I like how their breaking news banner is in complete contradiction with their headline.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
I like how their breaking news banner is in complete contradiction with their headline.

Total 100 percent delusional peckers. Can't keep track of their own lies in the short term......amateurs

“…Though Latino voters are a key part of the Democratic coalition, there is a larger bloc of reliable Republican Latinos than many think. And the GOP’s position among Latinos has not weakened during the Trump administration, despite the president’s rhetoric against immigrants and the party’s shift to the right on immigration…”

https://apnews.com/d7b5b923883141d99a5c0da768a5e59a

Hell has frozen over! The WashPost (OK, it's on the opinion page...) is criticizing NBC News!

Do NOT waste your time reading the comments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.5b61748f5f4d

Opinions
NBC News is standing by misleading story on Trump’s visit to troops

By Erik Wemple
Media critic
December 27 at 12:49 PM

There were merely seven hours and 47 minutes left of Christmas Day when NBC News published this story: “Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime.” It seemed to be a safe assertion, considering the scene at the White House on Tuesday morning. “The White House complex, you will be unsurprised to learn, is very quiet as of now,” wrote Niall Stanage of the Hill in a pool report on Christmas morning. Trump would later speak from the White House with service members at remote sites around the world, along with taking some questions from reporters.

So how far could the president stray?

Well, about 6,200 miles. Here’s what happened, in the words of a White House pool report that was embargoed until Wednesday afternoon: “Trump left the White House late on Dec. 25 for an unannounced movement to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Pool was prepositioned on the plane and did not see Trump board. Air Force One was wheels up at 12:06 am ET on Dec. 26. POTUS landed at 11:16 am ET/ 7:16 pm local time at Al Asad Air Base, a joint U.S.-Iraqi military base west of Baghdad.” The president left under the cover of darkness in order to maintain operational security.

Having jumped the gun, NBC News attached an editor’s note to its story on Trump’s “Christmastime” omission:

Editor’s note: On Wednesday, a day after this article was published, President Trump made a surprise visit to Iraq to greet U.S. troops. It was his first presidential visit to a combat zone.

Yet even with that amendment, the story stands by its original headline, alleging no “Christmastime” troop visits from Trump. It also contains passages consistent with that headline, including a statement that Trump “broke from a recent tradition of actually visiting troops and wounded warriors. He did so in 2017, when he visited wounded troops at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Dec. 21 (and invited Coast Guard service members to play golf at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida). By staying home on Tuesday, Trump became the first president since 2002 who didn’t visit military personnel around Christmastime.”

As the pool report notes, however, Trump didn’t stay home Tuesday, at least not all of Tuesday. He left the White House “late on Dec. 25,” according to the report.

The story appears to rest on a lawyerly definition of “Christmastime.” Some succor for this approach comes from Merriam-Webster, which defines the word as “the time of year when people get ready for and celebrate Christmas : Christmas day and the days and weeks before it.”

Meh. A better measure of whether the visit qualifies as a “Christmastime” event comes from The Post’s account of the day: “Trump and the first lady mingled with uniformed service members at a base dining facility that was decorated for Christmas with foil balls, twinkling lights and snowmen made of stacked tires painted white,” notes the story by Philip Rucker and Paul Sonne. Also: Aren’t there 12 days of Christmas?

On Twitter and conservative media, there’s a lot of commentary criticizing NBC News for its “fake news” report about Trump’s “Christmastime” activities. “Fake news,” in the originalist view of the Erik Wemple Blog, describes intentionally false stories written for political ends. Considering that NBC News’s “Christmastime” piece appeared bulletproof at the time that it posted, we won’t join the “fake news” brigadiers in this instance. In defending the piece, an NBC News source said, “NBC waited until there was a full lid from the White House before publishing the piece,” referring to jargon indicating that the day’s news from the White House is done.

Things changed, however. Like a commander in chief, Trump got out of the house, into a plane and flew across the world to greet the troops amid Christmas folderol. Give the guy the credit he deserves for getting off his butt, as does The Post: “The unannounced visit continues a holiday tradition followed by past presidents.”

Correct the piece, NBC News, or prepare to stand legitimately accused of propagating fake news.

Many of us define "Christmastime" as all of Advent and continuing past Christmas Day to Epiphany (6 Jan). Many web sources agree: "Epiphany is celebrated on January 6, marking the end of the Christmas season." (from ThoughtCo.com)

flashguy

“Fake news” is pretty much redundant when referring to anything from the legacy Lame Stream Media.

Good on the President!

