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BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In response to Donald Trump's rhetoric, the "social news and entertainment company" BuzzFeed has decided to terminate an advertising deal with the Republican National Committee. The deal was for $1.3 million, a source close to BuzzFeed told POLITICO. The source said the reason was because of the website's employees. "[BuzzFeed could not countenance] having employees make ads, or working at the company and having our site promoting things, that limit our freedom and make it harder for them to live their lives," they said. The source said in response to whether or not BuzzFeed would rule out any Trump advertising: "In general, we have taken the position that we won't take ads for his presidential campaign." In a CNN article, RNC chief strategist Sean Spicer says, "Space was reserved on many platforms, but we never intended to use BuzzFeed." He added, "It is ironic that they have not ruled out taking money from a candidate currently under investigation by the FBI." The agreement between the RNC and BuzzFeed called for the GOP to "spend a significant amount on political advertisements slated to run during the fall election cycle," BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti wrote in an internal memo.
But no law says you must enable fascists that are calling for the death of millions, if not billions. tRump wants us to die.
Not to mention rape. Legitimate rapists, every last one of them.
He just said that a judge, who is a natural born US citizen, cannot be impartial in the suit against Trump because of his ethnicity. That's racist.
said he didn't know enough about the KKK
Clearly, so racist he never learned much about the KKK. Oh, and those law suits? Yeah, at no point did the justice department assert that there was an anti-black people policy. What htey claimed was that the management company's requirements of not having a late payment in the previous two years disproportionately affected black people. Your huffington post link is cute, by the way, as it's composed of misquotes and things he didn't actually say.
Go ahead, vote for a crooked corporate sellout and feel good about yourself.
They keep loosing? Remind me, which party controls both the house and senate? Shall we look at the state by state map with regards to legislatures and governorships? Obama has actually done wonders for the GOP.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
Remember how bad McCarthism was, but McCarthy only targeted State Department employees.
McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee persecuted many people not employed in any capacity by the Federal government. Do the words, "Hollywood blacklist" ring a bell?
Please share some of his racist comments... But please remember. "illegal Mexican immigrant" is not a race or ethnic group. Muslim is not a race or ethnic group.
Disliking a subgroup within an ethnic group for the actions is not racist.
Senator McCarthy would've had no control over the House Un-American Activities Committee. Try again.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
You mean the judge that's a member of La Raza, the racist organization of Mexicans who hate white people?
No. He is a member of The Hispanic National Bar Association, which used to be known as La Raza National Lawyers Association, and is a completely separate organization from the National Council of La Raza, a political advocacy group. The organization he belongs to changed their name more than 30 years ago, specifically to avoid confusing people like you, but apparently to no avail.
That is straight-up bullshit, and you know it. Everybody from Hillary Clinton on down to (for instance) San Jose's mayor and police chief are engaged in "blame the victim" over what happened in that city recently.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
Well, at least we KNOW that Hillary has heard of the KKK, since she is good friends with a former KKK member.
Former Senator Byrd was actually a KKK member, and very cozy with the Clintons -- close enough to give Hillary a big smooch.
http://www.snopes.com/clinton-...
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
Trump is so awful that the only person on the planet who would be a worse president is Hillary Clinton. Man, we sure know how to pick 'em.
Only people which are extreme right wing and disinterested into fact would use that photo and "kiss" against Clinton or Byrd. I am sorry but everybody makes error while young, and since he apologized along his long carrier of 50+year , I am seeing painting him as having KKK tie as either chicaneries or plain old lies. Either way it does not paint a good picture about people which uses this against Clinton. Disclaimer : I do not like Clinton I just don't like fact distortion.
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Way to prove the GP's point.
Trump has said some stupid and insensitive shit, but can you point to something that was actually racist?
Trump said that a judge should be disqualified from a case solely based on his ethnicity. As Paul Ryan, GOP house leader, said on Trump's statements: "Saying that someone can't do their job because of their race is the textbook definition of racism."
This isn't Democrats and liberals calling him a racist - top Republican leaders are now saying so as well.