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‘Never met anybody smarter’: Trump gushes over Kim and Putin – Alternet.org

'Never met anybody smarter': Trump gushes over Kim and Putin

Murdoch and Trump promoting each other for mutual gain once again. A Circus for America to watch not for news but mutual profit. A grifter’s ethic-less paradise. The real news being Tucker Carlson thinks Trump’s an utter dislikable prick, and Trump thinks the same of Carlson. That’s the true underlying reality being played out on Murdoch media. It’s a wholey personal transactional scam for mutual gain, and money on a Murdochian stage.

Former President Donald Trump rhapsodized over the authoritarian leaders of two of the United States’ biggest foreign adversaries during his appearance on Tuesday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight.

“Never met anybody smarter. How smart is Kim Jong-Un? Top of the line,” Trump said of the North Korean dictator.

Source: ‘Never met anybody smarter’: Trump gushes over Kim and Putin – Alternet.org

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Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump: A friendship of convenience

Rupert Murdoch embraces President Trump.

The way CNN’s parent company views it, Fox News has adopted a role similar to the one played by Murdoch’s British tabloids when they helped advance the agendas of British leaders. As Blair learned, however, even a special relationship with the media baron can sour quickly. He and Murdoch – once so close that Blair was the godfather to Grace Murdoch – are no longer on speaking terms.

During the British government’s 2012 inquiry into the mogul’s political influence, the former prime minister described what it was like when a story subject falls out of favor with a Murdoch-controlled tabloid.

“Once they’re against you, that’s it,” Blair said. “It’s full on, full frontal, day in, day out, basically a lifetime commitment.”

Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump: A friendship of convenience

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Newt Gingrich’s White House Press Briefing Plan: Ban Questions From Adversarial Journalists, Have A Live Audience

Newt Gingrich has a new proposal for the Trump administration’s efforts to delegitimize and weaken critical journalists: turn White House press briefings into a “town hall” format where presumably hand-picked citizens would join the “total left-wing propagandists” in the press corps, while banning the most critical reporters from aski

Source: Newt Gingrich’s White House Press Briefing Plan: Ban Questions From Adversarial Journalists, Have A Live Audience