Monday, July 3, 2017

Here is a question...

In the Trump media war... which do you believe is more likely to happen:
  • That the media's negative hateful coverage of Trump might lead to violence or attempted violence against Trump or other Republicans? 
  • That Trump's bashing of the media might lead to violence or attempted violence against the media? 
Seems that many in the media would like a one way street, where only they are allowed to practice hate, scorn, and division... while anyone who may have something negative to say about them, should "zip it" in the name of free speech?

118 comments:

Loretta said...

Since we've already seen what comes from the hateful left...

...I doubt the unhinged liberal lunatics will stop or even slow their unAmerican actions/rhetoric.

The bitter Hillary supporters won't stop until he's driven out of office - either by sedition or a hearse.

opie said...

Seems that many in the media would like a one way street,

Seems to me you have lost all touch of reality and that the free press, which is guaranteed by the constitution, is a burden that should go away. Your conversion to fascism is complete.

Myballs said...

They cared not when obama was bashing police depts across the country causing them to be shot and killed.

They're the ultimate in dish it out but can't take it bullies.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Boy. It's true Obama should not have responded as he did to the incident where a black man got arrested for trying to break back into his own home, but I never heard Obama "bashing police depts across the country causing them to be shot and killed."

A lot of black anger was sparked by videos showing police behaving in a way that police never should -- not always, but some particularly disturbing instances.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling

opie said...

Loretta said...
Obnoxious James Boswell trolling

And she keeps blathering away like a child. Dayum.....

OPIE said...

Anonymous Myballs said...
They cared not when obama was bashing police debts

Gotta link for those bashes or are you just making it up like CH....???????

Loretta said...

You forgot LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Fatty

OPIE said...

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Anonymous Myballs said..

CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP......

opie said...

Loretta said...
You forgot LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Fatty

Blather away dumb ass......!!!!!! I bet you feel really big now, just like donnie.....Idiot

Loretta said...

You forgot LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Fatty

wphamilton said...

I think that violence feeds on itself, whichever side it's coming from, and we've already seen some incidences where the hate rhetoric might have played some part. Trump isn't helping himself nor anyone else with violent imagery and being pugnacious. The hate speech from the Left, it goes without saying that they've crossed the line.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump's tweetings make him look almost as dumb as LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL.

BORING.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Blogger James said...
The hate speech from the left, Wp?

Every listened to Alex Jones?

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling

Loretta said...

Just dying to comment about pedophilia, eh.

Loretta said...

"The hate speech from the Left, it goes without saying that they've crossed the line."

They're not going to stop.

They're just getting started.

C.H. Truth said...

Seems to me you have lost all touch of reality and that the free press, which is guaranteed by the constitution, is a burden that should go away

Not at all... the press is free to do whatever they want. CNN is free to wallow in dismal third place cable ratings for as long as they choose to do so. I am not suggesting that the media has to shut anything down.

It's actually the Media (and people like you) who seem to believe that this is a one way street, and that any rebuttal by the President should not be allowed.

I say what is good for the goose is good for the gander and if you cannot take the heat, then get out of the kitchen. I have "zero" empathy and "zero" sympathy for the media's crying about what Trump says about them.

Donald Trump's twitter account is as much "free speech" as Don Lemon and CNN Tonight's show is.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

"Spam" Reality Check:

Big Majority Say U.S. Politics Is Less Civil Under Trump

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds 70% of Americans say the level of civility in Washington has gotten worse since President Trump was elected, while just 6% say the overall tone has improved.

For comparison, 35% in 2009 said civility in the country had declined in the U.S. following President Obama’s election while 21% thought civility and the tone of discourse in the country had improved.

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The American people are getting desperately hungry again for a President who can speak in coherent, meaningful, rational paragraphs, even without using a teleprompter.

Trump can't.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Another boring comment by squaw Loretta.

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Meanwhile, some very importangt info just broke:

U.S. Will LET RUSSIA DECIDE Future of Syria

“Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres during a private State Department meeting last week that the fate of Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad now lies in the hands of Russia, and that the Trump administration’s priority is limited to defeating the Islamic State,” Foreign Policy reports.

