Discussion: Breitbart Staffers Who Resigned Speak Out On How Site Treats Trump (VIDEO)

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This Republican primary has, in so many, many ways created the need for a term greater, MUCH greater, than “mere” schadenfreude.

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Bill Clinton would win this election going away.

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These people worked for one of most vile right wing hate monger outlets in existence. Their fate means nothing to me.

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So would Millard Fillmore. Or John Edwards .

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You worked for the site, you whores. And now you’re talking to the whores at Fox News. There is no “moral high ground” here.

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“And look, that’s their prerogative. Any media organization has the ability to set editorial. The problem for me became absolutely clear when they decided to abandon their own reporter and indeed undercut their own reporter,”

Translation: Lying and manipulating the truth is OK, until I’m the one who is being lied about.

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An excellent point!!!

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Doubt those two but FDR would win. Sanders has had two wives and child out of wedlock and your point is? So far as I know, Bernie is serially monogamous, however.

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I don’t think I needed that visual in my head today

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Thanks everyone for the skinny on both Michelle and Shapiro. I really didn’t know about their backgrounds. They are really are scum.

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Shapiro told Kelly that “any objective observer of Trump – of
Breitbart News could see for months that Breitbart had become a very,
very strong advocate for Donald Trump.”

“And look, that’s their prerogative. Any media organization has the
ability to set editorial. The problem for me became absolutely clear
when they decided to abandon their own reporter and indeed undercut
their own reporter,” he continued, explaining his resignation.

A very revealing statement–Shapiro doesn’t see the problem with a media organization being an advocate for Trump. This is the difference between propaganda and news.

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I understand the folk wisdom in this saying, Sniffit, but I am a dog lover and have had dogs all my life, lie down with them whenever I can and I have never gotten fleas. This is really demeaning to dogs. Maybe we can go with something like “Lie down with liars, wake up lied to.” I’m sure someone else on this site can come up with something better, but, dogs deserve better than this.

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If you go swimming in a swamp, you will end up with stinky, fecund bullshit all over you. I hate to say this, but anybody who chooses to “report” for a partisan right wing propaganda machine like Breitbart should expect something like this. News organizations don’t get to twist the news to conform to “editorial” stances. At least not legitimate, reputable news organizations.

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Breitbart isn’t the worst, but it’s in the running.

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Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

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When you lay down with dogs…

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I took it to mean any Dem could beat that Republican clown car. Not that the current Dems, either one, couldn’t.

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"When this happened, my Washington editor Matthew Boyle was telling me, 'Oh don’t worry, this is going to be great because Donald Trump’s going to give us so many exclusives now because they’re going to feel like they have to do it because of what they did,’" Fields said on Monday. “This is how my company was looking at this. Instead of saying, ‘Wow, what happened, are you okay? Let’s defend you,’ they were thinking that this was a good thing because we would get more access to Donald Trump.”

Yeh…The driving force behind Fourth Estate cable news

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“When this happened, my Washington editor Matthew Boyle was telling me, ‘Oh don’t worry, this is going to be great because Donald Trump’s going to give us so many exclusives now because they’re going to feel like they have to do it because of what they did,’” Fields said on Monday. "

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because they offered me access to Fuhrer Trump.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was given exclusive rights to come and go.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I got first dibs on the Fuhrer’s story.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me… Or to write this truth: Freedom of the Press is to afford Americans access to the truth not a personality.

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Glad that Michelle Fields found Megyn Kelly. The two are made for each other. Two people who are more interested in becoming the news than on reporting it. I didn’t realize Megyn had a shred of credibility left.