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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 15, 2016 -> 04:12 PM)
I think CNN is less left aligned then FoxNews is right aligned. My view is CNN is the best place to get news and I don't think that highly out of FoxNews for well news. FoxNews was my go to news station 4 years ago and they have went into the tubes more recently. None of it is perfect but I feel CNN does a pretty good job getting as many different commentators as possible which provide you with many differing views and thus enable any individual to holistically listen to various views and think which ones they prefer. Sure, there are people who lean one way vs. another, but hard to not have that exist to some extent.

 

People can rip at me all you want, but I think CNN's election coverage has been pretty good. I also am smart enough that I can listen to something and come up with my own opinion on it and can also blow off or read through a lot of BS that all of these organizations spin.

 

CNN is definitely the least biased of the networks. They're big issue is when they get hung up on certain topics.

 

They're left leaning, but not left slanted.

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QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Aug 15, 2016 -> 04:33 PM)
CNN needs more missing plane coverage.

 

Ha

 

I just don't see the value in the 24 hr news networks. I only see them at airports and it's like, you can see how out of touch with reality you could become when you are old and not engaging with society and only see a 24 hr news network telling you what's going on.

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Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin

Donald Trump supported every policy he said today created ISIS. That means we have no idea what he'd do as POTUS. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-elect...y-pitch-n631311

4:35 PM - 15 Aug 2016

 

Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin

Trump was:

 

-Pro Iraq War

-Pro Iraq withdrawal

-Pro Libya strikes

-Pro Mubarak ouster

 

Against all of them today. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-elect...y-pitch-n631311

4:36 PM - 15 Aug 2016

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Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin

Donald Trump supported every policy he said today created ISIS. That means we have no idea what he'd do as POTUS. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-elect...y-pitch-n631311

4:35 PM - 15 Aug 2016

 

Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin

Trump was:

 

-Pro Iraq War

-Pro Iraq withdrawal

-Pro Libya strikes

-Pro Mubarak ouster

 

Against all of them today. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-elect...y-pitch-n631311

4:36 PM - 15 Aug 2016

 

He's not running on policy, he's running on rhetoric. If he fools enough people, we'll get what we deserve.

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I guess I hadn't realized until recently that the Watergate scandal broke before the 1972 Presidential elections, and Nixon still managed to win one of the biggest landslides in history, and that Nixon managed to hold office for two more years. I guess I had always assumed that the timeline was that the break-in happened in '73 or something.

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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 16, 2016 -> 10:10 PM)
I guess I hadn't realized until recently that the Watergate scandal broke before the 1972 Presidential elections, and Nixon still managed to win one of the biggest landslides in history, and that Nixon managed to hold office for two more years. I guess I had always assumed that the timeline was that the break-in happened in '73 or something.

 

I imagine it was viewed as shenanigans until the connection to the White House was made.

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It was alleged/reported to have been run out of the White House by October of '72, though. It just wasn't getting that much attention at the time, and there wasn't a smoking gun yet. I don't know if there was enough widespread cynicism in public office at that point to believe a President would do all of the things Nixon was doing. And so much of it wasn't even necessary! He undermined himself so much.

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Trumps law and order speech from Milwaukee (actually from a95% white community an hour north of Milwaukee) was predictably awful and full of nothing but dog whistles.

 

He's also brought in the breitbart ceo who hates Ryan and McConnell to run his campaign along with one of his incompetent TV surrogates. He's sick of the "pivot" he thinks he's done, so expect even more unhinged nonsense going forward. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-po...-his-own-image/

 

 

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Also rumored that disgraced former fox news head and long time political conservative coordinator Roger ailes has been advising the campaign.

 

Caught that Kelly Anne lady for a brief bit on fox while flipping through the channels last night, was trying to argue why it's good trump is down 10 points in every important swing state lol

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Oh s***, so this Manafort cash is reported to have been used to funnel to US lobbying firms. Manafort also worked and set the stage for the annexation of Crimea, something Trump had said he'd recognize.

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QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 09:00 AM)
So tired of the liberal media coordinating with the democrats ugh

Just remembered the time b>w tried claiming breitbart was anti trump lol

 

This is going to get really, really ugly though. https://mobile.twitter.com/costareports/sta...849610028015616

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/costareports/sta...850989207379968

Edit on the other hand if this results in the Republicans mortal enemy taking office with control of congress and the ability to appoint a justice swinging the overall ideology of the supreme Court, lol.

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QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 09:17 AM)
Oh s***, so this Manafort cash is reported to have been used to funnel to US lobbying firms. Manafort also worked and set the stage for the annexation of Crimea, something Trump had said he'd recognize.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/765869802594402304

 

Wow.

 

Just like the f Clinton foundation accepting donations though, if course.

 

One of the two groups was the podesta group

 

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And here's the info on the Crimea aspect

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseLehrich/sta...901261585670144

 

Jfc this election, and it's only mid August!

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Stupid auto correct I swear I'm not pouring bailey's over my Cereal!

 

(^this is a Reince Preibus joke for anyone not paying entirely too close attention to this election. He has made this oddly specific and unprovoked claim several times to interviewers.)

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I don't think J. Podesta has been involved in the podesta group for over 20 years. Not since his original Clinton group. Now, if this takes down Tony Podesta and Vin Baker in one swoop...hey, not bad.

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QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 10:43 AM)
I don't think J. Podesta has been involved in the podesta group for over 20 years. Not since his original Clinton group. Now, if this takes down Tony Podesta and Vin Baker in one swoop...hey, not bad.

 

Something I read said he stepped down in 2007? Before taking over Obama's campaign anyway. Really more funny than anything.

 

If someone had written a script that mirrored the 2016 campaign, it would be rejected by every producer as way too ridiculous and over-the-top.

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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 11:02 AM)
Something I read said he stepped down in 2007? Before taking over Obama's campaign anyway. Really more funny than anything.

 

If someone had written a script that mirrored the 2016 campaign, it would be rejected by every producer as way too ridiculous and over-the-top.

 

I guess that's possible he was in both, but that was same time as his CAP run. He may have been on board.

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