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Did CNN really just say this about Donald J. Trump?
cnn ^ | 12/24/2017 | CNN

Posted on 12/25/2017 3:46:33 AM PST by know.your.why

I am still a newb Freeper, so please keep the safety's set to 'on' with your flamethrowers for a bit.

I have not verified Smerconish's comments...but they sound right on to me.

>>Michael A. Smerconish is an American radio host and television presenter, newspaper columnist, author, and lawyer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngoGqp-iawk&feature=youtu.be


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To: know.your.why

Welcome to FR Dude ! You’ll do well.


21 posted on 12/25/2017 4:22:12 AM PST by onona (Faith)
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To: know.your.why

Vanities should always start with ‘Boom!’, and should always be posted in ‘News/Activism’.


22 posted on 12/25/2017 4:24:08 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: mad_as_he$$
he is about to pop off with something.

I read somewhere that he was supposed to give America a "Christmas present" today then POOF his twitter is down.

Mysterious goings on behind the curtain.

23 posted on 12/25/2017 4:26:33 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: know.your.why

Michael “Egg Head” Smerconish is a political shapeshifter with an unpleasant voice.

He came up through the ranks as a “conservative” talk show host in Philadelphia, but he somehow scored a major interview on health care with Sheik Obama in 2009, and he eventually parlayed that into a job with CNN as the country swung hard to the left, and he went with that trend.

As for this piece, the phrase “damning with faint praise” comes to mind. Smerconish is not a conservative. At best he is an establishment Republican.

Every time he gets close to praising Trump, he tempers that with weasel words like “for better or worse”. As long as he keeps straddling the fence by playing to both sides, his commentator job with CNN is secure.

But he is absolutely right to criticize Time for not picking Trump as Person of the Year.


24 posted on 12/25/2017 4:28:34 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: know.your.why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngoGqp-iawk&feature=youtu.be


25 posted on 12/25/2017 4:29:12 AM PST by jimjohn (2nd American Civil War: ongoing since January 20, 2017.)
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To: know.your.why

Thank you for your post my friend.

Do not be discouraged by the naysayers - all mortals make mistakes and on today of all days, some slack should be cut for others.

Merry Christmas


26 posted on 12/25/2017 4:33:43 AM PST by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
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To: Fresh Wind

IOW, Smerconish is a political whore.


27 posted on 12/25/2017 4:34:09 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: BeauBo

Essentially, the commentator, Michael Smerconish, was saying that Time missed their own criteria for what constitutes a “consequential person”, and that Donald J. Trump, as President, stands way above any of the other considered.

Now, Smerconish is a kind of wild card, who probably meets every standard for a “Never-Trumper”, as he has abandoned every pretense of being conservative, and gone over to the “dark side”, for a while enjoying high status as the example that CNN was trying show was the “progressive nature” of the trend in US politics.

But now, in perhaps a moment of self-doubt, Smerconish is sort of returning to his roots, and at least recognizing some degree of reality. Has he been successfully returned to the fold? Maybe, maybe not, but he puts a lot of the milestones that Trump has surpassed into perspective.


28 posted on 12/25/2017 4:35:12 AM PST by alloysteel (The rhetorical question, "How stupid can you be?" is just considered to be a challenge by some.)
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To: Thumper1960

And he’s a lawyer.


29 posted on 12/25/2017 4:35:51 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Fresh Wind

And, that is a different kind of whore?


30 posted on 12/25/2017 4:36:52 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: Mr. K

Zot needed


31 posted on 12/25/2017 4:41:34 AM PST by anton
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To: Thumper1960

Those are his roots. Lawyers are paid to take whatever position their clients want them to take. They live and prosper in the swamp. So yes, in a sense, that makes them whores.


32 posted on 12/25/2017 4:42:28 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: BeauBo

Thank you
I hate teaser threads


33 posted on 12/25/2017 4:45:55 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Fresh Wind

I listened to that weasel years ago on PHT out of Philly. He”changed his stripes” for access and advancement and money. He’s an opportunist, a weasel and a whore. He’d sell his mother for some silver dust, since he already sold his soul. I wouldn’t welcome that dirtbag back “into the fold” because he’d just do it to sabotage whatever he could get his grubby little lawyer hands on. He sucks and he’s a POS.


34 posted on 12/25/2017 4:47:26 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: NTHockey
If he were a she, we’d call it prostitution.

Prostitution is gender neutral these days.

35 posted on 12/25/2017 4:49:05 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: know.your.why

Good video.

Trump is doing an excellent job.


36 posted on 12/25/2017 4:54:51 AM PST by boycott
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To: mad_as_he$$

Saw that he’s dropping a Tarmac WJC and LL information including emails.


37 posted on 12/25/2017 4:59:10 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: know.your.why

No big deal, most of us know about this remark already. Keep posting and you’ll work out the kinks. Merry Christmas.


38 posted on 12/25/2017 5:07:34 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: know.your.why

No big deal, most of us know about this remark already. Keep posting and you’ll work out the kinks. Merry Christmas.


39 posted on 12/25/2017 5:07:35 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: NTHockey

I like the sobriquet “presstitute.”


40 posted on 12/25/2017 5:13:10 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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