Posted on 09/03/2016 5:35:18 AM PDT by GailA
I will be very disappointed if Trump does not ‘out’ Lauer as a documented support of Hillary Clinton’s Foundation. This is a golden opportunity to stick it to the leftist media shills.
Any and all of these accomplices should recuse themselves if they have a shred of honor...oh wait. They don’t.
Hi, healy61. :-)
CLINTON attempt to influence media by honoring them with this “honor”.
No way journalist can gracefully turn them down.
Let’s see what happens. Eric was on earlier saying Laurer had been a family friend for years.
The honor may simply be an attempt to disqualify a journalist who is not in the CLINTON camp. I certainly think Greta Van Sustern is in that category. She. The Palins and the Trumps work together with Franklin Graham’s Samaitans Purse and sat with Billy Graham at his last sermon / 95 birthday celebration. She also worked with DT with the young soldier who accidently ended up in Mexico She is also on their list
It is not one of THE 3 debates.
This is a Forum sponsored by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and hosted by NBC.
It would make sense for NBC to have one of their own moderate it.
They have all been rigged since Nixon why worry now?
Flattery. The Clinton Global Initiative flatters journalists. Whatever trace amounts of good it might be able to put forward, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton whatever is first, last, and always about Clinton. For that reason alone, the constitutional strictureNotable Past Members (of the Clinton Global Initiative)
- Christiane Amapour - CNN
- Lionel Barber - The Financial Times
- Maria Bartiromo - CNBC
- Mathew Bishop - The Economist
- Tom Brokaw - NBC News
- Anderson Cooper - CNN
- Katie Couric - CBS News
- Thomas Friedman - The New York Times
- Nicholas Kristof - The New York Times
- Matt Lauer - NBC
- George Stephanopolous - ABC News
- Gretta van Susteren - Fox NewsCchannel
- Judy Woodruff - PBS
- Fareed Zakaria - Newsweek International
applies to all of the above.
- Article 1 Section 9:
- No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
But the Clinton Global Initiative is far from the only place where you will find journalists flattering each other in a mutual admiration society. The prototype of all journalistic collusion is the Associated Press. The AP “wire” is a continuous virtual “meeting” of all major journalistic outlets, and hence of their journalist employees. As Adam Smith put it, "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.”There it is: hard as it might be to accept - I myself was a “News Radio” junkie for more years than I care to tell about - journalism is about journalists. It is about their importance as people who are listened to. And they would, and do, sell out the public interest to maintain their positions.
They are not manipulated, we are.
Being a member of the Press and Independent is truly hard. Swag, access, free food, etc etc are just some of the lures to seduce you.
The one gent that keeps it on the up and up is Jeff Kuhner the Talk how Host ( WRKO 680am 12 noon to 3 pm ).
He won't hob-nob, break bread or anything thing else... But he ask them to play a quick 15 minute game of chess, as to get a handle on how they think. Interesting to say the least..
The first time this guy asks a question Trump could shoot right back: "Matt, I know you are a charter member of this fake charity my opponent has concocted. I just want all the viewers to know that, and where your sympathies lie".
This is not news to the members of the commission, including Snowe and Danforth. This probably sealed his selection.
ping
Great comment, thank you.
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