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Reporters: It's Time To Burn Donald Trump [Barf-o-matic]
The Concourse, deadspin.com ^ | Tuesday, October 11, 2016 | Ashley Feinberg

Posted on 10/11/2016 12:01:41 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Despite what anyone may want to believe, the chances of Donald Trump moving into the White House in January are not trivial. He is still a candidate; he still has ardent supporters; and he still could be our next president. This means that, now more than ever, journalists with relevant information have a responsibility to stop wringing their hands and burn Donald Trump.

Currently, at least one potential cache of nightmarish Trump material is hiding in plain sight: Mark Burnett's video archives at The Apprentice. There are significant barriers to any of it becoming public. But there is another potential source of Trump tapes: All the dozens or hundreds of journalists who have interviewed him, often off the record, over the past 30 years.

As a rule, journalists don't burn sources because of practical considerations (doing so, they worry, would render promises of protection to other sources null), because decent people consider promises of confidentiality generally binding, and because these promises can in some circumstances be legally binding when a written or verbal contract is involved. But almost every rule -- even the very nearly sacrosanct -- has its exceptions. For reporters today, that exception is Donald J. Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at theconcourse.deadspin.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antitrump; apprentice; journalism; media; msm; president; press; tape; trump; video
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An SOS from the desperate, leftist media.
1 posted on 10/11/2016 12:01:41 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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.... Gloria Allred is already on deck with her mob of women lined up to testify that Donald Trump sexually harassed them.

Break out the popcorn.

2 posted on 10/11/2016 12:03:58 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Jyotishi

MSM is that evil - along with their fawning accomplices in the Uniparty.


3 posted on 10/11/2016 12:04:05 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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Time to start licensing print and broadcast “reporters” and then immediately revoking most permits.

Got to reform reform reform the damn FCC and give it teeth.


4 posted on 10/11/2016 12:04:42 PM PDT by Resettozero
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The implied message is “Well why not simply make it up? Who is going to know? What do we have to lose?”


5 posted on 10/11/2016 12:05:00 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Jyotishi

I am sure that if they have anything more on Trump it will be out shortly.


6 posted on 10/11/2016 12:05:28 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Meanwhile the Ministry of Propaganda hides everything they can about the Clintons and what they can’t hide they spin at top speed.


7 posted on 10/11/2016 12:05:44 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Jyotishi

May it blow up in their faces, like every other attempt they’ve pulled so far.


8 posted on 10/11/2016 12:06:02 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: R_Kangel

I dont want to break out the popcorn because i wouldn’t watch such bullsh##.

some aren’t getting it around here. This election is no different than one in Russia at this point.

The media is govt owned. bought and paid for.

Allred and ALL these writers should read up on Bastille day.

They may some day wish Trump won if he doesn’t.


9 posted on 10/11/2016 12:06:38 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: R_Kangel
.... Gloria Allred is already on deck with her mob of women lined up to testify that Donald Trump sexually harassed them.

Where did you hear this? Not that I didn't think there was more to come...

They're not going to let go of trillions of dollars easily.

10 posted on 10/11/2016 12:07:18 PM PDT by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: Raycpa
The implied message is “Well why not simply make it up? Who is going to know? What do we have to lose?”

Don't believe that the Founders envisioned CNN and the rest of those anti-American "press". Would never have given unlimited freedom to this current crowd of Marxist parasites.
11 posted on 10/11/2016 12:07:39 PM PDT by Resettozero
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It's time to stop getting your info from the “news.” Turn them off. There is absolutely no need for them, not in this day and age. Put them out of business.
12 posted on 10/11/2016 12:07:43 PM PDT by bella1 (Je suis deplorable)
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To: Resettozero

You don’t really want to give the Feds the power to license journalists, do you?

The only ones they’d ever go after are Matt Drudge, Sharyl Attkisson and the guys at Breitbart.


13 posted on 10/11/2016 12:07:45 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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When Bill was running, he was guilty of worse, and it was dismissed because that was what leading men were. “All the alfa males acted that way.”

Now, Trump for language only, is a rogue hater of women.

I guess the alfa dog rule is no longer operable.

The Left is stark raving mad and they can’t see it.

I can at least see foibles in Trump. They have never voiced any objection to any of Bill’s behaviors. NEVER.


14 posted on 10/11/2016 12:08:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (28 days: Until Presdient Pre-elect becomes President Elect Donald J. Trump. Help is on the way!)
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To: bella1

You’re preaching to the choir.


15 posted on 10/11/2016 12:09:23 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Jyotishi

About those Apprentice tapes? Assuming they exist, so what? No one was forced to appear on that show. Most of the participants were desperate has-beens who chose that path to revive their careers. One of the fascinations of the show was the groveling of the players. It was their choice to stay and jump through all kinds of hoops just to not be fired.


16 posted on 10/11/2016 12:09:25 PM PDT by grania (I'm Deplorable)
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Obama reveals his happy moment in his pants, and the female reports clamored to see it, sit down in front, we want to see.

That was okay.

Trump, now there’s a bad guy...


17 posted on 10/11/2016 12:09:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (28 days: Until Presdient Pre-elect becomes President Elect Donald J. Trump. Help is on the way!)
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To: Resettozero
Yep, but a lot of the choir still listens to the talking heads. We need to stop feeding the beast.
18 posted on 10/11/2016 12:11:39 PM PDT by bella1 (Je suis deplorable)
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To: Jyotishi
Burn Donald Trump

Their keen enjoyment hid behind
A PC mask of duty.

19 posted on 10/11/2016 12:15:17 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: dp0622

Who says we don`t have a free press? It`s completely free. It`s already been bought and paid for us by the left.


20 posted on 10/11/2016 12:16:46 PM PDT by mbrfl
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