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1. Pence Continues WH’s Knocking of the Media at CPAC; They ‘Amplify...the Failed Status Quo’


After White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus offered strongly-worded statements on Thursday afternoon at CPAC condemning the media as “the opposition party” to the Trump team, Vice President Mike Pence offered an evening address to a boisterous audience. Of course, he lobbed some jabs at the media of his own.

2. Bannon, Priebus Double Down on Media as ‘Opposition Party’; It Will ‘Get Worse’ for Them


Among the highlights for the first day of CPAC 2017, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus doubled down on their attacks against the media as the former referred to them as “the opposition party” having been “dead wrong” about the election to the point that life will “get worse every day” as the administration implements their agenda.

3. CNN Panelist: Talk of ‘Uniqueness of American Culture’ Is ‘White Nationalism’


White House Political Adviser Steve Bannon appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday where he discussed the importance of American culture, among other things. But that didn’t sit well with some of CNN’s political analysts; particularly with David Gregory, who condemned Bannon on Anderson Cooper 360 claiming that “The language of the uniqueness of American culture is this kind of white nationalist language to me that harkens back to the kind of language we've heard before.” 

4. Matthews: Bannon Is ‘Like Darth Vader’; Pence Won’t Be a ‘Manipulative’ VP Like Cheney


MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews compared White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday to Star Wars villain Darth Vader, even though “he’s a good speaker” albeit “a little strong but, you know, that’s part of the deal he’s got.”

5. NYT’s Charles Blow: ‘No Patience’ for Reaching Out to Trump Voters


The New York Times’s liberal columnist Charles Blow railed against the very idea of “reaching out to Donald Trump voters,” dismissing it as impossible considering how “backward-thinking” and bigoted his voters are. In a February 23 screed entitled “The Death of Compassion,” Blow compared, “Just like Donald Trump’s path to victory, Reagan’s was strewn with racial hostilities and prejudicial lies.”

6. ABC, CBS Overreact to Trump’s Immigration Comment, Muir Misquotes


President Donald Trump sent ABC and CBS off the rails Thursday when he made public statements about the efficiency of this deportation operations. Trump described the program as running like a “military operation,” which any normal person would understand was a figure of speech. But to ABC anchor David Muir it gave him license to fly off the handle and falsely claim, during the opening tease of World News Tonight, “Tonight, President Trump calls it ‘a military operation on the border.’ The immigration crackdown.” 

7. CNN's Cuomo Blames 'Intolerant' Parents for Girls Wanting to Change in Female Only Locker Rooms


If your daughter is uncomfortable with seeing male genitals while undressing in the school locker room, that’s the fault of her ‘intolerant’ parents, said CNN anchor Chris Cuomo Thursday. After President Trump reversed an Obama order Wednesday, that forced schools to allow transgender students to use whatever bathroom and locker room they wished, the media went nuts, decrying the reversal as “cruel” discrimination. New Day anchor Chris Cuomo went on a Twitter tirade Thursday, arguing with conservatives over the bathroom order, even blaming parents for being “intolerant” because they want their daughters to change in female-only locker rooms at school.


 
 
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Pence Continues WH’s Knocking of the Media at CPAC; They ‘Amplify...the Failed Status Quo’

