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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

With all due respect I think this is the wrongest post I have ever read on Free Republic. If the media destroys itself, destroys its credibility via the continued reporting of Trumps alleged associations with Russia Etc it is simply going to move on to the next topic of salacious nature because it is an eyeball-based medium of societally-approved salaciousness. The habit of people watching the news is a habit of body and schedule; people take time out of their day who still watch TV news to watch TV news and it is their body and their attention that they are used to devoting to this outlet. It’s just like smoking. Smoking has been proven to be very unhealthy but the totality of smoking consists of a body experience and physical rituals and the like. That is why it is so difficult to quit. That is why tobacco companies continue to sell what’s generally acknowledged to be a harmful product at higher and higher dollar amounts and people still buy them because it’s not just the idea of smoking it is the ritual of involving your body and your attention and your tongue and your breathing. Watching CNN is likewise a feel good act of thinking that you are becoming informed.

Now that has nothing to do with the Deep State and the people who hate Donald Trump, like Jim Comey who like Reality Winner who think that they can make up the law based upon their sense of superior morality anyway they want... Evelyn Farkas does not think she’s doing anything wrong leaking information to the Press she regards it as her patriotic duty to attack Donald Trump and to undermine him so I don’t think any of what you’re talking about leads to an end of anything.


17 posted on 06/10/2017 1:03:38 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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30 posted on 06/10/2017 3:46:19 AM PDT by Daffynition ("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I agree Attention. I was here during Watergate. They originally had nothing on Nixon. There hate for Nixon was on tbe front page of every paper every day for years until they finally found something, tapes, to anchor their hate. It was every day, continual hate against President Nixon. Same thing is happening now. The MSM will continue this hate trip until they find something, no matter how small, to solidify their hate. This will go on indefinatly until our wonderful President leaves office 8 years from now.


33 posted on 06/10/2017 3:58:08 AM PDT by robert14
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
............it’s not just the idea of smoking it is the ritual of involving your body and your attention and your tongue and your breathing.

They used to say the exact same thing about sex......

54 posted on 06/10/2017 9:51:11 AM PDT by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
If the media destroys itself,

This is where your logic fell apart.

57 posted on 06/10/2017 1:14:03 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I don’t think any of what you’re talking about leads to an end of anything.

You're right. No, you're wrong. Well, maybe you're right. I don't know, are you?

58 posted on 06/10/2017 1:15:15 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Really? You think my post was wrong? In light of today’s events, you really need to apologize. Don’t ever doubt me.


66 posted on 06/14/2017 8:50:50 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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