“Nothing that the Trump administration has done with or to the news media approaches in seriousness and nature the conduct of the Obama Administration towards the press,”James Rosen said Saturday during an interview on Fox News.
Trump has been complaining about dishonest and shoddy reporting and how damaging it is to our nation.
But Obama targeted a specific news outlet, again and again, because he didn’t like the stories they chose to cover.
2009: The Obama administration attempted to exclude Fox News from the White House press pool. When their effort was thwarted by the other press poolers, they lied and said they never did it at all.
2010: Obama told Rolling Stone Magazine that Fox News was “destructive” to the country.
2010: Obama blamed Fox News for reporting on the Benghazi and IRS scandals.
2014: Obama said Fox News was calling affordable health care a threat to freedom.
Even worse, Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, ordered Fox reporter James Rosen’s movements tracked, his phone records seized, and told Google to not notify Rosen that the government was monitoring his email.
The president held a rally yesterday in Florida. It was held in an airport hangar that held 9,000 screaming fans. It is estimated that 2-3 times that many attended, but couldn’t get in. They waited for hours and were not, it appeared, disappointed. He was in his element. Despite everything the media has thrown at him he is gaining in popularity.
President Donald Trump and Melania Trump Arrive at Melbourne Rally – The Eagle Has Landed
THIS VIDEO OF HIS SPEECH IS ABOUT 45 MINUTES. THE CELEBRATION ACTUALLY LASTED ABOUT 1 1/2 HOURS.
President Trump Full Speech at HUGE Rally in Melbourne Florida 2/18/17
Melania Trump Speech at President Donald Trump Rally in Melbourne, Florida (2/18/2017)
MELANIA LOOKED STUNNING IN A SIMPLE RED DRESS, NO JEWELRY EXCEPT FOR HER WEDDING RING AND SIMPLE NAILS. CONTRAST THAT WITH THE LUMBERING BEAST WE SUFFERED WITH FOR EIGHT YEARS.
Melania having to READ the Lord’s prayer says it all. #Disgusting
[CtH: What’s DISGUSTING are these turds! Bet they had NO problem with President TelePrompter reading all his speeches or those times he pandered to his atheist base by leaving God OUT of his speeches and proclamations. And she did not say “I wrote that”, you butthead.]
James Hesky @JamesHesky: “I wrote that.” -Melania, after saying the Lord’s Prayer#TrumpRally
Gary Legum @GaryLegum: Oh dear lord, Melania starting off with the Lord’s Prayer. This is maybe the biggest pander in the history of pandering.
bed time bonzo @FreeAnenome – MELANIA: “Here’s a little prayer I wrote, I hope you sing it note by note: ‘Our father who art in heaven…’ ”
Donald Trump Brings Supporter On Stage At Rally In Melbourne Florida
THIS DROVE THE SECRET SERVICE CRAZY. A MAN HAD WAITED IN LINE SINCE 4:00 AM TO SEE THE PRESIDENT. WHEN HE SPOTTED HIM HE CALLED THE GUY ON STAGE TO SAY A FEW WORDS.
THERE WERE A FEW OF THESE CLOWNS THAT GOT FAR MORE ATTENTION THAN THEY DESERVED
Anti Donald Trump Rally Outside Trump Rally In Melbourne Florida
“But if you let him out of the zoo and into his natural habitat, he feels like the guy who actually won the election and is President of the United States,” said Bruce Haynes, a communications expert and founding partner of Purple Strategies, a bipartisan political consulting firm.
Norma McCorvey, the pro-life movement’s most unlikely convert, died Saturday in Katy, Texas. She was 69. She is best known as the anonymous 21-year-old “Jane Roe” in the Texas case that led to the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decisionlegalizing abortion on demand in every state. She never had an abortion herself. She converted to Christianity in 1995, became a Catholic in 1998 and was an outspoken opponent of abortion for the rest of her life.
Planned Parenthoodis singing the blues, claiming how they’ll be unable to provide essential health care to women if they don’t keep getting government money. Yet they somehow have the money to increase President Cecile Richard’s salaryby a whopping 265%, from $360,902 in 2006 to $957,952!
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace noted that President Obama froze out conservative outlets while he was in office, but the mainstream media didn’t get their panties in a bunch about that was somehow threatening the First Amendment.
