Here’s Excitable Joe Scarborough
America will survive Trump and emerge stronger if the free press, courts, the intelligence community and other foundational institutions remain true to their mission, do their jobs, and refuse to allow Trump to change who they are.
Go to work, not war. https://t.co/lUL8Il0CUb— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 11, 2018
The thing is, the media has already gone to war with Trump. This started before he even won the primary, and would have gone on no matter who won the primary. It goes on against elected Republicans and Republican voters. We didn’t start this, Trump didn’t start this, but, we’ve been calling for decades for elected Republicans to stand up and take on the media. And when Trump did this we get
BOSTON GLOBE CALLS FOR ALL MEDIA OUTLETS TO PUBLISH ANTI-TRUMP EDITORIALS NEXT WEEK
The Boston Globe has called for the coordinated publication of editorials by any and all news outlets criticizing President Trump’s rhetoric on the press, scheduled for next week.
They have asked a number news organizations to publish editorials condemning the president’s labeling of the press as “the enemy of the people.â€
Marjorie Pritchard, who oversees the Globe’s editorial page, says dozens of newspapers have agreed so far to write their own editorials, according to the Associated Press.
The Globe’s decision comes as a response to the president’s increasingly hostile rhetoric towards many news organizations — what the Boston newspaper calls his “dirty war against the free press.†Trump has consistently called out specific news organizations like CNN and MSNBC
What they want are papers to publish them on August 16th, but, really, this will be virtually nothing different from the rest of the week. Month. Year. If Trump came out in support of an assault weapons ban, keeping abortion illegal, a stronger Paris Climate Agreement, etc, the media would still find a way to slam him.
The media may not be the enemy of the people, but it sure is the enemy of Republicans/Conservatives. And anytime you think “perhaps Trump went a little too far by saying/tweeting X”, remember that the Boston Globe, a news outlet, wants all news outlets to band together to go after the duly elected president. But barely even chided Obama when he was literally spying on reporters.
