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Press Alert 01-27-17
PRESS ALERT
POSTED ON JANUARY 28, 2017 BY SCOTT JOHNSON -POWERLINE
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Michael P. Ramirez (@Ramireztoons) is bemused by indignation of the prestige press over alleged presidential prevarication since some time around noon on January 20, 2017. Where were you when we needed you? If I recall correctly — and I think Ramirez agrees with me here — they were working overtime for the man.
POSTED ON JANUARY 28, 2017 BY SCOTT JOHNSON -POWERLINE
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Michael P. Ramirez (@Ramireztoons) is bemused by indignation of the prestige press over alleged presidential prevarication since some time around noon on January 20, 2017. Where were you when we needed you? If I recall correctly — and I think Ramirez agrees with me here — they were working overtime for the man.
Fake News: Three Mainstream Media Lies on Trump’s First Day
Joel Pollak / Breitbart News
JOEL B. POLLAK22 Jan 2017
The mainstream media lost no time in attempting to undermine President Donald Trump, as opposed to actually reporting information.
After eight years of kowtowing to Obama, they have suddenly discovered a civic responsibility to hold the government accountable. But they are focusing on minutiae, and in some cases actually telling lies, both of omission and commission. That risks alienating the public even further — making it harder, actually, for the media to act as watchdogs.
Lie #1: President Trump was focused on the crowd size at the inauguration.He mentioned it in passing in his speech at the CIA, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer took the media to task for trying to downplay attendance figures. But to say — as CNN’s Anderson Cooper did — that crowd size was Trump’s focus on his first day in office is simply absurd. On Cooper’s program Saturday, CNN played a clip of Spicer’s first press conference that only mentioned the crowd size issue — leaving out Spicer’s preceding comments taking a journalist to task for reporting, falsely, that Trump had a bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. removed from the Oval Office. The crowd issue was secondary — but CNN chose to focus on it because it was less of a slam-dunk against the media than the bust. Whatever the numbers on Inauguration Day, Spicer’s point was that the media were more interesting in undermining Trump, and promoting anti-Trump protests, than in covering the actual news of the day.
Lie #2: President Trump insulted the CIA. Extending the faux outrage at Lie #1, the mainstream media criticized Trump for talking about crowd size in front of the CIA’s memorial wall for agents who have died in the course of their duties. The media showed considerably less concern when President Barack Obama spoke before the same wall about the release of the prior administration’s interrogation memos, impugning the integrity of the CIA and giving valuable intelligence to terrorists.
Lie #3: The anti-Trump protests in Washington, D.C. were important. The protests were nothing more than the venting of outrage at Trump’s election. For all the talk of “women’s rights,” there was nothing particular to point to that Trump had done about anything relating to women. The demonstration was large, but also disorganized, as well as vulgar, and protesters left heaps of trash over the various routes they took, including protest signs abandoned at Union Station as they left the capital.
Joel Pollak / Breitbart News
JOEL B. POLLAK22 Jan 2017
The mainstream media lost no time in attempting to undermine President Donald Trump, as opposed to actually reporting information.
After eight years of kowtowing to Obama, they have suddenly discovered a civic responsibility to hold the government accountable. But they are focusing on minutiae, and in some cases actually telling lies, both of omission and commission. That risks alienating the public even further — making it harder, actually, for the media to act as watchdogs.
Lie #1: President Trump was focused on the crowd size at the inauguration.He mentioned it in passing in his speech at the CIA, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer took the media to task for trying to downplay attendance figures. But to say — as CNN’s Anderson Cooper did — that crowd size was Trump’s focus on his first day in office is simply absurd. On Cooper’s program Saturday, CNN played a clip of Spicer’s first press conference that only mentioned the crowd size issue — leaving out Spicer’s preceding comments taking a journalist to task for reporting, falsely, that Trump had a bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. removed from the Oval Office. The crowd issue was secondary — but CNN chose to focus on it because it was less of a slam-dunk against the media than the bust. Whatever the numbers on Inauguration Day, Spicer’s point was that the media were more interesting in undermining Trump, and promoting anti-Trump protests, than in covering the actual news of the day.
