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With the remains of Hurricane Harvey still threatening the communities and lives of the people living along the coast of Texas, the liberal media still couldn’t put their obsession with President Trump aside. In a segment of CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday, host Brian Stelter wanted to talk about Trump’s description of political journalists as “sick people” from earlier in the week. But his panel twisted Trump’s words to connect them to those reporters covering the hurricane and those in war zones.
Stelter began the segment by describing Trump’s criticism of the press as a dose of poison. “I think of these words as poison, meaning that they're a slow acting poison, gradually hurting the country by causing more and more distrust of the media,” he explained to Journalist Jeff Greenfield.
“And that is to inoculate his supporters against believing whatever is said about Donald Trump in the mainstream press,” Greenfield responded. He then tried to make Trump’s distaste for political journalists into a distaste for those who risk their lives to report the news. “The idea that the press doesn't love our country, I mean, you know, I don't how many reporters have died covering wars, trying to bring stories to the attention of the people,” he conflated.
Playing off of Greenfield, Joanne Lipman, the editor-in-chief of USA Today, tried to argue that Trump was disparaging her reporters that were in Texas.
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