2016 Postmortem

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts) Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:17 AM Sep 2016

Anchors and commentators (CNN/MSNBC) seem angry about the "birther" announcement.

It seems to me that they are pissed by this game Trump is playing. The "keep the suspense going" bullshit has set them off. Maybe, just maybe, the screw will turn and the softball coverage will start to change.

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Anchors and commentators (CNN/MSNBC) seem angry about the "birther" announcement. (Original Post) madaboutharry Sep 2016 OP

That and they're pissed off that he didn't wait for their embeds last night.... SaschaHM Sep 2016 #1

I can honestly say leftynyc Sep 2016 #9

It was the "anchors and commentators" who fueled this fiasco randr Sep 2016 #2

They enabled him and created a Frankenstein. madaboutharry Sep 2016 #4

Spoiled, lazy lap-dogs biting the hand that feeds them? klook Sep 2016 #3

All they had to do was ask duncang Sep 2016 #5

I agree rockfordfile Sep 2016 #8

they are being played by their pimp GusBob Sep 2016 #6

Its ginned up faux outrage Cosmocat Sep 2016 #7

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)

1. That and they're pissed off that he didn't wait for their embeds last night....

Reply to madaboutharry (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:20 AM

Sep 2016

and to add insult to injury, he bashed the reporters that weren't at the event.

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)

9. I can honestly say

Reply to SaschaHM (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 11:10 AM

Sep 2016

that I don't blame him for not waiting for them. If I were in a crowd waiting for someone to speak, I wouldn't want to be waiting around for the press to arrive. That said, he's been jerking the press around by the short hairs for over a year already and they've let him because of the ratings. So I really can't seem to work up any outrage about him dissing the press.

randr

(12,412 posts)

2. It was the "anchors and commentators" who fueled this fiasco

Reply to madaboutharry (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:21 AM

Sep 2016

All they had to do was keep asking who Trump hears is "saying" the Birth Certificate is phony and keep asking what the information he alluded to from his "investigative team" in Hawaii was all about.
Just hold him down on at least one lie and watch him squirm.

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)

4. They enabled him and created a Frankenstein.

Reply to randr (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:24 AM

Sep 2016

Now it has gotten personal and the press and media itself is insulted.

klook

(12,157 posts)

3. Spoiled, lazy lap-dogs biting the hand that feeds them?

Reply to madaboutharry (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:23 AM

Sep 2016

We can hope.

duncang

(1,907 posts)

5. All they had to do was ask

Reply to madaboutharry (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:51 AM

Sep 2016

Why did you lie about President Obama? Forget all the dancing around they have done. Doesn't really take a rocket scientist to figure that question out.