Posted on 09/29/2016 4:03:20 PM PDT by nhwingut
Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, is being prepped for the vice presidential debate by the husband of a CBS correspondent — just as another CBS correspondent and anchor prepares to moderate the high-stakes political duel.
Bob Barnett, the liberal Washington super-lawyer, has been playing Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate, in mock debates being held by the staff of Hillary Clinton and Kaine.
Barnett’s wife is Rita Braver, a longtime and influential senior correspondent for “CBS Sunday Morning.”
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Earth to Reince: Speak the Fk up, NOW! Can’t you see what’s going on, or is this lapse a part of your GOPe plan to sink Trump?
I wonder how this prep keeps Kaine from looking like a weak faggot.
“The system is rigged, just like Trump says.”
And the Enemy Media is SHOWING us this at EVERY turn. I LOVE how Trump calls them out on this!
Best. Election. Ever.
Collateral Damage? The Media? LOL! Go for it! About freakin’ TIME!
There’s his out. He can deny getting the questions ahead of time from CBS if the spouse gives them to him.
He’s beating out Biden on the creepy scale.
Post the questions ahead of time on facebook and in the Slimes.
Dump the moderator.
Use a big screen to post each question and disconnect their mics at the end of their time.
Wiki:
“She served as CBS’s chief White House correspondent during Bill Clinton’s first term,”
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/211080283/
REPORTERS ATTENDING `RENAISSANCE` KEEP MUM
Times Union, The (Albany, NY) - January 3, 1993
Author/Byline: GARY KARR
Reporters covering President-elect Bill Clinton last week saw him
coming and going, but got little insight into the “Renaissance Weekend”
discussions about policy and personal topics.
(snip)
Some of the journalists who attended the “informal house party,” as
Renaissance Weekend is described, will be covering Clinton directly when they return to Washington. They include Wolf Blitzer of CNN and Rita Braver of CBS News.
Braver said she came to her first Renaissance last year hoping to hear interesting discussions about things that had nothing to do with her job as a reporter.
“I was satisfying a need to broaden my life outside of Washington,
because you`ve got to remember that everything here isn`t about Washington,”
Braver said.
“It would be hard” to keep quiet if Clinton said something that would
make major news, she said.
Those who attend the weekend were warned by organizer Phil Lader that
if they breathed a word about what went on inside the closed sessions they
would not be invited back.
Almost all of the half-dozen journalists interviewed said they believed Clinton would never say anything to a crowd of 1,500 that would make news or
embarrass him.
Last year Clinton “gave basically his standard campaign speech,” said
Jim Hoagland, who writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. “He
personalized it, but what he said in there was no different than what he was
saying publicly.”
Charles Peters, editor of The Washington Monthly and a frequent critic of the Washington journalism establishment, said he had no problem with
reporters participating in private discussions with the subjects they cover.
“But there is a very strong temptation to develop cozy friendships,”
Peters said. Those friendships could lead to softer reporting about public
officials, he said.
Braver, however, said journalists need to understand the human side of those they cover.
“You can`t show me a reporter in Washington who doesn`t have personal
relationships. And if they don`t have personal relationships, what kind of
reporter are they?” Braver said.
“I have said tough things about people who are here. I will say tough
things about people who will be in the government,” she said.
“I would be shocked if there is anyone who would even consider pulling back because they wanted to be invited to a social occasion. Most of us aren`t that desperate to be invited to a social occasion,” Braver added.
Why does the GOP participate in these leftie debates, so-called? GROW A PAIR, you know how most of American thinks about the media.
Sugar Kaine
Pull out of the debates. Tell them to rot in hell. Take back the country.
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