ThatCrazyGuy
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They should just say, naw buddy. And keep pressing them.
Or say nothing and press even harder.
Or say nothing and press even harder.
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NY Times:Trumps Chief Strategist Says News Media Should Keep Its Mouth Shut
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Today Jake Tapper was like "I'm not keeping my mouth shut and now to Wolf Blitzer and he isn't either"
Tappers serious dead pan has been killing it the last couple days.
I believe the real, fundamental problem with CNN and other media outlets vis a vis Trump is the fact that Trump is sending their ratings thru the roof and making them a shit ton of money. money money money money money
the real journalists may be immune, but the people who pay them are certainly not
Jag
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Try reading the comments and then understand the type of people that back Trump and Bannon.
quickwhips
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Instead of Saying Falsehoods why don't we just says lies.
sturgboski
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If only they opened their mouth earlier rather than taking his boss as a joke and profiting off of him. If only they realized that he was a far worse candidate and treated him as an aberation to be abhorred rather than take any whiff of a non story about Clinton and drive it like the worst offense known to man.
If Trump does exactly the opposite of everything he's indicated, or thusfar has actually done, then he has the potential to be a good president.
Uhhh...
yanipheonu
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Man I still cant get over how stupid that comment was.
Expecting the press not to report things is like expecting a mason to not lay bricks. It's sort of their job.
Expecting the press not to report things is like expecting a mason to not lay bricks. It's sort of their job.
Sgt. Garlic
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Glorious.
SenorArdilla
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How would you go about dragging Bannon into the spotlight?
I said it the other day, and I'll say it again: Bannon is not Karl Rove. I think he believes he's the same type of Machiavellian reality-bending bullshit curator, but he is nowhere near as intelligent or subtle. He and his alt-right Breitbart contingent are dangerous and troublesome, and what they did got Trump elected, but I think they're going to have a harder time keeping their insanity in their pants now that the spotlight is solely on them.
Muppet of a Man
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I was being facetious.
Thelonelykoopa
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For the person who predicted CNN response you was spot on. I was watching anderson cooper 360 and 3/4 commentators by the end decided he was essentially right.
UberTag
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You're definitely correct on the subtlety part. Bannon can't help to attack the media. Bannon can't help to push through his unpopular racially-intolerant policy. Bannon can't help but brazenly pull all of Trump's strings, draft all of his executive orders and dance him around while the rest of the Republicans react with shock and surprise - often not knowing about orders getting tabled before the media does.
He's very dangerous but it's also quite clear that the power has gone to his head and it has made him sloppy. Rove was more calculating. That said, I believe Bannon has more social influence... both on the president directly and the ignorant masses that swallow whatever right-wing rhetoric gets funneled to them via social media. This is a much more volatile situation than things ever got with Rove.
I have no doubt that the Republicans would love to rid themselves of both Trump and Bannon but they're kind of joined at the hip right now and the two of them together make it very difficult for them to do anything but capitulate - while leaking the hell out of everything in defiance.
They're sort of handling the response perfectly.
The media shouldn't be calling out Bannon by name. But the Democrats... they sure as hell ought to be.
I'm not convinced that you have to normalize Trump in order to land those ratings. Hell, I think going on the offensive and NOT normalizing him might attract higher ratings. Especially now when there are a ton of disenchanted Americans out there looking for voices in the media to echo their dismay and for reassurance that the truth will not be compromised.
Omigod this is amazing.
That's great.
Canada really is too good to be our neighbor.
lastplayed
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Just rumours, but he might already be well on his way to a meltdown
It must be like Hitler's bunker in the last few weeks.
One can hope.
Or Argentina in the last decade. It isn't pretty, and it's going to hurt a lot.
Zeyphersan
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Thanks for the tip, that's super helpful! I'm on a big thing of supporting good journalism right now so I've got the NYT, Washington Post through Amazon Prime, and student pricing for the Wall Street Journal and The Economist. Plus other stuff like Time and Newsweek through the Texture subscription that I have
TheCochese
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adamsappel
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Just rumours, but he might already be well on his way to a meltdown
God, the books that will be written about this administration.
Ether_Snake
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Bannon could run for president in 2024.
Hey anytime; sounds like you're definitely good to go!
Luschient
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ftfy
Just rumours, but he might already be well on his way to a meltdown
Why is this credible? was this posted before he lashed out to the media?
RustyNails
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Kellyanne will be on Chuck Todd tomorrow and say media is taking Bannon's words out of context. Typical horrible media.
Can't wait to hear the alternative facts on what Bannon meant.
SporeCrawler
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Journalists to get arrested and tortured very soon.
That may be true but I wouldn't trust a tweet like that as much as I would like to.
UberTag
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Nah, you're a Russian territory now. Your journalists are going to get shot dead in their apartment elevators by mystery assailants.
SporeCrawler
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Well i heard you can kill people by accident when they are protestors. Journalists are protestors right?
BoboBrazil
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They are scared. I just saw Anderson Copper fucking defending Donald Trump. My opinion of him has hit rock bottom. Of course they still have the typical Trump goons on too. MSNBC is the only news channel doing a good job.
UberTag
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Only if you run them over. You can only shoot them if they happen to be black and you happen to be a cop.
jellies_two
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https://twitter.com/funder/status/824798272065638401
for those that don't remember, Steve Bannon got charged with domestic violence against the wife of his twins, he lost it when she asked for his Amex card to go shopping, bruised her neck and wrists and threw the phone across the room after she tried to escape from him and call 9/11 luckily the operator heard the altercation through the broken phone and the cops turned up anyway.
for those that don't remember, Steve Bannon got charged with domestic violence against the wife of his twins, he lost it when she asked for his Amex card to go shopping, bruised her neck and wrists and threw the phone across the room after she tried to escape from him and call 9/11 luckily the operator heard the altercation through the broken phone and the cops turned up anyway.
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