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Misty » 18 May 2017 10:20 am » wrote:
It made a huge difference to the people of Twin Falls, Idaho that he falsely smeared.
And last I heard, Idaho was part of the country.

Sorry Puss.
You don't get to pick the topics here.

Read the OP of this thread again.

Misty » 18 May 2017 10:20 am » wrote:Sorry Puss.
You don't get to pick the topics here.

Media Hysteria: WaPo Treats Kevin McCarthy Joke as Proof of Trump-Russia Link
by JOEL B. POLLAK17 May 20172,478
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The Washington Post released the latest salvo in the media’s effort to take down President Donald Trump on Wednesday: a joke made last year by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin pays Trump.

The joke occurred during a private conversation involving the House Republican leadership. The conversation was recorded. The exchange — from the transcript alone, since the Post has not made the audio available — is as follows:


McCarthy: The Russians hacked the DNC and got the opp [sic] research that they had on Trump.
McCarthy: laughs
[Crosstalk]
Ryan: The Russian’s [sic] hacked the DNC…
McHenry: …to get oppo…
Ryan: …on Trump and like delivered it to…to who?
[Unintelligible]
McCarthy: There’s…there’s two people, I think, Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump…[laughter]…swear to God.
Ryan: This is an off the record…[laughter]…NO LEAKS…[laughter]…alright?! [Laughter]
Ryan: This is how we know we’re a real family here....
Though it is obvious from the transcript alone that the remark is a joke, the Post treats it as a serious scoop, claiming in the first paragraph that McCarthy “made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders.”
Later, the Post adds: “It is difficult to tell from the recording the extent to which the remarks were meant to be taken literally.”
No, it is not.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism ... ssia-link/

Termin8tor » 18 May 2017 10:22 am » wrote:I never said Idaho wasn't part of the country, but that's a micro scandal barely felt in most of the country.
I'm simply ridiculing your post. Your endless lies against Trump have collapsed, so Chobani is the best you can do?

indago » 18 May 2017 9:40 am » wrote: And when I facetiously posted Nixon's preposterous declaration, and some — including yourself — have taken it seriously, "What "Credibility" are we talking about here?"

Get over yourself...

11:25 a.m.

A lawyer for fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has informed the Senate Intelligence Committee he will not honor its subpoena for private documents.

That's according to the panel's chairman, Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina.

Burr told reporters Thursday about the response from Flynn's lawyer.

Burr says the panel's members are not surprised and says, "We'll figure out on Gen. Flynn what the next step, if any, is."

The committee is one of several on Capitol Hill investigating possible collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

Flynn was ousted earlier this year from his senior administration job.

apnews.com/amp/0bd8cb2c420448ab91464fabbd19d705

Misty » 18 May 2017 10:38 am » wrote: Collapsed? Looks to me more like the noose is tightening around his neck.
Members of his own party seem to be turning on him now.

Where's the crime, Dim?

BTW, Breitbart was also in on that smear campaign against Chobani owner Hamdi Ulukaya.
So was WorldNutDaily, all media outlets that right wingnuts love.

And then they call the Washington Post and the New York Times FAKE News.

Misty » 18 May 2017 10:38 am » wrote: And then they call the Washington Post and the New York Times FAKE News.

Misty » 18 May 2017 11:00 am » wrote:Flynn refuses to honor a Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena.

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Misty » 18 May 2017 11:35 am » wrote:Good for John Podhoretz for taking Sean Hannity to task for promoting a FAKE News/conspiracy theory.




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Misty » 18 May 2017 11:35 am » wrote:Good for John Podhoretz for taking Sean Hannity to task for promoting a FAKE News/conspiracy theory.

Media Hysteria: WaPo Treats Kevin McCarthy Joke as Proof of Trump-Russia Link
by JOEL B. POLLAK17 May 20172,478

The Washington Post released the latest salvo in the media’s effort to take down President Donald Trump on Wednesday: a joke made last year by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin pays Trump....

McCarthy: There’s…there’s two people, I think, Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump…[laughter]…swear to God.

