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Ninga

(8,275 posts)
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 08:10 AM Sep 2019

Corporate media (yes Rachel and Lawrence) chastised the House on the order of questioning.

Why? Because their corporate bosses made a decision to only show one half of the hearing. They wanted the House Counsel to question first. Why did they not show the ENTIRE hearing?

They had to spend the evening retracting the half baked reporting the mouths spewed in the afternoon. Half baked, incomplete reporting.

I’m disgusted with corporate media. Cable cut away from the hearing to unleash the talking heads long before the hearing ended. This is akin of taking the cookies out of the oven at 5 minutes instead of 14.

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Corporate media (yes Rachel and Lawrence) chastised the House on the order of questioning. (Original Post) Ninga Sep 2019 OP
The Democrats should have let their Counsel Raven Sep 2019 #1
This! The questioning had no continuity . If not counsel, Nadler should pick 2 or 3 of their octoberlib Sep 2019 #3
They didn't "chastise". Tracer Sep 2019 #2
Disagree wholeheartedly that their suggestion Ninga Sep 2019 #5
I respect the House leadership knows what they are Ninga Sep 2019 #4

Raven

(13,886 posts)
1. The Democrats should have let their Counsel
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 08:44 AM
Sep 2019

ask all the questions. As it was, with a few notable exceptions, all the Dems did was make little speeches. If they had allowed Counsel to conduct the hearing, Lewandowski would have been a puddle on the hearing room floor. I hope they learned something from this.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
3. This! The questioning had no continuity . If not counsel, Nadler should pick 2 or 3 of their
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 09:08 AM
Sep 2019

most effective questioners with a law background, like Berke , and let them handle it. It was a mess. Our Democracy is at stake and Dems need to dispense with the grandstanding speeches. And Lewandowski should have been charged with contempt.

Tracer

(2,769 posts)
2. They didn't "chastise".
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 09:00 AM
Sep 2019

They just made suggestions that having the Counsel go first would have been a better plan.

Ninga

(8,275 posts)
5. Disagree wholeheartedly that their suggestion
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 11:06 AM
Sep 2019

would benefit the process vs the time corporate media had to devote to coverage. Corporate media broke away from coverage because their supreme
knowledge GUESSED they knew how the hearing would land.

Ninga

(8,275 posts)
4. I respect the House leadership knows what they are
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 11:03 AM
Sep 2019

doing. The first half exposed Lewandowski as an bully and wrongly as empowered. He approached contempt of congress. The House Counsel exposed his lies.

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