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kpete

(72,029 posts) Fri Apr 1, 2016, 05:39 PM Apr 2016

Maddow:"Focus of Republican presidential race & its national media coverage right now is a farce"

“We’re in this moment of really profound hypocrisy in the Republican presidential race and professed ignorance in national media coverage of the Republican presidential race,” Maddow noted. “What we are having right now in terms of the focus of the Republican presidential race and its national media coverage right now is a farce.”

“What’s going on is not that hard to understand, and it’s really different from the way this is being described this most national media,” Maddow said, calling out the pattern of media allowing Republicans a pass on their extremism as a whole, while focusing on the insanity of an individual. “The political narrative and media narrative that come up in the last 24 hours in response to what Donald Trump said yesterday about abortion and what it means to be anti- abortion, what it means to want to ban abortion in this country, it is so out of touch and so facile right now it’s mind-bending.”

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/01/maddow_explains_how_donald_trumps_extreme_anti_abortion_comments_are_more_conventional_than_controversial/

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Maddow:"Focus of Republican presidential race & its national media coverage right now is a farce" (Original Post) kpete Apr 2016 OP

Maddow is a farce .... nt Trajan Apr 2016 #1

"Donald Trump caused a sudden national controversy by simply espousing the logical conclusion of the pampango Apr 2016 #2

and yet it east up all media time on MSNBC hollysmom Apr 2016 #3

Rachel keeps talking about Trump and the Republicans Rosa Luxemburg Apr 2016 #4

Rachel's a $7 million dollar a year farce. Wilms Apr 2016 #5

Oh what has happened to the once wonderful DU. trumad Apr 2016 #6

kind of scary around here kpete Apr 2016 #7

Trajan

(19,089 posts)

1. Maddow is a farce .... nt

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Fri Apr 1, 2016, 05:45 PM

Apr 2016

pampango

(24,692 posts)

2. "Donald Trump caused a sudden national controversy by simply espousing the logical conclusion of the

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Apr 1, 2016, 05:46 PM

Apr 2016

Republican Party’s official anti-abortion platform.

... his rival Ted Cruz routinely touts a top supporter, Troy Newman, who is a vocal anti-abortion activist who calls for the execution of abortion providers.

“What Donald Trump did yesterday, it may be viewed as a gaffe, but it wasn’t a gaffe, right? He just used blunter language than the anti-abortion movement likes the use in public,” she explained. “Ted Cruz is right, that the anti-abortion movement in general has learned to stop talking about that,” she said. “They don’t like to talk about that; they like to say that they’ll never talk about that. But it is, if we’re being honest here, an unavoidable consequence of what it would mean if they get their way”.