By Curtis Houck
After White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus offered strongly-worded statements on Thursday afternoon at CPAC condemning the media as “the opposition party” to the Trump team, Vice President Mike Pence offered an evening address to a boisterous audience. Of course, he lobbed some jabs at the media of his own.
Pence reminisced about his CPAC past addresses and how he came to embrace conservatism thanks to the example set by Ronald Reagan. The Vice President also channeled the President by invoking their electoral victory from November.
Recapping the states the ticket won “that no Republican had carried in a generation,” Pence slammed the media for not foreseeing Trump’s victory: “The establishment never saw it coming. I mean, the media, the elites, the insiders, everybody else who profits off preserving the status quo, they dismissed our President, forgotten every step of the way.”
“And worse yet, they’re still trying to dismiss him. They’re still trying to dismiss all of us. They should have learned on Election Day is this is not a government by the elites, by the media or for establishment. What November 8th, showed even if they didn't listen, this is still government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” Pence added as the crowd rose to their feet.
Near the conclusion of his speech, Pence implored those in attendance to remain vigilant to the left’s so-called resistance:
Men and women of the conservative movement, this is our time and I promise you, the President and I will work our hearts out to make America safe again, to make America prosperous again. But the success of our movement, and more importantly, the success of our country, depends as much on all of you as those on us. We must — we must all of us rise to the challenge before us, tomorrow and every day thereafter.
It was here that Pence brought up how the left not only has their base, but an all-too-willing media to help them out:
The other side is not sitting idle and their allies in the media are more than willing to amplify their defense of the failed status quo every single day. Now more than ever, as we did before when this movement won back the Congress in 2010...or won back the White House in 2016, we got to do what we did before. We got to mobilize. We got to march forward as if it's the most important time in the history of our movement because it is.
In another allusion to the media, Pence pleaded with the conservative crowd to “make your voices heard in town halls, with your family and with your friends, on the internet, social media” and/or anywhere in which “common sense conservative messages are most desperately needed.” 
Here’s the relevant portions of the transcript from CPAC 2017:
Conservative Political Action Conference 2017
February 23, 2017
7:54 p.m. Eastern
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE: I just knew our new President would reignite our cause and renew it in our own day and he did just that. President Trump won a historic victory all across the United States of America. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] Think about it. 30 out of 50 states and including states that no Republican had carried in a generation. President Donald Trump turned the blue wall red. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] And you know what? The establishment never saw it coming. I mean, the media, the elites, the insiders, everybody else who profits off preserving the status quo, they dismissed our President, forgotten every step of the way and worse yet, they’re still trying to dismiss him. They’re still trying to dismiss all of us. They should have learned on Election Day is this is not a government by the elites, by the media or for establishment. What November 8th, showed even if they didn't listen, this is still government of the people, by the people, and for the people. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] And last November, the American people rose up, demanded a safer America, a more prosperous America and great American again. That's why the American people elected Donald Trump as President of the United States of America and President Donald Trump is already delivering for the American people.
(....)
8:07 p.m. Eastern
PENCE: Men and women of the conservative movement, this is our time and I promise you, the President and I will work our hearts out to make America safe again, to make America prosperous again. But the success of our movement, and more importantly, the success of our country, depends as much on all of you as those on us. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] We must — we must all of us rise to the challenge before us, tomorrow and every day thereafter. The other side is not sitting idle and their allies in the media are more than willing to amplify their defense of the failed status quo every single day. Now more than ever, as we did before when this movement won back the Congress in 2010 and won back the Congress — or won back the White House in 2016, we got to do what we did before. We got to mobilize. We got to march forward as if it's the most important time in the history of our movement because it is. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] Men and women of this movement, there is no time like the present. So, make your voices heard in town halls, with your family and with your friends, on the internet, social media. All those places were common sense conservative messages are most desperately needed cause this is our time. 
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Bannon, Priebus Double Down on Media as ‘Opposition Party’; It Will ‘Get Worse’ for Them

