Who said this and when?
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It was Sean Spicer, the Press Secretary for the Trump Administration. He said it on 16 Dec 2016.
It's too bad certain outlets are going beyond biased into an area of misleading or downright libel. Let's not trot the examples out again. What I find interesting, Op2, is the 12/16/17 date. It was widely known how the incoming administration felt about these outlets. The call-outs seem to be working in Trumps favor so far. We shall see what, if any, long term effects they have.
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Just today they quoted Trump from yesterday commenting that it should be required to reveal the names of sources and they showed five tweets by little hands where he cited unnamed sources.
That doesn't change how his strategy is working in his favor. I don't expect your opinion to align with sane people, Destroyer.
That doesn't change how his strategy is working in his favor.
40% = working masterfully.
What does that even mean? Are you comparing an approval rating to the topic at hand ? That's twice you've tried to apply totally separte notions to the topic of this thread.
Was that El Destructo's revenge?
If you are honest...how sure are you that it is actually a strategy? 100%? 50%? The man is unpredictable. He is emotional. He is vane. He says things before thinking. Has a history of irrational, reactionary action that he later regrets. He takes criticism horribly. I'm not saying that it's not a strategy for certain, but I'm at about 60% that this is more knee jerk bs from a thin skinned jerk. He's mad he can't control leaks, and is throwing a tantrum.That doesn't change how his strategy is working in his favor. I don't expect your opinion to align with sane people, Destroyer.
That doesn't change how his strategy is working in his favor. I don't expect your opinion to align with sane people, Destroyer.
You are so funny. That pic you posted of that Whippet in the "pleather jacket and muzzle" makes me laugh so hard every time I see it, I damn near pee on myself.
Hilarious.
He's also pretty effectively almost singlehandedly destroying what little credibility the Main News Media has left, and he's dismantling the Liberal edifice known as Leviathan, all the while causing the Left to come apart while he's steadily uniting the Conservative movement and expanding the Republican brand and base.
He doesn't appear to me to be as transparently thin or incompetent as you make him out to be boom. Seems to me he has a pretty thick skin and a rough-n-tumble persona that can dish it out as well as he takes it.
So press is only free if completely unbiased or only if they agree with the sitting administration?
They have an obligation to be unbiased and they have shirked that responsibility. They dont even hide it.
Can you point out in the constitution where the press is granted anything different than you or me?
Then tell that to FOX News. They need a little "unbiased" reporting of liberal issues.
Recent polls show 55% of the public trust the mainstream media while 39 % trust Trump. Repeated lies will erode your credibility. Trump has told some sort of lie practically every single day of his presidency.
That's hilarious! You are seriously out of touch with reality. Here are just a few that have got under his thin skin.
Vogue
SNL
Meryl Streep
Most of the media
Judges
9th US Circuit
National Park Service
White House Staff
CIA
Anonymous news sources
Sorry for the late reply. I think USING the media was total strategy with adjustments made on the fly according to what spilled out of Trumps mouth. I won't venture a guess on percentages. During the campaign, Trump said something that began with "They're not sending their best......" The media and Clinton campaign would tweek and run with it to paint a racist/bigot picture. This was a DNC strategy as revealed by the DNC and Podesta hacks; division politics that will be recorded as such in history. "Deplorables" was definitely one for the history books. "Basket of" suggests a little bit of forethought. How much forethought is hard to say; 5 seconds, 5 minutes? Given some more time, I doubt those words would have slipped out, but in a broader sense I think there was definitely a strategy to portray Trump a certain way. Trump has personally done more to empower minorities and women than the liberals who like to stand up and tell people what they aren't getting, but deserve. These types are the first ones to clutch their pocket books when they encounter someone different in a less than ideal situation.
To get to the heart of your question, I feel 100% confident that using the media against themselves is a Trump strategy. How the strategy is implemented is largely or bigly on the fly. Haha!
"Agree" doesn't have much to do with it, IMO. There's a reason why Marvel Comics, The National Midnight Star and Dan Rather don't have seats; lack of credibility.
Gallup, "Since 2007 most of the general public has little or no faith in the mainstream media." "Trust typically dips in election years."
Countryroads89 if you are anticipating Trump's inability to be Truthful with the American people will eventually spell his undoing, all you have to do then is be patient and watch him self destruct.
I submit all you're worried about is just noise. Trump's effectiveness will be judged by two things and two things only.
Has he kept America safe and secure?
Do Americans have better jobs making more money?
If the answers to both of those questions is yes in 2020, nothing else you or anyone else is worried about regarding Trump will amount to anything other than wind blowing through the trees.
So my suggestion to you is just to forget about everything else, and wait to see if he turns this economy around, and protects the country through peaceful strength. You won't have much more to complain about if he manages to do both well.
If they're playing on one side of the field, I think the administration has a right to call them out on it, and possibly even ignore them.
You don't deny that he said that, right?
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/wa...tatorships-do-what-the-white-house-did-today/
It's a safe link and if you scroll to the end you can play the video and watch him say the words.
Some were denied access to the "gaggle" ... which isn't an outright ban of course, but it isn't a good precedent. Taken as an isolated incident, perhaps not a big deal, but when combined with the rhetoric of "fake news" and "enemy of the people" it takes on a little different inference.