Levin: If Exposing Media Is Only Thing Trump Does, He Will Have Been a Successful President

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Levin: If Exposing Media Is Only Thing Trump Does, He Will Have Been a Successful President

On his nationally syndicated radio talk show [1] Wednesday, host Mark Levin lambasted the media and praised Donald Trump, saying if exposing the media is the only thing Trump does, he will have been a successful president.

“I honestly believe if this is the only thing President Trump succeeds in doing he will have been a successful president – that is, exposing the media,” said Mark Levin. “For decade, after decade, after decade, and now it’s worse than ever, the media have fraudulently presented themselves to the American people – to you – as some kind of objective nonpartisan entity just reporting the news. Now they’re all out of the closet, and it’s not very pretty.”
 
Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-morris/levin-if-exposing-media-only-thing-trump-does-he-will-have-been-successful

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

This just shows what complete idiots conservatives are.

So if Trump wrecks every aspect of the country, as long as he exposed the media then he will have been a good president?

Conservatives are some of the dumbest people in the country at this moment.

[anubias]

This just shows what complete idiots conservatives are.

So if Trump wrecks every aspect of the country, as long as he exposed the media then he will have been a good president?

Conservatives are some of the dumbest people in the country at this moment.

Coming from you, I consider your statement to be a complement.  Thank you.  :)

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Coming from you, I consider your statement to be a complement.  Thank you.  :)

You know I'm right. Address what I said.

You can't.

[Cripplecreek]

Exposing what we all already know is not a particularly grand achievement.

[aligncare]

'We' don't elect the president, we add our two cents certainly, but we are not the average voter. The media still holds sway over too many and they still represent a powerful influencing force in American politics today. Levin is right. Trump is the first monkey wrench to upset the media apple cart (mixed metaphor?  ).

[dfwgator]

That's basically my view.  Regardless of what you may think of Trump, this Presidency is turning out to be very useful in shining the flashlight on the cockroaches.   

Only Trump could have pulled this off,  because of the quirks of his personality.   Lord knows I don't want a guy like Trump to be President all the time,  but for now, he just may very well be what the doctor ordered.

[goatprairie]

I'm a big Levin fan, but if that's the only thing Trump does, it does NOT!!! make him a successful president.
Exposing the media!!!!????   As if we haven't known the liberal media bias for many decades.
The media is not any more or any less biased than when Goldwater ran for president in '64.  Goldwater was subjected to an avalanche of smears and condemnation from the media who considered him a crazy, war-mongering racist who would immediately launch a nuclear war if elected.
Nothing much has changed since then. The libs still control the media, education, and the entertainment industry.
But the liberal control of the media is not the biggest problem....their control of academia is the biggest problem. Lib indoctrination in our nation's schools is the cause of most of the other problems. I would like to see that fixed (if possible) before I'd like to see the lib media stronghold overturned.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I'm a big Levin fan, but if that's the only thing Trump does, it does NOT!!! make him a successful president.
Exposing the media!!!!????   As if we haven't known the liberal media bias for many decades.
The media is not any more or any less biased than when Goldwater ran for president in '64.  Goldwater was subjected to an avalanche of smears and condemnation from the media who considered him a crazy, war-mongering racist who would immediately launch a nuclear war if elected.
Nothing much has changed since then. The libs still control the media, education, and the entertainment industry.
But the liberal control of the media is not the biggest problem....their control of academia is the biggest problem. Lib indoctrination in our nation's schools is the cause of most of the other problems. I would like to see that fixed (if possible) before I'd like to see the lib media stronghold overturned.

Trump's popularity boils down to "he makes lib's heads explode". That's it. That's all that matters.

That's how dumb these rubes are.

[dfwgator]

Trump's popularity boils down to "he makes lib's heads explode". That's it. That's all that matters.

 

It has its' place.   

And I don't think the vast majority of people in this country think the media is liberally biased.   We here do,  but we are a tiny portion of the overall populace.   Perhaps Trump will finally convince the majority of people indeed how bad that bias really is.

[anubias]

You know I'm right. Address what I said.

You can't.

I already did.  If I spell it out to make it easily understandable for someone such as yourself, you will whine to @mystery-ak to get the post removed.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

It has its' place.   

And I don't think the vast majority of people in this country think the media is liberally biased.   We here do,  but we are a tiny portion of the overall populace.   Perhaps Trump will finally convince the majority of people indeed how bad that bias really is.

Haha... have you seen the polls? He's not convincing anybody.

[Bigun]

Exposing what we all already know is not a particularly grand achievement.

You and I already know but millions of others do not.

