Thomas Lifson "It is now an established practice in roughly 90% of the American media that anything that President Trump does is wrong, and usually an outrage. Thus, when he and Melania flew to Iraq and Germany for a post-Christmas visit to the troops deployed there, it had to be bad, a transparently craven reaction to criticisms that had started appearing in lefty media that he had not yet visited troops in a war zone – as all his recent predecessors had done -- as his first term in office neared its halfway point."Brit Hume, the senior commentator at Fox News, and a man who has seen it all in the DC swamp over the last several decades, was not an early Trump supporter, but over the last couple of years, seems to have had his fill of TDS-addled media figures hyperventilating about everything Trump does.
"Soledad O’Brien has not been around the media as long as Brit Hume, but her background includes stints at a number of the major Trump-hating broadcast outlets, including MSNBC, CNN (where she anchored the morning show Starting Point) and HBO. Now she runs a
. . . Our clients rely on our journalism and storytelling to amplify their brand messages, and together, we create memorable campaigns."[Cough!] If it is written at the behest of the subject who is paying you, it ain't properly called "journalism." The charitable term is "PR" and less charitable ones include "propaganda" and "flackery" among others. " . . .
Here is part of the Hume-O'Brien exchange from Don Surber:
O'Brien reverted to her CNN culture with this response to Hume:
"Sorry—let me spell it out more slowly so you can understand me: the President (according to cnn’s Barabar Starr*) prepped for this trip several weeks ago," O'Brien retorted in a tweet liked 860 times as of Thursday morning.* Barbara Starr (Misspelled by O'Brien)
"The shaming seems to have worked," she added. "I hope you’re having a nice holiday. Try not to be such an a**hole in 2019."
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