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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

Beatnik Gilligan is the best Gilligan..

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carovee's avatar

Um, that requires research and work. You know, unsexy stuff.

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carovee's avatar

It saddens me that the white house stenographers club thought they were saving democracy.

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nockedoutloaded's avatar

my hero Maynard G Krebbs

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Jen Burwell's avatar

the average American would rather watch "my 600 pound life" than understand how democracy has already saved them like 100 times. I'm so shocked.

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

yup - they want to sit in a nice comfy chair and be handed the story on a platter

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

THIS! Investigative journalism has turned into 'get famous/rich' shock jock rubbish

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Ethereal Fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, We should use that as a euphemism for all nepotism hires. Her dad was a real reporter, though.

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Colbert Thorenson's avatar

This piece kinda begs the question; how did Maggie Haberman become the Maggie Haberman of the Trump administration? Even at her "best" she is a box of very cheap wine (no matter who you are or how much you drink, all you're getting out of it is a headache). Never made sense that anyone would confide in her, at least not more than once. I often thought she was just swagging it, which wouldn't be that hard with that collection of half-wits.

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anomie's avatar

It seems like she was the useful idiot for getting things accidentally on purpose "leaked." And it also seems likely she was in on the fix.

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Alpaca suitcase's avatar

I guess this is the reason TFG got 11 minutes of air time for every one of Hillary's in 2016.

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H0mer0's avatar

kind of an ouroboros? If only...

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H0mer0's avatar

some of us who grew up with a bipolar parent or married an alcoholic are quite comfortable with boring and routine especially when the parent or spouse sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

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H0mer0's avatar

and if you rub the case, it gets bigger.

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Darth Trad's avatar

'If it red-lines, it headlines'

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Darth Trad's avatar

Remember when the Press used to ask hard questions of the world's dumbest President - Bush the Younger - to the point that they needed to sneak in a fake reporter to toss him easy ones?

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