Just issue an apology, fire whoever is supposed to be responsible, and move on – then people wouldn’t be talking about it so much anymore after the holiday weekend. Remember the John Miller fiasco? Just say Yep that was me, I was having fun – and that would have ended it immediately. But it’s Trump. The pattern. He just isn’t capable of admitting/accepting his mistakes and moving on.
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And grow wings, and cure cancer.
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What makes it a sheriff star is the little dots on the ends of each point. Five, six, seven points – doesn’t matter. But do a google image search for sheriff star and every single one has dots on the ends of the points:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sheriff+star
Do a google search for “star of david” and not a single one has dots on the points:
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If it was a sheriff’s star, you’d put it over Hillary’s face. It’s on the pile of money. It’s a Star of David, and it’s classic anti-semitism.
But, hey… if the Trump people want to keep this going, let them. I’m sure it’ll help in Florida.
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Or, ‘the pictorial situation’ with Trump, the grimacing, gesticulating, grunting flash card of multi-platform pre-village human communication touching buttons, in the masses McLuhan suspected but could barely visualize himself except for its reptilian primativeness, that no regular politician, perhaps, should, even if they could.
I agree with sherlock1 on this one, LGB. For the same reasons he listed.
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If there is anything that comes to mind about Corey Lewandowski, being careful is the first. Scrupulous in his respect for facts.
Oh jeez, you hit the nail on the head. “Fox Lite”: CNN and MSNBC have been running headlong to achieve that.
They have.
I wonder if CNN and NBC execs really want a Trump presidency.
Chuck Todd is filling the role that, in earlier elections, was cast with Maureen Dowd with the mission to destroy the Dem candidate. With her it was Kerry and Gore. With this little shit it’s HRC and her being perceived as untrustworthy.
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From Media Matters, http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/05/cnns-lewandowski-media-firestorm-over-trumps-controversial-star-david-tweet-egregious/211336
Lewandowski: “And what Dan did, and what he said he did is he went to an anti-Hillary Twitter site and found this image of the star and copied that image and used it on a graphic, which he designed wholly on his own.”
or
Lewandowski": What he did was he took an image that he saw on the web, and he put it on a tweet, and he put it out."
Two mutually exclusive descriptions of what happened; no surprise he works for Drumpf!!!
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I’m with Corey on this one. This is less a matter of anti-Semitism than of massive incomptence. Not that the original meme wasn’t anti-Semitic, but I’m willing to believe that Trump is too stupid to realize it.
In that case I’d bet my money on grow wings and cure cancer.
And the thing that absolutely proves your point is David Duke coming out saying that he loved the imagery that Rump used.
Corey can try to spin this from now until the end of time but this is thing that speaks for itself.
@littlegirlblue I disagree that this particular cartoon crossed a line. I think that the imagery doesn’t turn it into a cheap joke but nails exactly what’s wrong with Rump trying to use some of the most grotesque racial stereotypes for his own gain.
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Of course he sent the tweet himself. No question about it.
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Media outlets can’t be sued for reporting on a public court filing. Thus I think their fear of being cut off by the Drumpf scampaign is probably more of a consideration.
I aGREE WITH Sherlock BECAUSE nEW YORKER.
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I thought all he did was twist their arms.
Who has started the CoreyChart, guessing the date on when he has a major meltdown on the air?
I don’t have a specific date, but it going to happen sooner than later.
In fairness, he didn’t go there on this piece…but just watch his body/facial language while she is speaking. He wants to. And it won’t be long before that desire overtakes him.
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Did upChuck Todd get a promotion I hadn’t heard about?
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Agreed. But Lewandowski isn’t stupid and he knows there’s nothing in Antisemitism that will advance Trump.