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Carl Bernstein: Trump’s Media Attacks ‘More Treacherous’ than Nixon’s
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 02/19/2017 3:39:26 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Just when you thought the MSM might be running out of hyperbole about President Trump’s criticism of the media, along comes Carl Bernstein . . .

On CNN’s Reliable Sources today, Bernstein unleashed a torrent of accusations about the president.

Lowlights:

Trump’s attacks on the media “more treacherous” than Nixon’s.

Apophasis alert: “I’m not about to say anything comparing Hitler and Trump”, but Hitler and Stalin also used the phrase “enemy of the people” about the media.

Trump is “leading a demagogic attack on the institutions of free democracy.”

“This is a terrible time we’re living in.”

View the video here.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carlbernstein; carlberstein; donaldtrump; first100days; msm; richardnixon; trump45; trumpmedia
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Looks like Jimmah. Sounds like Very Fake News.


21 posted on 02/19/2017 3:51:11 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Do these Fake Media Freaks realize they’re only talking to Fake Media Freaks because everyone else knows they Fake


22 posted on 02/19/2017 3:52:17 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: 9YearLurker

Didn’t he get sued for that?

I hope so. What an awful thing to say about our lovely Melania. I can’t even imagine what would have happened if someone had called MO a hooker.


23 posted on 02/19/2017 3:53:04 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Wow. Now DT is both Stalin and Hitler. Genghis Khan next?


24 posted on 02/19/2017 3:53:45 PM PST by Lent
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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Don Trump has conquered the slimedia!

Carl nevermetacommieIdidn’tlove Bernstein says so!
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25 posted on 02/19/2017 3:54:51 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Carl, you sniveling jackass, you are part of the problem that Trump is talking about.......


26 posted on 02/19/2017 3:55:27 PM PST by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

EXPOSED, Carl

Your childish pouting reminds me as a youth, whenever I was caught doing something etc. and my Mom would give me that sarcastic grin and say

“The truth hurts, doesn’t it”?

Nothing got my goat more than that. And you know why, Carl? She was always 100% right.

Suck it up, Big Boy. It’s not too late to repent for the enormous damage you and your fellow ‘JournOlists” have done to my country

GFY


27 posted on 02/19/2017 3:55:29 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

where was this fawning liberal gasbag when eric holder was confiscating reporters’ emails?

fatuous dickhead.


28 posted on 02/19/2017 3:56:25 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
What these idiots can't see is that they have brought this on themselves. They refused to report fairly and decided to go full on to editorialize all the news. Now they complain about their own failings.

Way back in 1955 at a National Broadcasting Convention Edward R. Murrow gave a speech on this and warned about mixing editorial speech with the reporting of hard news. Well they did not heed what he said.

Watch the movie “Network” what was high satire in that film has become reality.

29 posted on 02/19/2017 3:56:44 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: jazminerose

I don’t think so. IIRC he stated it at the fashion event, it was reported that a NYTimes reporter had said it, eventually he was identified and he basically apologized for it, saying he shouldn’t have said it.


30 posted on 02/19/2017 3:57:33 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
LOL, as if anyone cares what this dessicated old treacherous fart says about anything.

As other posters said, he is pissed at being irrelevant, and he is probably doubly pissed that President Trump has finally shouted out to the American people from the Presidential Pulpit for all Americans to finally hear whether they like it or not:

The media is not an ally of Americans, they are out for themselves, and are intent on manipulating events, not reporting on them.

This, from the Presidential Pulpit. I love it. Love it. Just Love it.

31 posted on 02/19/2017 3:58:08 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Guess he’s suffering from memory loss, or he’s just a liar, possibly both.

I watched some film about Nixon awhile back -wish I could remember the name- it had lots of archival footage and I was quite surprised just how cold and rude Nixon was when addressing the press. Trump smacks them up pretty good but it’s a far cry from how brutal Nixon was.


32 posted on 02/19/2017 3:59:05 PM PST by moehoward
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To: virgil

“The media’s attacks on Trump are more treacherous than on Nixon too.”

Looking back on that time, I don’t think so. I think they were just as bad or worse, but very few people realized it. We sat in front of our TVs and thought that fifth-columnist traitor Cronkite was telling the truth.


33 posted on 02/19/2017 4:00:27 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

No one really cares what this one-sided investigative reporter thinks or says anymore. He has no credibility and is irrelevant.


34 posted on 02/19/2017 4:00:51 PM PST by Starboard
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The wailing, teeth-gnashing, tears, sack-cloth rending, ash wallowing, and whining by the lefist fake stream media is absolutely AWESOME to behold, approaching at least Category 5 in magnitude!


35 posted on 02/19/2017 4:01:21 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That makes sense! The media is way more treacherous to Trump then they were to a Nixon. They are so venomous, as to be squashed, or be poisoned by thier steady river of blatant, deadly lies. They no longer even pretend to be fair. It’s in the face leftist, full frontal attack mode for them. Thank The LORD God that this time we have a warrior in The White House.


36 posted on 02/19/2017 4:01:39 PM PST by Bellflower (Dems = Mat 6:23 ....If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The commie libs in the “media” are coming unwound. LOL. Winning and lovin’ it.


37 posted on 02/19/2017 4:02:19 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: 9YearLurker
I don’t think so. IIRC he stated it at the fashion event, it was reported that a NYTimes reporter had said it, eventually he was identified and he basically apologized for it, saying he shouldn’t have said it.

Did he apologize and say he shouldn't have said it before, or after, he was identified?

38 posted on 02/19/2017 4:03:04 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The commie libs in the “media” are coming unwound.

"And when they found what they were headed for...
It was too lay-ay-ay-ee-a-ee-ate!"

39 posted on 02/19/2017 4:05:23 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The media is absolutely terrified. They’ve NEVER been questioned much less attacked.


40 posted on 02/19/2017 4:06:06 PM PST by DouglasKC
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