By Curtis Houck
Among the highlights for the first day of CPAC 2017, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus doubled down on their attacks against the media as the former referred to them as “the opposition party” having been “dead wrong” about the election to the point that life will “get worse every day” as the administration implements their agenda.
American Conservative Union (ACU) president Matt Schlapp almost immediately pointed to the media at the start of the conversation to which Bannon wondered if it was indeed “the opposition party.” 
On what the “the biggest misconception” was “about what's going on in the Donald Trump White House,” Priebus simply claimed it’s “everything that you’re reading” in the media.
Clearly speaking with no reservations, Bannon cited the day he and Kellyanne Conway joined the campaign in August 2016 in describing how wrong the media have beenup to today in the White House:
But we've known it since August 15th and I think if you look at, you know, the opposition party and how they portrayed the campaign, how they portrayed the transition, and now they’re portraying the administration, it's always wrong. I mean, on the very first day that Kellyanne and I started, we reached out to Reince, Sean Spicer, Katie, it’s the same team that, you know, was grinding away on the campaign, the same team that did the transition. And if you remember, you know, the campaign was the most chaotic, you know, by the media's description, most chaotic, most disorganized, most unprofessional, had no earthly idea what they were doing and then you saw them all crying and weeping that night, on the 8th[.]
Priebus replied that Americans “were starving for was somebody real” and when they got that in the President, “the media attacked us on the campaign” and through the transition with “ridiculous stories” trying to undermine Trump’s attempts to “hit his agenda every single day.” 
Moments later, Bannon returned to his favorite target, ruling:
Just like they were dead wrong on the chaos of the campaign, and just like they were dead wrong on the chaos of the transition, they are absolutely dead wrong about what's going on today because we have a team grinding it through on what President Donald Trump promised the American people and the mainstream media better understand something, all of those promises are going to be implemented. 
Schlapp noted the “great democraticization in news” in which “[p]eople get their news now from literally hundreds and thousands of sites” before asking the pair what and why the media “keep getting [things] wrong.”
“Um, I think there’s hope that it’s going to change. I mean, we sit here every day and the President pumps out all this work, putting out and the executive orders and punching through the promises that he made to the America people, so we’re hoping that the media would catch up eventually,” Priebus replied.
Near the end of the 25-minute exchange, Bannon uncorked this warning to the media industry that has already drawn a number of responses from various outlets:
It's not only going to get better, it's going to get worse every day in the media. And here's why — by the way, the internal logic makes sense. They're corporatists, globalist media that are adamantly opposed — adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda like Donald Trump has....Here’s why it's going to get worse. Because he's going to continue to press his agenda. And as economic conditions get better, as more jobs get better, they're going to continue to fight. If you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight, you're sadly mistaken. Every day, every day it is going to be a fight and that is what I'm proudest about Donald Trump.  
Here’s the relevant portions of the transcript from CPAC 2017:
Conservative Political Action Conference 2017
February 23, 2017
1:52 p.m. Eastern
MATT SCHLAPP: Now, let me ask you two. I'm looking in the back of the room as well, but let me ask you too. 
STEVE BANNON: Is that the opposition party? 
SCHLAPP [laughing]: Yes. Let me ask you two. We read a lot about you two. 
REINCE PRIEBUS: It's all good. 
SCHLAPP: But I bet not all of it's accurate — I bet not all of it’s accurate. I bet there are some things that don't get written correctly. Let me ask each one of you. What's the biggest misconception about what's going on in the Donald Trump White House? 
PRIEBUS: Well in regard to us two, I think the biggest misconception is everything that you're reading. 
(....)
BANNON: But we've known it since August 15th and I think if you look at, you know, the opposition party and how they portrayed the campaign, how they portrayed the transition, and now they’re portraying the administration, it's always wrong. I mean, on the very first day that Kellyanne and I started, we reached out to Reince, Sean Spicer, Katie, it’s the same team that, you know, was grinding away on the campaign, the same team that did the transition. And if you remember, you know, the campaign was the most chaotic, you know, by the media's description, most chaotic, most disorganized, most unprofessional, had no earthly idea what they were doing and then you saw them all crying and weeping that night, on the 8th, when — when — [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] And the reason it worked — the reason it worked is — is President Trump. I mean, Trump had those ideas, had that energy, had that vision that could galvanize a team around him of disparate — look, we're a coalition. You know, lot of people have strong beliefs about different things but we understand that you can come together to win and we understood that from August 15th and we never had a doubt and Donald Trump never had a doubt he was going to win and I think that is the power of this movement. 
PRIEBUS: And — and on top of that, first of all, President Trump laid out his vision — what was it? Four or five years ago here at CPAC. 
SCHLAPP: That's right. 
PRIEBUS: And it was that vision — it’s nothing different. If you go back and watch the tape of President Trump four or five years ago, that was the Trump agenda. One of the things that I used to say all the time and Governor Walker and everybody gets sick of me saying it, but I think that President Trump found it, what was what this country — what all of us were starving for the whole time cause we’re so sick of politics and politicians in spite of the fact that we love being here, we actually politics, but what we were starving for was somebody real. Somebody genuine. Somebody that was actually who he said he was, and the — the media attacked us on the campaign. Remember, attacked me — oh, you can't spend the money on Trump. Go give it to the Senate, attacked us on the transition. We — President Trump put in the best cabinet in the history of cabinets, I think. Now, the ridiculous stories and all we do every day and all President Trump does every day is hit his agenda every single day, whether it's TPP, whether it’s deregulation, whether it’s Neil Gorsuch, whatever it is — his promise is coming through every day. 
SCHLAPP: He's even leaving bathrooms alone. That’s kind of a nice, refreshing thing for a lot of people as well.
PRIEBUS: We happen to think it’s a state issue. 
SCHLAPP: Of course. 
BANNON: But I think let’s go to that point Reince made for a second. President Trump when he was running, he made — and this is the other thing, that the mainstream media or opposition party never caught, is that, if you want to see the Trump agenda, it's very simple. It was all in the speeches. He went around to these rallies with those speeches had tremendous amount of content in them, right? I happen to believe, and many others do, he's probably the greatest public speaker in those large arenas since William Jennings Brian. This was galvanized.
(....)
BANNON: Just like they were dead wrong on the chaos of the campaign, and just like they were dead wrong on the chaos of the transition, they are absolutely dead wrong about what's going on today because we have a team grinding it through on what President Donald Trump promised the American people and the mainstream media better understand something, all of those promises are going to be implemented.
(....)
SCHLAPP: You know, we all — we all consume a lot of news. We watch and read a lot of things. There's been a great democraticization in news. People get their news now from literally hundreds and thousands of sites. What would each of you say -- what is the — there's always polls being put out, is Donald Trump doing a good job, is Donald Trump doing a bad job. I know what you all think. We've been hearing it all — all day. What is it that they keep getting wrong? Do you think it ever gets fixed? What does the media get wrong about this Trump phenomenon and what's happening in the country and is there any hope that this changes? 
PRIEBUS: Um, I think there’s hope that it’s going to change. I mean, we sit here every day and the President pumps out all this work, putting out and the executive orders and punching through the promises that he made to the America people, so we’re hoping that the media would catch up eventually.
(....)
BANNON: The reason Reince and I are good partners is that we can disagree. It's not only going to get better, it's going to get worse every day in the media. And here's why — by the way, the internal logic makes sense. They're corporatists, globalist media that are adamantly opposed — adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda like Donald Trump has. President Trump really laid this out, as Reince said, many years ago at CPAC. It’s really CPAC that originally gave him the springboard. It's the first time at Breitbart we started seeing him and saw how his speeches resonated with people. And then he would go out to smaller town halls later and really, he got traction with the same message he's bringing today. Here's the only — here’s why it's going to get worse. Because he's going to continue to press his agenda. And as economic conditions get better, as more jobs get better, they're going to continue to fight. If you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight, you're sadly mistaken. Every day, every day it is going to be a fight and that is what I'm proudest about Donald Trump. 
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CNN Panelist: Talk of ‘Uniqueness of American Culture’ Is ‘White Nationalism’

