Posted on 10/11/2016 6:16:49 AM PDT by upchuck
Following the leaked tape of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump making lewd comments about women over the weekend, members of the Republican Party started to distance themselves. And NBC seemed quite giddy about it as they kicked off NBC Nightly News Monday with “Civil War” emblazoned across the screen. As if he was announcing the latest Marvel blockbuster Anchor Lester Holt declared, “With Donald Trump's fortunes fading over his lewd comments about women, a GOP civil war has broken out.”
“Tonight, abandonment and astonishment as the country's top Republican walks away from the top of his ticket,” hyped NBC’s Hallie Jackson at the start of her report. She would go on to parade out naysayers to declare the GOP was in freefall:
DAVID WASSERMAN: It's time for Republicans to hit the panic button, because trump could drag them into the political abyss…
BENJAMIN GINSBERG: Each member, each candidate is running for him or herself. And that may include embracing Donald Trump or not embracing Donald Trump.
Jackson even claimed, “Our new polling shows more voters want Democrats to control congress by the widest margin since 2013.” The NBC reporter lied and stated that the Republican National Committee was “silent” on Republicans denouncing Trump’s comment.
But according the CBS’s Julianna Goldman that is far from reality, “One group that is sticking by Trump is the Republican National Committee, which also said today that it will still provide money and other resources to the Republican nominee.” But Goldman’s CBS Evening News report hyped the “GOP civil war” just as much as Jackson’s.
Goldman seemed almost excited as she went into detail about how little Democrats needed to do to win back control of both Congressional chambers. “Democrats need 30 seats to take control of the House and just five seats to win back the Senate,” she said, ignoring the historical difficulty of taking a seat from an incumbent Senator.
The CBS reporter touted how democrats were pouncing and running ads attacking Republicans for not ditching Trump sooner. She even went so far as to showcase an ad against Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman crafted by his opponent Ted Strickland. “Where did you stand on Joe McCarthy? George Wallace? This is one of those moments,” the ad said, “History will judge Rob Portman a coward,” far from an impartial reporting of the ad campaign.
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"AAACK, THBFT....!"
I don't buy it anymore. Trump is going to fighting as an outsider no matter which party controls congress. With a handful of noticable exceptions, the two party's are just opposite side of the same dirty devalued coin.
What cares? What have they done that a Rat congress would not do?
Heard some of this baloney on the TODAY show while I was shaving this morning. The stridency in their voices just was really desperation. Throw in the obviously managed “polling” that shows H-> with a “double-digit lead” and it just gets laughable.
Dam right!
There’s a disease in the Republican establishment. The only way to cure is it the Trump Effect.
The american people came out in masse during the last 3 election cycles to rebuke Obama. There is no love gained for Obama this time around either!
Ignore all media
Get Out The Vote
Absolute truth BUMP!
Trump's win must be large enough to overcome the RAT voter fraud we all know is coming.
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