Leaked E-mails Show WSJ Editor In Chief Pressured Reporters To Alter Trump Coverage
Well, this should come as no fucking surprise.
Earlier this month, Politico released the full transcript of an interview WSJ editor-in-chief Gerard Baker conducted with Donald Trump.
That interview was the subject of what amounted to a puff piece the Journal ran on July 25.
One of things Politico notes in their piece introducing the transcript is that Baker took the lead byline on the story about the interview, "an unusual step for the editor in chief of a paper with a large White House re
The man is and has been diagnosed by several mental health experts as mentally incompetent. His mental health has been called into question by Republican Congressmen. Congress needs to formerly request and have Trump professionally evaluated for mental competence.
Again, where is Congress? What happened to their public and Constitutional responsibility to remove a self-demonstrated mentally incompetent President from Office. Are Republicans so desperate for power that they would risk the nation, its citizens, their voters over their Republican agenda ambitions? Clearly they are and that needs to be addressed legally.
It’s time hold Republican leadership legally accountable for the dereliction of their sworn Constitutional duties: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion (that means regardless of your personal ambitions and or the agenda ambitions of your respective party) and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.” The Republican leadership is a criminal disgrace to the oath they swore and the voters whose best interest they promised to represent.
For that that matter what are the damn Democrats doing – besides handing the Republican leadership and Trump more and more rope, but without ever initiating the well deserved hanging. The United States of America’s government – the worlds largest faux democracy its biggest “Banana republic,” but a source absurd humor for the rest of the world.
The Democrats, Dugger? They’ve been in a perpetual coma for a long as I can recall. Aside from Obama and perhaps Warren, not a single democrat* who’s a national figure jumps to mind that captures an audience’s attention with the content of their speech or charisma. How about Pelosi, Schumer, Ellison, Malloy, Van Hollen, Klobuchar, Warner, Hoyer, or Tom Perez? Now I’m putting myself into coma.
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I don’t consider Bernie a democrat and neither
does he. https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/
Look, I love Bernie, really I do! But he is too old – if he was 20 years younger, I would carry a sign for him! I do think he is honest and has a solid priority list. One that I think has the gumption is Kamala Harris, 52 yr old. She’s on your link, Marty, class III
Kamala Devi Harris is an American attorney and politician who currently serves as the junior senator from California. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She previously served as the 32nd Attorney General of California. https://www.earnthenecklace.com/kamala-harris-wiki-age-husband-parents-net-worth-education-facts/
– Murphy
I agree that Harris is talented, smart, skilled and if we were discussing Harris in a courtroom, a senate hearing, or perhaps a legislative debate on the floor of the senate, she might jump to mind these days. Yet for me, Harris is not a national figure that jumps to mind as one who captures an audience’s attention with the content of speech or charisma. An example is Mario Cuomo. When he picked up the mic everyone paid attention. Including Republicans. When he spoke people listened closely, because he was a fighter, and he was compelling and filled with substance. The people knew it.
Bernie’s Bernie. He’s a special man who was treated badly, in a malicious manner and in an unforgivable way by Wassermann- Schultz, acting at the behest of Hillary Clinton and/or her campaign. Whether it affected the outcome is anyone’s guess equal to the guess of whether the Russians affected the outcome of Trump v Clinton. Few rational people have any doubt that Bernie would be a much better president than the incompetent we have.
Marty, I think Bernie took away some votes in addition to Russian instigating some devastating crap on Hillary and assface constantly repeating total lies about Hillary – the only reason Bernie took away votes is that Hillary has so many haters and lost a lot that turned to Bernie.
Re Kamala, true, no national recognition but then again, Obama didn’t have that either. I think her biggest obstacle would be based on gender. Some of that also spilled over Hillary. There really are no Democrat stars. It’s gotta be an ‘unknown’ Democrat that has the charisma and experience to get the attention. I think Repubs will put Ryan at the top of their ticket. And I cannot stand that sob!
I could close my eyes and throw a rock into a crowd and whomever it hit would be a better president than assface!
– Murphy
God forbid that a responsible news outlet would say “Could we please just stick to reporting what he said rather than packaging it in exegesis and selective criticism?” Didn’t they get the memo that said responsible news reporting means packaging it in exegesis and selective criticism?
Of course, it’s so much sexier to remove the ending context and only publicize the first ten words (“Could … said”). Now that’s what I call responsible journalism. /Sarcasm off
Harkening Car 54, OOH! OOH! I’ve got a sensational idea! Let’s frame
“rather than packaging it in exegesis and selective criticism”
by calling it
“Pressured Reporters To Alter Trump Coverage”
Now THAT’s journalism!
This is part of a broader pattern. Good article, “How Conservatives Manipulated the Mainstream Media to Give Us President Trump” at http://billmoyers.com/story/future-democracy-read-media-bias-report/ gives data supporting the thesis.
Trump’s daily pronouncement of outrageous ad lib followed by tightly scripts from the teleprompter create cognitive dissonance in the audience and further divide the country. This is politics at its best: distractions to divide and conquer a populace. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the war plans are under way, the tax cuts for the super rich are negotiated, and the bail outs are paid. This strategy worked for Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Bush Jr. Why should the GOP change a proven game plan?
Now let me see what Trump said today. Breaking news: it is something racist, misogynistic, and outrageous!