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Related: About this forumFederalist editor says reacting hysterically to Trump makes people get hysterical themselves
Appearing on CNNs Reliable Sources with host Brain Stetler, Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway attempted to brush aside reaction to Trumps stunning accusation that President Barack Obama personally ordered wire taps in Trump Tower as media hysteria.
It seems that the press always reacts the same way, which is very hysterically to everything that Trump says, Hemingway explained. Not that its not frustrating to deal with a president who is so imprecise, who says things without proof that is frustrating. At the same time, I think this constant level of hysteria causes people to either tune out or get hysterical themselves. And that is not a great public service.
We have to dispense with all euphemisms about whether or not hes using precision in language or not, Blow remarked. The president is actually lying, and we have to continuously say that the president is actually lying. That is an assault on the truth itself. It is an assault on the legitimacy of the presidency itself.
Another thing you have to it remember is that when we stop believing in the president, thats not just his credibility thats being burned through, thats American credibility, he continued. We cannot continue to grade him on some sort of curve where we have to translate and sift through the true parts of what hes saying from the things hes saying that are provable and demonstrable lies.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/watch-charles-blow-explodes-on-conservative-claiming-everyone-should-calm-down-every-time-trump-lies/
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Federalist editor says reacting hysterically to Trump makes people get hysterical themselves (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Mar 2017
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I don't think Obama did it, but I think he should have as long as it is legal. Which
caroldansen
Mar 2017
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caroldansen
(725 posts)1. I don't think Obama did it, but I think he should have as long as it is legal. Which
I guess isn't. Darn!
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)2. Save it for Fox Federalist apologist.
Meanwhile, I'm buying lot of corn these days.
badhair77
(4,218 posts)3. She refuses to admit Trump lies.
Instead she says he's "imprecise." Amazing on so many levels.