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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLawrence O'Donnell slams NYT for false reporting that was 'a total victory for Donald Trump'
MSNBC anchor Lawrence ODonnell dissected President Donald Trumps escalating battle with United States intelligence agencies during The Last Word on Wednesday.
The host came to two major conclusions: that even The New York Times has failed in covering Trump and that directors of the CIA, FBI and NSA are only remaining in their jobs because they believe they have a duty to protect the American people from the commander-in-chief.
ODonnell read Trumps latest broadsides against the intelligence community on Twitter, in which he said, the Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive and perhaps Intelligence should go back to school.
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"The New York Times initial reporting of what the president said today made no attempt at all to convey the profound presidential perversity of Donald Trump issuing a tweet this morning in which he screamed, they are wrong at what he called the intelligence people,' ODonnell explained.
It is unusual for the president to pick a fight with his intelligence chiefs, The New York Times published.
That kind of reporting is total victory for Donald Trump, ODonnell declared. The brainwashing is working. The outrage fatigue is working.
The New York Times is completely wrong. It is not unusual. What the president did today was not unusual it has never happened, he continued. To be unusual it has to have happened before, but not very often.
Unusual is not the word for what happened today, he added.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/brainwashing-working-lawrence-odonnell-slams-nyt-false-reporting-total-victory-donald-trump/
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)They reported the story - pointed out how unusual it was. Looks like good journalism to me.
catbyte
(34,402 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Are you sure?
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)yes, I'm pretty sure it is unprecedented.
Dick Cheney (Vice President) outing Valerie Plame was so unusual that there was a Special Prosecutor hired to investigate that one incident.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)like when the press uses words like that. You were able to come up with an example quickly that the right wing will make the story rather than what is important which is the highly unusual nature of what he did. I still call it good journalism and LOD made a mistake thinking the NY Times has the job of inserting opinion into their reporting pages.
spooky3
(34,457 posts)Has criticized the intelligence community the way Trump has, then that (or unprecedented) is the way it should be reported. If it has happened occasionally, then unusual is appropriate.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I remember it happening (and I doubt it's the first ever) was when there were no wmds in Iraq and the bush administration went off on how the cia told them it was a slam dunk they were there.
groundloop
(11,519 posts)catbyte
(34,402 posts)his own intelligence people. The CIA has been in existence since 1947; the FBI since 1908; the NSA since 1952. Yes, I can safely say that no president has ever done what this one is doing.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Because donnie has been whining about them for as long as he's been infesting the oval office. But I remember the bush administration blaming the CIA for there not being wmds in Iraq when they claimed the case was a slam dunk. I doubt very much it was the first time a president has trashed the intelligence community.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)DIDN'T blame the intelligence community for there being no wmd's in Iraq when they said the case was a slam dunk? I remember it differently than you do, apparently.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Apollyonus
(812 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)and other media leaders stop using euphemisms to describe the crimes and treason Trump commits to please his Russian overlord. He's compromised, and his tax returns will reveal a glimpse into his collusion and conspiracy with Putin to destroy the western alliance.
I'm not a big impeachment fan, but when is he stopped, when the damage is beyond repair?
calimary
(81,307 posts)Personally, I think there are cases where the subject in question has already received WAY OVERBOARD benefit of the doubt.
Look at how long its taken ANYONE in the mass media (or, hell, anybody in official Washington or media capitol New York) actually to use the word lie regarding trump.
Seems to me that we passed the but in fairness point when applied to trump n comp quite awhile ago.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)dlk
(11,569 posts)Here are a few: aberrant, abnormal, atypical, bizarre (again), deviant, odd, peculiar... There are more than just a few adjectives that would be more accurate of Trump's traitorous actions. They are doing America a huge disservice with their timid understatements. We have a president who is actively acting on behalf of a hostile foreign power. This is no time to be shy.
triron
(22,006 posts)Applies to a hell of a lot of the media, not just the NYTimes.
Then maybe they're afraid of Putin (sarcasm).
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Putin's goal is to destroy the United States from the inside. It started with IQ45 screaming "Voter fraud!" during the 2016 election and threatening to not accept the results (which wouldn't have mattered, but that's spilt milk under the bridge). Then he appoints corrupt and incompetent people to his cabinet -- or refuses to fill critical positions at all -- and fires anyone who has institutional knowledge under the pretext that they aren't loyal to him.
He attacks the foundations of our country -- the judiciary, rule of law and its enforcement, intelligence apparatus -- and says, "Only I can fix it."
He spouts nonsensical revisionist history about Russia that are only found in the headlines only found in Russian media.
And worst of all, he meets with our worst adversary alone, without advisers or a note taker or even at times an American translator. This isn't unusual, it's unprecedented. It is the actions of an agent of the Russian state.
Sorry to go off like that. I spent a major part of my life as an Air Force officer who had taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Trump is clearly an enemy of the United States, and should not only be removed from office, but also tried as a traitor.
Fuck his base. The other 70% are slowly awakening to the threat The Orange One (who I call "Donnie" ) poses to our nation.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Noticing increasing #'s of errors like this in the Times over the past year or so.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)We won't make it to 2020. We need to remove him from office now.
Cha
(297,292 posts)are freaking gaslit Idiots. We have the Puppet.. we don't need Shite like this from the NYF*******T.
Thank You, LO'D!
Thanks, still_one