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Trump Calls Media "Enemy of the American People"
Donald Trump For President Blog ^ | February 17, 2017

Posted on 02/17/2017 3:53:06 PM PST by Pinkbell

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump  60m 60 minutes ago

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!

They aren't the enemy for the left as leftists enjoy praising all networks (except Fox) and adore papers such as The Failing New York Times and The Washington Compost.  A new tactic of leftists is to go the Twitter feeds of whiny political reporters like Jim Acosta (who literally had a drawing a "fan" gave him showing him with tape over his mouth as though he has been silenced).  They go there, fawn over them, and call them the saviors of democracy from Trump (who they believe is Hitler).  Trump daring to criticize these people is against democracy according to them.

The media hysteria feeds them, and they feed the media, and that brings us to this Trump Tweet.  This has sent them overboard.  They are Tweeting feverishly from their bunkers where they are hiding from Putin that Trump must go, it's the end of democracy, blah blah blah.

For the record, the press has treated conservatives differently than liberals for years because the majority of reporters are liberal.  Only 7.1% of reporters identify as Republicans, and even the Washington Post reported this study:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/just-7-percent-of-journalists-are-republicans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/?utm_term=.2e20c99347ca

A lot identify as "independent" which is a cover that fools no one.

It might be worse under Trump, but it would be bad with any Republican.  The coverage differential of negative between Trump and Hillary was massive:

http://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2016/10/25/study-confirms-trump-received-vastly-negative-news-coverage-clinton/

They engage in Groupthink.  Recall how every media outlet, after Trump's convention speech, used the word "dark" to describe it - articles all posted around the same time:

https://onsizzle.com/i/headlines-think-the-media-got-the-memo-in-acceptance-speech-1595712

You would have thought they would get a new adjective for Trump's Inaugural speech, but nope, they all stuck with "dark":

http://heatst.com/politics/media-agrees-donald-trumps-inauguration-speech-was-dark/

They suddenly remember how to do journalism when a Republican is in office. If the media isn't lying flat out (which they sometimes are - see my CNN article), they are lying by omission by only telling half the story (like about the refugee or illegal immigration situation) or by going harder on Republicans than Democrats to make Democrats look better.  Could you imagine if Benghazi, Fast and Furious, or IRS scandal occurred under Trump?  They'd be calling for impeachment!  If they applied the same scrutiny to a Democrat president as they do to Republican presidents, I wouldn't care, but they don't.  This also includes editorializing in articles and overt bias on Twitter.

When the media relentlessly attacks Trump in partisan fashion and tries to find a way to impeach him (their ultimate goal), they aren't just attacking him, they are attacking the voters who supported him and the positions he/we stand for.  The media doesn't understand Trump voters and flyover country, and they don't care to.  If they did, they would have a newsroom with more diversified thought.  They don't.  They just don't get it.  While millions of Americans cheered Trump's press conference and thought it was excellent, a parallel universe splashed across television and newspaper headlines where Trump (who by the way predicted perfectly how they would react) was crazy, unhinged, and out of touch with the U.S.  Want proof they don't get it?  See this Tweet by Joe Scarborough:

Only a FAKE PRESIDENT would declare the First Amendment to be the enemy of the American people.

https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/832717936401883137

It takes an impressive amount of mental gymnastics to arrive at such a conclusion from Trump's Tweet.  I don't recall Trump EVER declaring the First Amendment the enemy of the American people.  I recall Trump calling out the media for overt bias and relentless attacks that reverberate off of him and also unto his supporters who have few voices in the mainstream press to represent their view.   The media seems to think that the First Amendment entitles them to write whatever they want WITHOUT criticism.  If you are going to wage a partisan war, media, don't whine when you are hit back.  If the press coverage was fair, then maybe we could talk, but right now, the only people who consider it fair are partisan fellow liberals and a handful of virtue signaling RINOs.  Joe Scarborough, however, is a fake pundit.  Trump isn't following the playbook of most Republicans - which is roll over and beg the media to be nice to them.  It's refreshing. 


