Is it accurate to portray the President’s access to a 99%-negative media as a ‘bully pulpit’?

Multiple GOP politicians and pundits/journalists argue the President should tone back or eliminate Tweeting, since he has what’s traditionally been known as the ‘bully pulpit’.

But is that right, in a world where 99% of his coverage is negative, slanted…or fake? Do these people not understand that, until Trump, media bestowed ‘bully pulpit’ privileges?

It’s only a bully pulpit if a media reports the President’s remarks and actions honestly.

Hi-brows spew platitudes of ‘beneath the dignity of the office’, knowing full well a sham-stream media has beheaded, trampled, and urinated on that office since Trump’s arrival.

(Here’s a relevant question…has a hi-brow ever fought back against, well, anything?)

When the presidential office of ‘dignity’ is met by brass-knuckled backstreet brawlers, is it smart to remain above the fray…while savaged with lowblows and kidney punches?

Especially when there’s no hint of objective reporting during the battle?

Don’t respond, and he’ll be portrayed as ‘cowering in the oval office’. Respond, and he’s vilified as bullying the press – if he can’t win either way with this media, let him Tweet.

It’s past time to fight their fire with fire. (And why is it hi-brows in the mix don’t notice President Trump’s return fire is winning the hearts and minds of the citizenry?)

WANT EVIDENCE? How about every special-election GOP win since he took office? 

This President knows you don’t win backstreet brawls with turn-a-cheek ideals, and also knows, (for him) any concept of a ‘bully pulpit’ is self-created…by his medium of choice.

(Just ask George W. Bush how well that turn-a-cheek policy worked in his 2nd term.)

Impact on Political Culture be damned. If CNN et al is ‘culture’…we vote bare knuckles.

Give ’em Tweet Hell, Mr. President.

We’d prefer a fighter like you to a ‘nuanced statesman’ like John Kerry…any day…

…and especially in this sham-stream media environment.

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