Why does Trump get a pass from the media.
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I believe the media did question him... but it was just a small snippet and he was speaking extemporaneously. Additionally maybe it does in fact help that he's not a career politician and doesn't have a voting paper trail, so it's very easy for him to spin something as 'I misheard...' or 'I was just bullshitting' etc
that would backfire given she actually did vote for the war and sent people to die. She was a Senator and had a much greater responsibility. That's not a game she is going to play, you can count on that.
Darth Omar
Russian asset
'Trump gets a pass from the media'.
That's a rare sentence. Kind of like 'hand me that piano' lol.
That's a rare sentence. Kind of like 'hand me that piano' lol.
Because his opinion on it was meaningless being a private citizen.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Cause he wasn't in government. Trump is not as culpable for the immoral Iraq war as Hillary Clinton was.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Also, Stephanopoulos took it too Trump, albeit awkwardly, to task today when Trump showed his ignorance on the Ukraine.
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Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Doesn't really matter. Trumps role in our going to war in Iraq was insignificant. If he says he supports it now...he's an idiot.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
That's not going to happen. She'd be about the stupidest politician to come down the pike if she did that given her role in the Iraq war and given her change of mind about it now. One thing she is not is stupid.
the same reason the media doesn't hold Clinton responsible for the Libyan 2011 war,or her desired intervention in the Syrian war
or her clinging to "No fly" zones in Syria still today.
It's not pre-packaged sound bite 'newz' -it takes a little background to follow.
They stick with the daily soundbites instead.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Given The Conventions have become giant infomercials and have little significance any more who cares? You're preaching to the choir anyway.
I think most people put too much influence on what any news media outlet says. Particularly cable where 99% of the time their just filling air time. There has always been yellow journalism and the American public is too educated to not discern propaganda or a sales pitch or telling you what you want to hear from real information. Fox News and MSNBC are organs for the two major political parties but their audience is self selected. It's not like there is only one official News Agency...the Government.
I mean call me naïve but I don't understand how anyone can blame any sort of media outlet when it is their responsibility to be informed and not the medias.
Now the media has a professional and public duty to provide information to the public but it's not what they are in business for and the level of public respect they receive is directly proportional to how well they fulfill that public service. There are examples in our past where they have done both a great job and a terrible one. In contemporary times they have done a terrible job and the respect they receive from the public is at historic lows.
Point being regardless of how lousy the current media system is at informing the public, as opposed to selling them tasty frozen treats, it is our responsibility to be informed and not theirs.
So I says if you don't like what ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC or CNBC has to offer and don't think they fulfill their obligation to keep you informed...well then don't watch them. There's more ways to skin a cat and better ways to get informed than TV Networks or Cable TV.
Not to mention her husbands claims that Saddam was a threat to the US and had WMD, bio, chem, etc.....
Various Dem.'s claimed the same thing before Bush was elected including into 2002....
NO....she'll keep her mouth shut.....
An MSNBC reporter went so far as to clear his reports with the DNC before he submitted them to the TV station.....
Thats being in the bag......the DNC rigged the nomination process and the media helps rig the general election for the Democrats with favorable stories....
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At least Trump isn't two-faced about his condemnation of Hillary for her early Iraq invasion support (since recanted). To Trump, that is evidence of her poor judgement.
On the other hand, when asked about his running mate's sponsorship of the House bill to invade Iraq (not recanted), Trump said, "It was a long time ago. And he [Pense] voted that way and they were also misled. A lot of information was given to people. He's entitled to make a mistake every once in a while."
Bravo. Trump's moral compass is spinning so fast you could generate enough power from it to light up Las Vegas.
But, it gets even better.
2000, In his book, The America We Deserve,
Mar 21, 2003,
On the other hand, when asked about his running mate's sponsorship of the House bill to invade Iraq (not recanted), Trump said, "It was a long time ago. And he [Pense] voted that way and they were also misled. A lot of information was given to people. He's entitled to make a mistake every once in a while."
Bravo. Trump's moral compass is spinning so fast you could generate enough power from it to light up Las Vegas.
But, it gets even better.
2000, In his book, The America We Deserve,
Sept 11, 2002,
Jan 28, 2003,
Mar 19, 2003, Bush invaded Iraq
Mar 21, 2003,
Jul 1, 2003,
Sep 11, 2003,
Nov 4, 2003,
Dec 15, 2003,
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The ones that are most afraid want to elect a man that knows the least, even on a rudimentary level..
I have a friend that's Hmong & a semi-trump fan & I told him that trump will send him back to Hmongolia..lol He said there is no Hmongolia, & I just smiled & said trump don't know that....lol
good god.
don't go to WaPo online either..it's an absolute "shill for the Hill" rag site.
Our "free press" is bought and sold. It used to be subtle bias because most reporters are liberal .
Now it's blatant. They don't even try to disguise it.