[Cripplecreek]

I'm a big Levin fan, but if that's the only thing Trump does, it does NOT!!! make him a successful president.
Exposing the media!!!!????   As if we haven't known the liberal media bias for many decades.
The media is not any more or any less biased than when Goldwater ran for president in '64.  Goldwater was subjected to an avalanche of smears and condemnation from the media who considered him a crazy, war-mongering racist who would immediately launch a nuclear war if elected.
Nothing much has changed since then. The libs still control the media, education, and the entertainment industry.
But the liberal control of the media is not the biggest problem....their control of academia is the biggest problem. Lib indoctrination in our nation's schools is the cause of most of the other problems. I would like to see that fixed (if possible) before I'd like to see the lib media stronghold overturned.

The media hasn't really changed much from the days when the Town Crier read what was decreed by the king. In the years leading up to the revolution the colonial newspapers had clearly chosen sides and spun their views as truth. Jefferson's fight with the press was well known but at the end of the day even he said it was better that they be free to print lies than there be laws controlling what they print

If Thomas Jefferson couldn't and wouldn't change the media , don't try to tell me that Trump can or should.
Anyone who believes Trump is some kind of grand crusading warrior who is going to change the media is an idiot. In reality Trump has done little more than sink to their level. After all, he is one of them because the media created him out of nothing with the advent of trashy tabloid TV in the mid 80s.

As to your final point of academia I agree but the public must be better and more honestly educated as well. At the end of the day, Jefferson blamed no one more than the public who clearly wanted trash over truth. Today we have a reality TV clown in the white house proving Jefferson's opinion.

[dfwgator]

Haha... have you seen the polls? He's not convincing anybody.

It's not as if the opposition to Trump is gaining favor neither. 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

It's not as if the opposition to Trump is gaining favor neither.

 

How does that invalidate what I said? He's not convincing a damn person who wasn't already a MAGA fan.

[skeeter]

It's not as if the opposition to Trump is gaining favor neither.

As is always the case the president's performance will ultimately be measured by economic performance. And all the gas-passing in the world won't change that.

[TomSea]

How does that invalidate what I said? He's not convincing a damn person who wasn't already a MAGA fan.

His approval is still way higher than Congress;

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/politics/republicans-congress-approval-drops/index.html

10% congressional approval; so that's not even opposition but just the other branch of government. 

Interpret it however one wants.

[dfwgator]

As is always the case the president's performance will ultimately be measured by economic performance. And all the gas-passing in the world won't change that.

Exactly.  A good economy will make people overlook a lot of things.   And Trump will be re-elected simply because he's the "Devil You Know."

[Oceander]

So, he can trash everything else, make it virtually impossible for another republican to win the White House in our lifetimes, but if he exposes the bias in the mainstream media he's a success?

Seriously?

[musiclady]

Levin: If Exposing Media Is Only Thing Trump Does, He Will Have Been a Successful President

That's setting the bar incredibly low, but if it makes Trump people feel better........   

[XenaLee]

This just shows what complete idiots conservatives are.

So if Trump wrecks every aspect of the country, as long as he exposed the media then he will have been a good president?

Conservatives are some of the dumbest people in the country at this moment.

Excuse me???  Stop blaming Conservatives for Trump.  We didn't do it.  We didn't do a damned thing to create "this" situation.  How convenient it is for folks like you to scapegoat us though, instead of blaming the real culprits.  So convenient that your dishonesty demands that you keep doing it.....apparently.

[dfwgator]

So, he can trash everything else, make it virtually impossible for another republican to win the White House in our lifetimes, but if he exposes the bias in the mainstream media he's a success?

Seriously?

If anything, the Democrats are even looking more silly than Trump.   

[goatprairie]

The media hasn't really changed much from the days when the Town Crier read what was decreed by the king. In the years leading up to the revolution the colonial newspapers had clearly chosen sides and spun their views as truth. Jefferson's fight with the press was well known but at the end of the day even he said it was better that they be free to print lies than there be laws controlling what they print

If Thomas Jefferson couldn't and wouldn't change the media , don't try to tell me that Trump can or should.
Anyone who believes Trump is some kind of grand crusading warrior who is going to change the media is an idiot. In reality Trump has done little more than sink to their level. After all, he is one of them because the media created him out of nothing with the advent of trashy tabloid TV in the mid 80s.

As to your final point of academia I agree but the public must be better and more honestly educated as well. At the end of the day, Jefferson blamed no one more than the public who clearly wanted trash over truth. Today we have a reality TV clown in the white house proving Jefferson's opinion.

There are, unfortunately, many people who vote for Republicans who believe Trump getting in the gutter (or sewer) with the press will be good for the country.
I don't happen to think that way.  A president who has a way with words, like Reagan, can expose the press bias without descending to their level. 
All Trump is basically doing by throwing mud back at the press is getting all conservatives dirty. 

[Silver Pines]

This is why I've written off Mark Levin, something I never expected to do.