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red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:07 PM Jan 2019

Great Dan Rather Facebook post from Monday

Facebook
Monday January 14, 2019

https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10161342925730716?_xts_0=68.ARBjIfME4XosE

Dan Rather
@theDanRather

"What President Trump doesn't understand (or acknowledge) is journalists didn't ask previous presidents if they were agents for hostile foreign powers because it was never a question anyone thought to ask..The disgrace lies not in the query but in the plausibility of the premise"

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SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)
2. Ohhh Dan...I love you!!! Nailed it on the spot. This never entered into anyone's consciousness...
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:15 PM
Jan 2019

because it never happened before...in prior times, if anyone was even considered to be in Russia's orbit, they would have been called communists or worse, and in cahoots w/ the Russians, one of our more dire adversaries.

TygrBright

(20,758 posts)
4. Well, I admit when Shrubbie "looked Putin in the eye and saw his soul" I wondered...
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 08:02 PM
Jan 2019
And I wasn't the only one...

But I thought of him as more of a lazy fratboy than a greedy tool.

wearily,
Bright

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
5. chimpy certainly showed putin one thing
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 08:49 PM
Jan 2019

how stupid a significant portion of the 'Murican electorate can be.

After all, if one unqualified incompetent boob can get close enough to be within stealing distance of the presidency, why not another?




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