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Lyin' Steve
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« on: September 16, 2016, 12:46:52 PM »

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-birtherism-campaign-statement-228261

Every article about the election should be like this.  Enough putting up with Trump's manipulative shenanigans and refusing to call him out on his lies.  Maybe the press will finally start feeling a sense of responsibility and do its damn job now that he's actually winning.
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2016, 12:50:49 PM »

Thank You for telling us the presses job to help Hillary win.
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2016, 12:55:07 PM »

Please don't invite him into this thread.
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« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2016, 12:55:26 PM »

If he has any balls lol
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« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2016, 12:56:15 PM »


When you've lost Politico...
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« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2016, 01:31:50 PM »

Thank You for telling us the presses job to help Hillary win.

It is the press's job to speak truth to power, or to those seeking power.  Its job is to expose fact and counter falsehood, not to be "nonpartisan."  They have given Trump a free ride for 15 months now in pursuit of a false middle.
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« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2016, 01:35:13 PM »

Thank You for telling us the presses job to help Hillary win.

It is the press's job to speak truth to power, or to those seeking power.  Its job is to expose fact and counter falsehood, not to be "nonpartisan."  They have given Trump a free ride for 15 months now in pursuit of a false middle.
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« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2016, 03:01:24 PM »

Thank You for telling us the presses job to help Hillary win.

It is the press's job to speak truth to power, or to those seeking power.  Its job is to expose fact and counter falsehood, not to be "nonpartisan."  They have given Trump a free ride for 15 months now in pursuit of a false middle.

The delusion of Clinton supporters is really on another level.

The press has been pushing Clinton and hammering Trump for ages, it just hasn't done anything except reduce public trust of the media. Remember when there was no coverage of Bernie supporters screwing up Clinton's parade at the DNC? You think that would have happened if Cruz supporters were protesting Trump every step of the way?

Hey, if you really want to speak "truth to power", why not ask the Secretary of State how Libya is doing without Gaddafi now that "we came, we saw, he died [cackle]" or how beneficial the Iraq oil embargo was that cost hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. But I guess that's less important than Trump being a meanie.
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« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2016, 03:10:37 PM »

Thank You for telling us the presses job to help Hillary win.

It is the press's job to speak truth to power, or to those seeking power.  Its job is to expose fact and counter falsehood, not to be "nonpartisan."  They have given Trump a free ride for 15 months now in pursuit of a false middle.

Meanwhile CNN and MSNBC would never do any such thing to Clinton. Oh wait. They already did. At least Fox presents opposing points of view in essentially every non-Hannity segment.
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« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2016, 03:28:11 PM »

"Trump finally has the balls to shoot straight"  That's a rather disturbing image.
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« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2016, 03:31:14 PM »

The idea that the media has been soft on Trump is a joke - they have covered, often in depth, each one of his 'gaffes' and his questionable statements, and many media personalities and publications have now spent well over a year attacking Trump (even conservative ones like the National Review). The problem is a very large number of people either do not care or, whilst not exactly being comfortable with Trump, are not prepared to vote for the alternatives. The thing with Trump is that being a loose cannon and a sleazy wheeler dealer is something that has been baked into his public image since well before this electoral cycle even began - people know Trump is a bit of a bullyboy and a crook, and he never bothers to attempt to refute this seriously. Thus, the media can hammer at him (and indeed have done so) and it will make very little impact aside from upon a small number of voters.
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« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2016, 03:43:28 PM »

A regular article?

Or game changer? LOL
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« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2016, 04:17:28 PM »

The idea that the media has been soft on Trump is a joke - they have covered, often in depth, each one of his 'gaffes' and his questionable statements, and many media personalities and publications have now spent well over a year attacking Trump (even conservative ones like the National Review). The problem is a very large number of people either do not care or, whilst not exactly being comfortable with Trump, are not prepared to vote for the alternatives. The thing with Trump is that being a loose cannon and a sleazy wheeler dealer is something that has been baked into his public image since well before this electoral cycle even began - people know Trump is a bit of a bullyboy and a crook, and he never bothers to attempt to refute this seriously. Thus, the media can hammer at him (and indeed have done so) and it will make very little impact aside from upon a small number of voters.

