Trumps First week
May 12th 2017 | 6:14 am
#301
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May 12th 2017 | 9:26 am
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Re: Trumps First week
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, Donald Trump boasted that, if he is impeached, the television ratings will be higher than those of any other impeachment in history.
“Everywhere I go, people tell me that if I am impeached, they’re going to watch it,†he said. “The ratings are going to be through the roof.â€
“Everywhere I go, people tell me that if I am impeached, they’re going to watch it,†he said. “The ratings are going to be through the roof.â€
May 12th 2017 | 11:23 am
#304
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Re: Trumps First week
I don't think the word 'impeachment' exists in Trump World.
May 12th 2017 | 1:39 pm
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Re: Trumps First week
He said that he expected his impeachment ratings to be “many, many times†the size of the audience for Bill Clinton’s impeachment, in 1998.
“It’s not even going to be close,†Trump said. “The ratings for Bill Clinton’s impeachment were a joke.â€
Asked about the recent impeachment of the former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Trump said, “Did anyone even watch that one? That was Korea. Nobody cares.â€
As for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, he said, “I didn’t hear about that one. I don’t follow Brazil. I like Argentina. I saw ‘Evita’ many, many times. Andrew Lloyd Webber did a great job. Millions and millions of people loved it. But that was a Broadway show, not an impeachment.â€
Even though he anticipates “just terrific†ratings for his impeachment, Trump said that he did not expect the media to provide an honest accounting of his audience size.
“They’re going to lie and say that a lot of people who watched my impeachment didn’t watch, and that’s going to be very bad and unfair, but it’s not going to change the fact that my impeachment will be a great impeachment, a really beautiful impeachment,†he said.
“It’s not even going to be close,†Trump said. “The ratings for Bill Clinton’s impeachment were a joke.â€
Asked about the recent impeachment of the former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Trump said, “Did anyone even watch that one? That was Korea. Nobody cares.â€
As for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, he said, “I didn’t hear about that one. I don’t follow Brazil. I like Argentina. I saw ‘Evita’ many, many times. Andrew Lloyd Webber did a great job. Millions and millions of people loved it. But that was a Broadway show, not an impeachment.â€
Even though he anticipates “just terrific†ratings for his impeachment, Trump said that he did not expect the media to provide an honest accounting of his audience size.
“They’re going to lie and say that a lot of people who watched my impeachment didn’t watch, and that’s going to be very bad and unfair, but it’s not going to change the fact that my impeachment will be a great impeachment, a really beautiful impeachment,†he said.
May 12th 2017 | 2:19 pm
#306
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Re: Trumps First week
Isn't there a copyright issue with cutting and pasting the whole piece? At the least it seems rude to the author especially if, as in this case, the source publication is pay walled. A few lines and a link is more usual.
May 13th 2017 | 12:51 am
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Re: Trumps First week
The best tv would be picking him up at Mar-a-Lago and taking him to Tallahassee in a white Bronco in a motorcade to be charged with treason.
May 13th 2017 | 1:47 am
#308
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Re: Trumps First week
Paywall? I don't pay for it.
May 13th 2017 | 1:51 am
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May 13th 2017 | 5:37 am
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Re: Trumps First week
Taking a note from down under, what The Donald needs is an interpreter, not a press secretary.
May 13th 2017 | 11:22 am
#311
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Re: Trumps First week
I don't think that's a site specific rule (that one can reproduce a few lines) I think it's a generally accepted custom supported in law. It seems to me that finding an author one admires and, rather than buying a subscription to the publication carrying his work, reproducing that work wholesale on another site, is poor form.
May 14th 2017 | 1:16 am
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Re: Trumps First week
Nevertheless, the site isn't charging me for this small level of access and nor have I reproduced it wholesale so it's a fuss about nothing isn't it?
May 14th 2017 | 1:32 am
#313
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Re: Trumps First week
I dunno that it's a fuss. I'm tutting at you for stealing the man's work. It's no more a fuss than raising an eyebrow at someone who's shoplifting.
May 14th 2017 | 3:17 am
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Re: Trumps First week
The website encourages the reader to pass on, free of charge, via Twitter, facebook and email.
The more accurate analogy might involve the shopkeeper inviting people to help themselves to the produce in expectation of generating future custom.
May 16th 2017 | 9:57 am
#315
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Re: Trumps First week
The way things are going, this could be his last week...
