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Matt Lauer Demands Trump Tell Convention Speakers to ‘Tone Down the Rhetoric
newsbusters.org ^ | 7/19/2016 | Kyle Drennen

Posted on 07/19/2016 6:02:48 AM PDT by rktman

As presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump arrived in Cleveland Monday afternoon, he was greeted by NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer hectoring him about the “tone” of the GOP convention, which had barely started: “There’s been so much violence in the country in the last couple of weeks. People are on edge, they’re tense. You add to that the passion that comes with political debate and there are people who are truly afraid that things could boil over here in Cleveland.”

In the interview, aired on Tuesday morning, Lauer demanded Trump promise to keep convention speakers in line: “Would you be willing to make a pledge to speak to everyone involved in this convention and say, ‘Please tone down the rhetoric’?...So can you say to the people who are going to take to that podium this week, ‘No personal attacks, no vitriol, keep it civil’?”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; dumbasses; faggotmatt; media; msm; nbc4dnc; nbcflacks; nbcprreps; nbcprreps4clinton; selfimportance
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To: rktman

Put some “ice’ on that Matty ,you faggot!


82 posted on 07/19/2016 7:11:47 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FUBO & FUHRC too ...)
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To: rktman

As I recall, the last time Trump was asked to take a pledge, the others taking that same pledge promptly broke it. Tell mattie to go pound sand.


83 posted on 07/19/2016 7:33:21 AM PDT by lafroste
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To: rktman

Matt Lauer is a poseur.


84 posted on 07/19/2016 7:36:12 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rktman

In my mind the cause of the blacks-versus-cops problem is unemployment. Obama has said some inflammatory things but I truly think he’s trying to help a situation that is helpless in the short term.

Trump is definitely not part of this problem. He may have riled up Mexicans and Muslims, but not blacks.


85 posted on 07/19/2016 7:42:05 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: rktman

Hey, Matt...shove it up your girly a$$.


86 posted on 07/19/2016 7:42:26 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: wetgundog
Just who the F does Lauer think he is?

Better than you, that's what he thinks.

87 posted on 07/19/2016 7:48:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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To: rktman
Lauer and all of the media elites need to go back to being ‘reporters’ and not trying to be the news. Obama has fueled hatred, as has Hillary, and Trump has been calling for law and order - not violence. The media are sensing that there is a shift in the nation, and are afraid that Trump's message is playing well. They also can't stand the idea of the truth being told about their personal criminal, Hillary. These are the same people who told Republicans it wouldn't be right to ‘politicize’ 9-11, because they knew it was an issue the left was on the wrong side of. Sadly, many Republicans bought into this, and speaking about 9-11 was almost precluded during campaigns.
88 posted on 07/19/2016 7:57:44 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: rktman

In other news, cockroaches demand that people quit using bright lights.


89 posted on 07/19/2016 7:59:05 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: rktman

Tone it down?

Really??

Liberals have been/ARE OUT OF CONTROL themselves!

• If they wrote a ‘Mein Kampf’ for us, violence and disruption could not be more certain.
• For months now, there have been almost weekly and very violent dress rehearsals in the news. Domestic violence has been all but guaranteed and violence abroad has been shamelessly celebrated!
• All these foreign AND domestic anarchists have been spewing ceaseless, crudely articulated and barely disguised threats and promises of further violence and chaos to the city of Cleveland and to the RNC.
• The most inflammatory language and the most deliberately intimidating behavior have been glorified in the MSM. New and appalling extremes of criminal malfeasance have been achieved in this continued association between Liberal politics and main stream ‘journalism’.
• Even the ‘President’ of the United States of America has OPENLY condoned the conduct of these criminals and their stated agenda!

Liberals have forgotten, (if they EVER knew) that there are T W O political parties in the US. Somehow, they think the Republican convention is illicit ….and the Democratic convention is the ONLY forum for American politics.


90 posted on 07/19/2016 8:00:02 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: rktman

If it’s too loud, you’re too old. Turn it up!


91 posted on 07/19/2016 8:01:23 AM PDT by Kudsman (Hillary has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. DJTrump 6/22/16)
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To: rktman

Hildebama! I like it!


92 posted on 07/19/2016 8:09:31 AM PDT by jimbug
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To: rktman
Of course, Lauer and others in the media want things toned down.

Because the presentation on the Benghazi deaths was DEVASTATING!

Team Clinton was likely in panic mode and 'all hands on deck' {is that plagiarism?) mode throughout the night.

The Melania speech furor is nothing more than an attempt to distract from the Benghazi segment of the convention.
93 posted on 07/19/2016 8:18:17 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Robert DeLong

‘No personal attacks, no vitriol, keep it civil’?”

Dems/Media are so used to Pubbies folding at every opportunity. After all, Romney did in 2012. McCain similarly in 2008.

Lauer apparently hasn’t been listening to the vitriol in the words of Clinton and Fauxcahontas.


94 posted on 07/19/2016 8:22:13 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: McGruff

Have Matt and Shep registered at Bloomingdales?
Have they picked out their china crystal and silver patterns?


95 posted on 07/19/2016 8:24:26 AM PDT by GOYAKLA ( Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty!)
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To: rktman

So, Hillary can call all white Americans racists and “privileged”, but that doesn’t add to the tensions? This guy’s brains have receded along with his hairline.


96 posted on 07/19/2016 8:32:03 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. --Donald Trump)
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To: GOYAKLA

I “demand” that matt lauer resign immediately to roam the country in sack cloth and ashes...begging for forgiveness. What a light-in-the-loafers poofer.


97 posted on 07/19/2016 8:33:26 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: TomGuy
The article said they were going to try and get the same commitment from Hillary as well. Like I believe that will happen.

At the time I posted my original post, I hadn't read the entire article, but like I said I do not believe that statement about asking Hillary the same question.

98 posted on 07/19/2016 8:43:43 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: NorthMountain

They’ve always been libs but they appear more biased today and back in 60s/70s there were a few anchors ....newsreaders....not as flagrant

The Left then of which I was admittedly pretty much a member hated the alphabet networks and print media and found them not lefty enough

The left today and most of the media and Hollywood and Internet tech are fellow travelers

They view Rachel Maddow and Van Jones and Don Lemon as peers and contemporaries

Plus the network owners like Paley and especially Sarnoff were not lefties per se

Sarnoff was a serious righty and Paley knew the limits like the Howard K Smith affair


99 posted on 07/19/2016 8:44:27 AM PDT by wardaddy (black lives kill....and kill....and kill.....like no other race today senselessly)
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To: rktman

Matt doesn’t like the “tone”. LOL!


100 posted on 07/19/2016 8:45:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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