There was quite a shift in attitude among the liberals on various TV shows, in the half hour between their first finding out about a meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, and their later having a break in their shows where they could consult with their handlers.
At first, when they heard of the meeting, they were surprised, and hopeful that this was negotiation rather than aggressive saber-rattling, saying this might actually be a step toward peace.
Half an hour later, suddenly they were united in saying Trump would blow it, Kim Jong-in was a "master diplomat" playing him like a violin, Trump would never prepare for the meeting, and generally he would be completely incompetent. All with zero evidence, and all about a meeting that hadn't even happened yet.
This is "news" reporting? And "Journalism"?
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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb...p-handing-noko
Meet the Press Panel Freaks: Incompetent Trump Handing NoKo a Victory
By Nicholas Fondacaro | March 11, 2018 2:21 PM EDT
When it was first announced last Thursday that President Trump was to personally meet with North Korea Dictator Kim Jong-un for negotiations, the media’s response varied from
optimistic to
seething anger. But with some time, it appears as though their consensus is now to denounce the idea as was blatantly obvious on Sunday’s
Meet the Press. The entire panel was up in arms and fretting that Trump was either going to hand North Korea a victory or blow a gasket at the meeting and start a war.
Moderator Chuck Todd, still bitter because Trump called him a “sleeping son of a b*tch” at a rally the day before, kicked off the discussion with a ridiculously loaded question. “
How does any meeting between Trump and Kim not turn into a victory for the North Koreans,” he wondered, acting baffled.
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell was aghast at the idea as she was visibly distraught and seemingly hyperventilating. “
It's hard to imagine how it doesn't,” she declared. “
First of all, they have had a victory by setting the terms and by having the meeting itself, as you were pointing out. This is what all North Korean leaders have wanted. Three generations have wanted a meeting, legitimacy from an American president.”
For all Mitchell’s rambling about a meeting with Trump “legitimatizing” North Korea, where was that complaint when her network was praising their performance and propaganda at the Olympics? An argument can also be made that Kim’s nuclear weapons program, which reportedly can reach Washington, DC, was a form of legitimacy. Add to that, the U.S. was expending the resources to lead an international effort to isolate the communist country.
It’s also highly hypocritical for Mitchell to whine about someone giving legitimacy to dictators when she’s made a career for herself doing just that. As the Media Research Center had previously documented,
she was quite fond of Cuba’s former totalitarian Fidel Castro and was
an adamant defender of the Iran nuclear deal and
stuck up for them as she opposed Trump.
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