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On Wednesday evening and throughout Thursday, conservative media outlets continued their coverage of Donald Trumps conflict with the intelligence community. <\/p>\n
On the Daily Caller, an article titled How the Nations Spooks Played the Game Kill Mike Flynn claimed, The talk within the tight-knit community of retired intelligence officers was that Flynns sacking was a result of intelligence insiders at the CIA, NSA and National Security Council using a sophisticated disinformation campaign to create a crisis atmosphere. Breitbart, meanwhile, aggregated reporting on the issue from the Wall Street Journal under the headline Deep State #Resistance: Spies Withhold Intel From Trump, Says WSJ. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, National Review stood largely alone on Thursday in proposing that Congress should investigate Trumps relationship with Russia. In a formal editorial, it proposed that such an inquiry is necessary, whether or not this matter is on the order of Watergate. The editors wrote, A steadier hand is in order. Its time for the appropriate committees to conduct the oversightof the executive branch, and of the intelligence servicesfor which they are responsible. <\/p>\n
Most publications turned their attention Thursday to other media outlets. Several sites featured posts mocking mainstream publications for worrying that Trump had primarily invited questions from conservative news organizations at his Wednesday joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Media Freakout Over Pecking Order Rages On, read a representative LifeZette headline. The Daily Caller drew from eight years of Barack Obamas interactions with the press to present 13 Hard-Hitting Questions Liberal Reporters Asked Obama, including one from Jim Acosta of CNN, who has been especially upset about conservative media access to the White House. <\/p>\n
Town Halls Guy Benson approached the issue somewhat more soberly, offering a four-point analysis. Its fair to say that if President Obama had exclusively called on explicitly left-leaning outlets over the course of multiple consecutive press conferences conservatives would have melted down, Benson acknowledged. He went on to write that he didnt think personal pique was the top driving factor of their grousing. He proposed, however, that the mainstream presss reaction was driven by a deep-seated arrogance and ideological myopia, which blinds its representatives to the journalistic chops of less-than-liberal reporters. <\/p>\n
Continuing this trend, conservative publications zeroed in on the presidents bromides against the mainstream media during his Thursday afternoon press conference. On its home page, Breitbart quoted Trumps assertion that the media has become so dishonest that if we dont talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Town Hall described the event as Round Two of his battle with CNNs Jim Acosta, writing, Trump asked CNN to do some self reflection. He told them to honestly consider not airing such anti-Trump news every night, and theyll see their ratings rise. <\/p>\n
Sean Hannity presumably wasnt surprised by all this rancor. Youve heard me saying since 2008: Journalism is dead. But what were seeing play out now is far worse, he pronounced in his opening monologue. <\/p>\n
Posts from conservative pages about polls indicating high approval numbers for Trump circulated widely on Facebook: <\/p>\n
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