“There’s a First Amendment, but there isn’t a ‘mainstream is entitled to ask the first question’ in the Constitution, which might be a surprise to some of my colleagues.”
On Thursday, NBC News political director and “Meet the Press” moderatorChuck Toddresponded to President Trump’s presser by claiming thatit was un-American of him to try to delegitimize the press.
Ha ha ha ha ha! So says a spokesman for the people who have been trying to delegitimize the Trump presidency since he won the election.
Not to be discouraged by all the blow-back he got for that howler, Todd picked up again on Friday with this:
SERIOUSLY?! Does he really want to go THERE?! Tweeters handed him a reality check.
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” -Barack Obama
Remember when senior WH official compared the GOP to terrorists in 2013? Good times.
“Which enemy are you most proud of?” “Probably the Republicans.” – Hillary Clinton
“You can put half of Trump supporters into what I call ‘the basket of deplorables’.” – Hillary Clinton
During the sequester debate, sitting Dem leaders were literally calling their opposition “domestic terrorists.”
“They pray in church on Sunday, and prey on everyone the rest of the week.” – Nancy Pelosi
The President held a press conference yesterday, ostensibly to introduce his new nominee for Labor Secretary. I happened to have tuned in to FNC shortly after it began. Seldom, if ever, have I so enjoyed an ordinary presser. Republicans just don’t act that way when being hammered by the media to defend vicious rumors perpetrated largely by the press whores themselves. He played no favorites, but called on all manner of squawking peacocks trying to get their ‘gotcha’ questions heard. It went on for almost 90 minutes and when it was over the room was littered with broken bodies.
That’s Entertainment! Trump’s 75-Minute Tour de Force
THIS IS AN EXCELLENT READ
Donald Trump, giving press conferences as president, is like a cross between Fidel Castro’s long-windedness and machismo and Christopher Walken’s theatrical presence — and nobody else in the room can compete with that.
This was on display Thursday, when after a week’s worth of his administration being buffeted by a hurricane of negative media coverage — some of it deserved, some much less so — the president turned himself loose in the East Room.
An hour and 15 minutes later, he walked out of what could be described as a smoldering ruin.
He even toyed with the insufferable Jim Acosta.
Trump Challenges CNN’s Acosta to ‘Ask Jeff Zucker How He Got His Job’
So, when Trump called on Acosta, the CNN correspondent denied the charge, saying, “Just for the record, we don’t hate you. I don’t hate you.” Trump sarcastically replied, “O.K.” and Acosta tells him to “Pass that along.”
Then, something strange happened.
Trump defended the claim CNN hates him by cryptically challenging Acosta:
Later in the exchange, after Acosta said he was looking to follow up on previous questions, Trump interrupted to comment on his network’s ratings.
“Your ratings aren’t as good as some of the other people,” Trump said.
Acosta defended himself before shifting to his line of questioning.
“They’re pretty good right now actually, Mr. President,” Acosta responded.
Trump takes questions from CNN reporter
THIS IS ACOSTA’S ENTIRE BEATDOWN EN TOTO
Trump: ‘I Inherited A Mess’
I HEARD THIS SH!T FROM MY FRIEND WILLIE ABOUT OBAMA INHERITING BUSH’S MESS FOR HIS WHOLE TERM!!
“Jobs are pouring out of the country — you see what’s going on with all of the companies leaving our country, going to Mexico and other places — low pay, low wages, mass instability overseas, no matter where you look, the Middle East, a disaster. North Korea.”
“We’ll take care of it, folks,” he reassured his audience. “We are going to take care of it all. I just wanted to let you know, I inherited a mess.”
President Donald Trump held a fiery press conference and he didn’t hold back. He ripped the dishonest media and took another shot at CNN calling them ‘very fake news’. He brought up Russia and absolutely destroyed Hillary Clinton.
Liberal Media in Crisis After Being Passed Over for Questions
Trump is “shutting down part of the First Amendment” The liberal media’s inflated sense of importance is on full display. During a press conference yesterday with Benjamin Netanyahu, liberal journalists wanted to shift the narrative to the resignation of Michael Flynn.
The liberal media, which just came back from an eight year vacation during which they peppered Obama with questions about how awesome he is, now wants us to believe we can’t live without their tough questions for Trump.
