Joe Scarborough: ‘Why Do We Carry’ Press Conferences If Trump Attacks Reporters for Questions He Doesn’t Want to Answer?
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Joe Scarborough questioned why MSNBC or any other network continues to air the White House’s coronavirus press briefings if President Donald Trump is going to keep using them as a vehicle to attack the media.
On Tuesday, Morning Joe discussed how Trump used the latest briefing to dismiss concerns about the government’s response to the public health crisis, plus the president attacked reporters again for asking tough questions. Since Trump frequently uses the coronavirus task force briefings as a means to rail against criticism, Scarborough wondered what was the point of airing them if the president won’t answer questions.
“If you ask the president a question he doesn’t want to answer, he shouts you down and moves on to somebody else who will ask an easier question,” Scarborough said. “So why do we hold those press conferences? Why do we carry them live two hours every night?”
Willie Geist answered that Trump attacks reporters in order to deflect from the federal government’s failings in dealing with the pandemic.
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The media has always carried water for Trump in the sense that they treat everything he says as newsworthy. This has now enabled him to get up in front of America, every day now, and basically babble for long periods of time. His two hour press briefings contain about 15 or 20 minutes of information and an hour and a half of Trump attacking people, aggrandizing himself, making comments irrelevant to the virus crisis, and getting praise from his cronies.
Why is the media allowing this? They should tell him we will cover your daily briefings for the first half hour , make it count.
he needs a half hour to pat himself on the fvkn back
The briefings have replaced golf as his way of amusing himself.
Trump has the media right where he wants them. He allows certain reporters to ask the same tired already answered questions over and over. He then tears down the question point by point and makes the reporter look stupid, biased, and partisan. He does this with malice aforethought because he is always one step ahead of his detractors.
The long "pressers" also allow him to show the people that he is really working with the experts to get to the bottom of this crisis and find solutions. He, like any politician, is using these briefings to bolster his campaign, and is counting on the brain dead media to carry his message forward on a daily basis. Like mindless sheep, the never learn and continue to do so.
If the networks don't want to carry these broadcasts, no one is forcing them to. And no one if forcing any left wing partisan to watch the programs.
Were you out to lunch when the memo came around that Trump is a pathological liar?
In one of his briefings (either yesterday or the day before), Trump was asked about his firing of the Intelligence Community Inspector General. That IG was the one who forwarded the whistle blower complaint on Trump-Ukraine to Congress.
In his recent CORONAVIRUS briefing, Trump said that the whistleblower complaint was "FAKE".
Trump was lying. The whistleblower complaint almost perfectly matched Trump's own transcript of his phone call with Zelensky.
So now, during briefings on a national medical emergency, Trump is still lying about Ukraine and the whistleblower.
You dont have a friggin leg to stand on.
Its hard to talk with people who are so much in denial of reality.
Trump released his "perfect" phone call, which matches the description in the whistleblower complaint almost entirely. Of course that isnt good for Trump so he lies about it constantly.
So is Biden. But you seem to accept that with no problem.
"Scarborough wondered what was the point of airing them if the president won’t answer questions."
What's the point in answering the same Ol' friggin question from the media, day in and day out !
The "Media" seems to have ALL THE ANSWERS ALL THE TIME, so what's the point. Just read their day in and day out "Reporting?" when they "Report?" on Trump ! They ALWAYS already have the "Answers" !
Bingo!
Why is Trump doing a 90 minute television show every day? Why is he there every day? Pence is in charge of coronavirus, and he barely says a peep on some days.
Dont talk about the left, dont talk about how you think people hate Trump, tell us why he is doing an hour and a half tv show every day.
So you enjoy listening to him babble for an hour every afternoon? Thats weird.
So you think that the president of the United States getting in front of a national tv audience and babbling for an hour EVERY DAY, is presidential? Weird.
There is a role for trump in dispensing federal government information about the virus.
That could be done in 10 or 15 minutes a day. Trump goes on for an hour and a half. EVERY DAY. It is a form of mental illness.
See my comment at 1.2
If you are so upset and obsessed by this perfectly legitimate use of airtime, you could email Trump and tell him to stop.
As for now, he just keeps spreading his words of encouragement, hope, and healing to the American poeple.
You answered JR's question much better than I would have. My thanks.
Most Americans think he is a terrible human being and a habitual liar. Why dont you care about the majority?
