<
top viewer elected to a second term. One wonders, then, why he isn’t just going back to his old job. They certainly could use the help. With ratings reportedly suffering since the Democrats housed the GOP in the midterms last November, Mayer’s report broke three key pieces of bad news for fans of Fox:
In January, during the longest government shutdown in America’s history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventually stopping on a grassy bluff overlooking the Rio Grande. The White House wanted to dramatize what Trump was portraying as a national emergency: the need to build a wall along the Mexican border. The presence of armored vehicles, bales of confiscated marijuana, and federal agents in flak jackets underscored the message.
But the photo op dramatized something else about the Administration. After members of the press pool got out of vans and headed over to where the President was about to speak, they noticed that Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, was already on location. Unlike them, he hadn’t been confined by the Secret Service, and was mingling with Administration officials, at one point hugging Kirstjen Nielsen, the Secretary of Homeland Security. The pool report noted that Hannity was seen “huddling” with the White House communications director, Bill Shine. After the photo op, Hannity had anexclusive on-air interview with Trump. Politico later reported that it was Hannity’s seventh interview with the President, and Fox’s forty-second. Since then, Trump has given Fox two more. He has granted only ten to the three other main television networks combined, and none to CNN, which he denounces as “fake news.”
Hannity was treated in Texas like a member of the Administration because he virtually is one. The same can be said of Fox’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch. Fox has long been a bane of liberals, but in the past two years many people who watch the network closely, including some Fox alumni, say that it has evolved into something that hasn’t existed before in the United States. Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of Presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, says of Fox, “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV.”
Hannity was treated in Texas like a member of the Administration because he virtually is one. The same can be said of Fox’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch. Fox has long been a bane of liberals, but in the past two years many people who watch the network closely, including some Fox alumni, say that it has evolved into something that hasn’t existed before in the United States. Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of Presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, says of Fox, “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV.”
Will the Masses Finally
See Fox News for What It Is?
The unholy union between
the president and
Rupert Murdoch’s
propaganda network
is under fresh scrutiny
Less than one week after New Yorker
staff writer
Jane Mayer publishe
President Trump’s communications chief
and his deputy chief of staff,;
Less than one week after New Yorker
staff writer
Jane Mayer publishe
President Trump’s communications chief
and his deputy chief of staff,;
staff writer
Jane Mayer publishe
President Trump’s communications chief
and his deputy chief of staff,;
top viewer elected to a second term. One wonders, then, why he isn’t just going back to his old job. They certainly could use the help. With ratings reportedly suffering since the Democrats housed the GOP in the midterms last November, Mayer’s report broke three key pieces of bad news for fans of Fox:
Trump questions in August of 2015 before his infamous debate
exchange with Megyn Kelly; FoxNews.com allegedly buried the
Stormy Daniels story before the 2016 presidential election because
the network’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch, wanted Trump to win
and during his presidency, Trump reportedly pressured the Department of Justice to block the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner as a slight to CNN (and a boon to Fox)The first two incidents describe blatant hypocrisies an
journalistic improprieties. The third item sounds like an
impeachable offense on the part of the president.
Fake News.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Orlow says “Fake News.” King David had a problem with fake news. See
ReplyDelete“The king and his men set out for Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the region. David was told, You will never get in here! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back כי אם הסירך העורים והפסחים. (They meant: David will never enter here.) But David captured the stronghold of Zion; it is now the City of David. On that occasion David said, Those who attack the Jebusites shall reach the water channel and [strike down] the lame and the blind, who are hateful to David את הפסחים ואת העורים ושנאי נפש דוד. That is why they say: No one who is blind or lame may enter the House עור ופסח לא יבוא הבית.” (2 Samuel 5:6-8)
See, Joshua records: “But the Judites could not dispossess the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so the Judites dwell with the Jebusites in Jerusalem to this day.” (Joshua 15:63).
