Self Interest: Targeted Themselves,
Journalists Finally Decide Outrage
Mob Tactics Are Dangerous and Bad
Townhall,
by
Guy Benson
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
8/29/2019 10:40:23 AM
Journalists and their liberal friends have spent a few days expressing how deeply alarmed they are by new reports of a guerrilla-style ideological campaign by Trump-aligned conservatives, the goal of which is to embarrass and discredit members of the news media by mining and publicizing their 'problematic' social media posts. In which the purveyors of weaponized outrage will be made to experience the unpleasantness of weaponized outrage: (tweet) A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 8/29/2019 10:51:51 AM (No. 165687)
Right back atcha, Slick.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
qr4j 8/29/2019 11:07:22 AM (No. 165719)
If journalists and politicians actually operated in good faith, despite their differences of opinions and positions and styles, then we would not need all this "gotcha" rhetoric from Left, Right, or Center. If I were, like Mr. Trump and his family have been, targeted as a racist, traitor, Nazi, and so forth, I would want to fight back ferociously. Whether I would or not, I don't know. I don't have resources. But the Trumps do have resources. And they are fighting back. And good on them for doing so! It is high time the Left in the media and politics (same things really) get a dose of their own medicine.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 8/29/2019 12:03:04 PM (No. 165818)
After at least 3 decades of being allowed to spew their mental snivels however they wanted to without challenge, they sure don't like a guy in the WH who is not only challenging them, but is giving others the encouragement to challenge their lies as well. It isn't being targeted, it is being called accountable for once in their career.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/29/2019 12:12:30 PM (No. 165827)
Closet cowards have been claiming for decades that the pen is mightier than the sword. It's time to get the swords out and prove to them otherwise. The Deep State and their cabal has been working against America for years without regard for the law. Heaven help them if we do the same.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
john56 8/29/2019 12:16:13 PM (No. 165835)
Just like the childhood neighborhood bully, once someone tries the tricks he's used, the bully runs under his momma's skirt, crying, "make them stop, they're being mean to me.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/29/2019 12:41:34 PM (No. 165868)
What is amazing is not that they are being held to account for their lies and stupidity but that it has taken so long for it to happen. Almost 2/3 of the Country thinks that "hunting season" on reporters is just fine. Tally-ho!
RE: Media Matters "seek-and-destroy tactics", "They've done so for years, with nary a peep from their press allies.".
It's far worse than that. The "Press" acts as if they are aloof from Media Matters' (Southern Poverty Law Center, etc.) slurs. The truth is, they COUNT on groups like Media Matters to do the dirty work and then happily report on what Media Matters says, spreading the slur. Who is more guilty, the original gossiper or the other gossips that spread it around?
"might this equal opportunity destructive drudgery force the Left to reconsider the whole game?"
This is doubtful. The Left has shown incredible resistance to any education attempts. They seem to always double down on failure. BO's presidency was a sterling example. After every election defeat (2010, 2014) the rumors would swirl about what changes he would make in response to the election results. His response? "Naw, IN YOUR FACE! I have a pen and a phone and I will continue to do dopey stuff." The pursuit of "Russia, Russia, Russia" is another example. The narrative was imploding almost from the beginning but until Mueller did his full face plant in Congress, the Left was still hopeful. Even now, the hardcore Left is still dreaming of impeachment because they don't like Trump's hair. Ask Harry Reid how his judicial "nuclear option" worked out. In spite of that, the Left decided to act as imbeciles for Kavanaugh's approval hearing.
No, the Left is dedicated to the dead end.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hershey 8/29/2019 1:15:16 PM (No. 165895)
Ain't schadenfreude a bummer??? lol
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Delilah 8/29/2019 1:34:32 PM (No. 165916)
I've been waiting decades for this. Hooray for the Trumps.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
tech10171968 8/29/2019 11:08:56 PM (No. 166282)
Oh well, you know the old saying: love by the sword, die by the sword...
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