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You have to understand that 95% of the media HATES Trump and will say anything and everything to undermine him and promote Hillary. You also have to understand they would do the same thing to any other Republican nominee. Trump makes this easier for them than it should be with his unguarded statements.
No that's not what they heard Comey say. Besides Beck told them so.
Time to Trump to train his sights on the main targets the abysmal judgment of Obama and Clinton, its results and how he is going to reverse the decline.
They said that Trump would never get the nomination because he doesn't do things their way. Now they're saying that he'll never get the presidency because he doesn't do things - their way.
Time for the Republicans to dump McCain and Paul and anyone else who aren't team players. Trump, a long-term Republican played by their rules and won the nomination. A lot of Republicans have held their noses and voted for McCain. McCain wouldn't support Trump and now wants Trump's support. Aren't any of these people grown ups?
Rudy's Press Secretary (old) has come out against Trump...Wow! Rudy must be Happy as hell that the Clown missed Him. The inside sleaze runs deep...The MSM runs the risk of making themselves obsolete/overly redundant...Trump is not hiring the usual number of weasels, and they are pissed..
Lash?? CNN That must be the ONE that reported, On Air, that Dr Carson had Quit... That sure helped Cruz in Iowa... Whores or useful idiots?
If you even half paid attention to the wikileaks, you'd know that virtually all press is simply an arm of the DNC or Globalist interests. The all out assault was always going to happen, especially against a candidate who has just completed a hostile take-over of the GOP and is about to do so of the White House.
The most powerful interests on earth, from the UN to GOP elites to the Saudis and Chinese to American globalists to the DNC are all aligned against Trump and the people.
We have now been brainwashed into taking "un-named" sources as "verified". That's how bad it has gotten. Virtually every single damning political story now derives from "un-named" sources. Just like the wikileaks show ... using "unsourced" stories is the new journalism with the likes of Gingrich falling for it.
What pains me the most is that so many conservatives fall for it ... again and again and again.
all press is simply an arm of the DNC or Globalist interests
Exactly. Your comment summarizes it perfectly. None of the media duplicity and blatant leftist propaganda should come as any surprise; that's what they do.
They've all got a terminal case of Trumpophobia, and now they're getting desperate.
As Ace asked over at Ace of Spades HQ ... "Anyone else tired of Calvinball?"
If Al Franken can be a US Senator...Donald Trump can be POTUS
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The pigs at the trough are just worried that they won't get theirs.
The press will go to every length to make Hillary's 'pay to play' government corruption disappear from the airwaves.
But oh my Jiminey; those Trump supporters need to be harried, flogged, and given a comeuppance by any and all means.
The progressive cult will circle the wagons and shriek racist, racist; when all they are really interested in is a cut of the taxpayer pie!
The most transparent shilling for the DNC evah...
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This all strikes me as noise.
There are really only a couple of questions in this campaign: Will the black vote turn up for Hilly as it did for Obama? Are there enough angry people in the right states who will turn up and vote? What else leaks between now and Halloween?
I am betting it is going to be a landslide, but I have no idea who for.
Fox News had him down by 10 points this morning, Kate. Stop making excuses.
I think it might just be business as usual. Remember they turned Mitt Romney, who is practically a saint, into the devil incarnate. It's a wonder that anybody believes this kind of cr@p, or do they? I think the media way overestimates their influence.
I think it might just be business as usual. Remember they turned Mitt Romney, who is practically a saint, into the devil incarnate. It's a wonder that anybody believes this kind of cr@p, or do they? I think the media way overestimates their influence.
h. Another commie hiding in the bushes comes out. Keep revealing them Kate.
I'd absolutely LOVE to see Trump win this,but then I always cheer for the underdog.
When you look at the forces united against Trump,it's like ALL the forces in WW2 were arrayed against Italy,and I mean Germany,too.
Trump has to win against the Democrats,Republicans, Washington establishment, the Billionaire Old Boys Club, Hollywood, and the Media.
THEN, he has to hope for an honest count.
A win by Trump would be as big a miracle as when Charlton Heston parted the Red Sea way back when.
IF,and I mean IF,there IS a God, wtf is His idea in promoting Hillary Clinton to the most powerful Office on the planet?
Is He possibly sick to death of us all?
Peak of summer opinion polls..
For sure you are going to get an accurate picture of how people are going to vote in November..
Thus if you are a CINO... PANIC NOW.
Figure the rest of my American cousins will get back to choosing their leader once they are done enjoying their summer.
I listened to Bill O'Reilly talking to him as a friend and Trump isn't interested in being helped. There's nothing wrong with him, or what he says, or how he says it.
