Carl Bernstein: Trump is a Con Man, and has made "Monkeys' out of media

[HipChick]

Going in hard on Trump, on CNN right now..

[OKNancy]

1. so many threads this morning about the Sunday shows finally slamming Trump

Did they just wake up? no
Embarrassed? probably

The tide turned after so many people complained about the different standards applied to the two candidates.... and then he did the ultimate icing... his birther b.s.

[lame54]

3. It was the infomercial he conned them into making for him with his half hour of free air-time

[Eleanors38]

6. Nah, just viral behavior on MSM's part.

[malaise]

7. The last straw for M$Greedia was when he played them for fools

at the infomercial for his hotel where he declared that Obama is a citizen as if anyone gives a fugg what he thinks. He will pay not because of the birther BS, but he should have been disqualified for that reason from day one.

[librechik]

2. They were already monkeys.Trump got them yakkin & screamin & jumpin & crashin the cymbals

[anamandujano]

4. My first thought also but expressed so much better by you.

[tenderfoot]

5. I am so sick of this notion that Trump fooled the media - when it's the media that created him.

[loyalsister]

9. Yes!

He is one of them.
Entertainment and news media joined first for Infotainment which has been around on cable news stations for a long time. More recently they injected "reality" into what was once sometimes respectable entertainment media. He's one of the first stars and success stories. He's their boy. There really should be more discussion about that particularly given that he is truly dangerous.

[JI7]

8. the media already sucked

If trump was more friendly with them like Bush was they would not be doing this .

[liberalhistorian]

10. Well, good for him and he's certainly

correct about the goddamned lapdog corporate media falling all over themselves for Drumpf and allowing themselves to be played like fiddles by his masterful knowledge of media manipulation. But he also recently claimed that Hillary's email "scandal" was in many ways worse than Nixon and Watergate, which is pure, complete, utter, unrefined BULLSHIT.