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Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said Monday that the administration will continue using the term "fake news" until the media understands that their "monumental desire" to attack the President is wrong.

"There is a monumental desire on behalf of the majority of the media, not just the pollsters, the majority of the media to attack a duly elected President in the second week of his term," Gorka, a former Breitbart editor who also holds a PhD in political science, told syndicated conservative radio host Michael Medved.

"That's how unhealthy the situation is and until the media understands how wrong that attitude is, and how it hurts their credibility, we are going to continue to say, 'fake news.' I'm sorry, Michael. That's the reality," he added.

Trump and his staff have repeatedly used the term "fake news" to discredit reporting on the presidential administration from mainstream outlets such as CNN and The New York Times, often offering no evidence to back up their disputes with those outlets' stories.
Earlier in the interview, Gorka was asked by Medved whether he would acknowledge that the administration's controversial statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day was "at least questionable in being the first such statement in many years that didn't recognize that Jewish extermination was the chief goal of the Holocaust."

Gorka replied by calling criticism of the statement "asinine," arguing that it was motivated by the media's desire to attack Trump.

"It's a Holocaust remembrance statement," Gorka said. "No, I'm not going to admit it. Because it's asinine. It's absurd. You're making a statement about the Holocaust. Of course it's about the Holocaust because that's what the statement's about. It's only reasonable to twist it if your objective is to attack the President."

Gorka also sparred with a caller who contended that "every time you call everything fake news, it just turns everyone except your hardcore fans off."
"Not everything's fake news," the caller added.

"You know, I would beg to differ," Gorka shot back. "Every single organ that generates these kinds of stories comes from the same clique of media organs that predicted that Hillary (Clinton) would win and that Brexit wouldn't occur. I know what fake news is. And it's coming from those organizations. It's time that you yourself understood that as well."

Anybody or anything that disagrees with Trump is name called, dismissed and labeled by this administration. That seems to be all they know how to do. From Hollywood, to the media to judges. Everyone who disagrees with Trump is under attack. If it weren't so sad it would be funny.

So people who question him or disagree with him are all bias? You do realize that's the very definition of bias don't you. lmao

Well now that the Democrats stayed up all night trying to filibuster Trumps pick for education secretary, even picking up 2 Republicans to their side,
DeVos was confirmed as education secretary as Pence casts the historic tie-breaking vote.

I just don't get how the Democrats can't understand this fact...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INCwFxeVVY

Business career

DeVos is chairwoman of the Windquest Group, a privately held operating group that invests in technology, manufacturing, and clean energy. DeVos and her husband founded it in 1989.[22]

DeVos and her husband were producers for a Broadway run of the stage play Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, in 2012, based on the life of the famous evangelist and featuring a book and lyrics written by Kathie Lee Gifford. The show ran for three weeks, closing in December 2012.[48]
Neurocore

Betsy and her husband Dick are chief investors in and board members of Neurocore, a group of brain performance centers offering biofeedback therapy for disorders such as depression, attention deficit disorder, autism, and anxiety.[49][50][51] The therapy consists of showing movies to patients and interrupting them when they become distracted, in an effort to retrain their brains. According to The New York Times, a review of Neurocore’s claims and interviews with medical experts suggest that the company’s conclusions are unproven and its methods questionable.[49] Democratic senators raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest and questioned whether she and her family members would “benefit financially from actions” she could take as education secretary. DeVos announced that she would step down from the company’s board but would retain her investment in the company, valued at $5 million to $25 million.[49][52][53]

No, I see what you're saying. But if you can't see both sides, I believe you have no sense of open mindedness.

But if you can't see both sides, I believe you have no sense of open mindedness.

There's a new sheriff in town

So, no one finds concern that Trump find any criticism ends up unwarranted? What if Obama routinely attacked FoxNews like Trump is attacking anyone other than FoxNews.

Uhhh, he did.

I expect to hear crickets in response to my query.

So, no one finds concern that Trump find any criticism ends up unwarranted?

should be "finds". Brain currently fried due to pages upon pages of grad school writing as of late.

My mind is open but until I can get real News from Media without the slant, honesty from the violent Left and Democrats who care more about America than getting Trump, I will not allow just any garbage in.

Obama attacked Fox News on many occasions...

-“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” Obama told liberal journalist Matt Bai of the New York Times Magazine.

- Obama Says Fox Is Entirely Devoted To "Attacking My Administration", June 16, 2009, CNBC's "Closing Bell"

-PRESIDENT OBAMA: It's very hard for me to swallow that one. First of all, I've got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration. I mean, you know, that's a pretty...

HARWOOD: I assume you're talking about Fox.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, that's a pretty big megaphone. And you'd be hard-pressed, if you watched the entire day, to find a positive story about me on that front.

-Obama Calls Fox News "Destructive", October 14, 2010, Rolling Stone Magazine

- Obama Takes A Shot At Fox News Owner Rupert Murdoch, May 10, 2011, Speech In El Paso, Texas on Immigration Reform

- Obama Blames Fox For Benghazi and IRS Scandals, February 2, 2014, Interview With Bill O'Reilly


- Obama Hits Fox News For Obamacare Criticism, October 2, 2014, Obama's Speech At Northwestern University

- Obama Hits Fox News for Anti-Poverty Narrative May 12, 2015

- Obama Takes A Shot At Fox News For Allegedly Covering Him Unfairly,

- Obama Blames Fox News For "Balkanization Of The Media", November 3, 2016, Real Time With Bill Maher


-Want more? Them there Crickets is getting pretty loud down he-a.

Trump lit a fire with some very controversial things he said early in his campaign. He has walked a lot of it back but the media just loves pouring gas on it.. then Trump pours gas on it... then the media does.. and so on. Not only is neither side willing to put it out, they aren't even willing to walk away and let it go out on its own.

The media has treated Trump unlike anybody I've ever seen. Some of it deserved, some of it not... But Trump has always gone overboard in calling them out, some of it deserved, some of it not. Somebody in this needs to be professional and act like an adult and I put the majority of that on the President.

There's a new sheriff in town, and he's going to do things a little differently.