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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,023 posts) Sun Apr 8, 2018, 03:07 PM Apr 2018

CNN host: Trump's 'addiction' to Fox News leads to 'impulsive actions'

CNN's Brian Stelter said on Sunday that President Trump's "addiction" to Fox News leads to impulsive actions and other consequences.

"The line where Fox News ends and where Trump begins is getting blurrier by the day," he said on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

Stelter said there is a lack of quality information reaching the president, so he relies instead on reporters at Fox News."Sometimes via TV, sometimes on the phone, sometimes in person," he said.

"His addiction to Fox and to other pro-Trump commentators leads to impulsive actions."

Stelter said when Trump relies on what he hears on Fox News, he often ends up catching his staff off guard and forcing them to scramble to "make it look like he knows what he's doing."

He traced Trump's plan to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to segments Trump had seen on Fox.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/382180-cnn-host-trumps-addiction-to-fox-news-leads-to-impulsive-actions

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CNN host: Trump's 'addiction' to Fox News leads to 'impulsive actions' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2018 OP

In most autocracies the government controls the media. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #1

That's the intended effect on rank-and-file voters, too. Funny thing is... Beartracks Apr 2018 #2

When it was on the air, I loved Air America. That being said, no_hypocrisy Apr 2018 #3

Its only a matter of time till they have to start medicating him. marble falls Apr 2018 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,732 posts)

1. In most autocracies the government controls the media.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Apr 8, 2018, 03:11 PM

Apr 2018

In this one, the media - one of them, anyhow - control the government. WTF?

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)

2. That's the intended effect on rank-and-file voters, too. Funny thing is...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Apr 8, 2018, 03:13 PM

Apr 2018

... FOX-watchers claim all the time that Democrats aren't educated, don't get the facts, and vote based on emotion -- not surprisingly, the very qualities that define a FOX-watcher.

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no_hypocrisy

(46,119 posts)

3. When it was on the air, I loved Air America. That being said,

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Apr 8, 2018, 03:16 PM

Apr 2018

if I were in elected office, e.g., President of the United States, I wouldn't make policy solely and/or in part based on whether Al Franken or Rachel Maddow thought they had a good idea. Almost any other person would make policy and then wait for the commentary, not the other way around.

marble falls

(57,101 posts)

4. Its only a matter of time till they have to start medicating him.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Apr 8, 2018, 03:38 PM

Apr 2018

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