Mitt Romney: Donald Trump’s Vilification of the Media Is Unprecedented

breitbart ^ | 11/03/2018 | Joshua Caplan

[DoodleBob]

But no American president has ever before vilified the American press or one of its professional outlets as an “Enemy of the People.

ROOSEVELT: During his Dec. 18,1942 news conference at the White House, FDR shocked reporters by producing a Nazi Iron Cross medal and handed it to a New York Daily News reporter and instructed him to give it to columnist John O’Donnell at his paper. FDR said O’Donnell, reportedly an the anti-interventionist columnist, had earned it by giving aid and comfort to the enemy through his columns.

JEFFERSON:

"I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit." --Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814. ME 14:46

"Our printers raven on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1811. ME 13:59

"From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1816. ME 14:430

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224

"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers." --Thomas Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 1806. ME 11:118

"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819. ME 15:179

"The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807.

And while I'm at it...

And, more importantly, denigrating the media diminishes an institution that is critical to democracy, both here and abroad.

[norwaypinesavage]

It only takes one word to describe Mitt: Loser. He’s a typical ignorant beltway regular. He obviously gets his information only from the fake news media. He doesn’t even know they’re mostly fake.

[UB355]

Clearly this moron has not read John Adams by David McCullough.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

>> Clown romney’s foot in mouth disease.<<

Now that we’re finally rid of that POS McCain, we have to be plagued with this mealy-mouthed sh*thead. Reminds me of Paul Ryan, and I’m not sure which one is the most despicable.

[super7man]

vilification of the media is unprecedented,

Doesn't make it not ture. I am glad he never got to be our Precedent.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

What about the Marxist Media’s vilification of Donald J. Trump?!

President Trump WON because he fought back!

Try fighting against the people trying to detroy us, Mittens!

[Moonman62]

Once again, Trump is attacking Fake News.

Romney’s the McCain/Flake replacement. I hope he’s miserable. He acts like it.

[ronnie raygun]

Failed presidential candidate............end of transmission. How is it today that the absolute failures are now the enlightened ones, those we seek out for inspiration and knowledge, jimmy carter, the a##clown Obama, canckles, dean, the architect.

[Pravious]

Enemy of the people is one of the few Trumpisms I felt goes a little too far.
EXCEPT then I saw the newspaper coverage the day after the president went to honor the synagogue victims. According to the headlines, he committed a horrible act against the victims and was tearing the nation’s soul to pieces - by accepting the rabbi’s invitation. I already knew the leftist media was bad but at that moment they descended into hell.

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What you need to realize is that when your first impression is that you’re right and Trump is wrong, it usually turns out to be the other way around.

As for Mitt Romney - he’s a jealous, narcissistic loser asshole, and that’s being way too nice to him.

[Blue Collar Christian]

That’s one of the reasons he is so effective Mittens.

[Psalm 144]

I hope that the void which is Bishop Willard Romney runs for POTUS again. I’m not done voting against him yet, sneaky genocidal cur that he is.

[Psalm 144]

I hope that the void which is Bishop Willard Romney runs for POTUS again. I’m not done voting against him yet, sneaky genocidal cur that he is.

[Psalm 144]

ROMNEY’s vioification of Trump is boring and tiresome. He needs to just stop it.

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Just another neoconartist NPC, doing what they all do.

[MortMan]

“Fake news”, not the press, is an enemy of the people. Fake news is an act of dishonestly purveying information - by commission in the case of lying or by omission in the case of hiding information.

The media choose whether or not they are “fake news”. Most of them choose in the affirmative.

And Romney chooses to be a cuckold.

[bert]

A person who claims that the President’s description of the media as an enemy of the people is an enemy of the people.

The friend of my enemy is my enemy

[NonValueAdded]

Unprecedented, and overdue.

[Oldexpat]

Boy. He sure forgot what the media and Reid did to him. Now they will fake loving him and we will see him on tv every Sunday.

[New Jersey Realist]

“I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.” —Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814.

[uncbob]

Romney going to be the new McCain and the MSM favorite GOP Senator

[Thumper1960]

bfl