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Well, that kinda shoots down the misguided notion, recently expressed in this forum, that Fox reports selectively and selectively condemns members of one party, eh?

The Reuters headline is not comparable at all with the Fox presentation.

The Reuters headline is not comparable at all with the Fox presentation.

When Sander first started to run for the presidency back in 2015 he did so by inferring the established democrats, long time democrats, are beholden to special interest groups. .... While mentioning the problems and some of his solutions, some of which were agreeable, some not every democrat liked, he always had to get in something about "establishment Democrats."

Attention whores will say anything to keep an argument going.

Update: Several readers have asked about the other senators who sold stock during the same period, including Dianne Feinstein (a California Democrat), James Inhofe (an Oklahoma Republican) and Ron Johnson (a Wisconsin Republican). But none of their trades look particularly suspicious.

Feinstein has said that she did not attend the Jan. 24 briefing; her stock was in a blind trust, which means she didn’t make the decision to sell; and the transaction lost her money, because the trust was selling shares of a biotechnology stock, the value of which has since risen. Inhofe’s transactions were part of a systematic selling of stocks that he started after he became chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Johnson sold stock in his family’s plastic business, as part of a process that has been occurring for months; his sale also occurred well after stock market began falling.

Is targeted harassment still against TOS, or are we all free to attack each other and say whatever we please—because I have a lot I’d like to say.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler grilled by Ed Henry over reports she sold off stocks ahead of coronavirus pandemic

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., denied any allegations of insider trading or misconduct on Friday. "It's absolutely false. And, it could not be true," she stated.

Trump spars with reporters during fiery coronavirus briefing

President Trump sparred with journalists during his daily coronavirus task force press conference on Friday, going so far as to call NBC News' Peter Alexander a “terrible reporter.” Many other reporters in the room in turn sided with Alexander, making a large portion of the question-and-answer session more about their frayed relationship with the president than it was about the pandemic.

It all started when Alexander asked Trump if his “impulse to put a positive spin on things” could be giving Americans a “false sense of hope” amid the pandemic. The president explained he had a “good feeling” about possible solutions the FDA is working on.

“Let’s see what happens, we have nothing to lose,” Trump said.

Alexander interrupted the next reporter who was called on and shouted, “What do you say to Americans who are scared?”
“I say that you’re a terrible reporter. That’s what I say,” Trump fired back.

“I think that’s a very nasty question and I think it’s a very bad signal that you’re putting out to the American people,” Trump said. “The American people are looking for answers and they’re looking for hope. And you’re doing sensationalism and, the same with NBC and Con-cast. I don’t call it Comcast, I call it Con-cast”

Trump then pointed at Alexander and said, “That’s really bad reporting,” and urged him to “get back to reporting instead of sensationalism.”

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” Trump said before moving on to the next reporter.

I was responding to a post by georgeob1, so don't allege that I instigated a personal attack. I addressed Lash's behavior since the 2016 primary season. I did not attack her character, and I did not indulge in the name-calling which seems to have become habitual with her.

Ex-FEMA boss bolts from MSNBC interview: 'I don't have time to listen to bullshit, people'

The issue of how big a role federal agencies should play in the response to the coronavirus outbreak led to some fireworks on MSNBC on Thursday.

Both guests worked for the Obama administration, with Fugate heading FEMA for eight years, and Slavitt serving as acting CMS administrator from 2015-2017.

"I don't have time to listen to bullshit, people," a fed-up Craig Fugate said, as he took off his earpiece and stormed out of the set during an interview with the network's Katy Tur.

Fugate left while Slavitt was speaking. The altercation started after Fugate said the federal government needed to get out of the way and allow state agencies to do their jobs.

Slavitt claimed Fugate's comments weren't "helpful" in addressing the outbreak, and contended that the nation needed a central overseer, "someone looking through the entire system," to respond to the outbreak. .

Mike Bloomberg spent nearly $1B of his own money on failed presidential bid

A Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing revealed on Friday that the billionaire contributed $935,360,675.56 to his campaign during the 2020 election cycle.

By cheese-eater math, he could have instead given $1 million to every American.

MSNBC's Brian Williams, NYT's Mara Gay Agree Bloomberg Could Have Given Each American $1 Million With Money He Spent

Thursday on MSNBC's "The Eleventh Hour" with Brian Williams, New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay and the host accepted without question a tweet that (jokingly) said that Michael Bloomberg could have given every American one million dollars with the five hundred million dollars he spent on his short-lived presidential campaign. In reality, $500 million divided by 327 million Americans is about $1.53 per person.

"When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear," Williams said.

The tweet read: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over."

"It’s an incredible way of putting it," Williams said.

"It’s an incredible way of putting it," Gay said. "It’s true. It’s disturbing.