Το CNN συγκρίνει το ατού με τον Nero «Ενώ η δύση καίγεται», το MSNBC τον μοιάζει σαν «σταλινικό»
Από τον Ryan Foley | 4 Αυγούστου 2018 6:04 μ.μ. EDT
Κατά τη διάρκεια δύο διαφορετικών καλωδιακών ειδήσεων το πρωί της Παρασκευής, οι προσωπικότητες συνέκριναν τον Πρόεδρο Τρούμπ με δύο διαφορετικούς δικτάτορες «ισχυρών ανδρών», προφανώς αυξανόμενοι κουρασμένοι από τη σύγκριση του Χίτλερ. Ο ανώτερος πολιτικός σχολιαστής του CNN και ο πρώην βοηθός του Ομπάμα, David Axelrod, συνέκριναν το Trump με τον Ρωμαίο αυτοκράτορα Nero, ενώ ο Jon Meacham του MSNBC τον περιέγραψε ως "σταλινικό".
Την καινούρια ημέρα, ο Axelrod συνέκρινε τον Πρόεδρο Trump με τον Nero, ενώ διαμαρτύρεται για την ανατροπή των περιβαλλοντικών πολιτικών του Ομπάμα από τον Πρόεδρο. Αφού δήλωσε με ευθεία ματιά ότι δεν ανησυχεί για την κληρονομιά του Ομπάμα, ο Axelrod κατηγόρησε αποτελεσματικά την αναθεώρηση της περιβαλλοντικής πολιτικής της Ομπάμα από την κυβέρνηση Trump για τις πυρκαγιές που μαστίζουν την Καλιφόρνια και συγκρίνουν τον Πρόεδρο με τον τυραννικό ρωμαϊκό αυτοκράτορα: κοιτάς τις φωτιές αυτές. Θέλω να πω ότι το Trump είναι κυριολεκτικά Nero ενώ καίγεται η δύση. "
Όταν ρωτήθηκε για την ενημέρωση Τύπου από τους ηγέτες των μυστικών υπηρεσιών των ΗΠΑ σχετικά με τη ρωσική εμπλοκή, ο Axelrod δήλωσε: "Έχουμε μια διπολική διοίκηση. Έχουμε έναν πρόεδρο να λέει ένα πράγμα και η διοίκησή του να λέει άλλο. Είναι σημαντικό να κάνουν ό, τι έκαναν. Είναι επίσης σημαντικό ο Πρόεδρος να σταματήσει να υποτιμά αυτό το μήνυμα και να στέλνει μηνύματα στη Μόσχα ότι η πίσω πόρτα θα είναι ανοιχτή ».
Λιγότερο από δύο ώρες νωρίτερα τον πρωινό Joe , ο φιλελεύθερος ιστορικός Jon Meacham χαρακτήρισε τη δήλωση του προέδρου του «ελεύθερου τύπου» ως εχθρό του αμερικανικού λαού ως «σταλινιστή». Επίσης, παρότρυνε τη διοίκηση να «σταματήσει να παίζει αυτήν την ολοκληρωτική κάρτα» η ανησυχία του ιεραποστολικού ανταποκριτή του Λευκού Οίκου του CNN, Jim Acosta, ότι "κάποιος πρόκειται να τραυματιστεί" ως αποτέλεσμα της κριτικής των ΜΜΕ του Προέδρου.
Τα υπόλοιπα μέλη της επιτροπής Morning Joeέκαναν επίσης σκουπίδια τον Πρόεδρο και τη Γραμματεία Τύπου του Λευκού Οίκου Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Ο συνιδρυτής Willie Geist κατηγόρησε τον Πρόεδρο Trump ότι έχει «εμμονή» ότι «δεν αντιμετωπίζεται δίκαια, ότι δεν του έχει δοθεί η πίστη που του αξίζει για όλα τα αντιληπτά του επιτεύγματα».
