Of course not. That would be insane. 
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Grape, I heard.
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Aren’t the “longtime Trump-watchers” mostly the U.S. bankruptcy courts?
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In Kurtz’s whole, long, odious career of promoting false balance and false equivalence, apologizing for Republican misconduct and, of course, deploring conflicts of interest while concealing his own, this is, without doubt, the most humiliatingly transparent Republican Nasal Prostate Massage ever.
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That’ s why he works at FOX. Always there to help Trump.
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It doesn’t help that he said it multiple times, tweeted it, and then his goons like Gingrinch (sic) couldn’t get their stories straight on whether he was being sarcastic or whether he actually meant for the Russkies to give the emails to the FBI. A load of crap, Howie.
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““To believe that the Republican nominee was dead serious in urging an adversary of the United States to commit or complete an act of espionage against his Democratic opponent is to believe that Trump is clinically insane,””
And? Your point? The whole “it’s too crazy for him to have been serious” shtick is getting really fucking old. When total batshit nonsense is falling out of someone’s mouth on a consistent and repeated basis, it’s NOT too crazy to believe that they’re serious about that nonsense.
What happened here is that he and his campaign saw that it was a meme cropping up on social media and in places like the Faux News KKKomment boards all day, so they repeated it to feed red meat to the base. That’s PRECISELY what fucking happened. He was dead serious on two levels: (1) he seriously wanted it to become a thing and hoped it would be a huge “Booooyah! Take that!!!” moment and (2) he actually did want Russia to do that.
You guys probably think I’m nuts for spending time over there in KKKomment hell, but it’s informative. Trump’s campaign clearly considers it to be “campaign research” to keep abreast of what the latest idiocy is that’s taking place there (and yeah, people were saying it on the KKKomment boards BEFORE Trump did). They just don’t have the self-control or self-filtering to be able to stop themselves from believing it’s a good idea to just repeat it all willy-nilly.
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And on the same day we finally reached Peak Fournier:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ron_fournier/status/758715185997631488?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
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“To believe that the Republican nominee was dead serious in urging an adversary of the United States to commit or complete an act of espionage against his Democratic opponent is to believe that Trump is clinically insane,” Kurtz wrote.
Yes and?
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Why are y’all allowing Trump to get away with this BS?
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I never had much use for Kurtz, but there was a time, late 80s-early 90s, when he was the most prominent, well-regarded media critic in the country.
His diminution into toadying hack isn’t even any fun to mock, at this point, it’s just depressing.
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There are few words. Glad to have read some great posts here. But it really comes down to one word:
“Normalization”
Every week this fucker pushes the United States of America into communications postures used by dictators I have studied for 40+ years. To repeat the dictator reality:
“Everything I say is to be considered the truth” That’s the new normal
Now, I have seen some references to Republicans talking about being sane and placing the country first. I fell for that line after Cruz faltered and there was nothing between Trump and the Presidency other than a few persuadable voters. I dunno… it’s World Survival versus Party… and the insanity is palpable.
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Here’s a man who has lost more brain cells since he departed WaPo for Fox News. So tell us. Fox News wouldn’t have hyped such a story about Clinton, right? It IS news and important news that could and should affect the campaign!
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When your candidate says he will be a law and order President, but then he calls for a hostile foreign power to commit a crime against an American citizen, in order to attack a political opponent who happens to be the former Sec. of State, that must not only be “hyped” in the news media, but is a disqualifier for such a person from holding the office of President.
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“To believe that the Republican nominee was dead serious in urging an
adversary of the United States to commit or complete an act of espionage
against his Democratic opponent is to believe that Trump is clinically
insane,” Kurtz wrote.
Yes. I believe that Trump is clinically insane.
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The Trump campaign damage control mouths are out in force over the favorable Russian hack statement Trump made at his SC press conference. Rather then expressing spin, the group needs to think, “an act of sedition”, a violation of Federal law.
During the RNC convention, the Democrat party was silent; Trump, in his fee-media exposure syndrome, puts foot deep in mouth. Today, he tweets for his supporters to not watch Clinton’s speech, rather send donations. Also, Trump is having alternative rallies nights of the DNC convention. Such activities, censorship and the spin-up of damage control are clear signs of a desperate campaign.
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On November 9th, they’ll modify that to sour grape
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Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton coined the term “institutional racism”. Kutrz and FOX represent “institutional insanity”. But, in this case, the latter wouldn’t even be an afterthought without the former.
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Who is that twit? Is he like the king of false equivalence or something?
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Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz thinks the uproar over Donald Trump
urging Russia to release emails from Hillary Clinton if that frenemy
nation had hacked her private sever is just another case of
“media-generated outrage.”
Guess how long it took me to find several examples of Kurtz-generated outrage over Benghazi and email.
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