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PATRICK

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23. The middle ground!

Reply to marble falls (Reply #21)

Thu Jul 16, 2026, 09:18 PM

8 hrs ago

Trump goes off the wall in several important ways: outright treason and lies to control elections. Crazy talk. Rant. So. They don't want Trump to look bad! How do they sanitize this as a dignified official statement and not offend Trump by not airing the whole speech. And of course, the American people they are betraying daily. The middle looks like razor blades on the fulcrum of a teeter totter all of their own making. They have a LOT more to sweat out than simple sane-washing, especially if Trump goes crazy, illegally extreme- then vengeful.

BTW all the news media go to jail eventually if things keep sliding this insanely criminal way. But the worries of the day mean they can breathe a sigh of relief if tonight goes off quietly, and Trump doesn't go Attila the Hun, blaming them for literally any result he doesn't like.
They worry much less about the actual criminality of the speech.

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CBS News wants to take 'middle ground' on airing Trump's speech as network chiefs wrestle over whether to carry it live [View all] highplainsdem 13 hrs ago OP

US networks face dilemma over whether to air Trump's election security speech LetMyPeopleVote 13 hrs ago #1

The OP is more recent news, I believe, and probably the best prediction of what they'll do. highplainsdem 13 hrs ago #2

US Networks are the new Pravda. JBTaurus83 13 hrs ago #3

Middle ground is a myth. Poor attempt at being objective. You know what you are doing. twodogsbarking 13 hrs ago #4

Exactly. Why not just go with facts? JBTaurus83 13 hrs ago #7

Well nobody expects See-BS to have any spine FakeNoose 13 hrs ago #5

The news corporations are going to do what they want to do. MLWR 13 hrs ago #6

I'll be watching "Trivial Pursuit" and "Scrabble" on the CW. Ritabert 13 hrs ago #8

Bari Weiss realizes it is better for Trump to show only parts of his speech than show the whole thing. SamuelAdams 13 hrs ago #9

CBS will just play the sane parts durablend 12 hrs ago #14

How telling is that? The in bed CBS has to filter it for him. underpants 13 hrs ago #10

They're doing Trump a favor. They'll edit the clips to make him appear semi-sane, and cut all the truly unhinged shit. sop 13 hrs ago #11

Fact Checking BlueKota 13 hrs ago #12

I'd watch if Colbert were doing the editing/commentary Raven123 13 hrs ago #13

Middle ground? C_U_L8R 12 hrs ago #15

JUST IN: NBC and ABC Will Not Air Trump's Primetime Address Live LetMyPeopleVote 12 hrs ago #16

NBC is planning a brief special report after his speech, which is what Stelter expected. ABC is probably going highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #18

Barf SheltieLover 12 hrs ago #17

"...quickly editing clips of Trump's address to air shortly after" EarlG 12 hrs ago #19

See replies 16 and 18. It looks like NBC and ABC will probably do quick special reports on the speech, highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #20

"CBS" is all I need to hear to discount that notion of 'middle ground'. marble falls 11 hrs ago #21

The middle ground! PATRICK 8 hrs ago #23

See B S MW67 8 hrs ago #22