"The Trump administration does not pull any punches with the White House press pool."
It needs very little introduction, and so I’ll not burden you with one.
1. Here It Is, in All Its Glory
"The entire thing was almost cinematic — except that if it had been a scene in a movie, reviews would likely have included observations that “nah, this couldn’t happen in real life; no politician would have the stones to shred the media this badly.”
" 'And that might have been true up until not long ago, but when Miller fully spread his wings in this second Trump administration the whole reality changed.
"It’s going to be interesting to see the reverberations from Miller’s tour de force and whether it changed the standard for media relations.
" 'If nothing else, this is such a complete 180-degree turn from the posture the George W. Bush administration took vis-a-vis the legacy corporate media. It was pretty standard procedure for the Bushies (some of whom I liked: Tony Snow was an excellent press secretary before he got sick, and who can’t like Dana Perino?) to adopt a deferential attitude toward a hostile press corps. Miller, on the other hand, will challenge the false premise of any of those questions.
"As will Karoline Leavitt, who has done a great deal of work in restoring some ideological balance to that room.
"None of this is going to alter the left-wing propaganda press’s coverage of the administration, of course. These are Democrat political operatives disguised as journalists, and as such, they’re going to act as the proverbial scorpion acts toward the gullible frog carrying him across the river.
"The difference, as Miller’s glorious tirade makes clear, is that this administration refuses to be the gullible frog. Instead, it’s the elephant who stomps the scorpion flat on the riverbank." . ..
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