Jeopardy contestant and media guru Wolf Blitzer
recently interviewed Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s senior advisor. Blitzer asked Conway if she was
comfortable with Trump calling the news media “lowlifes” and “all sorts of other
ugly words.” She responded that
she avoids personal insults herself and then went on to catalogue a bevy of
media misdeeds. She described the
media as advocates rather than journalists and “many journalists have admitted
that Donald Trump compels them to suspend objective standards of journalism.”
Wolf Blitzed is worried. He complained, “The working
journalists, the embeds who are traveling with him all the time, they go to all
these rallies, they're in this pen, he points to them, he sort of eggs the
crowd on to go after them, and there are a lot of young journalists, they're
scared sometimes.” Before Conway
was able to respond Blitzer begged, "Could you talk to him and say to him,
'Mr. Trump, we only have a few days left. These are hardworking young
journalists. They deserve some security.'
if you will. Because, some
of those Trump supporters out there, they get pretty nasty at what they're
screaming at these young people."
A Business
Insider article states that Conway, “attempted to partially shift the blame
to journalists themselves.”
Conway’s defense of Trump was at times
weak. She stated, "I know
them all, I respect them all,” when responding to comments about the
journalists. She claimed,
“I think the responsibility has to go both ways." Not all of these “journalists” deserve
respect. Some do. The majority are as Trump says
lowlifes. They are propagandists
who are actively distorting the truth.
Trump’s comments are in response to their intentional distortions. Not all journalists intentionally
distort the news. Some sincerely
believe what they are reporting.
Wolf Blitzer may be excused.
Considering his performance on Jeopardy he may actually believe what he
is reporting.
Blitzed complained, “some of those Trump
supporters out there, they get pretty nasty at what they're screaming at these
young people.” The media is having
the vapors. The Denver
Post has a reporter who has, “been beaten, shot at, even chased by a gang
with machetes.” He’s “had weapons
pressed to my forehead, helicopter gunships searching for me, mortar shells
falling around me, and journalist friends killed right next to me.” He may even have been under sniper fire
with Hillary Clinton and Brian Williams in Bosnia. This violence was nothing compared to a Trump rally. He says we should be scared too, “If
not for the journalists who cover Trump, then for yourself, because if you
treasure freedom of the press, you need to realize, he’s putting it in
jeopardy.” The
New York Times chimed in with an article, “Partisan Crowds at Trump Rallies
Menace and Frighten News Media.”
In support of their argument Salon
reported on “a number of high-profile incidents in which journalists covering Trump’s
campaign,” experienced hostility from the crowd. CNN’s Jim Acosta reported being hit by a woman with a
sign. He did not appear in great
distress and had neglected to bandage his head. There was no sign of blood. CNN’s Sara Murray supposedly had her car keyed. NBC’s Katy Tur was singled out by Trump
and had the audience turned against her.
Oh my. The media story is
that Trump’s supporters are extremely violent and a threat to the First
Amendment. Do any of these media
cretins actually believe this?
The reality is that the overwhelming amount of violence in this
campaign is committed by the anti-Trump forces. The Democratic Party has paid agitators to provoke violence
at Trump rallies. This has been revealed in video tapes produced by James O’Keefe. Members of the media make campaign contributions
overwhelmingly to the Clinton campaign.
Their Twitter accounts reveal a similar bias. Donna
Brazile was provided debate questions by her friends in the media which she
forwarded to Hillary Clinton.
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