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Donald Trump’s SNL hosting gig is a new low in U.S. politics (BARFER)
Fortune ^ | October 31, 2015, 12:00 PM EST | Alisa Solomon

Posted on 11/01/2015 3:37:07 AM PST by BradtotheBone

Just when society thought it couldn’t sink any further

Well over half of the claims Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is making on the campaign trail are mostly false, false or “pants on fire” whoppers, according to the nonpartisan watchdog group factcheck.org.

Still, Trump is right about one thing, at least: As he told the Saturday Night Live audience back in 2004 when he first served as guest host, “I’m a ratings machine.”

That’s the likely reason NBC has invited Trump to return as guest host on SNL Nov. 7, despite cutting ties with him in June. After the real estate mogul announced his candidacy in a speech branding Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists, the network decried his “derogatory” remarks, fired him from The Celebrity Apprentice, and canceled broadcasts of his Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants. Less than four months later, the “respect and dignity for all people” that NBCUniversal sanctimoniously asserted at the time as “cornerstones of our values” seem to have been trumped by the candidate’s brazen braggadocio, which has proven to draw eyeballs to TV screens like flies to fresh manure. After all, Trump’s recent appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert gave both programs a ratings jolt.

NBC shows no signs of backing down, despite protests from the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, the California Latino Legislative Caucus, Brave New Films, and an online dump-Trump petition, that, at press time, has garnered more than 362,000 signatures. One way or another, all of them make what should be the indisputable point — as a trending Twitter hashtag puts it — that #RacismIsntFunny. Trump supporters quickly flooded the hashtag with disgusting racist jokes.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016electionbias; factcheckdotorg; fortunebias; trumpbashing
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Poor Alicia. She just can't stand the fact that Donald Trump is a ratings machine which propels his message to more audiences. I love it.
1 posted on 11/01/2015 3:37:07 AM PST by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

Oh she would much rather have hillary


2 posted on 11/01/2015 3:39:31 AM PST by ronnie raygun (better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Psst...I think Hillary was recently on SNL...for about 3 minutes.


3 posted on 11/01/2015 3:40:33 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: BradtotheBone
Is “FactCheck” the same organization that called false the claim of those who challenged BHO’s statement of being able to keep your insurance?
4 posted on 11/01/2015 3:40:40 AM PST by LMAO (#BlackLivesMatterWhenItsForPoliticalPoints)
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To: BradtotheBone

One of the pure joys in supporting Trump is the warm and fuzzy feeling that the cultural shoe is now on the other foot. Only Trump can do this.


5 posted on 11/01/2015 3:47:37 AM PST by Gratia
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To: BradtotheBone
Alisia is another one of those idiots that doesn't understand the difference between legal and illegal immigrants.

/johnny

6 posted on 11/01/2015 3:55:23 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: BradtotheBone

Oh, and guess who will be watching it, folks, with all her friends.


7 posted on 11/01/2015 4:02:14 AM PST by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: BradtotheBone

“nonpartisan watchdog group factcheck.org”

which, curiously, only has credibility with leftists.


8 posted on 11/01/2015 4:04:11 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: BradtotheBone

“half of the claims Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is making on the campaign trail are mostly false,”?
Oh!
And as for the magic negro? Mookabooker can’t open his pie hole without LYING.


9 posted on 11/01/2015 4:05:59 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: BradtotheBone
Well, I know I don't want to see Alicia Solomon on SNL, or anywhere for that matter.

Is she becoming a "man?"


Maybe she is jealous of Trump's wife?


10 posted on 11/01/2015 4:07:43 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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She looks like Larry King and Harpo Marx’s love child.


11 posted on 11/01/2015 4:10:23 AM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: BradtotheBone
nonpartisan watchdog group factcheck.org.

LOL !!! Funded by the non partisan(/ sarc ) Annenburg Foundation.

12 posted on 11/01/2015 4:22:52 AM PST by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: Joe Boucher

Fact check.org “nonpartisan?” ROFL!


13 posted on 11/01/2015 4:24:40 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: ronnie raygun

One more leftist scum who’s world will shatter come Friday, January 20th, 2017.


14 posted on 11/01/2015 4:29:10 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: BradtotheBone

Exactly! But, the author doesn’t have any issue with Hillary going on SNL .. so who’s listening to this whiner ..??


15 posted on 11/01/2015 4:33:12 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: BradtotheBone

The biggest whopper of all is this: “according to the nonpartisan watchdog group factcheck.org”.

It was created by and is still mostly funded by the Annenberg Project/Foundation, which is connected to Soros. The only reason why it can be called “nonpartisan” is because the GOPe is now openly Progressive, just like the Democrats.

So when they say that Donald Trump tells a “whopper”, what they mean is “counter-Progressive truth”.


16 posted on 11/01/2015 4:35:44 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: LMAO

We knew Alisa was in the bag for the Libs in para. 1 when she called factcheck.org “non-partisan”, Too many exposures of bias to let Factcheck get away with this.

The rest of her article just runs down hill like effluent from a septic tank.


17 posted on 11/01/2015 4:41:46 AM PST by plangent
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To: LMAO

We knew Alisa was in the bag for the Libs in para. 1 when she called factcheck.org “non-partisan”, Too many exposures of bias to let Factcheck get away with this.

The rest of her article just runs down hill like effluent from a septic tank.


18 posted on 11/01/2015 4:41:46 AM PST by plangent
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To: BradtotheBone

Odd, left wing nuts didn’t have a problem when the cankled felon was on the washed-up.superannuated SNL/


19 posted on 11/01/2015 4:45:12 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: BradtotheBone
Alisa Solomon directs the Arts & Culture concentration in the M.A. program at the Columbia School of Journalism.
20 posted on 11/01/2015 4:48:34 AM PST by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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