After Likening Trump to Hitler,
Journalists Upset They're Not Getting Called on for Questions
'The President of the United States
is shutting down the part of the First Amendment'
February 15, 2017
https://news.grabien.com/story-after-likening-trump-hitler-journalists-upset-theyre-not-get
Members of the mainstream media were
left fuming this afternoon after President Trump refused to call on
any of their organizations for the third straight press conference.
Yet many of these same news
organizations have likened Trump to the Taliban and Adolf Hitler, floated false
rumors about his use of a Russian prostitute, and accused his
administration of being pro-slavery.
After Trump avoided calling on MSNBC
during today's presser with Benjamin Netanyahu, MSNBC’s Peter Alexander
complained that the conservative journalists he did call on didn’t ask “real
questions” like he would have.
“What was striking," Alexander said, was that "President Trump,
again, called on a series of more conservative leaning news organizations which
didn’t allow for any real questions, trying to zero in on this issue of Mike
Flynn, the now former national security advisor."
We can't speak for Trump, but one
reason he may not be in a rush to give MSNBC more airtime is that they seem
intent on using it to liken him to Adolf Hitler.
On Trump's Inauguration Day,
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow likened Trump's election to "Hitler's rise." Her colleague Chris Matthews
described Trump's inaugural address as "Hitlerian." Matthews also mocked Trump's
family, likening them to the Russian imperial family, the Romanovs. He's so
fond of this metaphor he now uses it all the time.
CNN reporters were likewise angry at
not being called on during today's Trump presser.
"In the last three news
conferences, Wolf, all of the questions to the American news media have been
handled by conservative press, and I think, Wolf, there’s no other way to
describe it but the fix is in," CNN's Jim Acosta vented during a post-press
conference interview with Wolf Blitzer. "This White House, this
president does not want to answer questions, critical questions, about his
associates, his aides’ contacts with the Russians during the course of that
campaign just as his national security advisor is being run out of this White
House on a rail."
CNN's John King echoed his
colleague, complaining that conservative journalists are not asking Trump
“tough questions."
“Well, it would be nice — it would
be nice if the conservative outlets the president is calling on would ask him
tough questions," King lamented. "And instead of actually
trying to curry favor with this president, they might do him a favor by letting
him answer these questions because until he answers these questions this story
is not going to go away."
Why might Trump be ignoring
CNN?
Trump himself explained his
frustration in an earlier press conference, when he noted that CNN ran a report
about a rumor -- since discredited -- that he had used the services of a
prostitute during a trip to Moscow. Trump even complimented The New York Times
for passing on the story. CNN has since stuck by its decision to publish the
uncorroborated report.
ABC's Matthew Dowd went so far as to
claim today that Trump is "shutting down" the First Amendment by not
calling on liberal media outlets during these press conferences.
“Well, I was struck by — when you
look at this, this is two democracies, two important democracies in the world
and basically the President of the United States is shutting down the part of
the First Amendment by not taking questions that are going to be any way
antagonistic in this," Dowd said.
What might Trump have against ABC?
Well, Dowd himself has accused Trump of pushing legislation that plays to the
racial “fears” of his base. On ABC's political show,
"The View," hosts have likened Trump to the Taliban, claimed his
administration wants to bring back slavery, and said his approach to the
media mirrors a dictatorship.
So who did Trump call on today? The
Christian Broadcast Network and Townhall.com. Both of these news organizations
have run plenty of negative Trump stories. Townhall's two most well known
pundits -- Katie Pavlich and Guy Benson -- were both outwardly opposed to Trump
during the Republican primary.
One thing they haven't done? Publish
anti-Trump fake news and/or compare him to history's most infamous mass
murderers.
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