Ο David Ignatius της Washington Postχαρακτήρισε «το χώρο Τύπου που η Sarah Huckabee Sanders τρέχει» ως «τοξικό» και πρότεινε να αρνείται ότι ο Τύπος είναι ο εχθρός του λαού »επειδή φοβάται το αφεντικό της, φοβάται τον Donald Trump , και μπορείτε να δείτε να τον παρακολουθείτε χτες τη νύχτα στην Πενσυλβάνια γιατί φοβάται γι 'αυτόν. "
Ο συνηθισμένος κριτής John Heilemann πρότεινε ότι η Ivanka Trump τόλμησε να επιστρέψει στη δημοσιογραφική δήλωση του πατέρα της ως εχθρός του λαού επειδή «η Ivanka ξέρει ότι δεν θα απολυθεί και η Sarah Huckabee Sanders γνωρίζει ότι θα απολυθεί».
Προφανώς, πιστεύοντας ότι το πάνελ δεν αποτελούσε ήδη αρκετό μίσος Trump, η Washington Post, συνδικαλιστής συντάκτης και αρθρογράφος Eugene Robinson, αμφισβήτησε την ηθική της Sanders: «Αλλά ξέρετε, η κόρη του Mike Huckabee, η Sarah Huckabee Sanders, πιθανώς γνωρίζετε, Εννοώ τι κάνει, δεν θέτω ποτέ αυτή την ερώτηση, αλλά τι κάνει, τι λέει όταν γονατίζει για να προσευχηθεί το βράδυ; "
Με τις ενδιάμεσες εκλογές λιγότερο από 100 ημέρες μακριά, τα μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης θα συνεχίσουν το ατελείωτο drumbeat τους για να αφαιρέσουν το "ολοκληρωτικό" Trump από το αξίωμα.
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Νέα Ημέρα του CNN08/03/1808:52 πμDAVID GREGORY: Λοιπόν, ας μιλήσουμε γι 'αυτό, Axe, επειδή ανησυχείτε πολύ για το τι κάνει η διοίκηση για να επαναφέρετε συγκεκριμένες πολιτικές της κυβέρνησης Obama για το περιβάλλον, σκέφτομαι τα πρότυπα καυσίμων και την ανακοίνωσή τους που βγήκε στο τις τελευταίες μέρες.Ντέιβιντ Άξλορο: Ναι.GREGORY: Combating climate change, you know, EPA regulations. So this is…one of the reasons why conservatives ultimately fell in line for Trump is that there is a different view about what government should do, how it should balance economic interests with environmental concerns, how it should intervene in the economy, whether there should be universal health care. You are seeing this play out right now with a President who is also relying, as Obama did, on executive rules, executive power to change the direction. But you don’t like the direction it’s going in now?AXELROD: Well, look, you know, let me make clear, and I’ve said this before here and elsewhere, it’s not…I don’t care about the Obama legacy. History will take care of that. It’s the practical implications of these policies. You guys read news and so you’re covering stories at the same time the administration rolling back these measures that are meant to try and combat climate change. And, you know, these…these runaway wildfires in the west and these floods in the east, there are real implications to these policies. I mean you look at these wildfires. I mean Trump is literally Nero while the west burns. And that’s what concerns me, the real life implications of this. And what’s interesting on health care, you mentioned health care, is the Affordable Care Act has never been more popular. There is a real urgency about health care in this country. It’s rising to the top of the list again of issues of concern among people. And you don’t hear Republicans talking anymore about the Affordable Care Act as much. You don’t hear them talking about repeal and replace as much because, you know, we see the uninsured rising again. We’ve seen premiums jacked up largely because of the administration’s actions. And so, you know, I…I’m not worried about legacies, I’m worried about the impact of policies. And ultimately people…you’re right, David, there’s this philosophical difference. Ultimately when people vote, they’re going to have to judge, are the policies of this administration helping them…helping them? Are their wages going up? Are their lives better? If the answer is no, even if the…even if their, the GDP is up and Wall Street’s doing well, then they’re going to have a political problem.ALISYN CAMEROTA: Very quickly David, we only have 30 seconds left, what did you think when you saw all of those national security heads come out and take the podium and try to sound the alarm of what’s happening current day, now, as we speak about Russian interference?AXELROD: Well, we have a bipolar administration. We have a President saying one thing and his administration saying another. It’s important that they did what they did. It’s also important for the President to stop undercutting that message and sending signals to Moscow that the back door is going to be open.GREGORY: Is it…is it…do you think we can safeguard the country well enough with this bipolar existence?AXELROD: Νομίζω ότι μας θέτει σε κίνδυνο. Έχω εμπιστοσύνη στους ανθρώπους που στέκονταν σε αυτή την πλατφόρμα. Νομίζω ότι ήταν σοβαροί άνθρωποι. Έχουν επιτεθεί και από αυτόν τον Πρόεδρο. Αλλά όταν ο Πρόεδρος μιλάει, ο κόσμος ακούει και ο Βλαντιμίρ Πούτιν ακούει επίσης. Πρέπει να είμαστε ... πρέπει να προχωρήσουμε μπροστά σαν ένα. Και είναι σχετικά και μπερδεμένο ότι ο Πρόεδρος αυτός είναι πρόθυμος να υποτιμήσει αυτούς τους λαούς σε αυτό που είναι μια μεγάλη, μεγάλη ανησυχία για τη δημοκρατία μας.CAMEROTA: David Axelrod, σας ευχαριστώ πολύ για το "The Bottom Line". Έχετε ένα θαυμάσιο Σαββατοκύριακο.