The Malbim explains: מלבי"ם שופטים פרק א פסוק ח
וישב בקרב יהודה עד היום הזה, ר"ל עד סוף חיי יהושע שכתב ספרו. ואחרי מות יהושע התעוררו מלחמות ביניהם ובין יושבי העיר וילכדו אותה וישרפו העיר לענוש על שמרדו ולחמו בם. ועכ"ז הגם שכבשו העיר לא כבשו את המצודה שנקרא אח"כ בשם מצודת ציון, שלא נלכדה עד ימי דוד, ושם ישב ג"כ יבוסי כמ"ש (ש"ב ה, ז - ח), ויהודה לא לחמו שם כי אינו מחלקם, ובנימין לא התחילו להלחם שם כלל. ועז"א לא הורישו בני בנימין, ר"ל לא לחמו כלל, ושם ישב את בני בנימין עד היום הזה (שהוא עד סוף חיי שמואל שהוא כתב ספר שופטים). וזה קרוב לדברי מהרי"א: ואת העיר שלחו באש. פי' המפרשים כמו שלחו אש בעיר. ואינו צריך, כי זה נמצא גם לקמן (כ, מח; מ"ב ח, יב; תהלים עד, ז) שלחו באש מקדשך, ור"ל ע"י האש שלחו את העיר מן המציאות אל ההעדר:
King David knew how to deal with hateful people (anti-Semites): David said, Those who attack the Jebusites shall reach the water channel and [strike down] the lame and the blind, who are hateful to David את הפסחים ואת העורים ושנאי נפש דוד
Travelers before King David knew to avoid the hateful anti-Semites Jebusites:
“In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite residing at the other end of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. Once his concubine deserted him (lit. played the harlot), leaving him for her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah; and she stayed there a full four months. Then her husband set out, with an attendant and a pair of donkeys, and went after her to woo her and to win her back. She admitted him into her father’s house; and when the girl’s father saw him, he received him warmly.... But the man refused to stay for the night. He set out and traveled as far as the vicinity of Jebus—that is, Jerusalem; he had with him a pair of laden donkeys, and his concubine was with him. Since they were close to Jebus, and the day was very far spent, the attendant said to his master, Let us turn aside to this town of the Jebusites and spend the night in it. But his master said to him, We will not turn aside to a town of aliens who are not of Israel, but will continue to Gibeah. (Judges 19:1-4, 10-12).
aside from showing that he is a puppet
ReplyDeletewhat is the fake news? and why?
or are you saying that he has reached such a level of perfection - any criticism must by definition be fake news?
Thanks, David for your uptick. Here’s on anti-Semitism in Brooklyn:
ReplyDeleteSee https://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/294596/kingsborough-community-college-embroiled-in-anti-semitic-allegations/
“Economics Professor Susan Aranoff has taught at Kingsborough for 35 years. She told the Journal the climate has changed markedly in recent years. She used to attach two small flags – an American flag and an Israeli flag – to her car. Two years ago the Israeli flag was broken twice and at one point was stolen, while the American flag was left alone. After those incidents, she decided not to replace them. She filed complaints at the time with college authorities who, she said, dismissed it as “ordinary vandalism.” Aranoff, Goldstein, and other faculty members the Journal interviewed said last spring the Progressive Faculty Caucus (PFC) held a meeting focused on discrimination. They scheduled it for a Friday night, declining to change the date even after non-Jewish PFC members complained that those who kept Shabbat would be unable to attend. Aranoff lives within walking distance of Kingsborough’s campus, and asked a PFC organizer where, exactly, the meeting would be held, so that she could attend. She said he refused to tell her. The PFC is ostensibly open to any faculty member. Aranoff said she asked multiple times to be added to its email list. At the time, she said, she thought that the caucus’s purpose was to “enhance Kingsborough’s teaching environment.” However, after months passed and she wasn’t added to the distribution list, Aranoff said she eventually realized that the PFC is open to anyone but religious Jews. Aranoff and other faculty members said not long after the request to change that Spring 2018 Friday night meeting, the university administrators blocked their campus-based messaging system and the PFC took their message system off campus. Currently, the PFC has no website, no listing available on Kingsborough’s website and no listed phone numbers. Though publicly invisible the PFC is powerful, Aranoff told the Journal. Its members lobby “for candidates for positions on college council or various committees, so [Jewish faculty members are] disadvantaged in not being part of that group,” she said. Aranoff and another senior faculty member, who is an Orthodox Jew and asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, filed a complaint with Kingsborough’s diversity officer last spring.”
