Look at that face- the face of panic. The face of sheer terror. Be afraid. Be very afraid. It’s what the media wants.
It’s as though every morning the left (press included) wakes up and has no memory of the previous day’s events. Or the previous weeks or months either. Every day is a new day. There is no such thing as history, especially where Donald Trump is concerned. And you can no longer tell where the media ends and the democrat party begins.
This morning on Good Morning America Martha Raddatz started off with a breathless, frightened, panicky warning about Donald Trump and his inflammatory rhetoric toward North Korea. She insinuated that Trump started all the conflict with NK. The world is “reeling.” It was a “dramatic escalation in rhetoric.” It was all due to his mouth. You can watch the fright fest here. Raddatz went off the rails when she claimed that North Korea was planning to target Guam. That is inaccurate. The NK plan is allegedly to drop ballistic missiles into the waters around Guam as a “crucial warning.” They are not targeting the island as Raddatz states. The report then shows a video clip of the Governor of Guam saying any threat to or attack on Guam is one upon the United States. What GMA left out completely was the Governor saying that were Guam attacked, he’d want Trump as the President:
Guam’s governor, Eddie Calvo, is voicing support for President Trump’s stern warning to North Korea, telling Fox News, “I want a president that says that.”
“As far as I’m concerned, as an American citizen, I want a president that says that if any nation such as North Korea attacks Guam, attacks Honolulu, attacks the West Coast, that they will be met with hell and fury,” Calvo said late Wednesday during an interview on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” with fill-in host Brian Kilmeade.
“This is similar to Hawaii,” he added. “So it’s important that as we make decisions that those folks that are in a position of leadership that they understand, too, that war is the last option because not only will tens of thousands of American military forces and dependents be affected by a regional war but because the western Pacific has American soil in it, a couple hundred thousand Americans could get caught in the cross hairs.”
Not one word about the things that the little fat boy Kim has been saying for the last several months:
KCNA reported that a spokesman from the North Korean Foreign Ministry said, “The DPRK legally stipulates that if the supreme dignity of the DPRK is threatened, it must preemptively annihilate those countries and entities that are directly or indirectly involved in it, by mobilizing all kinds of strike means including the nuclear ones.”
All it takes for annihilation is to simply threaten the “supreme dignity” of the DPRK. That’s it.
And of course, there was not a single person at ABC News (or anywhere else other than Fox) to remind people that Barack Obama also made threats toward North Korea:
Mr Obama gave warning of the possible consequences. “We could, obviously, destroy North Korea with our arsenals,” he told CBS News. “But aside from the humanitarian costs of that, they are right next door to our vital ally, [South] Korea.”
Mr Obama said that America was improving its own missile defences. “One of the things that we have been doing is spending a lot more time positioning our missile defence systems, so that even as we try to resolve the underlying problem of nuclear development inside of North Korea, we’re also setting up a shield that can at least block the relatively low level threats that they’re posing right now,” he said.
Low level threats. He made them sound like the JV. Obama did not take ISIS seriously, nor did he take North Korea seriously. Do you remember way, way back (the day before the election) when Russia was our friend and North Korea was our enemy? If you don a pair of liberal spectacles, Russia is now our enemy and North Korea is protected by the media as friend of ours who is being bullied by Donald Trump.
Despite all the manure you’re being handed from the legacy media, Trump’s NK policy is really not much different from Obama’s.
President Donald Trump has vowed a “very severe” response to North Korea’s escalating development of missiles and nuclear weapons. But behind closed doors, the Trump administration is pursuing a strategy that’s not all that different from President Barack Obama’s approach.
Administration officials are saying privately that a preventive military attack is “not on the table,” said Bruce Klingner, a veteran intelligence agent who works as a senior research fellow for northeast Asia at the influential Heritage Foundation. Instead, he said, they’re pursuing a five-part strategy similar to what the Obama administration employed — one that includes increasing pressure on both North Korea and the other countries that facilitate Kim Jong Un’s weapons program.
Frightening you about Trump is part of the media plan to take Trump down. Brian Williams said that it’s the media’s job to “scare people to death” regarding North Korea.
