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blatham
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 03:26 pm
@revelette1,
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It's unclear who Burck was communicating with in the White House. He is also representing top White House lawyer Don McGahn in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation
I believe he is also representing Reince Priebus, which struck me as quite handy.
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blatham
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 03:27 pm
@wmwcjr,
You've been writing some great posts. Happy to have you here.
blatham
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 03:37 pm
Here's a damned smart observation from Paul Waldman on how Trump's attacks on the media is not working out very well. As I've argued before, the fundamental goal of people who lie is to make whoever they are lying to more stupid (that is, to coax them to misapprehend something true or real and convince them of falsehoods instead).
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Then there’s the conservative information bubble. Trump wants his people to retreat further inside of it, so they’ll never hear a discouraging word about him and his greatness.

...No one is more firmly ensconced inside that bubble than the president himself. Despite having the collective resources of the U.S. government at his disposal, he prefers to learn what’s going on in the world from a daily three-hour immersion in the carnival of numbskullery that is “Fox & Friends.” But does this help Trump in any way? Does it allow him to make smart policy decisions or point him toward clever political strategies? He may watch for the unceasing ego massage the trio of nitwit hosts reliably deliver to him, but it can’t help but make him dumber every time he tunes in.

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BillW
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 03:40 pm
@wmwcjr,
A Texas Republican, and most of the rest of the south, was a "Yellow Dog Democrat" ( a person who is inclined to support any candidate affiliated with the Democratic party, regardless of the candidate's personal qualities or political qualifications) prior to 1964. This change over process was 90% completed by 1983 when Phil Gramm changed over to the Yellow Dog Republican party.
BillW
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 03:46 pm
@BillW,
The converse to the Yellow Dog changeover to the Republicans is the rise of the Blue Dog Democrats - of which I was one from birth:

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Wikipedia-
The Blue Dog Coalition, commonly known as the Blue Dogs or Blue Dog Democrats, is a caucus of United States Congressional Representatives from the Democratic Party who identify as conservative Democrats.
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blatham
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 05:14 pm
Sinclair is vying to match the propagandist (and money-making) methodology of Fox and talk radio.
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Nearly one week after President Donald Trump reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and unspecified African nations as “shithole countries” in a racist diatribe, Sinclair Broadcast Group’s #1 Trump shill Boris Epshteyn would like local news audiences to know that it doesn’t matter.

In a January 17 Bottom Line with Boris “must-run” segment for Sinclair, former Trump aide and Sinclair chief political analyst Epshteyn added his voice to the chorus of desperate right-wing media figures defending Trump’s latest racist moment. He argued that the entire “dust up” about Trump saying yet another clearly racist thing was about a president using “salty language” and saying “a curse word to a group of adults in private.” Epshteyn’s segment does not mention what the comments were in reference to, or name any of the countries targeted -- he doesn't even use the words "immigrant" or "immigration."
MM

For those not paying attention, "must run" means that every station in Sinclair's expanding universe MUST carry some (pro-Trump, pro-right wing) content regardless of what that local station might want or think.
blatham
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 05:19 pm
Trump interview
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He blamed his three immediate predecessors, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, for failing to resolve the crisis and, a day after his doctor gave him a perfect score on a cognitive test, suggested he had the mental acuity to solve it.

“I guess they all realized they were going to have to leave it to a president that scored the highest on tests,” he said.
reuters
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blatham
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 05:28 pm
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How Trump convinced America that character doesn't matter

The simple explanation for why the Stormy Daniels story — and I repeat, President Trump paid a porn star $130,000 in hush money to cover up an extramarital affair — isn't the subject of screaming headlines and round-the-clock cable news attention is that there are 10 other insane stories going on at the same time. This administration is such a chamber of horrors that neither the media nor the public can possibly follow every potential scandal, and since nobody's all that surprised that Trump was shtupping a porn star or that he paid her off, it isn't worth talking about.

But there's another explanation, one that gets deeper into the way Trump has twisted and degraded our entire national debate: President Trump is such a horrifying human being that he has ironically made it harder for us to draw the right connections between presidential character on the one hand, and leadership and policy on the other. Never has character mattered more, and yet at times we're almost blinded by the utter madness and chaos emitting from the White House on any given day.
The Week
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Builder
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 05:56 pm
Fake Nooz awards on live now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuxMTmGybxo&feature=youtu.be

Not much but chatter going on, but interesting that it's actually an event.
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BillW
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 06:02 pm
@blatham,
Any time Boris Epshteyn is brought up it should always be noted he is a known Natzi propagandist.
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georgeob1
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 06:05 pm
@blatham,
And yet the description of his alleged word choice does indeed appear to be far more likely a use of salty language than the thoughtful racism that the overly incensed snowflakes have made of it.

Interestingly the objective indicators both in the economy and in international relations are increasingly very good, despite the intense expressions of disapproval we see here and in some quarters abroad. The increasingly stark contrast in this area poses some interesting challenges for both the liberal media and Trump's political opponents.

So wrapped up in denial over their defeat in the last election, and so convinced that it couldn't have been their fault or the fault of either their record for the last 8 years or their candidate, the Democrats appear to be lost in shrill indignation over every lapse or misstep of the ever outspoken and often vulgar Trump. In many ways they appear to have lost any sense of proportion 0r scale in the matter. The exaggerated indignation of Sen. Booker in yesterday's hearings with the HS Secretary was as laughable as the ardent disbelief with which media persistently questioners confronted the Medical Officer who conducted Trump's physical exam. ( Some of your remote ventures into the supposed inner thoughts and motivations of Trump , the Koch Bros. et. al have the same odd character.) All of this suggests the depth and intensity of their preconceived projections and need to find fault, perhaps to distract themselves from their own failures in policy while they held the reins of power, and their lack of any constructive ideas or policy alternatives now.

It's a fascinating turn of events that should restore our perceptions of the many ironies that abound in human affairs.

Lash
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 06:42 pm
@georgeob1,
You know what’s increasingly difficult for me to assimilate is that calling these countries shitholes, while not sensitive word choice, is being treated with more outrage than the actual swindling and looting that made them *shitholes.

*third world countries seems to be the more acceptable terminology among the landed gentry.

The current level of selective outrage is staggering.

Cory Booker’s verbal assault of the chick in the hearing would have been roundly attacked across the media— but, she’s a conservative, so fair game, huh? His theatrical performance was deplorable and unacceptable.
Builder
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 07:14 pm
Apparently Trump tweeted the Fake Nooz awards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuxMTmGybxo
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georgeob1
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 07:18 pm
@Lash,
Frankly I don't think the agitated Senator laid a glove on Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen. She was undisturbed by Booker's performance, poised, self-confident and composed throughout the little comedy. He, not she, was the one who looked like an ass
blatham
 
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Wed 17 Jan, 2018 08:05 pm
@georgeob1,
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snowflakes
Suddenly you are a 13 year old again?
 

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