Make it 56 days, and you’ve got yourself a deal!
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He ripped Trump to shreds. He also put the media on notice. The well-being of the country is at stake. The media must call him out. Remember WMD when the media couldn’t handle the job. This time they HAVE TO GET IT DONE. They must call out this fraud. He is totally unfit.
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@ncsteve I’m actually looking forward to the watching the news tonight to watch these weasels squirm…
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The lazy, incestuous, entitled, “SCOOP-obsessed” MSM will either totally ignore Obama on this, or attack him en-mass for having the temerity of an “Uppity Ni(CLANG!)” to impute THEIR ability to generate ad-revenue for their corporate pay-masters and lose chances to climb over the dead bodies to “get their shot at the gold ring”.
I mean, what does he WANT them to do? WORK?!?!?!?!
How DARE he!
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That would be glorious!
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Damn it! I just fist-bumped and broke my flat-screen—where can I get another one? Best Buy?
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How Corporate Media Work 101:
Trump calls the female half of America “fat pigs”, “dogs”, “slobs”, and “disgusting animals”.
Corporate media beam, “He’s unscripted, politically incorrect, authentic, honest, refreshing.”
vs…
Clinton calls the racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamaphobic half of Trump voters “deplorable”.
Corporate media howl, “It’s her Mitt-Romney moment!”
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They are afraid to ask The Donald follow up questions that expose his ignorance and mendacity. Access to him is more important than protecting our right to know. Questions to Hillary, on the other hand, are designed to cement the image - that they created - of someone corrupt, calculating and - here’s that word, again - unlikable. What a disgrace they are.
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That’s gonna leave a mark.
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I think the media are as impervious to reason and rational action as the GOP they cover.
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I so respect this President beyond words …
If anything, for having such restraint in these times ----
I can’t even imagine the effort required for Him to not order an air strike on Trump tower ----
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He probably abstains, knowing Trump would find a way to bamboozle the government into rebuilding it at taxpayer expense.
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I’m really glad he said this. It needed to be said and HRC can’t say it this bluntly without looking like she’s whining about her coverage. I will be interested to see how the media outlets cover this criticism of them, especially the New York Times that appears to have lost it’s damn mind this election cycle.
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Melania: I can even use this material for my divorce settlement. Thanks Obama.
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He sure looked like he has every intention of doing just that. I’d guess that campaigning is actually fun when you’ve got your last election behind you.
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And how is the MSM responding to Obama’s critique of the press coverage?
NBC: What press critique?
Time: Obama “griped” about the press coverage of Hillary’s email. No mention of what he said they say about Trump.
Bloomberg: Full-on Minitrue job–it was a speech criticizing Trump’s praise of Putin.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-09-13/obama-says-putin-is-trump-s-role-model-in-campaign-attack
USA Today: Calling out press for grading Trump on a curve was a “Trump-like turn.” No, really, that’s what they said.
And in a Trump-like turn, Obama even addressed a complaint to the reporters at the back. “I’m not running this time, but I sure do get frustrated by the way this campaign is being covered. Guys in the back, I’m just telling the truth about how I feel about this,” he said.
“You don’t grade the presidency on a curve. This is serious business. And when we see folks talking about transparency — you want to debate transparency? You have one candidate in this race who’s released decades worth of her tax returns. You have another candidate who is the first in decades who refuses to release any and all.”
Yeah, just like Trump.
Reuters? Don’t seem to have noticed they were the ones he was talking to:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN11J1T2
The president slammed Trump for making polemical comments daily and said controversies surrounding Clinton did not compare.
“We cannot afford suddenly to treat this like a reality show. We can’t afford to act as if there’s some equivalence here,” Obama said.
It’s inspiring how reporters overcome adversity and do this important work despite having a hearing disability that causes them not to hear when they are being spoken to directly.
**UPDATE
And, in a stunning late breaking development that I’m sure will stun everyone, the NYT, once it finally got around to reporting the speech, reported the press critique as if he was lecturing the audience for engaging in false equivalence. No, really. That’s what they did.
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The media is getting its horse race now. Now that they’ve locked in their ratings I do hope they tear Trump to shreds.
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If Obama puts his mind to it, and I certainly believe he will, he could turn Clinton’s small lead into a landslide. His approval rating, according to WaPo today, is at 58%. I think he can make the case for Clinton better than anyone else on the planet.
Absolutely, except that you forgot “untrustworthy”. They actually used the pneumonia story as an excuse to again claim she can’t be trusted. It would be one thing if Clinton had some kind of catastrophic, debilitating illness, but chastising her for waiting two days to reveal she and some of her staff have what amounts to little more than a really bad case of bronchitis? It’s just ridiculous.
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@grack @whiteb @ncsteve @tflick @steviedee111 @irasdad @bodie1 @katscherger
From The New Republic, very much worth reading, a couple of excerpts
Why the Media Is Botching the Election
The “false balance” coverage of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is all about the press’s self-interest.
Against that backdrop, it’s no surprise that when liberal intellectuals argue the press’ coverage of Trump and Clinton is out of whack, in ways that imperil the democracy itself, members of the media don’t see a world-historical blindspot that must be urgently corrected. They see an attack on the trade itself—and reflexively rush to protect it
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This is why–in a non Bizarro universe–there would be civilized laws against lying in a political campaign. And laws come from responsible political officials. And civilized political officials come from voting. And voting comes from…
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