Here is the start and substance of an article by Anna Hopkins for Dailymail.com
- Donald Trump held a campaign-style rally in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday
- He used a quote from Thomas Jefferson out of context to slam the ‘fake news’
- The Founding Father defended the role of the media in the First Amendment
During a campaign-style rally on Saturday, Donald Trump used a quote from one of the nation’s Founding Fathers out of context to vindicate his war against the media.
At the ‘Make America Great Again’ rally in Melbourne, Florida which mirrored the rhetoric throughout his campaign tour, Trump said he hoped to speak ‘without the filter of fake news’ – whom he declared the ‘enemy of America’ this week.
The President then referenced previous American leaders who combated the media during their time in the White House. . . .
We have from time to time opined that one of the things that dictators and despots throughout the world and throughout history must have most envied about Barack Obama when he assumed the reins of US government was the nearly full control he enjoyed over the nation’s press.
They, themselves, seldom had the luck to have the the media in their pocket immediately upon seizing power as Obama did. It was even more rare that a would-be dictator like Obama would have enjoyed such control even before he became the nation’s head.
In most unfortunate lands the incoming despot had to quickly move to suppress the media, and eventually, when necessary brutally shut down any dissident arms of the press which may have remained.
But not so with our former “Dear Leader”. The press was with him from the beginning. Fawning over his smooth, professorial demeanor, his ‘lovely’ First Lady (she of the “toned arms”), his status of symbol of all that is “good and compassionate’, and certainly racialism-free in liberals, and, oh yeah, was a fully owned creation of the hard left , well disguised from many who unwittingly voted for him. (article continues)
Some of the “context” we never saw about Obama from dominant liberal media
No gaffe or arrogant put down by our youthful, “clean and articulate” president was attacked or even mildly criticized or ridiculed by those esteemed members of the fourth estate…whether it was the number of states which comprise America (no, it is not ’57’), or his ignorance of the correct pronunciation of the word “corps”, or his imperious contempt for any idea from the other side of the aisle, “I won” (so shut up).
But now, that’s all changed. A rough edged white man, a rich one at that, has exercised his fabled ‘white privilege’ and, having been decisively chosen by the American people, is president.
And once again we have a “free press”, courageously and unflinchingly willing to challenge the powerful and defend the people. Their “patriotic” impulses have awakened!
No matter the risk, our media will not hesitate to call out President Trump when he attempts to “mislead” our citizens and make “false claims” to advance his vile (in the opinion of the press) agenda.
And here, is an example, unremarkable but for its irrelevant silliness. A tortured criticism of Trump’s remark at a rally Saturday night in Florida, attended by thousands of enthusiastic supporters; yet it was deemed so vital to the future of America to warrant the bold headline at the top of this piece.
We’d urge readers to review the story in the Daily Mail. Then draw your own conclusions about whether our view of it suggests so much defensiveness and anger by the media that they desperately sought out some example, however the stretch, to try to diminish the other thousands of the president’s words.
DLH
RMall’s two-cents: As DLH intones, Ms Hopkins’ treatment of Trump is not an isolated one. How often do others of her ilk give a contextual history to lend credence to Trump, as they bend over backward to parse and justify, to “contextualize” every utterance of Obama? The others (if not her as well) include some of the same folks who quote corrupt Jefferson’s line about a “wall of separation” between church and state. A phrase from another letter by Jefferson, they take those few words as if they were intended by him to be a discrete summation of his views, not to mention out of the context of other statements made and policies supported.
It’s not like we didn’t know it would come. I’m buckled in and looking forward to the ride.