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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNews has shifted to: "Who will Trump pick to replace Comey?"
Trump knows how to get the media to play along with his games.
Put out a list of who he is "considering" for the position and then let the pundits focus on talking about those candidates.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Trump knows that U.S. media favor GOP. GOP money-masters, after all, pays their astronomically HIGH advertising space.
Let's not kid ourselves. Our 4th estate is zombie; our watchdogs turned into GOP-lapdogs...with very few exceptions.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)To support their advertising.
Each "news" show is an advertisement for their next show.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)without a massive assist from the MSM.
They enable his fascist administration every damn day!
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)for the enablers of Trump that they are.
Cable and broadcast talking-heads are not part of our watchdog media. Most print-media aren't, either. They are part of the larger group of GOP-bought-and-paid-for lapdog media for the elites. It's why so many people fell for Putin's planted fake news so easily! They couldn't tell the difference.
UTUSN
(70,670 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Not just some internet twitter nut's conjecture about what might be happening in Trump World.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)If he picks a stooge, then it reinforces the whole thing as a blatant coverup attempt.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)brooklynite
(94,452 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)Trump could nominate the thug we all just saw shooting an innocent citizen on Fifth Avenue and the Repubs would not only allow and support Trump but would help in the demonization of the victim.