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Campaign 2016 Part XVII: If debates are great theater, I think this one closes early

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Wikileaks says they'll be releasing stuff beginning next week.

And if you want to laugh, you need to visit conservativetribune.com. They haven't claimed Hillary is an alien, but there is still time.
 
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joecct said:
Wikileaks says they'll be releasing stuff beginning next week.

And if you want to laugh, you need to visit conservativetribune.com. They haven't claimed Hillary is an alien, but there is still time.
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The Laughs are assured for a while. The Dildo Seven trial is starting.
 
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How do campaigns or their surrogates manipulate the priority positioning of "news" articles on home pages or news sites? That has to be a pitched battle on some front.
 
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How do campaigns or their surrogates manipulate the priority positioning of "news" articles on home pages or news sites? That has to be a pitched battle on some front.
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I assume there are battalions of hired help, or more likely bots, that are used to push up certain stories and searches, much the way half the Comments on political stories come from hirelings.
 
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Kepler said:
I assume there are battalions of hired help, or more likely bots, that are used to push up certain stories and searches, much the way half the Comments on political stories come from hirelings.
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Is the web's equivalent of above-the-fold positioning typically determined by volume or shrewd programing of some sort? And how are algorithms used to custom fit users with the kind of news that will work with them? I mean, we know most voters do not actually read much, and I suspect most do not get beyond headlines. So if campaigns (or large scale sellers of any product) want to keep a certain message or image in the face of a consumer they feel they need to reach, I assume they are spending big bucks on marketing wizards and high end techies who could get a story about a pet squirrel above the fold.
 
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The mental image of Trump on a carrier really brings home the idiocy of that nomination. It makes Dukakis in a tank look formidable.
 
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Kepler said:
The mental image of Trump on a carrier really brings home the idiocy of that nomination. It makes Dukakis in a tank look formidable.
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God that was a bad decision. Somebody still wakes up in the middle of the night over that one.
 
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Hillary's responses on the emails is painful. What she is saying is correct -- I deal with this stuff for a living -- but the manner in which she says it -- the halting, precise, lawyering of every f-cking syllable -- sounds shady if not guilty, and incomprehensible unless you have a decade of experience listening to college professors who flunked their ESL lessons. To the gen pop, she must sound like a felon.
 
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God that was a bad decision. Somebody still wakes up in the middle of the night over that one.
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I read a really interesting interview with the advance man who arranged that trip. Bear in mind this is his version, so who knows, but according to him it was a very good visit and they were packing up their gear to get out of there when somebody asked Dukakis if he wanted to take a ride. Nobody on the campaign team knew what was happening until it was too late. It almost didn't even get filmed -- there was minimal press and almost all their equipment had already been stowed, but one guy got the famous awful footage. The campaign media guy claims the second he saw the footage he knew it was over.
 
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Kepler said:
I read a really interesting interview with the advance man who arranged that trip. Bear in mind this is his version, so who knows, but according to him it was a very good visit and they were packing up their gear to get out of there when somebody asked Dukakis if he wanted to take a ride. Nobody on the campaign team knew what was happening until it was too late. It almost didn't even get filmed -- there was minimal press and almost all their equipment had already been stowed, but one guy got the famous awful footage. The campaign media guy claims the second he saw the footage he knew it was over.
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Recall where you read the interview? I suppose I should just google it.
 
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Trump just flat out lied about the briefing -- that isn't how they work. I wish somebody could actually call him on his pure lies.
 
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And now, after advocating conquest ("take the oil"), he admires Putin's "strong leadership" and "high popularity polling."

This is crazy.
 
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Evidently rape in the military is the fault of women being in the military.
 
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Kepler said:
Evidently rape in the military is the fault of women being in the military.
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Trump came up with a crazy solution though. He suggested some type of court system within the military to handle those types of issues. This guy is a genius! Amazing nobody came up with that before.
 
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Kepler said:
Trump just flat out lied about the briefing -- that isn't how they work. I wish somebody could actually call him on his pure lies.
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Don't hold your breath. The TV media spends its time dissecting and over-analyzing the outrageous Trump statement du jour, instead of challenging him on his full body of claims throughout the campaign that have yielded 44 pants-on-fires, more than 40 four-Pinocchios and huge numbers of hours for the fact-checkers whose work proves that Cruz was right about him ("a pathological liar") and so was Fareed Zakaria ("a bulls**t artist"). It's quite clear the TV guys lack the balls to ask Trump why someone claiming he alone has all the answers is so reliant on lies that it's tantamount to creating his own false reality. And they certainly lack the guts to say "I'm going to ask the question again. This time I expect you to address the question and provide specifics. This isn't an infomercial."
 
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