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Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by SnarkShark, Jan 22, 2016.

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  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    WaPo puts quotation marks around "enabler" when recounting Trump's use of the term in regards to Hillary:



     
  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Hilary is asking Americans to do something she is unwilling to do herself, close your eyes and swallow a Clinton
     
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  3. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    They put quotes around it because they are quoting Trump. If they didn't, then they would be calling her an enabler, which would be editorializing in a straight news story.

    If you actually knew anything about the media, you would know that already.
     
  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

  5. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    YF knows more than enough about the media to know that the WaPo's edging into editorializing with its quote marks here. This sentence -- "Baron Scicluna has charged that YF is ignorant of the ways of the media" -- is no more editorializing than this one -- "Baron Scicluna has charged that YF is 'ignorant' of the ways of the media."
     
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  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    The first sentence is the writer putting the word "ignorant" into the speaker's mouth. The second sentence is the speaker actually saying the word.

    With the first sentence, I could claim that the writer misconstrued my remarks on the matter. Maybe I didn't mean "ignorant." Maybe I meant something else. But with the second sentence, there is no misconstruing because the writer actually used my quote.
     
  7. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    You're full of shit ... and you can quote me on that.
     
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  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

  9. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

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  10. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Trump is priceless:

     
  11. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    When three different investigations rule a death is a suicide, it's a suicide.
     
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  12. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    How many Benghazi investigations now?
     
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