Boston Globe gets bomb threat after editorial blasts Trump's Media Attacks

[Benton]

(08-17-2018, 05:46 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Yeah, I get all that and it appears to be a little different than promoting the stance that he say "The Media is the enemy of the people". He seems to be referring to a select population; but I get why folks want to push the narrative.

As I have said: His comments toward the media are inexcusable, but when we try to make more of them that what they really are aka: The Media is the enemy of the people, we play right into his hands.   It's sorta like when he call MS-13 animals it quickly becomes all immigrants are animals.

Quote:In a speech last week at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, Mo., Trump bashed the journalists covering the event, which drew a rebuke from VFW leadership.

“Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news,” Trump said, gesturing to the press area of the venue.

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The president added, “Just remember: What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-called-media-enemy-of-the-people-in-meeting-with-ny-times-publisher/2018/07/29/fec5adee-9330-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html?utm_term=.d27b74b2f69a

Quote:In December 2015, while speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump told a crowd he was against killing journalists, a comment made in reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I would never kill them, but I do hate them. And some of them are such lying, disgusting people. It's true," Trump told the crowd.
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"The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!" Trump tweeted in February.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/feel-anymore-critics-media-feel-emboldened-trump/story?id=56262066




And I'll stop there. I was going to link some of the more than dozen comments he's made about the media being the enemy of the people, lying, etc. But, honestly, what's the point? You're going to continue yelling lugenpresse and using jargon like 'pushing a narrative.' This is an ugly time in our history and it's because of dumb, ugly partisanship driving ignorance and hate.