“The remarks offer the latest stop on a bumpy U.S. policy ride that has left international observers with a case of diplomatic whiplash as they try to figure out whether the Trump administration will insist that Assad step down from power. Nearly three months ago, Tillerson HAD INSISTED that Assad would have to leave office because of his alleged use of chemical weapons.”
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Boy, what a lot of amateurs. So are they admitting Obama acted rightly?

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling, at least it's not about pedophilia this time.

wphamilton said...

Blogger James said...
The hate speech from the left, Wp?


There is no question in my mind, that the Left-leaning press literally hates Donald Trump and frequently publishes irrational, hateful screeds about him.

To the extent that the Democratic Party encourages it - if indeed they do - I consider it a horrible mistake. Almost as bad as the mistake of forcing the nomination of Clinton was - at best, they are compounding that mistake.

C.H. Truth said...

Yes James...

The political discord is worse today than since (arguably) the Clinton impeachment.

And there is certainly enough blame to go around.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
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Commonsense said...

It's true Obama should not have responded as he did to the incident where a black man got arrested for trying to break back into his own home,

He wasn't arrested to breaking back into his own home. He was arrested for being belligerent and uncooperative when he was ask by police what he was doing.

Are you saying the police should ignore some guy for breaking into a house?

Anonymous said...

but I never heard Obama "bashing police depts across the country causing them to be shot and killed."
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White House says more Black Lives Matter protests ‘a good thing’

As police departments across the country geared up for more Black Lives Matter demonstrations, the White House on Thursday called the street protests “a good thing.”

After another meeting with police and civil rights leaders this week, Mr. Obama said the U.S. is “not even close” to resolving tensions between minority communities and police departments.

“We will see more tension,” he said.


only a complete fucking asshole of a president invites a domestic terror group like black lies matter to the white house.

stoking the flames of racial hatred was really the only thing 0linsky excelled at.

Anonymous said...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/14/white-house-more-black-lives-matter-protests-good/

Myballs said...

DT jr makes a good point. The left can hold stage plays where trump gets assassinated daily or hold bloody severed trump head and it's called artistic expression. Trump tweets an amusing meme and he's accused of inciting violence.

More double standard.

Loretta said...

"To the extent that the Democratic Party encourages it - if indeed they do - I consider it a horrible mistake."

Well WP when DOZENS of dems in Congress boycotts an ignauration because they refuse to accept the results of the election , I'd say the dem party condones every bit of the venom and vitriol against Trump - and his supporters.

Loretta said...

"stoking the flames of racial hatred was really the only thing 0linsky excelled at."

Ghetto.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Obama did mishandle the breaking in incident, as he himself soon realized. When he was questioned about it, he should only have said, "I won't comment because it's still under investigation, and we should wait for the facts."

Loretta said...

Stupid fuck, he said the cops acted stupidly.

Just like you act every damn day.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Heavy stuff at politicalwire.com today:
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Big Majority Say U.S. Politics Is Less Civil Under Trump BIG MAJORITY THAT IS!!
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US Will LET RUSSIA DECIDE future of Syria

A COMPLETE REVERSAL OF EARLIER PROMISES. Does this indicate Obama was right after all?
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Top Recruit Won’t Challenge McCaskill ---WOW. BIG BLOW TO GOP HOPES.
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Republicans Outside Washington Warm to Tax Increases ---MY, MY. MY, MY.

EXCERPT: "They are challenging what has become an almost dogmatic belief for their party, and sharply diverging from President Trump as he pushes for what his administration has billed as the largest tax cut in at least a generation.”
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Trump Ally Sidelined by Russia Investigation ----OH NO! NOT RUSSIA AGAIN.
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GOP Lacks Votes to Raise Debt Ceiling -- OH My. THAT COULD PROVE PROBLEMATIC

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

My, my. Poor little Savageetta-loretta can't be civil. Typical Trumpista.

Got a reading problem?
I didn't say what he said. I said what he should have said.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

KD, Jane's Must Read post said...

Blogger James said...