By Nicholas Fondacaro
White House Political Adviser Steve Bannon appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday where he discussed the importance of American culture, among other things. But that didn’t sit well with some of CNN’s political analysts; particularly with David Gregory, who condemned Bannon on Anderson Cooper 360 claiming that “The language of the uniqueness of American culture is this kind of white nationalist language to me that harkens back to the kind of language we've heard before.
Gregory asserted that it was a question Bannon needed to answer, while he immediately tried to distance himself from his fresh smear by stating, “I don't know him. I don't know what's in his heart.” But that didn’t preclude him from making some pretty heavy assumptions about Bannon’s “worldview:”
There is a worldview there that I think will trouble a lot of Trump opponents about the uniqueness of America somehow being separated from our -- the history of being such a multicultural society. A welcoming society and a society that assimilates outsiders really well. Assimilates immigrants really, really well there is a comparison to the vulnerability of Europe that somehow we are the same. And I think immigrants assimilate into America both economically, socially, and culturally much better than other countries as part of the greatness of this country.
Those comments by Gregory came after a fellow panelist continued to push the tired claims that Bannon himself was a white supremacist.
The same person that has fostered, like, stoked these divisions this very extremist language when it comes to people of color, women, Jewish people, Muslims,” said Symone Sanders the former National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign, “So, I think what Steve Bannon was getting to was his nationalist populism…
I still believe that we have put white supremacy in the White House with Steve Bannon. So it looked temperate on that stage today but –,” Sanders continued before being cut off by moderator Anderson Cooper, who pressed her on the veracity of her claims of white supremacy.
“When you say, that is that based solely on the one line that Steve Bannon said in an interview about Breitbart being the platform for the alt-right,” Cooper asked, “Because I mean in terms of his actual language, is there anything you can actually point to that says he is white supremacist?”
Sander’s response was a quick quip, “Alt-right is nothing but white supremacy dressed up in khakis in my opinion.” She went on to rant about Bannon’s time at Breitbart and falsely argued the news site was his “child” and “baby.” When, in fact, it was the brainchild of its namesake, Andrew Breitbart. 
Transcript below: 
CNN
Anderson Cooper 360
February 23, 2017
8:20:24 PM Eastern
ANDERSON COOPER: One of the lines that Steve Bannon said, I want to get this right, “We are a nation with a culture and a reason for being.” I'm wondering how you interpret it, how you heard that.
SYMONE SANDERS: I mean, I go back to the Steve Bannon that said on the CPAC stage today someone that embraced that he was a conservative. It’s very jarring to me because this is the same person who waged war on conservatives and the Republican Party. People like Paul Ryan, traditional conservatives. The same person that has fostered, like, stoked these divisions this very extremist language when it comes to people of color, women, Jewish people, Muslims. So, I think what Steve Bannon was getting to was his nationalist populism, if you will. And we still -- I still believe that we have put white supremacy in the White House with Steve Bannon. So it looked temperate on that stage today but –
COOPER: When you say, that is that based solely on the one line that Steve Bannon said in an interview about Breitbart being the platform for the alt-right? Because I mean in terms of his actual language, is there anything you can actually point to that says he is white supremacist?
SANDERS: Alt-right is nothing but white supremacy dressed up in khakis in my opinion.
DAVID GREGORY: I do not know what's in his heart. The language of the uniqueness of American culture is this kind of white nationalist language to me that harkens back to the kind of language we've heard before. I think it's a question. And I don't know what the answer to that question is. I don't know him. I don't know what's in his heart. There is a world view there that I think will trouble a lot of Trump opponents about the uniqueness of America somehow being separated from our -- the history of being such a multicultural society. A welcoming society and a society that assimilates outsiders really well. Assimilates immigrants really, really well there is a comparison to the vulnerability of Europe that somehow we are the same. And I think immigrants assimilate into America both economically, socially, and culturally much better than other countries as part of the greatness of this country. That seems to be what he is challenging.
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Matthews: Bannon Is ‘Like Darth Vader’; Pence Won’t Be a ‘Manipulative’ VP Like Cheney