Chuck Todd’s Scorn: Calls President Trump’s Press Conference “Un-American” NBC News anchor Chuck Todd was not happy with President Donald Trump’s fiery press conference on Thursday. After speaking to various media outlets for over an hour, President Trump answered varying questions which included anything from the 2016 election to recent actions by the Russian military.
He answered each question to the best of his ability and gave each reporter ample time to ask any questions they had.
Because of his actions, NBC’s Todd deemed him un-American.
It is now apparent that people in the mainstream media believe the First Amendment is something that remains exclusively to them alone and no one else.
HIS CO-CONSPIRATOR JIM ACOSTA WHINED AT TRUMP THAT HE SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT ‘THE PUBLIC’S VIEW OF FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT’
“The press has become so dishonest,” he said today, “that if we don’t talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people.”
The pampered pukes have been lying for a long time — just ask the New England Patriots about their “BITTER END.” But this week’s deluge of fake news has just been totally over the top. Trump singled out Wednesday’s New York Times page-one story about the “repeated contacts” of Trump campaign aides with Russians.
That, he said, was “fake news.” And then there was yesterday’s Wall Street Journal front-page non-story, “Spies Keep Intelligence from Trump.”
“Almost as disgraceful,” the president said.
Sorry, media — this press conference played very differently with Trump’s supporters Maybe it’s not a coincidence that Barnum & Bailey is folding its tents this year. After all, how could the circus possibly compete with Donald Trump?
The president proved once again that he is the greatest show on Earth. Lions and tigers and elephants are kid stuff next to his high wire act.
Next time, the White House ought to sell popcorn.
John Bolton: Left ‘Engaging in Collective Hysteria’ Because They Cannot Make ‘Substantive Arguments’ Against Trump Policies “The idea of a one-state solution comes in a variety of forms, but it absolutely violates the near-religious theological doctrine that there must be a Palestinian state. So for Trump to say, ‘I could live with a two-state solution, I could live with a one-state solution’ blows up about 70 years of orthodoxy,” he said.
“Of all the disruptive things he’s done in Washington in just one month, that could be the most disruptive of all,” Bolton proclaimed. “It just sends a signal all around the world that really the persecution of Israel that we’ve seen, unfortunately, in many European countries, in the U.N. for sure, is going to meet some fierce resistance from this president.”
Trump Downgrades CNN From ‘Fake News’ To ‘Very Fake News’
CNN anchor Kate Bolduan had a slip of the tongue while concluding her show on Thursday when she told her viewers to stand by for the upcoming press conference with President Barack Obama at the White House.
Maddow began her attack after playing a clip of Trump’s press conference earlier in the day at the White House, during which he argued his administration is running “like a fine-tuned machine.”
“The personnel debacles and the serious scandals that already attend to this less than one-month-old presidency are really, without hyperbole, they are unlike anything we have ever seen at the start of a presidential term,” she said.
I was adding these to the comments section of Pete’s 2/16 post, but it’s gotten too long and is taking forever to refresh. So, starting with what I posted after midnight …
“Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions today asking Sessions to consider convening a grand jury or bringing charges against Hillary Clinton’s former IT guy, Bryan Pagliano. Pagliano was subpoenaed to testify before the committee last year but refused to appear on two occasions. After the second refusal, the Oversight Committee voted to hold Pagliano in contempt.”
This is why the big unions and their Democrat lapdogs fight so hard against Right to Work laws. The unions have become the evil they were originally founded to combat and workers know it.
Weeks after the House Minority leader blasted President Donald Trump for pledging to investigate voter fraud, a federal appellate court has ruled that a Peruvian immigrant can be deported from the U.S. for illegally voting in a federal election.
Americans find the press less credible than the Trump administration and that’s no accident. After 8 years of watching in disgust as the media slobbered all over their BFF Barack, we’re now being further repulsed as these same “real news” reporters push out over-hyped, inconclusive, half-true or flat-out incorrect stories.
The Washington Examiner is keeping an on-going list of these bad stories. Here are the two latest:
Feb. 11:American-born Olympian and Muslim Ibtihaj Muhammad claimed in an interview on Feb. 7 that she was detained “just a few weeks ago” by U.S. Customs agents. Reporters tied it to Trump’s recent executive order temporarily barring immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries. The incident actually occurred in December 2016 when Barack Obama was still president.
