what NBC has done...is allowed a conscious form of race baiting, and fear mongering

[HipChick]

in Trump...

We need to deluge NBC...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/trump-birtherism-and-race-baiting.html

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[HipChick]

2. I smell Pizza...

[malaise]

6. or flowers

:evilgrin:

[Raine]

17. Delivered! nt

:evilgrin:

[eShirl]

3. Oprah has a short memory.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Man you are all over the place tonight

[malaise]

7. I'm glad he waited and let the racist scumbags

float to the surface.

Welcome to DU! What are your favorite flowers?

[pnwmom]

9. He DID release his only legal birth certificate more than two years ago.

The UK's Guardian says he timed this new release perfectly.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011...

The fact is that the Obama administration has played the recent spasm of birther attention remarkably well. They have let Trump rise up on a balloon of inflated birther nonsense – getting near the top of Republican polls for the 2012 nomination – and then promptly popped it underneath him. Look at the timing. This was meant to be a moment all about Trump appearing in New Hampshire, the vital first state to hold a primary in the nomination process. It was a moment where Trump the outsider upstart was meant to begin to look a little serious.

Instead, the White House timed the release so that Trump would be right in the media's glare when the birther bubble burst. Not surprisingly, he looked like an idiot. At a news conference, he blustered about his proud achievement in forcing the release of the birth certificate, then attempted to cast a little doubt on it and finally made up a CNN poll that he claimed showed him neck-and-neck with Obama in the race (CNN promptly reported no such poll exists).

No one needed any more proof to understand that Trump is a joke in very poor taste. But he provided it anyway – in long form. Not that Trump will give two hoots. His brand is about reality TV and celebrity, not political, reality. But the Republican party should care. A lot.

Which is why Obama has played this well. His team waited for Trump to have enough rope to hang himself on the birther issue, and in doing so, have helped him toxify the Republican brand – just as he tried to debut his serious side.

SNIP

[valerief]

10. Shoo, shoo! Scat. Vamoose!!! nt

[Control-Z]

13. Enjoy your stay!

I don't expect it will be a long one.

[Angry Dragon]

14. ...........

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :hurts: :hurts: :hurts: :hurts: :hurts: :hurts:

[Skidmore]

5. And Trump has been Scarborough's special buddy. Joe

sucks up to him regularly.

[HipChick]

11. Birds of a feather flock together..

[valerief]

12. Joe 'Dead Intern' Scabby? nt

[valerief]

8. I sent my Fire Trump email from nbc.com. nt

[arcane1]

15. Or was it Comcast...?

Unfortunately, they are the same thing now.

Not that GE was any better.

[gateley]

16. NBC isn't responsible for what Trump says, they are in it for the advertising revenue SO...

we need to deluge the advertisers. NBC/GE is responsible to its shareholders to show a profit and they can't cancel a show that's producing revenue. I hate it, but that's the reality of it. :shrug:

Only problem is, I'm not eager to watch his show to see who's advertising. And unfortunately, he'll probably get a whole new slew of (racist) devoted viewers. Maybe that was his plan all along.