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No matter how low you set the bar for the MSM they still manage to slink under it.
1 posted on 12/04/2017 11:14:47 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
If you tried to keep abreast of the news this weekend by reading the New York Times, watching ABC News, or following well-regarded veteran reporters on Twitter...

then Mark Twain would call you misinformed.
2 posted on 12/04/2017 11:25:12 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
The public is concerned that Trump is convincing many people, particularly among his base voters, that news media are staffed with liars. That isn't true...
Actually, it IS true.

Why is it so hard to admit?

3 posted on 12/04/2017 11:31:16 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Hey you up on the perch...

...the 1st amendment declares the right of WE THE PEOPLE to contradict your master's ERRORS, and the 2nd protects that right.

Your job is to provide ALL the facts - not to decide which facts WE should learn and what WE should do in response. Clear?

4 posted on 12/04/2017 11:34:47 PM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Democracy died the day Hillary and crew decided to not accept the results of the election. Just as the republic died the day the South decided not to accept the results of the election(We’ve been a democratic empire since then).

When this is all said and done we won’t have the existing system running things. We’ll either have crazed Bolsheviks running the US government and murdering the population or we’ll have a Ceasar or a Sulla running the government while slaughtering the Bolsheviks. Trump’s more of a Cincinnatus type figure, a good man desperately trying to save the republic.

History does not repeat itself. The outcome is not set but I think Trump’s odds of saving the republic are not great.


5 posted on 12/04/2017 11:40:35 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
The press is in the First Amendment because it — we — are needed to hold the powerful to account.

The First Amendment gives the People the right to a free press. It is laudable to use that right to hold the powerful to account, but that also applies to a "press" that has become too powerful to control.

Therefore, other "press" like FreeRepublic must hold the MSM to account, too.

-PJ

6 posted on 12/04/2017 11:48:11 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

And then they behave as if they haven’t a clue why people think they are fakenews. Its because the have reporting standards lower than the national enquirer and bordering on what used to only make it to the weekly world news.


10 posted on 12/05/2017 12:33:09 AM PST by Maelstorm (Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. Parent companies: Disney, Comcast, and now AT&T.


11 posted on 12/05/2017 1:01:41 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
that news media are staffed with liars. That isn't true,

I disagree - the new media IS obviously staffed with liars.

14 posted on 12/05/2017 2:29:25 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The fact that the media was totally lacking any skepticism through the eight years of Obama really did a lot to damage their credibility in my mind. Contrast that with the 24/7 nail biting over Trump. The bias has become pretty obvious to more and more people.


15 posted on 12/05/2017 3:27:10 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Rush is right.
These people wake up in the morning looking for the story they can uncover that will bring this President down.
They get glassy eyed at the prospects .

Ok , slant the truth a little if it will result in that Pulitzer Prize.


16 posted on 12/05/2017 3:37:10 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The key liberal leftists (Democrats, advocates, etc.) in this country can NOT be allowed to die of old age before they to prison for the rest of their lives. It must happen.


17 posted on 12/05/2017 3:51:27 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

>>that news media are staffed with liars. That isn’t true,

But it is true. Every single person who identifies as Progressive is a liar, because Progressive is a euphemism for Communism-by-gradual-change, or as they call it, the “nudge”. Everything they write and say is a lie designed to move the ball forward an inch or two. That means every story has to have a spin that advances the agenda. If mere spin is not enough, and it usually is not, then you make up a narrative that uses some of the facts. So they lie and if you lie, then you are a liar.

The only Progressives who are not liars are the Useful Idiots who truly do not know what they believe in. Of course, they exist because of the liars in the media and academia who lied to them.


18 posted on 12/05/2017 3:55:52 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The public is concerned that Trump is convincing many people, particularly among his base voters, that news media are staffed with liars. That isn’t true,...”

Dude, read your own article...


19 posted on 12/05/2017 4:24:47 AM PST by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The fifth-column leftist media no longer hides its seditionist propaganda. Lester was foaming at the mouth with his excrement at the start of yesterday’s evening “news” rant.


21 posted on 12/05/2017 4:34:20 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
This would be easier to understand if they had quoted the full text of McFarland's tweet.

Why the gratuitous slap at Moldova? As if they didn't have enough troubles with Russia backing a breakaway region.

33 posted on 12/05/2017 6:48:39 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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News media misreported stories in one direction, much as when all the mistakes in a cheat's tax return, oddly, tend to reduce what he owes. In other words, every major "mistake" in the weekend's reporting tended to confirm what biased, left-liberal reporters already believe...

Has ANYONE ever seen the effing press make a 'mistake' that damaged Democrats? Yeah, me either. Not ever.

36 posted on 12/05/2017 9:14:50 PM PST by GOPJ (Are the NBC women 'NOT complaining' the ones who 'put out' then MOVED up the ladder?)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
QWGGa
42 posted on 12/06/2017 9:32:59 AM PST by timestax
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Bkmk


45 posted on 12/06/2017 1:11:09 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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