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@blatham,

WSJ is having some kind of internal battle. Can't seem to decide where it fits - what angle it wants to take. Reporting and editorial often are on opposite sides. Very curious situation.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth, I have always found this to be true of the Journal. But it does sem to be much more pronounced in current affairs.

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@oralloy,

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No one is going to allow you to use federal funds to produce anti-freedom propaganda.

You mean not anymore. Obama sent taxpayer money to a lot of anti-American causes.

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@coldjoint,

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Obama sent taxpayer money to a lot of anti-American causes.

Citations? It might be useful for us to see exactly what you consider to be "anti-American causes".

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@blatham,

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If one had the time and inclination, it would be very interesting to go back to get a good idea of how many right wing posters here were (and perhaps still are) being manipulated by these Russian operations.

And some so called "progressives."

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@hightor,

Here you go.

https://freedomoutpost.com/barack-obama-ignores-congress-sends-500-million-of-taxpayer-money-to-hamas-palestinian-authrority/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-sent-taxpayer-money-oust-netanyahu/
http://truthfeed.com/rigged-system-obama-caught-spending-29-million-in-taxpayer-funds-to-help-hillary-in-the-november-election/22050/
http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/outrage-obama-spends-770m-dollars-tax-payer-money-renovate-mosques-seas-video/

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@coldjoint,

coldjoint wrote:

Here you go.

https://freedomoutpost.com/barack-obama-ignores-congress-sends-500-million-of-taxpayer-money-to-hamas-palestinian-authrority/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-sent-taxpayer-money-oust-netanyahu/
http://truthfeed.com/rigged-system-obama-caught-spending-29-million-in-taxpayer-funds-to-help-hillary-in-the-november-election/22050/
http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/outrage-obama-spends-770m-dollars-tax-payer-money-renovate-mosques-seas-video/

Geez, if you keep reading that stuff you're going to go blind.

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Here is the biggest and down right stupid and dangerous waste of taxpayer money. Definitely an anti-American group.
http://usherald.com/obamas-back-doored-1-7-billion-taxpayer-money-fund-irans-massive-military-expansion/

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@glitterbag,

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Geez, if you keep reading that stuff you're going to go blind.

I am pretty sure your responses remain the same one sided usual crap they always have been, meaning your opinion adds up to a big 0 for me. Thanks anyway.

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@coldjoint,

you're a big meanie, sniff sniff😩

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@glitterbag,

Like I said, 0

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@coldjoint,

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Here you go.

Yeah, pretty much as I expected.

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@hightor,

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Yeah, pretty much as I expected.

That response is exactly what I expected too. See how things work both ways? You refuse to see the damage Obama did and he intends to do more, if you wish to enable him go right ahead.

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@hightor,

Yes, that's so and this comment means...?

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@hightor,

Ibsen Wrote ‘An Enemy of the People’ in 1882. Trump Has Made It Popular Again.

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Ibsen’s 1882 play, “An Enemy of the People,” is suddenly as timely as a tweet.

The political drama — about a scientist who tries to save his town from water pollution, only to wind up as a scapegoat — is being revived in several new productions across the United States.

Robert Falls, the artistic director of the Goodman Theater in Chicago, decided to stage the play after the election. “I needed to do something about our sudden/current/soon-to-be ongoing horrific life under Trump and majority Republican rule,” he said in an email.

Little did he know that Trump would stamp the phrase “enemy of the people” in the American consciousness when he used it to pillory the news media in a tweet last February.
... ... ...

And I remember that he had to write an interpretation of it at school, more than 50 years ago. [The text was together with that of "The Wild Duck" in one book - I hadn't read the latter but only (a summary!) of the former ... thus fast forgetting the mark.]

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@coldjoint,

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See how things work both ways?

No, I don't.

The sources you provide are laughable examples of opinion and conjecture masquerading as "news".

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You refuse to see the damage Obama did and he intends to do more...

What "damage" are you speaking of?

Funding mosques overseas?

Sending money to the Palestinians that had already been approved by Congress?

Legally giving money to Israeli groups who supported the peace process?

Spending money on domestic voter registration?

Settling a decades-old arbitration claim with Iran?

Hardly sounds like "damage" to me.

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@hightor,

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No, I don't.

Not a very good start to a conversation. Attacking the messenger like the sources without reasons but they report what you don't want to hear shows you have no interest in the truth.

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@Walter Hinteler,

You're still kicking Wally? Nice to see you.

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@ehBeth,

My impression is that the WSJ has maintained a surprising separation between reporting and editorial. Surprising because Murdoch now owns the paper. Murdoch had promised he wouldn't intervene in reporting but anyone who trusts Murdoch to be honest is a fool. Yes, there has been internal discord and intermittent grumbling from the reportorial side (who are far less partisan that Gigot and his people). I think we're seeing the bulk of the reportorial staff holding to a legacy which was not propagandist.

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Huh, go figure. If you have a great tax plan combined with some proper deregulations you get great news
NYT

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Whether you work on Wall Street or in a warehouse, the latest jobs report released by the government on Friday contained good news, with impressive employment gains in low-, middle- and high-wage industries.

313,000 jobs were added last month, the most since July 2016 and the 89th straight month of gains, a record. Economists had anticipated a gain of about 200,000.

The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent, the same as in January and still a 17-year low.

I will now watch the parade of negative tirades about how Trump is Satan.

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