By Curtis Houck
MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews compared White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday to Star Wars villain Darth Vader, even though “he’s a good speaker” albeit “a little strong but, you know, that’s part of the deal he’s got.”
Also, Matthews couldn’t help but invoke former Vice President and Matthews boogeyman Dick Cheney to suggest Vice President Mike Pence won’t be “manipulative” like Cheney was in deceiving the “lesser mind” of George W. Bush.
 The topic of Bannon came up when liberal panelist Mark Penn discussed a new poll that found Pence to have a high favorable rating than President Donald Trump. However, both men remained more popular than administration leaders Bannon and counselor Kellyanne Conway.
“You look at Bannon, he is down at 20 percent. So, the people he sent out in the campaign and Kellyanne Conway is negative 2 or 3-to-1. So, those folks really have trouble going out and speaking for Trump now,” argued Penn.
Matthews then swooped in, telling panelist Michelle Bernard:
Michelle, this is pretty true. I mean, you talk about bad publicity. Bannon gets it all the time. He’s like Darth Vader, you know? And he — but he’s a good speaker. I saw him today. He knows how to talk, but he’s a little strong but, you know, that’s part of the deal he’s got. He’s the — he’s sort of the tough guy in the White House.
The far-left Bernard lamented how conservative Pence is on social issues, but credited him for being “calm,” “stable,” and someone who operates with a tone of voice that doesn’t give credence to instability. 
Matthews seized this opportunity to invoke Cheney and take another swipe at Bush’s intelligence:
MATTHEWS: Yeah, I mean, that's what's really bizarre because he’s not — I don’t think as manipulative as Dick Cheney was, but I think Cheney was manipulative of a lesser mind called the President then at the time and he knew how to manipulate the guy. 
BERNARD: Well, Pence comes off as sincere. 
MATTHEWS: Well, Pence has a hard, traditional Christian — I must say Christian, conservative view of the world which is pretty consistent and predictable. Trump is a amalgam of stuff that works with the polling.
As for Pence’s calm demeanor, Politico’s Ken Vogel added: “I mean, he has an understanding of the way that politics works innately in the way Trump doesn’t, so he kinda translates Trump.”
Here’s the relevant portions of the transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on February 23:
MSNBC’s Hardball
February 23, 2017
7:39 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: You’ve got an new poll out today and I got this poll which shows that Mike Pence is — gets favorable with 47 percent. Trump gets a favorable of 45 percent. So, does Trump now know that Pence is better surrogate for him than he is himself? 
MARK PENN: Oh, I think there’s no question. I mean, we’re starting a monthly poll — a Harvard/Harris poll — in this poll, Trump is most popular person from the administration. Actually, Bernie Sanders was most of the country, but what does Trump do when his Vice President’s more popular — 
MATTHEWS: Pence is most popular. 
PENN: Pence is most popular in the administration. You look at Bannon, he is down at 20 percent. So, the people he sent out in the campaign and Kellyanne Conway is negative 2 or 3-to-1. So, those folks really have trouble going out and speaking for Trump now. Pence is the man that, by the time he gets to Europe, there’s probably a 40-point gap between Trump and Pence. 
MATTHEWS: Michelle, this is pretty true. I mean, you talk about bad publicity. Bannon gets it all the time.
MICHELLE BERNARD: Yes.
MATTHEWS: He’s like Darth Vader, you know? And he —
BERNARD: Right, he probably likes it. 
MATTHEWS: — but he’s a good speaker. I saw him today. He knows how to talk, but he’s a little strong but, you know, that’s part of the deal he’s got. He’s the — he’s sort of the tough guy in the White House. But yet, Kellyanne has had her problems. Let’s be honest. But Pence comes off as the guy that says: “Yes, I believe in NATO.” And Tillerson says we’re not going to fight wars with our GIs — men and women to get killed in and mutilated sometimes in war, horribly, so that we get more gas. You know, these are the — they’re smart things to say. Why isn't the President saying the smart stuff? Because his base doesn't want to hear from him?
BERNARD: Cause his base doesn't want to hear from him and that's not what he got elected for. You know, I think he made a calm, very-pointed when he brought on Mike Pence. He is calm. He is stable. When everybody else in the administration is operating, you know, up here, just hearing his — even his tone of voice, can be very calming which is so surprising because prior to the election, one would have thought, given Pence's ideas on so many social issues, people would not find calm in Mike Pence. But that's what he has given them. 
MATTHEWS: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Yeah, I mean, that's what's really bizarre because he’s not — I don’t think as manipulative as Dick Cheney was, but I think Cheney was manipulative of a lesser mind called the President then at the time and he knew how to manipulate the guy. 
BERNARD: Well, Pence comes off as sincere. 
MATTHEWS: Well, Pence has a hard, traditional Christian — I must say Christian, conservative view of the world which is pretty consistent and predictable. Trump is a amalgam of stuff that works with the polling.
KEN VOGEL: Yeah and I mean, he has an understanding of the way that politics works innately in the way Trump doesn’t, so he kinda translates Trump.
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NYT’s Charles Blow: ‘No Patience’ for Reaching Out to Trump Voters