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: enemywithin; first100days; mediabias; msm; msmenemy; trump; trump45; trumpmedia; trumppresser
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1 posted on 02/17/2017 3:53:06 PM PST by Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell

Name it and shame it!


2 posted on 02/17/2017 3:54:18 PM PST by Az Joe
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To: Pinkbell

Damn right!!


3 posted on 02/17/2017 3:54:29 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Pinkbell

I’m really liking President Donald J. Trump. Very Much.


4 posted on 02/17/2017 3:56:27 PM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Pinkbell

They have been the enemy going back to when Bush won the election in 2000..they have always leaned left..but at times knew how to hide their bias, now they don’t even try to hide it anymore..the Dem Party and the Commie media are ONE


5 posted on 02/17/2017 3:56:41 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Pinkbell
I don't think we will ever see another President like President Trump again...

This man is the smartest, most energetic person, and will call out anyone or anything that hurts our Country and it's people...

6 posted on 02/17/2017 3:58:01 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Pinkbell
Trump Calls Media "Enemy of the American People"

I have been saying this since 1992 when the New York media deliberately threw the election to Bill Clinton.

The Media has been using it's monopoly on broadcasting to feed American voters bullsh*t stories, and to cover up wrongdoing and embarrassment for Democrats.

The left wing monopoly media is the greatest threat this nation currently faces, and we should be working to smash their industry into a bloody pulp.

They have controlled the "news" for too long. They need to be destroyed, root and branch.

7 posted on 02/17/2017 3:59:22 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Pinkbell
They are. Pat Caddell said the same thing years ago...

Pat Caddell called it what it is.

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an "enemy of the people" Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: "These people have no honor!" Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

CADDELL ON BENGHAZI: PRESS HAS FAILED THE COUNTRY, FACTS WILL PUT OBAMA IN DEEP TROUBLE May 13, 2014

The MSM are enemies of the people!

8 posted on 02/17/2017 3:59:23 PM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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To: Pinkbell

DJT is applying Alinsky-like tactics to the whore media; identify a common enemy, isolate and mock it and then destroy. Love it!


9 posted on 02/17/2017 4:04:58 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: DiogenesLamp
Stephen Hayes anti trump weenie was just on fox news spewing hate speech against our president. Before he was an anti trumper he used to be decent,he needs to go away and stop whining.
10 posted on 02/17/2017 4:06:08 PM PST by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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To: samantha
Stephen Hayes anti trump weenie was just on fox news spewing hate speech against our president. Before he was an anti trumper he used to be decent,he needs to go away and stop whining.

I don't even know who this Stephen Hayes is. I've never heard of him. I don't think he is important enough to worry about.

11 posted on 02/17/2017 4:07:15 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Pinkbell

LOL! As if The Don couldn’t get anymore epic. Did you ever think you would ever see the day where we would have a POTUS that would call out the leftist media to this extent? This guy is THE One!


12 posted on 02/17/2017 4:08:22 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: TigersEye

Excelleng summary by a former member of the media.


13 posted on 02/17/2017 4:09:17 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: Az Joe

Hang them from the bridges.


14 posted on 02/17/2017 4:10:28 PM PST by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: JonPreston

YES!


15 posted on 02/17/2017 4:13:33 PM PST by Klemper
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To: Grampa Dave

Has Fox News stopped using Caddell? I don’t know since I stopped watching all TV news last May. At any rate, Benghazi is one tiny example from the mountain of lies the MSM has been shoveling for decades. Do they think no one ever noticed?


16 posted on 02/17/2017 4:14:52 PM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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To: DiogenesLamp

We need a media breakup, we need to give the media back to the people before the midterms!


17 posted on 02/17/2017 4:15:15 PM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First! Th)
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To: Pinkbell

The media has been an enemy of the citizens for a long time.
They have been obfuscating illegal aliens as “undocumented immigrants” for decades.


18 posted on 02/17/2017 4:15:28 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Pinkbell

The media has been an enemy of the citizens for a long time.
They have been obfuscating illegal aliens as “undocumented immigrants” for decades.


19 posted on 02/17/2017 4:15:38 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Noumenon

A full Benito.....


20 posted on 02/17/2017 4:16:18 PM PST by ptsal
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