Is This Really Confused For Journalism?

Submitted by MsGrin on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 1:51am

Andrea Mitchell appears only to harangue Sanders and demand to know if he will suspend his campaign ahead of the national convention:

Mitchell speaks to Brian Fallon and restates what she believes to be a threat from the Clinton campaign that Bernie will not have a speaking role at the convention if he does not suspend his campaign ahead of Philly (beginning at 2:17)

Fallon discusses how Clinton is the most transparent Secretary of State ever given how many versions of her schedule have been released.... Wow.

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Submitted by Alison Wunderland on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 2:14am
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Somebody has to be feeding these empty talking heads. What a travesty.

I'm still for BernieAllTheWay. But if he flames out, I'll vote for Jill, and the consequences are on the DNC for trying to stuff that psychopath down out throats.

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Submitted by MsGrin on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 2:33am
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...at any rate, it's clearly gibberish.

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Submitted by gustogirl on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 2:55pm

What is msnbc up to? I get a voice only about Fema, the flooding.

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Submitted by MsGrin on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 10:39am
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Oh, look, it's Dick Morris (who has never been a Hillary fan, as I recall) telling Fox News that the Clinton marriage amounts to a rackateering organization. He gives the example that as SOS, Hillary gave the Russians access to 20% of U.S. Uranium essentially in exchange for a million in speaking fees (possible correction: The New Yorker link below claims it was only a half mil) given directly to Bill - anyone heard that one?

and

The most interesting thing line he gave is that he feels Trumps negatives are based on what he has SAID, and that should Trump choose to say different things, his negatives may improve. Hillary, however, he says, has her negatives based on what she has DONE, which cannot be changed. Not sure I totally agree, but it's an interesting angle.

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Submitted by eyo on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 5:18am

Takes one to know one.

[...] So both of us were sort of having a trial marriage. And we both figured it was better for me to be involved secretly. So I made up a code name, "Charlie"--which, by the way, is the name of my favorite Republican political consultant, Charlie Black. And I just thought it was kind of funny that I'd use a Republican name, working for Clinton.

And it was really weird. He would be in meetings with Panetta and his whole staff. And Betty Curry, his secretary, would come in and say, "Charlie's on the phone." And he would say, "Excuse me, that's a call I have to take." And he'd go out into the anteroom and talk to me. And he'd go back in. And they'd all be wondering, "Is this some head of state? Is this some CIA agent or something?" And they had no idea who it was. It was kind of funny.

At some point, the staff realizes that something is going on. They're submitting drafts in the daytime, and the next morning these drafts are coming back with significant, even radical, changes. And the staff says, "Well, there's a day Clinton, and there's a night Clinton."

I remember it happening like a slow motion train wreck, destroying the Democratic Party from within. Good job Dick! Interviews: Dick Morris - The Clinton Years

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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 9:58am
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It's paid off very well. For him, his wife, and his kid.

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Submitted by MsGrin on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 10:21am
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Submitted by riverlover on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 4:12am
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Here is a decent breakdown with questions. Basically, yes there was a deal, set up through Guistra, a Canadian (and closest money-launderer). And the Clintons made out big-time and did not report the income.

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Submitted by riverlover on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 4:14am
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has control of 20% of the US in-the-ground uranium. Don't you feel safer and more secure? All while she was SoS. Wink

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Submitted by MsGrin on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 9:34am
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This sentence can be well-applied to so much from the 2016 season from this woman - makes me feel secure:

This does not make a lot of sense unless you have an instinct for the most legalistic of legalisms.

and, so far, this has not BEEN debated, which is troubling. Obviously, since Morris is working for Trump, if Trump's the actual nominee, there is no way we won't be having this discussion, and it will CERTAINLY turn out more Republicans if Clinton is on the ticket:

Putting aside who got rich, did this series of uranium deals damage or compromise national security? That this is even a question is one reason the story is, so to speak, radioactive. According to the Times, “the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States.” Pravda has said that it makes Russia stronger. What that means, practically, is something that will probably be debated as the election proceeds.

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Submitted by RichM on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 10:22am

She can only be failed.

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Democrats, we tried to warn you. How is that guilt and shame working out?

Submitted by riverlover on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 10:45am
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if corporate MSM stays on her side. Should that shift, it's a killer. Clintons profited from that deal, personally.