By Scott Whitlock
The New York Times’s liberal columnist Charles Blow railed against the very idea of “reaching out to Donald Trump voters,” dismissing it as impossible considering how “backward-thinking” and bigoted such voters are. In a February 23 screed entitled “The Death of Compassion,” Blow compared, “Just like Donald Trump’s path to victory, Reagan’s was strewn with racial hostilities and prejudicial lies.” 
He continued, “So, then as now, economic anxiety and throbbing xenophobia were convenient shields behind which brewing racial animus could hide.” 
According to Blow, Trump is way worse than Reagan: 
But while Reagan at least operated under the veneer of positivity and hopefulness with the language of a “shining city on a hill,” Trump has pursued a blatant appeal to anger and hostility with his talk of a nation in decline.
Over the years, compassionate conservatism has had its moments, including being espoused by Jack Kemp and President George W. Bush. That all feels like quaint, retrospective ephemera now.
Compassionate conservatism is dead; Trump and his band of backward-thinking devotees killed it.
The journalist concluded by suggesting there is no compromise with Trump voters:
This is why I have no patience for liberal talk of reaching out to Trump voters. There is no more a compromise point with those who accept, promote and defend bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia than there is a designation of “almost pregnant.”
Trump is a cancer on this country and resistance is the remedy. The Trump phenomenon is devoid of compassion, and we must be closed to compromise.
Speaking to Democrats, Blow lectured, “Victory is the only acceptable outcome when freedom, equality and inclusion are at stake.” In December, Blow told upset liberals, “You are on the right side of history.” 
And people think that liberals only talk to other liberals. 
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ABC, CBS Overreact to Trump’s Immigration Comment, Muir Misquotes

