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Your views change a lot...did you know?

So, the promos are effective marketing tools, according to Smith, but that does not make them journalistically sound. This is a point that makes Sinclair appear more invested in public relations than reporting.

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Your views change a lot...did you know?

That means she listens, and reads. I see nothing wrong with that.

Her views seem to change to fit whatever particular argument she seems to be trying to win at the time.

I’m no longer anti-union in the face of neoliberal **** like Bezos and other oligarchs are perpetrating on our society.

I support common sense gun laws, do ONCE AGAIN, you lie about my views.

Several weeks after taking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Scott Pruitt was running late and stuck in Washington, D.C., traffic. Sources tell CBS News that he wanted to use his vehicle's lights and sirens to get to his official appointment, but the lead agent in charge of his security detail advised him that sirens were to be used only in emergencies.

Less than two weeks later that agent was removed from Pruitt's detail, reassigned to a new job within the EPA.

InsideEPA, an EPA trade sheet, reports that Scott Pruitt’s downfall is the work of disgraced former White House aide Rob Porter, who leaked damaging information about Pruitt to retaliate against a former girlfriend who told White House officials about Porter’s history of domestic violence.

As was basically reported at the time, Porter’s downfall seems to have started when a former girlfriend, Samantha Dravis, went to White House officials and told them what she knew about Porter’s past, particularly his abuse of two ex-wives. Dravis was a top aide to Scott Pruitt, the EPA Administrator.

It was never explicitly clear whether Porter had also abused Dravis. But she seems to have been a key reason why his past came to light. InsideEPA is reporting that in retaliation, Porter started leaking information about her boss, Pruitt. From the article: “Rob Porter, a top former aide to President Donald Trump who was fired earlier this year over domestic abuse allegations, is reportedly a source of information about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s ethical transgressions that are threatening his future at the agency, after Porter’s relationship with a top former Pruitt aide soured, sources say.”

Dravis’s resignation was announced earlier today.

I'm not going to waste my time proving what is obvious to others.

Trump Devotee Charged With Terrorist Plot Texted Undercover FBI Agent About Muslim 'Cleanse'
Patrick Stein, a Kansas militiaman whom the feds say planned to slaughter Somali refugees, opened up to a man he thought was an arms dealer.

...There is a real problem in sharp relief here. Bredesen is a former mayor and governor and a fairly standard Democratic candidate. Blackburn is a Tea Party loon and she is the most likely nominee the Tennessee Republican Party could find to hold onto a seat to which Corker was first elected in 2006. This has the potential of turning the Republican side of an important campaign into a real carnival. Blackburn launched her campaign with an announcement video that was so nutty on the phony issue of the sale of "baby parts" that Twitter 86’d it almost immediately. This allowed Blackburn to bleat—on Twitter, natch—about how the liberals who run “Silicon Valley” were out to squash her proud conservatism.

In a bizarre series of events, a high-profile political adviser from Nevada, who has worked on prominent Republican congressional and presidential campaigns, is being sought by police for domestic violence and for allegedly making his ex-fiancee his “slave,” The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

According to police reports and an interview with the ex-fiancee, who the Review-Journal did not name, the Republican consultant Benjamin Sparks evaded police after they were called to his residence on March 29 following a domestic dispute. The fight allegedly started because Sparks’ ex-fiancee, a 46-year-old woman, refused to comply with his demand that she have sex with other men in front of him, the ex-fiancee told the Review-Journal.

Sparks — a 35-year-old who worked on Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential bid and has coordinated campaigns for Rep. Cresent Hardy (R-NV) and State Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM) — was fired as political affairs director for RedRock Strategies over the dispute with his ex-fiancee and reportedly fled to Texas in recent days without any of his belongings.