Media Weasels Want It Both Ways: Their Way or No Way

They Mostly Love Things This Way

(Or, all kissy-face lately like him)

Yeah Like Him

(Yuck)

Mainstream Media Praised Trump’s Anti-Clinton Speech as a from a “Pivot” to “Becoming a Serious-Sounding Candidate” in part seen below, and with full-blown details here:

MSNBC: Joe Scarborough: “That’s called the Pivot.” Scarborough acknowledged Trump’s attempt to appeal to Bernie Sanders’ supporters as a “pivot.” On the June 23 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe).

CNN’s Dana Bash: Republicans Have Begged Trump to “Look More Presidential” and “He Did That Today.” From the June 22 edition of CNN’s At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan.

Washington Examiner’s Kristen Soltis Anderson: Trump “Was Trying To Really Pivot to Being a Quote-Unquote ‘Serious-Sounding’ Candidate” in His Speech Attacking Clinton. From the June 22 edition of Fox News’ Happening Now.

Fox’s Dana Perino: Campaign Manager Dismissal is "A Good Pivot” for Trump Campaign. From the June 20 edition of Fox News’ The Five.

MSNBC’s Mark Halperin: Lewandowski Firing is Trump's Chance to “Turn the Page" and Run a "Traditional Campaign.” From the June 20 edition of MSNBC Live.

The Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes: Lewandowski’s Firing Was a Way to Say “Here is the Reset and to Show It’s About to Get Serious.” From the June 20 edition of Fox News’ Special Report.

Fox Contributor Tammy Bruce: Trump’s Campaign is “Adapting to the New General Election Dynamic” by Firing Lewandowski. From the June 20 edition of Fox Business’ Countdown to the Closing Bell with Liz Claman.

Laura Ingraham: Lewandowski's Firing Was “A Good First Step” for Trump. From the June 20 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show.

NY Post: Trump is “At Last Shifting to a Real General-Election Campaign.” The New York Post editorial board in a June 20 editorial.

Former Fox Contributor Scott Brown: “Removing Lewandowski Shows Trump Campaign is Adapting and Growing.” From the June 20 edition of Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto:

CNN’s John King: Trump Sounded “More Presidential” in his Speech after the Orlando Shooting. From the June 19 edition of CNN’s Inside Politics.

Fox’s Susan Estrich: “Trump is Now Behaving like General Election Nominees Behave.” From the June 16 edition of Fox News’ The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson.

Megyn Kelly: This Is “The More Presidential” Trump, “A Very Different-Sounding Man. The Republican nominee is a very different-sounding man.” From the June 7 edition of Fox News’ The Kelly File.

Lou Dobbs: Trump Was “All Business Tonight from the Misadventure of Three Days, He Returns.” From the June 7 edition of Fox Business’ Cavuto: Coast to Coast.

Fox Co-Host Steve Doocy: Trump “Sounded a Little More Presidential Due to His Teleprompter Use.” From the June 8 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends.

Fox Co-Host Brian Kilmeade: “What a Difference a Teleprompter Makes. Many Saying the Presumptive GOP Nominee Sounded More Presidential Than Ever.” From the June 8 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends.

Washington Post: “A Different Sort of Presidential Candidate … Took the Stage.” From the March 21 Washington Post article.

CNN’s Don Lemon: Trump is “Beginning to Look More Presidential by the Day.” From the May 18 edition of CNN Tonight.

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski: Indiana Victory Speech Showed a “New Donald Trump and the Beginning of a Massive Pivot.” From the May 4 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Fox’s Newt Gingrich: Trump Looked “Controlled, Serious, and Presidential in his Foreign Policy Speech.” [Fox News, With Sean Hannity, 4/27/16].

The bottom line as they say: The entire well-known media as shown above went all ga-ga in la-la land about that phrase used by Joe Scarborough. They pick up that ball and ran like a bat out of hell. 

All that partially shows why we love to hate the media as being somewhat being trustworthy, slightly dishonest, indecent at time, less informative, and cannot be trusted or believed in any plausible way except in a very, very rare case – which the above coverage of Trump is a shining moment for them, for sure.

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