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A NEW LOW IN PRESS CLUELESSNESS?
Powerline ^ | June 13,2019 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 06/13/2019 5:13:55 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Today’s faux scandal is President Trump’s statement, in an interview with former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, in which he was asked about receiving negative information about a political opponent from a foreign country. The Washington Post’s account is typical:

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if a foreign power offered dirt on his 2020 opponent, he’d be open to accepting it and that he’d have no obligation to call in the FBI.

“I think I’d want to hear it,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News, adding, “There’s nothing wrong with listening.”

Trump is right on both points, although whether it makes sense to call the FBI depends on what the information is. Suppose, for example, that Israeli intelligence discovered Bernie Sanders is cooperating with a Communist country. No doubt Trump should report that to the Bureau.

As Trump told Stephanopoulos, there is nothing wrong with listening to information that anyone, foreign or domestic, might have that is relevant to a presidential candidate. But what is blindingly obvious, yet absent from every Democratic Party news account feigning horror at the ABC interview, is that the Hillary Clinton campaign didn’t just receive “foreign dirt” on the Trump campaign. It paid for foreign sources to fabricate lies about Trump, which it then disseminated to the press. Listen to “foreign dirt”? The Clinton paid for it!

This is just one more example of why no sensible person takes “news” sources like the Washington Post seriously.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: bloggers; mastertroll; stephanopoulos; trumpgsinterview; trumpinterview

1 posted on 06/13/2019 5:13:55 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk
as someone said on another thread....Trump plays these idiots like a violin ...the “in their own words” sound bites down the road when the SWAMP is exposed should be hilarious!!!
2 posted on 06/13/2019 5:23:58 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: Hojczyk

Snuffleupagus is at it again.


3 posted on 06/13/2019 5:24:16 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Hojczyk
It's no longer the "press".

Call them Stradivarius, cause he plays them like a fiddle every time!

He just set them up to convict all the coup players with their own anger. Every stinkin one of them worked with foreign agents, including the FIB.

4 posted on 06/13/2019 5:25:06 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Hojczyk

And I thought the Steele Dossier and everything Hillary and Company did was exactly that? Conspire with Foreign Entities to Rig an Election....


5 posted on 06/13/2019 5:27:50 PM PDT by eyeamok
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6 posted on 06/13/2019 5:30:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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To: Hojczyk

The Forth Estate in 2019

Fanboys
Misinformation specialists
Liars
Slanted, skewed, fake...
An enemies assassin squad
Coup acolytes

At the present time we have a free press, who has chosen to abdicate to us on delivering accurate information.

There is no (MSM) press corp in the United States today.


7 posted on 06/13/2019 5:34:02 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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To: DoughtyOne
"There is no (MSM) press corp in the United States today."

Instead, we have the Corrupt Coup Media.

Or the Corrupt Coup Enemedia, actually.

8 posted on 06/13/2019 5:43:42 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Hojczyk

Right on the money.


9 posted on 06/13/2019 5:46:16 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: EasySt

Yeap, that’s about it...


10 posted on 06/13/2019 6:04:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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To: Hojczyk

Yes, Bret Baier’s stupid show was devoted to it.


11 posted on 06/13/2019 6:06:15 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Hojczyk

The press cannot get any lower.

The Press is, as Pat Caddell said, the enemy of the American people.


12 posted on 06/13/2019 6:07:14 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Investigate! Investigate! There are charges yet to fabricate!)
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To: rawcatslyentist

“Call them Stradivarius, cause he plays them like a fiddle every time!”

No, a Strad is a high quality instrument that improves with age.

Steponallofus is a hackneyed hack like all the others. PDJT plays them like a wore out cheap fiddle.


13 posted on 06/13/2019 6:33:06 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Hojczyk

The lamestreams are little children.


14 posted on 06/13/2019 6:37:00 PM PDT by Migraine
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The “press” is not clueless, the press is Comcast, Disney, and now ATT

Stop patronizing these politically malicious operations. They are intentionally destroying the fabric of the Country.


15 posted on 06/13/2019 7:01:13 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Hojczyk; M-cubed

“So - we can’t talk to anyone, globally - ever?” was my take on today’s spin.
Stupid. Makes no sense.


16 posted on 06/13/2019 9:41:15 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Hojczyk

They’re not clueless.

They’ve just ridden the propaganda pony so far down the rabbit hole that they’re incapable of turning back now.


17 posted on 06/14/2019 7:27:48 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Hojczyk

Somebody on the Schiff controlled House committee should bring in the recording of Schiff for brains talking to that Russsian about him having naked pictures of Trump,Schiff wanted copies and was going to have his staff contact this guy to get the photos


18 posted on 06/14/2019 12:00:12 PM PDT by ballplayer
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