Kellyanne Conway: Media covering Trump Tweets too much

[leibowde84]

Conway slams media for 'obsession' with Trump's tweets

Trump is the Leader of the Free World. No matter the forum, his every word matters quite a bit. Twitter, specifically, is permanent. Even if you take a tweet down, it is still memorialized forever. So, what was Kellyanne complaining about? Is she contending that the President's words should be ignored? I just don't get her statements.

In reality, Trump is 100% responsible for every word he utters on Twitter. So, if she is upset with the media covering what Trump tweets, her real beef should be with Trump himself, right?

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

Damage control.

 

[suncowiam]

Isn't that basically suggesting that Trump shouldn't focus on tweeting but actually focus on being the president?

She blames the media only? I'll agree to a point but maybe the president should be more thoughtful and elequant. Using a platform that only allows a limited amount of text and no error correction is pretty stupid to begin with.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Might as well tell people to stop looking at the car wreck on the side of the road.

 

[sun rise]

Maybe the media should totally shun him and not report anything he says or does. I could do with some peace and quiet.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

Maybe the media should totally shun him and not report anything he says or does. I could do with some peace and quiet.

This story is of Shakespearean proportion. Trump is King Lear. We're watching a huge, foolish ego who has made millions of enemies and is way out of his element self-destruct in the news. People would watch this if it were fiction. Being news, they're glued to the media.

 

[McBell]

Conway slams media for 'obsession' with Trump's tweets

Trump is the Leader of the Free World. No matter the forum, his every word matters quite a bit. Twitter, specifically, is permanent. Even if you take a tweet down, it is still memorialized forever. So, what was Kellyanne complaining about? Is she contending that the President's words should be ignored? I just don't get her statements.

In reality, Trump is 100% responsible for every word he utters on Twitter. So, if she is upset with the media covering what Trump tweets, her real beef should be with Trump himself, right?

From the linked article:

The media, Conway said, has “this obsession with covering everything he says on Twitter and very little of what he does as president.”​

Um...
He is not tweeting while being president?
How does that work?

 

[Nietzsche]

Wait. While Trump tweets he's not president?

Can...can he tweet more? Like 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year? I feel like this would be the best course of action.

 

[4consideration]

Conway slams media for 'obsession' with Trump's tweets

Trump is the Leader of the Free World. No matter the forum, his every word matters quite a bit. Twitter, specifically, is permanent. Even if you take a tweet down, it is still memorialized forever. So, what was Kellyanne complaining about? Is she contending that the President's words should be ignored? I just don't get her statements.

In reality, Trump is 100% responsible for every word he utters on Twitter. So, if she is upset with the media covering what Trump tweets, her real beef should be with Trump himself, right?

I got her statements as saying the media focuses more on what Trump tweets than on what he does.

That's what I get just from reading the quote in the article: “this obsession with covering everything he says on Twitter and very little of what he does as president.”

I find it hard to believe people are having trouble understanding that.

I didn't quite get what she was referring to from the article posted, but after looking at the clip of the interview, I think I get it now.

The conversation was based on a question of whether nor not Conway thought Trump owed London's mayor an apology for tweeting something that misquoted and/or was somehow wrong.

Conway did not ever answer that question, directly. For people that don't like what Trump tweeted, and think apologies are of upmost importance here, I can see them being bothered by that.

It seems to me Conway was making a point that Trump was being very supportive -- on the phone with Theresa May the night of the attack and again the next day, pledged support, etc. and it seems Conway believed the media was more interested in making Trump look like a perpetrator than an ally.

Here is a larger context. Maybe it will be helpful for those who don't understand what she is saying, to see what she was responding to:

 

[metis]

She was pathetic in her interview as she mostly walked around the questions she was asked, but she basically tried to filibuster the interview.

IMO, she has on numerous occasions made quite a fool of herself, especially with her "alternative facts" and her willingness to defend so many of the indefensible actions and statements from the Groper-In-Chief.

 

[suncowiam]

She was pathetic in her interview as she mostly walked around the questions she was asked, but she basically tried to filibuster the interview.

IMO, she has on numerous occasions made quite a fool of herself, especially with her "alternative facts" and her willingness to defend so many of the indefensible actions and statements from the Groper-In-Chief.

I try to remind myself that she is a mother and is part of a family, but then she starts speaking and it all goes out the window.

If I ever believed in the devil and a soul, this would be the context to believe it in.

 

[metis]

I try to remind myself that she is a mother and is part of a family, but then she starts speaking and it all goes out the window.

If I ever believed in the devil and a soul, this would be the context to believe in.

