Twitchy caught NBC News personnel getting very snarky about the Daily Caller asking a question in the White House press conference. National security reporter Ken Dilanian mocked them as like the Russian government-owned "Sputnik" news agency, and Chuck Todd compared them to a "troll farm."
First, Dilanian tweeted "Prediction: The president's pet media organizations and reporters will profess shock, and the rest of us will keep focused on the crucial question of whether the Trump campaign conspired with a foreign attack on our democracy."
Dear Ken: go look at a picture of Brian Williams bowing to Obama and listen to audio of Chris Matthews saying "thrill up my leg" before you start getting cocky about a "president's pet media organizations." Then came the telling exchange:
David Henry replied to Todd with the conservative take:
TRANSLATION: I sorely miss the good ol' days when the legacy media were the gatekeepers of information. Any way we could go back to those days?
When the legacy media is referred to as "elitists," this is why.
Amber Athey at the Caller aimed right at the silly "mainstream" types who demanded "unity" in the media on behalf of Kaitlan Collins (formerly of the Caller) when Team Trump disinvited her (but not CNN as a whole) from an event for being rude:
Well, those calls for "solidarity" in the press corps fell apart pretty quickly.
@DailyCaller's @esaagar asked relevant and important questions of Trump today, but that's enough for the establishment media. They're bitter that he got called on at all.
Saagar Enjeti asked a very straightforward and objective question: "To follow up on what you were saying about the shut down, sir, Are you saying that you would be willing to shut the down in September if it does not fully fund $25 billion worth of your border wall and also deliver all of the immigration priorities that you listed in your tweet? Or leaving some room for negotiation there?"
That was no Jeff Zeleny asking Trump what enchanted him about being president.
Anyone remember Chuck Todd making an ad comparing himself to a no-nonsense basketball referee ready to blow the whistle to enforce some rules on politics?
Instapundit was kind enough to remind people that we reported Chuck Todd might want to be careful with "compromised" analogies, when his wife Kristian Denny Todd's firm brought in $2 million from Bernie Sanders in the last election cycle, and Todd doesn't mention it when Sanders comes on.
PS: Enjeti mocked another left-winger attacking the Caller as a "white supremacist" site:
