Trump Wants CNN, NBC Off Air for Spurning His Iowa Victory Speech
Trump Wants CNN, NBC Off Air for Spurning His Iowa Victory Speech
Neither network aired his comments in their entirety, so naturally they should “have their licenses taken away,” Trump complained.
“ Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at a pair of cable networks not named Fox News for their decision not to air all of his Iowa caucuses victory speech as it happened, suggesting that what they did was so heinous that they should “have their licenses, or whatever they have, taken away.”
Dictators gonna dictate.
CNN and NBC will both breathlessly cover the Trumpification of America—their anchors and field reporters squealing about how exciting it all is—right up until the moment when a Trump FCC that does not give one shit about the law, starts shutting down their facilities. Only then, when its way too late and they’ve lost their platform, will they realize that fascist takeovers aren’t a fucking game to be covered like celebrity dating drama.
CNN is literally following their own 2016 election playbook giving him non-stop coverage and downplaying any risk he poses to the constitution and democracy.
Fuck CNN.
CNN was bought out by a right wing billionaire.
They were barely centrist beforehand, and now they're sliding subtly further and further right-wing in their reporting.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/10/objective-cnn-rightwing-week-in-patriarchy
I overheard a FOX broadcast last night while waiting for a pizza pickup in their lobby.
Holy crap that is awful. I remember it back in the GWB days and I don't recall it being nearly as bad as it was last night.
"Democrats don't want to understand you. They just want power." followed by cherrypicked video footage of out of context comments from some random person. "If the Democrats get in charge, they will outlaw jesus!" followed by more bad faith video footage where someone said Christianity doesn't belong in a courtroom setting.
It's like they have distilled down the essence of making your grandma scared and forcing her to vote or else her grand babies will literally get eaten alive because they weren't aborted.
This is exactly our problem.
Yes yes Trump is absolutely an issue, but it's propaganda outlets that are ruining the country. I have no solution to that problem. It's important to have a free press, but they are 100% taking advantage of that.
They stupidly set the stage for people like Trump, but they think they're just doing R vs D shit so they can get their asshole of choice into power. Well the people tend to get more crazy than anyone would prefer so you open the door for them and you have no control over who enters.
We've implemented the principle of free speech in a way that denies that fact that vast swathes of people are idiots who will believe anything, and that failure has been weaponized against us.
Nobody should have to right to rile up credulous morons with ridiculous lies.
Not just Fox "News" but all the alt-right AM radio pundits too. While visiting my parents, I overheard his AM radio speaker downplay events by saying that E. Jean Carroll only "claims" Trump did things, while totally ignoring the fact that Trump was already convicted of sexual assault and the judge later confirmed it was indeed classified as rape, and he had to pay her $5 million for defamation, which now there's ANOTHER court case going on that's bad for Trump, but all of those pesky facts weren't mentioned, only that E. Jean Carroll was a vindictive slut. Truly maddening to me when you know the objective facts, I call it Conservative brain rot.
The Newsmax model
I don’t recall it being nearly as bad as it was last night.
Your memory is faulty. Fox News has been like this from day one (which was October 7th, 1996).
This is what they are telling each other... technologically advanced mermaids are out to get you: https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1657868909716951041
what the hell... these people are taking someones larp campaign and treating it as reality
Link with more information about the occasion of the mermaid remarks.
Best quote
Satan, right now has an entire political party in this nation doing his bidding — for free
For free, the horror!
I did not believe you. What the fuck is going on. At this point I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind trying to point out to people that they need to vote because the otherside has been eating this shit up and ready to get violent about it if they are not already.
I hate the fact that I have to think about whether I am going to flee the country if they gain a majority rule.
Please get out and vote, everyone, no matter how hard they make it to do so.
They wouldn't cover his speech, but they'll all run this story about him complaining about that...
Which is effectively the same thing, and even better for his supporters because this will be spun as "corrupt media can't silence trump, he's too strong!"
If you're going to ignore a troll like trump, you have to commit. Giving in later because the troll keeps insulting you just makes it look like they were able to drag you into it.
Huh. I thought these types were bitching about "cancel culture" all the time, and donnie wants entire networks off the air because of his feelz.
Always projection. When the cons talk about snowflakes, they are some of the biggest snowflakes on the planet, all enthusiastic to vote for one of the biggest snowflakes in history.
They're showing less of the train wreck than before and denying him some of the free coverage to which he feels entitled. The tantrum was inevitable.
We had better deal with this fascist cunt.
Where's Charles Guiteau when you need him!
The Ballad of Guiteau tells his story in song.
Personally, I'd rather have Czolgosz.
I want trump off air for being human garbage
Dictators gonna dictate.
More like "Tyrants gonna rant." Trump doesn't have the power to dictate the First Amendment away, at least not yet.
I like yours better.
Somehow rules never matter to dictators.
It's kind of the defining feature of dictators.
Sounds a lot like something a dictator would want.
Honestly, they did him a favor. They aired the beginning part. And in the beginning he was uncharacteristically on-message and gracious. The end got into his terribly unpopular policies.
I say fuck it. Air the rest. Let people be reminded about how terrifying he is.
So, even worse than not airing it at all. The “liberal media” only played the part that made him look good.
Imagine looking up to this orange turd.
Big Brother lets you have Hate Week 52 weeks a year.
The best way to ensure he doesn't get elected is for him to piss off the corporations and I would say 2 big ones like this could do some damage to him. Keep running your mouth about stuff like that and see. Better yet demand fox news be taken off air, they might actually turn people against him.
Nothing will happen. They love the publicity and money it brings in
If he becomes a dictator like he wants he WILL attack his enemies, including media.
Guy who routinely cry's about the mainstream media, continues to cry about the main stream media.
More at 11.
Cries
skips forward
Still crying
God damn it
skips forward even more
fair.
I could be wrong, but I believe it was a CBS executive who once said that covering Trump the way they do was absolutely terrible for democracy in this country and that he is a real danger to our way of life -- but they were still going to keep covering him anyway because covering him is absolutely great for their bottom line.
Do I like Chaos if I wish for Trump to win in 2024 ? /s
Yeah, Maybe I Like Chaos, anyways Its fun to watch Chaos from afar
If that shitshow of US wouldn't be a super important part of NATO and thus a big part why Putin hasn't yet entered EU, I could care much less about the America.
Although I don't wish anyone to live under dictator. And there is a non-zero chance of Trump election starting a civil war, which would be just terrible for everyone