Trump claims media is not covering terror attacks, citing no evidence

[Koharu]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-claims-media-is-covering-up-terror-attacks/

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[Maxwell]

so it's a normal day in America?

[Beet]

Can you imagine if 9/11 happened today? Or even a 1993-style WTC bombing?

[JA]

so it's a normal day in America?

Does the day include a dose of lies, propaganda, "alternative facts," and total denial of reality? Then yes, it's yet another normal day in Trump's America.

[Meclazine for Israel]

 
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Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump
I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!

[Confused Democrat]

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Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump
I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!

FYI: He tweeted this shortly after a segment on Morning Joe dealing with SNL's skit about Bannon and wether or not Bannon is really the one pulling the strings in the White House.

I also read that Trump was extremely bothered by Bannon's appearance on the cover of TIME Magazine.

We have a President who has probably one of the most fragile egos on the planet. He's also is a rabid consumer of cable news who takes to heart what talking heads on CNN and MSNBC think of him.

This should concern people.

[Hindsight was 2020]

He's getting it from infowars

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/trumps-suggestion-that-the-media-is-ignoring-terrorist-attacks-has-a-familiar-source-infowars/?utm_term=.02afb7ff4af1

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The best part is Infowars doesn't even believe 9/11 was a terror attack by radical Islamists.

[RI]

Their list of 78 "underreported" attacks since 2014.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Their list of 78 "underreported" attacks since 2014.

"San Bernadino, CA"

[Crumpets]

Me: "Oh, they're probably talking about stuff like the sexual assaults in Cologne."

Their list of 78 "underreported" attacks since 2014.

Apparently not.

[Meclazine for Israel]

FYI: He tweeted this shortly after a segment

The thing I love about these Tweets is that they are almost timed as responses to threads in this forum.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Their list of 78 "underreported" attacks since 2014.

All of which, were, of course, thoroughly and appropriately covered. I say without fear of contradiction, even before bothering to read, because the Pussygrabber regime's MO is pretty clear by now.

This isn't intended to be factual, or persuade anyone. It's just more red meat for the echo chamber who will tell themselves it "proves Lord Dampnut right" without reading themselves. (The difference between them and myself, being that, a) I will actually read the damned thing, and b)  I'm *actually* right :-)

Also, the list of "terror attacks that weren't covered" includes some very high profile attacks that dominated the media cycle, and on down to a lot of "nutjob swung a knife at some people". If the latter were actually considered "terrorist attacks" then the US is over-run by toddler and right wingnut Christian terrorists. (Said attacks all getting appropriate coverage, with even obscure foreign non-deadly attack getting coverage in the New York Times. Although since the coverage wasn't done with pictures accompanying a story written in grade-school English, so-called president Pussygrabber probably wasn't aware of them.)

[Crumpets]

FYI: He tweeted this shortly after a segment

The thing I love about these Tweets is that they are almost timed as responses to threads in this forum.

"Kellyanne! Jacobin American is being mean to me again! I'll get him by tweeting a list of the attacks we're talking about. That'll show him!"

[publicunofficial]

The White House thinks the Orlando and San Bernardino attacks didn't get enough coverage. Meanwhile they have yet to utter a single word about the Quebec shooting that happened last week.

[Sir Mohamed]

LOL! Is that another alternative fact? The whole thing is completely nonsense. And he knows it. His real intention with this entire media bashing is to destroy the credibility of the mainstream press, so that they won’t be believed anymore when reporting on his failures. Now I don’t know which name fits better for him: divider-in-chief or faker-in-chief?

[BlueSwan]

Dear Lord. Even the left-wing Rachel Maddow show obsesses over every single act of terror. Terror is massively overcovered. What is being underreported are stories about actual matters of policy.

[Meclazine for Israel]

I think what Trump is talking about is crimes like this one:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/extremist-milad-bin-ahmadshah-alahmadzai-sentenced-to-18-years-for-gay-night-club-shooting-20170209-gu9rjx.html



Islamic Extremist Milad bin Ahmad-Shah al-Ahmadzai targets a gay guy and then shoots him seven times. 18 years for attempted murder.

That would not make USA news.

Clearly, it is a hate crime against homosexual men by an Islamic extremist.

But is it a terrorist attack?

We have had a few of these. The most famous of which is Man Haron Monis:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lindt-cafe-siege-gunman-man-haron-monis-was-psychopathic-terrorist-inquest-told-20160502-goju3o.html

A psychopathic terrorist who executed an unarmed homosexual man, also in Sydney. That was deemed a terrorist attack.

Then we have generic crimes where Middle Eastern men do really weird sh**t like this:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/have-you-seen-egg-pet-pug-dog-stolen-in-olympic-park-mugging-20170209-gu9oic.html

Have you seen Egg the Pug at your local mosque?