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Enablers: Cable Networks Air Trump’s Marital Attack on Hillary More Than Sixty Times in 12 Hours
Source: BNR, Melissa McEwan
So it’s no surprise that he’s going there.
But the media are uncritically reporting this attack on an endless loop: A cursory search of the past 12 hours finds that CNN, MSNBC and Fox News have reported on Trump’s attack more than 60 times. (Fox has actually done it with less frequency.)
The media are providing an amplified forum for Trump to say whatever he wants to say, no matter how incredible, unsubstantiated, or undignified.
They broadcast lengthy excerpts of his speeches, irrespective of the quality — or lack thereof — of their content, giving him free rein to attack Hillary, then they report over and over on whatever attacks he makes, and then they begin to report on the reporting, convening panels to discuss the coverage of his attacks as though they are removed from their own decisions and actions.
The abdication of all pretense of fairness is extraordinary. But it is not unexpected.
But the media are uncritically reporting this attack on an endless loop: A cursory search of the past 12 hours finds that CNN, MSNBC and Fox News have reported on Trump’s attack more than 60 times. (Fox has actually done it with less frequency.)
The media are providing an amplified forum for Trump to say whatever he wants to say, no matter how incredible, unsubstantiated, or undignified.
They broadcast lengthy excerpts of his speeches, irrespective of the quality — or lack thereof — of their content, giving him free rein to attack Hillary, then they report over and over on whatever attacks he makes, and then they begin to report on the reporting, convening panels to discuss the coverage of his attacks as though they are removed from their own decisions and actions.
The abdication of all pretense of fairness is extraordinary. But it is not unexpected.
Read it all at: https://www.bluenationreview.com/cable-networks-air-trumps-marital-attack-on-hillary-more-than-sixty-times-in-12-hours/
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the same networks that ask Bernie unfair hard-hitting questions and make him look SO BAD, the ones who have gone over Bernie's tax plan in great detail, the ones who...
oh...wait...
She talked about Trump's attacks. He's taking them out of the book his "friend" Roger Stone co-wrote, which came out in October of last year. Roger Stone is purported to be the same guy who planted the Ted Cruz affair scandal story in the National Enquirer. It makes me wonder...was this all planned in advance?
I also found this about Roger Stone, from his Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone):
The Clintons' War on Women (with Robert Morrow) (Skyhorse Publishing, 2015: ISBN 978-1510706781)—this book, according to Politico is a "sensational" work that "explosive, but highly dubious, revelations about both Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton" with a focus on Bill Clinton sexual misconduct allegations.[70] This book was promoted by Trump, who posted a Twitter message containing the book's Amazon.com page.[70] David Corn, writing in Mother Jones, writes that the book is "apparently designed to smear the Clintons—by depicting Bill as a serial rapist, Hillary as an enabler, and both members of the power couple as a diabolical duo bent on destroying anyone who stands in their way" and said that the book was part of a wider "extreme anti-Clinton project" by Stone.[63]
Roger Stone:
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