Fake news definition: false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke:
ReplyDeleteשמואל ב פרק ה
(ו) וַיֵּלֶךְ הַמֶּלֶךְ וַאֲנָשָׁיו יְרוּשָׁלִַם אֶל הַיְבֻסִי יוֹשֵׁב הָאָרֶץ וַיֹּאמֶר לְדָוִד לֵאמֹר לֹא תָבוֹא הֵנָּה כִּי אִם הֱסִירְךָ הַעִוְרִים וְהַפִּסְחִים לֵאמֹר לֹא יָבוֹא דָוִד הֵנָּה:
(ז) וַיִּלְכֹּד דָּוִד אֵת מְצֻדַת צִיּוֹן הִיא עִיר דָּוִד:
(ח) וַיֹּאמֶר דָּוִד בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא כָּל מַכֵּה יְבֻסִי וְיִגַּע בַּצִּנּוֹר וְאֶת הַפִּסְחִים וְאֶת הַעִוְרִים שנאו שְׂנֻאֵי נֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד עַל כֵּן יֹאמְרוּ עִוֵּר וּפִסֵּחַ לֹא יָבוֹא אֶל הַבָּיִת:
רש"י שמואל ב פרק ה פסוק ו
אל היבוסי - מצודת ציון נקראת יבוס ומזרעו של אבימלך היו והיו להם שני עבודת כוכבים אחד עור ואחד פסח שנעשו על שם יצחק ויעקב ובפיהם השבועה שנשבע אברהם לאבימלך ולכך לא הורישום כשלכדו את ירושלים לא לכדו את המצודה כמו שנאמר ואת היבוסי יושב ירושלים לא יכלו יושבי יהודה להורישם (יהושע ט"ו ס"ג) ותניא אמר רבי יהושע בן לוי יכולין היו אלא שלא היו רשאין:
King David knew it was fake news “You will never get in here! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back”
“The king and his men set out for Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the region. David was told, You will never get in here! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back כי אם הסירך העורים והפסחים. (They meant: David will never enter here.) But David captured the stronghold of Zion; it is now the City of David. On that occasion David said, Those who attack the Jebusites shall reach the water channel and [strike down] the lame and the blind, who are hateful to David את הפסחים ואת העורים ושנאי נפש דוד. That is why they say: No one who is blind or lame may enter the House עור ופסח לא יבוא הבית.” (2 Samuel 5:6-8)
The idea in the article that Presidents had this pristine relationship with the Fourth Estate in all previous Administrations is outright fake, fake, fake.
ReplyDelete"...it has evolved into something that hasn’t existed before in the United States."
This what happens when students snooze through American History class, or teachers use some politically correct textbooks.
Fake news = false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke:
ReplyDeletePolitical views = A set of doctrines or beliefs that are shared by the members of a social group or that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.
King David knew he had political opponents who didn’t want King David to go to Jerusalem at that time. They said “You will never get in here! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back.” They wanted prophecy from God first. Later we read:
“Gad came to David the same day and said to him, Go and set up an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. David went up, following Gad’s instructions, as the Lord had commanded. Araunah looked out and saw the king and his courtiers approaching him [1 Chron. 21.20 add Araunah (Ornan) was threshing wheat]. So Araunah went out and bowed low to the king, with his face to the ground. And Araunah asked, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? David replied, To buy the threshing floor from you, that I may build an altar to the Lord and that the plague against the people may be checked. And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take it and offer up whatever he sees fit. Here are oxen for a burnt offering, and the threshing boards and the gear of the oxen for wood. All this, O king, Araunah gives to Your Majesty. And may the Lord your God, Araunah added, respond to you with favor! But the king replied to Araunah, No, I will buy them from you at a price. I cannot sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that have cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. And David built there an altar to the Lord and sacrificed burnt offerings and offerings of well-being. The Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague against Israel was checked.” (2 Samuel 24:18-25).
Trump has political opponents who don’t want Trump to build the wall at this time The New Yorker Magazine is one of them. Follow, Daattorah? Trump’s political opponents use false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke.
it says : וַיֹּאמֶר דָּוִיד אֶל-אָרְנָן, תְּנָה-לִּי מְקוֹם הַגֹּרֶן, וְאֶבְנֶה-בּוֹ מִזְבֵּחַ
ReplyDeleteAnd interestingly enough, who was it who helped liberate this Land in 1967? he was also named גֹּרֶן
Who has Jewish DNA? https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5476939,00.html
ReplyDelete