Forget Vance. It’s •Trump• the Republicans should be talking about replacing.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
I am completely confident that the US press will now begin doling out the hacked material to the public piece by piece, keeping this story alive over a period of weeks and months, fostering all sorts of wild speculation about the internal corruption and sinister machinations of the Trump campaign while implying the campaign is incompetent and possibly in violation of the law for having been hacked — as we all know is standard journalistic practice in this situation:
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Blake Coverettreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands Who gets the job of decoding their take-out food orders and determining which menu items are secretly encoding their child abuse plans?
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
We now have confirmation that both the NYT and WaPo have received the hacked materials. That means the clock is ticking for them to follow their own precedent and start doling out the juicy tidbits as news. Neutrality demands it, after all!
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@inthehands I want 2 see all the files
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@julieofthespirits
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
Re the post upthread, Brian Beutler lays it out in embarrassingly (for the press) stark terms. Here’s what Dean Baquet of the NYT said in 2016:
“When we learn important things, to not publish is a political act. The calculation cannot be, we’re just not going to publish because that would screw up American politics. You know, at that point, I will go into business as like a campaign adviser to people and not as a journalist.”
But now…
Via @KimPerales:
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
Meanwhile, behind closed doors inside the Republican Party, pressure grows for Trump to drop out
Presumably
And shouldn’t the press be frothing and speculating endlessly about it? Because that’s how journalism is done, apparently
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
Don’t tell me there isn’t a single person, not a one, somewhere in the Republican Party machine who’s privately wishing for a different candidate right now.
This is totally absent in press coverage: not hinted at, not murmured about, not quoted anonymously on background, not echoed by very serious columnists, not amplified, not manifested. And that contrast to 2 months ago is damning.
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Michael Halligan 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️replied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by [email protected]
@inthehands because 99.99999% of all journalists in this world have less integrity than a bridge made out of wet paper towels. That’s my guess anyways.
This is why I snicker at people ranting and grandstand over The sanctity of the hallowed free press.
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Morten Grøftehaugereplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands The 2016 campaign was a lot of trump ranting about the mainstream media. He doesn't anymore. Seems he won that fight.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
The ongoing trickle of replies to this whole thread along the lines of “well the Republicans would never •actually• replace Trump” and “whose mind would that change?” are totally missing the assignment here.
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@inthehands Interesting thought. A rational party might well want #tRump to quit, but he still has massive support in the US <:. Plus if he quits the election he could go to jail. And the #GOP is not necessarily rational.
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jonathanpetersonreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands That entire thread of conversation is 100% on target. I'm not a journalist, I'm an engineer. But I did go through journalistic ethics training when I was at CNN and helped launch CNN.com. The right long since abandoned mainstream media because they thought it was biased against them. It's not becoming very clear that it's ALSO biased against ANYTHING that doesn't maximize the drama and thus eyeballs and ad revenue of politics.
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Dave Goldsmithreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
I think you do get the rare hint that there are Republicans who wish Trump was not their candidate but it's suicide for any of them to say it out loud.
I imagine the second that he loses in November the long knives will finally come out.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Dave Goldsmith on last edited by
@Dave_Goldsmith
Agreed if he does indeed lose.In the meantime, the press has absolutely no business just sitting around waiting for that.
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Dave Goldsmithreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
What would they write? An unnamed source says that he wishes Trump was not the presidential candidate for the Republican party?
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Dave Goldsmith on last edited by
@Dave_Goldsmith
Yes, exactly.That’s what they did with Biden. Got paragraph after paragraph about it, story after story.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
“Even his most ardent base checked out after an hour, streaming out of the sparsley-populated auditorium, as he rambled incoherently past the hour mark.”
Gosh, how many of those Republicans “streaming out” wish they had a better candidate? Kind of wish Trump would just drop out?
You don’t know until you ask, my dear pressfolk! Chase them to the local diner! Fish for quotes until you get a juicy one! I know you know how this works: you did it with Biden.
From @wdlindsy:
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands You're right: those diners are beckoning! All over again. Jess Piper recently reported on her blog that she saw very few Trump signs in deep-red, very pro-Trump southern Missouri, as she vacationed there. Lots of diners in that region to visit and get "real Americans" to talk!
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by [email protected]
Trump campaign desperately tries to paint president as cognitively competent, as his campaign is dogged by relentless press coverage of business leaders “startled by his inability keep a straight thought”
Just kidding
That happened, but the press dropped this story and wandered off because they were covering Biden, and the only person talking about it is Trump. #uspol