July 3, 2017 at 11:46 AM
"

Best post eva by james

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Anonymous said...

Well WP when DOZENS of dems in Congress boycotts an ignauration because they refuse to accept the results of the election , I'd say the dem party condones every bit of the venom and vitriol against Trump - and his supporters.
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yep. and watching the extremely brief coverage the msm gave the alexandria shooting, they all looked like they were trying to pick up a turd from the clean end.

C.H. Truth said...

Best post eva by james

His most substantive post in a while..

KD, qouting verbatim Bleeding Jane said...

awhile ago I asked bleeding jane a question, it illustrates why she uses cunt-in-paste instead of her own thoughts..

KD How is it helping your cause that less and less blacks own their homes today then when Obama took Office?

Bleeding Jane " Because blacks know whom to blame."


Loretta said...

"yep. and watching the extremely brief coverage the msm gave the alexandria shooting, they all looked like they were trying to pick up a turd from the clean end."

Yep.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...


she also seems obsessed with pedo-ism for some reason
:-)
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Which substantial post was that? give us day date and time. I see a lot of substantial posts up there

If some of you would try REAL hard you might say something intelligent about those substantial posts.

Try. I know that's setting the bar very high for you.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

See? I set the bar too high.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

See? ROFL

Loretta said...

YOU don't set the bar at all.

That's why you were ignored when you wanted to discuss pedophilia.

Seriously concerned about my country, James said...

Bernstein: US is in a 'MALIGNANT presidency'

Bernstein called on the media to explore the question of whether Trump is "capable" of leading the country.
His remarks come at the end of a week in which Trump battered the media with insults

(CNN)Journalism legend Carl Bernstein called on the US press Friday to rise to the challenge of the Donald Trump presidency, which he characterized as "malignant."

On CNN's "New Day" he said Saturday:
"We're in foreign territory. We have never been in a malignant presidency like this before. It calls on our leaders, it calls on our journalists to do a different kind of reporting, a different kind of dealing with this presidency and the President."

Bernstein went on to argue that the Trump presidency's deepest problems are becoming an open secret in Washington.

"I think something much greater is happening, and that is that we are in the midst of a malignant presidency," he said.
"That malignancy is known
to the military leaders of the country.
It's known to the Republican leadership in Congress who recognize it, and
it's known to the intelligence community."

"That has got our leaders worried," he continued.
"They are worried about his character.
They are worried about his capabilities.
They are worried about his temperament and state of his temperament, to use kind words here."

Bernstein, a CNN contributor whose reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974, added:

"[R]eporters need to go out and talk to [those leaders] either off the record, on background, about the question of their confidence in this President and whether or not he is capable of being the President of the United States in a way that defends us, our country, and the Constitution of the United States. Many members of Congress, many of our military leaders, many in our intelligence community who I've spoken to, and I know other reporters have spoken to, understand and are beginning to comprehend that the underlying story here is a lack of confidence in the abilities and character of the President of the United States of America."

"This President is not in control of the presidency in a way that it is functioning, and that has got our leaders worried," Bernstein said.

"We have to ... be kind of medical reporters right now," he added. "I don't mean about the President's psyche, but rather about every aspect of his presidency, and how and whether it is functioning, because many aspects are not functioning."

His remarks come at the end of a week in which Trump has battered the media with insults, including an early morning tweet storm Thursday in which he attacked the intellect and appearance of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Those tweets drew wide condemnation from across the political spectrum in Washington and beyond.

Bernstein's comments put the blame for what he said was dysfunction within the Trump administration on the President himself.

The Trump presidency, he said, "is not functioning partly because of his character. It's not functioning partly because of his attacks on the press, which is totally moving the needle that the American people ... are watching. ... But it's really not functioning because the character and capabilities of this President are called into grave question in a way that those who know him best are raising serious concerns about."

james's FUCKING dad said...


See little james is still out spamming away so I will join him in his FUCKING CESSPOOL HE CREATES.

ENOUGH OF THE LAME CUT AND PASTES from the SAME SITE EVERYDAY

ONLY A FUCKING MORON does that. TRY BEING CIVIL ASSHOLE PREACHERMAN.

