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nolabear

(41,986 posts)
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 03:40 PM Oct 2020

Wanna bet Spanky brings up the NY Post hit job at the Town Hall?

I’d put money on it. He’ll pivot from any question he doesn’t want to answer (i.e. any non tongue bath question) to railing against Twitter and FB taking it down, to conspiracy theories, to Hillary’s emails too...I have not an iota of faith in Savannah “I drew the short straw” Guthrie being able to handle him.

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Hugin

(33,162 posts)
2. I guarantee he will... Instantly equating the NBC empire on par with the NY Post.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 03:42 PM
Oct 2020

Nice self-own jackasses.

nolabear

(41,986 posts)
3. Yep. I'm disgusted with how they take the abuse.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 03:46 PM
Oct 2020

I mean, facts are important. Info is important. But him, with unlimited ambition to just insult and bully? Hell no.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
4. Of course. That's why the timing of the hit piece dropped today
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 03:53 PM
Oct 2020

And why NBC gave Trump the "town hall" with a selected audience. He's free to ramble unhinged & untethered all night long....

They timed it this way.

Hugin

(33,162 posts)
6. What remains unsaid is this decision was obviously an executive decision...
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 04:27 PM
Oct 2020

Overriding the obligations to act in the public interest by a publicly held company and overriding the objections of their own news department.

This was pure dumbassery. Completely dispelling any sort of neutrality on the part of NBC. It is now only a division of Trump Co. Along with Fox News, ONN, Newsmax, and QAnon.

Two guesses who Il Dorito has been burning up the phone lines with for the past few days.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
9. Exactly right. Trump at a town hall alone wouldn't have brought the viewers without a shock & awe
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 04:45 PM
Oct 2020

..a shock & awe, last minute news drop to drive the enquiring minds.

It goes back to Mary Trump describing uncle Donald's penchant for domination.
Nobody upstages DJT.

And here we are. Again.
🤬

Hugin

(33,162 posts)
10. I have an unshakable faith in the second law of the Turd Reich.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 04:58 PM
Oct 2020

The first law being nobody tells the Crockwork Orange what to do.

The second law is anything the Marmalade COVID Dispensary touches inevitably inextricably goes to crap.

However, these things take time to ferment and we're literally days away from the General Election with some millions of people already having voted.

It would seem to be a no brainer for NBC to stay away from it because this is going to leave a candy corn skid mark all over any reputation they may have had for impartial reporting. Should Biden/Harris win the election, I would certainly suggest they require a deeper kowtow from anything NBC for access in the beginnings of their administration. Two can and should play these games since the deck has been stacked that way.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
11. 😄"anything the Marmalade COVID Dispensary touches inevitably inextricably goes to crap".
Thu Oct 15, 2020, 07:50 AM
Oct 2020

Man, there's so much truth in that one line .

It'll be like the last debate, only Trump will be talking over Joe from another network. By himself. Trump will be just as big a belligerant lunatic wherever Biden is standing.

Hope The Lincoln Project & all those great anti-Trump ad writers we've been applauding bought the airtime during Trump & Biden's TH's.

nolabear

(41,986 posts)
7. Exactly. It's going to be a huge waste. While Joe answers.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 04:35 PM
Oct 2020

I think if anyone a/b’s the two it’s going to go very, very badly for the usurper.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
8. Would like for the networks to display LIAR every time the pos lies...
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 04:39 PM
Oct 2020

Real time chyron...during the pos town hall...play him ithe con like he has been conning us for almost 4 years....

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
12. Folks are trying to keep food on the table, roof over their head and
Thu Oct 15, 2020, 07:53 AM
Oct 2020

worried about healthcare....it's like giving a report about whether there are aliens...who gives a hoot when you are dealing with basic needs etc

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