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Submitted by lunachickie on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 7:34am
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Andrea Mitchell is pissed. That lying-ass, shill-for-the-one-percenters like her husband, Bernie Sanders is harshing her Clinton "buzz", and it gives her a sad. Well, cry me a freakin' river. I was actually laughing at the obvious contempt. What a hosebag. Nevermind that her and Mr. Greenspan will be just fine, no matter what happens. So boo hoo hoo, your dangerous "candidate" isn't going to be outright coronated, all because of Bernie. Too bad for you....

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Submitted by Tall Bald and Ugly on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 8:34am

can't watch it. I'm DONE with msnbc. On a Rare occasion, I'll watch Larry as he Seemed to give Bernie more positive airtime than the others. But the rest? Bag 'em.

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Submitted by Shirley on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 9:39am

Hillary's picture is all over the screen, and larger than Bernie's.

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Submitted by RuralLiberal on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 9:58am
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Fallon discusses how Clinton is the most transparent Secretary of State ever given how many versions of her schedule have been released.... Wow.

This is just like when Dan Egan tells his lawyer, "What they say happened, what I say happened, and the truth".

Holy crap -- what the Hill-people will stoop to!!

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Submitted by MsGrin on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 10:35am
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mesmerize you sufficiently to tire-out your defenses and get you to repeat the lies we ask you to propagate for us, thank you very much.

Brought to you by the word, 'transparency' and the number, 'it's my turn.'

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Submitted by WindDancer13 on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 1:08pm
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A few things they are missing and some random thoughts:

NBC's First Read has a lot of interesting tidbits. If you connect some dots, you can see a few things that the media is missing.

First: There is some information about campaign spending on advertising. HRC and her pacs spent $26 million in June, Trump and his pacs $0--yes, that is a zero, nothing, nada. What has $26 million gotten HRC's campaign? A mere 2% lead according to a new Quinnipiac poll with HRC at 42% to Trump's 40%.

Second: All the crying about Trump not getting rich people to fund his campaign while they flock to HRC won't play well in Peoria. In other words, it proves to many that HRC is bought and paid for while Trump is not. Plus, it makes him the underdog, and many people root for the underdog in any contest.

Third: HRC is obsessing over how much money Trump really has. The people may actually prefer someone who is not rolling in easy money. The Clintons gave speeches; Trump actually worked (kind of....but people will see it that way). She is making him more like "us." Same with the bankruptcies...like "us" he has had problems financially.

Fourth: Why is it that journalists cannot figure out that the real "smoking gun" regarding Benghazi is not that HRC did not give a personal order, but that she was not in charge of the situation. So who was really doing the SOS job? Basically, no one. HRC traveled and made speeches; others were left to handle an office with no leader.

Fifth (from the link above): The lines between R and D are now completely blurred. As I and others have said before, Trump will run to the left of HRC. And the media is missing (or ignoring) that.

Bottom line: Yesterday's speech by Trump was something that no Republican presidential nominee in the last 60 years would have delivered.

What is more important to people who are trying to get by: racism, sexism or where the next meal or rent payment is coming from (even though that condition is often tied to racism and/or sexism)? According to Maslow, survival comes first.

Sorry about the seeming randomness of this. It is my kitchen sink way of pulling the threads together, and I am still knitting. Everyone is free to create their own cloth out of it.

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Submitted by MsGrin on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 5:04pm
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I think you are correct:

So who was really doing the SOS job? Basically, no one. HRC traveled and made speeches; others were left to handle an office with no leader.

This should bother folks.

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Submitted by WindDancer13 on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 5:28pm
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Those belong to the taxpayers.

Yes, it should bother people, but they are not paying attention. The Wiki on her while SOS mentioned that many of the hot spots during her tenure were handled by the White House, not her. The one thing apparently she got left with was Libya. The biggest mistake of his presidency according to Obama.

Much of the handling of the Middle East, Iraq, and Iran was done by the White House or Pentagon during her tenure,[153] and on some other issues as well, policy-making was kept inside the White House among Obama's inner circle of advisors.

The intractable issues when she entered office, such as Iran, Pakistan, Arab-Israeli relations, and North Korea, were still that way when she left

However...

Clinton did find bureaucratic success in edging out the U.S. Commerce Department, by having the State Department take a lead role in sales pitches in favor of U.S. companies.[308] In doing so, she helped negotiate international deals for the likes of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Westinghouse Electric Company.[308] Clinton believed, more than most prior secretaries, that the commercial aspects of diplomacy and the promotion of international trade were vital to American foreign policy goals

That is such a huge red flag, that the only explanation for it to being well known is the refusl of the press to do its job.

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