Their approval rating is even lower than Trump's and they know they aint winnin. They have 800,000 viewers; Trump has over 100 million followers on social media. They haven't intimidated Trump into silence; he just gets more defiant by the day and they can't stand that
Even the far-left "Slate" knows CNN is losing the fight, eh?
Slate wrote:
CNN Clotheslined Itself
The network may not have “blackmailed” a Reddit user, but it managed to look foolish, self-righteous, and petty... this was a remarkable self-own by a news organization whose credibility was already under assault from the president and his supporters....in its haste to score a point against the president.... That’s the type of unforced error that CNN can ill afford when it’s going toe-to-toe with Trump and his supporters.
To put it in pro wrestling jargon: CNN turned heel.
Trump has embraced adviser Steve Bannon’s casting of the media as “the opposition party” to his presidency. It’s a strategy that has served Trump amazingly well, politically... CNN and other mainstream outlets present themselves as objective arbiters of truth, but Trump frames them instead as politically motivated actors crafting their own subjective narratives to compete with his own.
Diving into the muck in pursuit of social media trolls isn’t a good look for an outlet whose success depends on mainstream credibility and a bipartisan audience.
Uglier still is the fact that this particular investigative crusade seemed to have as its objective not the defense of democracy or the downtrodden, but of CNN’s own bruised ego.... When it comes to Trump’s attacks on the media, there’s a fine line between standing up to him and getting trolled. This was one match in which CNN should have probably tagged out.
Foolish, self-righteous, and petty," eh? OK, I can see that.
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layman
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Wed 5 Jul, 2017 09:16 pm
@layman,
layman wrote:
Their greatest fear is not being accepted by the group, and they will sell their souls to avoid that fate.
Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”
Winston Churchill wrote:
"Courage is the first of the virtues, because it is what makes all the others possible. Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.”
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else.
But isn't this exactly what many people have been doing for generations and continue to do today? After all, what is a political ideologue -- whether of the right or of the left? Is independent thinking among the members encouraged; or is it, in fact, discouraged whenever it gets close to departing from the party line? Frankly, I'm reminded of what Artur London said in his autobiography The Confession in which he recounts his harrowing experience as one of the victims of a notorious Stalinist political show trial in the former Czechoslovakia. Even though she dearly loved him, his wife was not convinced of his innocence because she had been indoctrinated into believing that "The Party is always right." Seems to me that many American conservatives and liberals use their chosen ideologies as substitutes for religion. "Liberalism is always right!" "Conservatism is always right!" The possibility of self-examination is all but lost. People can do what they please, but I won't do it -- not even if I'm viewed as an odd ball, which I clearly am. Come on, haters, sock it to me! (Gee, that's really old; but I don't care.) You know you wanna. Hit me again -- harder, harder, HARDER!
Notice: wmwcjr has just left the A2K premises because it's . . .
When or whether he/it will return is a matter of conjecture.
No, Trump is not the problem any more than a dead mine-canary is "the problem". He's just an indicator of something far more serious and dangerous.
Now you're talking.
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izzythepush
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Thu 6 Jul, 2017 01:01 am
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Officials at Auschwitz have criticised a US congressman for making and voicing a video inside a gas chamber at the former Nazi death camp.
The memorial and museum tweeted that the gas chamber was "not a stage" but was a place for mournful silence.
Republican Clay Higgins said in the video that the horrors of the WW2 death camps were the reason why the US military should be "invincible".
Some 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, died at the Nazi-occupied Poland camp.
Mr Higgins made a five-minute video showing him in different parts of the museum talking about the atrocities in the death camp.
At one point, he goes inside a gas chamber and explains how the victims were gassed.
"This is why Homeland Security must be squared away, why our military must be invincible," he says.
But the museum responded that it was inappropriate to speak inside the gas chambers.
"Everyone has the right to personal reflections. However, inside a former gas chamber, there should be mournful silence. It's not a stage," it tweeted on Tuesday.
Later it posted a picture of the entrance to the building showing a plaque asking for silence.
American conservatives and liberals use their chosen ideologies as substitutes for religion. "Liberalism is always right!" "Conservatism is always right!"
The promise of faster economic growth has become a study in the triumph of hope over experience.
While the June jobs report, coming on Friday, is expected to show that hiring continued at a healthy pace last month, other recent indicators in areas like consumer spending, construction and auto sales have been decidedly less robust.
As a result, Wall Street forecasters have been busy lowering their growth estimates for the second quarter, which ended last Friday, much as they were forced to do over the first three months of the year. Economic expansion for the full year now appears unlikely to be much greater than 2 percent — about the average for the current recovery, which celebrates its eighth year this month.
While hardly terrible, it is not the burst of growth — a “Trump bump” — that many expected to result from an upturn in consumer and business sentiment after President Trump’s election.
Mr. Trump himself declared upon taking office that his policies would produce 4 percent annual growth, and just this week said on Twitter to affirm that “things are starting to kick in now.”
Really great numbers on jobs & the economy! Things are starting to kick in now, and we have just begun! Don't like steel & aluminum dumping!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017
But the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s widely followed GDP Now expects the second-quarter growth figure to come in at 3 percent, more than a full percentage point below where it was in May. The New York Fed’s Nowcast is even more bearish, with an estimate of 1.9 percent for the quarter just ended and 1.6 percent for the current quarter.
CNN should probably not be spending investigate resources running down the identity of internet trolls who dissed them, eh?
They should be tracking down the names and addresses of all those russian spies that Trump agreed to give State secrets to if they would help him get elected.
Turns out that wasn't even the guy who created the clip Trump posted, which was a different one than the one created by the guy who posted at reddit.
Now there are dozens of similar gifs circulating all over the internet. CNN is gunna be pretty busy trying to suppress all that speech, eh?
Q: What's the difference between WWE and CNN?
A: One of them rigs contests and creates phony controveries and the other stands for World Wrestling Entertainment.
Republican Clay Higgins said in the video that the horrors of the WW2 death camps were the reason why the US military should be "invincible".
The US knew of the horrors that went on and still the US did business with the Nazis. Two peas in a pod, the US and the Nazis. The only difference is the US has had a two plus centuries run.
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camlok
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Thu 6 Jul, 2017 06:25 am
@glitterbag,
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But maybe only an embarrassment to those of us who were raised to respect and value our country and our freedoms.
You forgot to mention how you folks value US war crimes, murdering children, US world leading terrorism.
You know you can't deny these things, glitterbag, they are all right there in the US public record, yet you all operate in a bubble, where you outright deny reality.
