The MSM hates Trump, and trashes him at every opportunity, and it just makes him stronger.<\/p>\n
Washington Post<\/a>: Tuesday\u2019s edition of the \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d closed with a video editorial by the newscast\u2019s former anchor, Tom Brokaw, who said that \u201cTrump’s promise to ban all Muslims from coming to America is more \u2014 much more \u2014 than a shouted campaign provocation. Trump\u2019s statement, even in this season of extremes, is a dangerous proposal that overrides history, the law and the foundation of America itself.\u201d<\/p>\n Brokaw added that \u201cISIS is likely to use Donald Trump\u2019s statements as a recruiting tool\u201d and went so far as to reference Japanese American internment camps, McCarthyism and Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n On NPR\u2019s \u201cMorning Edition\u201d on Wednesday, longtime public radio host Diane Rehm, who plans to retire next year as host of her eponymous syndicated current-events talk show, explained to Steve Inskeep why she feels compelled to stay on the air through the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s happening now strikes me as something bizarre,\u201d she said, seeming to reference Trump without naming him. \u201cPeople are appealed to in the most fundamental, irrational terms rather than through persuasion, through discourse, through understanding key points. I want to help continue that rational discussion through the next campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n And on MSNBC on Wednesday night, Dan Rather, Brokaw\u2019s former counterpart as lead CBS anchor, asserted that \u201cwhat [Trump] said about immigration and limiting immigrants \u2026 is the best propaganda tool that ISIS has had in a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, Brokaw, Rehm and Rather don\u2019t have the clout today that Cronkite did in 1968. No one does. That\u2019s just the reality of media fragmentation and declining faith in the press overall. And, in Rather’s case, some have never forgiven him for the flawed report on President George W. Bush’s National Guard service that preceded his resignation.<\/p>\n But they\u2019re about as heavy as the media heavyweights come these days — in different ways — and Trump will almost surely absorb their body blows, as he has so many others, and just keep swinging. He seems to grow stronger with every media fusillade.<\/p>\n There might be some voters who take the words of Brokaw, Rehm and Rather to heart. And these decorated journalists are only doing what they believe their jobs and consciences demand. But it is increasingly clear that if Trump\u2019s supporters ultimately do fall away, it won\u2019t be because the media talked them out of voting for him.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know whether Trump heard what this trio said. But I\u2019m reasonably confident that he did not turn to an aide and say anything like, \u201cIf I\u2019ve lost Tom Brokaw, I\u2019ve lost the election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The MSM hates Trump, and trashes him at every opportunity, and it just makes him stronger. Washington Post: Tuesday\u2019s edition of the \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d closed with a video editorial by the newscast\u2019s former anchor, Tom Brokaw, who said that … Continue reading