Probably because he answers the same stupid ass questions from MSBNC and CNN every day.
Why don't you just change the channel?
well at least they do, cause Trump sure as hell doesn't!
Actually....apparently they DON'T.....or they wouldn't keep asking the same Ol' STUPID Questions ….. Day in and Day out !
Maybe they ask the same questions because they never get a coherent, honest answer.
How do "They" know ?
Do they already have the "Answers" to the "Stupid Questions" they ask ?
Did Brazile get a promotion to "Running the entire Media" wing ?
How do they already have the answer to questions about an new IG report?
They asked questions about it and were berated.
donald even had the nerve to say it was not his IG. I expect that to be rectified soon.
Keep telling yourself that.
After day 5 or or MORE, of asking the same thing.
Don't you pay attention to what you're actually watching.
The report is new, not five days old...
No, he likes to ignore questions he doesn't want to ask.
Odd that some people are so fine with that from the office.
The Questions are "Ancient" !
So ancient questions about a new report....
Ancient questions on an ever changing Report !
You don't notice, the "Media" gets distracted easy ?
....How do "They" know ?
Because the data and visuals on the ground, coming from the hospitals and first responders does not match what this administration puts out.
The IG report matches the what the press is reporting from the hospitals and state governess on the front lines.
You've again got multiple sources aligning with their data, and you expect everyone to believe an administration that lies even when it doesn't have to.
Accountability in a life and death situation is rather important to the American People.
Just like here on NT.... when members get trapped in a fact based corner the first thing that happens is that they start berating others that are holding the fact base high-ground. Just like Trump who can't admit to the truth, he starts bullying those that are there to hold him accountable to the American People and the facts.
And yet, many of them automatically believe the data coming out of China ...... amazing!
And exactly what place would that be XD? It has always been the job of the press to hold our elected officials accountable to the American people.
Bullshit... and nice try with the deflection...
Stay on the topic of why the IG report aligns with what is seen and reported from the front lines, yet both you and the president want to ignore it?
Not BS and not a deflection.
It speaks to their bona fides. Automatic acceptance of the information coming out of China which deserves some healthy skepticism but doesn't get it and automatic skepticism of anything Trump no matter what.
Not Pulitzer prize winning reporting by any stretch of the imagination.
In Politics….The "Accountability" needs from the media, is subjective. Depends on Whose Holding Office and what side of the Aisle they're on, makes for how important "Accountability" is to the "Media".
That's a "State by State" issue. The "Biggy Gov." of ours isn't a "State by State" Government. It's an Entirety Government. You can only extrapolate the information being fed by the "States", which only filters in here and there to the Biggy Gov. of this country.
What's the harm?
Because Trump seems to have none of the answers.
When Trump refuses to answer, they have to find the answers for themselves. With Trump refusing to provide answers, it makes it really hard to claim the press is lying though.
It's called …… "Wasting our time !
Unless you like "Wasting Time". Then I guess it wouldn't be harmful to you !
"Because Trump seems to have none of the answers"
That's what the "Media" tells you....but they already have ALL THE ANSWERS.
"When Trump refuses to answer, they have to find the answers for themselves."
Like Trump tells the "Media" (Which pisses off Liberal Types)…… on "National TV" …… "THAT QUESTION HAS ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED".....NEXT ?
How so? Watching a press conference is optional, turn off the TV if it is a waste of your time.
That is what the media SHOWS ME, by talking with Fauci afterwards and listening to him contradict 60% of what Trump said.
I know you hate it Wally, but let's see some examples to your "gotcha questions".
Not if you want to stay …… Informed !
The "Media Questions"..... Same Crap....over and over....is the WASTE !
"That is what the media SHOWS ME, by talking with Fauci afterwards and listening to him contradict 60% of what Trump said"
Fauci is not the "End All" on what is good or bad. He's being contradicted by OTHER "Specialists" all over the spectrum too !
In Fact....Fauci called out the "Media" Himself, for what they try to do between him and Trump !
Watch: Fauci Calls Out Media For Trying to Divide Him and Trump
If you want to stay informed, you don't watch a Trump press briefing.
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He IS the "end all" as far as our government is concerned.
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director
Dr. Fauci was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies. The NIAID budget for fiscal year 2020 is an estimated $5.9 billion.
