Archive for 2019
September 9, 2019
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Is it possible to train doctors without hurting anyone’s feelings? But, of course, some people’s feelings are more equal than others.
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OUT: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY. IN: OPINION RHAPSODY.
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BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: “Washington Post columnist and Never-Trumper Max Boot laments that, as hard as he tries, ‘no matter how many columns or sound bites I produce, he [Trump] remains in office.'”
SALENA ZITO: It will take hometown heroes to fix broken towns.
THIS KEEPS HAPPENING: Ship with Climate Change Warriors caught in ice, Warriors evacuated.
BLONDE ANTI-SEMITE VALERIE PLAME: “I come from Ukrainian Jewish immigrants.”
ACTUALLY, THEY’RE LESS SO, BUT VEGETARIANISM HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT HEALTH: The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat aren’t healthier. Fast food’s meatless marvels are just P.R.
WHOOPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN: ‘Our bad!’ NYT Archives deletes tweet about Mao Zedong because it ‘lacked critical historical context’ — like that he was a mass murderer.
Their necrophilic 1953 obit of Joseph Stalin is still online though, as is their recent article about “Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism.”
“THE HOP’ IS THE $128M STREETCAR TO NOWHERE: Great video from the Badger Institute comparing the federally funded Milwaukee transportation boondoggle to the privately funded Joseph Project in which a group of churches pooled resources to get people to their jobs.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH LAVALIERES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes on Interviewing Obama: ‘I Don’t Think It Was a Matter of Pushing Hard.’
Kroft said he felt Obama “appreciated” that CBS edited his remarks in a way that the viewer was still “able to distill what he was saying.”
He praised Obama for having a command of the issues whenever they spoke.
“I don’t think I’ve ever interviewed a politician quite like that,” he said. “You interview lots of people in Congress. Some of them can’t answer anything without four aides in the room, you know, stopping them saying, “Well, that’s not exactly right.'”
“Did you ever feel that you should have pushed harder?” Stahl asked.
“I don’t think it was a matter of pushing hard,” Kroft said. “I think that that criticism came from the fact that I didn’t get angry with him.”
In a clip of one of their exchanges, Obama told Kroft, “asked and answered, let’s move on.” Kroft chuckled and obliged.
Of course he did. Tavis Smiley of PBS admitted the game on MSBNC even before Obama took office: “We’re all working for Barack Obama.”
In more ways than one, in Kroft’s case: From 2011 until the end of 2018, the president of CBS News was David Rhodes, the brother of Obama aide Ben Rhodes, who famously bragged in 2016, “We created an echo chamber,” to sell the Iran deal. The media “were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Valerie Plame Drives a Fast Car, So New Mexico Should Elect Her to Congress.
Well, whatever. It’s politics. Since when has the truth mattered? It’s not about what did or didn’t happen in real life. It’s about awesome stunt driving and strutting toward the camera in slow motion while somebody plays generic blues-rock. It’s about declaring yourself a victim of those evil Republicans. It’s about telling people what they want to hear about their hated enemies.
“Get your revenge: Vote for me!”
It’s pure nonsense, and I assume she’ll win.
Congratulations in advance, Valerie. Beats getting a real job, right?
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Related: Valerie Plame: Let’s Just Forget about that Anti-Semitism Thing.
REPUBLICANS POUNCE! (PREVIEW EDITION): Focus on Biden health underscores future Trump attacks.
CHANGE: Google faces a new antitrust probe by 50 attorneys general.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
MILE WIDE AND AN INCH DEEP: Dem Pollster Calls Joe Biden’s 2020 Lead ‘Deceptive.’
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Object of Defensive-Gun Handling: Stop the Threat.
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PLEASE STARE AT ME SO I CAN TELL YOU NOT TO STARE AT ME: Open Letter to the Gender-Confused Dude in the Beard and Lipstick: My Kid Is Going to Stare.
THE GOOD LIFE: Oh To Be a Democrat in New Jersey. “NAACP President Jeffrey Dye had a record of threatening his brother with a knife, getting caught with six bags of crack cocaine, assaulting police officers on two separate occasions, so of course he was appointed to work for the New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development.”