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As North Korea's crazed Kim Jong Un threatens war, reporters target Trump tweets
POSTED ON AUGUST 9, 2017 BY JOHN HINDERAKER  POWERLINE
FOR REPORTERS, THE ENEMY IS TRUMP, NOT NORTH KOREA

Last night I wrote about the fact that the Associated Press has done little or no actual reporting on the North Korea crisis, but rather has used the episode as another excuse to bash President Trump–foolishly, in this case. Earlier this evening I was on the Seth and Chris show
​in Phoenix, talking about the AP’s absurd coverage of Trump and Kim Jong Un.

Michael Ramirez’s most recent cartoon picks up on the theme of my post with Ramirez’s usual flair. 

Most of the liberal press has little interest in Kim Jong Un or the prospect of nuclear bombs landing in Japan, South Korea, Hawaii, America’s West Coast or Guam. They are crazed. Their only enemy is President Trump. We have never seen anything like it before.
POSTED ON AUGUST 8, 2017 BY JOHN HINDERAKER    POWERLINE
​ON NORTH KOREA, ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA REPLACES REPORTING
The threat from North Korea is real, and is growing more imminent. President Trump is trying to rally international opposition to the crazed North Korean regime, to prepare Americans for possible dramatic action to remove the threat, and–most important–to deter North Korea from moving forward with aggressive plans against the U.S. This is serious business, but it isn’t being treated as such by most of the news media, which see only an opportunity to continue their daily assault on President Trump.

The Associated Press is one of the worst offenders. When Fox News reported that U.S. spy satellites had detected the North Koreans loading anti-ship cruise missiles onto a patrol boat, the AP couldn’t focus on anything other than a tweet by Trump.

First, the Fox story:
Despite the United States’ insistence that North Korea halt its missile tests, U.S. spy agencies detected the rogue communist regime loading two anti-ship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the country’s east coast just days ago.

It’s the first time these missiles have been deployed on this type of platform since 2014, U.S. officials with knowledge of the latest intelligence in the region told Fox News on Monday.

It also points to more evidence that North Korea isn’t listening to the diplomatic threats from the West.

“The best signal that North Korea could give us that they’re prepared to talk would be to stop these missile launches,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in the Philippines Monday.
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“North Korea is not showing any evidence it plans to halt its missile tests,” said one official who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive information. “It’s a trend that does not bode well for hopes of de-escalating tensions on the [Korean] peninsula.”
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The latest moves by Pyongyang point to a likely missile test in the days ahead or it could be a defense measure should the U.S. Navy dispatch more warships to the Korean peninsula, officials said.
Thereafter, President Trump tweeted a link to the Fox News story. To the monomaniacal Associated Press, Trump’s tweet is the story: “Trump retweets Fox report based on anonymous sources.”
President Donald Trump has retweeted a Fox News report based on anonymous U.S. intelligence sources, despite his attorney general’s pledge to clamp down on government leaks.            Read the rest of John Hinderaker's essay at POWERLINE