Dr. Fauci has advised six Presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.
Trump has ordered a number of his employees to lie for him. It is meaningless when Fauci continues to contradict Trump statement every day.
Soooo..... you aren't watching any of the briefings ?
Just "Tuning In" to what the "Media" is saying ?
He IS the "end all" as far as our government is concerned.
Since you "Don't" tune in to the briefings, there are other "Experts" at the Briefings, besides Fauci !
Especially Nancy Messonnier, MD, the Director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).
She's in a bit of a "Conflicting Mood" from Fauci's constant Dooms Day Scenarios" !
You're including Pence???
What did the "Media" tell you NOW ?
That "let me pray on it Pence" has absolutely no medical background to be considered a Coronavirus expert.
Soooo.....VP Pence hasn't been doing a good job to date, when he gathered all those experts together to try and FIX the problem ?
What has he done? Specifically.
Are you claiming that Pence has created the Department of Health and Human Services?
How's he doing on those tests? And WHERE ARE ALL THE CORONA VIRUS TEST?!?!???
Again....you're just making SHIT up !
"How's he doing on those tests?"
VP Pence is producing those tests ?
"And WHERE ARE ALL THE CORONA VIRUS TEST?!?!???"
We already had them and they don't have to be newly produced ?
It's almost like….for years we didn't know about COVID-19..... we just didn't know.
Now you're claiming that the Department of Health and Human Services is not heading up the US response to the Corona virus?
We didn't have them, and still don't for the quantity needed.
We've known about it since January, would you like to explain the steps the Trump administration has taken to prepare for it?
Again....Just SHIT !
"We didn't have them, and still don't for the quantity needed."
Who was originally "Producing them" ?
"We've known about it since January,
Gosh....a whole 3 months ago..... and we weren't already prepared ?
We shoulda had everything we needed by January 05, 2020 after hearing that ….. news !
"would you like to explain the steps the Trump administration has taken to prepare for it?"
You should watch the "Press briefings, which seem to be happening everyday !
Have you killed all the "Bosses" in the "Sonic Game" yet ?
So which are you now claiming? Did Pence gathered all those experts together to try and FIX the problem, or is Department of Health and Human Services working on the problem?
What the hell are you talking about? Nobody is making enough of them, W.H.O. designed the original test that Trump administration refused.
4 months, and you cannot list a single thing the Trump administration did to prepare.
So I can get more misinformation from Trump?
Since you don't watch the "Press" meetings, Pence is spearheading the Coronavirus "Dream Team, which includes the CDC, and all the "Specialists" you would see, if you watched the Press Briefings.
"What the hell are you talking about? Nobody is making enough of them"
Nobody was making ANY of them. Since you don't seem to know, it's a bit hard to produce something to fight the Unknown.
"4 months,
The Beginning of January (Which you noted) to the end of March....is (3) THREE Months ! Do you even remember what you post ?
"and you cannot list a single thing the Trump administration did to prepare."
Watch the "Press Conferences" that go on, on a daily bases, and you could "See/Hear" ….something other than MSNBC repeats ?
1. Hospital ship deployments
2. Raised Production from Private Companies to produce more "ventilators"
3. Emergency Employment and business loan funding
4. Raised Private Companies to Produce needed CV19 tests
5. Shut down outside travel
6. Guidelines to help stop the spread
7. Pushed for Off label drug treatments
8. Approved the Defense Production Act
etc.......
Is there Anything else you need ?
And you still haven't told me one thing that he has accomplished.
Then how did all the other countries get so far ahead of us in testing?
After the fact. I asked for preparations. Or did you ignore that part of the question?
After the fact. And too late.
After the fact. And too late.
After the fact. And too late.
After the fact. And too late.
After the fact. And too late.
After the fact. And too late.
After the fact. And too late.
I asked what preparations Trump administration made between notification that it was coming (early January), to it hitting us full force (early March). You did not list a single thing. Best you could do is argue that it was closer to 3 months, than 4.
Trump says 'nobody' could've predicted a pandemic like coronavirus. Here are all the times he was warned about it and refused to take action.
Again, you, as so many others here, claim to know what goes on behind closed doors. You nor I nor anyone outside of the loop in the administration, know what went on.........at all. Just because he tried to stop a panic of the populace and may have downplayed the situation in public, doesn't mean NOTHING was being done. Don't be so ridiculous...............