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Πρωινή Joe του MSNBC08/03/1806:58 πμWILLIE GEIST: Welcome back to “Morning Joe.” It’s a few minutes before the top of the hour here. We’ve been talking about Ivanka Trump calling her father’s family separation policy a low point for her and for the White House. Well, in that same Axios interview, Ivanka told Mike Allen that the press is not the enemy of the people as her father has said repeatedly.MIKE ALLEN: Do you think that we’re the enemy of the people?IVANKA TRUMP: Sorry?(LAUGHTER)ALLEN: Do you think the media is the enemy of the people?TRUMP: No, I do not.GEIST: She says “no, I do not think the press is the enemy of the people” in response to Mike’s question. President Trump later tweeted “they asked my daughter Ivanka whether or not the media is the enemy of the people. She correctly said no. It is the FAKE NEWS, which is a large percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people!” That’s the President’s tweet. Well, at the White House briefing yesterday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to answer whether she agrees with President Trump that the media is the enemy of the people.SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: It’s ironic, Jim, that not only you and the media attacked the President for his rhetoric when they frequently lower the level of conversation in this country. Repeatedly, repeatedly, the media resorts to personal attacks without any content other than to incite anger. The media continues to ratchet up the verbal assault against the President and everyone in this administration and certainly we have a role to play but the media has a role to play for the discourse in this country as well.JIM ACOSTA: The President of the United States should not refer to us as the enemy of the people. His own daughter acknowledges that and all I’m asking you to do, Sarah, is to acknowledge that right now and right here.SANDERS: I appreciate your passion. I share it. I’ve addressed this question, I’ve addressed my personal feelings. I’m here to speak on behalf of the President. He’s made his comments clear.GEIST: So Jon Meacham, she says she speaks on behalf of the President, he’s made his comments clear. His comment has been time and again that the press is the enemy of the people. Even in these times, an extraordinary moment when the White House Press Secretary will not say that the working press is not the enemy of the people.JON MEACHAM: Yeah. It’s, as you say, it’s hard to determine which is a lower moment. It’s an elective kind of base management. It’s pernicious. It’s dangerous. It is, and this is not media elite people defending media elite people. It’s simply a Stalinist phrase, for God’s sake. It comes out of totalitarian regimes to declare that a free press is enemy of the people and I just would say this and you know, if I had two minute with President Trump, which seems very unlikely, what I would say is what, so we’ll use this. We know you care about success, we know you care about ratings. Most people do. What do you want us to think when we look at your portrait down the years? Do we, do you want us to think of the reality show impresario who used totalitarian tactics and continued to govern only for his base or do you want us to look at you and say, you know what, he got there by unconventional means but he actually tried to reach out beyond the people who supported him. The latter, which is what he should want, because this cycle is for a moment, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is going to be dealing this with the rest of her life. These moments are for the moment. History is forever. And I just would think that…the fact that it’s in the national interest, leave that aside. It’s in their self-interest to stop playing this totalitarian card because the other fear, I think Jim Acosta said this at some point this week, is somebody’s going to get hurt and it’s not worth it. It’s not worth it.GEIST: And David Ignatius, after Sarah Huckabee Sanders had that moment in the briefing room, it was only amplified at the President’s rally last night where he spent a large chunk…he was there ostensibly to campaign for somebody, a large chunk of that speech railing against the media; he called it the fake, fake, disgusting news, I think was the term he used, on and on with this obsession. He’s got this