Lawrence O’Donnell dismantles the corporate media establishment and accuses them of being stupid for their poor performance at Trump’s press conferences.
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Here’s the full clip of Lawrence O’Donnell tearing apart the media at Trump’s press conference: “Anybody who tells you Donald
Trump is lying to you when he answers a reporter’s question, and anyone who tells you that question isn’t smart enough to know what the answer is. pic.twitter.com/CcLk2kUjhj— Sarah Rhys Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 9, 2024
O’Donnell said in part:
All about Kamala Harris She said today in a speech in Michigan that all the networks knew she was about to give. They know the time is coming. They know how to report live, but not after giving Donald Trump All networks had over an hour of live coverage and 2016 was over again. The same mistake is being made.
I have never seen an industry learn more from its own stupid mistakes than American journalism. You can’t expect them to spend the next 89 days figuring out how to cover Trump’s presidential campaign, something they haven’t been able to figure out in nine years. One of Harris-Walz’s campaign slogans now is we’re not going back, but we’re going back today. We look back at news coverage of the campaign nine years ago.
Media reports say Donald Trump is taking credit for people who lied to him today. They are grateful. Journalists understandably mistakenly believe that the most important thing a candidate can do is answer their questions, but they have no idea what the answers actually are.
What is said behind the question mark is not necessarily the answer, and when it comes from Donald Trump, it never is. Now there are rumors in the news media that Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate did not do what Donald Trump did today, stand in front of reporters and answer their questions, and some of the smaller minds in the news media Keep giving credit to Donald Trump for standing up and lying to answer every question they ask, lies are not the answer. Donald Trump never answers reporters’ questions and no one in the news media tells you that Donald Trump has answered reporters’ questions and Kamala Harris has not. He is lying to you. They are so stupid. , don’t know they are lying to you because they don’t know what the answer is.
Donald Trump didn’t take any questions today. There isn’t any. He stood in a room and made sure television viewers couldn’t hear reporters’ questions. So when he spoke, TV viewers had no idea what the questions were. Most questions are terrible.
The dumbest question you can ask is about campaign strategy. What a waste of time asking a question like this with a convicted felon and former president. Mr. President, one question, can you tell us more about your upcoming interview with Elon Musk? This is the actual question posed to Donald Trump today. question. What are your thoughts on Kamala Harris not choosing Josh Shapiro as her VP? Most problems are waste problems like this.
Therefore, Donald Trump can talk about whatever comes to mind, including lying. Of course, something to do with the size of his crowd. His biggest lie now about the size of his crowd is a lie about which of his crowds is his biggest crowd. He now claims that the crowds that gathered to hear his attempt to overturn the January 6 presidential election were his largest ever. This is not the case, and surveys estimate the group to number around 53,000 people. Today, Donald Trump said it was the largest crowd he has ever spoken to. That’s it. His Inauguration Day actually had a bigger crowd, but it was still smaller than Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day. So he had to lie about that too. Today, Donald Trump said his January 6 speech drew a bigger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech. In 1963, I gave a dream speech in Washington. On January 6, the crowd for Martin Luther King was five times larger than the crowd for Donald Trump.
I know I’m checking out Donald Trump’s crowd size lies today, and it sounds almost boring, but that’s how Donald Trump wants to feel. He’s been lying about crowd sizes for nine years and he’s trying to bring the news media to their knees and make them accept this and he’s winning because no one in the room today fought him in any way or anything else they thought Go against him on things. This is the most docile group of reporters you’ve ever seen asking questions.
Are they afraid of Donald Trump? Are they worried about the Trump campaign banning them from future opportunities to allow Donald Trump to lie to them? Now, I’m not
Promote journalists to confront Donald Trump or anyone. I don’t think this is necessary. I really don’t like Donald Trump. But when you do that, how can you be so meek and timid in front of Donald Trump?
The performance was disgraceful. Democrats might complain if reporters aren’t as helpful to Kamala Harris, but when it comes to evaluating the media, it’s all about the mistakes of 2016 all over again.
The corporate media refuses to stand up to Donald Trump, and instead they choose to treat Democrats like dirt who have nothing but contempt.
Lawrence O’Donnell speaks for the majority of Americans who are tired of seeing the corporate media kneel to a convicted rapist felon and why should decent public servants be treated like criminals.
Awards and Professional Memberships
Member of Society of Professional Journalists and American Political Science Association
