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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
March 15 2017 02:35 GMT
#142381
On March 15 2017 11:34 Slaughter wrote:
Seems like a silly move by Maddow. Gives Trump fuel for his dishonest media deflection technique and didn't really show anything.

The media reporting on anything feeds that flame.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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Slaughter
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States20254 Posts
March 15 2017 02:40 GMT
#142382
On March 15 2017 11:35 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2017 11:34 Slaughter wrote:
Seems like a silly move by Maddow. Gives Trump fuel for his dishonest media deflection technique and didn't really show anything.

The media reporting on anything feeds that flame.


But now he has a more legitimate claim. His taxes taken and published in a questionably ethical move? Its a specific instance he can point to where he has legit reasons to call foul. Plus they showed nothing so he can use that as a way to slow the "show us your taxes" chants from the left. She gave him a lot of ammo.
Never Knows Best.
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35172 Posts
March 15 2017 02:40 GMT
#142383
On March 15 2017 11:35 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2017 11:34 Slaughter wrote:
Seems like a silly move by Maddow. Gives Trump fuel for his dishonest media deflection technique and didn't really show anything.

The media reporting on anything feeds that flame.

Next thing you know he's going to say that woman that payed for a father's plane ticket for his daughter was fake.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-15 02:47:44
March 15 2017 02:45 GMT
#142384
On March 15 2017 11:40 Slaughter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2017 11:35 Plansix wrote:
On March 15 2017 11:34 Slaughter wrote:
Seems like a silly move by Maddow. Gives Trump fuel for his dishonest media deflection technique and didn't really show anything.

The media reporting on anything feeds that flame.


But now he has a more legitimate claim. His taxes taken and published in a questionably ethical move? Its a specific instance he can point to where he has legit reasons to call foul. Plus they showed nothing so he can use that as a way to slow the "show us your taxes" chants from the left. She gave him a lot of ammo.

Eh, I'm not into over analyzing a non-story that will fade away in the next 12 hours. At worst he can deflect a bit or whine. But Trump has the attention span of a gold fish.

I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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a_flayer
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Netherlands2826 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-15 02:54:01
March 15 2017 02:51 GMT
#142385
On March 15 2017 11:45 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2017 11:40 Slaughter wrote:
On March 15 2017 11:35 Plansix wrote:
On March 15 2017 11:34 Slaughter wrote:
Seems like a silly move by Maddow. Gives Trump fuel for his dishonest media deflection technique and didn't really show anything.

The media reporting on anything feeds that flame.


But now he has a more legitimate claim. His taxes taken and published in a questionably ethical move? Its a specific instance he can point to where he has legit reasons to call foul. Plus they showed nothing so he can use that as a way to slow the "show us your taxes" chants from the left. She gave him a lot of ammo.

Eh, I'm not into over analyzing a non-story that will fade away in the next 12 hours. At worst he can deflect a bit or whine. But Trump has the attention span of a gold fish.


Don't be dissing goldfish like that I also dislike comparing Trump to an orang-utan because it is offensive to librarians and the great apes everywhere.


On March 15 2017 10:57 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
Kasparov called it earlier. albeit with a russian spin. I'm not a big fan of these announcement types. Just keep silent until you get enough and you know it's good. Haven't any of these people read transmetropolitan? Get something 100 percent airtight and pull it out at a press conference.


This sounds like infowars-level conspiracy stuff and seems like a good example of Russophobic media frenzy.


