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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid Kristen Welker push back when TFG said that people can kill a baby after it is born?*
CNN:
Trump, attacking Democrats on abortion policy, claimed, “You have some states that are allowed to kill the child after birth.” He also said specifically, “You have New York state and other places that passed legislation where you’re allowed to kill the baby after birth.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/17/politics/fact-check-donald-trump/index.html
* BTW Killing a baby is called murder and that is illegal in every state.
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bucolic_frolic
(55,140 posts)
LenaBaby61
(6,991 posts)to it thanks to the person she let spew. Hey, I guess. She's towing the company line while making money too. It's a win win for her.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)another NBC Pro Republican slut............just one of many talking heads that will do anything for money............
If she had even begun to question anything he said, NBC's Republican Owners and Operators would have fired her five minutes after the show......It is about the greed LB61, pure and simple and right on target. Thank you for pointing this out!
In reality they are all no different than the meth-head whores working E. Colfax here in Denver that will do anything for a 5 dollar bill....
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)another NBC Pro Republican slut............just one of many talking heads that will do anything for money............
If she had even begun to question anything he said, NBC's Republican Owners and Operators would have fired her five minutes after the show......It is about the greed LB61, pure and simple and right on target. Thank you for pointing this out!
In reality they are all no different than the meth-head whores working E. Colfax here in Denver that will do anything for a 5 dollar bill....
GoCubsGo
(34,914 posts)It's pretty much normalized at this point. I'm not surprised it blew right by her.
MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)Podcast today. He breaks it all down and blasts NBC for not following their own rules. I watched the shitshow Live. But it was edited! You’d never know
Blue Owl
(59,104 posts)Remember his stupid "they wrap the baby beautifully" bullshit comment from years ago?
Get this gaslighting motherfucker off the airwaves.
LenaBaby61
(6,991 posts)Greedy to keep their pockets lined with money. Welker's no better than Chuck Toad and his both sides do the same thing, no better than Faux News whose STILL lying, even though fined almost $1 BILLION DOLLARS which they paid. I forced myself to watch 10 minuets to make sure I was right about what kind of interview Walker would conduct. Welker and the 10 minutes I saw of her kissing tRump's ass the way the was---totally nauseating. The man is a racist, sexist, raping, deranged dictator, whose trying to steal another election. Most in the lame stream media don't care about saving democracy now and are after the bag and lining their pockets with ad money, views and clicks.They are becoming almost as complicit as tRump and MAGA. The press is now gas-lighting, and moving further into the corner of a man who would have them thrown out of windows like his good buddy Putin if he was president for life.
From 2016:
Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: “It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS”
"Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates," the CBS CEO said.
BY PAUL BOND
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FEBRUARY 29, 2016 11:26AM
Leslie Moonves can appreciate a Donald Trump candidacy.
Not that the CBS executive chairman and CEO might vote for the Republican presidential front-runner, but he likes the ad money Trump and his competitors are bringing to the network.
“It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS,” he said of the presidential race.
Moonves called the campaign for president a “circus” full of “bomb throwing,” and he hopes it continues.
“Most of the ads are not about issues. They’re sort of like the debates,” he said.
“Man, who would have expected the ride we’re all having right now? … The money’s rolling in and this is fun,” he said.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464/
SHAMEFUL. MOST in the lame stream media are soleless, money-hungry sons a bitches running after ratings and how much they can make from their interviews and are giving tRump--an evil dictator who'd destroy this country with them in it--just so they can make $$$$$
ProfessorGAC
(76,704 posts)The ratings bump was very short-lived & their own publicly available income statements show there was no major enhancement of revenues, margins, or profits.
He was intentionally hyping the situation to try to actually create the money train he was claiming existed.
And, he knew it was, at best, a wild exaggeration. What most of us call lying.
flying_wahini
(8,275 posts)I thought the FCC had rules. Who is in charge?
inthewind21
(4,616 posts)Stop watching. "hey" are there because of ratings. And judging by the many chiming in on the interview , they gave her plenty.
peppertree
(23,343 posts)To say nothing of of being the reason we don't have nationwide natal/maternity care in this country.
