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kairos12

(12,849 posts)
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 09:42 PM Oct 2020

Hey MSM

You are getting played.

Just like in 2016 it's all Chump, all the time. Chump at Walter Reed is the new rally. You stand around to get ratings points and increase your revenue.

No discussion of: no follow-up on his appeal to the racists Proud Boys, no discussion of his out of control debate performance, zero coverage of McMasters information about Russian influence on Chump, and his bogus taxes, etc.

You continue to be the dogs that chase the stick. Chump tosses the stick and you follow. What a fucking joke.

Any updates from Chump's "doctors" will all be lies. When there is legitimate information (not from any Chump source) cover it, otherwise it's trash.

As the saying goes, there is no education in a second kick of a mule. A lesson not learned by the MSM.

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NRaleighLiberal

(60,013 posts)
2. or his taxes, or bounties on US soldiers, or...or...
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 09:47 PM
Oct 2020

right down the rabbit hole and back to bothsideserism.

Midnight Writer

(21,733 posts)
4. My brother just said this. The stories about his taxes have gone away.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 09:50 PM
Oct 2020

He said that is the one story he has heard MAGAs acknowledging as sketchy, and now that story is gone.

kairos12

(12,849 posts)
5. Thanks for the reminder. I updated my post to include Chump's taxes.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 09:53 PM
Oct 2020

Good catch. Thanks to you and brother.

Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
3. It's ok to report and show when the doctor gives the update. It's legitimate news.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 09:50 PM
Oct 2020

The problem is then they spend the next 12 hours talking about those statements and Trump. They could spare a few minutes per show to go back to the other news. But they chose Trump and COVID only.

RockRaven

(14,950 posts)
6. They are not being played. They WANT to act that way. They figured out five years ago that
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 10:01 PM
Oct 2020

they get all the ratings benefit and suffer no significant backlash if they just move on from one outrage to the next without ever circling back properly.

They cover this stuff this way on purpose. It isn't Trump or Trumpland manipulating the media, it is the media finding a useful idiot in Trump.

dalton99a

(81,426 posts)
7. "I'm going to suck all the oxygen out of the room.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 10:04 PM
Oct 2020

I know how to work the media in a way that they will never take the lights off of me." - Donald Trump

doc03

(35,321 posts)
8. Mark Meadows has Trump on his death bed at the same time the doctors
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 10:56 PM
Oct 2020

say he is great. Joe Biden pulls his ads while Trump is getting free negative ads on Fox and wall to wall coverage
on his health everywhere else. I am starting to think he may pull a win out of this again with the help of the stupid
media whores. I am starting to think his having COVID
is the f----g hoax. This may be the October surprise.

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