'Stop a panic' is the new term for LYING now?
He not only downplayed, he lied about it AND he did nothing except a partial ban exempting over 40,000 people from China. Not knowing how many had already come here infected. He did not prepare, he continued to rally and golf and tweet and lie about it. And guess what, he STILL does every day at those rallybriefs! And we still don't have enough testing or medical equipment despite his daily lies.
Plus what financial interest does he (or his friends) have in this medicine he keeps touting? Can't wait to find out who has their fingers in this, and we will find out.
They ask it a different way everyday because the answers they get from POTUS don't match with what is being seen and reported in the hospitals nor by the IG report.
Who pays the price for the lies?
Close but no cigar.
They get the answers from POTUS but discover his answer was not true so they ask it a different way every day.
Apparently "I DID" !
Your just listed them in your response.
"I asked what preparations Trump administration made between notification that it was coming"
Probably the same "Preps" George Bush and Barrack Obama did, when they kept talking about "Possible" Pandemics during their "Presidency" !
By the way....how DOES one PLAN for an unknowable anyway ?
By listening to intel reports and your advisors that tell you? MONTHS before you acted? By not sacking the very people in place to deal with pandemics? By listening to experts and not yourself because your gut is speaking to you? By not LYING about it every single day? Lets start with that.
So what was going on during the Bush and Obama years, when even they were talking about "Pandemics" back when (Did they know about CV19?) ?
Did they Drop the "Ball", hoping the next President would do something besides "Talk" like they did ?
Oh, the Burden other Presidents put on Trump .....huh !
You can make 1 false claim after another, but the truth remains, you know of nothing that was done by the Trump administration to prepare for the pandemic months after he was warned.
Have you already forgotten about The Obama Administration set up the White House National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense? Obama's pandemic response team? You know the one Trump disbanded.
The Obama Administration's Response to Ebola
Obama tried to prepare Trump for just this.
Obama officials walked Trump aides through global pandemic exercise in 2017
soooo, you didn't list the "List" I showed so you can respond to "The List" you requested ?
Just 'cause you didn't like it, doesn't make it a "False Claim". It's very "Right on" to what you asked for !
"Have you already forgotten about The Obama Administration set up the White House National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense? Obama's pandemic response team? "
Are you telling us, that "Obama Team" already knew about CV19 before Trump came to office, and had already supplied this country with EVERYTHING that would be needed to fight CV-19 ?
Neither did you.
I asked you to list what preparations Trump made after he was warned about the pandemic. Nothing you listed was done before we were already in the middle of COVID-19. So yes, your list was a complete and utter FAIL.
Read the link I provided. That is why I provide links, so people don't respond with questions that they could have answered with 3 minutes of reading. Try reading first, your questions won't sound so silly then.
Sure they Will
Actually they are asking questions...and Trump is answering...or actually in most cases trying to evade answering the question... by changing the subject..
But actually...Trump has all the answers..he is an expert on everything!
Don't believe me? Well, just ask him.
In his own words:
Nobody Knows More About Anything Than Trump!
And if President Trump doesn't provide the answer that the press wants, then reporters shout down the President. It seems to be an equitable arrangement. President Trump has 2 hours but the news media have 24 hours to profiteer off what they call news. Scarborough's pity train is running on hot air.
The question that needs more attention is why the news media spends so much money, time, and effort trying to divide the country.
Let me first say the President was wrong to unload on Jonathan Karl. Karl is an ok reporter (certainly not 3rd rate) and he asked a legitimate question. He also condemned Jim Acosta in his new book ("Front row at the Trump show") - "The surest way to undermine the credibility of the White House press corps is to behave like the political opposition," Karl wrote. "Don't give speeches from the White House briefing room."
All that being said, in the end, you hit on it Nerm. The left wing media has created the adversarial atmosphere that now exists in the WH Briefing room. It was they who mercilessly besieged the President's former Press Secretaries. It was they who sewed the whirlwind!
Jonathan Karl is a propagandist, not a reporter. Karl doesn't report news; he delivers opinion under the guise of reporting. But that is true of most of the White House press corps.
Jonathan Karl only chastises others for expressing opinions he disagrees with.
If you remember the exchange actually began with Fox's Kristin Fisher asking about an HHS inspector general’s report detailing problems with testing. Isn't that a legit question? Trump fired back with: “You should say congratulations, great job, instead of being so horrid in the way that you ask a question.”