Feb. 10: A day after Trump talked to Chinese President Xi Jinping, The New York Times print edition said he hadn’t talked to him in months. Trump tweeted that the Times had printed fake news. The media pounced, using an updated online version of the incorrect print version of the Times’ story. But the online version carried no editor’s note about the fact that it had been significantly altered from its original form, which was what had been in the print version Trump read.
Grab a sandwich and a tall beverage before you go read the rest, because it’s a LOOOOOOOOOOONG LIST!
Liberal reporters have their panties in a bunchbecause President Trump has been giving a significant share of presser questions to conservative news outlets.
Apparently, they thinkthat they, and only they, can ask the “tough questions” that presidents should answer.
Never mind that the questions the “not real news” reporters have asked are excellent.
Also never mind that, for eight long years, these same “real news” reporters have been slobbering all over their BFF Barack who was, you know, the president at the time.
Peter Hasson, Reporter and Associate Editor at the “not real news” Daily Caller, compiled a list of 13 “hard-hitting” questions that these “real” reporters asked back when the president preferred them to conservative reporters.
The New York Times
What has “Enchanted you the most from serving in this office?” – Jeff Zeleny, who is now CNN’s senior White House correspondent
ABC
“How does your golf game hold up next to Tiger’s?” – Dan Ashley
CBS
“Golf, what does it do for you?” – Harry Smith
“In this fatherless world, where did you learn to love?” – Harry Smith
“You definitely have some impressive accomplishments. … More than a lot of presidents who manage to get reelected. My question is, is it enough? Why do you think you deserve to be reelected?” – “60 Minutes” Steve Kroft
“Have you given up on the Republicans? Have you stopped reaching out to them? Are you just out there now trying to get your message across?” – “60 Minutes” Steve Kroft
“Tell me, what do you consider your major accomplishments?” – “60 Minutes” Steve Kroft
NBC
“Do you have a vindictive streak?” – “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt
“How do you avoid the dangers of being too cocky?” – CNBC’s John Harwood
CNN
“What hard things do you want to tackle at this point?” – Jim Acosta
“I’m wondering if you think that [Republican presidential candidates are] uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?” – Dan Lothian
“[W]hat do you think Republicans will be sipping and saying next year?” – Dan Lothian
Reuters
“Are you ready to call yourself the ‘comeback kid’?” – Caren Bohan
It’s not supposed to be like this. As long as anyone can remember, the ‘news’ reporters have had free rein in controlling presidential press conferences and even the daily briefings. Then Donald Trump happened. After an eight year vacation, the media finally went back to investigating … with a vengeance. They were as happy as a pig in slop when they forced out General Kelly, a better man than the lot of them. Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary, Andy Puzder, succumbed to intense pressure from the left over allegedly hiring an illegal to do his housekeeping. (I’d bet my retirement check most if not all of the people raising the hell have some questionable employees as well.)
[CtH: How freaking hypocritical is it of them to condemn Puzder for hiring an illegal when they PROMOTE THE HIRING OF ILLEGALS?!]
The president and PM Netanyahu held a joint press conference yesterday. Trump completely ignored ABC, CNN and NBC, instead calling on reporters from Townhall and the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Bibi Visits Trump And LEVELS Reporter Looking For A Fight- MEDIA DOWN!
President Donald Trump has walked in and is smoothing ruffled feathers and helping things to be strong and healthy again. And yet despite the incredible relationship that exists between Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu the media is crying that Donald Trump is anti-semitic… seriously???
“There is no greater support of the Jewish people and the Jewish state than president Donald Trump,” Netanyahu said resolutely. “I think we should put that to rest.”
Palestinians are hateful and evil. They are taught to love death and the highest honor in this lifetime for them is to kill Jews and infidels. John Kerry literally told Israel, you can be Democratic or Jewish, but not both.
Remember When: Hey Liberal Media, This Is Probably Why President Trump Didn’t Call On You Today
Our own Katie Pavlich asked President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about how to deal with Iran after their blatant violations of the nuclear agreement and what compromises both the Israelis and the Palestinians need to consider in their ongoing conflict with one another. These are legitimate questions.
As Cortney noted, the liberal media was ignored and they went into full meltdown mode. CNN’s Jim Acosta said that the “fix is in” concerning who will be able to ask the president questions, describing Townhall as “a very conservative website.”
