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Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
2. Any Trump scandal, no matter how big, will get a ho-hum from the media.
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 05:14 PM
Sep 2016

Trump scandals are considered so ordinary and expected that it's not news anymore.
His followers say it's just Trump being Trump. (How cute)

There is no scandal big enough to affect him.
I'll bet that if private videos of Trump and his daughter in bed together became public it wouldn't get much attention.

Because, gosh, he will build a wall and make Mexico pay for it!
Now THAT'S news!

skylucy

(3,739 posts)
4. I just do not understand this. I have lost so much respect for
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 05:16 PM
Sep 2016

the television media. Of course, I have also been sorely disappointed by a large percentage of our citizens. It seems that the Republicans can put absolutely any dangerous idiot up as their nominee and most members of their party will vote for that person. I also am alarmed that younger voters are toying with the idea of voting for a third party candidate when doing so could lead to a President Trump. Who are these young voters? This is not a game. God bless America? God help America.

renate

(13,776 posts)
9. I think the very youngest of the young voters are too young to remember Florida 2000
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 05:24 PM
Sep 2016

In theory, we should vote for whomever we think is the best candidate. In practice, voting third party will get the stars out of your eyes pronto.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
11. Fox is the most watched television "news" in the country by far.
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 05:32 PM
Sep 2016

All the others are trying to jump on Fox's bandwagon and grab some of that success.

The days of journalism being an honorable service to the public are long gone.
They will follow wherever filthy lucre leads them.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
7. MSNBC has been talking about it for ten minutes now! Chuck Todd believe it or not...
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 05:22 PM
Sep 2016

Ha. I tweeted him immediately after it broke last night.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
10. Lets give it a day for the rest of the media to digest it. Hopefully this evening and tomorrow will
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 05:29 PM
Sep 2016

be different, once the evening shows have a run at it, because that was some serious stuff. The media cannot simply ignore it. The man is in debt to people all over the world, including rogue nations and crooks. He has to answer to this. Someone will step up to the place and tell us that Trump is a crook and in bed with lots of other crooks, overseas.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,693 posts)
13. This one might take a couple of days.
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 05:52 PM
Sep 2016

It's a pretty complicated story - lots of details. It might take awhile for them to digest. I hope someone follows up on it.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
15. the media want Trump to win, it would be better for their ratings.
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 06:02 PM
Sep 2016

They also hate the Clintons.

Clinton will have to defeat the media and Trump in order to get elected.

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