Masha Gessen, New Yorker: John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup
Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don’t have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch Thursday’s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump’s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments.
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WNU Editor: I read the 4 points that Masha Gessen outlines .... and I said to myself .... what does any of this have to do with a military coup? The answer is nothing. All that John Kelly talked about was the honor of the men and women in the military and the respect we should all have for their service, and why he was not happy with how this has all become politicized starting with the Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan appearing on the last day of the Democrat convention last year. And as expected .... the press is now piling on using the Khan family as their shield to go after John Kelly, a Gold Star father .... Gold Star father Khizr Khan says Trump's chief of staff needs to stop 'mopping up' the President's mess (The Independent). More piling on John Kelly from here .... General John Kelly's Credibility Takes A Hit (MSNBC).
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"I read the 4 points that Masha Gessen outlines .... and I said to myself .... what does any of this have to do with a military coup? The answer is nothing."
Obviously, you cannot see what Fred and Johnson see.
Maybe the dialectic taught in Moscow and Pravda is not as good as the dialectic taught by east coast schools and the NYT?
America is indeed in a civil war.
I believe the article suggests what the hallmarks of a coup may be like...the spokeslady for Trump said a general should not be questioned!
and, then, we now learn that kelly in fact lied
Wnu,this is because the media knows that everything trump and Russia collusion and drama around his persona - military coup or otherwise - brings a lot of viewers, readers etc. We've talked about this before. It is -not- about the truth. It is -not- about honest reporting. It is about clicks, views and meeting your investors' demands. Cnn and other media organisations are not in the hard news business anymore. It's the soft news world we're living in. A mix of lies, "opinions", perspectives, unnamed sources, conspiracy theories. Resulting litigations for slander are accepted and planned in, as long as payments don't cut into profits too much. It brings you more money to lie about trump - as long as you don't push it too far - than reporting on everyday life. Currently it's a slow news week. People didn't really watch the China congress reports too much, North Korea keeps quiet...the only drama there was, was really around the phone call - and that came to a quick halt as well now. But they have to make money every day. ..m if the news are slow they can't just hope for clicks and views. That would work if they were in the hard news business. They are not.
I watched the video Fred.
Rep. Frederica Wilson bragged up one hell of a storm.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/rep-frederica-wilson-really-vindicated-2015-tape/
The video of Wilson condemns Wilson.
I saved the story so I can return to it 6 months , a year or 4 years from now, when some liberal brings it up again and continues to lie.
I'll go back and save the video itself, so the liberals do not 'lose' it.
Anyone who 'defends' Trump or is seen taking up his policies will be met with strong opposition and scrutinized and criticized on a personal level.
That's whats happening here...
anon seems not to know how the media works
there is what he terms hard news
then there are places where media supply opinions
and then there are those instances that can be called filler, ie, "pundits" on tv cable offering views of what has taken place in the hard news.
In sum: it should be easy enough to find hard news and to skip all the other stuff if it bothers you
example: hard news: N. Korea fires off missle; soft news: what can we do about this or other moves by N. K.?; opinion: we should shoot down their missles.
I do not believe it should be much of a pproblem to see these distinctions, and I also suggest that to merely badmouth everytthing coming out of the media is to ask why you are then reading this site, which aggregates both hard and soft news
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