Trump Taunts Media Outlets With Ban From Press Briefings

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Talking about the media, the media has gone crazy. They're absolutely beside themselves about the fact that they're going to be kicked out of the press room and now they're being taunted. Is there any question? They're absolutely being taunted by Trump and he's saying, look, I don't need you guys. You used to be, NBC, CBS, ABC, Associated Press, CNN, Reuters, you used to be in the front row. Not anymore, baby. Not anymore. Now we're going to have social media people, maybe, in charge. And what I love is, I love what his press, I love what Karoline Leavitt's doing. She's been in with Trump for a long time and she's messing with them. She said, don't believe you have some right to sit here. You don't.

Right. And I don't like them at all, definitely don't like Trump, and I don't like the people they will pack the press room with. But I do agree with most parts of this. I do agree that these people do not have a right to be there. Not anymore. There are no more Helen Thomas's in this press room.

Oh God. How do you ever replace her? We'll never have another Helen Thomas.

Right. A genuine journalist.

No ideology. She was amazing. She would ask questions according to what was actually happening. She didn't have some cat up on the 50th floor saying, Helen, today, here's what you're talking points are. CBS, NBC, ABC, all of them have that 50th floor. What's our talking point corporate America? What do you want us to talk about? We'll talk about it. Helen Thomas, hell no. She said, I won't do it.

Right. And today's press corps, if they're friendly towards the administration, they're going to ask questions like, why are you so great at everything? And then the ones that are adversarial, why are you so bad at everything? It is this partisan, we're not trying to get facts, we're trying to get quick sound bites that'll go viral on Twitter. That's what they're after these days. And maybe the podcasters and the bloggers and the YouTubers, maybe they won't be any better. But if you bring those people in and you set that precedent to where these are now part of our real press pool, you get a press corps that starts to look more like real media now because it's not just cable and newspapers.

I don't even remember what real media looks like. I swear I'm not making that up. I do not remember what real media looks like. They've forgotten, one of the basic ideas in media is ideology is crippling. Ideology, if you rely on ideology, it is disabling, it is crippling to you as a journalist. And somewhere along the line, they packed these front three rows in this press corps to where ideology is all it is. There's no middle of the road. No middle of the road.

I would love to see, and again, I know the Trump administration's not going to do this, but perhaps in the future, let's get a David Sirota in the front row. Let's get Ken Klippenstein. Let's get Jordan Chariton. Let's take almost anybody from The Intercept, and put 'em in the front row.

Right. There's some wonderful journalists out there and even Klippenstein. Klippenstein is no ideologue. Klippenstein's got, it's two sides to his sword, and if you're on the other side of it, he's going to use it.

He is.

But these numb nuts, they're not even journalists anymore. You don't think that Rachel Maddow, for example, MSNBC, I know this happens because I used to be 2, 3 times a week with Ed Schultz where that little Ken Griffin used to send memos around to all the producers saying, this is what we're going to be talking about. So all she's doing is taking marching orders from 50th floor. And so what's happened here is it's not just MSNBC and CNN doing that. These used to be legitimate news services, CBS, ABC, until Disney bought 'em. It used to be legitimate. And now, so what's happened is they're barricading themselves to real analysis and its killing them. And the truth is, we got a lot of problems the FCC's going to be looking at. It's not just this problem. It's going to be problems with foreign outlets.