Posted on 07/29/2018 5:55:46 PM PDT by Zakeet
Veteran journalist Dan Rather said on Friday that President Trump’s false statements about and attacks on the media are "straight out of Orwell."
The former longtime CBS News anchor told CNN’s Don Lemon that Trump is "authoritarian" and wants people to believe that "the one and only truth comes from him."
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"As several people have said before me, he is not just attacking the truth, he wants to annihilate the truth," the former anchor added. "He wants to move us completely into the post-truth political era in which there’s no such thing as objective facts."
Rather added that there "has been some desperation" in Trump's recent attacks ... "And as he gets more desperate he takes bigger risks in telling bigger lies or more often telling lies. And telling people, 'look, don’t believe what you read or see anywhere else, just come to me. I have the ultimate truth, I am the way,' " Rather said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
there was a fundamental evolution in MSM deception that the TANG forgeries represented, and there are dozens of reasons why that sordid episode was completely different from everything that came before it.
I don’t know if you truly don’t understand that, or are just being irritating for no reason. due to my limitless faith in humanity, I’m going to assume you’re just being difficult.
Shut up and go find Lucy Ramariz.
Be still my heart!
Ha! The king of Newspeak, himself. Don’t like the storyline? Change it to fit your politics. A liar and a cheat, who, like Brian Williams, has been brought back into the fold (after a “suitable” suspension), and is now the elder statesman of broadcast news. These people have no shame.
Rather immediately went on to lead the press's Two Minute Hate against President Trump.
The media and Dan rather are straight out of Orwell!
When Dan Rather is your enemy, you know you’re doing something right.
Trump: Criticism of me by Dan Rather is right out of the Hypocrites Handbook.
Again? He obviously never read it the first time.
Anyone who cared about the truth or cared about the integrity of the news media would not talk to Rather let alone put him on camera.
You’re welcome.
Niiiiiiice!
Says the clown who committed the greatest act of collusion to change the results of a presidential election in history. Probably would have worked if not for Free Republic. He should be in federal prison.
you want Orwell - go no further than Sulzberger:
29 Jul: BBC: New York Times tells Trump: Don’t call reporters enemies of the people
The publisher of the New York Times has urged President Donald Trump not to continue labelling reporters “enemies of the people”, saying it could “lead to violence” against the media...
He said he told Mr Trump that the phrase “fake news” was “untrue and harmful” but said he was “far more concerned about his labelling journalists ‘the enemy of the people’”.
“I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence,” he said...
VIDEO: Fox v MSNBC: How the news divides America
Mr Sulzberger said he had told the president that this was particularly true in other countries, where he said Mr Trump’s rhetoric was being used by some regimes to crack down on journalists.
“I warned that it was putting lives at risk, that it was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it was eroding one of our country’s greatest exports: a commitment to free speech and a free press,” he said...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44999364
could lead to violence against journalists?
what about:
27 Jun: Youtube: 1min14secs: Daily Caller: COMPILATION: Democrats, Media Figures Glorify Violence Against Trump Supporters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw9kyYEwg2A
“democratic ideals”?
HOW ABOUT FAKENEWSMSM - exposed for colluding with Clinton campaign in a failed attempt to have her elected in the Podesta emails - REFUSING TO ACCEPT THE LEGITIMATE RESULT OF THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
as for ongoing FakeNewsMSM collusion with intel agencies attempting to destroy the Trump presidency, release the names of reporters mentioned in IG Horowitz report.
the entire TDS phenomenon is, in reality, a desperate attempt to stop any investigation of Obama/Clinton/intel agency/MSM collusion against Donald Trump.
Mark
Dan “Whoops, I Cr@pped My Face” Rather weighs in from Dependsville...
Who cares what that disgraced fraudster thinks?
Neither.
I have personal experiences with the media which you do not seem to have.
In your imagination the Air National Guard story represented something new because it was exposed and so you found out about it. It wasn’t new to people who had been involved directly or peripherally in other major stories though, it was par for the course.
Do we on Free Republic have to remind Mr. Rather of what happened in September 2004 when one of our members noted those “memos” were fakes? A debacle that ended up costing Rather and Mary Mapes at CBS News their jobs?
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