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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJim Acosta just let loose on CNN and said he has had it
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In an impassioned talk with Brooke, he gave an honest assessment of how this administration has attached his lifes work. Worth watching when posted.
barbtries
(28,810 posts)on twitter i just replied to this tweet
Link to tweet
One of the most disengenuous events Ive witnessed. @Acosta asked repeatedly about us being the enemy of the people and SHS repeats a laundry list of slights and her need for SS protection. 5 dead in Annapolis.
by saying the entire press corps should stop showing up and just tell their readers/watchers that they can deliver the news better without the propaganda. i'm not the only one making the suggestion.
imagine she gets up there for daily or weekly or whatever press conference and nobody's there saying "Sarah, Sarah"
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)by the owner at the request of staff? How ludicrous and what a snowflake. She's milking that.
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)Link to tweet
"I'm tired of this," @Acosta says. "It is not right" to call the press the "enemy of the people." Watch this clip.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)calimary
(81,421 posts)They ALL should stop attending these sham bulkshit briefings. Itd be GREAT to see her sashay out to the podium for her next round of insults, lies, condescensions, and obfuscations - and find NOBODY there.
When that CNN reporter was singled out for punishment and barred from the next press event, they all should have boycotted.
They REALLY need to stand up and be defiant and NOT knuckle under to the bullshit for another nanosecond. Otherwise there are no consequences for this shit. And no reason not to keep punishing the press.
You do NOT reward or reinforce bad behavior!!! Any dedicated and responsible parent knows that.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)The room would be filled with the actual fake media: Breitfart, Asshole Jones Info Whores, Russia Toady and maybe even q would lob softball questions to her and use that platform to air their latest nutty conspiracy theories.
Polly Hennessey
(6,801 posts)Enjoyed when Sarah Sanders complained that there was no national coverage of Trumpies Tampa rally. Gives us a clue that not covering them is having an impact. Media just needs to send a pool reporter to the daily press briefings. She never answers the questions, just reads from a scripted list, so why bother.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Ignore what they say; we need to focus on stopping what they do.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)And his golf weekends (of which there are many) costs a lot more than that.
They ought to give national coverage to that.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Neither should his stumping for Repug candidates, which should only be covered by the local media in the area affected. These always end up all about Trump, and his spewing hatred. If he can't stick to important national or world topics, reporters should just walk out. No previous president has started out campaigning the day after inauguration. And he's always in the nastiest possible campaign mode at that. He shows no respect for other national or world leaders except despots like Putin. Why should we expect him to be even a little courteous to journalists? Trump's a sick man and reporters should NOT pander to him, and follow Jim Acosta's example. I don't know how Acosta keeps civil, which he has always been while still persisting. It's his job.
calimary
(81,421 posts)DONT COVER HIM ANYMORE!!!
DONT pay him any attention. He craves attention. Lives off of it like a baby sucking milk out of Mamas breast. DONT feed the ego!!!
Me.
(35,454 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)stop begging for mercy from those interested only in our demise, and start acting like people facing the most pressing existential threat in our modern history. A threat, I might add, from within our own country, nay, from within our own illegally occupied white house. These trumpist call the press the enemy of the people because they want them to feel threatened. The press is only a metaphor for ANYONE who disagrees with the incompetence, criminality and frankly traitorous behavior of the trumpsters. And the trumpsters want us, those who find these trumpsters abominable and deplorable without any redeeming qualities, to feel as well so terrified that we simply wilt and submit to their malevolent demands. They will show no mercy, so why do so many reasonable people still afford them a certain respect and decorum that is normally reserved for those who actually care for our country? Liberals, Progressives, it's time to recognize for certain just what is happening. It's not going to be ok. This is not "just a phase". We are NOT just an election away of ridding ourselves of this disease. It's time to place steel in one's back, straighten the knee, recognize just what needs to be done and do it.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)Honest question. What would doing the right thing be? What acts?
calimary
(81,421 posts)Be on the lookout for key words and phrases that can and should be repeated. Words like treason and traitor and collusion and phrases like aid and comfort to the enemy. There are some good lines just upthread in The Liberal Lions post, just for one example. Lots of usable material just here on DU.
Repeat that stuff. Notice how, all of a sudden many reporters and show hosts are now using the words collusion and conspiracy more openly and often? Notice how serious the talk is getting and the phrasing thats becoming more common?
The table is now being set. No reason not to help it along!
PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT. Do it! Help it also whenever you can!
And if you havent yet connected with your local Indivisible group, DO THAT TOO!
