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In reply to the discussion: Fuck the mainstream press before elections! And FUCK THEM NOW! They are not taking responsibility! [View all]Akamai
(1,779 posts)23. Maybe SOME of the gaffs, but not Trump U. See many people on
the main stream media complaining about being taken for tens of thousands of dollars? Hear many people talk about his many, many law suits? Hear much how little he has benefited anyone but him?
You see the man even now demanding his tax records? Or a full financial statement?
No? Then the goddamned poodle, greedy, afraid press is missing a chance to atone for its egregious treason at the time it mattered most.
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Fuck the mainstream press before elections! And FUCK THEM NOW! They are not taking responsibility! [View all]
Akamai
Dec 2016
OP
Yup! Seems to me that we are trying to get the press to like us. Ain't gonna work. Money works.
Akamai
Dec 2016
#12
I was watching Tweety Matthews tonight make fun of Bernie for his wanting to raise taxes on the rich
Akamai
Dec 2016
#17
Yes -- but we reasonably believe that the press will talk truth to power. And we are WRONG!!!
Akamai
Dec 2016
#7
The media is supposed to be the canary in the mine, the alarm system for all of us, and it is not.
Akamai
Dec 2016
#13
I saw a lot of Trump on a number of networks. I didn't need a talking head to tell me he's
Hoyt
Dec 2016
#3
Unfortunately, people who supported Trump are not going to watch an in depth program on health care
Hoyt
Dec 2016
#5
true. sometimes people can't help being ignorant but there's willful ignorance too.
JHan
Dec 2016
#16
Worse yet, the likelihood someone will be confronted with an in depth program on health care
Snarkoleptic
Dec 2016
#21
Agreed, on TV and maybe newsprint, but it's there on Internet. Most just don't care.
Hoyt
Dec 2016
#41
Some people are more aware than others. If something is bad, I want people - as many as possible -
Akamai
Dec 2016
#9
But what we consider truth are considered lies by ignorant white wingers. "Popular" media
Hoyt
Dec 2016
#15
At least we have to offer a vigorous statement of what we believe, and what history shows.
Akamai
Dec 2016
#19