As Bill says today: "Donald Trump would be well-advised to ease up on the tweets, shrug off the insults, and find some much-needed discipline. He may not require an intervention, but he absolutely, positively needs a 'reset' button. One that actually works."
When Bill O'Reilly is on the front line he can advise someone on the front line.
I quit watching Bill when he laughed at the thought Obama might be president. I laughed too. Should have been paying attention to polls and learning how the new generation of progressives are overturning conventional givens. Not by experience but by selfishness and "I matter" because I suck through my lungs.
We old farts did it to ourselves by trying to create a better future for them catering to all their desires. They will pay the price for our misguided effort
I have felt , for a long time, the Media is sensitive to the wishes of the BIG advertisers, their bread and butter.
Might be time to test the idea.
So, the mainstream media is somehow both:
A) an unpopular, incompetent, near-obsolete dinosaur of an industry, dying a slow financial death as its readers/viewers increasingly reject its left-wing biases and politically correct drivel in favour of blogs and citizen journalism, and...
B) a widely consumed, hugely influential, and insidious force able to dictate the national conversation, manipulate mass opinion, and saw y the outcome of presidential elections.
Pick. A. Narrative.
OMG. Pigs have flown.
I actually have to defend Obama. That 19 sec. YouTube clip that 'J' referred us to has nothing to do with what Obama actually said. It's an edit that has him saying the opposite of what the clip would have us believe.
See the actual text here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/quotes/obamaworldorder.asp
Obama himself may believe what the clip claims, however.
IT. IS. BOTH.
It is dying a slow death. Like an elephant that has ingested poison in it's bloated greed and is slowly dying, yet still having the power to trample as before with purpose and/or impunity before it keels over. The elephant is simply refusing to trample it's leftist handlers that possess the antidote that will allow it to keep trampling as it's leftist handlers have trained it to do. However, the circus goers just aren't attending any longer, and the elephant is losing it's raison d'etre anyway.
THATS. THE. NARRATIVE.
See, you're getting twisted up just trying to explain your own metaphor. Question: if the circus-goers "just aren't attending any longer", who's left for the elephant to trample?
Anyway, I can understand why you'd like the narrative to be both. That way, regardless of what happens out there in reality, you folks can always play the role of the aggrieved victim. .
Maybe that's the real (meta-)narrative.
The mass media masturbators have invented this tactic. Plant just little nothing nonsense and the socialist / fascist web helpers will spread it far and wide to make it into “truth”.
Few days ago they tried to spread complete falsehood that Trump is going to quit, is on the very edge of quitting, is just about there. It spread on the hostile sites like a wild fire.
As you can imagine it was a lie.
Anyway, I can understand why you'd like the narrative to be both.
What I'd like is immaterial when the certain truth of what I said is obvious.
So, most conservatives and libertarians are convinced that the media is corrupt ... but then polls are produced by this very same media, they give those polls cred. Really?
I don't believe polls at all until just prior to the vote. My prediction is that Hildabeast will lead most of the campaign, then the polls will tighten up, and Trump will win significantly. They'll whine that the polls were only slightly off.
Right now polls are a psychological weapon used to divide the GOP and threaten the middle.
Sad thing is, so many "conservatives" fall for it, even after all these years and all the proof that political polls are agenda driven. Hell, Reuters even openly admitted to changing its decades long methodology because it had Trump up massively.
It's an altered reality ... and shame on you who seriously discuss it. Like I said, I'll consider the polls come mid October ... and then only a bit.
95% of the Canadian press hate conservatives, most are rabid socialists if not communists. the country is in a downward spiral and freedom has been the first thing lost.
If Trump DOES'NT win ... America is doomed. A Trump loss may signal that there is NO LONGER an "opposition party" in the USA. That America is headed for a Venezulan future. Where EVEN IN THE FACE OF MASS STARVATION ... there is no opposition party that has enough backing (and backbone) to take power away from the Socialist LOSERS. If SHrillary is elected ... we are doomed.
If Trump doesn't win, it rests solely on his shoulders. He has an excuse for every stupid thing he says. He's running for President, the highest office, and he still insists on acting like a jerk. And, worse, refusing to acknowledge it.
People want Hillary to lose, but some will not even hold their noses and vote for him unless he can get his act together. And soon.
I see Khan said in an interview on Dunya News “that Allah makes people like Trump to make mistakes to discredit them in public eyes forever.”
There again,it isn't Trump's fault.
If he loses and destroys the hopes of those who have wished him nothing but well, watch to see if there is a sudden rise in the sale of tar, and feathers, not guns.