Take away credentials?
He’s musing aloud about suppressing the news media again.
The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018
The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?
Says the most corrupt president in living memory (and probably in dead memory too – Teapot Dome wishes it had been that corrupt.)
In his tweet, Trump referred to a study that found 91 percent of network news stories about him are negative.
Shortly before, the anchors on “Fox & Friends” on Fox News discussed a study by the Media Research Center study citing that figure after evaluating the nightly newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC between January and April.
Fox News of course is not corrupt at all, it’s only the ones that don’t kiss his ring that are corrupt. 91% of the total, apparently.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1908894172462368/?type=3&theater
Would that we could take the credentials of the fake president.
At first I was amused at how Trump explains in brackets what the word “negative” means because, you know, three syllables. Then I realised, this might be an accurate representation of what passes for his thought process, some kind of rolling replacement of words-he-doesn’t-like with words that create meaning that he approves of. It’s not an easy thing to do, that’s why it sometimes comes out as word salad.
Funny thing, of course, is that the only ‘credentials’ he can actually take away are the ones that provide ‘access’ (ie, press invites to the White House briefing room, etc). So he would remove the one thing that lets him have a captive audience who have to somberly report the lies coming out of Sanderson’s mouth using that fake definition of ‘objectivity’ which has come to mean ‘unchallenging’. Taking away those credentials would just unleash a couple dozen story-hungry reporters into the streets of Washington, D.C., to find actual sources, while at the same time removing any leverage he might have over those same reporters’ bosses.
In short, President Dumpster-Fire…. DO IT.