WHO's YOUR DADDY ?

ROFLMFAO !!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

LOL
ROFL
LOL
It was Alex Jones who wanted to discuss pedophilia.
On Mars.
In basements.
Why did you not take him up on that?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Hate to tell foul-mouth, but the article at 12:55 is not lame. Nope. Not a bit.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

james's FUCKING dad said...

GUESS WHAT COCKSUCKER, I'm not going to read it and I doubt anyone else will either. You truly are a waste of bandwidth.

You are an embarrassment to all preachers


FUCK OFF

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59 12:59

attention Alex Jones! awaiting intelligent comment on your intriguing pedophilia claim

KD, Liberal bs said...

Looking at the drama queens of CHT, Jane, Alky, Odopie and then clicking thru the cable channels I don't see a single channel gone .

I have gone to the five left wing nut case websites, huffpo, mediamatters, CNN, and others and they are all still Hating on this President, but, crying about being picked on.

I don't read any print newspapers. But I am sure they are doing as well as ever.

So, who exactly is not getting to fully use their 1st Amendment rights?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

So you declare it lame but haven't read it.
LOL ROFL

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

And now I leave you sickos
(oh dear, was that uncivil?)
to stew in your own juices.
I have better things to do.
Will be visiting my former
church community for July
FOURTH festivities tomorrow.

james's FUCKING dad said...


ANY SPAM IS LAME you FUCKING IDIOT !

Do YOU HAVE EVEN ONE FUNCTIONING BRAIN CELL ?

Sorry that question probably will put you in a mental lock

ROFLMFAO ASSHOLE....... HOWLING at you !!!

Loretta said...

Alex Jones doesn't comment here AND it wasn't Alex Jones who brought the pedophilia garbage here...

It was James Boswell.

KD, ACLU Letter is close to publishing here, right? said...

Jane, I do wonder why you brought up the pedophilia subject a few threads ago, but, that is your thing so go with what you know.

as for some guy named Alex Jones, I have no idea who he is nor will I attempt to find out, if your talking about him, he has to be on the very fringe of the fringe (left or right).

james's FUCKING dad said...


NO ONE HERE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING. This is supposed to be a political blog not a drop off point for daily policalwire SPAM.

GET A FUCKING LIFE, and I bet you can't stay away...

WHO'S YOUR DADDY ???

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

This is a lot like post 12:55 above:
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Make America Exhausted Again

Charles Blow: “Donald Trump is depending on people’s fatigue. He is banking on your becoming overwhelmed by his never-ending antics. He is counting on his capacity to wear down the resistance by sheer force.”

“We must be adamant that that will never come to pass. Trump is an ABOMINATION, and a CANCER on the country, and none of us can rest until he is no longer holding the reins of power.”
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Amen and amen!

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

QUAW=etta: AND it wasn't Alex Jones who brought the pedophilia garbage here...

JAMES: No, it was you at 11:31 am. And now at 2:08.
Obsessed, she is!

Ah, but dear gentle readers, see below:
___________________

Glad I came back, just to put up the article at 2:02 above and now the following:
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As for nutcase Alex Jones talking about pedophilia on Mars with nutcase Robert David Steele, see JULY 2, 2017 3:39 PM in the BULLY PULPIT THREAD..

If you read it VERY carefully, slowly spelling out each word, you will probably come to believe it, hook line and sinker, being the nutcases that yourselves are

(Oh! was that an unkind insult? I'm sorry.)

It is immediately followed by the usual Loretta thinking-challenged "pedophilia" tripe.

Trump greatly admires Alex Jones and thinks he should be given a high journalistic award. Slapping my knee ROFL.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Loretta said...

"and I bet you can't stay away..."

Right again.

"WHO'S YOUR DADDY ???"

You.

At he's not spamming about pedophilia this time.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

And now I am gone again, sickos.

Loretta said...

At least he isn't spamming about pedophilia right now.

Loretta said...

Pastor James Boswell setting the bar to his level.....

"JamesJuly 1, 2017 at 3:35 PM
Now this I believe. If Alex Jones says it, it MUST be so."