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
“…Though Latino voters are a key part of the Democratic coalition, there is a larger bloc of reliable Republican Latinos than many think. And the GOP’s position among Latinos has not weakened during the Trump administration, despite the president’s rhetoric against immigrants and the party’s shift to the right on immigration…”

https://apnews.com/d7b5b923883141d99a5c0da768a5e59a

And yet that statement isn't even correct. Trump and the GOP's "rhetoric and shift" is against illegal immigration, not immigration as a whole, hence the continuing support by hispanic Americans who also are against illegals and supportive of the law.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
Hell has frozen over! The WashPost (OK, it's on the opinion page...) is criticizing NBC News!

Do NOT waste your time reading the comments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.5b61748f5f4d

Opinions
NBC News is standing by misleading story on Trump’s visit to troops

By Erik Wemple
Media critic
December 27 at 12:49 PM

There were merely seven hours and 47 minutes left of Christmas Day when NBC News published this story: “Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime.” It seemed to be a safe assertion, considering the scene at the White House on Tuesday morning. “The White House complex, you will be unsurprised to learn, is very quiet as of now,” wrote Niall Stanage of the Hill in a pool report on Christmas morning. Trump would later speak from the White House with service members at remote sites around the world, along with taking some questions from reporters.

So how far could the president stray?

Well, about 6,200 miles. Here’s what happened, in the words of a White House pool report that was embargoed until Wednesday afternoon: “Trump left the White House late on Dec. 25 for an unannounced movement to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Pool was prepositioned on the plane and did not see Trump board. Air Force One was wheels up at 12:06 am ET on Dec. 26. POTUS landed at 11:16 am ET/ 7:16 pm local time at Al Asad Air Base, a joint U.S.-Iraqi military base west of Baghdad.” The president left under the cover of darkness in order to maintain operational security.

Having jumped the gun, NBC News attached an editor’s note to its story on Trump’s “Christmastime” omission:

Editor’s note: On Wednesday, a day after this article was published, President Trump made a surprise visit to Iraq to greet U.S. troops. It was his first presidential visit to a combat zone.

Yet even with that amendment, the story stands by its original headline, alleging no “Christmastime” troop visits from Trump. It also contains passages consistent with that headline, including a statement that Trump “broke from a recent tradition of actually visiting troops and wounded warriors. He did so in 2017, when he visited wounded troops at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Dec. 21 (and invited Coast Guard service members to play golf at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida). By staying home on Tuesday, Trump became the first president since 2002 who didn’t visit military personnel around Christmastime.”

As the pool report notes, however, Trump didn’t stay home Tuesday, at least not all of Tuesday. He left the White House “late on Dec. 25,” according to the report.

The story appears to rest on a lawyerly definition of “Christmastime.” Some succor for this approach comes from Merriam-Webster, which defines the word as “the time of year when people get ready for and celebrate Christmas : Christmas day and the days and weeks before it.”

Meh. A better measure of whether the visit qualifies as a “Christmastime” event comes from The Post’s account of the day: “Trump and the first lady mingled with uniformed service members at a base dining facility that was decorated for Christmas with foil balls, twinkling lights and snowmen made of stacked tires painted white,” notes the story by Philip Rucker and Paul Sonne. Also: Aren’t there 12 days of Christmas?

On Twitter and conservative media, there’s a lot of commentary criticizing NBC News for its “fake news” report about Trump’s “Christmastime” activities. “Fake news,” in the originalist view of the Erik Wemple Blog, describes intentionally false stories written for political ends. Considering that NBC News’s “Christmastime” piece appeared bulletproof at the time that it posted, we won’t join the “fake news” brigadiers in this instance. In defending the piece, an NBC News source said, “NBC waited until there was a full lid from the White House before publishing the piece,” referring to jargon indicating that the day’s news from the White House is done.

Things changed, however. Like a commander in chief, Trump got out of the house, into a plane and flew across the world to greet the troops amid Christmas folderol. Give the guy the credit he deserves for getting off his butt, as does The Post: “The unannounced visit continues a holiday tradition followed by past presidents.”

Correct the piece, NBC News, or prepare to stand legitimately accused of propagating fake news.

NBC has finally published its version of a correction. They didn't say their story was inaccurate. The were only willing to go so far as to say it was "correct at the time" but is "no longer correct."

This is a cop-out. Even to say the article was "correct at the time' is fake news. Trump didn't call the Secret Service late on the 25th and say "spool up the jet, we're leaving in 5." Presidential visits to an active war zone take significant advance planning. This trip was in the works long before NBC published their story. Just because the trip, necessarily a secret, wasn't preannounced to the media doesn't mean that NBC's take was accurate when published, only that they didn't know at the time that it was inaccurate. A responsible, professional journalism organization would simply retract the story with the admission that it was incorrect.

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You know, with the President's history of trolling the media and making them look bad over and over and over again, anyone want to bet that Trump planted the idea he wasn't visiting the troops through a leak to the press corps?

White House Staffer to Media: "be quiet but the President isn't visiting the troops for Christmas."
Media to everyone: "TRUMP DOESN'T VISIT THE TROOPS FOR CHRISTMAS. BAD PRESIDENT, BAD PRESIDENT."
President Trump: "Hehehehe, got you again Fake News! BTW the First Lady accompanied me into a combat zone, first in a very long time."
Media: "grumble, grumble. TRUMP HOLDS AN IMPROPER CAMPAIGN RALLY WITH TROOPS (the media's only way to explain the troops' reactions to President and First Lady). THE FIRST LADY WORE TIMBERLAND BOOTS! OH THE HORROR!

Welcome to the world of hardball, Dems


President Trump warned Friday that if Democrats do not agree to his demands to fund a wall on the southern border, he will “close the Southern border entirely” and cut aid to Central American countries -- while pulling back on trade with Mexico.

“We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall & also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our Country is saddled with,” he tweeted Friday morning. “Hard to believe there was a Congress & President who would approve!”

The tweetstorm came amid the partial government shutdown that will soon enter its second week. The closures began last Saturday after Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a funding package that would keep the government open and fund Trump’s promised border wall. Trump has demanded $5 billion for the barrier, but Democrats have refused, instead offering $1.3 billion for general border security.

With both sides refusing to budge and little activity on Capitol Hill amid the holiday break, there are no signs of the impasse ending anytime soon. One member of the House Republican leadership told Fox News on Thursday that a resolution may not emerge until the new year.

But on Friday, Trump not only renewed his demands for the wall, but threatened numerous consequences in the absence of that money. He even suggested pulling back on the recently renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which now goes by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

“The United States looses [sic] soooo much money on Trade with Mexico under NAFTA, over 75 Billion Dollars a year (not including Drug Money which would be many times that amount), that I would consider closing the Southern Border a 'profit making operation,'" he tweeted.

“Bring our car industry back into the United States where it belongs. Go back to pre-NAFTA, before so many of our companies and jobs were so foolishly sent to Mexico,” he carried on. “Either we build (finish) the Wall or we close the Border.”

He then said the U.S. would terminate aid with Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, which he said are doing “nothing for the United States but taking our money,” and referred to reports that another caravan of migrants hoping to get to the U.S. is planning on leaving Honduras in January.

“Word is that a new Caravan is forming in Honduras and they are doing nothing about it. We will be cutting off all aid to these 3 countries - taking advantage of U.S. for years!” he said.

Trump has previously threatened to shut down the border, but took no action to do so following those threats. He also previously threatened to cut aid to countries that assist, or do nothing to stop, the caravans. But earlier this month, the U.S. pledged a total of $10.6 billion in aid and investment for Central America and southern Mexico -- as part of a push to promote better security and job opportunities so that Central Americans and Mexicans do not have to emigrate to the U.S.

A cut-off of trade relations with Mexico could also risk a new agreement that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced this month that calls for immigrants claiming asylum in the U.S. to be returned to Mexico as their cases are processed.

Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s incoming acting chief of staff, claimed Friday on “Fox & Friends” that it appeared Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is interested in a deal but Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi is preventing it. He alleged Democrats are not dealing because Pelosi is waiting until she secures the speakership.

“We don’t think they will [negotiate] until after the new Congress is sworn in,” he said.

But Pelosi has denied claims they haven't provided a counteroffer.

"Democrats have offered Republicans three options to re-open government that all include funding for strong, sensible, and effective border security – but not the President's immoral, ineffective and expensive wall," said Drew Hammill, Pelosi's deputy chief of staff. "With the House Majority, Democrats will act swiftly to end the Trump Shutdown, and will fight for a strategic, robust national security policy, including strong and smart border security, and strong support for our servicemembers and veterans."



https://www.foxnews.com/politi...nless-wall-is-funded

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"With the House Majority, Democrats will act swiftly to end the Trump Shutdown...."

How? The House could pass a bill to do so, but there is no guarantee that the Senate would concur. Even if it did, the President could still veto it. I seriously doubt that Pelosi could muster 2/3 of the House for an override, and McConnell probably wouldn't even try.

flashguy

I don't think they've figured it out yet. They can stop things from moving forward like building the wall, but they can't do anything without the approval of the Senate and the President.

Here’s looking forward to Trump continuing to disrupt the status quo again and making establishment heads explode. #MAGA #Winning

going to be an interesting Year III

More Apple Carts remain to be turned over. Stay with it, Mr. President, we are winning!

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

Meaning, over the next 2.5 months, people are going to find out how much the tax cuts really affect them and he has all those soundbites of Dems saying they'll repeal the tax cuts.....

^^^

giggle snort

thats a good one

Mittens hits the ground running...and whining. An op-ed for WaPo “slamming” Trump.

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