Discussion: Fox Host Stumps WSJ Reporter: Doesn't Trump 'Trade In Racism?' (VIDEO)

Of course Drumpf trades in racism, he just doesn’t pay the invoice or provide the goods.

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Now that Roger isn’t there to fire them, the semi-sane employees at Faux seem to be finding their spines.

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Racism is the Junk Bonds of the Trump political fortune.

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Thank you Shep

Hit any Trump supporter who either believes that he isn’t a racist or that they support the candidate.

Put them on the spot

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So Grimaldi was just outed for just being a stenographer, or covering his ass for access.

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I heard Grimaldi on KQED’s Forum a couple weeks ago. He doesn’t sound like he’s in the bag for Trump. Or at least he didn’t on that program. I wouldn’t really know from his writing because WSJ paywall.

edit: I listened to this and it gave me heartburn thinking whether the ā€œemailsā€ thing was a thing or not in terms of the election. Some of the callers were pretty frustrated at what they perceived the pandering to false equivalency.

Based on Hillary’s move today, I’m a lot more confident that she can put Trump on the defensive in a big way and defang this ongoing drip-drip about the ā€œdamn emailsā€

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People who call in to those types of things are a different subset then the general electorate.

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When Smith asked if Clinton’s attacks were more ā€œdocumentedā€ than Trump’s, Grimaldi said that perhaps they were and that Trump ā€œtrades in hyperbole.ā€

Yes. They are. Including multiple court findings and judgments that found Trump acted like a racist in his refusing to rent to blacks and hispanics back in the day.

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BTW, here is Clinton’s full Reno speech earlier today:

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ā€œWell, I’ll leave that up to the commentators to talk about whether he isā€ - says the ā€˜investigative journalist’.

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Grimaldi is a Pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist (jack abramoff case) for Wapo and now WSJ. I just don’t get it, what does he think he’s protecting by not declaring DJT a racist or ā€œtrades in racismā€? Why is it so hard to accept that an openly racist candidate will still get 40-45% of the popular vote? Doesn’t he realize what country he lives in, that the presence or absence of melanin is still a big deal for just under half the country? But his evident discomfort hopefully will go viral.

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Don’t watch cable news, but always enjoy a Shep Smith clip.

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It could be that he just isn’t really comfortable in a live news setting, given he’s a print journalist. The live medium really does want you to go ā€œall inā€ on some POV and it seems like a failure if it’s any less than that.

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Where in the world are they ever going to find a venue large enough to seat all the Profile in Courage Award nominees this year?

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One of HO’s empty, bankrupt casinos?

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The cojones on this guy must be magnificent.

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Posted this over on another thread. Here’s the new Clinton ad that slams Trump over the ā€œalt-rightā€ connections in his campaign.

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I think there’s a new mosquito-borne infection going around … the Argle Bargle Virus.

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