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Trump Is the Poison His Party Concocted
NYTimes ^ | 7-23-2015 | Timothy Egan

Posted on 07/24/2015 12:48:40 PM PDT by tcrlaf

The adults patrolling the playpen of Republican politics are appalled that we’ve become a society where it’s O.K. to make fun of veterans, to call anyone who isn’t rich a loser, to cast an entire group of newly arrived strivers as rapists and shiftless criminals.

Somewhere, we crossed a line — from our mothers’ modesty to strutting braggadocio, from dutiful decorum to smashing all the china in the room, from respecting a base set of facts to a trumpeting of willful ignorance.

Yes, how did we get to a point where up to one-fourth of the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan now aligns itself with Donald Trump? Those same political marshals would have us believe he’s a “demagogue,” a “jackass,” a “cancer.”

They say he’s trashing the Republic brand. They say he’s “stirring up the crazies,” in the words of Senator John McCain. But Trump is the brand, to a sizable degree. And the crazies have long flourished in the Republican media wing, where any amount of gaseous buffoonery goes unchallenged.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; hate; media; trump; trump2016
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The "Long Knives" of the Mainstream Media Obama "Journo-list"'rs is out in force today.

Mainstream article after mainstream article about how "Poisonous" and "Hateful" Trump is. Most using the exact same buzzwords and phrasing. And always attacking him AND "the Republican base of crazies".

It's ALMOST as if it were an orchestrated MediaMatters campaign! MediaMatters would do that kind of thing, would they?

1 posted on 07/24/2015 12:48:40 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

Often just a little poison can be a cure for something.


2 posted on 07/24/2015 12:49:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: tcrlaf

Go, Trump, GO!!


3 posted on 07/24/2015 12:50:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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4 posted on 07/24/2015 12:51:02 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

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5 posted on 07/24/2015 12:51:12 PM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: tcrlaf

Is this the same NYT who can’t figure out why a middle eastern man named Mohammed would shoot up a building full of unarmed marines?


6 posted on 07/24/2015 12:52:56 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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Timmy poo sure did pack alot of untruths into his screed, alot even for the NYT.


7 posted on 07/24/2015 12:53:52 PM PDT by skeeter ( THAT)
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Timothy Egan, The NYT writer of this "piece".
8 posted on 07/24/2015 12:54:07 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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To: Salamander

Mistletoe. Cancer treatment.


9 posted on 07/24/2015 12:56:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: tcrlaf

Meanwhile, bernie sanders elizabeth warren joe biden are awesome sez the media!


10 posted on 07/24/2015 1:01:55 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: tcrlaf

‘white privledge’ on display. ... ( the author)


11 posted on 07/24/2015 1:02:18 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: skeeter

“Timmy poo sure did pack alot of untruths into his screed, alot even for the NYT.”

The Orwellian Two-Minutes Hate’s on tonight’s Late-Night Comics and The Daily Show will likely be epic.


12 posted on 07/24/2015 1:02:57 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

Illegals are now “newly arrived strivers.”


13 posted on 07/24/2015 1:03:10 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: Secret Agent Man

It’s kind a rule in medicine


14 posted on 07/24/2015 1:09:01 PM PDT by stanne
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To: onyx

Bump for donations. Because Trump doesn’t need any.


15 posted on 07/24/2015 1:12:14 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: tcrlaf
Newly arrived strivers...


16 posted on 07/24/2015 1:12:36 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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Is there a bounty for Trump's scalp? It seems that everyone in the MSM is out to get Trump.

Does anyone write articles about the Democrat candidates? I haven't seen any in weeks.

17 posted on 07/24/2015 1:16:43 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: tcrlaf

The poison is the Republican Party Elite. The Donald is the anti-dote.


18 posted on 07/24/2015 1:20:14 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Botulinum toxin type A and B is used in medicine for, among others, upper motor neuron syndrome, focal hyperhidrosis, blepharospasm, strabismus, chronic migraine and bruxism.


19 posted on 07/24/2015 1:20:24 PM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: SpeakerToAnimals
Bump for donations. Because Trump doesn’t need any.


LOLOLOLOL

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

20 posted on 07/24/2015 1:22:16 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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