KD, So much Winning said...

So much winning.

Labor getting back to work, the US Manufacturing Sector took a huge bounce up since the Election of President Trump.

Note to the left, once so many people get back to work, earning their own way and earning health care, retirement and more, how you going to find a way to buy their vote?

Can you walk back all the horrid things you have said about the TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP voter?

best get to step'n n fetch'n .

KD, Jobs so many back to work said...

Jane, never been so proud of you then I am today, you casted off all attempts at being a man and embraced your female side, congrats, stew little girl.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

I guess the dumbest Injun in the Western Hemisphere doesn't recognize sarcasm.
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MEANWHILE
Germany No Longer Refers to U.S. As a Friend

“In their campaign program for the German election, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have dropped the term ‘friend’ in describing the relationship with the United States,” Reuters reports.

“Four years ago, the joint program of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), referred to the United States as Germany’s ‘most important friend’ outside of Europe… But the words ‘friend’ and ‘friendship’ are missing from the latest election program which Merkel and CSU leader Horst Seehofer presented on Monday ahead of a Sept. 24 election.”
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Axios: “It’s a small change, but it’s not a subtle one. Merkel has been very clear over the past few months that Europe can no longer rely on a United States led by President Trump.”
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WE THE PEOPLE can no longer rely on a United States led by "President" Trump.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

:-)

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

A J Lee is a marvelous bluegrass singer.
(Not to be confused with the female wrestler by the same name.)

good old gentle fair minded James said...

Associated Press just put up a damning story 43 minutes ago:
"Trump's Twitter battle with press may come with a price"

You can bank on it.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Commonsense said...

How an American became the leader of an ISIS cell

He's didn't joined ISIS because he was destitute or that he was mentally unstable or criminally inclined. He joined ISIS because his religion told him to.

opie said...

Here's another question. Will the keystone pipeline you sycophants demanded ever be used?????


By MONEY MORNING STAFF REPORTS

The Keystone pipeline has cost more than $3 billion, and finally got the green light from the government when Donald Trump approved the project in March…

But almost no one cares.

Its operator, TransCanada, is failing to find a reason to use it.

They are facing a serious lack of demand for the 830,000 barrels of oil it was expected to deliver daily…

And the companies that it was originally intended to serve are no longer interested.

Energy experts on the project should have saw this coming…

The American economy is in the midst of a massive shift away from oil.

In an era of economic expansion unlike any other in history, it just isn’t efficient enough to keep up with the enormous demands of this past decade’s major tech advances.

But a new universal fuel has been discovered that could not only keep up with the demands of America’s growth…

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

7:16 another example of just how retrograde and outmoded and out of touch and out of brains Donald Trump is.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

and venal and sold out to the rich he is.
(but not even intelligently sold out to the rich, it now appears)

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Fake news as a partisan myth.

In most circumstances not all but most circumstances the media report on the things said and done by the president. When they point out that the president's new actions are contradictory to his previous statements that draws anger and criticizing from the Trump Administration doesn't understand doesn't want to accept criticism or even admit they are changing their policies.

I don't think anyone here denies that the actions of president from are not the most unusual that we've ever seen as president. One example is when they point out that the current policies is proposing are in complete contradiction to what he ran on to be elected president and that many instances are there and we all know that if you got an open mind. Does the president have the right to change his mind yes. What is wrong with pointing that out? That will draw an angry tweet when the president is offended by this news even if it is the truth he is offended by it.

The use of fake news. Is this method to get people to believe that he has not changed his mind he has not changed his Direction and has not acted differently than he promised before. He wants loyalty and believe what he says with unquestioning loyalty.

The truth will set you free but Donald Trump doesn't want the truth out there. The only wants what his saying to be the truth whether or not it is the truth.

I know none of you will agree with this he'll try and pick it apart I think I'm being just a drunken idiot but that's not the truth. I put a lot of thought into this over the last year and I keep watching this and I am she'll be safe I'm worried about where he would take this country and he is not contain somehow.

caliphate4vr said...

What?

