Trump may be a 'clown,' but he was right about the media

[TenPenny]

A republican, a democrat, a pro-choice person, an anti-choice person, a liberal, a conservative, an evangelical christian and a low-life pervert walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Hi Mr. Trump"

 

[mentalfloss]

OP is fake news

 

[EagleSmack]

I have an issue with the democratic process. Hilary Clinton overwhelmingly got the popular vote, she is out, so that does not work. Why bother voting on the first place?

So the people who live in the bubbles of NYC and Los Angeles do not run the whole country. They are out of touch with the rest of America. They do not understand anything beyond the last university/ coffee house on the edge of those cities.

I love that electoral college.

 

[Curious Cdn]

that was some con jecture
what no link in the post - you posted it like it was your own?
...and it was the smartest thing you Never wrote yourself too


you are a total plagerizing goof



gee...
Well, that turned out to be a fat wopping lie.
You fell for it?
lol
Sad, they don't teach critical thinking in school any more

Here you go, Einstein

The only skill needed to spin for Trump? A total lack of shame - CBC News | Opinion

 

[Danbones]

you are a liar and a plagiarist, so who cares what you have to say?
we just like making you eat what ever it was you said

though it is too easy at times


and re your link
I see the word OPINION
naw that will just be a waste of time from state run COMMUNIST leaning media

 

[Curious Cdn]

you are a liar and a plagiarist, so who care what you have to say?
we just like making you eat what ever it was you said

though it is too easy at times

I have never plaigerized anything in my life.

Since you clearly haven't a clue what the truth is about anything, (are you high, all of the time by any chance) I consider the rest of your post to be a compliment.

you are a liar and a plagiarist, so who cares what you have to say?
we just like making you eat what ever it was you said

though it is too easy at times


and re your link
I see the word OPINION
naw that will just be a waste of time from state run COMMUNIST leaning media

Yeah. Harper had a lot of Communists on his staff.

 

[Danbones]

you have such a short memory back to the post with no link that was someone else's opinion
which YOU passed off as your own
that is plagiarism there
numb nuts

and it was a left leanin globalist harperite's opinion as I recall
so again you are a liar too

internet's forever mate

 

[Curious Cdn]

you have such a short memory back to the post with no link that was someone else's opinion
which YOU passed off as your own
that is plagiarism there
numb nuts

I always had the link and I published the author's name. I also put it out in installments, knowing that you and the rest of your Trumpeter freak show don't have the attention span to read more than 140 characters at a time. Maybe, if you could, a lot of you wouldn't be on here all day long every work day ( Yes, I said the "W" word!)

 

[Danbones]

you didn't
until much later when it was pointed out what a dumb opinion it was
...and now you are lying about it

"Whatever your preferred term, a political spokesperson's job is to bend his or her politician's words into a passable version of the truth. It's not a job for the faint-hearted; it's full of pressure, the positions you defend can be obnoxious and you labour away under the sword of Damocles or, rather, its modern equivalent: the fast-moving bus. It's also an industry Donald Trump is hammering out of existence with his brazen assault on political and media norms.
Spinning for Trump must be as terrifying as it is useless. How do you front insanity? How can you claim to speak for someone who lashes out spontaneously — and unsupervised — on Twitter at every slight, whether real or perceived? Who holds the position of whoever last sat on him? The West Wing is nice and all, but so is your dignity. With Trump, there is literally nothing you can rule out having to defend.

Decades of skeletons

One of the pleasures of speaking on behalf of former prime minister Stephen Harper, I now realize, was never being forced to address rumours about alleged sexual activities at the Moscow Ritz Carlton. Thank you, sir, for leading a much simpler life.
Trump's surrogates, on the other hand, have 70 years of skeletons to spin. It takes a certain je ne sais quoi. I would say it was rather Orwellian to watch senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway fling mud, poop and anything else at hand at CNN's Anderson Cooper in an interview last week, as they sparred over what Trump "kompromat" briefing materials did or did not exist, but even Orwell's math tapped out at relatively sane 2+2=5. How does one argue with someone who isn't tethered to reality, who will lie with impunity?

'Quite an entanglement': Donald Trump and his potential conflicts of interest

The only skill needed to spin for Trump is a total lack of shame. Down is the new up, the sky isn't blue, and screw you for thinking otherwise, you mainstream news media lackey. What's worse, after having debased yourself, the great man will, more often than not, tweet that your bravura interpretation of his antics wasn't, in fact, correct. He really did mean whatever insane thing he tweeted that morning. Like, for example, that wacky time Sean Spicer, Trump's press secretary, spent a day on television arguing that Trump's tweeted call for a new nuclear arms race was really a call for the status quo, only for a clip to surface of Trump on MSNBC saying, clear as a bell, "let it be an arms race.""


