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Wookiee Monster's avatar

All the real journalists are leaving corporate media for Substack and podcasts. Pretty soon, CNN is just going to be Jake Tapper and Scott Jennings reminding everyone that Biden is old.

Dialectic.Detective's avatar

Remember during the campaign when the major networks would show hours of an empty podium before Trump even spoke?

Bupkus231's avatar

I love how that CBS "splaination" about their "worries" over the ( non-existent ) "equal time" rule made sure to mention the name of Jasmine Crockette when it talked about being fair to the other candidates. I would guess they thought their phony "equal time" rule applied only to potential candidates running in a primary, and not candidates from the other party looking to run for the same position.

Way to be transparently fuckheaded. They should have kept Jasmine Crockette's name out of their fucking "legalese".

ERISunveiled's avatar

It could be fun for late night TV to give "equal air time" to ppl they don't like, just to have the most aggressive, hostile, and confrontational interviews ever committed to the airwaves . Yep. Sure would be a shame if that happened

Bupkus231's avatar

"Jerry Springer's After Dark"?

Sojourner Truth's avatar

Equal Time Rule applies only to broadcast TV. Honestly, the idea that "airwaves" are limited is obsolete, but there it is.

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The equal-time rule was not broken, it’s a talk show, and how many of those on Fox News did candidate Trump call into where no one asked Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton to weigh in? LOL, nothing matters anymore.

The G-7 Experience's avatar

for allegedly making Kamala Harris look too smart.

FFS!!!!🤦

Oy!'s avatar

"Air Force One jets to be repainted in Trump’s preferred colors"

Pathetic, and very expensive. What a vile piece of shit that disgusting old man is.

Vic's avatar

The dude has the taste of a four year old.

The G-7 Experience's avatar

We're lucky it's not the White House...

mzf's avatar

Do they not understand that a gold colored plane looks like a flying piece of shit? Could that be what they were going for?

TheGreatAndPowerfulMormos!'s avatar

I can't pretend this is a win.

BillEGoatSmile's avatar

Crockett will be on with Jen in the 9:00 hour on MSNBC; Talarico with Lawrence at 10:00.

Bite me, Brendan.

(And may all of the gawds, fates, and karma smile on Stephen Colbert.)

Queen Méabh's avatar

So if Frump's approval rating is 36%, can we maybe, hopefully, expect a landslide victory for Dems in November mid-terms?

The G-7 Experience's avatar

Cross your fingers !

TheGreatAndPowerfulMormos!'s avatar

No, the elections will be rigged.

coco lurks from home's avatar

Well, they're not doing a very good job of that lately. We've done nothing but win in special elections.

ArgieBargie's avatar

"Just exactly what parts of American culture do conservatives hope to preserve besides the guns? They really ought to be much more specific."

They only care about preserving their power, and as we are witnessing, they will do it at any cost.

BillEGoatSmile's avatar

Yes. Oppression of women and POC and anyone not white, male, hetero, x-tian.

Bradthe🤖's avatar

The white man parts, and nothing else!

paul's avatar

"Don't tell me what you believe- show me how you treat other people and I will tell you what you believe."- Talarico

No wonder MAGA hates him.

Erisian's avatar

"President Donald John Trump’s [sic] approval rating just hit 36 percent! In fact, most of the polling companies have him right about there."

And that, in a nutshell, is why Gallup has ceased polling on the Fulvous Fuckwad's approvals. The powers that are there learned a lesson so they are all chickenshit cowards afraid to antagonize him. It takes money to defend oneself from malicious lawsuits over "fake polling" and fraud, even if you win. Can anyone forget:

> "President-elect Donald Trump [sic] is suing The Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer for publishing a poll that showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa in the days before the 2024 election, claiming the poll amounted to “fraud and election interference[?]”" https://missouriindependent.com/briefs/trump-sues-des-moines-register-pollster-over-preelection-iowa-poll/

Plus, he was joined by two other assholes claiming the poll damaged their campaign:

> "In an amended brief, he was joined by two other Iowans, Rep. Mariannette [sic*] Miller-Meeks and former state senator Bradley Zaun, who both believe the poll harmed them as well." https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-president-and-the-pollster-are-outlier-polls-fraud/

(* I'm not certain, but I think the correct spelling of her first name is "Marionette.")

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"Point is, going after talk shows is Trump’s new thing, be it Jimmy Kimmel or The View, because he apparently is glued to a TV screen for most of his waking hours."

Sorry, but not quite. It's the sycophants that monitor TV for him, and as is typical of tattletales they go running to daddy to inform him of perceived wrongdoings. OTOH, the Nectarine Nattering Nabob of Negativism (thank you Mr Safire) spends his waking time fucking the country and the world, bald-faced lying to the media, and shitposting on "Truth" Social and Xitter.

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"People are sick of the culture war bullshit. It’s not the trans people to blame for the soaring prices of rent, dolls and pencils."

> "How few problems must we have, if contests over culture and status and how other people make us feel are our central concerns? Robert Tracinski

fnord

Bradthe🤖's avatar

“It's the sycophants that monitor TV for him…”

I’m not convinced that’s an accurate take.

Because I can absolutely picture him glued to the TV all day long, looking for mentions of his name. And I can see him throwing a fit when anyone doesn’t praise him to the high heavens.

I mean, honestly, what else is he doing when he isn’t scheduled to receive another fake award? He’s definitely not reading his daily intelligence briefing or anything presidential.

Michael's avatar

Brad, I'm not sure that in his advanced state of dementia he even reads much anymore (can't remember what he's read). Probably he just follows visual inputs.

Fifth Dentist's avatar

TV is harder. Someone has to read it to him. Or at least give a two-sentence summary.

Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

So sad about Tiedrich's loss. He's a vengeful angel, and she seemed like a standard angel. We need both moving forward, Wonketeers! Remember we're this close to surviving 13 nasty, hateful, vindictive months from Shitler's Second Round

jltympanum's avatar

36%? Sounds pretty low, doesn't it? That's 123,000,000 people. Doesn't sound so low now, does it? Could there really be that many people so deluded as to love Stinky's stinky stink? There are! We are fucked.

Bradthe🤖's avatar

We’re not fucked. In case you didn’t notice, 123,000,000 people isn’t a majority.

But I definitely believe that number, because I have former friends and current family members who are immersed in the right wing media ecosystem, and they literally don’t know the facts about what is happening, they just hear him praised daily for being the best president ever.

Bupkus231's avatar

Hear him praised daily? Shucks. the ones I encounter are the ones doing that praising, just to troll the libs. These MAGAs are all childish douchebags.

Fifth Dentist's avatar

Only 7 percent of Germans were members of the Nazi Party in 1933.

Just sayin'.

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Brendan Carr and Jeremy Carl came from the same manufacturing facility, just slight variations on their basic mediocre white man model.