{"id":34777,"date":"2017-05-30T18:52:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T01:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34777"},"modified":"2017-05-31T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:01:08","slug":"so-now-trump-loves-anonymous-sources-leaking-pro-trump-bs-to-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34777","title":{"rendered":"So NOW Trump LOVES Anonymous Sources Leaking Pro-Trump BS to Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s endless assault on the free press has been an ever present fixture of his presidency. He broadly classifies all news as <em>&#8220;fake&#8221;<\/em> simply because it isn&#8217;t blindly flattering. He can&#8217;t say <em>&#8220;New York Times&#8221;<\/em> without prefacing it (falsely) as <em>&#8220;failing.&#8221;<\/em> Never mind that polls show that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33768\" target=\"_blank\">most Americans trust the media<\/a><\/strong> more than they trust him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-shrug-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34781\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1750236618324459\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s favorite complaints often concern the use of unnamed sources. <em>[Note: There is a difference between unnamed and anonymous sources. The identity of an anonymous source is unknown to the reporter. In most cases, journalists cite sources they know who decline to be named].<\/em> The President has frequently condemned the use of any source that doesn&#8217;t have a name attached to it. He did so most recently last Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FakeNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FakeNews<\/a> media.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/868807327130025984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whenever you see the words &#39;sources say&#39; in the fake news media, and they don&#39;t mention names&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/868807754231820291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.it is very possible that those sources don&#39;t exist but are made up by fake news writers. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FakeNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FakeNews<\/a> is the enemy!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/868810404335673344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, Trump&#8217;s logic wouldn&#8217;t stand up to heavy sigh. He starts out complaining about leaks from the White House. But then accuses reporters of making up their sources. In which case there weren&#8217;t any leaks. But if there were leaks, then the sources were real. So Trump is raving about imaginary leaks from fake news who make up sources that actually exist. Are you following any of this? Me neither.<\/p>\n<p>What throws this hilariously over the edge is what Trump tweeted Tuesday morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jared Kushner didn&#39;t suggest Russian communications channel in meeting, source says <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nF6bM1FEt1\">https:\/\/t.co\/nF6bM1FEt1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX &amp; friends (@foxandfriends) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends\/status\/869458369903566848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Recent reports have alleged that Jared Kushner, Trump&#8217;s son-in-law and top advisor, had discussed setting up a covert communications channel with Russian operatives. The ramifications of that are horrifying and could even lead to charges of espionage. So naturally Trump has to mitigate the harm by denigrating the credible journalists who uncovered the story. And now he&#8217;s trying to override it with a competing story from Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just set aside the inescapable reality that Fox News is the Trump administration&#8217;s state-run TV outlet. Of course they will scrape up some positive rebuttal to any story that reflects poorly on this president. What makes this so glaringly ludicrous is that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/05\/29\/jared-kushner-didnt-suggest-russian-communications-channel-in-meeting-source-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fox&#8217;s story<\/a><\/strong> is based entirely on a single unnamed source:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;During the meeting the Russians broached the idea of using a secure line between the Trump administration and Russia, not Kushner, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News. That follows a recent report from The Washington Post alleging that Kushner wanted to develop a secure, private line with Russia.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So an unnamed <em>&#8220;source familiar with the matter&#8221;<\/em> tells Fox News something that exonerates Kushner. How convenient. Perhaps that source is Donald Trump, or his alter-ego, John Barron. Or maybe it&#8217;s Reince Pribus or Sean Spicer or Kellyanne Conway, or &#8211; you get the idea. There is nothing in the Fox News account that gives any context to the source or its potential ulterior motives for coming forward with this leak. However, it does provide a hook for the <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/video\/2017\/05\/30\/Fox---Friends-attacks-mainstream-media-for-reporting-on-Kushners-communications-with-the-R\/216700\" target=\"_blank\">regurgitate<\/a><\/strong> the same self-serving remarks on their program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Brian Kilmeade:<\/strong> So there was contact, and the Russians did want a back channel contact [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<strong>Ainsley Earhardt:<\/strong> Everyone is so upset about this. It&#8217;s like let him speak, let the investigation go on. If you have questions about what really happened, ask Jared, hear from Jared, and then we&#8217;ll discuss it. [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<strong>Pete Hegseth:<\/strong> Well yeah. You want to turn to the The Washington Post and the failing New York Times and say can I have my edition back? Can I have my news back? Because I&#8217;m having to read about this every single day. [&#8230;] There&#8217;s no sourcing. It&#8217;s all innuendo. It&#8217;s all rumor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, the Fox Friends are making some news themselves here. Prior to this they had not acknowledged that there were discussions of <em>&#8220;back-channel&#8221;<\/em> talks. Now they are conceding the point. Also, they had not previously supported the investigation of these matters. But now they are asking that the investigations go forward. Unfortunately, they still don&#8217;t grasp that their story is sourced to a single unnamed person when they whine about innuendo and rumor.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As for Trump, if he expects people to take him seriously when he condemns the use of unnamed sources, he ought not to use them himself. But expectations of consistency are way out of bounds when it comes to Trump. His hypocrisy quotient is far above that of mere mortals. What&#8217;s immensely troubling is how many people blissfully accept whatever flaming nonsense emits from the Trump-hole. It&#8217;s a frightening case of mass hypnosis or maybe cult worship gone terribly bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s endless assault on the free press has been an ever present fixture of his presidency. He broadly classifies all news as &#8220;fake&#8221; simply because it isn&#8217;t blindly flattering. He can&#8217;t say &#8220;New York Times&#8221; without prefacing it (falsely) as &#8220;failing.&#8221; Never mind that polls show that most Americans trust the media more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,879,33,1249],"class_list":["post-34777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-jared-kushner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-shrug-tweet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-92V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43440,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43440","url_meta":{"origin":34777,"position":0},"title":"Do Not Believe THEM! 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