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Will the Media Ever Report the Real Story About the Government Shutdown?
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 01/15/2019 4:27:32 AM PST by EyesOfTX

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1 posted on 01/15/2019 4:27:32 AM PST by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

Answer to headline …

… NO!


2 posted on 01/15/2019 4:33:19 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: EyesOfTX
The story has become that there's a national emergency, but not at the border. That's because President Trump talked about issuing an EO to start the border wall instead of doing it. I'm disappointed. This makes it look like the shutdown was for no reason, for something that could wait.

And, sure enough. Now there's another bogus "Russia" distraction. Besides that Romney in DC is inspiration to purge the Republican Party of conservatives.

It isn't "three dimensional chess" that the border wall should've been started by EO, at the very latest when DC pols took this long weekend. It isn't even follow the dots.

3 posted on 01/15/2019 4:33:20 AM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: grania

One thing that needs to be emphasized on our side is why it has to be now - it’s the last chance since house is now dem. Rinos lost seats because they didn’t do this when they had it all. If not now- NEVER.


4 posted on 01/15/2019 4:36:51 AM PST by fruser1
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To: fruser1

It seems that President Trump still trusts the judgement of people whose mission is to stall his initiatives into oblivion. I’ve said this before....he should’ve brought some early supporter Deplorables with him to DC. Instead he brought people who had DC connections and others without much contact with Trump’s base.


5 posted on 01/15/2019 4:41:32 AM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: EyesOfTX

When has the BSM ever printed the real story about anything?


6 posted on 01/15/2019 4:44:10 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: EyesOfTX

No, they will never report the truth. They report that most illegal immigrants come by air and overstay their visas and this “crisis” is being compounded by the fact that furloughed TSA agents and Coast Guard have opened up our airports and waterways to increased drug trafficking and worse. And not for nothing, but people cannot apply for refugee status or asylum at a US embassy in their country. Embassies and consulates do not process those requests. You MUST be at the border or already in the country to request asylum/refugee status.

The President IS the humanitarian crisis here per the MSM.

That is what is being broadcast 24/7, plus the sob stories.


7 posted on 01/15/2019 4:54:26 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: EyesOfTX

A couple of weeks ago, someone here on FR led me to https://www.whatfinger.com/
It is a site dedicated to “The Relentless Pursuit of Creating The Greatest Aggregate Link News Site On Earth”. I have not looked at Drudge ever since. It is conservative, quick to load, and mostly current. In my view, Drudge will soon join Kodak, New Coke, Edsel, and buggy whips in the dustbin of history. It has no mandatory refresh, and opens in a new tab, making it much quicker and easier to use.


8 posted on 01/15/2019 4:56:54 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Yes, Whatfinger.com is where I go as well, though I do still check Drudge in the morning. But Whatfinger updates its page 10-12 times every day, where Drudge will update his 2-3 times, and Whatfinger has quadruple the content.


9 posted on 01/15/2019 5:20:11 AM PST by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

MATT DRUDGE is a bend over boy,

He can be bribed or extorted.

This is a measure of just how cranked up the Left really is against President Trump. They actually got to MATT DRUDGE.

I do not care if our president continues the shut down right into November of 2020. Our economy is booming and our furloughed federal workers can seek employment elsewhere.The smart ones are doing that right now. Say goodbye to airport TSA,the airlines can do their own security, and welcome the further expansion of US military deployment along our Southern Border.


10 posted on 01/15/2019 5:20:24 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: EyesOfTX

I saw that Drudge headline today, as well.

If anyone had any doubts he’s gone over to the other side - here you go.
Tabloid “journalism” at its worst and ALWAYS meant to paint President Trump in the worst possible light.

Why he’s thrown away his target audience of so many years is beyond me.


11 posted on 01/15/2019 5:23:58 AM PST by Pravious
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To: norwaypinesavage

The Amish still need buggy whips.

;-)


12 posted on 01/15/2019 5:26:16 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

“Oh, hey, another Democrat wasting her time running for President. – This one would be New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, whose time came and went four years ago and she didn’t realize it. Or, more accurately, she lacked the courage to take on the Clintons.”

It’s a money grab for all the Dems. They will get the money donated to them, kick some back to the DMC, kick some back to the eventual nominee and bank the rest.


13 posted on 01/15/2019 5:29:09 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("We The People" have turned into "You, The Subjects.")
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To: grania

One thing I’ve learned about EO...

What’s done by one president’s EO can also be undone by an another president’s EO.

Obama’s legacy is the EOs he imposed to “fundamentally changed” the USA.

But President Trump changed them all back.

Enough with EOs.

The Congress needs to do its job.