Medicaid comes close - and they're constantly trying to get rid of that too.
Magoo48
(6,721 posts)or the fuckers who tossed them there, or ourselves for again returning to the snake-tossers programming.
Mainstream media is a never ending episode of The Dark Side of Bennie Hill meets The Keystone Cops”.
republianmushroom
(22,326 posts)Traildogbob
(13,018 posts)Press the Meat, cash cash.
IA8IT
(6,424 posts)
spudspud
(647 posts)She only said that Democrats by and large aren't pushing that. Specifically, she said "Mr. PRESIDENT, Democrats writ large are not talking about that. Only 1 percent of late term abortions happen and always in the state of crisis." That's her "pushback" at the 25 min mark you mentioned. Seems lame to me.
LymphocyteLover
(9,847 posts)
IA8IT
(6,424 posts)spudspud
(647 posts)
Agreed!
Boomerproud
(9,292 posts)The short video I saw was muted and she was smiling and nodding her head. I'm done with media and their coddling of that man. There can and should be no debate about his character, actions or statements.
nevergiveup
(4,815 posts)I am in no way a Welker fan and I certainly think she could have been more aggressive on this issue but she did push back and then she pushed back again and again. I get the feeling that no one responding here even watched this part of the interview.
IA8IT
(6,424 posts)
wnylib
(26,014 posts)He talked over her, but she kept saying that it was not true.
scipan
(3,041 posts)
dobleremolque
(1,121 posts)it's interesting that the free press feels no obligation to return the favor and defend democracy.
pwb
(12,669 posts).
LuckyCharms
(22,648 posts)to switch her vote from Hillary to Trump at the last minute.
She believed the whole "ripping babies out of the womb at 9 months" thing.
3825-87867
(1,939 posts)on America and itself. It just doesn't realize it yet and really doesn't seem to care so long as it keeps feeding on especially Right Wing money. Continuing to eat away at Democracy for the sake of temporary financial existence, it doesn't realize what an authoritarian government under the Republicans (and their masters the Federalists, American Heritage, Kochs, Mercers, Leos etc) will do if given even a small chance at power to prevent dissemination of anything but Neo-Hitlerian Propaganda. Eventually the cancer will kill itself because when the Right is in power, there won't be any money to feed off of. .
Talk about state run media? The MSM has learned nothing from history. And especially the fact that the Right rewriting history will prevent anything close to representing an unbiased, non-partisan media. You have only to look at Texas, Florida, Alabama, Wisconsin, North Carolina to see their chosen, biased ambivalence in reporting.
Once it's too late, then and only then will they start crying about partisan Republican political abuses. The Newly risen MSM Phoenix will be controlled totally by the few ultra wealthy.
And don't forget the sad Democratic Response to ANYTHING the Republicans throw at them. The Democrats won't, can't or don't want to learn anything. The Republicans have them on the defensive ALL the time. Can't recall one instance where there was a concerted spear-headed Democratic effort to go after the Right as they've gone after us, in any major, sustained way, shape or form. Blue Waves a few months before an election ebb too quickly afterward.
Someone once said, when they go low, we go high (I was banned for criticizing that once before in another lifetime). That's why we have what we have after 40 plus years of going high.
If the Democrats, and I mean those elected to power, don't start fighting with everything they've got, while we probably won't be looking at a thousand year Reich, it more than likely may be at least a fifty to hundred year miserable existence.
Remember - if the Right wins, most well-to-do Democrats (upper top of the middle class and higher) won't be affected by almost anything the Right enacts. No so for those who think they're still untouchable.
We and the Elected Democrats still have a chance. Many of "we" will take that chance. Will those who we support take it?
inthewind21
(4,616 posts)think it's a bunch of republicans/MAGA's watching meet the press and giving them ratings? Really?