All Karl did was follow up on Fisher's question.
I understand the emotions right now, but it was overkill.
A reporter's job is to answer six questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how. Those are the facts; that's it. A reporter's job is to inform the public.
A propagandist's job is to impart a meaning onto reported facts using speculation, interpretation, analysis, extraneous facts, and opinion disguised as logical deduction. A propagandist's job is to influence public opinion.
Kristin Fisher premised the question with a survey of 300 hospitals that complained about severe shortages of testing supplies included in the IG report. The IG report is obviously dated because the situation is moving quickly. Trump told Fisher the IG report was wrong but then Fisher kept interrupting Trump in an attempt to force Trump into providing the answer she wanted.
Kristin Fisher didn't ask a question and then wait for an answer; Fisher challenged Trump before he could answer.
Kristin Fisher is NOT a reporter.
Trump gets up there and babbles and attacks his enemies almost every day. He isnt fit for office. Of course some in the media are antagonistic, there would be something wrong with them if they weren't.
Isn't that what Nancy Pelosi does? Isn't that what Chuck Schumer does? Isn't that what Joe Biden does?
Being antagonistic isn't the job of a reporter.
Oh please. You can call all of the press not reporters all you want, does not change the facts.
Donald berates the press at every opportunity and at every question he does not like.
Put the blame where it belongs instead of dismissing his horrible actions and throwing blame elsewhere.
A horse is a horse is a horse....
The obvious question that reporters should be asking is how does the Federal government distribute stuff? Identifying every hospital and shipping address would be a massive undertaking by itself. And attempting to operate a central order and logistic system at the Federal level would require more resources than Amazon deploys. Even Amazon utilizes a decentralized order and logistics system.
Kristin Fisher asked a question about expectations and perceptions. She wasn't attempting to obtain facts about how the system is designed to distribute stuff or how well that design is performing.
Ok then, so why is it alright for donald to act like that but not anyone else?
So now conservatives think we have a serfdom...
So the president doesn't work for the people any more?
Good lord do you even hear yourself? His house?
And donald is a complete idiot who can't seem to do his job.
Yet no matter what he says or does, his bootlickers will keep right on.
No, it is the American people's house
That we provide to the duly elected POTUS and family and staff..............
Yep, denial, a terrible thing.
That WE provide....
I swear. Some say the most un-American things all the while praising the doofus, if not outright fawning over him, like he is some kind of royalty that cannot be touched or gone against.
Unreal.
Still denial. Sad.
That WE provide, he is only a guest
That's what I said................
They all are. Just because you don't happen to like this one has no bearing on the fact that he lives there.
It is our house and OUR rules, not his
Trump is babbling again
"Incredible"
"no one has ever seen...."
"no one ever thought this could happen"
"strongly"
Babbling.
Did anyone catch when Karl saluted Fauci and Fauci shot back with th finger guns?
Fauci has become their "boy."
Watch out Tony - the left uses people & discards them all in the end.
1600 Pennsylvania Ave IS OUR HOUSE! Our rules, not his, not any presidents.
The president is a caretaker of the both office and the White House.
The honor that has been earned by all the previous occupants combined is what makes the White House the symbol it is. That honor has been squandered by this president and the building tarnished because of so many that refuse to acknowledge the lies told by the current occupant.
Stay in your bubble then.....
And you have it way wrong. It's not Trump hating. Its America loving. I have and would if asked to again to put the ideals this country is suppose to be about before myself and even my family. Your response in 3.1.37 shows you are more interested in dividing that brining the country together.
I talk of honor, and being a caretaker of traditions with respect to the White House. You talk of my way or the highway with "My house, my rules" to the same. Quite a contrast.
Take care
Funny, like there is one set of mutual "rules" for all Americans.
Look no further than NT for proof of how far off base that statement is.
Correct!
I couldn't have said it better myself!
It's sad to see Scarborough carry on like a scorned lover after all this time. Joe, probably more than anyone in the MSM, was Trump's biggest booster and water carrier back in 2015-2016. Trump's the same guy Joe shilled for. Poor Joe didn't get the payoff and he turned into another predictable TDS sufferer.
Joe sez what Mika tells him to say ..... otherwise he gets cut off .....