The Government Shutdown is NOT a crisis for those of us who don’t work for the bloated government.

We’ll wait.


14 posted on 01/15/2019 5:33:52 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (I can always count on some FReeper to paint a dark cloud above the silver lining. --Moonman62)
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To: fruser1

Twas not Nancy Pelosi that won the House for the Democrat Party...Twas none other then Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, and his RINO human scum & vermin buddies that purposely lost the House to the Democrats. End of story.

Federal Government workers, please tell us how good it feels to be without your paycheck while your Democrat, low life shyster politicians, are sunning themselves, dining like kings & queens on “Lobbyist” and sipping Mai-Tai drinks poolside & beach side in luxury hotels in both Puerto Rico & Hawaii. Man....do they have your number, screwing you folks every which way but loose.

As for Puerto Rico, don’t be fooled, the hotels and tourist sights are up and running, the island has full power and major facilities like Lufthansa’s Heavy Aircraft Maintenance aircraft overhaul facility has been running at 100% for many months. The thanks goes to your POTUS, Donald J. Trump. Face it the Democrat Politicians in PR are absolutely useless crooks who have bled Puerto Ricans dry from many, many years.

That is why Millions of Puerto-Ricans live in Florida, New York & New Jersey. That is why Puerto-Ricans in Florida cast most of their voted for Republican, Rick Scott who is now Senator, Rick Scott.

You “missing your paycheck” these days can get back to work with pay in five minutes...if only you mobbed both Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer...today dan demanded that they give POTUIS, Trump his request for 5.7 Billion bucks to fund and build the Souther Border Wall.

Let me give ya hint Fed workers....POTUS, Trump will win this battle...you either fix it today, or you are going to be without paychecks for a very long time...Remember the wise guy Air Traffic Controllers, that bpoldly threatened POTUS, Ronald reagan....they all got fired and lost their jobs. Ya all better wake up....Fed dummies!!!

Folks across the entire country. Please donate to Retired USAf, hero, Brian Kolfage’s “Build the Wall Go Fund Me Campaign” at: www.webuildthewall.us. Now at $20,530,000,00 and climbing every day. 350,000 Americans have already donated starting at $5.00...going up to $10,000 dollars...give what you can afford, every dollar given is much appreciated. Support POTUS, Trump!!!


15 posted on 01/15/2019 5:37:06 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Vaquero

“NO!”

Beat me to it.


16 posted on 01/15/2019 5:39:51 AM PST by VietVet
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To: Alas Babylon!
If we wait the wall will never be done. It's not like Obama's EOs that were reversed. Once the wall is built, and its positive impact on the border situation is obvious, it'll stay.

There's no way this House is going to pass one cent for this wall. Steve King is just the start. With the help of useful idiot "Republicans", they'll purge committees of everyone who doesn't accept their agenda.

17 posted on 01/15/2019 5:41:40 AM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: EyesOfTX

Matt Drudge has gone over to the dark, wild side. He has taken to posting radical headlines...but, when you read the story behind his headlines...there is zero there. Matt Drudge is done as a reliable news and information source. I have stopped reading him ages ago. Poor lad is not with it and is severely, unbalanced!!!


18 posted on 01/15/2019 5:45:49 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: EyesOfTX
click through and what do you find? A story from several fake journalists at the fake Washington Post
What is fake is not that the Washington Post is a newspaper, and not that the people who write stories for it are journalists.

What is fake is the conceit that people cannot be journalists unless they agree with the politics of the Washington Post’s journalists. But don’t try to tell them that - if you do, you will be told that you are “not a journalist, not objective.”

Well, guess what! Nobody can be certain of their own objectivity. Meaning, that the people who say that someone else isn’t objective are almost certainly right - but their insinuation that they themselves are objective is even more likely to be wrong.

People aren’t interested in writing about things about which they have no opinion, and everyone thinks that their own opinions are right - or they wouldn’t be their opinions. Seriously attempting to be objective means scrutinizing your own opinions from the perspective that it is all too likely that where you stands is strongly influenced by where you sit. This is not natural to anyone, but to seriously attempt objectivity you have to strive to make yourself do it.

Forming a mutual admiration society which will claim objectivity for you, while demanding that you do the same for them, is a great way to do a head-fake towards objectivity, but is not a serious effort at the real thing. And that is what we get from any journalist who is not being battered incessantly by claims from the mutual admiration society that they are not a journalist.


19 posted on 01/15/2019 5:46:31 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: EyesOfTX

Someone sewed the media’s lips to democrat butt years ago...

So no, honest reporting is NOT going to happen.


20 posted on 01/15/2019 5:46:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Replace furloughed government workers with illegals for ten bucks an hour. Show dems how it feels.)
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