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If Trump is innocent of collusion with Russia, what happens to the media?
The Washington Examiner ^ | May 25, 2017 | Lisa Boothe

Posted on 05/26/2017 1:34:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What happens? They continue digging until they find something. Dig hard enough, and for long enough, and you’ll eventually find something on anyone. Not to mention that there are several bad actors that may be willing to leak information from within, or create falsehoods. Trump is a strong man, but I think the presidency will affect his health. Which is why he should steam full speed ahead anyway.


21 posted on 05/26/2017 4:28:31 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Piece of cake. "MUH Russia" just goes down the memory hole, and the press carries on with some other manufactured outrage, as if nothing happened.

For the press and most of its audience, history starts anew each morning.

22 posted on 05/26/2017 4:29:50 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The media will never give up the template of “Trump’s collusion with Russia”...... this will continue to shadow him throughout his presidency. Comey’s purpose along with some of his underlings was to destroy Donald Trump.


23 posted on 05/26/2017 4:32:58 AM PDT by kenmcg
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To: monkeyshine
-- The one saving grace in all this is that the Special Prosecutor Robert Meuller has pretty much free reign to investigate all of this and much more. --

Mueller's charter is to investigate Trump campaign / Russian government connection, nothing else. There is nothing but personal downside for him if he investigates Camp Clinton. He'd be a fool to go there, and he is no fool.

24 posted on 05/26/2017 4:34:25 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: monkeyshine

Lots of dots to connect.


25 posted on 05/26/2017 4:44:16 AM PDT by petercooper (Ryan and McConnell need to go.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where is “collusion” stated as a crime?


26 posted on 05/26/2017 4:50:39 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shouldn’t that be “ When” not “ If” ?


27 posted on 05/26/2017 4:58:33 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If Trump is innocent of collusion with Russia, what happens to the media?

Simple.

They make something else up.

Muh Russia happened only because pussy grabbing didn't work.

I predict Kushner the crook is next, but who knows.

They will not rest until Trump is removed or they are destroyed.

28 posted on 05/26/2017 5:05:09 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dat's raciss

but funny and true.

29 posted on 05/26/2017 5:26:40 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

fill the tanks, gather more ammo and head out looking for another drive-by .. .


30 posted on 05/26/2017 5:37:21 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Mass-scale RICO charges against the media.
I have long advocated civil, rather than criminal, legal action - for the simple reason that Republican politicians simply have never had, likely never will have, the guts to actually go to the mat against the media wire service journalism.

Triple damages are available under RICO, but the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (a one-page law) does the same. The target, BTW, cannot be an amorphous “the media,” but the wire service in general and the Associated Press in particular will do just fine. Sue the AP and its membership, joint and several liability for all the “media feeding frenzy” justices such as the Duke Lacrosse “rape” story, the advertisement by “the media” for assassination of Presidents Bush and Trump, and for the assassination of George Zimmerman, the illegitimate “call” of FL for Gore in 2000 . . . (the list is virtually endless).

The First Amendment enshrines precious liberties, and must be enforced. But the First Amendment is about free and independent presses. Not a single, associated press projecting its message via “member newspapers” which are more like fronts.


31 posted on 05/26/2017 5:47:04 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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“The media is already suffering from a credibility crisis. Trust in the media is at an all-time low. And according to Gallup, 55 percent of people believe the media is often inaccurate. A Harvard-Harris poll had a similar finding, showing that 65 percent of voters believe there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media....”

What needs to happen is bring back Tom Harkin’s “fairness doctrine” which would punish media outlets for reporting fake news. They can report fake news, but it has to be splashed across the screen or at the top of the editorial page that the message is strictly for entertainment purposes and is not the facts.


32 posted on 05/26/2017 5:47:18 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("“In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God.”" DJT)
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To: Red Badger

Actions are louder than words ....... presstitutes are forever suspect. Doom on em.


33 posted on 05/26/2017 6:37:40 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: jazzlite

Bttt!


34 posted on 05/26/2017 7:30:42 AM PDT by Pagey (8 years of MISERY, Thanks to Valerie Jarrett. Wretched human.)
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To: monkeyshine

Bttt!


35 posted on 05/26/2017 7:31:08 AM PDT by Pagey (8 years of MISERY, Thanks to Valerie Jarrett. Wretched human.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

On to the next fake scandal.

Maybe one of these will stick.

If not, the implication is enough for some people to doubt.

They’ll keep going, even if it dissolves their creditability.

Everything is at stake with them. Trump must be destroyed at ALL costs.


36 posted on 05/26/2017 8:45:12 AM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (If you choose not to deal with reality, reality will deal with you - and not on your terms)
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Sue the AP and its membership, joint and several liability for all the “media feeding frenzy” justices...

Assuming you mean injustices.

37 posted on 05/26/2017 8:50:48 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Assuming you mean injustices.
injustices, indeed.

38 posted on 05/26/2017 9:54:10 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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Thank you for expanding a bit on my suggestion. I would go beyond AP for targeting by demonstrating explicit collusion on the part of most media outlets by pointing up to the near-identical language used in describing certain events. I posted this .gif right before the election:


39 posted on 05/26/2017 5:40:57 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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the near-identical language used in describing certain events.
See, that’s the thing: you cannot expect anything else from a (singular) journalism with multiple front groups.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
People of the “trade” of journalism “meet” (virtually) on a continual basis via the AP “wire.” They’ve been at it since the middle of the Eighteenth Century - so the “conspiracy against the public” which we are continually subjected by jouralism is the only possible result.

The AP has been found by SCOTUS in 1945 to be in violation of Sherman. But back then, there was no thought of breaking up the AP because its mission - the economical dissemination of news over scarce, expensive bandwidth - made it “too big to fail.” Well, guess what! The Internet is what it is because the cost of transmission bandwidth has declined by so many orders of magnitude since 1945 that economizing on bandwidth is a de minimum consideration. The AP is a monopoly whose legitimate raison d’être no longer exists.


40 posted on 05/26/2017 6:29:03 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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