Why has the media not Branded Dump a Flip Flopper?

[tomhagen]

Like wingnuts did to our side in the past?

[doc03]

1. Watching the MSNBC news last night at 11pm the talking heads were

making him out a hero. They are doing all they can to drum up a war with North Korea.

[yuiyoshida]

2. There is no real media on our side...

There is right winged, and Right of center Tv News media...reports and occasionally MSNBC will drive it a tad to the left of center... But really, other than independents, like TYT, there is no Media on our side. We once had Air America, but that burned itself out, and people went their separate ways.

[mikeysnot]

3. And the media gave trump a bullhorn

I blame the media and them only. I cancelled my cable and told them why.

[JHB]

4. Well, think why the media went along with the flip-flopper talking point...

Because conservative pundits and media made a talking point out of it, and repeated it every day at every opportunity. And the non-conservative media acquiesced because they always shy away from accusations of "liberal media bias". Plus, Bush was good to them and their bosses.


They ain't got none'o that in the other direction.

[SergeStorms]

5. Trump is now a "War Time" President......

and we all know how weak in the knees the media gets when a President (especially a RepubliCANT President) starts flexing our military muscle toward a tin-pot dictator. They turn positively gooey, and all transgressions that President may have accrued before this dick measuring contest started, are now - not only put on the back burner - they're removed from the stove altogether.
Knowing this, Trump will be forever saber rattling, or worse, to keep the attention away from where it should be. I shudder to think what this may lead to.

[Igel]

6. There are two kinds of flip-flopping.

One is when you change your mind because it's politically expedient to do so, and that's the real or even only reason. That's spineless and weaselly.

The other is when you change your mind because you've acquired new facts so that you old position is logically, factually, conceptually untenable. That's called "sane" and "reality-based." It's "ideological" only in the sense that their "ideology" is something akin to the scientific method.


Many people that are sane and reality-based recognize that this latter, second kind of flip-flopping is and should be standard in most, if not all, spheres of life. "Dammit, our president is acting rationally again!" is hardly biting, incisive criticism, and trying to portray it as such not just invites, but insistently and urgently demands ridicule.


Instead, you see stories that the president is, to our utter shock and amazement, capable of learning, of revising prior ideas when new information comes to light.