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These Are the Only 6 Newspapers in the Country to Endorse Donald Trump [Flashback to 2016]
Pollutico ^ | 10/25/16 | RUAIRÍ ARRIETA-KENNA

Posted on 02/19/2018 4:12:22 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

No candidate has ever received so few endorsements. So what were the Waxahachie Daily Light, the Santa Barbara News-Press and others thinking?

On Sunday, October 16, the residents of St. Joseph, a fairly ordinary town of 75,000 in northwestern Missouri, awoke to discover that their local, family-owned newspaper had made history, in a manner of speaking. That day the St. Joseph News-Press became only the second newspaper in the nation to endorse Donald Trump, writing that the GOP candidate “represents something different for a broad swath of America that is serious about wanting a less intrusive government, a more robust economic recovery and leadership that protects our interests around the world.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016endorsements; vote
ha ha ha

Six smart newspapers in the whole nation.

Eat it, Washington comPost.

1 posted on 02/19/2018 4:12:22 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

We now live in a “Post-Newspapers as Kingmakers” type of world. They don’t have anywhere near the influence of say, 20 or 30 years ago. People get their news from many different sources. I don’t think it will ever go back to the old way, so long as the Grid is alive.


2 posted on 02/19/2018 4:18:25 PM PST by lee martell
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To: SoFloFreeper

Kind of reminds me of Churchill’s statement after the Battle of Britain that, “Never has so much been owed by so many to so few”.


3 posted on 02/19/2018 4:21:49 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: SoFloFreeper

We think the rest of them hate Trump. What they really hate is . . . us.


4 posted on 02/19/2018 4:25:11 PM PST by donna (Old public service announcement: It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

How did a paper in Santa Barbara, CA endorse Trump?


5 posted on 02/19/2018 4:27:54 PM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What is a Newspaper?


6 posted on 02/19/2018 4:29:31 PM PST by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: Radix
What is a Newspaper?

That's the actual point. Newspapers are no longer relevant. Nobody except a few aging leftists in major urban centers gets their news from print newspapers anymore. Add to this the fact that most have sacrificed their credibility on the alter of "progressive" ideology and you have the reason why their near unanimous fawning endorsements of the democrat candidate didn't really matter.

7 posted on 02/19/2018 4:38:14 PM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Back from the dead)
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To: donna

Trump is us.. so yes, you are correct.


8 posted on 02/19/2018 4:38:38 PM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Thanking the Lord Jesus every day for President Donald J. Trump!")
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To: SoFloFreeper

the elite can snap up a newspaper for a dollar and spew their slave labor nonsense. Everyone loves slave labor! Let’s all live in Venazuela- it’s so vibrant! For Wakanda!


9 posted on 02/19/2018 4:49:15 PM PST by goldendelicious
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To: goldendelicious

FakeNewsMSM collusion with the Clinton campaign?


10 posted on 02/19/2018 4:55:34 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: SoFloFreeper
So, was the Antelope Valley Press of Palmdale, Commiefornia (one of the papers that endorsed Donald Trump), fire-bombed, audited or forced out of business yet? We all know how much the Dhimmicrats, socialists and their 'fellow travelers' value 'free speech', especially 'free speech' that differs from their groupthink.
11 posted on 02/19/2018 5:05:00 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Election year 2016 has been a radically unusual moment in the staid, old-fashioned world of newspaper endorsements. Big newspapers have taken unprecedented steps like “un-endorsing” Trump (a totally new thing in newspaper history); even USA Today has stepped out of its usual neutral lane to tell people that under no circumstances should readers vote for Donald Trump as president. As of this writing, Clinton has more than 200 endorsements from daily and weekly newspapers in the United States.

Two weeks out, and the MSM was so sure of itself. Of course little did they know that evil Russian Bots had infiltrated Facebook and turned the population into zombies using the most effective $10,000 ad buy in world history. An ad so powerful, so crafty, and so Bot-like that no on actually remembers seeing it.


12 posted on 02/19/2018 5:29:45 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: donna

Donna, you are more right than most realize. The hatred of the left for independent minded who WONT be led like sheep is all consuming.


13 posted on 02/19/2018 5:40:55 PM PST by I still care (The left's goal never was tolerance. It always was fascism.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Waterbury (CT) Republican-American newspaper endorsed Donald Trump for President.
Only paper in Connecticut with a sane editor.
14 posted on 02/19/2018 5:41:01 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Nah, there is no media bias.

Nah, newspaper offices aren’t 99% Democrat party hacks.

Nah, they is all fair and balanced. We are just kookie Conservatives. All newspapers are all unbiased, donchaknow.


15 posted on 02/19/2018 6:50:23 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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