**** Elections thread *****

[JKDS]

This story is moderately interesting. Let's slap on the "gate" suffix and call it a day. Well done gentlemen.

--Said every blogger and wanna-be reporter ever.

Anyway, I can't believe Rachel got so owned by Trump. She must have been forced to play her cards the way she did. Why would you ever flaunt a boring tax return from 2005?

[BananaStand]

Anyway, I can't believe Rachel got so owned by Trump. She must have been forced to play her cards the way she did. Why would you ever flaunt a boring tax return from 2005?

Maddow hyped her 'scoop' pretty hard, which drew ratings for NBC. People tuned in, and were assaulted with a 20 minute tirade about why she wants to see his tax returns so bad. She got everyone paying attention to her (MSNBC's ratings are in the toilet overall), and used that soapbox to stir up this tax issue all over again.

Her show wasn't about the tax returns she had. Those were just an excuse to rant about the tax returns she didn't have.

Now, 'Trump's tax returns' is a headline again.

Not sure this is a great development for Trump

[Poopadoop]

Everyone on MSNBC news is so passionately and blatantly anti-Trump that it almost makes me like him more, not less.

The fact that they also routinely take waaaay too much time to build up every story doesn't help their ratings I'm sure.

[BananaStand]

they also routinely take waaaay too much time to build up every story doesn't help their ratings I'm sure.

To be quite honest, a huge part of the reason Fox is #1, is because all of their female anchors are mega-babes. Rachel Maddow looks like she came in second place in a shovel fight.

[Poopadoop]

To be quite honest, a huge part of the reason Fox is #1, is because all of their female anchors are mega-babes. Rachel Maddow looks like she came in second place in a shovel fight.

I could deal with her ugliness if it wasn't for all the 'Hey. Get a load of this (snort). Donald Trump (guffaw). You're president (smirk). OUR president (high-pitched giggle).'

Just tell us what you have to say ffs.

[wufwugy]

This story is moderately interesting. Let's slap on the "gate" suffix and call it a day. Well done gentlemen.

--Said every blogger and wanna-be reporter ever.

Anyway, I can't believe Rachel got so owned by Trump. She must have been forced to play her cards the way she did. Why would you ever flaunt a boring tax return from 2005?

My theory is that they believe at the very core of their being the stuff they spew. So, when there's a verified Trump tax return, they KNOW for a fact that it will include all the tasty nasty shit they KNOW about Trump that they have been TELLING EVERYBODY about for years. There is NO WAY this can blow up in their face because THEY ARE SMART AND TRUMP IS STUPID.

[Poopadoop]

If one were to ascribe to NBC the same Machiavellian shrewdness they apply to Trump every time he does something stupid, the story would probably go that by drawing attention to his taxes they made his taxes an issue that everyone talks about for awhile. The fact they had nothing of interest in those particular tax returns is secondary, if it's even relevant at all.