Nothing Trump does satisfies the mainstream media

A leftist website known as Bustle.com posted a piece on President Trump regarding the shooting that occurred at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland in which five staffers of the newspaper were killed and others injured.

The title of the hit piece is "Video Of Trump Ignoring Questions On The Capital Gazette Shooting Will Stun You."

What a load of crap!

The article insinuates that Trump had nothing more to say about the shooting to reporters who screamed questions at him as he was going about his business, save for his tweet on Thursday.

An NBC News clip shows Trump walking away as reporters shouted at him questions such as, "Do you have any words of condolences for the families [of the victims], Mr. President?"

Another 'unbiased' reporter is heard shouting, "Why are you walking away?" while another yelled, "Why don't you come and talk to us about that?"

Trump doesn't owe these reporters the time of day--it's up to them to get the story, but they tend to often get it at the expense of Republicans, especially POTUS.

Nothing President Trump does is okay with the mainstream media. Nothing. And the errors they make in reporting never, never go against the Democrats or socialists [as they now move to fully become], it's always against the administration and those on the right.

Trump tweeted about the shooting:

"This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief. Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job."

"We pledge our eternal support. My government will not rest until we have done everything in our power to reduce violent crime and to protect innocent life."

Now I take issue with Trump saying "My government." It isn't his, it's ours. But what more does he need to say to assuage the bias of reporters? If he gave a longer, more heartfelt response to the shooting, would they have been satisfied, or would they use the opportunity to ask him the ridiculous question as to how calling the press "fake news" sparked the shooting or divides the country?

When Obama was president, he used the occasion of the Pulse Nightclub shooting to score political points, calling it "an especially heartbreaking day for our friends who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender."

He wasn't done:

"This is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country, and no act of hatred or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans."

Then before the bodies were even buried, he issued another call to restrict limits to firearm access, something to which the Republicans and the NRA have agreed upon, but have pointed out how the laws that are already in place are not being followed, just like what Obama did with the immigration laws.

"This massacre is a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that allows them to shoot people [he's referring to firearms, in case a leftist is reading this]."

He made references to previous shootings in which mentally ill people were able to get their hands on guns, such as Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut. He didn't call them mentally ill, nor point out the Pulse Nightclub shooting was carried out by a radical Muslim.

"We have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to do nothing is a decision as well." 

Then he didn't say anything to the families who were shot on his watch as Trump did.

But Bustle.com refers to the video of Trump not taking time out to talk to reporters who are clearly looking to ambush him.

How shocking.


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Reuters 'journalist' blames Capital Gazette shooting on Trump, later apologizes

It was so predictable. I blogged about it here and said that someone was going to blame the shooting on Trump. [The statement is a paragraph or two above the photo I doctored to not look like the scum who killed those people.]

An editor at Reuters was the culprit--he blamed Trump in a tweet for the deadly Capital Gazette shooting that killed five. On Thursday night, he apologized and blamed it on a "state of emotional distress."

Imagine a so-called journalist who comes up with a cock-and-bull story about something as tragic on his emotions. How can a reporter be a reporter if he or she can't put their emotions aside and report the freaking facts?

It is possible that Rob Cox, the fake news purveyor of fertilizer, will be disciplined by Reuters, but it was also possible that Peter Fonda and Samantha Bee would have been disciplined by their management, and how did that work out?

This is exactly why people do not trust the mainstream media anymore.

Cox, the Breakingviews editor at Reuters admitted he "responded emotionally and inappropriately" after jumping to conclusions before the facts came out.

But what are facts when feelings rule your thinking?

Police said the alleged gunman targeted the newspaper after a long-standing feud in a 2012 defamation lawsuit filed by him in which he lost.

Cox tweeted:

"This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is on your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul."

As per standard liberal operating procedure, Cox deleted the tweet, which was recovered and posted.

Cox tweeted four times to apologize after it became clear the alleged shooter's motive predated Trump even entering the political arena.

The balderdash apology went like this:

"When I saw the news today that a mass shooter had targeted the employees of a newspaper in Maryland I responded emotionally and inappropriately. Though my comments were entirely personal, they were not in keeping with the Reuters Trust Principles and my own standards for letting facts, not snap judgment, guide my understanding."

So he made sure to excuse himself in part because "... my comments were entirely personal..."

His own standards are the standards he employs. He stated something as if it were fact because he apparently wanted it to be a fact. Those are his standards because that's what he did.

Notice how nobody on the left ever makes a mistake on Trump's behalf--it's always a mistake that condemns him that gets taken back and is often gone unread by those who read the original statement.

Cox continued with his groveling but never really apologized to the person who was targeted by his bile--President Trump.

"My experience as a member of the community of Newtown, Connecticut in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy, combined with the possibility that my colleagues in the press were being targeted, pushed me into a state of emotional distress. I am sorry for my comments, which I quickly deleted [to save his butt] and have disavowed, and especially remorseful if they did anything to distract from the thoughts and love we must send to the community of Annapolis," he wrote.

He should have added: "I am also sorry that I stupidly blamed our president for being responsible for the shooting. My words were based purely on my hatred for him and I would always assume the worst in spite of the absence of facts."

Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler issued a statement regarding the fake news tweet of Cox's, calling it "inconsistent with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles requiring journalists to maintain freedom from bias."

He added: "We do not condone his behavior and will take appropriate action."

On my part, I will believe it when it becomes fact.

The five Capital Gazette staffers killed in the attack were: Wendi Winters, John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Rebecca Smith and Rob Hiaasen.

Another leftist Trump-hater, Judd Legum, the Think Progress founder also blamed the shootings on Trump, using a 2015 tweet as evidence, in spite of its non-political nature.

When it comes to Trump, the left retreats into their nether regions.


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