obsession that he’s not treated fairly, that he’s not given the credit he deserves for all his perceived achievements.DAVID IGNATIUS: It’s a toxic situation. I think the President knows exactly what he’s doing in his populism, the media is the kind of symbol of the elite that he wants to encourage the country to denounce. Pretty soon we’ll we’re going to be getting to lock them up, the way things are going. That press room that Sarah Sanders is running is toxic.MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.IGNATIUS: I’ve never seen anything like that in 40 plus years of being a journalist. She should be ashamed of the briefing process that she’s running. It’s just unbelievable when she’s asked to deny that the press is the enemy of the people after the first daughter has said that that’s nonsense and she won’t do it. And she won’t do it because she’s afraid of her boss, she’s afraid of Donald Trump, and you can see watching him last night in Pennsylvania why she’s afraid of him.BRZEZINSKI: Absolutely.JOHN HEILEMANN: That’s the big contrast. The contrast is Ivanka knows she won’t be fired and Sarah Huckabee Sanders knows that she will be fired. So she’s afraid for her job. She cares more about keeping her job than speaking the truth.BRZEZINSKI: I see the play on both levels. Ivanka was doing what Ivanka needed to do for Ivanka. And Sarah Huckabee Sanders is doing what she needs to do for President Trump. But in the process, we are losing something incredibly important in this democracy. Joining the conversation to continue on this, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Columist, and Associate Editor for The Washington Post and MSNBC Political Analyst Eugene Robinson. And Gene, I, you know, it’s staggering to watch Sarah Sanders every day at the press briefing, every day it gets, if possible, more shocking and more disturbing when it comes to manipulating or devaluing the truth. What I saw yesterday was something worse, and she was reading prepared statements. There’s, this is a strategy, this is not something that Trump or she is stumbling into; the strategy of playing the victim. It’s why I didn’t agree with what happened at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner because we make ourselves potentially vulnerable to being chipped away at by those who want to hurt exactly what it is we do. But she played the victim but had a prepared statement. Did you see what I saw?EUGENE ROBINSON: Yeah, I saw, I saw the same thing. I certainly saw her reading the prepared statement. You know, this segment of history is playing out as tragedy and farce at the same time. It was, it’s stunning. I had thought months ago that Sarah Sanders, you know, was the worst Press Secretary I had ever witnessed in my about 40 years here in Washington, and that her briefings were useless if she was just going to read, you know, sort of prepared non-responses to perfectly reasonable and necessary questions and that’s what she does routinely when she bothers to have a briefing. I think it’s a, you know, on that level it’s a waste of everybody’s time. Yesterday, I guess it wasn’t a waste of everybody’s time. Everybody put their cards on the table and we heard something that was just grotesque, I thought…BRZEZINSKI: It was.ROBINSON: …the way that she sort of in a toady is the only word that comes to mind of her stance towards the President and she was so afraid to deviate from this line, this enemy of the people line, even a little bit. And so she had to write it out and read it and wouldn’t go beyond it because, you know, I mean, John was right, she can get fired. But you know, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Mike Huckabee’s daughter, presumably, you know, a God fearing woman, I mean, what does she, I never ask this question, but what does, what does she say when she kneels down to pray at night?BRZEZINSKI: I know. I don’t know.ROBINSON: And what sort of, you know, is she bargaining? Because how can she be proud of this? How can she…BRZEZINSKI: Δεν ξέρω. Αλλά αυτό είναι κάτι που θα πρέπει να ζήσει. Μας ενδιαφέρει το τι συμβαίνει, ξέρετε, στην εθνική συζήτηση και στην ασφάλεια της δημοκρατίας μας, και η Donny και η Susan, αυτή είναι μια στρατηγική που λειτουργεί με τη βάση, πιστεύω. Είδα την τελειότητα για τη βάση όταν παρακολούθησα αυτή την ενημέρωση.
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