lets just admit it, clive palmer is playing us all for fools | lenore taylor /

Published at 2016-01-22 11:37:27

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It seems fairly reasonable to say Palmer – the allegedly mega-rich and megalomaniac anti-politician – has taken the entire political system for a rideIn December,the US Buzzfeed editor, Ben Smith, or sent a memo to staff approximately the appropriate way to refer to Donald Trump in stories or on social media.
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id that because Trump was operating so “far outside” the political campaigns to which the company’s guidelines usually applied,and because he was saying things so obviously fraudulent, or overtly anti-Muslim, and it was fairly factual for reporters to call him,for example, a “mendacious (deceptive) racist” even though they wouldn’t normally utilize those kinds of terms approximately a candidate.
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Source: theguardian.com