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)to instruct a patriot as to what his or her best course of action should be in order to cripple and disrupt this festering evil infecting our country. My only wish, whatever that patriot may decide upon, is that the course of action is both legal and effective.
calimary
(81,421 posts)FAKE pResident.
FAKE pResident.
FAKE pResident.
(and, note, repeat it. Repeat it at least THREE TIMES.
He's bent on brainwashing to get his message out there, and into susceptible brains. So WE need to do the exact same thing. REPEAT. DRILL IT IN. REPEAT. And then, REPEAT SOME MORE!
It's a messaging device, and I think we all have to get a lot more savvy about it, and use it as a very large and important tool in our toolbox. Especially since our Dems don't seem to be so good at it yet. That only mean IT'S UP TO US. So let's do it and take the lead.
MESSAGING. It's CRITICAL! Critical to PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT, which is, frankly, all this is. You're managing other people's perception. What they perceive.
FAKE pResident.
FAKE pResident.
FAKE pResident.
A small additional note. I spelled the word "president" with a small p and a capital R. That's for the eyes, not the ears. When it's written, I want readers to see the "Resident" in the word "president." So - "pResident." Because you are accurately describing him. He unfortunately IS a RESIDENT of OUR White House. Doesn't belong there, though, because he's FAKE. His "pResidency" is FAKE. His WHOLE pResidency is FAKE. FAKE FAKE FAKE. Because his election was FAKE. His election was illegitimate as hell, and we need to start pushing THAT messaging, TOO!
That's also his Achilles Heel. All this shit we see playing out from him stems from not only his own basic insecurity (which is why he craves attention and praise and worship all the damn time), but also his deep-seated fear that his pResidency is illegitimate. His win was illegitimate. His victory in the 2016 was ILLEGITIMATE. Because the Russians engineered it. Vladimir Putin put his own damn thumb on the scale and tipped it for trump. Vladimir Putin even confirmed it, personally, when asked about it at that embarrassing press conference in Helsinki. Asked point-blank by the Reuters guy if he A) wanted trump to win and B) if he helped trump win. And he said - twice - "yes I did. Yes I did." He repeated that confirmation TWICE.
I'm listening to that idiot on a repeat soundbite of him in Pennsylvania last night. "Fake Fake Disgusting News?" How 'bout we snatch that talking point right outta his mouth, hijack the damn thing, and turn it around on him so it works for us! Use his own words against him! How does "Fake Fake Disgusting pResident" sound, 'eh?
THIS is what we should start doing, in earnest, and whenever the opportunity presents itself, either written or verbal. Either when talking about it with friends, OR writing it in a letter to the editor or a post on a blog site or discussion board or chat room.
START MANAGING PERCEPTION!!!! And if you repeat it often enough, it sinks in. Advertisers have known this FOREVER. Frank Luntz and George Lakoff and other messaging experts have known this for a long time. Speechwriters have known this. REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT.
Think of it this way: when you use a screwdriver or a drill, you don't just turn that screwdriver once, do you? You don't just press that button on that power drill once. You keep the pressure on that button. You keep turning that screwdriver. And what happens when you do that? The screw is driven in, fully, nice 'n' tight. Takes a little while. Takes longer than just one little press on the button or one turn of that screwdriver. But that's what gets the job done.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)There is no way she would do that. Her job is to be his spokesperson.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)All of you my age and older remember how Rather confronted Nixon. Trump hides from the media, so Acosta has to confront SHS.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)that THEY are the enemy of the people??
WHEN !!!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)And has a perfect right to say what he thinks.
She would not need protection if she did not go in front of the people and lie like a dog every day.
hexola
(4,835 posts)There is some real stuff to take these people to task on...
Squinch
(50,990 posts)resulted in any real new information coming out? The Carter administration?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but you'll note they follow them with analysis that calls out the inevitable lies and explains the actual context in which the statements are made.
I'm very glad to hear they didn't give that appalling gathering of rabble in Tampa the televised exposure desired. I didn't realize that and believe it was a very responsible decision.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)So they have no obligation whatsoever to 'cover' these silly events..
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)they're obliged to fulfill their duty to the citizenry by reporting them. This is a basic democracy issue, not a partisanship preference.
And we're not damned trumpsters. We know the difference.
jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)Thanks.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)mcar
(42,366 posts)and the blame will be completely on Dotard, Sarah Huck and the rest of these miserable low lifes.
machoneman
(4,007 posts)Get a quote from each and every one.
That'll be great!
Demonaut
(8,924 posts)hexola
(4,835 posts)When Trump is walking around making this claim for a week - and nobody calls him on it...
Meanwhile the press is making a stink about - ultimately - less important stuff.
Distraction works...