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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 05:12 PM Oct 2018

Devin Nunes made a 'magazine' just to attack his hometown paper

By Tommy Christopher - October 4, 2018

The desperate congressman sent a 40-page mailer to attack the Sacramento Bee. The paper has endorsed him eight times.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) took a page from the Trump playbook by sending a glossy 40-page mailer to voters that was entirely devoted to attacking the free press in his hometown.

Released last week, the mailer, fashioned to look like a magazine, attacks the Fresno Bee as a “propaganda machine,” and takes issue with the paper for such offenses as reporting on activists protesting at Nunes’ office, writing stories about the winery that Nunes co-owns and uses to pass himself off as a “farmer,” and other examples of basic journalism.

The mailer also attacks the paper for covering a strange incident in which Nunes’ uncle called law enforcement on a video crew shooting an ad for Nunes’ challenger Andrew Janz, even though the Janz campaign had written permission to be there.

This isn’t the first time Nunes has gone after the Bee. Earlier this year, he had a meltdown when a Bee reporter asked him if he planned to hold any open forums in the district, which he has not done since 2010.

https://shareblue.com/devin-nunes-campaign-attacks-sacramento-bee-newspaper/

He really doesn't like the First Amendment...................he has been trained well by his Russian handlers in the white house and abroad and by his leadership right wing "ayn rand" Paul Ryan .......................what a POS


Solution:

https://www.andrewjanzforcongress.com/

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Devin Nunes made a 'magazine' just to attack his hometown paper (Original Post) turbinetree Oct 2018 OP
This is GOP Playbook 101 - muddy the waters, delegitimize your critics, claim victimhood. maxsolomon Oct 2018 #1
Yepper, spot on................. turbinetree Oct 2018 #2
We need to vote this idiot out Gothmog Oct 2018 #3
nunes is goper dung. spanone Oct 2018 #4

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
1. This is GOP Playbook 101 - muddy the waters, delegitimize your critics, claim victimhood.
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 05:16 PM
Oct 2018

They'll keep doing it until it stops working. Given the current level of critical thinking among the suburban/exurban/rural causcasian electorate, it might never stop working.

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