Enemy of the People

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TennTom said:
And yet, he couldn't get a single member of the Senate to agree with him. Weird, huh?
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POTUS has term limits. Senators do not. They cannot afford to have the media exercising a vendetta against them which is what is happening against President Donald J Trump because he is calling them out. Were senator bagodoughnuts to do that they wouldn't be able to keep that gravy train rolling for very long.
 
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How is today any different from any other? The press spends every day calling President Trump names and lying about him and covering up for others.
 
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The "press"....what a joke. A job that requires a second grade education, and still, they don't know how to do their jobs. There is no reporting, just opinions and agenda's and they are all one in the same, slaves to their paychecks issuer's.
 
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Grand Vol said:
It's even more sad it's come to this point. I've never seen a press, by and large, attempt to destroy an Administration like this.

We are truly ****ed as a nation when we can't get unbiased reporting from any source.
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All information will forever be biased and it always was, IMO. It's just more apparent now because we have so many sources contradicting each other's biases, as opposed to in the past when we had a handful of sources all confirming the same biases.

The media has never come after a POTUS like this, but the reverse is true. I can't remember a president really attacking the media much at all, let alone going to these lengths. Trump's asking for it.
 
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n_huffhines said:
All information will forever be biased and it always was, IMO. It's just more apparent now because we have so many sources contradicting each other's biases, as opposed to in the past when we had a handful of sources all confirming the same biases.

The media has never come after a POTUS like this, but the reverse is true. I can't remember a president really attacking the media much at all, let alone going to these lengths. Trump's asking for it.
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The old saying is that you don't pick a fight with someone who buys their ink by the barrel. Having said that, I don't blame him for fighting back.
 
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newarkvol said:
“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,”-- Trump- 7/24/18

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -- Orwell


Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s America
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Ummm who’s producing and controlling the message in this scenario homeslice?
 
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Donald J. Trump "produced" these lies --although I am not sure he is in "control."---should the media overlook?
As the common refrain/excuse goes on VP, "all politicians lie"---ok I will give you that---but the sheer frequency of the dishonesty is without precedent.
"Our brains are particularly ill-equipped to deal with lies when they come not singly but in a constant stream, and Trump, we know, lies constantly, about matters as serious as the election results and as trivial as the tiles at Mar-a-Lago. (According to his butler, Anthony Senecal, Trump once said the tiles in a nursery at the West Palm Beach club had been made by Walt Disney himself; when Senecal protested, Trump had a single response: “Who cares?”) When we are overwhelmed with false, or potentially false, statements, our brains pretty quickly become so overworked that we stop trying to sift through everything. It’s called cognitive load—our limited cognitive resources are overburdened. It doesn’t matter how implausible the statements are; throw out enough of them, and people will inevitably absorb some. Eventually, without quite realizing it, our brains just give up trying to figure out what is true."

I'm pretty sure you have given up...no?
Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain


Trump obliterates his dishonesty record: 132 false claims last week, 280 for July | The Star

Trump has said 1,340,330 words as president. They’re getting more dishonest, a Star study shows | The Star

All Pants on Fire! statements involving Donald Trump | PolitiFact (5 pages)
 
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TennTom said:
As succinctly as it can possibly be stated.

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So says Cupp, whose CNN program, S E Cupp Unfiltered, averages a Whopping 67,000 total live viewers, and a Whopping 22,000 viewers in the adult 25-54 demo. Number 81 in cable news, which is horrible, even by CNN standards.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
So says Cupp, whose CNN program, S E Cupp Unfiltered, averages a Whopping 67,000 total live viewers, and a Whopping 22,000 viewers in the adult 25-54 demo. Number 81 in cable news, which is horrible, even by CNN standards.
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She's a very smart conservative and now a former Republican. Of course you have nothing in common with her.
 
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America now has a Leftist news and entertainment media that says MS-13 gang members are "misunderstood boys" and they claim that the domestic terrorist groups, ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter, should not be held accountable for their violent terrorist activities. They also look the other way when Leftists call for the Murder of the President of the United States.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
We've never seen a press go after an administration so consistently because we've never had a president give them so much ammo while calling them liars.
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What we are seeing here is the changing of the press from a paid service to a "click bait" service. In years gone by the public used to pay for newspapers and magazines to get their news. With the advent of the Internet and everyone carrying a computer in their pocket newspapers and magazines are dying a quick death and everything that used to cost a few bucks is now "free". The problem with "free" is that nothing ever is free. Journalism has to pay for itself and the new way to do that is to surreptitiously do it without making people think they are paying for it.
Manipulation and click bait is the new way of the press to get paid.
 
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VolStrom said:
What we are seeing here is the changing of the press from a paid service to a "click bait" service. In years gone by the public used to pay for newspapers and magazines to get their news. With the advent of the Internet and everyone carrying a computer in their pocket newspapers and magazines are dying a quick death and everything that used to cost a few bucks is now "free". The problem with "free" is that nothing ever is free. Journalism has to pay for itself and the new way to do that is to surreptitiously do it without making people think they are paying for it.
Manipulation and click bait is the new way of the press to get paid.
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I really cannot disagree, but it doesn't change my opinion that we have a click bait president.
 
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