Posted on 11/21/2015 9:32:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
#TeamJeb won't let The Donald walk this one back
Jeb Bush is not joining his fellow Republican, Donald Trump, in arms in the age-old tradition of conservative combat against biased media reporting, and instead, Jeb and his campaign team are piling on The Donaldâs latest absurd suggestion that there should be a database to track and monitor Muslims in the U.S.
A bit of a mini-media controversy erupted Thursday afternoon when headlines blasted news of Trump suggesting the mandatory registration of Muslim Americans: âTrump wonât rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US.â
But, Mother Jonesâ Kevin Drum quickly pointed out the flaw in the rush to report the latest Trump absurdity during a week of ugly xenophobic one-upmanship:
It would be one thing if Trump floated the idea himself of warrantless searches and special IDs. Itâs quite another if a reporter brings them up and Trump tap dances a little bit. Needless to say, in a better world Trump would have explicitly denounced all these ideas. Obviously we donât live in that world. Still, the only thing Trump actually said here is that weâre going to have to look at a lot of things very closely. The rest was just a reporter fishing for a headline....
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How rude and dishonest.
How does the government vet Syrian “refugees” without a database?
Wait till IS fighters slaughter 100+ Americans in some Mall or Theater—maybe Americans will not be so touchy about tracking Islamic Killer/Refugees then.
This BS is propagating like wildfire. This was not The Donald's suggestion. It was the suggestion of some reporter who shoved a mic in his face after a speech, while he was working the rope line. The despicable reporter intentionally twisted the story to make it seem that the Donald said this as if it was his idea. This is such BS it makes me want to puke. And I an NOT by the way, a Trump supporter, but BS is BS.
Must be very frustrating to be labeled as an “adviser” to a candidate at mid-single digit percentages. Not a major resume’ enhancement.
Well, that’s it. Jebbe has moved all in on a bluff. $100,000,000 bucks up in smoke.
That could be as soon as tomorrow.
I think his sole task was to put Hillary in the executive mansion.
Some of them say the same thing about looking at things closely. Others are for more cursory inspections.
We don’t need a database to track terrorists but we need one to track American gun owners? Very reminiscent of the Third Reich.
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If they think this database lie will hurt Trump, they’re not paying attention.
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gee. we don’t even need to wait for the D party hacks to say the leading R party candidate is a fascist
we have JEB!
how wonderful to have this function built right into our own house
Wait, Bush is polling at 5% somewhere? We should get Carly’s take on this as well. Who else is in the sub mini-golf par?
The media misreports something like this and it becomes fact.
Trump never said he wants a database of all Muslims. He’d segwayed into immigration and the wall when the guy asked how he’d do it. He replied good management.
Even if I didn’t like Trump, I’d resent the media lying. And Cruz jumped on this saying he didn’t approve of the registry that never was.
what’s a fascist look like? funny little mustache. Kind of ugly. NO blond hair/blue eyes. unsuccessful artist.
They’ve got the wrong guy.
Be prepared - there has never been a candidate that will be more labeled as racist, xenophobe, and narrow-minded than Trump. I think the left is mostly saving it for the general, but it is as predictable as the sun coming up in the East.
The People don’t want your family’s NWO vision. That is Fascism and they know it.
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