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This part was lame.
TV news would be much better if it stuck to covering the real world and not tweets. But if you do go down the road of covering tweets, it kind of is a story where the president's most-retweeted post ever came from.
And if the source wants to private, maybe the president shouldn't be tweeting him.
CNN's latest(?) response to #CNNBlackmail is just... incredibly awkward and unintelligible. Their opinion piece tries to defend themselves without defending themselves, attack Trump while inferring Trump is the bully, while also admitting they're using "fire", and Trump is fighting back, but wrong for fighting fire...
They completely gloss over the blackmail and jump straight to the massive apology and repentance by Han___solo...
It's just odd, creepy, and it tries to make such a milquetoast defense that it just reads as weird.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/05/opinions/liberals-free-speech-and-trump-stanley/index.html
Obama wasn't the only one. Remember this?
#Phony
[twitter]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/646716373473853442[/twitter]
But, but, but TRUMP! And FOX NEWS!
Care to point me in the direction of where Fox tracked down an internet meme maker and threatened to out him if he didn't apologize?
And also, what's your take on the fact CNN can track down this completely anonymous person on the internet after only a day or so, but can't track down the DNC hackers in the last year?
Trump is just a blowhard. He is the single most incompetent person to occupy that office, by a country mile. What is amazing is all of these people that support him, they close their eyes and plug theirs ears, stamp their feet, and refuse to admit what is going on right in front of them.
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Trump is just a blowhard. He is the single most incompetent person to occupy that office, by a country mile. What is amazing is all of these people that support him, they close their eyes and plug theirs ears, stamp their feet, and refuse to admit what is going on right in front of them.
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No one is defending Trump's retweet.
If CNN wants to be considered serious they should have handled this entirely differently.
Absolutely no reason to go after to the meme source - zero, nada. Indefensible. It's not a story. There are millions of memes on the Internet. Worse to double down by suggesting you are being magnanimous by "withholding" the name while at the same time trashing the guy for implying he's made all sorts of offensive comments. Then they suggest we'll only out him if he does it again.
CNN deserves every bit of crap they get for this. They over reacted to the original meme. When people rightly suggested they were over the top with the "this will get journalists killed" CNN decided to double down and "uncover" the mastermind behind the dangerous meme.
Trump was childish to retweet it but CNN decided to show him what childish really was. They got trolled to the nth degree and they are getting the just deserts.
Bunch of pansies work at CNN....little crybabies.
^tweet equates to three more days of non-stop media hysteria.
Nobody is melting down over his tweets. Most sane people are just shaking their heads in embarrassment.
Day 4
CNN is now blackmailing private citizens on the internet to keep from making memes that poke fun at their expense
And another wonders why CNN can't track down the DNC hackers. Uh, it's not a media's organization's job to track down international law breakers. You guys are a laugh. Last I checked, that was the job of law enforcement organizations.
So it's their job to track down someone who made a joke about them? That makes zero sense - but then again you posted it so...
CNN didn't overreact. Trump has been threatening and trying to bully the media. You do not do that. That is a big deal--and he's been doing it now for weeks. That is what dictators do--control the media. I realize that a large percentage of the people on this board won't get this, but the media independence is a vital part of our democracy. You do not threaten the media. You don't like how certain networks are covering you? How about acting presidential instead of behaving like a corrupt, stupid, foolish autocrat?
Trump is a man who has been trying to promote himself as some glorious success story for 40 years. And like a lot of con men, he's been successful. Indeed, he just pulled off the biggest con job in the history of the country--getting you goofs to vote a deeply immoral and unqualified man. Now his goal is to get reelected--that is ALL he cares about, that and using the presidency to promote his businesses. Trump hasn't even been president for six months and he's already held half a dozen campaign events! He doesn't care about anything but spreading Trump bull$hit. Has no real interest in health care legislation--despite its mammoth importance; doesn't know the first thing about it. He just wants a bill so that he can bull$hit you people about how "great" it is. Trump is used to getting away with this BS. Now he can't--every foolish, stupid thing he does, every lie he spouts, is reported and checked and commented on, and he's pissed about it. He wants to lie and act like the total a$$ that he is and people to praise him for it. Strange man. Dangerous man.
So it's their job to track down someone who made a joke about them? That makes zero sense - but then again you posted it so...