Like they’re not already?
Liberal New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said the news media should work together and saturate the public with negative coverage of President Trump in order to erode his popularity among Republican voters.
Friedman said in an op-ed published Wednesday afternoon that if the media emphasize Trump’s personality instead of news about the strong economy, it may discourage enough GOP voters from continuing to support the president and benefit Democrats.
“Some healthy soul searching is taking place in newsrooms across the country these days over whether the mainstream media should be covering President Trump’s every tweet and rally,” Friedman wrote. “My answer: Absolutely! It’s the right thing for us to do professionally, and, as last night’s election results indicated, it’s the right thing to do politically if you want to see a check on Donald Trump’s power.”
“No question that the press should not allow itself to be props at Trump’s rallies, and that can be dealt with by using a single pool camera that feeds all the networks, or reporters just sitting among the rally attendees, not in a special pen,” he wrote. “But the whole country needs to see every tweet, every rally, every word and every reaction so that they can ask themselves: ‘Is this who I want my kids to see as our president? Are these the people with whom I want to be aligned?’ It’s too late to move Trump’s core base on these questions, but I would not give up on his passive supporters.”
Trump currently has a 43 percent job approval rating, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average, down from a high of 46 percent last December. Among just Republican voters, however, Trump is closer to 90 percent, according to most polls.
What these idiots don’t realize is that more and more voters are coming to the realization that this is EXACTLY the strategy that has been ongoing since Trump became the front-runner and it is generating more and more support for Trump.
So, keep it up. It’s working beautifully.
The blindingly stupid lack of self awareness of the leftist (self-appointed), elite is essentially beyond parody. They couldn’t beclown themselves any more hypocritically if they were TRYING!
The leadership of the left is evil.
The RINOS are as despicable and as evil as the leaders of the left.
Anyone who votes for a leftist is either as evil, or too ignorant to realize they are being manipulated.
Clinton pushes a cigar into Lewinsky’s hoo hah in the Oval Office (on a woman young enough to be his daughter) and lies about it under oath, and the MSM covers for him and say, “who cares? It is just sex”.
But Trump is unfit for office because he was caught on tape saying that some women will let you grab their hoo hahs if you are rich?
Piss on the left. Piss HEAVILY on the activists pretending to be non-biased journalists.
MAGA!
DEPLORABLE
It has been the Press’s working for 60 years. I’m an 11th gen Cal on Mom’s side. I remember the Press with a bogus “news” attack on a young Cali named Nixon 60 years ago. Research “Checkers – Nixon” A made up “news” story to attack a man who’d be President in 20 years!
Note the “Checkers” slime happened 2 decades before he was elected President! He was just a young ex Navy Lt!
Every effort should be made to expose this lying conman and his compromised and corrupted administration before they damage the nation, its government, and its vital institutions beyond repair.
@Greg: Perhaps a better way to phrase that is that the media should report all the news factually. Of course, when the President isn’t doing anything wrong, that doesn’t satisfy your goal to depose a duly elected President that happens to be doing a really good job.
If only the media had made every effort to expose Fast and Furious, Obama’s racism in the Harvard professor ordeal, the IRS targeting scandal, the Benghazi scandal, the Iran scandal, the Muslim Brotherhood scandal, the ISIS scandal, the Obamacare scandal, the immigration scandal. Imagine if the media was as enthusiastic about exposing Hillary’s lies, failures, crimes and scandals as they are about finding them on Trump and, failing that, making them up. THEN we could look upon our media with respect and admiration.