I hear ya because I have a difficult reconciling her words, and even her support for Trump, with her saying that she's a "born-again Christian". If we compare Jesus' and Trump's words, teachings, and actions by putting them side-by-side, there's simply no match whatsoever.

 

[leibowde84]

I got her statements as saying the media focuses more on what Trump tweets than on what he does.

That's what I get just from reading the quote in the article: “this obsession with covering everything he says on Twitter and very little of what he does as president.”

I find it hard to believe people are having trouble understanding that.

I didn't quite get what she was referring to from the article posted, but after looking at the clip of the interview, I think I get it now.

The conversation was based on a question of whether nor not Conway thought Trump owed London's mayor an apology for tweeting something that misquoted and/or was somehow wrong.

Conway did not ever answer that question, directly. For people that don't like what Trump tweeted, and think apologies are of upmost importance here, I can see them being bothered by that.

It seems to me Conway was making a point that Trump was being very supportive -- on the phone with Theresa May the night of the attack and again the next day, pledged support, etc. and it seems Conway believed the media was more interested in making Trump look like a perpetrator than an ally.

Here is a larger context. Maybe it will be helpful for those who don't understand what she is saying, to see what she was responding to:

Well, this is 100% on Trump. Like every single other president, his words matter a lot. Not being a politician is in now way an excuse. He MUST be careful with every word he utters, especially in writing (like Tweets). If he wants the media to focus on his presidential actions, he should stop tweeting and start acting like a leader. He gets frustrated and says very foolish things, often contradicting his communications team.

Blaming the media and not Trump himself is just about as dishonest as it gets. Conway is known for that though.

 

[4consideration]

Well, this is 100% on Trump. Like every single other president, his words matter a lot. Not being a politician is in now way an excuse. He MUST be careful with every word he utters, especially in writing (like Tweets). If he wants the media to focus on his presidential actions, he should stop tweeting and start acting like a leader. He gets frustrated and says very foolish things, often contradicting his communications team.

Blaming the media and not Trump himself is just about as dishonest as it gets. Conway is known for that though.

I don't use Twitter, nor do I think it's a particularly good approach for the reasons you mentioned in the OP. I think it leaves Trump open to a lot of criticism, since very little can be said in a tweet. I'd like to see him knock off the Twitter thing.

I wasn't defending what he said.

It looks like he said something dumb, something that was a misunderstanding (or misrepresentation) of what the mayor of London had said. He can own that he said that.

(I don't think he was attacking the mayor. I think it was a reactionary comment on a misunderstood quote. That's just my guess. It was still a dumb thing to tweet, imo.)

I took your questions in the OP at face value, and responded with what I thought Conway meant, and was talking about.

No. I don't think she was saying the media should not pay attention to Trumps tweets, or that his words should be ignored. I think she was trying to put the focus on the positive actions the US is taking in the matter, and downplaying a dumb tweet/mistaken comment made by the President.

I do think the media focuses on anything they can to criticize this President, and bent over backwards to give the best possible interpretation to the words and actions of the previous president. I do think that.

 

[leibowde84]

I do think the media focuses on anything they can to criticize this President, and bent over backwards to give the best possible interpretation to the words and actions of the previous president. I do think that.

This I completely disagree with. Obama was very careful with his words. Trump is extremely loose lipped. Also, Trump has repeatedly insulted his adversaries personally, even resorting to making fun of their appearance and coming up with dishonest conspiracy theories and criminal accusations that are completely unfounded. So, he definitely asks for it.

What did Obama say that was dumb that the media didn't criticize him for?

 

[4consideration]

What did Obama say that was dumb that the media didn't criticize him for?

The thing that came to mind when I said this was the comment about that he didn't know what happened but the police acted stupidly, regarding a Cambridge professor.

(If you didn't know what happened, how could one know the police acted stupidly.)

 

[leibowde84]

The thing that came to mind when I said this was the comment about that he didn't know what happened but the police acted stupidly, regarding a Cambridge professor.

(If you didn't know what happened, how could one know the police acted stupidly.)

He said that he didn't know enough to determine whether race was an issue in the arrest. That doesn't mean that he didn't know enough to know that the police acted stupidly (which they absolutely did).

Here is the story (from Obama: Police who arrested professor 'acted stupidly' - CNN.com):

President Obama said that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "acted stupidly" in arresting a prominent black Harvard professor last week after a confrontation at the man's home.

Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks Wednesday about his ordeal with Cambridge police.

"I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played," Obama said Wednesday night while taking questions after a White House news conference.

Cambridge authorities dropped disorderly conduct charges against Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Tuesday.

Obama defended Gates on Wednesday night, while admitting that he may be "a little biased," because Gates is a friend.

"But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, No. 3 ... that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately."