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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBarr is lauded by the media...
... as having "integrity" yet he stated, in writing, that the bogus uranium 1 and Clinton Foundation "controversies" are far more worthy of Justice Department investigations than MF45's ties to Russia.
That's not integrity it's foolishness.
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Barr is lauded by the media... (Original Post)
SHRED
Jan 2019
OP
I didnt pile on the media for a reason for a long time, but it is all but over now so here goes
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2019
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)1. I didnt pile on the media for a reason for a long time, but it is all but over now so here goes
They MUST treat the right with kit gloves because the right are immature, unintelligent, uneducated assholes and the media deosnt want to be accused of being liberal.
lib·er·al
/ˈlib(ə rəl/Submit
adjective
1.
open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.
"they have more liberal views toward marriage and divorce than some people"
2.
(of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.
synonyms: wide-ranging, broad-based, general, humanistic
"the provision of liberal adult education"
/ˈlib(ə rəl/Submit
adjective
1.
open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.
"they have more liberal views toward marriage and divorce than some people"
2.
(of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.
synonyms: wide-ranging, broad-based, general, humanistic
"the provision of liberal adult education"
All liberal means is you are a thinking adult.
unblock
(52,257 posts)2. "foolishness" is too trivializing a word for it.
if a private citizen right-wing wacko goes on a rant about clinton "scandals", that's foolishness, sure.
but if a prospective attorney general does that, it's a corrupt appeal to donnie and republican senators and a horrific abuse of government powers to turn the department of justice into a vehicle for partisan political retribution.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)3. Who owns the media - Republicans.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)4. Which media?