Geezus

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Loretta said...

Obnoxious James Boswell trolling.

At least it's not about pedophilia this time.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous caliphate4vr said...
What?

Geezus
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i think they need to move him to a hospital room with thickly padded rubber wallpaper.


Loretta said...

Lordy.

C.H. Truth said...

In most circumstances not all but most circumstances the media report on the things said and done by the president.

Actually no... the media reports on things that didn't happen, like reporting that Trump associates are being investigated (when they are not), or like reporting that Melenia Trump was divorcing Donald (when she is not), or like reporting that Comey was going to contradict that Trump was not under investigation, or Rosenstein was going to resign, etc... etc...

I put a lot of thought into this over the last year

Then you are really not very bright, or you need to go back to the drawing board and rethink it. Because "Fake news" has almost nothing to do with promises kept or broken. It has to do with reporting the facts correctly and in a manner that does not go out of it's way to make Trump look bad at every opportunity.


If 40% of the population believe he is doing a good job, how do you correlate that with CNN running 93% negative coverage, or NYT at 87% negative coverage, or WashPost at 83% negative coverage... etc...

overall coverage of Trump is 80% negative.

Not too surprisingly most of our past presidents (even Bush) got coverage that was much closer to their approval rating (Obama 59% positive, Bush 43% positive, Clinton 40% positive).

There is no excuse for 20% positive coverage and to have 7% coverage cannot even be considered "News" - at that point, it becomes a blatant smear campaign against the President, the likes of which we have never seen..


So Roger... take a step out of your "bubble" and realize that a President with a 40% average approval rating is not that unusual. Clinton was there much of his first term, Bush was looking up at 40% much of his second, and Obama wallowed in the low to mid 40s for much of his second term.

How (given the American approvals are not much different) can you justify that the coverage is so much more negative?

caliphate4vr said...

For someone that has bragged about his writing skills since forever

It's nonsensical

wphamilton said...

Not exactly true. Bill Clinton had a similar approval rating in June of his first year.

All other Presidents since 1960 have had vastly higher approval ratings at this point in their tenure:

Barack Obama 61 Jun 2009
George W. Bush 54 Jun 2001
Bill Clinton 41 Jun 1993
George H.W.Bush 70 Jun 1989
Ronald Reagan 59 Jun 1981
Jimmy Carter 63 Jun 1977
Richard Nixon 63 Jun 1969
John Kennedy 73 Jun 1961

C.H. Truth said...

WP...

Not sure why you are splitting hairs. Either way, Clinton didn't get 80% negative coverage when he first became President. Obama didn't get 80% negative coverage when his second term started to go downhill. Even Bush (with approvals in the low 30s) never saw this sort of bad press.

- There is absolutely no precedent for this sort of media coverage.
- There is absolutely much precedent for a President having 40% approval ratings.

So the "excuse" that somehow "this" President is so much more unpopular is simply not true. The only thing that is true is that the media has a bigger ax to grind, because of their personal feelings for Trump. Not because they represent the overall opinion of the nation.

opie said...

- There is absolutely no precedent for this sort of media coverage.

As there is absolutely no precedent for the tweets, lies, ego, and idiocy of this POTUS

wphamilton said...

It's not excuse; "this" president IS so much unpopular. That was the point of that list.

Clinton got some pretty bad press, and his low numbers were due in part to his futility with his domestic policy, the bad knock from the Republican congress over his economic proposals ("will raise our taxes") and also his perceived arrogance and self-absorption. Closing an airport for his hair cut for example.

Trump has been all of that and worse. He generates his own bad press - you've even implied that he does it deliberately. Sure there's been some over the top coverage, and Trump has some grounds for complaint IMO, but he's over the top himself. He invites it. In a sense it's pretty balanced that way.

opie said...

This is way too funny in light of the embarrassing fake fight trump posted bashing CNN....Did anyone notice trump punched like a girl???? LOLOLOL

President Trump has amped up his battle with CNN, but it appears the news network is holding its own.

A recent poll conducted by SurveyMonkey shows that more Americans place their trust in CNN than they do in Trump, reports Axios.