[CtH: “A very conservative website” whose representative asked a really good question, as opposed to the Gotcha Flynn gloating CNN probably had planned!]
I’ll just leave this insufferable exchange between former President Obama and the Chicago Tribune’s Christi Parsons after his 2012 re-elect win to show why we probably shouldn’t be shocked that the Trump White House is taking questions from outlets who used to be left in the dark.
In the post-press conference coverage, Vega ranted, “I want to tell you about the open hostility right here in this room. You know, I’m sitting right here kind of in the middle of the pack of a number of journalists, mainstream reporters, if you will, and there is open anger in here about the fact the President did not take any real questions about the issue of the day.”
[CtH: You mean like the “real questions” you used to ask your BFF Barack?]
Karl sneered that Trump called on “friendly conservative news organizations.” He lashed out:
“Amazing that on a day like this he could have a press conference and not face a single question on the big story of this, the New York Times bombshell report that members of his campaign allegedly had contacts with the Russians during the campaign. No questions on that.”
[CtH: No, the questions were about ISRAEL, because, you know, their PRIME MINISTER WAS VISITING and THAT WAS THE TOPIC OF THE PRESSER.]
The question of the day, according to Vega, was Michael Flynn’s resignation.
Speaking for other journalists, she raged, “And so, you’re feeling an open sense of anger and frustration here.” Reporter Karl sputtered, “George, it is astounding. We have now had four presidential news conferences and the President, for the most part, has simply avoided calling on people from news organizations.”
[CtH: The ARROGANCE of them deciding who is and who isn’t a news organization! After the tingly legged, softball throwing, pillow fluffing these “real” news orgs didn for the past eight years. But hey, KEEP IT UP, MORONS. Cuz we’re really looking forward to EIGHT years in the TRUMP White House.]
“The two questions that were asked or called upon from the president in this news conference went to the Christian Broadcasting Network, which is obviously owned by Pat Robertson, the televangelist down in Virginia. It’s a very conservative broadcasting network, and Townhall.com, which is a very conservative news website,” Acosta said.
[CtH: And not a word about how GOOD those questions were, just sneering at the sources of the questions. This is a variation on the logical fallacy of arguing from authority. But golleeeeee, I’m just a loathsome conservative blogger, so what do I know?!]
Mainstream reporters are outraged that conservative media outlets are receiving a significant share of questions at White House press conferences.
Only liberal reporters, the line of reasoning goes, are capable of asking the tough questions needed to hold those in power accountable. Here are a sample of questions asked of former President Obama by mainstream reporters.
1. “Golf, what does it do for you?” – CBS
2. I’m wondering if you think that [Republican presidential candidates are] uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?” – CNN
3.“Do you have a vindictive streak?” – NBC
4. What has “Enchanted you the most from serving in this office?”- NYTimes
CNN is viewing its antagonism toward President Donald J. Trump as a “badge of honor” — and according to CNN president Jeff Zucker the network’s daily aggression aimed at Trump is “boosting” employee morale.
The liberal media’s inflated sense of importance is on full display. During a press conference yesterday with Benjamin Netanyahu, liberal journalists wanted to shift the narrative to the resignation of Michael Flynn.
NBC News anchor Chuck Todd was not happy with President Donald Trump’s fiery press conference on Thursday. After speaking to various media outlets for over an hour, President Trump answered varying questions which included anything from the 2016 election to recent actions by the Russian military.
Donald Trump is right — the alt-left fake news media are out of control.
“The idea of a one-state solution comes in a variety of forms, but it absolutely violates the near-religious theological doctrine that there must be a Palestinian state. So for Trump to say, ‘I could live with a two-state solution, I could live with a one-state solution’ blows up about 70 years of orthodoxy,” he said.
It’s not supposed to be like this. As long as anyone can remember, the ‘news’ reporters have had free rein in controlling presidential press conferences and even the daily briefings. Then Donald Trump happened. After an eight year vacation, the media finally went back to investigating … with a vengeance. They were as happy as a pig in slop when they forced out General Kelly, a better man than the lot of them. Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary, Andy Puzder, succumbed to intense pressure from the left over allegedly hiring an illegal to do his housekeeping. (I’d bet my retirement check most if not all of the people raising the hell have some questionable employees as well.)
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