“Malcolm, our job tonight actually is to scare people to death on this subject so the talk isn’t as free as it is about a preemptive or a surgical military strike. You know that part of the world. The population centers, Andrea and the General [Barry McCaffrey] have talked about, South Korea, the Japanese, and so on and so on,” Williams said.
Speaking of scary, Susan Rice seems to have become a lobbyist for North Korea:
Former Obama administration official Susan Rice on Thursday recommended that President Donald Trump halt the “reckless rhetoric” and “tolerate” nuclear weapons in North Korea if necessary.
The former national security adviser and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations wrote in a New York Times op-ed that tolerating Pyongyang’s possession of nuclear weapons could be the “pragmatic” move.
“History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea — the same way we tolerated the far greater threat of thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons during the Cold War,” she wrote. “It will require being pragmatic.”
Rice left open the door for North Korea to use conventional weapons on the US without repercussion:
By most assessments, Mr. Kim is vicious and impetuous, but not irrational. Thus, while we quietly continue to refine our military options, we can rely on traditional deterrence by making crystal clear that any use of nuclear weapons against the United States or its allies would result in annihilation of North Korea.
Maxine Waters (D-LOON) is ready to surrender to Kim Jong Un:
Waters told the reporter that the State Department needs to be stacked up to deal in diplomacy with North Korea, and that the United States cannot afford to go to war with the country.
“I want us to be very careful, very alert to what is happening and to avoid war,” Waters said. “I think we can do this with some diplomacy, but we have got to have Tillerson, who is our secretary of state, get those positions filled for deputy [and] for assistant, so that we can engage with North Korea.”
She went on to say that she believes North Korea is issuing threats against the United States, but the United States should negotiate with the rogue country.
“I think there’s some things that they want from us, and we have to find out whether or not we can work with them on the things that they’re asking for,” Waters said.
Which is what I already said North Korea was angling for. Donald Trump not only has to deal with North Korea, but now he has to face NK’s newest allies- the media and the DNC.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
More mindless braying from the Stupid Jackass Party(Liberal Demacrats)and more of their pandering to the enemies of america North Korea and the Useless Nations and their terrorists alies
Apparently even Watters realizes what a failure Obama was since NOW we can resolve this with diplomacy. Certainly we can… it IS possible, but not unless the threat of a full and devastating response to an attack is realized.
Funny that liberals think a deranged madman with a history of unprovoked attacks can be trusted with nuclear weapons but peaceful, law abiding American citizens cannot be trusted with their on weapons of self defense.
Democrats are more than willing to sacrifice our security and freedoms to sate their appetite for hatred of Trump.
There’s coming a day when you won’t be able to even hear or see opposing voices.
North Korea has another ally.
On top of the entire media and all the Democrats, count in the lefty owners of major internet enterprises.
Facebook is purging voices of those who disagree with the Lefty owners & they side with NK.
You Tube is doing the same thing.
You can test this yourself.
IF a conservative voice is still up on either of those two platforms (a Trump-supporter on North Korea) check their number of “friends,” or “followers.”
Diamond and Silk went from 92,000+ yesterday to only 90,000+ this AM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btSM-5WSZzo
Paul Joseph Watson has been suspended (temporarily) from You Tube for a video that’s 18 months old! He is planning on quitting that platform because his followers are being purged and his work there could all disappear in a moment with no notice.
David Seaman (once of HuffPost) is being hurt by You Tube’s demonetization, too.
disgusting and shameful. Extremely unprofessional media needs to start paying a price for their treason of this country and President. Time to take a page out of fascist group Media Matters and put massive pressure on company’s that are paying for advertising on and supporting the corrupt, treasonous, lying Fake News Media Networks of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and others. Time to do more than just boycott these idiots. Get MSNBC, CNN and other fake news networks removed from your Cable packages. If it happens in mass they will start losing massive amounts of money. When these treasonous cockroaches defend and back an extremely violent ENEMY OF THIS COUNTRY over our President it is time to run them into the ground. We the people need to start fighting back and stop whining about it. TIME FOR ACTION PEOPLE. Lets hurt them where it hurts right in the wallet. As for NY Times and Washington Post time to start going after their advertisers as well and put massive pressure on them to remove their advertising from these treasonous news outlets who continue to print illegal leaks trying to take down the President. Again it is time FOR ACTION and no more whining about it. ACT. They can no longer be ignored and whined about. The minute they supported and took sides with ONE OF THIS COUNTRY’S MOST LETHAL ENEMIES they declared war on we the people who legally elected President Trump to the White House. We don’t need to throw temper tantrums in the street we can go straight for the jugular and cut off their money flow in this country.