The media outlet was deemed the more trustworthy of the two by 50 percent of respondents, while 43 percent answered in president's favor.

Not surprisingly, the responses split reliably along partisan lines.

opie said...

even implied that he does it deliberately.

Implied????? He's the master showman that does everything to keep his name in the press...If you had lived in the NE during his between marriage years, you would have seen that on a daily basis. Now, he promotes himself out of his need to feel wanted, and our friends her just eat it up as real. Sad, none of them see the charade they have fallen for.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Americans Trust CNN More Than Trump

July 4
A new Survey Monkey poll finds that Americans trust CNN more than President Trump by 7 points, 50% to 42%.

However, this split is pretty remarkable: 89% of Republicans view Trump as more trustworthy than CNN, and 91% of Democrats think the opposite.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Actually, I don't believe Republicans themselves really think that.
It's going to take some real leadership to ever get some integrity back into the GOP.

C.H. Truth said...

WP...

It sounds like you are arguing that Trump's 40% approval is somehow different than other President's 40% approval numbers.

It also sounds an awful lot like you do not hold the media even slightly responsible for what they choose to cover and what they choose to ignore. More to the point, you seem to not want to hold the media accountable for basically "making things up" in order to produce negative coverage.

How much of the 93% of CNN, 87% of NYT, and 83% of WaPo coverage is actually the sort of single "unnamed source" that would never have gotten past an editor 10 years ago? How much of it turns out dead wrong... something those outlets would have never printed 10 years ago?

good old gentle fair minded James said...

41 States Refuse Request for Voter Information
July 4
“Forty-one states have refused the Trump administration’s request for certain voter information,” according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states.

“State leaders and voting boards across the country have responded to the letter with varying degrees of cooperation — from altogether rejecting the request to expressing eagerness to supply information that is public.”


So far, just three states — Colorado, Missouri and Tennessee — have shown a willingness to work with the commission.
Meanwhile, the Baltimore Sun reports the “election integrity” panel saw its first resignation: Maryland’s deputy secretary of state Luis Borunda (R).
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I am so happy to see on this glorious FOURTH that so many of our leaders are willing to resist the fascist tendencies of Benito Trump which sell outs like Ch find totally acceptable.

good old gentle fair minded James said...

Trump warns he'll go it alone on North Korea

This is scary. They both belong in straight jackets.

wphamilton said...

Not "other President's" - ONE other President. Only one - who had many of the same problems Trump has (although of course not all of them). Trump's low polling is abnormal, no matter how you may try to soft-pedal it.

93% negative coverage is probably about right, because he's a negative President. 7% may be generous, since it would imply that Trump is unobjectionable 7% of the time. I guess they could keep writing about Trump's SC Justice every week while mentioning "Trump bombed Syria", that would be positive at least in your lights, but wouldn't that get tedious after a while?

C.H. Truth said...

Actually the past three President's have all had approval ratings in the 40% range (or in the case of Bush, well below 40).

It seems telling that part of your debate style these days is trying to constantly "repute known facts"... usually on some sort or semantic or hair splitting reasoning that has nothing to do with the underlying argument.

But at the end of the day, WP... most of us recognize that the Press is no longer trying to cover the news when it comes to Trump, but influence people's opinion (trying to convince the 40% that they are wrong).

They would be happy to see that their ability to influence is working so well on people like you! Especially considering that you used to be logical regarding (and cynical) of these sorts of thing.

wphamilton said...

It just seems like they're trying to change the minds of Trump supporters CH, but they're mostly just covering Trump's screw-ups. There are just too many of them, too frequently.

How is the tax reform going, CH? Oh right ... it isn't, because the GOP can't even get to it, too busy failing on ACA reform. The only way to report that positively is if their reform ideas are all bad ideas, and the keystone cops agenda is best case scenario, but I've got a feeling you wouldn't consider that positive either.

So what do YOU think "positive" press coverage would look like? Fawning over the latest Twitter insult?

wphamilton said...

"Actually the past three President's have all had approval ratings in the 40% range" - not at this point in their first term! Please don't try to spin numbers at me.

