# If Trump wins the White House, will the Mainstream Media admit it? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 18, 2016, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239 "2016-09-18T07:32:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/101 "2016-09-19T13:30:19Z")
Its fucking amazing that Trump can get within spitting distance of Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/102 "2016-09-19T14:13:52Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Just to clarify my previous statement, it is The Donald’s election to lose, and he’s doing a great job of it. Hillary needs to up her dosing of glycerin … What previous position? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/103 "2016-09-19T15:39:52Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Its fucking amazing that Trump can get within spitting distance of Hillary. No, it isn’t. Just face the fact that the Republican Party would suck diseased iguana dick if that’s what it took to win the Presidency. I’ve been calling Trump’s rise to power since day one based on this fact, and I was right. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/104 "2016-09-19T16:09:18Z")
Eh, the racists finally have their candidate and have made it half-acceptable to be ‘out’ as such. The Conservative Christians who aren’t blatant racists are just so twisted by their knickers that they can’t admit that Trump isn’t a Christian and isn’t their man. (Except for people like my parents, who won’t vote for him because he **isn’t** a Christian.) All in all I consider it far more likely that we’ll have the usual “She’s not MY President!” assclownery from the right after the election. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/105 "2016-09-19T16:14:47Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Maybe I should have. But it simply didn’t occur to me as my curiosity had been piqued as to what the mainstream sites were doing, and what better way to answer that question than to visit them myself? > > There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that and your condemnation over my having done so is as silly as it is meritless. No, it’s not silly and it’s not meritless to call you out on a bullshit attempt to shift the focus of the thread after your initial thrust was parried and proven completely wrong. You’re a fool. > [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > It never ceases to amaze me how much ire my posts seem to generate around here. I’m one lone wolf occasionally cracking wise about liberals in roughly the same vituperative way that countless liberals around here condemn and insult conservatives dozens if not hundreds of times a day every day. I realize the truth hurts but you guys really need to try to keep at least a little sense of perspective. Ddamn, you have a seriously inflated sense of yourself. You’re little more than a figurative punching bag on these forums: an easy target that never moves. > [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > And I wouldn’t be criticizing anyone for not knowing how to start anything correctly (or necessarily, or non-stupidly) if I were you, quarry-boy. That’s the most wordy, idiotic, nonsensical and just plain awkward and unworkable phrase to try to turn into a meme anyone has ever been moronic enough to think worth the effort. Since it was never my intent to start a meme, that makes you wrong again. Are you trying to challenge **adaher** for the title? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/106 "2016-09-19T16:29:12Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Believe it or not most of the opinions and views I have are the same I’ve had for decades… Oh, I believe it. Because you’re too stupid to learn. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/107 "2016-09-19T16:36:44Z")
SA, nobody gives a shit about your conservative, inferiority-complex, victimhood and “poor me” schtick. You’ve shoved that cardboard tube too far up your ass if you think the media’s ignoring Trump ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/108 "2016-09-19T17:11:20Z")
What? No, no, that is harsh, that is unfair! **Starkers** is the conservative gadfly who needles the pretensions and hypocrisies of the liberals! In the grand tradition of _Mallard Fillmore_ and Dennis Miller, for those who find Mark Russel’s wit a bit too sharp for their taste. Its pungent wit, or perhaps _punji_ wit, the shit-smeared stick, humor as pointed as it is infectious. It is a distant echo of Twain, it imitates humor like Spenda imitates sugar. It pretends to Twain’s gleeful malice and mournful humanity, but is proportions are skewed, lop-sided, an overflowing abundance of malice and a promissory note on humanity, a bad check written on a closed account. But what of fair play, what of equal respect for opinion? Doesn’t that principle urge us, nay, _compel_ us to regard his empty and vicious blathering with equal respect to thoughtful and fact-based opinion? Like Hell it does! ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/109 "2016-09-19T20:02:50Z")
That would be a cute little diatribe if you hadn’t hosed it all up with the misspelling of Splenda. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/110 "2016-09-19T20:08:29Z")
How odd, a man who can spell but can’t think. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/111 "2016-09-19T20:15:45Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > That would be a cute little diatribe if you hadn’t hosed it all up with the misspelling of Splenda. We’ll remember this the next time you make a spelling error. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/112 "2016-09-19T20:21:40Z")
Just make sure it’s couched in a load of pseudo-intellectual bullshit when you do, mmkay? It’ll stand out more that way. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/113 "2016-09-19T20:30:26Z")
It probably will be, you are pretty reliable. ---
**Author:** ![Teofan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@Teofan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teofan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/114 "2016-09-19T20:37:58Z")
Quote: “If Trump wins the White House, will the Mainstream Media admit it?” Why in the world, as your question implies, would you give one scintilla of legitimacy to the MSM by caring what it thinks or admits, to begin with? Nobody 'wins" the presidency… it is awarded by others that are not “Americans” (in the purest sense of that moniker). If you would argue otherwise, then the refusal of the DC Cabal to enforce strict limits on immigration and Judeo-political bullshit for decades will substantiate sentence #1 in this paragraph. So… same result. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/115 "2016-09-19T20:40:01Z")
It is customary to note a first-time poster with a “welcome to the Dope”. I’m sure someone will be along to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/116 "2016-09-19T20:51:39Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Just make sure it’s couched in a load of pseudo-intellectual bullshit when you do, mmkay? It’ll stand out more that way. Everything you post is pseudo-intellectual bullshit. Why would it stand out? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/117 "2016-09-19T20:56:29Z")
> [@Teofan](#): > > Quote: “If Trump wins the White House, will the Mainstream Media admit it?” > > Why in the world, as your question implies, would you give one scintilla of legitimacy to the MSM by caring what it thinks or admits, to begin with? > > Nobody 'wins" the presidency… it is awarded by others that are not “Americans” (in the purest sense of that moniker). If you would argue otherwise, then the refusal of the DC Cabal to enforce strict limits on immigration and Judeo-political bullshit for decades will substantiate sentence #1 in this paragraph. So… same result. Please tell us more about the Jews. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/118 "2016-09-19T21:29:13Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Seriously, I was never sure whether Severus or Caracalla was really emperor. Pretty sure that they both just wanted to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/119 "2016-09-19T21:56:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > It is customary to note a first-time poster with a “welcome to the Dope”. I’m sure someone will be along to do so. Won’t be me. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239/120 "2016-09-19T23:59:57Z")
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