The beginning of North Korea’s nuclear program dates back to 1956. As the timeline shows, they were thought to be in the early stages of developing an actual weapon as of 1989. This continued through the administrations of George H W Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Barack Obama. I guess that means you’ve got at least two republican presidents thus far who also failed to find any workable solution to the problem.
A rational military solution that would prevent North Korea from becoming a nuclear state is no more available now than it has been over that entire period. The word to focus on here is rational, as in it wouldn’t be rational to trigger full scale conventional war on the Korean peninsula. Seoul, a densely populated city of nearly 10 million people, would immediately come under intense artillery bombardment; that has been a likely consequence of any air strike on North Korea throughout the administrations of all four of those presidents previously mentioned. Tokyo would be within reach of ballistic missiles, which we couldn’t be 100 percent certain would be carrying only conventional warheads. Nor is there a rational solution involving the use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear first strikes are categorically insane.
The only rational option is probably economic pressure and diplomacy, which might still have an outside chance if China joins in. The unfortunate truth, though, is probably that we’re going to have another nuclear state to worry about. Ultimately, all this will gain North Korea is an assurance that they won’t be attacked. Given their level of paranoia, that might be the whole point. They won’t get much more than that, however, because any use of their new toy against us or our allies would instantly result in their own annihilation; we would only be seriously wounded.
Obama does deserve a pile of blame, not his predecessors.
Obama KNEW NK had a small enough bomb to place on an existing warhead they had, but he did nothing except use our media to keep it quiet.
So WE didn’t know.
Now we do.
Bluster , as long as there is nothing real behind it, can be put up with almost indefinitely, as Bush/Clinton/Bush showed.
But Obama treated a REAL threat as if it were mere bluster.
He dithered.
He wimped out.
And, because the media was in his pocket WE never realized the real danger he was putting us and our interests in.
Pres Trump is not treating a real threat like a joke.
NK is led by a mad man who would kill his own brother, generals, girlfriends. Think he would hold back against those he’s called his enemies?
@Greg:
Greg
I am counting on China to throw a wet towel on the little fat kid. China stands to be a big loser if conflict occurred and they have let the Nork’s know that if they threaten US territory they’re on their own.
@DrJohn, #7:
A wet towel, at the very least. I certainly hope so.
@Greg: So, since, as you say, N.Korea has been developing their nuclear weapons since 1989 and no diplomatic solution has been found to work, would it be safe to say that a new tact should be employed? I think so.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-china-media-idUSKBN1AR005
It appears that realistic threat that N.Korea could disappear from the geography had a little impact on China and caused them to take stock in the situation. This means Un is aware that the Big Protector to the north is fed up with his antics.
Oh, probably China just realized what a genius Obama was and took this new position, right? Or, perhaps more probably, the fact that there is no diplomacy without the possibility of being wiped off the map has made the difference. Obama never had strength, resolution and determination in his toolbox, relying solely on his charisma, which doesn’t actually exist.
@DrJohn: China is warning Un he is pushing too far. What I think is that China will assassinate him if they determine they cannot control him. The assassin is probably already there, near Un on a regular basis.
@DrJohn: I think China is the only hope to keep Fat Boy from getting himself killed. If he launches missiles toward Guam, he will be annihilated. Unfortunately all the innocent civilians in NK will be also. But he is an egotistical madman and he’s only concerned that he be a hero to himself. Dead.
DrJohn, my sense is that NK doesn’t want to negotiate with the U.S., knowing that it will never get anything from America, however, it is likely that it wants China and Russia to negotiate . . . meaning, give him money, food, etc.
NK is a failed state with too many people starving, and little Kim and his generals know they need foreign help. That’s why they went all-in on the missile delivery system.