…decried “edited Planned Parenthood video,” then doctors an interview with a gun owner.
How perky of her.
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Who cares about Hillary’s emails? Not we in the media.
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The networks refuse to cover her perfidy against journalism. Yes, I’m shocked, too.
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Related: The media snoozed when Obama was tyrannically expanding the power of the executive branch, but they’ll pay more attention when Trump does it.
it’s nice to see the prospect of a Trump administration reminding folks on the left of this, particularly as the journalist and pundit classes are dominated by lefties. It’s terrible, we’re told, that Trump is issuing veiled threats to journalists — though Obama joked about auditing his enemies, seized journalist phone records and threatened a journalist who refused to reveal sources with imprisonment. Trump would be a warmonger, we’re told, although in fact Barack Obama has been at war longer than any other U.S. president, if without any particular success. Trump would arrogantly ride roughshod over any opposition, though Barack Obama famously used “I won” as an excuse to ignore opponents and bragged that he had a “pen (and) a phone” to bypass congressional disagreement. (And he’s used them a lot.)
Many of the journalists and pundits who see Trump as the next imperial president were silent over these Obama actions. Like Ron Silver with his fighter jets, they saw Obama’s envelope-pushing as fine because it was by their own president.
Yes, this is (sadly) why we have to have a white Republican in the White House. When it’s a Democrat, the media are lapdogs, not watchdogs.
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Crickets from documentary film makers on Couric’s doctoring of the video. Because it’s not about the truth, it’s about the narrative.
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From Ace: Why I hate the media. One gets the sense that he is annoyed.
Katie also chopped up her interview with Sarah Palin, and cut down her extended answer on Russian relations to the point Tina Fey could mock it. South Park was spot on when it defined a “couric” as a measure of a specific noxious substance.
Jon Stewart did this all the time and it is the norm for activist propaganda pretending to be “documentaries”.
There is no truth but socialist truth, comrade!
To be fair to John Stewart, he at least did it on the Comedy Channel, so anyone with a 3-digit IQ knew not to take him seriously.
They’ll pay more attention when Trump does it.
Rand, are you being seduced by the dark side? Say it isn’t so!
No, I’m just pointing out that there may be a silver lining in the horrific cloud that is the protofascist, lying, ignorant con artist Donald Trump.
Telemundo attempted to upstage Katie Couric.
Here’s an actual link to Ace’s comment. Love this part:
And what, precisely, gives these people moral authority to lecture the rest of us?
Nothing.
Katie Couric has written nothing of consequence. She is vapid morning chat show host who probably had a memoir ghost-written for her and “wrote” some stupid book about Famous Women in History or something — a pure commercial play probably pitched to her by a book company.
Like Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation was — hey, Tom, we got an idea. How about we use your brand to sell a book that people will buy their dads on Father’s Day?
Brian Williams is in a different category, of course. He’s written many books — The Great Gatsby. Gone with the Wind. Judgement at Nuremburg. A little book called The Bible, a fictionalized memoir of his life.