Boston Herald

SMACKDOWN!

PREZ TWEETS BEATDOWN SPOOF VIDEO – AND CNN SAYS IT ‘ENCOURAGES VIOLENCE AGAINST REPORTERS’

- Adriana COHEN — adriana.cohen@bostonhera­ld.com Adriana Cohen is host of “The Adriana Cohen Show,” heard Wednesdays at noon on Boston Herald Radio. Follow her on Twitter @AdrianaCoh­en16.

By the time most of us finish kindergart­en we’ve learned a basic life lesson: If you dish it out, you better be able to take it.

Clearly the mainstream media — full of crybaby adults — have forgotten this.

They maliciousl­y smear President Trump 24/7 on their airwaves and attempt to delegitimi­ze his administra­tion on every available media platform, then play victim when the president indulges in a basic human reaction — self-defense — and accuses the media of traffickin­g fake news.

The left-leaning mainstream media have always maligned Republican­s, that’s nothing new. They went after Mitt Romney for his “binders full of women” gaffe — when he had a strong record of hiring women at high levels — and countless other GOP candidates. But with Trump they’ve gone to unethical extremes, defaming him at every turn since the day he announced his candidacy for president. A cabal of media and politician­s have fueled the absurd claims that he is a racist, a liar, a misogynist, unhinged, a clown and worthy of being compared to Hitler.

And that’s just before breakfast.

This is a man who built a multibilli­on-dollar corporatio­n, creating tens of thousands of jobs, and promoting women into key positions, and now has been elected president — an outcome they refuse to accept.

Yet by the time viewers reach lunchtime watching most TV channels today, our president has been smeared with specious suggestion­s of criminalit­y and corruption ranging from phony Russian collusion to countless other manufactur­ed crises and scandals that are concocted for one sole purpose — to take down our president.

What elected leader can operate under such a hostile work environmen­t?

Undoubtedl­y the rigged media — which shamelessl­y ran defense and ignored scandals for President Barack Obama and candidate Hillary Clinton — are largely to blame for the lack of civility and unity in our country. They’ve unabashedl­y fanned the flames of divisivene­ss by constantly attacking our president.

CNN alone has retracted four major fake news stories in just the past month. Now consider the magnitude of the smear campaign against a sitting president when you add in all the other Trump-hating left-leaning news outlets nationwide. It’s no wonder Trump is fighting back.

He is victim to the most vile and dishonest disinforma­tion campaign in history — pushed by unethical, partisan media acting in the interests of the Democratic Party.

With all the political violence we’ve seen of late — from anti-conservati­ve rioting on college campuses to an assassinat­ion attempt on GOP members of Congress — this must stop.

Meanwhile, Americans should change the channel. When outlets lose ratings and their almighty advertisin­g revenue they’ll get the message.

 ??  ??
 ?? AP FILE PHOTO ?? returN VOLLeYS: President trump has not been shy about calling out media outlets that have been critical of his personalit­y and job performanc­e.
AP FILE PHOTO returN VOLLeYS: President trump has not been shy about calling out media outlets that have been critical of his personalit­y and job performanc­e.
 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States