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Fascinating Field Report From Reporters Covering Trump

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It's a neat trick, this assumption that you can't trust anyone who tells you what you don't want to hear. The right has honed this form of denial into a fine art.

That is the conservative brain defect in the nut shell. It wasn't honed by the right but by the cunning hired by the wealthy to achieve political power. Now the country is dying from it. A consummate master with his own agenda has appeared. See all the monkeys scramble.... And what are the democrats doing to save us from catastrophe. Why they opened toe door to the campaign contributions from the wealthy so they could compete.

Hold hands you deserving Americans. We are going off our very own American cliff.

Bernie tried to warn us but instead of giving a hand, we're giving him our finger. Well, here's mine. Pick your poison.... Mr. Toads wild wide or slow boiled like a frog. It's all tears in the rain.

Row row row your boat, gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream
 
The handful of people who left Breitbart because of that was, I thought, pretty surprising.

Breitbart employees with ethics? Had no idea.

To be clear they were perfectly fine with working for Breitbart as 'journalists' while strongly suspecting it was being paid by one of the candidates it was covering to supply him with positive coverage. They only left after the paper turned on its own employees for not toeing the line well enough.

That's not exactly a great example of journalistic ethics. It's more of an example of just how unethical Breitbart as a whole is. Then again I've never considered Breitbart to be journalism anyway, it's just a propaganda outlet.
 
To be clear they were perfectly fine with working for Breitbart as 'journalists' while strongly suspecting it was being paid by one of the candidates it was covering to supply him with positive coverage. They only left after the paper turned on its own employees for not toeing the line well enough.

That's not exactly a great example of journalistic ethics. It's more of an example of just how unethical Breitbart as a whole is. Then again I've never considered Breitbart to be journalism anyway, it's just a propaganda outlet.

What you call a propaganda outlet I woul call a monkey training facility.
 
To be clear they were perfectly fine with working for Breitbart as 'journalists' while strongly suspecting it was being paid by one of the candidates it was covering to supply him with positive coverage. They only left after the paper turned on its own employees for not toeing the line well enough.

That's not exactly a great example of journalistic ethics. It's more of an example of just how unethical Breitbart as a whole is. Then again I've never considered Breitbart to be journalism anyway, it's just a propaganda outlet.

I've never heard of this. I'm assuming the candidate you're referring to is Trump. Pls give us some support for the claim Trump is, or was, paying Breitbart for positive coverage.

TIA

Fern
 
Yah, of course, it's just "the right". Of course. Speaking of denial ... 😀

I didn't say it was "just the right." Actually the problem is quite pervasive across the board. I said the right has honed it to a fine art. Case in point, whenever a "reporter" says something a conservative doesn't like, he's automatically a "lefty" - the assumption being he must be because he's a journalist - and must therefore not be telling the truth. OTOH, conservatives gleefully site the MSM when it says something they DO want to hear. Routinely.
 
Did I say anything about that reporter? Also, you're making an assumption about what actually went down. Apparently her own organization didn't buy her version of events. I dunno, I wasn't there.

Good, let the long-festering GOP tactics of self-doubt and bias injection cloud your vision and pervert your independent thought processes.

it's clear that bias confirmation is far more important to you than factual information that very much challenges these biases.

"I don't know, the company does not buy her version of events." (you know, it's not like they were there, either).

"I don't know what to believe--it's not like I was there."

it seems that not only do you not understand the role of journalism, you have convinced yourself that it no longer has any role in reporting events to you accurately and without bias. At least, so long as that reporting does not conflict with the way you want things to be.

Why is it more logical to you that a reporter's experience at an event is less accurate than her company's interpretation of the event that they did not attend?

Further, why is it likewise so easy for you to dismiss claims "because you weren't there?"

Do you see how this poison of intellectual dishonesty has wormed its way into your brain and caused you to make a pathetic display of yourself?

You are what the GOP wants and are exactly ripe for the exploitation of Trump. It's a good thing, I think, and I dare say you might actually understand that. Support him or not, you are exactly the soldier that has long been primed by your handlers to be exploited by this interloper in the very real goal of destroying your masters. Hopefully you and others can come out of this with a renewed ability to think for yourself.
 
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There's a shocker, lefty reporters don't like Trump and whine about it. Yep, a real shocker there. 😀

Took it the same way. Got to make sure to get the Constant Whine out there, works good for the sheeple. Plus, elitist press doesn't like being checked and not having their balls held up. Poor elitist press... :'(
 
Took it the same way. Got to make sure to get the Constant Whine out there, works good for the sheeple. Plus, elitist press doesn't like being checked and not having their balls held up. Poor elitist press... :'(

How dare they say anything bad about the Precious, the Donald, the mouthpiece of Righties' inchoate rage!

He works blind stupid anger like nobody else. He's even got 'em convinced he's here to save 'em when he's just here to feed his ego.
 
How dare they say anything bad about the Precious, the Donald, the mouthpiece of Righties' inchoate rage!

He works blind stupid anger like nobody else. He's even got 'em convinced he's here to save 'em when he's just here to feed his ego.

It's weird but if I substitute Billary and Jhhnn in there, it is amazingly ironic, eh? 😀:thumbsup:
 
It's weird but if I substitute Billary and Jhhnn in there, it is amazingly ironic, eh? 😀:thumbsup:

Hee-hee. Trump's candidacy is, in many respects, an attempt to awaken the conscience of the Repub leadership. It's like expecting mercy from a great white shark.

Trump: What about all the people you've lied to? What about all the impossible broken promises? What do you have for them?

Leadership: Those broke dick losers? FYGM ya sorry moochers! Anybody who fell for our line of shit deserves to get fucked! Bootstraps, motherfuckers!
 
Hee-hee. Trump's candidacy is, in many respects, an attempt to awaken the conscience of the Repub leadership. It's like expecting mercy from a great white shark.

Trump: What about all the people you've lied to? What about all the impossible broken promises? What do you have for them?

Leadership: Those broke dick losers? FYGM ya sorry moochers! Anybody who fell for our line of shit deserves to get fucked! Bootstraps, motherfuckers!

And again, if I replace Trump and Repub with Billary and Dem, it reads the same. The ironing continues...
 
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