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Geez, Mary. You will not know who the hell I am, but I would be remiss not to thank you. As I was catching up on your articles I had missed, I see I proved I was both naive and ignorant. Thank you.

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Journalists and media orgs should know by now what comments Trump will bring to the interview. It would be simple to have the fact checking references at hand to dispute his crazy responses. My best example would be to have the pertinent facts of the Presidential Records Act at hand to trash his idea it protects him.

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Thanks Mary.

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I was one of those who thought the Meet the Press interview with Georgia defendant PO1135809 was a good interview, until I read your Substack, and thought to myself “Yes, Mary is right. Catch him in his first lie, and his second, and his third. Get him uncertain and furious. Get him to show what he really is. But he's so quick at lying, it's hard to catch him. The media has to hold him accountable at his first lie. Tough to do because every word out of his mouth is a lie.

I have valued you what you have reminded me about your uncle. I have also enjoyed your more personal posts. Aways like a good memory, or good song.

I am sending you a link to my own substack. Don't know if you have time, but I would love to know if you like would like to follow me as I have followed you...https://lynnmariesager.substack.com/

Might be cool to become friends.

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Yes, “journalistic malpractice”

I call it “churnalisitic”

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It is sad, so much hate and self-righteousness.

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I read this quote the other day and think it bears repeating here: "The time will come when the rich will control the means of communication, making it impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions."

--Albert Einstein, 1949

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I’m sure that her being wined & dined by Trump campaign staff about a month ahead of the interview had no impact on the flirty “let me get inside your head” outer-view.

Welker gushed, “Mr. President” so much, me thought the ghost of our dearly departed Marilyn may have possessed her.

The Donald repeatedly reinforced “the election was rigged” and as an Ivy League network journalist, she had nothing top of mind with which to rebut?

“Can they please bring Todd back?” Words I never imagined I might ever utter.

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I don't believe Chuck Todd would have done anything differently.

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He seems a tiny bit less fox

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Removed the record series for Meet the Press this morning ... and I didn't watch it. I hope if others did not watch or record it, NBC will get the message that they screwed up.

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Bless you 🙏🌈‼️😎

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This was a taped interview. So, why couldn't they do a POP-UP video kind of fact checking. With thought bubbles that explain the lie. It would make the show more interesting. The only thing more exciting would be for trump's pants to explode in flames.

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The problem continues to be the misguided ethic of the political media in Washington and New York that dictates "balance," as if it is possible for anyone to be without bias. Of course, the more that political journalists twist themselves into knots in an effort to do the both-sides dance, the more they play into the Republican's disinformation routine and confuse information consumers.

Donald Trump is a master manipulator. The only way to deal with him, from a journalist's perspective, is to call him on every misleading comment, every lie, and every allegedly unlawful action. And if he won't grant any more interviews to an outlet that does that, well, okay. The job of a journalist is to report truth, not maintain access. Besides, rarely is it necessary to have a politician comment on their own actions in order to present a factually accurate report on those actions.

The Meet the Press interviewer, like so many others, fell prey to her desire to avoid any hint of being "unfair." By doing so, she fell right into the trap of letting Trump deceive, as he has done so often.

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Mary, keep up the good work! We all have to get together to make sure that your uncle, the greatest liar in the world, never set foot again in the White House. And we can only do that by help making our citizens go out and cast their votes.

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Worst thing you can do to a malignant narrcisist is give him a mic and then shine a light on him.

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Why aren't our interviewers our "best brightest" journalists that are assigned to combat a known liar like Trump. Should've been anticipated. I did... The interviewer & crew should've been prepared to fact-check, and as Mary said, fact-check in real time. Or at least after as it was pre-recorded. I lost much of my admiration and trust in CNN after watching that interview.

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Much of the the media seem to be constantly out manipulated by your uncle. Likely because the media refuse to allow the fact that its been pointed out by many mental health professionals, such as yourself, that he’s a malignant narcissistic psychopath and quite unqualified for any position, to be mentioned anywhere in public. It’s ignored. They consider him like he was a normal human.

They also tend to ignore the Constitution’s 14th Amendment Section 3 that makes it impossible to serve in any position in government.

The media can be blamed for his political power because its news and profit for them. What else sells like the nonsense he spews out?

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Awesome article Mary

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