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First world problems: Trump and the [White House] Correspondents' Dinner [ed]
Washington Examiner ^ | December 22, 2016 | David Freddoso

Posted on 12/24/2016 5:56:46 AM PST by C19fan

The election of Donald Trump has a lot of people on edge. Many of them for good reasons. Beyond the sort of hackish concerns of partisans, people are genuinely worried about his conflicts of interest. Until a few minutes ago, it looked like his sons were going to be running the same kind of influence-peddling foundation as the one he spent the entire campaign criticizing Hillary Clinton for. They are worried also by his tendency to shoot from the hip, even on sensitive topics like nuclear weapons, without apparently considering the consequences or, often, even knowing much about the subject.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: press; trump
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To: SamAdams76

Trump has been publicly, verbally toying with running for decades.


21 posted on 12/24/2016 7:02:06 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: C19fan

people are genuinely worried about his conflicts of interest.

What people? I most certainly am not. What his family does is entirely different then what Hillary did as an actual Government official!


22 posted on 12/24/2016 7:02:27 AM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: C19fan
Dear WHCD participant: The WHCD is canceled with immediate effect.

The White House is reviewing your press credentials in light of your biased campaign coverage and intends to hold you responsible and accountable in your reporting of the news. You no longer are a monopoly that can filter the news and this administration intends to put competition back in journalism. Those news organizations that cannot or will not adapt are going to become extinct.

23 posted on 12/24/2016 7:10:43 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: C19fan
The election of Donald Trump has a lot of people on edge.

The election of Donald Trump has a lot of intolerant and ignorant people on edge. Intolerant people do not need much information to feed their biases.

If they have a smidgeon of openness, they might change their minds in a hundred days or so.

24 posted on 12/24/2016 7:24:16 AM PST by olezip
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

I second your motion.


25 posted on 12/24/2016 7:34:18 AM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: VRW Conspirator

Bingo!!!!


26 posted on 12/24/2016 8:16:44 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: VRW Conspirator

It is easier to dismiss the whole national press corpse as ABCNNBCBS.


27 posted on 12/24/2016 8:17:42 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: MasterGunner01

Trump could turn it into a Going Away dinner, as he will not be “entertaining” any MSM org for a long time, if ever. Then after the dinner, hand out “1st Place” trophies to all in attendance.


28 posted on 12/24/2016 8:23:50 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: C19fan

Don’t go. Don’t host. Don’t elevate the media. Let them be what they are....inconsequential democrat party hacks.


29 posted on 12/24/2016 8:26:09 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Paladin2

Yes but never taken seriously


30 posted on 12/24/2016 8:36:32 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: C19fan

Didn’t this author used to work at National Review? Funny, he sounds like any random writer for the NY Times or Slate.


31 posted on 12/24/2016 8:39:48 AM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: C19fan

Simple fix: Don’t hold one.

This is nothing but a dinner with the President that the liberal media created to make themselves feel important.

Skip it.


32 posted on 12/24/2016 8:42:02 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I would say cancel the dinner. But what they can also do is have the correspondents from Breitbart and Conservatve media as speakers and let them hammer the liberal media all night. Make them feel so uncomfortable that they get up and leave.

Then tweet about how they were good at dishing it out but could not take it. Ridicule them mercilessly, using Alinsky’s rules. And don’t stop.


33 posted on 12/24/2016 8:44:30 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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To: C19fan
Beyond the sort of hackish concerns of partisans, people are genuinely worried about his conflicts of interest.

I stopped reading right there.

What about the RATagandist/DNC conflicts of interest (plural) on steroids?

Ska-rew 'em and their sacred gravy train.

Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!

34 posted on 12/24/2016 9:41:56 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: C19fan

FAKE NEWS


35 posted on 12/24/2016 10:22:53 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Where's Hillary?)
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To: Carl Vehse
Or Kellyanne Conway, who responded to a mediaot on whether she as a mother of four has the time to be Counselor to the President, "I would say that I don’t play golf, and I don’t have a mistress. So I have a lot of time that a lot of these other men don’t."

ROTFL!! She actually said that? That's awesome!

36 posted on 12/24/2016 7:01:40 PM PST by SuziQ
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