NBC News obtains talking points distributed to Trump administration allies following Vegas shooting

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BREAKING: NBC News has obtained White House talking points distributed to Trump administration allies following Las Vegas shooting:

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[madaboutharry]

1. These people make me sick.

[Native]

2. They should have put the NRA Talking Points at the very top or at least used BOLD FONT & CAPS nt

[Iliyah]

3. The leaks keep coming huh

Every effing day. Leaks obtained by various news outlets constantly coming forth. What about leaks/information concerning our national security's welfare being exposed to various not so friendly groups and countries. This present a-hole want a be pres, his effed up administration and the effed up GOPs has put the USA is danger both inside and out. UGH.

[Ligyron]

13. Place leaks like a sieve.

I worry about someone in the dump administration figuring out they could leak phony info to nail progressives and Democrats with and gaslight the public in general.

It's happened before.

F.I., they could "leak" a false story that Trump has been caught performing an obscene act with some form of livestock. Of course, once that was proven to be a lie they can then deflect and distract from any true or actual negative info leaked from inside the WH.

Good journalists should try to verify and authenticate all leaks and stories beforehand but, often in rush to be first with the news, someone in the MSM could easily put out this false story.

Then the Trumpsters can say: "yeah sure, that's about as true as the disgraceful barnyard smear launched against our great president recently".

[MagickMuffin]

18. Perhaps this is what Draining the Swamp looks like!

Starts out as just the tiniest of leaks, then watch out and get out of the way. The deluge a cometh.

[sharedvalues]

4. This is what Democrats don't do

Democrats don't coordinate messaging as well as Republicans.

That's a big part of the reason the GOP controls what the media talks about.

[Cosmocat]

9. YEP

They have been doing it so long, it basically is the ONLY thing they do now, just bound from one disaster to the next, wait for someone to come up with whatever bullshit rationalization they can cook up, and all the pols and conservative media gets on board with it, and their "base" is conditioned, they obediently wait for it, hear/read it, and it is the reality that they operate from.

[treestar]

14. True

And if they tried, they would get into an argument about what it should say.

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[bigtree]

5. too soon for a political debate, they say

...even as they're piling on their own political talking points.

[Oneironaut]

6. Of course - Twice the bullet points about their preciousss than the actual shooting victims.

That's all they really care about.

[Ilsa]

7. They use details of only the most recent mass shooting

to design their pro-gun policies. Nevermind that even if a particular policy change would not have affected the most recent massacre, it might prevent future massacres.

They have blood on their hands and in their wallets.

[Ilsa]

8. They like waiting periods to discuss gun policy, but not to buy guns. nt

[haveahart]

10. 5300 and 0-- shootings in two American cities seem to make the case for tougher gun control.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Notice how gun control concerns dominate. . . . nt

[Nitram]

12. So transparent. 90% of the focus was on limiting gun control efforts.

[forgotmylogin]

16. Second Amendment apparently overrides

"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

[PatSeg]

17. Sometimes I fear

that the only way we'll see change is for every republican to lose someone to gun violence. Then we'll see how much they appreciate all those "thoughts and prayers', not to mention the "moments of silence". I've come to the conclusion that empathy does not come naturally to some people, they have experience something in order to understand it.

[FSogol]

19. More concern for guns than for victims.