Posted on 03/21/2020 5:18:59 PM PDT by Steely Tom
The Trump press conferences are a problem for the anti-Trump media, because they give Trump direct access to viewers with minimal filtering by the networks.
Donald Trump’s daily press conferences, attended by numerous senior health and other officials, are a must-watch. Enormous information is provided by officials, and Trump signals where he thinks the crisis is going. Trump spends an hour or more taking reporter questions, some of which are hostile.
The press conferences almost certainly have large audiences, and have contributed to polling that shows strong support among the public for Trump’s handling of the crisis.
This is a problem for Democrats, as I reported in Biden has all but disappeared during Wuhan coronavirus crisis, as #WhereIsJoe? trends. Biden’s disappearance has been noticed by Democrats, particularly Bernie supporters. Peter Daou, a longtime Hillary supporter, tweeted his frustration:
People, I mean this sincerely: #whereisjoe?Trump is in front of the cameras every day, reassuring people, putting on the appearance of “leadership.”
Where is #Biden? Why isn’t he dominating the airwaves??
And: Two new polls show Trump with majority approval on his handling of the #pandemic.
If Dem leaders think this crisis will definitely damage him, they are greatly mistaken.
If they cede the appearance of leadership to him, it’s a major problem.
That’s pretty rich coming from someone who worked for the two newspapers that pushed the Russia-collusion hoax for three years, almost alwasy based on anonymous source that didn’t pan out.
But calls to shut down the live press conference broadcasts are even richer coming from the queen of Russia-collusion conspiracy theorists, Rachel Maddow.
Maddow, you will recall, is an Alex-Jones-level conspiracy pusher, the difference being that Jones has been deplatformed while Maddow has a prime time show on MSNBC that feeds off Resistance paranoia and venom. I covered Maddow’s history in Again We Ask: Why Isn’t Rachel Maddow Treated Like Other Crazy Conspiracy Theorists?
Here’s Maddow using prime time to call for the media to censor Trump:
“I know we ought to be getting used to this kind of thing by now, but I’m not. President Trump today, again, just flat-out wrong in public about this malaria drug that has gotten stuck in his mind, quite some distance from the facts,” Maddow said on her show.“If the president does end up saying anything true, you can run it as tape but if he keeps lying like this every day on stuff this important, all of us should stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it’s gonna cost lives,” she added on the program.
There is a chorus of liberal journalists and activists calling for the networks to stop the broadcasts, under the #StopTheBriefings Twitter hashtag.
I hope Trump does the briefings and takes questions 7 days a week. These are the most transparent sessions I’ve seen in any president in my lifetime.
The media can criticize Trump all it wants, but the call to censor the press conferences simply confirms that they are not journalists, but as Prof. Glenn Reynolds says, Democrats With Bylines.
Sorry Maddow but the Trump coronavirus conferences are scoring the highest ratings on the networks. Sorry if no one is watching your silly cartoon show because they’re too busy watching the prez.
Who the heck does she think she is demanding the networks censor the president!
You know something...
If someone smacked that stupid diesel dyke moron in the mouth and knocked her senseless, I wouldn’t shed a tear over it.
Just sayin’....
Rachel needs to keep his thoughts to himself. Who cares what he thinks
I hope they listen to her. Then people will see that the press just doesn’t care about anything other than pushing their own agendas.
L8r
Am I supposed to care what this dude has to say..oh wait that’s a chick..no fooling
“...If they cede the appearance of leadership to him, it’s a major problem.”
The left must be very careful right now. Many have endured their crap because life was good. They keep on rattling cages, it can go side ways pretty quickly. IMO, media is very responsible for where we are today and they would be wise to STFU.
Why is anyone listening to this effeminate man?
Good idea...and in lieu of the News Hour.
I call on FOX to cut down the amount of time they give to Gov. Cuomo. It seems he goes on and on for hours.
Now, I know FOX has offices in NY, and its a big viewer market, but it’s giving Cuomo a huge platform. He acts like he’s President.
Rachel Maddow, and the rest of the democrat media/propaganda complex, are happy to see America lose thousands of lives, millions of jobs, and trillions of dollars of wealth if it means driving Trump from office.
Of course, if they did succeed, all of those things would also happen anyway.
When ratings crater entirely, Rachel can start peddling its private brand of lesbian koolaid. In the meantime, it will keep selling its special brand of HateAmeruca to the pseudoscience that tunes in.
So, they’re saying “Don’t listen to or trust your President”.
Trust the MSM for the truth is what they are pushing.
They live to create and pursue their narratives. They cannot stomach having their agenda opposed.
I think this crowd also objected when General Eisenhower provided radio broadcasts detailing the invasion of Normandy in WWII. They could see he was just trying to win the presidency for the Republicans after the war.
Thanks. Your response prompted me to email the White House with the suggestion.
After watch these briefs, I can understand her fear. He is killing it, looking like a strong leader, backed by experts in medicine, industry and finance. He is giving people hope. The left has seen the polls showing that Americans, and even worse, voters, have a positive view of his leadership.
Meanwhile, the left is asking “where is Joe”? He was going to begin giving daily briefs on how we should be reacting to CV19, like a “West Wing” style fantasy of how it would go if HE were POTUS, but now it seems he’s just going to hire washed up Obama people to trash Trump’s response in TV ads. Real leadership there Joe.
Excellent idea...
Someone should get a dirty hospital bed sheet from Lombardy and rub it in Madcow’s ugly face!
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