but president trump is the first to declare war publicly on the media. it seems as though trump is looking to continue the campaign. he campaigned against enemies but now he is in office. he can t campaign against hillary clinton or against the democrats. the republicans run everything but he thrives on creating controversy and having an enemy. he decided to call the media the enemy. the campaign continues. rick? the closest thing i can think of this historically was spiro agney, nixon s vice president. nixon did these little wise crack kind of comments like the one you just showed but agnew led the attack on the press. it felt completely different from this because agnew gave speeches mostly written by william sapphire, very witty guy who later became commerce with the new york times. there was a certain satiric
truth threatens his ability to govern, so the press is framing this as an issue that could completely define his presidency. well, first of all, i agree largely with everything guy said, and i think howard: that doesn t happen too often. well, actually, more often than you might think. you re going to get me in trouble, julie. i m not going to praise him too much, but i will say this, i remember when william sapphire, as you recall, called hillary clinton back in the 90s a congenital liar howard: she was first lady. but, you know, he made the point, and i actually agreed, that you have to call things for what they are, and language is very important. when you have the president of the united states and his surrogates coming out and saying things that they obviously must know not to be true, for example, record breaking attendance at the inauguration, so on and so forth howard: in dispute well, it s not in dispute, it was not spicer backed off on that in terms o
say, these norms are there for a reason. that kind of accountability to the public, to the media, to congress, those are there for a reason. give you an example. press conferences. might say, well, why didn t we need press conferences in this day and age? william sapphire, richard nixon s aide, always made the point, it was the act preparing for the press conferences that often made a president ask the president in his own government, hey, what s really going on? what s really going on? so there s a reason we have these things. that s what s alarming to me. but susan, the trump voters, and i talked to a lot of them during this year, they felt there was a fundamental media myth here on this. they thought, you know, the media says they re referees and we think they re players on the field. and not just this so-called certain parts of the media. megyn kelly, fox news, right? it wasn t even just the traditional criticism of certain corners. it was the idea that any media, that any fox an
committee. asked and answered. jeffrey, do you believe it s asked and answered? because i mean, republicans are certainly pointing to this and saying that it fit the obama administration narrative that it with u.s. linked to the video as opposed to a direct for report attack, which, you know, would show that al qaeda was not necessarily on their heels, certainly maybe not play into the obama administration narrative. right. i don t think it s been answered. and, you know, she s got a couple problems here. and i think the underlying problem that she has, i wrote a column back in august about this. way back in 1996 when she was first lady famously at the time, the new york times columnist, now the late william sapphire wrote a column accusing her of being and it s his words, not mine, a congenital liar and went through chapter and verse about how she had a tendency to be untruthful about things. she got a clean slate as
this. way back in 1996 when she was first lady famously at the time, the new york times columnist, now the late william sapphire wrote a column accusing her of being and it s his words, not mine, a congenital liar and went through chapter and verse about how she had a tendency to be untruthful about things. she got a clean slate as secretary of state, and yet here we are again in an issue that revolves around her honesty. and as you may remember, anderson, there was a poll a couple months ago where people were asked to pre-associate their descriptions of her, and the top pick of the respondents was liar, and i think the second one was dishonest. so this is the problem that she s going to have. her second problem is fbi director comey, who s got a real reputation for independence. he s looking into this. if she s cleared, then i think this may help her a considerable