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Joe Scarborough is now comparing Trump to a Hitler. I’m so old, I remember when Joe went down to Mar-a-Lago for New Years Eve 2016 with a big smile on his face. And when folks criticized him for it, he got all huffy.
Look, I appreciate Joe’s many fact-based criticisms of Trump. But his early softball coverage of Trump normalized the guy at a time when many people, especially historians, were screaming bloody murder about who Trump was.
Joe’s rhetorical extremity now does not erase his media whitewashing of Trump in 2015-16.
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Question for the news editors at the major networks. If you knew then what we know now about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, would you have broadcast this speech live? I think the answer is probably, "no way." Just keep that in mind tomorrow.
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This is a really important point. As we glory in dunking on dumb old Grover, we must remember that he was probably *the most important and influential Republican operative* of the 1990s. He was a key agenda setter and "idea guy" for the GOP in the ages of Gingrich and W.
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Before people go nuts, take a breath. This video going viral of a reported shootout going on on the Pharr Bridge to Reynosa, is regurgitated old footage that is being pushed by Breitbart starting a week ago. This is being promoted as something that just happened.
Now this happens on the Mexican side a lot. The Mexican Federales have gun battles with Cartels over there a lot. The majority of that automatic weapon fire is the Mexican Federales who are well armed tactically, M4A1's and when they deal with the Cartels this is how it sounds.
I think the timing of these releases are suspicious and planned, & just to be fair, these types of situations do happen, but this video footage could be from last October, when they had a huge raid on the Reynosa side by the Mexican Federales and it ended up in a 10 min firefight
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By Ron Rosenbaum @RonRosenbaum1

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THE TRUMP-HITLER COMPARISON.
Is there any comparison? Between the way the campaigns of Donald #Trump and Adolf #Hitler should have been treated by the #media and the culture? The way the media should act now? The problem of #normalization?
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Because I’d written a book called Explaining Hitler several editors had asked me, during the #campaign, to see what could be said on the subject.

Until the morning after the election I had declined them.
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