It’s Hard To Be Consistent
Most of us have seen the video the President shared with him doing a “throw down” against CNN. And according to Dean Obeidallah this isn’t funny and you would never find Obama doing something like that.
Of course having been on vacation for the last 8 years the media is having a hard time getting back into work mode. (Remember when the election of Obama give chills going up their legs?)
Over at Reporters Committee they have comdemned President Thrump
"No one should be threatened with physical harm for doing their jobs. Journalists are your neighbors, they're your friends. Journalists perform a critical function in our society, one the Founding Fathers felt was so necessary that they enshrined it first in the Bill of Rights.
"They wrote that 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.'
I guess they didn't read the amendment too close because the "freedom of speech" comes before the "freedom of the press"! Thought I'd point that out.
They continue...
"Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of our democracy. The press are the people's window into the halls of power, and most importantly, they are the people's check on that power. When the president attacks the press, he attacks the people."
Thought I might also point out that the President is the only government official that is elected by all citizens of the United States. So really isn't any attack on the President an attack on all the people.
And of course most journalist are now afraid to do their job thinking they might be targets.
CNN's Clarissa Ward, a foreign correspondent, served as guest co-host on Wednesday's broadcast of CNN's News Day. Ward fretted that "people" in war zones have been "emboldened" by President Trump's "declaration of war on the media." Ward, expressing concern for members of the media in dangerous areas of the world, said to guest Chris Cillizza, 'I can only imagine what a person like you is dealing with. At what point does this become reckless or irresponsible?'
Again they fall to be consistent. I recall many newspeople being attacked before...
But I don't recall the media going of on the deep end blaming anyone for inciting violence against reporters then. Do you?
And now...
Carl Bernstein is calling on journalists to commit to a "different kind of reporting" in response to a "malignant presidency" unlike any the country has seen before.
"We're in foreign territory," Bernstein said Friday on CNN's "New Day."
He added, "We have never been in a malignant presidency like this before. It calls on our leaders, it calls on our journalists to do a different kind of reporting, a different kind of dealing with this presidency and the president."
Victor Davis Hanson has a great article in American Greatness.
Where he reminds us...
Start with the given that there are now regrettably few accepted norms of presidential behavior. Trump’s occasional uncouthness is a symptom, not a catalyst, of the times. Bill Clinton redefined presidential behavior when he had sexual relations with a 22-year-old, unpaid intern (so much for power imbalances as sexual harassment) in the presidential bathroom off the Oval Office, lied about his recklessness to his family and the country, smeared Monica Lewinsky, and then wheeled out to the Rose Garden feminist cabinet officers like Madeline Albright and Donna Shalala to deny and defend his unsavory predatory behavior. After that sordid episode, the apologetic Left lost all credibility as an arbiter of presidential norms.
The President is not being as presidential as most most hope, but remember he is not a politician. He came from the private sector. He does things different. Which is quite refreshing from my point of view.
Also can you name one Statesman now in office?
As William F. Buckley once said:
I'd rather be ruled by the first 400 people in the Boston phone book than by the people in congress now!
The media needs to pull up their big girl panties and try to regain the respect from the people by reporting the news and not making up stories from "un-named" sources.
One more thing...
Where Is The Russia Story Now?
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