Slate on the media today "There Is No "Unity" to Celebrate, and We Aren't "Resolved" to Do Anything

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/02/cnn_other_pundits_imagine_unified_nation_awaiting_president_s_comforting.html

by Ben Mathis-Lilley

Before Donald Trump’s brief Monday-morning remarks about Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas, CNN’s anchors and pundits repeatedly suggested that the president—the one whose response to a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico has been to make repeated, petty comments about the mayor of its largest city; who ignored that crisis as it developed because he was perpetrating a widely unpopular vendetta against football players; whose comments after a woman was run down and killed at a white supremacist rally suggested that liberals bore some blame for her death; and whose unfiltered early morning reaction to Las Vegas was to bizarrely write that he sent its victims his “warmest condolences”—would deliver a meaningful, uplifting speech.

The network’s anchors and pundits used the word unity seven times, also raising themes such as “calm,” “resolve,” “reassurance,” and consolation. “He has shown he can bring this country together,” said one anchor, Poppy Harlow, apparently reporting from an alternate reality. As viewers waited for Trump to take the lectern, analyst Lisa Monaco even suggested that he might be delaying his speech in order to carefully gather more information:

One of the things that could be delaying the speech is the lack of information. You want to find out everything you can before you come out and speak before the country.
Yes—deliberative empiricism, our president's trademark! In any case, Trump finally arrived and read a short series of banal, vague clichés about being “joined together” in “sadness, shock, and grief” from a teleprompter. His comments—as the leader of our country and the person who is ostensibly most responsible for preserving its well-being and the lives of its citizens—did not address the United States’ epidemic of mass shootings or its high baseline level of violence.

Here’s how CNN’s news team responded:

(see the link for the video and the puke inducing calls of "pitch perfect&quot

[gopiscrap]

1. exactly and this is one of the biggest problems facing us today

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. the media just drools at any chance to even start to normalize the monster

[gopiscrap]

3. I know it's because they are corporate whores

chasing a buck

[SunSeeker]

4. K & R

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Boy

His comments about Puerto Rico and, more alarmingly, North Korea have fallen down the "memory" hole pretty darned quick, haven't they? Now, CNN is onto the next thing to try to "normalize" Trump and make him "Presidential". WTF is wrong with them???

[NRaleighLiberal]

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[Solly Mack]

7. No person as divisive as Trump is can ever hope to call for unity without people responding

with derision.

Trump has, by design, done all he can to be divisive. To stoke hate and violence.

Trump can never - ever - be a voice of reason, a voice for unity. He isn't capable of offering reassurance,

Trump is forced to put on a mask of human decency while he reads from a teleprompter - the words written by someone else who is also pretending to be decent and kind - but we all know it is role-playing - and bad role-playing at that.