Republican pundit slams Trump: Tells all male panel they missed the forest for the trees

[kpete]

This Republican pundit has been calling a spade by its name throughout the election. As the media looks inward to their failures, she urges them to come clean.

Chuck Todd attempted to deflect some of the press’ dereliction on to Democratic and Republican actors trying to delegitimize the media. Nicolle Wallace did not want to entertain some false complexity for the problem.

“I think we’re staring at trees and missing the forest,” Wallace said. “We’ve just elected a man who bullies female reporters at his rally as an applause line. We have just elected a man who started a hot war with a female anchor instead of intending a debate she moderated. We are in a new place. And I don’t think it’s good. And I don’t think it has any parallels to the past. And I don’t think Trump needs the press. But I think he wants them like an addict craves their drugs.”

It is evident she was attempting to open up the discussion to be more reality based. But her statements were basically ignored. The purpose of Todd’s several panels was commendable. He wanted to examine why the media is held in such contempt and what they could do to improve it. Unfortunately, he failed miserably to have a serious discussion mostly because all his panels were insiders, predominantly white males of somewhat congruous viewpoints, a few white females scattered in, and one black man, the executive editor Dean Baquet of the New York Times, an establishment newspaper whose gravity gives its leader little leeway.


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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Oh Boy,

sounds more like one of the over paid on air Talents feels her ego slipping away to fly over land.

[coco22]

2. And Ari Flesicher..

sat there skinnin and grinnin and said nothing is wrong with Trumps behavior.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Let's see now. "We" elected him nearly two months ago,

we didn't *just* elect him.

And did you not notice his bullying behavior until the last couple of days, Ms Wallace? Did YOU vote for him? Methinks you are a part of the problem.

I have long thought Nicolle Wallace to be something of an ignorant fool. She's hitched her wagon to the Republicans and does not seem to have fully thought out what that party stands for and what it does.

She also wrote a novel called Eighteen Acres, about the first woman President who is a Republican. That alone puts it into the realm of fantasy, but then it gets even less believable. The First Husband is quite the philanderer, and at the end she wins re-election is is going to nominate her press secretary as Secretary of State for the second term. OMFG! If Republicans in general think that a press secretary is a good choice for SOS, we are truly doomed. But Poindexter, you say, it's just a novel. Maybe, but it has the feel of pure wish-fulfillment on the part of the author, and there's no good reason to think she's developed any ability to think through her decisions since that book came out in 2011.

[mopinko]

5. she was nevertrump

she was all over msnbc tellin it. when he clinched the nomination she was close to tears.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I did not know that, since I don't have a TV and so

haven't watched MSNBC very much. I appreciate your telling me this.

But did she give any hint that she voted for Hillary? Or didn't vote at all for a Presidential candidate?

[mopinko]

10. dont remember a specific statement

but i think there were comments that lead me to believe she voted hillary.
iirc, she was shaming the third party voters in advance.

[malaise]

11. Her parents were pro-Trump

and she said that several times - she is not a Groper Don the Con supporter

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Still, it does not seem as though she made any clear

statement that she didn't vote for him, or that she voted for someone else.

So I suspect like most party operatives (and this applies to Dems as well) that she held her nose and voted for the guy with the R after his name. I'd like to be wrong, but if she hasn't come out and said otherwise, then I'll take it she voted for him. If she really were a decent human being she'd openly leave the Republican Party.

[malaise]

14. She's a Bushie ReTHUG

You don't see the Bush scumbags leaving the party

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. My point exactly.

She's complaining bitterly even though she isn't about to leave the Republican Party, and probably voted for him.

She very definition of hypocrisy.

[Volaris]

15. That doesn't absolve her of covering for and distributing jrs Iraq lies as SecPress.

[malaise]

16. I will never forgive her for the Bush era

but shedid not support GDTC

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Ms Wallace was #FuckTrump from Day One.

I also dare say the first woman president is more likely a Republican than a Democrat.

[Paladin]

4. Cry me a river, Nicole Wallace. And fuck you completely, Chuckie Todd.

You people are late with all the bullshit regrets. You helped to make Trump a winner, and I'm never forgiving you for that. When we needed smart, probing journalism, we got a bunch of goddamned stenographers, looking for the latest easy-to-compose Trump puff piece. With occasional breaks to bloviate over Hillary's emails. Over and over again. You applied entirely different standards to Hillary and Trump throughout the whole election cycle. To hell with all of you.

[Hekate]

9. See my post #8.

[elehhhhna]

6. "Its not the presses job to fact check politicians" Chuck Todd 2015

[Hekate]

8. Nicole Wallace has been top-notch all 2016 & I have gained great respect for her. Today....

...she was the only woman at a table of men, and they tried to talk over her repeatedly.

What she had to say was extremely important, had they cared to listen, especially the part about bullying female reporters. Nicole did not mention their names, but we all know that Megyn Kelly was the most high profile. Katy Tur, otoh, was not only repeatedly humiliated by name, but was threatened with violence. After one event where Trump whipped up the mob against her, the Secret Service agents took it upon themselves to escort her through the mob and safely to her car. This isn't some joke, or some girly-issue.

For those who don't know, there are Republicans in public life who have always seen Trump for who he is: Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt, and David Frum among them. Dismissing them out of hand is foolish.

[Paladin]

12. Among trump's many glaring faults: his treatment of women as pieces of meat.

This filthy outlook of his was just another matter that went grossly under-reported by a complacent, fearful, brain-dead MSM. I'm not in a forgiving mood about all this.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. Plus One!

You are spot on.