effect is to undermine the credibility of the media, leaving him free to pursue policies that harm us at home and abroad.

[EdnaMode]

How dare Trump defend himself against the lying media! He needs to be more like George W. Bush!

[ealgeone]

What's that Sam, I can't hear you over the helicopters.

[Red Badger]

I’m shocked!...........................

[Red Badger]

Hey Sam! How’s that Sheep subsidy coming along?.................

[Old Retired Army Guy]

A voice from the past. Sam Donaldson shouting at Ronald Reagan. I didn’t know he was still alive.

[dblshot]

Friends and critics agree
Well there a scientifically sound survey.

[RoseofTexas]

I just wish the republicans would stick up for the president like these mediaVOMIT pukes!! Backstabbing weasels!

[bigbob]

They can’t write an article about Trump without using the word “hatred”.

Pure projection.

[Vaquero]

Yeah Sam. Distain for lying POSs like YOU. Live with it. Or not. If it sticks in you craw? Good.

[thoughtomator]

CNN is an enemy propaganda agency and should be shut down for national security reasons.

[z3n]

That would all be well and good and good if it was a legitimate concern. We know full well from the Obama administration that the press has no genuine interest in the F’N stewardship off the executive. What they really want from Trump is access to any potential negative fodder for their attack-journalism

[Migraine]

Every nitwit on the planet invariably miss this rather major point. Trump is a polite and jovial man who never hits first; but he ALWAYS hits back, and goes for the groin.

[Mr. K]

The Trump ‘hatred’ of the press is because of their hatred of Donald Trump.

Duh...

[dead]

[raybbr]

“””...never seen a president like Donald J. Trump, whose disdain, even contempt and apparent hatred for many members of the press is almost daily on display.”””

Never have we seen such hatred and disdain for a president from the day he was elected by the mass media.

[headstamp 2]

[[Friends and critics agree we have never seen a president like Donald J. Trump, whose disdain, even contempt and apparent hatred for many members of the press is almost daily on display.]]

Talk about projection.

[AppyPappy]

So that means everything wrong

[Hyman Roth]

Go home Sam. You’re drunk. Go shave your eyebrows while you are at it.

[Agatsu77]

TOTAL BS

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Friends and critics agree we have never seen a president like Donald J. Trump, whose disdain, even contempt and apparent hatred for many members of the press is almost daily on display.

Sam has that backwards. It should be:

Thinking people agree we have never seen a media organization like this one, whose disdain, even contempt and apparent hatred for the President is almost daily on display.