"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes
— @realDonaldTrump

And instead of being outraged at this real-time discreditation, his spokespeople instead return on bended knee to Trump Tower for their next humiliation. It defies convention.
The politician-spokesperson pas de deux is usually a delicate dance, one that relies on full disclosure and total confidence in each other. It doesn't work if you joust in public. Most spokespeople get one, or maybe two chances to be caught completely off guard by their guy. If it happens more often, the press are perfectly within their right to question your utility.
Whatever thimbleful of power I had in Harper's Ottawa flowed from the simple fact that I spoke for Stephen Harper. The press knew he couldn't speak to them every day — or any day — and so I was it. The second I didn't speak for him — or was perceived as not speaking for him — I wouldn't be of any use to him, or anybody else.

Corrosive communications

To hear Sean Spicer, Trump's press secretary, admit that his first stop each day is @realDonaldTrump to see what he'll be defending is totally backwards. You can't do the job knowing the same or less about your guy and his or her thinking than the press that's there to challenge your leader.
This is where Team Trump's total lack of shame is horribly — and deliberately — corrosive. They aren't there to engage in the healthy back-and-forth between government and the press. They're there to provoke the kind of hysterics that usually end up discrediting the media. And if they themselves are discredited in the process too, well, that's just the cost of doing business.
If this sounds incredibly inside-baseball: it is. But its effects will be felt right across the country. Trump was elected, in part, because of a deep dissatisfaction with the way politics was practiced. By dipping convention in acid they're erasing, not fixing or replacing, a troubled system.
But that's the point. Trump has never enjoyed being held to account. He knows the media are struggling financially and with perceptions of bias. Anything he can do to further their journey down the current trajectory will absolve him of needed scrutiny as he pushes deeper into his first term.
The successful end point for Team Trump is when nobody believes anything anybody says about Washington. This puts his press team's task in a stark light: their mission is to birth a new normal, leaving only suckers to observe the traditional rules of the game.
They're off to a flying start.
"

don't see no citation for this, another person's writing

 

[darkbeaver]

I guess it depends whether or n of the ot you want a president who likes to have prostitutes urinate while he watches.

You're such a fukkin shjthead, you are not a builder, yer a high order twit of a kind that will always plague mankind, you work with the worms and the bacteria you're base, we will make a pot of you or a bowl in time.

 

[Danbones]

I always had the link and I published the author's name. I also put it out in installments, knowing that you and the rest of your Trumpeter freak show don't have the attention span to read more than 140 characters at a time. Maybe, if you could, a lot of you wouldn't be on here all day long every work day ( Yes, I said the "W" word!)

bull
excuses excuses
you put it out AFTER the fact because we all noted it was a stupid thing for you to write

 

[Curious Cdn]

you didn't
until much later when it was pointed out what a dumb opinion it was
...and now you are lying about it




don't see no citation for this, another person's writing

I went to work (You should try that sometime):and when I got back, I saw your tight sphincter post, whereupon I posted the last line on my doc where the link is.

Why am I even bothering trying to explain all of this to an Uber Troll? I must be losing my touch. I haven't seen a sickness like you on here since Cdn Bear buggered off back to the Res.

 

[darkbeaver]

Writing stupid things in no way detracts from the esteme we hold each other in. Evene though I converse with idiots and serial malcontents I still hold there contributions in the highest regard. Sterling citizens all.

 

[Danbones]

I went to work (You should try that sometime):and when I got back, I saw your tight sphincter post, whereupon I posted the last line on my doc where the link is.

Why am I even bothering trying to explain all of this to an Uber Troll? I must be losing my touch. I haven't seen a sickness like you on here since Cdn Bear buggered off back to the Res.

you posted someone else's writing without acknowledging the writer, like it was yours
plagiarist
I posted the proof

...and after what you commies types said about trumps ol lady for presenting a speech someone else wrote for her as plagiarism...
Everybody says plagiarists are goofs - I guess because it's yet another variation of the fake news the rest of us have all come to detest

...and now back to the real news

Putin also pointed the finger at the Obama administration for trying to undermine Trump, and for fomenting doubt about the legitimacy of the U.S. election results — which is, incidentally, the exact same thing the U.S. intelligence community has accused Russia of doing. Putin had additional reasons, beyond America’s moral turpitude, for why those claims made in that leaked memo aren’t likely be true.
Putin Defends Trump, Extols Russia’s Sex Workers

putin says they don't need no steekin chihuahuas in russia
they have real hookers there
maybe you should go

 

[Cliffy]