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    Trump's denunciation of the media

    I am rather ambivalent about Donald Trump's staunch--perhaps even strident--denunciation of the media, in general.

    On the one hand, a free media is essential to a free country. (Jefferson once intoned that if he were to have to choose between "a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government," he would not hesitate to choose the latter.

    On the other hand, there is no doubt that most of the media nowadays is bitterly opposed to Donald Trump. Why, Just today, The Washington Post ran a story with the headline, "These Iowans voted for Trump. Many of them are already disappointed."

    Another story featured the headline, "For many Indians, Kansas shooting is a harsh warning about Trump's America".

    Still, I am not at all sure that President Trump is doing himself any favors by angrily denouncing the press (which can easily be interpreted as petulant).

    And he really should not speak of the media as "the enemy of the people," as that has clear Leninist undertones.

    Thoughts?

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    I agree, he should avoid the petulance.
    But I have no problem with him choosing favorites-those who treat him fairly.

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    A free media is a good thing for our country, but only if they are reporting all of the relevant news. A media who only reports news that serves their own interests is not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NapRover View Post
    I agree, he should avoid the petulance.
    But I have no problem with him choosing favorites-those who treat him fairly.
    Much of the petulance is engineered by the MSM, so much of it is unavoidable. They will skip reporting relevant content of his speeches in favor of bending some non relevant comment into something that looks like petulance.

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    yeah, it's a real challenge to make donnie look petulant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by del View Post
    yeah, it's a real challenge to make donnie look petulant.
    If that's the case, I guess Trump should ban mirrors also.

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    Quote Originally Posted by del View Post
    yeah, it's a real challenge to make donnie look petulant.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post


    Find and stop that person who keeps angry-Tweeting at three in the morning about t.v. shows and department stores and singers, who is pretending to be Agent Orange, and that may change some hearts and minds.
    Nothing Trump does or doesn't do is changing anything with the partisan hack left.

    They will continue to lie, $#@! their pants and hate, nothing is changing here so $#@! these idiots and $#@! the media.

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