Beyond "soft" the media has aides and abetted Trump. Sure, they have covered his idiotic and vile statements. Exactly like they covered Clinton or Romney. They have legitimized him and promoted him and his agenda.

Trump should have been covered like the presidential camapigns of Stephen Colbert or Vermin Supreme. By treating his candidacy as real, serious, and acceptable the media have done him a great service.
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« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2016, 04:42:06 PM »

The idea that the media has been soft on Trump is a joke - they have covered, often in depth, each one of his 'gaffes' and his questionable statements, and many media personalities and publications have now spent well over a year attacking Trump (even conservative ones like the National Review). The problem is a very large number of people either do not care or, whilst not exactly being comfortable with Trump, are not prepared to vote for the alternatives. The thing with Trump is that being a loose cannon and a sleazy wheeler dealer is something that has been baked into his public image since well before this electoral cycle even began - people know Trump is a bit of a bullyboy and a crook, and he never bothers to attempt to refute this seriously. Thus, the media can hammer at him (and indeed have done so) and it will make very little impact aside from upon a small number of voters.

Beyond "soft" the media has aides and abetted Trump. Sure, they have covered his idiotic and vile statements. Exactly like they covered Clinton or Romney. They have legitimized him and promoted him and his agenda.

Trump should have been covered like the presidential camapigns of Stephen Colbert or Vermin Supreme. By treating his candidacy as real, serious, and acceptable the media have done him a great service.

Hillary tried to "cover/treat" him as you/other Red Hacks wish. Alt right speech, other similar staff, deplorables. It didn't work well, did it? Smiley

But I would love if media would treat him as you want them to. There is a reason why:
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« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2016, 08:32:38 PM »

The idea that the media has been soft on Trump is a joke - they have covered, often in depth, each one of his 'gaffes' and his questionable statements, and many media personalities and publications have now spent well over a year attacking Trump (even conservative ones like the National Review). The problem is a very large number of people either do not care or, whilst not exactly being comfortable with Trump, are not prepared to vote for the alternatives. The thing with Trump is that being a loose cannon and a sleazy wheeler dealer is something that has been baked into his public image since well before this electoral cycle even began - people know Trump is a bit of a bullyboy and a crook, and he never bothers to attempt to refute this seriously. Thus, the media can hammer at him (and indeed have done so) and it will make very little impact aside from upon a small number of voters.

Beyond "soft" the media has aides and abetted Trump. Sure, they have covered his idiotic and vile statements. Exactly like they covered Clinton or Romney. They have legitimized him and promoted him and his agenda.

Trump should have been covered like the presidential camapigns of Stephen Colbert or Vermin Supreme. By treating his candidacy as real, serious, and acceptable the media have done him a great service.

Is the media's job to "weed out" candidates?  To decide who is and isn't "real", "serious", and "acceptable"?  Funny thing here; I thought that was the job of the voters.
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« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2016, 08:43:58 PM »

Thank You for telling us the presses job to help Hillary win.

It is the press's job to speak truth to power, or to those seeking power.  Its job is to expose fact and counter falsehood, not to be "nonpartisan."  They have given Trump a free ride for 15 months now in pursuit of a false middle.

Meanwhile CNN and MSNBC would never do any such thing to Clinton. Oh wait. They already did. At least Fox presents opposing points of view in essentially every non-Hannity segment.

Wut?
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« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2016, 03:11:57 AM »

Thank You for telling us the presses job to help Hillary win.
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« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2016, 03:23:46 AM »


a) Press' (but you quoted a 13 year old... so)
b) the ONLY reason your boy is where he is, is because of the media's role as sometimes willing but also unwitting accomplice. You can't bitch about the media telling the truth about Trump, when they've helped him so much, so far.
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« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2016, 07:15:16 PM »

"Trump finally has the balls to shoot straight"  That's a rather disturbing image.
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