The fist amendment is oft misunderstood and misquoted. It even befuddled all-star reporter Jim Acosta. The amendment protects various rights from being infringed upon by the government, that’s the gist of it. One such right is the freedom of the press. But Jim Acosta interprets it to mean that he is entitled to have his every question answered and he gets his answers on video, else he feels the constitution is under attack. Per Jim, the government declining to do an on-camera presser is a “ban.”
I tweet therefore I am
However, breaking news, new emails released today, by the ACLJ, show how a government can trample on the founders. Apparently, the FBI prevented a reporter from taking pictures of Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch who were caught meeting in a public airport. The difference between the Obama and Trump administration’s actions are distinct. Sarah Sanders did not take anyone’s “rights” away, she didn’t agree to answer questions on camera. The Obama AG had the FBI prohibit taking pictures in public and literally infringed on a basic right of the press.
According to the ACLU, snapping pics in public is a right, and in my opinion, actively taking this right away from the press is quite the transgression. Gee whiz, what was she hiding that she allegedly ordered armed agents to stifle a photojournalist?
The true tragedy of not having an impartial press is not the opinionated biased manufactured coverage of Trump. The danger is how they are apathetic to democrats and how they treated Obama like a star quarterback wearing a red shirt at practice.
CNN has been overrun by people who align against the president. Even so, they could still maintain journalistic integrity. But in their vigor to humiliate and denigrate the President they have surrendered all standards of journalism. So we end up with full-day coverage of Rex Tillerson contemplating leaving office without any verification. This story was refuted by Tillerson himself in under 24 hours. But was the story really based solely on:
“two sources who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity over the weekend said they would not be surprised if there was a “Rexit” from Foggy Bottom sooner than [a year] that.”
Relax CNN, no one cares what two people wouldn’t be surprised about. This type of reporting is one step below making news up.
On June 30th, MSNBC morning show hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, alleged that they were blackmailed by the Trump administration. Joe recounted what a Trump official told him:
“…if you call the President up and you apologize for your coverage then he [Trump] will pick up the phone and basically spike the [negative National Enquirer] story. I had three people at the very top of the administration calling me…”
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The aftermath of this revelation was predictable, the media went into a hysterical frenzy. “Unprecedented,” “Nixonion,” “impeach,” and then the routine steps of the media’s con-job on their audience, a con that lost its potency forty performances ago. The pundits were shocked, the politicians feigned outrage and the anchors asked if democracy was dead.
However, immediately after the allegation was leveled, Joe went on to say he had proof of his claim. He had saved the damning text messages from the administration officials . The President responded by saying Joe was lying. The next logical act of this soap opera should have been Joe revealing the text messages, thereby proving both the blackmail claim and that the POTUS was the liar. It never happened. Instead, the story was forgotten in a day and not heard from since. How is an allegation of this magnitude consigned to oblivion? How dare the media let this journalist announce he is holding a royal flush and not force him to show his cards.
Congrats Scooby Doo
The past year has seen story after story blow up the news cycle and then dissipate. A story emerged about Russian money in Trump golf courses. Where is the follow-up, is it true? I remember a story about Trump Tower’s computer servers communicating with Russia. Did the FBI seize them? What about the ex-spy who put the secret dossier together, did he disappear from Earth? Is there any follow-up to last years stories alleging infighting between Bannon and Priebus and the upcoming firings? Stories are never followed up because even the people reporting them don’t believe them. They are as reliable as a friend-of-a-friend’s Facebook post. Manufactured nonsense that is easier to originate than to investigate or follow-up.
Joe knew he could tell a tall-tale to the entire media and face no consequence. He knew this because he is a performer in that circus masquerading as news. There is no responsibility attached to reporting a story anymore.
Our press has an unhealthy obsession with “Trump’s base.” The obstinate 38% or 39%, that the media can’t stop talking about. The ones who still support Trump.
The Base!
There is now, and has always been, an immovable base on both the Democratic and Republican wings of the electorate. However, the media is unconcerned with the base on the left because they view them as normal reasonable people and there is no need to examine or discuss them. The world will be fine if they remain right where they are. However, the base behind Trump is a different story.
The origin of the press’ infatuation with the Trump base was the election loss of Hillary Clinton. The media believes it is their job to shape public opinion. The clip below supports this. An MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski was caught in a Freudian slip as she warned her audience about Trump: “He [Trump] could control exactly what people think, and that is our job.”
The NY Times, CNN and MSNBC spent the campaign season ripping Trump apart with innuendo and lies; racist, sexist, assault, Russian spy, unfit, narcissistic, violence inducer and homophobic. And yet Trump won and Hillary lost. They saw his win as their failure and as their sin.
The Damn Base!!
All sins need repentance and a crucial aspect of penance is a vow not to repeat the same sin again. Within the first week of the election-postmortem, the press went on a mission to understand these people who defied them and voted Trump into office. The manner in which they studied Trump voters resembled more of a recon mission of the enemy looking for weaknesses to exploit. The media needed to turn some his base to their side.
Van on the move
CNN sent correspondent Van Jones out to middle America to see what was wrong with these insubordinate fools. CNN host Alison Camerota conducted (video link) focus groups with Trump supporters. Political pundits and pollsters chastised themselves for not understanding the plight of these Trump voters. In time, the quest morphed into an angry frustrated mission. This base of voters became the silent enemy of the media. An enemy in need of conquering. A conquering that is proving difficult to achieve.
The F^@$*ing Base!!!
The warped sense of their role as mind-molders had a detrimental effect on the press. They devolved further into what we have now. A bunch of folks hell-bent on destroying Trump without any need to hinge their reporting to reality. They feel a responsibility to change the minds of Trump’s base to do the right thing and vote Trump out.
The Russia collusion story dominated the airwaves for months, the press abandoned the need for facts or actual news. The mission wasn’t to inform the public but rather to say both “Trump” and “Russia” together in the same headline to get the Trump-base to change its god-damned mind. And when that massive story didn’t dupe the Trump supporters they felt failure. In the following clip, we see CNN report on how their Russia story didn’t persuade the base.
“…not any of them [the base] willing to entertain that there might be more than just smoke to this [Russia] fire.”
The media is now constantly reporting polls to see if their propaganda is breaking the base. It never does. So after they perform a little self-flagellation, and some mocking of Trump supporters, the feeling of ‘if at first you don’t succeed try-try again” perseveres and a new slew of stories awaits on the horizon.
CNN continuously produces human interest pieces in opposition to Trump. In the daytime hour this usually entails exploiting children. Stay-at-home mom watch CNN in the mornings and moms like kids. That appears to be CNN’s thought pattern. The two videos linked above are prime examples of how the network skillfully tries to woo moms away from Trump.
In the video below, CNN takes a person’s misfortune, and gracefully weaves her story into a story about the healthcare debate of which her tale has nothing to do with.
This mother has no idea what she is talking about in relation to the healthcare debate. Her situation would be exactly the same without Obamacare, with Obamacare or with Trumpcare. Yes, it is equally plausible that the mom is a willing participant in this farce. She totally avoided the question about the effect the [proposed Republican] bill would have on her because the answer is zero, none, nada, absolutely no effect.
Tears, kids, a desperate plea from a mom. Cheers CNN, you truly are a masterclass propagandist. And don’t think we haven’t noticed what gender host you cleverly choose to do these stories every time, you sexists.