Ryan: This is an off the record…[laughter]…NO LEAKS…[laughter]…alright?! [Laughter]

Ryan: This is how we know we’re a real family here....
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism ... ssia-link/

Trump’s presidency facing monumental failure unless he wises up pronto.

By John Podhoretz

Right now, the very best you can say about Donald Trump is that he stinks at this whole president thing — in large part because he keeps creating trouble for himself and entirely on his own.

Yes, the media are against him.

Yes, the Democrats want his scalp.

But everyone inclined to indulge President Trump in his self-pity about how he’s being badly treated by others in Washington and badly served by his own staff is ignoring the basic facts of the political situation he is bungling at present like no one has bungled it before.

He just won an election and his party controls both chambers of Congress.

If he were any good at this president thing, he would be able to convert both of these advantages into facts on the ground — into legislative and procedural successes that would stymie the media attacks and throw Democrats on the defensive.

Instead, it’s his own party that’s on the defensive.

It’s his own party that is terrified of acting.

It’s his own party that cannot make sense of what he wants.

They can do many things for him and he can do many things for them and they don’t and he doesn’t because he’s too busy lighting fires on which he then pours gasoline.

All of a sudden, Washington Republicans are beginning to hightail it in the other direction like the knights of the Round Table in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” who scream “Run away” when threatened by a frightening rabbit.

This began to happen almost immediately after the story broke at 5 p.m. Tuesday about Trump privately asking now-fired FBI Director James Comey to “let things go” in the investigation of then-fired national security adviser Mike Flynn. Soon, like other characters in that movie, they will throw him in the river to make sure he’s not a witch.

Let us generously assume for a moment that Trump didn’t mean to interfere with an FBI investigation, which would be an open-and-shut case of obstruction of justice and would almost certainly lead to the serious possibility of his impeachment.

Let’s just say Trump was talking casually about a guy he thought was a good fellow whom he was compelled to fire but whom he still liked and didn’t want to see hurt.

That would be nice, right?

It would also be a sign that Trump is a fool.

What, did Trump think Comey just fell off a turnip truck and wouldn’t be taking notes on what Trump said to him?

Did he think Comey had climbed to the top of the greasy pole without possessing the classic survival skills of a successful bureaucrat?

And, having had this conversation with Comey, what on earth would then lead Trump to fire the man with whom he had had such a stupidly casual conversation about a sensitive investigation?

Isn’t this the sort of thing about people that a seen-it-all dealmaker is supposed to know better than the ordinary politicians who make such terrible deals, we Americans felt compelled to bring in a famous businessman to fix what’s broken?

We can make the same generous and damning presumptions about him letting certain intelligence secrets out of the bag to the Russian foreign minister.

He didn’t mean ill; he was just talking.

STOP TALKING.

It’s only 117 days into a presidency that is supposed to last, at a minimum, 1,460.

But after the gobsmacking self-inflicted wounds of the past two days, it doesn’t seem unreasonable for the first time to wonder whether he’s already served a majority of the days he’s likely to serve.

Trump is a septuagenarian, and it’s said that people of his age do not change.

Maybe not. But he doesn’t have a choice. He’d better change.

He’d better holster the guns with which he is shooting himself almost daily in the feet.

He’d better splash some cold water on his face, take a good hard look in the mirror, and realize he’s going to go down in history as a monument to failure unless he wises up and pronto.

He’d better save himself, because ain’t nobody else gonna save him.

Misty » 18 May 2017 11:52 am » wrote:Lately I find myself agreeing with Conservatives more and more.

Misty » 18 May 2017 11:52 am » wrote:Lately I find myself agreeing with Conservatives more and more.

Termin8tor » 18 May 2017 11:59 am » wrote:Did Podhoretz cite a single shred of evidence of wrongdoing by Trump or officials?
I'll wait, psycho.

Misty » 18 May 2017 12:04 pm » wrote: That's what's called an opinion piece Puss.

I agree with his opinion that 45 stinks at this whole president thing.

Misty » 18 May 2017 12:04 pm » wrote: That was not the purpose of the piece..