C.H. Truth said...

So what do YOU think "positive" press coverage would look like? Fawning over the latest Twitter insult?

I don't know, WP... how bout the fact that the DJIA hit another high yesterday, or that gas prices are at 12 year lows, or that unemployment is down to 4.3%, or that consumer confidence is up.

Considering the "economy" is generally the top priority with rank and file Americans citizens (especially voters)... I find it a little strange that you suddenly believe that most Americans care more about whether Joe and Mika's feelings have been hurt by a Donald Trump tweet, than what is happening in their own lives?

Trump meets with South Korean President on Friday, and we heard almost nothing about it. Instead we are blessed to hear about the latest Hollywood celebrity who is upset with Donald Trump, or possibly the most recent theory about how the second cousin of Donald Trump's receptionist spent last summer in Europe and therefore was possibly a go-between for Trump and Putin.

C.H. Truth said...

"Actually the past three President's have all had approval ratings in the 40% range" - not at this point in their first term! Please don't try to spin numbers at me.

Why would it make any difference "when" a President was at 40% approval?
Isn't 40% approval 40% approval?

Again, it feels like you are arguing that Trump is much "less" popular than Clinton, Bush, or Obama were during the periods of their Presidencies when they had 40% approvals (or less).


On average, right now (according to RCP)... 55% of Americans disapprove of the President. When you run coverage as negative as you do, or you are CNN and you believe that having one conservative in a six person panel is appropriate... I find that you are simply not living in reality.

opie said...

how bout the fact that the DJIA hit another high yesterday

and how is trump directly responsible for that???? Where were you when the dow crashed under busch and when Obama had the dow double before he left??? Seems to me your hypocrisy skirt is showing. LOLOLOL

Commonsense said...

Speaking of hypocrisy, you were all so ready to credit Obama when the DOW was up.

The real story is new jobs in manufacturing is up and real unemployment is down and people are re-entering the workforce.

opie said...

Commonsense said...
Speaking of hypocrisy, you were all so ready to credit Obama when the DOW was up.

I'll give trump as much credit as you gave Obama......


The real story is new jobs in manufacturing i

Does that include with the decline in auto market and layoffs that was just reported???? Or the carrier non-jobs saving claims???? LOL

C.H. Truth said...

and how is trump directly responsible for that????

Whether Trump is or isn't responsible for it... It's still news and stock market prices (401K), gas prices, and the job market has a lot more relevance in people's lives...

than whether or not Mika's actually had a face lift or a chin tuck.

wphamilton said...

Why would it make any difference "when" a President was at 40% approval?
Isn't 40% approval 40% approval?


In the middle of a term, probably little difference. In the first quarter of the first term, it reflects the President's initial performance. It's where people judge his performance against their expectations.

That's why I gave a little detail about Clinton's low numbers, the only President to match Trump's low numbers at this point in his Presidency: the similarities. Clinton had failed to achieve anything in his domestic policy agenda, with a Democratic-controlled Congress. Trump has failed to achieve anything in his domestic policy agenda, with a Republican controlled Congress. They were both seen as arrogant, self-centered.

You can blame the Press for it, you can pretend that there's no difference in Trump's low approvals and other presidents' but that's all wish and hope, not reality. The reality is that these low numbers at this early point should be a klaxon bell for Trump's agenda, and it there isn't much reason for optimism that it will improve.

opie said...

. It's still news and stock market prices (401K), gas prices, and the job market has a lot more relevance in pop

You obviously are not paying attention to the economic channels and MSM that regularly report gas prices being at record lows, the dow's records and employment numbers. Must suck to live in the wilds of MN which seems to not be getting any internet or news service. LOLOL Being in a media coma is your problem, not mine.

opie said...

than whether or not Mika's actually had a face lift or a chin tuck.

Remember, the pussy grabber was the one who started the feeding frenzy with his immature and stupid tweets using such terms as pyscho joe and low IQ mika. Now you blame everyone but the liar in chief with the coverage of his own stupidity. that you defend without hesitation, like the good little non thinking sycophant you have morphed into. LOLOLOL