Wow, I think Evan Hurst has the worst case of TDS I have seen so far.If Trump gets thrown out, will you be happy with President Pence, or will your TDS just morph into PDS?If you don't like Trump, you get another chance in less than 2 years. Perhaps your side can come up with a platform more creative than "F... Trump!" and figure out how not be outsmarted in a national election by a guy you seem to think you are so intellectually superior to.
Just in recent memory they’ve helped screw up two presidential elections and sent the country to war with factually inaccurate reporting or withheld information. Why do they get to keep their sterling reputation?
Well, I was simplifying for effect, and for the sake of brevity. What you say is all true, of course, but it doesn't change the fact that what the British did was far less vicious than what the current administration is doing. And that we are being far more civil than we could be.
The New York Times were the ones who launched this civility crusade, but the Post sure enough has jumped on board.
Back in 2016, they both had to do a lot more heavy lifting to keep Congress in Republican hands (incidentally turning over the White House to the mad Archduke of Queens in the process---a fact that seemed to surprise, but not depress, both newspapers: the big thing for them was keeping Mitch and Paul safely on top).
For all of 2016, we had a complicated barrage of incoming from every which way: Hillary's emails, Hillary's laugh, Hillary's clothes, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation---every time one fire died down, the Times poured on some kerosene and tossed a lighted match, and then had Eric Lichtblau write a piece about how Donald Trump never did anything bad, so there.
The really big one was the Clinton Foundation. Both newspapers snapped up what turned out to have been a Breitbart-sourced, Mercer-funded hit piece on the Clinton Foundation by long time dark money agitprop artist and hatchet man Peter Schweizer. Both papers ran with it for months before acknowledging that it was poorly sourced and full of right wing lies.
Well, they never actually acknowledged that: they just kind of stopped talking about it, but by then the harm was done.
Anyhow, this year it's a little simpler. It's the civility crusade.
It's endless attacks on Democrats for failing to be deferential, for failing to step off the sidewalk when Republicans want to pass, for being sassy and uppity.
Whenever a Democrat talks back, the Beltway press has a sad---not about what the Democrat said, or what it might mean, but about that tone of voice. So rude! So dreadful! We're going to faint!
Every now and again they take a break from the civility crusade to note that Donald's Republicans adore him and won't hear a word against him, and that anybody who criticizes them is just making them stronger.
Then they go back to shrieking about how rude and uppity the Democrats are nowadays, and how back in their Daddy's day the Democrats knew their place, and how one of their best friends is a Democrat and even their best friend says the Democrats have gone too far.....
The New York Times is predictable. It's a company paper in a company town, and the company happens to be banking, finance, and real estate, so of course they're here to give aid and comfort to the Republicans. Look at those tax cuts: look at that deregulation. Duh.
The Post is a little more of a disappointment, though, because they showed signs --- even with Fred Hiatt still on staff --- of being brave and doing journalism: but as it turns out, they're a company paper in a company town, too, and the company happens to be the federal government, which happens to be Republican through and through.
Anyhow, the civility campaign is here to stay, and no matter what Democrats try to do or say, it will be like Hillary trying to shake loose from those insane allegations about the emails, and the big lies about the Clinton Foundation.
Wow, I think Evan Hurst has the worst case of TDS I have seen so far.If Trump gets thrown out, will you be happy with President Pence, or will your TDS just morph into PDS?If you don't like Trump, you get another chance in less than 2 years. Perhaps your side can come up with a platform more creative than "F... Trump!" and figure out how not be outsmarted in a national election by a guy you seem to think you are so intellectually superior to.
That's the cool thing about being a newspaper - you get to write and print your own propaganda about yourself.
Just in recent memory they’ve helped screw up two presidential elections and sent the country to war with factually inaccurate reporting or withheld information. Why do they get to keep their sterling reputation?
Great article as always Evan. The video is pretty lame though.
Well, I was simplifying for effect, and for the sake of brevity. What you say is all true, of course, but it doesn't change the fact that what the British did was far less vicious than what the current administration is doing. And that we are being far more civil than we could be.
The New York Times were the ones who launched this civility crusade, but the Post sure enough has jumped on board.
Back in 2016, they both had to do a lot more heavy lifting to keep Congress in Republican hands (incidentally turning over the White House to the mad Archduke of Queens in the process---a fact that seemed to surprise, but not depress, both newspapers: the big thing for them was keeping Mitch and Paul safely on top).
For all of 2016, we had a complicated barrage of incoming from every which way: Hillary's emails, Hillary's laugh, Hillary's clothes, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation---every time one fire died down, the Times poured on some kerosene and tossed a lighted match, and then had Eric Lichtblau write a piece about how Donald Trump never did anything bad, so there.
The really big one was the Clinton Foundation. Both newspapers snapped up what turned out to have been a Breitbart-sourced, Mercer-funded hit piece on the Clinton Foundation by long time dark money agitprop artist and hatchet man Peter Schweizer. Both papers ran with it for months before acknowledging that it was poorly sourced and full of right wing lies.
Well, they never actually acknowledged that: they just kind of stopped talking about it, but by then the harm was done.
Anyhow, this year it's a little simpler. It's the civility crusade.
It's endless attacks on Democrats for failing to be deferential, for failing to step off the sidewalk when Republicans want to pass, for being sassy and uppity.
Whenever a Democrat talks back, the Beltway press has a sad---not about what the Democrat said, or what it might mean, but about that tone of voice. So rude! So dreadful! We're going to faint!
Every now and again they take a break from the civility crusade to note that Donald's Republicans adore him and won't hear a word against him, and that anybody who criticizes them is just making them stronger.
Then they go back to shrieking about how rude and uppity the Democrats are nowadays, and how back in their Daddy's day the Democrats knew their place, and how one of their best friends is a Democrat and even their best friend says the Democrats have gone too far.....
The New York Times is predictable. It's a company paper in a company town, and the company happens to be banking, finance, and real estate, so of course they're here to give aid and comfort to the Republicans. Look at those tax cuts: look at that deregulation. Duh.
The Post is a little more of a disappointment, though, because they showed signs --- even with Fred Hiatt still on staff --- of being brave and doing journalism: but as it turns out, they're a company paper in a company town, too, and the company happens to be the federal government, which happens to be Republican through and through.
Anyhow, the civility campaign is here to stay, and no matter what Democrats try to do or say, it will be like Hillary trying to shake loose from those insane allegations about the emails, and the big lies about the Clinton Foundation.
It can't be done. The press has chosen a winner.
I refuse to acknowledge Sitwell being HYDRA. He was a deep cover triple agent. Also, he's not dead. (The sky is pretty in my world.)
Thanks, Evan. I don't have 15 minutes to watch the video now, but then again, I don't need it.
A few blocks? King Missile explained it years ago.
Have you ever heard him speak? Maybe he's that irritating voice in Arbys' commercials.
At least he didn't call them "feckless."
Followed by the next one who uses the term "feckless."
How far can he get from his peeter without surgery?
Are you suggesting that the slaves wouldn't have been freed decades before the Emancipation Proclamation if they were just nicer to Massa?
Well, slap my ass and call me Fanny!
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
But three lefts do. TICK TOCK, MOTHERFUCKER.
There is, but they're becoming lone wilderness-crying voices.