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Happyhippychick

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2. How can a newspaper endorse a candidate that is anti-media in the first place???

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu May 25, 2017, 09:19 AM

May 2017

Again, party before country. The media outlets should be ashamed of themselves if they support a single republican who blasts the media and interferes with freedom of the press.

So that's my way of saying F you to the newspaper - they shouldn't have endorsed him in the first place.

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