I'm quite interested in what Comey has to say about the potential on-going investigation.
When you came along so righteous with a new national hate, so convincing is the ardor of war and of men, it's harder to breathe than to believe you're a friend. The wars at home, the wars abroad, all soaked in blood and lies and fraud.
Karis Vas Ryaar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States4396 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-15 02:59:11
March 15 2017 02:54 GMT
#142386
I'm not saying I agree with Kasparov entirely. just that he pointed out before that this could be a distraction. He does tend to be a bit conspiratorial but then again he knows Putin better than I ever will. I think the general point was that people were wasting time on the taxes and its possible Trump leaked it as a bit of good pr. and even if he didn't I'd still rather focus on other things than a newsperson making a dumb play for ratings.
"I'm not agreeing with a lot of Virus's decisions but they are working" Tasteless. Ipl4 Losers Bracket Virus 2-1 Maru
m4ini
Profile Joined February 2014
4215 Posts
March 15 2017 02:57 GMT
#142387
On March 15 2017 11:45 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2017 11:40 Slaughter wrote:
On March 15 2017 11:35 Plansix wrote:
On March 15 2017 11:34 Slaughter wrote:
Seems like a silly move by Maddow. Gives Trump fuel for his dishonest media deflection technique and didn't really show anything.

The media reporting on anything feeds that flame.


But now he has a more legitimate claim. His taxes taken and published in a questionably ethical move? Its a specific instance he can point to where he has legit reasons to call foul. Plus they showed nothing so he can use that as a way to slow the "show us your taxes" chants from the left. She gave him a lot of ammo.

Eh, I'm not into over analyzing a non-story that will fade away in the next 12 hours. At worst he can deflect a bit or whine. But Trump has the attention span of a gold fish.

https://twitter.com/samsanders/status/841839520437948418


I am absolutely sure that you're wrong there. There's a difference between "having an attention span like a gold fish", and being a narcissist.

He will constantly point to this now, every time his taxes etc are brought up. The same way he constantly points back to how he was against the iraq war (regardless of truth or not). It's not bullshit he made up like the wiretap, where he wants to not talk about it. This "confirms" him, regardless of how stupid it is to point at sheets of papers of a decade ago and say "well there you have it, they illegally leaked it and proved nothing".

He'll milk this. And the worst part is, it was so foreseeable, it's ridiculous. And it fuels into the "dishonest media" narrative, in fact in this case rightfully so. Trump fans need way less to have their narrative confirmed.
On track to MA1950A.
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States23844 Posts
March 15 2017 03:00 GMT
#142388
On March 15 2017 11:29 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Turn MSNBC back on to see Rachel Maddow do gymnastics distancing herself from this story.


Confirmed leaked from Russians.

But seriously, the most trusted mouthpiece of corporate media on the center-left just baited her audience hard and a lot of them won't be happy about it.
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
xDaunt
Profile Joined March 2010
United States17988 Posts
March 15 2017 03:04 GMT
#142389
On March 15 2017 12:00 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2017 11:29 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Turn MSNBC back on to see Rachel Maddow do gymnastics distancing herself from this story.


Confirmed leaked from Russians.

But seriously, the most trusted mouthpiece of corporate media on the center-left just baited her audience hard and a lot of them won't be happy about it.

I'm trying to figure out why anyone would think that it would be a good idea to run that story. You'd have to be a hardcore adherent to "any publicity is good publicity" to think that Maddow's show came out ahead on this.
Karis Vas Ryaar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States4396 Posts
March 15 2017 03:17 GMT
#142390
Also, on Thursday a possibly very angry Irishman with nothing too lose will be visiting the white house.
"I'm not agreeing with a lot of Virus's decisions but they are working" Tasteless. Ipl4 Losers Bracket Virus 2-1 Maru
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45458 Posts
March 15 2017 03:20 GMT
#142391
On March 15 2017 12:00 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2017 11:29 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Turn MSNBC back on to see Rachel Maddow do gymnastics distancing herself from this story.


Confirmed leaked from Russians.

But seriously, the most trusted mouthpiece of corporate media on the center-left just baited her audience hard and a lot of them won't be happy about it.