By Nicholas Fondacaro
President Donald Trump sent ABC and CBS off the rails Thursday when he made public statements about the efficiency of this deportation operations. Trump described the program as running like a “military operation,” which any normal person would understand was a figure of speech. But to ABC anchor David Muir it gave him license to fly off the handle and falsely claim, during the opening tease of World News Tonight, “Tonight, President Trump calls it ‘a military operation on the border.’ The immigration crackdown.
And that wasn’t the only time Muir used that false quote. He used it again during the lead into the segment about the story. “We begin with the simmering tension across this country. Those for and against President Trump's immigration crackdown,” Muir asserted, “And today, the President called it ‘a military operation at the border.’
But Trump really said was: “We're getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that nobody's ever seen before, and they’re the bad ones. And it's a military operation.” No mention of “on the border” at all, which wouldn’t make sense anyway since deportation raids are occurring all over the country.
Muir has an addiction to hyperbolic flourishes as demonstrated Tuesday night when he announced that, “Tonight, President Trump's immigration crackdown revealed. The new and sweeping plan to deport undocumented immigrants across this country. Who will be targeted?”
ABC reporter Matt Gutman even treated Muir’s quote as fact stating, “A military operation? Not according to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.” “No. Repeat, no use of military force in immigration operations. None,” Secretary Kelly exclaimed to the press, obviously trying to make sure they don’t run with the story ABC and CBS ended up pushing.
A similar thing occurred during CBS Evening News when reporter Margaret Brennan also treated the comment as more than describing law enforcement’s efficiency. “Well, the President sent his secretaries of state and homeland security south of the border to reassure officials there that illegal immigrants will be treated humanely when they're deported from the U.S. to Mexico,” she reported, “But the President today caused some confusion himself when he suggested using the U.S. military to expel them.
Press Secretary Sean Spicer took it the podium in the White House Briefing Room and explained to the press that the President was using a figure of speech, or an “adjective” as he put it. But Brennan sounded skeptical, telling CBS anchor Scott Pelley, “The White House later tried to clarify saying the President meant military operation as an adjective to describe what they say is an efficient rate of deportation.
Treating Trump’s statement as more than what it was, at best, makes the President look like he doesn’t know what he’s talking about or how his operation is running. At worst, it created, even more, fear for people who think the military is going roll into their neighborhoods and start kicking down doors. Either way, it only benefits the liberal media’s narrative against the Trump administration.
It’s a good thing they didn’t take Trump’s description of his administration being a “fine-tuned machine” too literally or they may have started to claim he was building a giant robot. 
Transcripts below:
ABC
World News Tonight
February 23, 2017
6:30:16 PM Eastern
[Tease]
DAVID MUIR: Tonight, President Trump calls it “a military operation on the border.” The immigration crackdown. But his own Homeland Security Secretary, General John Kelly says that's not the case. The White House late today is asked, is this a military operation?
6:31:08 PM Eastern
MUIR: Good evening, and we have several developing stories tonight, and we begin with the simmering tension across this country. Those for and against President Trump's immigration crackdown. And today, the President called it “a military operation at the border.” But after he offered those words during a meeting at the White House, his own homeland security secretary had very different words about the operation. So which is it? ABC's Matt Gutman on the crackdown and how it's being enforced. He’s not far from the border in Arizona tonight.
[Cuts to video]
MATT GUTMAN: At the White House today, President Trump declaring his new immigration crackdown a roaring success.
DONALD TRUMP: We're getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that nobody's ever seen before, and they’re the bad ones. And it's a military operation.
GUTMAN: A military operation? Not according to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
JOHN KELLY: No. Repeat, no use of military force in immigration operations. None.
GUTMAN: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer later asked to clarify what the president meant by military operation.
SEAN SPICER: The president was using that as an adjective. It's happening with precision.
GUTMAN: Tonight the Department of Homeland Security telling us it doesn't have the data available to support the president's claim. Secretary Kelly in Mexico with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. A diplomatic mission. Ahead of their visit, a replica of the President’ proposed border wall burned in Vera Cruz. Mexico also furious with the administration's new plan to deport some undocumented immigrants to Mexico even if they’re not Mexican.
KELLY: Let me be very, very clear. There will be no, repeat, no, mass deportations.
...
CBS Evening News
February 23, 2017
6:34:11 PM Eastern
SCOTT PELLEY: Margaret Brennan is joining us at the White House. Margaret, there was some confusion today on immigration. The President said one thing, and then his homeland security secretary rushed out and said another.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes. Well, the President sent his secretaries of state and homeland security south of the border to reassure officials there that illegal immigrants will be treated humanely when they're deported from the U.S. to Mexico. But the President today caused some confusion himself when he suggested using the U.S. military to expel them.
DONALD TRUMP: We're getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that nobody's ever seen before. And they're the bad ones. And it's a military operation.
JOHN KELLY: No. Repeat: No use of military force in immigration operations. None.
BRENNAN: The White House later tried to clarify saying the President meant military operation as an adjective to describe what they say is an efficient rate of deportation. Scott.
PELLEY: Margaret Brennan for us tonight. Margaret. Thank you.
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CNN's Cuomo Blames 'Intolerant' Parents for Girls Wanting to Change in Female Only Locker Rooms

