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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN WTF headline "Did trump cave or was it a master stroke". Come on, MSM!
In case anyone wants to read it - https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/media/shutdown-trump-conservative-media/index.html
Another day, another example of whataboutism....
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Though probably not the headline.
But hey - it probably gets the clicks.
Voltaire2
(13,270 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,460 posts)What did they think was so genius?
EarlG
(21,998 posts)Some are trashing Trump, others are trying to see a silver lining. The full article title is Right-wing media split over Trump's shutdown decision: Did he cave or was it a master stroke? I dont think CNN is suggesting that the cave was a master stroke.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,038 posts)Anything that feeds the Magatrolls just makes me wonder...
unblock
(52,503 posts)Even though it makes zero sense. And it's really pathetic, actually.
It's a fair point that the fight is not over because he can always try again, but it's absurd to call it a "master stroke". That's exactly the type of propaganda the right has long used to seduce the easily-led msm to air their spin.
GP6971
(31,275 posts)I admit far fetched, but normal doesn't apply to this administration.
Dotard agrees to reopen the government in exchange for the RNC cancelling the 2020 Repuke presidential primaries....thereby Dotard is assured to be the Repuke nominee for 2020.
Probably not, but nothing surprises me anymore.
Me.
(35,454 posts)If he shuts down the government again the pitchforks will be out for him.
unblock
(52,503 posts)Therefore, asking and getting a "no" is a "master stroke".
Ah, Gorka. Always putting lipstick on a pig....
Baltimike
(4,148 posts)and has been for more than twenty years now
Oneironaut
(5,547 posts)response. It's really stupid. He could burn his hand on a waffle maker, and they'll say how genius the maneuver was.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Blue Owl
(50,596 posts)n/t