People Outside a Trump Rally Told us Why They Hate the Media (HBO)

President Trump was in Cedar Rapids last night for a “Make America Great Again” rally.
And just like any veteran touring act, he played his greatest hits:
— We will never be intimidated
by the dishonest media corporations
who will say anything and do anything
to get people to watch their screens
or to get people to buy their failing papers.
— Trump supporters hate the media.
A PEW poll from May found that in the Trump era,
the partisan divide over the role of the press
is the largest it’s been since they began asking this question.
Evan McMorris-Santoro went to Cedar Rapids to find out why.
— The fake news.
They tell you—it’s fake news, it’s fake.
— So what do you think?
— I don't hate the media, to be quite honest.
They think that we're more biased,
or we're haters or something to that effect,
because, I guess, we only have one way of looking at things,
even though I have multiple ways of looking at things.
I'm not a sexist, racist pig
that most media outlets call Trump supporters most of the time.
— You know, that's another thing I have a problem with the media on.
I thought Trump was talking about groupies.
All they said is he grabbed ‘em by the pussy.
If you pull your panties down,
and wave ‘em in a guy's face who’s famous—
like, if you go backstage to KISS concert,
there's a lot of grabbin’ ‘em by the pussy.
You go to a Bruce Springsteen concert,
and a chick gets back there, drops her panties—
she may want to get grabbed by the pussy.
But is that a job environment?
Do you want that at the post office where you’re working?
— So how should the media have covered that story, then?
The media should have said, “Women sometimes like to get their pussies grabbed”?
— A lot of voters understood he was talking about groupies.
It's like saying, “I gave her five bucks and she dropped her panties at a strip joint.”
She was working at a strip joint.
That's what you do in sniffer’s row, right?
— Okay.
— Well, I’m not saying that they say anything about him that’s not true,
they just blow it out of proportion and make it bigger than it needs to be.
I want media to focus more on what's happening in America,
and not give a shit about what happens in other countries.
— Got it. Are you a Trump guy?
— I didn’t vote, I can’t vote.
I’m a felon, so.
I guess I don't really have an opinion on our President,
‘cause I can't voice my vote.
As far as the media goes,
I just don’t think they cover enough of the stuff that matters,
they cover more…
it’s nonstop politic, politic, politic, politic.
— It's all about Russia, Russia, Russia.
There is not one shred of evidence that Russia hacked our election.
Okay? There's speculation.
— Well, there's a federal investigation into it.
— Right.
— So shouldn't we be covering that?
— A federal investigation into…
who hacked the DNC?
— Well, no, a federal investigation into Russian involvement in the Trump campaign.
That's the federal investigation that’s ongoing right now.
— No.
— How’s it going?
— How’re you doing, what’s your name?
— My name is Bill.
— Nice to see you, Bill.
It seems like you’re a person who doesn't really believe the media that much.
— Uh, no I don't.
I will never believe the media until they get off the climate change kick.
I would like to know where some of these…
celebrities went to school,
and what was their major in college.
Mine happens to be environmental science.
Science has to be provable and repeatable.
Okay?
I would like to know where the ice went that was right here 10,000 years ago.
Did primitive man drive cars?
— Got it.
Thanks, sir. Nice to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
What should the media do differently?
Like, if you had a chance to tell them what you want to see them do, what would it be?
— Well, what what you're doing.
Listening to people like me.
I think you guys live in a bubble, you know?
And you see things from only your worldview.
And you don't think that, yeah,
there are people out here, you know,
in Minnesota and Iowa that aren't idiots.
We're not rednecks, we're not racists,
you know, we're not homophobes, xenophobes,
and all the other crap that we’re called.
You know? And you should respect our opinions
and come out and see what people want to see covered.
From our point of view.

People Outside a Trump Rally Told us Why They Hate the Media (HBO)

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