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The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency


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One Dem talking point is especially maddening. They say Russia tried to help Trump and Trump "welcomed that help."

But there was no actual Russian "help" offered at the Trump Tower meeting. It was bogus.

And Trump "welcomed" WikiLeaks emails... but so did the rest of the US media

 

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More FAKE NEWS from WaPo........................

 

 

 

 

 

 

But Wemple provides the transcript of the relevant Q&A, which shows that he is misrepresenting it.

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As you can see, Lesko is complaining about the large number of citations from all three news sources, not the relatively small number of citations from Fox.

Boot's parroting of Wemple's false characterization reinforces Lesko's concern about "taking news stories at face value."

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Because Fox News just isn't propagandistic enough! This man demands corruption of everything

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Trump knocks Fox News after poll shows him losing to Biden by 10 points

 
 

 

 

President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on Fox News on Friday, complaining that the network’s pollsters aren’t favorable enough to him after claiming the news organization had been “Proud Warriors” for him in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. 

“@FoxNews is at it again. So different from what they used to be during the 2016 Primaries, & before - Proud Warriors! Now new Fox Polls, which have always been terrible to me (they had me losing BIG to Crooked Hillary), have me down to Sleepy Joe,” he tweeted, using the nickname he has assigned to former Vice President Joe Biden.

 

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/26/trump-fox-news-biden-poll-1437265

 

Yes, Hillary was ahead in the polls, also. 

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

...how the hell can you use BOTH of those is the same damn sentence?...paradox of EPIC proportions.....

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On 7/15/2019 at 8:22 AM, Buffalo_Gal said:



 

All this, but it is a group chat that takes them down? There are calls for the governor to resign over the "chat scandal" too. 


Top Puerto Rico officials resign in group chat scandal that ensnares governor
 

Two of Puerto Rico’s top government officials resigned on Saturday following the publication of a bombshell group chat in which Governor Ricardo Rossello and his closest allies exchanged controversial messages that have led to widespread calls for Rossello to also step down.
 

The political turmoil comes at a critical stage in the U.S. commonwealth’s historic bankruptcy and as its officials seek billions of dollars in funding from the federal government for healthcare and for recovery efforts following devastating hurricanes in 2017.
 

It also follows a 32-count federal indictment and arrests on Wednesday of six people, including two former high-ranking Puerto Rico government officials, who were charged with conspiracy and other crimes in connection with millions of dollars in federal Medicaid and education funds.
 

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Two of the 12-member group chat - Secretary of State Luis Rivera Marin and Christian Sobrino, the island’s chief financial officer and Rossello’s representative on Puerto Rico’s federally created fiscal oversight board - left the government following Saturday’s release by Puerto Rico journalist group Centro de Periodismo Investigativo of 889 pages of text messages.
 

They show how Rossello and his closest advisors, including former and current public officials, public relations operatives and the governor’s former campaign manager, exchanged memes, derogatory, misogynistic and homophobic comments, as well as jokes about journalists, politicians and activists in a Telegram group chat. The messages further include public policy discussions, sharing of confidential government information and political campaign work, despite the presence of individuals who were not public officials at the time. 
 

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Justice secretary turns down Puerto Rico governorship
 

Woman set to replace Puerto Rico governor rejects job
 

Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez, who was set to be Puerto Rico’s next governor, says she doesn’t want the job as the U.S. territory reels from political crisis, the Associated Press tweeted, Sunday.
 

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26 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


 

Justice secretary turns down Puerto Rico governorship
 

Woman set to replace Puerto Rico governor rejects job
 

Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez, who was set to be Puerto Rico’s next governor, says she doesn’t want the job as the U.S. territory reels from political crisis, the Associated Press tweeted, Sunday.
 

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She was on the protesters shitlist too.

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It’s the Trump Card vs. the Race Card, Who Will Win? 

 

“Cummings is black and you aren’t allowed to say anything to certain people who are protected.

 

The protected crowd are designated minorities who are Democrats.

 

Women, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, LGBTQ etc. who are NOT leftists are allowed and encouraged to be attacked.”

 

 

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

It’s the Trump Card vs. the Race Card, Who Will Win? 

 

“Cummings is black and you aren’t allowed to say anything to certain people who are protected.

 

The protected crowd are designated minorities who are Democrats.

 

Women, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, LGBTQ etc. who are NOT leftists are allowed and encouraged to be attacked.”

 

 

 

.....NOT TO WORRY!!....Reverend Sharpton is on his way to Baltimore to straighten everything out....

 

 

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News

 

President Trump on Monday blasted Rev. Al Sharpton as a "con man," claiming he "hates whites & cops," after the MSNBC host said he would travel to Baltimore amid the controversy over the president's comments about the city and its Democratic lawmakers.

Sharpton tweeted Sunday evening that he would travel to Baltimore to "address Trump's remarks & bi-partisan outrage in the black community" over them. Trump responded by slamming Sharpton, saying they have known each other for decades and used to attend fights together. But the president did not pull any punches when weighing in on Sharpton's character.

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.....NOT TO WORRY!!....Reverend Sharpton is on his way to Baltimore to straighten everything out....

 

 

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News

 

President Trump on Monday blasted Rev. Al Sharpton as a "con man," claiming he "hates whites & cops," after the MSNBC host said he would travel to Baltimore amid the controversy over the president's comments about the city and its Democratic lawmakers.

Sharpton tweeted Sunday evening that he would travel to Baltimore to "address Trump's remarks & bi-partisan outrage in the black community" over them. Trump responded by slamming Sharpton, saying they have known each other for decades and used to attend fights together. But the president did not pull any punches when weighing in on Sharpton's character.

 

Too bad the Dems can't use the perfectly set up punchline - "It takes one to know one."

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And traditional media wonder why nobody trusts them anymore.............Hmmmm.

 

ABC’s Alex Mallin shared a piece calling into question Rep. John Radcliffe’s link to an anti-terrorism financing case which he has apparently used as a key credential in being picked for Trump’s intelligence director.

 

 

 

And gosh, this would indeed be a big deal … if it were true. But it doesn’t sound like it is.

Sean Davis called Mallin out:

 

 

 

 

Not good, ABC. Not good at all.

 

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/07/30/didnt-even-bother-to-contact-him-sean-davis-rips-abcs-alex-mallin-a-new-one-for-bogus-piece-on-rep-john-radcliffe/

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“WITHOUT EVIDENCE”

 

One of the left’s favorite tricks is to assert that a conservative has said something “without evidence.” The formula has become ritual, but usually it just means that the liberal employing it has no idea whether the conservative’s statement is correct, and is too lazy to try to find out. An entertaining instance comes from InstaPundit. Kyle Griffin is with MSNBC:

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Which drew this response on Twitter:

 

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Glenn Reynolds comments:

“Without evidence” now translates as “I hate Trump and I don’t want it to be true, but I’m not actually going to check because I’m too lazy and hate-filled to do actual journalism.”

Exit question: Do you think Trump made the statement because he expected this sort of reaction?

I would say the truth is somewhat worse. President Trump knows whether he was at Ground Zero, and his saying he was there is evidence. Now, an MSNBC left-winger might arbitrarily choose to disbelieve him, but that disbelief is without evidence.

 

 

 

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SHARYL ATTKISSON: When polls shape opinion rather than measure it.

While looking into this phenomenon in 2016, I contacted a number of polling groups. I knew that they “weight” and adjust their samples to make them reflect certain demographics of the U.S. population. In simple terms, if their sample ends up with too many young people, they assign greater weight to responses from older people. The methods they use to do so vary and are arcane, to say the least. For example, ABC states that it “adopted iterative weighting, also known as raking or rim weighting, in which the sample is weighted sequentially to Census targets one variable at a time, continuing until the optimum distribution is achieved.”

 

But one of the most interesting things I learned had to do with one big factor for which they typically don’t “weight” or adjust. It’s one that I think is arguably among the most important when it comes to polls measuring political issues: political affiliation. In other words, the national pollsters I spoke with told me that if they end up interviewing significantly more Democrats than Republicans — which is often the case — they don’t necessarily adjust the results to try to make the sample reflective of the U.S. voting population.

 

“I wonder why that is?” he asked rhetorically.

 
 
 
 
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Russian bots are out to get Kamala! 

 

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Never change, establishment DNC. 

26 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

The "SAVE KAMALA" memo has gone out...................................

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It's just further proof that Kamala picked Hillary's people to run her campaign. 

 

 

Big mistake, Senator. Huge.

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8 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Here's a real - time example of how Trump uses Twitter: 

 

(Knowing that the tweet happened after the break in, he chums the waters knowing someone will take the bait... and:)

 

 

:lol: 


The responses to that tweet are something else. People really do have some severe mental illnesses over President Trump. TDS is real, and magnified on twitter.

 

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28 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Here's a real - time example of how Trump uses Twitter: 

 

(Knowing that the tweet happened after the break in, he chums the waters knowing someone will take the bait... and:

 

:lol: 

 

18 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


The responses to that tweet are something else. People really do have some severe mental illnesses over President Trump. TDS is real, and magnified on twitter.
 

 

 

Well, there is only ONE explanation you guys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump broke into Cummings house himself....................knowing he would tweet about Baltimore the next day !

 

 

 

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MEET THE TALKING POINTS

Yesterday on Meet the Press host (and NBC political director) Chuck Todd channeled the Democratic Party talking points of the hour as he sought to attribute blame for the El Paso massacre to President Trump. Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was on hand to represent the administration. The look on Mulvaney’s face when Todd turned to him said it all (video below).

 

Todd posed a political accusation as something like a self-evident truth: “You don’t accept the fact that the president’s rhetoric has been a contributing factor at all?”

 

Todd warmed up for another question with a tendentious argument: “In fairness [sic], the president has spent the last month on Twitter stoking racial resentment. You can try to rationalize…”

 

Todd yammered about the “gun show loophole.” What did it have to with the El Paso (or Dayton) massacre? Todd was replaying a Democratic talking point that has now achieved the status of a golden oldie.

 

 

 

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/meet-the-talking-points.php

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