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Pre$$titutes claim to have woken up, declare war on Trump
An open letter to Trump from the US press corps, written by Kyle Pope, Editor in Chief and Publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, in the name of the US Press Corps.
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They go all bossy on him, elaborating on points like this:
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Then they seem to remember what they did over the last eight years in the rear end of the "most transparent" President ever, and add:
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Sure you'll do.
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Of course you will. And you will survive (not that it would have been necessary to mention that, or would it?):
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I suggest Teh Donald starts a weekly TV show on RT, detailing the current works of the government and taking calls and tweets from The People. Maybe call it "Aló Presidente". That'll teach them. ![]() |
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Stop watching RT.
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Before you say something stupid about climate change, check this list. "If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. " Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1 |
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The press decides to institute things that keep the press free...and you're problem is..? Oh, ya, Daddy Vladdy might look bad when you take the things he says and does and puts them in the context he said and did them in.
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What is the point of this OP? A guy sent a letter to Donald Trump. What are you asking us to believe about it?
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Before you say something stupid about climate change, check this list. "If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. " Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1 |
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From the tone of the responses, I get the impression that this is a non-event.
Is it that the letter doesn't exist or that no-one here thinks it's newsworthy. Yes, I get that some of you don't like the OP but, to me, the letter seems interesting. Is there anything in it? |
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I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. Trudeau A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black. Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon |
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Before you say something stupid about climate change, check this list. "If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. " Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1 |
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I think the main recipient of this letter is not Trump, but journalists who think that the Trump way of dealing with the press is the new norm.
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I don't see anything interesting in it. "Hi, we appreciate that your election is significant, we really want to work with you, we're not going to sacrifice our ethics just to get access to you." Pretty straightforward to me. The author even deprecates journalism in order to, I guess, try to be overly-agreeable. |
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Hahahahhaaaa! That was hilarious! My God, everywhere you look they're in a panic, blustering hysterically.
Look at a guy like James O'Keefe: instead of licking the shoes of the Clinton machine so he can ride in her airplane as an Annointed One, he infiltrates the machine. They just hate him. For doing their jobs. Talk about courage. That guy has some balls. What they don't seem to understand is that these independent journalists are inheriting the mantle and the legacy media cartel is finished. lol. |
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The premise of authoritarians is that they have clearly superior access to the facts, because rationalism is so much better than pesky empiricism.
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Donald Trump should give interviews exclusively to RT.
He is a thin-skinned buffoon. Of course he wants to control the press when he will give them new things to criticise daily. |
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I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. Trudeau A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black. Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon |
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James O'Keefe, the guy who hacks up his supposed "gotcha" video recordings so badly that he actually had to pay a guy who worked for ACORN $100,000 and apologize for misrepresenting him, and who was recently busted for trying to pay people to disrupt Trump's inauguration by pretending to represent a progressive organization?
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