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Those I know who voted from Trump did so because they objected to Clinton politically. They did not in the least like Trump.

I don't remember anyone speaking of Dole, McCain, or Romney as evil. Frankly, Donald Trump has said crappier things about McCain than anyone on the Democratic side ever did. Romney did get slammed on his statement that some percentage of the population was freeloading.

CNN is as reputable a news organization as it ever was. It may well be in worse odor with the Republican base because of Trump's statements, but I don't think it was ever that popular with them. And let's face it, Fox News has a 25-year investment in depicting Hillary Clinton as bad. If we're going to talk about CNN saying bad stuff about Dole, we should probably go back and think of all the folks who pushed the notion that Hillary Clinton arranged the death of Vincent Foster.

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VP Biden said Romney would put the black community back in chains.

Romeney had the intimidation factor of a house plant.

>> Those I know who voted from Trump did so because they objected to Clinton politically. They did not in the least like Trump.

this statement makes virtually no sense to me. They didn't like Clinton's politics, but instead of voting for Bernie or a third party candidate, they voted for someone they didn't like? That kind of logic completely escapes me.

>> CNN is as reputable a news organization as it ever was.

I'm not sure how they can be. It's one thing to have a political slant to your reporting. It's quite another to tow Democratic party lines, publish fake or purposefully misleading stories to hurt Trump, and 90% of the stories you run about him are negative. That's not journalistic integrity, it's a running tirade about him and his administration.

How much does CNN hate Trump? 93% of coverage is negative

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/23/how-much-doe...

You can say Fox News reporting has a conservative slant and I won't argue that fact. Even their reporting on Trump during and now after the election has had an air of pessimism about it. They ran very few, if any positive stories about him during the campaign, and many of their more moderate commentators still hedge their support of him and his policies.

>> Hillary Clinton arranged the death of Vincent Foster.

I've followed the Clinton's since the 90's and have heard various conspiracy theories about them, but this is the first time I've heard someone talk about Hilary arranging Vince Foster's death.

Curious here if you think a news network should post 50% positive coverage about something regardless of the story being objectively bad.

Actually they should just report the facts and let the people have their own opinions.

The media used to be the check on the government, now they're firmly on its payroll. When that happens, you lose all credibility. When you can't trust the news being reported to you to be unbiased, and not filtered through a political lens or some ideological slant, then it's no longer news, it's an agenda - which is exactly what I saw and experienced all through the election cycle and even now several months afterwards, with no signs of abating.

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