'Rip coverage away' must have been tops on the talking points memo this wkend

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are they all on the same talking point email chain or do they just parrot one another?

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That's just politics. A phenomenon which occurs regularly within the stables of both donkey and pachyderm.

Yup

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True. Both parties are the same

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False. If you are an expert on the use of rhetoric (like me) you would discern the frequency of words used on a subject.
For example, the adjective 'staunch' is only used to describe the right. There is no such thing as a 'staunch' liberal.

When talking points come out the Dems tend to repeat them verbatim. The GOP uses talking points as ideas, not individual words. So every GOP spokesman is taking the same angle but using his/her own language.

The prospect of "ripping coverage" is so "dark", even "mainstream republicans" find this time to be in "uncharted waters".

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Andrew Breitbart was calling this exact thing out. In 2012.

Before his time

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probably true but how would you know?

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It's one of my many talents. For example, the use of filler term 'ya know' has been creeping into professional broadcast journalism for about 5 years now.

When a network anchor is delivering the evening news he is reading from script. But on Sunday morning network round table discussions (or cable news weekday round table discussions) there is no teleprompter. So, they revert back to 'ya know' constantly.

IE, "Well, Chuck, what do you think about this Donald, Jr. scandal?"

Chuck Todd: "Well, ya know, I've said before that if this administration continues to, ya know, keep flailing around and, ya know, changing course..."

In the 1960s nobody would have kept his job as a professional broadcaster saying 'ya know.'