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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Purity BOOJIT !
The most important thing is to not elect Hillary and protect the Supreme Court.
Chuckie Todd says Senate is gone, might not hold the house.He said same thing 2 years ago
And if he doesn’t they may just get a REAL mother ####ing civil war.
We can’t go to bed and so “oh well” this time guys.
Let’s PRAY Trump wins.
If she comes out ahead, show evidence of fraud and refuse to concede. #### it.
And pray that the Democrats do no secure one or both chambers of the Congress. With one chamber they can stall a Pres. Trump. With both, they will try to impeach him from day one.
WRONG!
Paul Ryan has already dragged them into the political abyss. Every down ballot Republican who does not support Trump is now in peril. And deserves to be!
Trump is one to go STRAIGHT to the people and let them know dems are holding up progress.
They wont fold as easily as the GOPe but they will eventually.
Thought The Great One couldn’t get the budget cuts he wanted way back in the ‘80s.
CBS and NBC have joined CNN as an agent for the Clinton campaign. I haven’t watched any of the three for years, and won’t. Dragging journalism into the mud is their interest.
And do you think that Speaker Ryan will be any more cooperative than a democrat speaker? The 'party' that controls congress is meaningless because the notion of a two party system is a myth. A joke. A fraud.
I do want Paul Ryan to lose to the Democrat I admit.
That was a different Democrat party, my FRiend. There were Democrats back then who wanted entitlement reform and balanced budgets. That was when you still had some Democrats who were anti-Communist. We are dealing with a different animal, now.
Absolutely.
Tagline.
You can replace a speaker, it can be done. You are going to have more leverage with even a pliable Pubbie than with a Democrat who will try to coopt you every step of the way and have the full backing of every dirty trick outfit in the DNC.
Sounds like "Bill the Cat" lingo - what does it mean?
pure bullshit to those in Rio Linduhhh
If the GOPe loses the House and Senate, it’s because they stood athwart the Trump train tracks.
And really, so what? Clear out the cucks, President Trump vetoes everything for 2 years and brings real Americans in for 2018 to primary the cucks.
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