Carl Bernstein: Trump’s Media Attacks ‘More Treacherous’ than Nixon’s

MARK FINKELSTEIN FEB 19, 2017 6:30 PM

Just when you thought the MSM might be running out of hyperbole about President Trump’s criticism of the media, along comes Carl Bernstein . . .

On CNN’s Reliable Sources today, Bernstein unleashed a torrent of accusations about the president.

Lowlights:

• Trump’s attacks on the media “more treacherous” than Nixon’s.
• Apophasis alert: “I’m not about to say anything comparing Hitler and Trump”, but Hitler and Stalin also used the phrase “enemy of the people” about the media.
• Trump is “leading a demagogic attack on the institutions of free democracy.”
• “This is a terrible time we’re living in.”
• The media is “the last resort of the American people to a dictatorial, and authoritarian-inclined president.”
• Trump expresses himself in “demagogic and frightening and treacherous words that have meaning in terms of threats to democracy.”

Note: Host Brian Stelter opened the show with his own bit of over-the-top rhetoric, ominously intoning that Trump’s criticism of the media is “poison. That’s what it is. A verbal form of poison.”

Note segundo: The Washington Post‘s Dana Priest tried to talk poor Carl off the ledge, advising  “I really think at this moment we should eliminate the adjectives and stick to the facts.”

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