By Kristine Marsh
If your daughter is uncomfortable with seeing male genitals while undressing in the school locker room, that’s the fault of her ‘intolerant’ parents, said CNN anchor Chris Cuomo Thursday. After President Trump reversed an Obama order Wednesday, that forced schools to allow transgender students to use whatever bathroom and locker room they wished, the media went nuts, decrying the reversal as “cruel” discrimination. New Day anchor Chris Cuomo went on a Twitter tirade Thursday, arguing with conservatives over the bathroom order, even blaming parents for being “intolerant” because they want their daughters to change in female-only locker rooms at school.
Cuomo’s tweet storm started when a person asked, “What do you tell a 12 year old girl who doesn’t want to see a penis in the locker room?” Cuomo responded by “wondering” aloud if “she was the problem” or her “intolerant dad.”
i wonder if she is the problem or her overprotective and intolerant dad? teach tolerance. https://t.co/DbxAkrrH7n
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) February 23, 2017
Yes, Cuomo actually blamed parents for being so judgemental that they want their daughters to change in female only locker rooms.. On top of that, apparently pre-teen girls are more than fine with changing in front of students with a different set of equipment than they have.
Cuomo followed up by denying that he was blaming the daughter in this hypothetical scenario, but instead it was the parent’s fault for making such a “judgement”:
That's a lie and you are wasting time. I was clearly saying this isn't about the girls it is about parents judgments now prove the risk https://t.co/nGok4DvB37
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) February 23, 2017
And doubling down some more:
The context is clear to me. The parent is saying if his daughter is offended and I am saying that he is the issue not her. https://t.co/TvA4cdYGnF
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) February 23, 2017

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