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NBC fuming over Maddow’s Trump tax scoop
Page Six ^ | March 15, 2017 | Carlos Greer

Posted on 03/16/2017 6:18:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC’s big “Trump tax return” scoop has caused friction between the cable news network and parent NBC, according to insiders.

“[MSNBC] announced it on Twitter, and [NBC] found out when [the general public] did,” said a source.

“[MSNBC president] Phil Griffin was trying to undermine [NBC News president] Noah Oppenheim. There was never a conversation. They overplayed their hand in a huge way.”

Host Rachel Maddow teased the story on Twitter, then withheld the story till later in her program, revealing in a big ­anticlimax that Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005. “It’s their cable network, but it’s still NBC News. [NBC] did not appreciate being kept in the dark … To hype such a big story and not really deliver is a bit embarrassing. Airing a story you’ve hyped 20 minutes into your broadcast makes it a lot less of a ‘breaking news’ story.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: maddow; media; msnbc; nbc; television; trump; trumptaxreturn
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21 posted on 03/16/2017 6:59:04 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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22 posted on 03/16/2017 7:00:42 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: DOC44

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That’s a good one. She may morph into a basketball helmet
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23 posted on 03/16/2017 7:03:44 PM PDT by Sivad (The Federalist #46)
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To: bigdaddy45

I think she’s funny but, I was given an unlimited supply of sarcasm at birth and appreciate it executed well, even if I disagree with her...

Kinda like Camille Paglia. She is fascinating and hilarious.


24 posted on 03/16/2017 7:10:10 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

25 posted on 03/16/2017 7:11:02 PM PDT by doug from upland (Hey, traitor Democrats. I have a tree. I'm sure another FReeper has a rope.)
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26 posted on 03/16/2017 7:12:59 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

27 posted on 03/16/2017 7:14:36 PM PDT by McGruff (#PlugTheLeaks)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; All

She can play in the all-female remake as fonzarella on Happy Gays!


28 posted on 03/16/2017 7:19:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why not do what NBC would have done? Just make something up that makes Trump look bad.


29 posted on 03/16/2017 7:26:02 PM PDT by stevem
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Madcow is imploding the same as Beck did at the beginning of the Obama presidency, and in the same way.


30 posted on 03/16/2017 7:32:53 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: Vendome

Camilie Paglia is very smart and very funny. I consider her an intellectually honest liberal. Rachel Maddow is the annoying girl in the 7th grade who had to prove she was smarter than everyone else.


31 posted on 03/16/2017 7:35:21 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And don't forget, it was NBC news that leaked the Billy Bush tape to the Washington post and then lied about it. It's not media bias, it's media partisanship.
32 posted on 03/16/2017 8:09:35 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I saw a funny tweet about this. This guy couldn’t believe how long she kept stringing everyone along....”When she started the show the Falcons were up 28 - 3.”


33 posted on 03/16/2017 8:10:11 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Madcow’s next scoop will be that she had a “reporter” dumpster diving at Trump Tower and retrieved evidence that Trump removed the “Do not remove” tags from his living room furniture.


34 posted on 03/16/2017 8:10:32 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Just Epic! Hahah


35 posted on 03/16/2017 8:20:03 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Viva Le Deplorable)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump needs to bring a lawsuit against NBC. I see that some on Fox News are going after NBC for all the crap they have pulled on Trump.


36 posted on 03/16/2017 8:32:03 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, SNL will have a Madcow skit tomorrow night?


37 posted on 03/16/2017 9:12:10 PM PDT by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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These filthy Comcast execs wouldn’t be bitching had Maddow succeeded in making Trump look bad.

The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. Enabling, parent companies: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner.


38 posted on 03/16/2017 9:24:21 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Parley Baer

Every decent citizen with a Comcast subscription should switch to a different provider.


39 posted on 03/16/2017 9:25:57 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Translation: NBC news would have seen that Trump paid a lot of taxes, destroying their narrative so they’d have spiked the story and buried the returns forever but stupid Rachel Maddow released the information. So they’re mad.


40 posted on 03/16/2017 10:31:29 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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