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After Lauer's abortion of a performance last night it is obvious that the media is conspiring to hand the election to Trump and the GOP. After all the entire media is owned by GOP allies. And I am pessimistic about any improvement in media coverage.
When you look at the future moderators for the next debates it does not inspire confidence. The media is now really the enemy of the people and most worse than ISIS. That fact is because the media insists trying to inflict a candidate on this country and the planet who could destroy everything.
Any who asks why we can't just use our nuclear arsenal and threatens to fire all the generals because we are not already buried in the Middle East and to add insult to injury praises Putin should be arrested for treason. Of course, such statements are not treason. However, they reveal someone who is criminally insane as far as I am concerned. Remember he is a pathological liar, obsessive thief and bunko artist.
So anyone who supports him is just as vile.
elleng
(130,964 posts)arguing/fighting about Lauer, few discussions re: the candidates' positions, HATE HATE HATE Matt Lauer!
, DU (and the rest of the sane world!)
He did what HIS commanders demanded of him! NO 'fairness doctrine!' fair·ness doc·trine
noun
a former federal policy in the US requiring television and radio broadcasters to present contrasting viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance.
The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was in the Commission's view honest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC eliminated the Doctrine in 1987, and in August 2011 the FCC formally removed the language that implemented the Doctrine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
And then 'complain' about CNN's approach? Why not, who the heck cares about substance, surely not the electorate!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512404929
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)May I suggest you read Josh Marshall's savvy assessment of Donald Trump's interview last evening:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ok-i-admit-it-i-m-a-lauer-truther
While I agree with the view that the moderators most be more assertive, I think Mr. Marshall makes a terrific observation.
Now, let me offer another point of view. Last night, Mr. Trump said things that were outrageous. Had they been spoken by a Democratic candidate, that individual would be disqualified for office. Here's a link to the The Rude Pundit's expression of this inequality of coverage by the national media.
WARNING: Some of the language may be offensive to some individuals. Please tread carefully.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ok-i-admit-it-i-m-a-lauer-truther
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)..to the SC, because it worked for them last time and when have the Repubs honored the will of the people.
With one SC short, due to McConnell's manipulation, there is the long shot chance of the SC being deadlocked, thus giving the current Speaker of the House the deciding vote on who our next Pres will be.
Yes, Speaker Paul Ryan who has held onto his endorsement of Trump to the bitter end, would choose Donald or Hillary and there's not a damned thing we could do about it.
We are talking about an end scenario of quake proportions. And not for a minute do I doubt that the Party of Trump & Putin would do whatever it took to grab the biggest prize of all.
60 days till we know..and my bets are on Hillary ..but then she is up against Trump, Putin and their international criminal mob.
May the gods & goddesses be with you Sec Clinton..