Is there more to the tax returns? Was only a small (innocent) portion leaked? Or was it the whole thing that turned out to be a non-story?
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35172 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-15 03:22:12
March 15 2017 03:21 GMT
#142392
On March 15 2017 12:20 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2017 12:00 GreenHorizons wrote:
On March 15 2017 11:29 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Turn MSNBC back on to see Rachel Maddow do gymnastics distancing herself from this story.


Confirmed leaked from Russians.

But seriously, the most trusted mouthpiece of corporate media on the center-left just baited her audience hard and a lot of them won't be happy about it.


Is there more to the tax returns? Was only a small (innocent) portion leaked? Or was it the whole thing that turned out to be a non-story?

It was figuratively the tip of the Iceberg. More the table of contents of the return than anything.
On_Slaught
Profile Joined August 2008
United States12190 Posts
March 15 2017 03:24 GMT
#142393
Maddow def looks bad. Why hype it before you have anything good? Either way, while it isn't positive for the media it's not like it's fake news (which is the much more dangerous narrative than bias media) since the administration admitted it was real. The real loser is just her. Obvious the right will hate her regardless. Problem is she loses respect from people on the left as well.
m4ini
Profile Joined February 2014
4215 Posts
March 15 2017 03:28 GMT
#142394
On March 15 2017 12:24 On_Slaught wrote:
Maddow def looks bad. Why hype it before you have anything good? Either way, while it isn't positive for the media it's not like it's fake news (which is the much more dangerous narrative than bias media) since the administration admitted it was real. The real loser is just her. Obvious the right will hate her regardless. Problem is she loses respect from people on the left as well.


Considering the narrative is "media makes stuff up to make me look bad", i bet he'll call it fake news. Which it is, the tax returns are loaded. Everyone expects (some hope) that there's dirt in there.

If you then go out with big trumpets and parade shouting "i got them" and there's nothing, yeah. It's kinda fake news.

Even if you're generally a sane person and argue "well fake news is stuff like breitbart and infowars", being wrong has never stopped trump so far. He'll call it fake news, and his followers will swallow it, cementing the "fake news" bullshit in a large portion of your country.
On track to MA1950A.
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35172 Posts
March 15 2017 03:32 GMT
#142395
Literally the only thing gained from that is you can call him out on the "hundreds of millions" lie.
xDaunt
Profile Joined March 2010
United States17988 Posts
March 15 2017 03:33 GMT
#142396
This doesn't really qualify as "fake news." It's more accurate to call it "stupid news."
Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
March 15 2017 03:35 GMT
#142397
On March 15 2017 11:34 Slaughter wrote:
Seems like a silly move by Maddow. Gives Trump fuel for his dishonest media deflection technique and didn't really show anything.

Yep.

The way you dodge dishonest media claims is to keep things above board. Hammer him on healthcare, taxation, foreign policy, whatever. He deserves it. This kind of stuff feeds the opposition treats.
Great armies come from happy zealots, and happy zealots come from California!
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GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States23844 Posts
March 15 2017 03:36 GMT
#142398
On March 15 2017 12:24 On_Slaught wrote:
Maddow def looks bad. Why hype it before you have anything good? Either way, while it isn't positive for the media it's not like it's fake news (which is the much more dangerous narrative than bias media) since the administration admitted it was real. The real loser is just her. Obvious the right will hate her regardless. Problem is she loses respect from people on the left as well.


Maddow = Wikileaks?
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
March 15 2017 03:38 GMT
#142399
On March 15 2017 12:36 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2017 12:24 On_Slaught wrote:
Maddow def looks bad. Why hype it before you have anything good? Either way, while it isn't positive for the media it's not like it's fake news (which is the much more dangerous narrative than bias media) since the administration admitted it was real. The real loser is just her. Obvious the right will hate her regardless. Problem is she loses respect from people on the left as well.


Maddow = Wikileaks?


No just a dumbass who seems to had nothing else to report on for that night.
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GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States23844 Posts
March 15 2017 03:57 GMT
#142400
Yeah... Rachel really shit the bed tonight.

"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
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