Shades of Jeffrey Gannon---Trump called on shill at presser

[Tanuki]

After reading that the "journalist" called on by Trump at his press conference was a Breitbart plant, shepherded to a reserved seat on the front row seat by an RNC aide, I was curious....just who is this Matthew Boyle, elevated above a group of senior white house correspondents?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/23/2016-s-angry-populist-enforcer.html

.....:Boyle says he has the personal cellphone number of the Republican frontrunner he refers to privately, in a tone of respect if not reverence, as “Mr. Trump.”
Donald Trump, for his part, has returned the favor by granting an endless stream of “exclusives” to Boyle—notably Trump’s vicious personal attack on BuzzFeed political reporter McKay Coppins, a former writer for The Daily Beast when it was merged with Newsweek, for Coppins’s unflattering profile of the reality television star/real estate mogul.
Boyle’s February 2014 hatchet job so faithfully took Trump’s side of the controversy that the press criticism site Mediaite reported the flap under the headline: “Breitbart Now Donald Trump’s PR Firm.”
More recently, Coppins wrote a BuzzFeed story quoting anonymous Breitbart employees to the effect that Trump provides financial support to his favorite news site in return for positive coverage—a charge vehemently denied by Bannon, who says the frontrunner, unlike other GOP candidates, hasn’t even bought advertising space.
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[n2doc]

1. Doonesbury called it

[demmiblue]

2. I remember that toon.

You should re-post it as an op.

[malaise]

3. Great toon

[uponit7771]

4. +1

[UTUSN]

5. I asked yesterday, who are these unknown asskissing reporters he's calling on, and was told:

"I think they are asking good, hard questions."

[skylucy]

6. I didn't post anything on DU during the press conference, but I was thinking just what you said.

Some softball questions from "reporters" that just didn't seem authentic. That and the group that has now been identified as paid
Trump staffers cheering for Trump made the "press conference" like a scene from the Twilight Zone. Anyone who has ever watched press conferences of President Obama....or Presidents Bush,Clinton, etc. could see that the entire thing was a sham. A very dangerous sham if the citizens of our country buy into it.We just cannot let this be acceptable.

Resist.