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Originally Posted by zimmy
They were covered by affiliates and etc. I also don't believe you can't see the difference between what Obama said on (on a handful of occasions) and a repeated effort to demonize and discredit any media that criticizes or is negative of him,
There is no difference in quality. The one who does it only once is not less guilty of it than another who has done it 100 times. And if the repeated effort by one to do it is less than that of another whose repeated effort is of a greater number, they both are guilty of the same thing. There is no magic number that makes the quality of the "crime" less meaningful. Being guilty of murdering one person is not being less guilty of murder than is one who has committed ten murders. It is nonsense to create some notion that the number of times a wrong is done diminishes the wrong as that number goes down. Stop this silly need for there to be equivalence in order to make a point. It is even a given that once someone gets away with a supposed no-no, others will follow with even more no-no's since the precedence clears the way. The quantity of no-no's will naturally rise once the gate is open.
to the point of calling journalism the enemy or the people. That it's Stalin, Mao, Putin territory.
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Trump did not say "journalism" is the enemy of the people. And "enemy of the people" is simply a phrase made up of specific English words. It has an intrinsic meaning as it is applied to a given situation, regardless of whoever used the phrase before nor for whatever motive or circumstance they used it. It would be nonsense to disallow the use of that string of words for anything other than a Stalinesque statement. That, in itself, would be applying a Stalin like imposition on language--a sort of dictatorship against free use of language.
It so happens that the phrase has been used and recorded several times throughout history, going back at least to the great Roman or Greek civilizations. It was even used as a title for a play by Ibsen. None of them were referring to Stalin, or Mao, or Putin as a reference point for their meaning. Picking on a use of it by Communist dictators is obviously an attempt to equate (there's that equivalence nonsense again) Trump with them. The specific way that Trump seems to mean it is that what he believes is false reporting and erroneous media analysis is a danger to society as it engenders ideas that can lead to the opposite of what people want and need. Ergo, in that respect, it is an enemy of the peoples will and well being.
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