Lie #2: President Trump insulted the CIA. Extending the faux outrage at Lie #1, the mainstream media criticized Trump for talking about crowd size in front of the CIA’s memorial wall for agents who have died in the course of their duties. The media showed considerably less concern when President Barack Obama spoke before the same wall about the release of the prior administration’s interrogation memos, impugning the integrity of the CIA and giving valuable intelligence to terrorists.
Lie #3: The anti-Trump protests in Washington, D.C. were important. The protests were nothing more than the venting of outrage at Trump’s election. For all the talk of “women’s rights,” there was nothing particular to point to that Trump had done about anything relating to women. The demonstration was large, but also disorganized, as well as vulgar, and protesters left heaps of trash over the various routes they took, including protest signs abandoned at Union Station as they left the capital.
Our good friend Roman Genn is one of our favorite fine artists and he has created a limited print of his brilliant watercolor seen on the Jan. 23rd issue of the National Review magazine. It's called Outta Here, and is limited to 100 signed and numbered fine giclee prints. It is conveniently sized at 12 x 16, with the image measuring 9 x 12 inches. We love the fact that Roman immigrated to the United States in 1991 after a storied career in Moscow as a teenaged political activist who used his art to protest the Soviet system. Read more about Roman HERE
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Trump backs Bannon: ‘The media is the opposition party’
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL POLITICO
01/27/17 03:27 PM EST
Updated 01/27/17 03:43 PM EST
President Donald Trump agreed Friday with a top White House aide that the mainstream media is the “opposition party” to his administration.
“Yeah, I think the media’s the opposition party in many ways,” Trump told “The Brody File,” according to an excerpt released Friday afternoon.
Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor, told The New York Times in an interview this week that “the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.”
“I want you to quote this,” Bannon told the Times on Wednesday. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
In a sit-down with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump largely agreed. The newly inaugurated president insisted he wasn’t referring to “all media,” though, and praised Brody and other people he said he has “tremendous respect” for.
“[I] respect them as much as anybody,” Trump said of certain unspecified media figures. “So I’m not talking about everybody, but a big portion of the media — the dishonesty, total deceit and deception makes them certainly partially the opposition party, absolutely.”
He added that the media are “much more capable” than the actual opposition party, the rebuilding Democratic Party that largely expected a Hillary Clinton victory on Election Day. Trump said the Democratic Party “is losing badly” but has the media on its side.
“And I actually said to myself, I say, ‘They treat me so unfairly it’s hard to believe that I won,’” he recalled telling himself. “But the fortunate thing about me is I have a big voice. I have a voice that people understand.” read more
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL POLITICO
01/27/17 03:27 PM EST
Updated 01/27/17 03:43 PM EST
President Donald Trump agreed Friday with a top White House aide that the mainstream media is the “opposition party” to his administration.
“Yeah, I think the media’s the opposition party in many ways,” Trump told “The Brody File,” according to an excerpt released Friday afternoon.
Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor, told The New York Times in an interview this week that “the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.”
“I want you to quote this,” Bannon told the Times on Wednesday. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
In a sit-down with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump largely agreed. The newly inaugurated president insisted he wasn’t referring to “all media,” though, and praised Brody and other people he said he has “tremendous respect” for.
“[I] respect them as much as anybody,” Trump said of certain unspecified media figures. “So I’m not talking about everybody, but a big portion of the media — the dishonesty, total deceit and deception makes them certainly partially the opposition party, absolutely.”
He added that the media are “much more capable” than the actual opposition party, the rebuilding Democratic Party that largely expected a Hillary Clinton victory on Election Day. Trump said the Democratic Party “is losing badly” but has the media on its side.
“And I actually said to myself, I say, ‘They treat me so unfairly it’s hard to believe that I won,’” he recalled telling himself. “But the fortunate thing about me is I have a big voice. I have a voice that people understand.” read more