Yesterday afternoon, Vanity Fair published this report from Gabriel Sherman: A Republican in frequent contact with the White House told me Trump is “frustrated by all these people telling him what to do.” Continue reading “Why doesn’t the Trump administration just merge with Fox News?”
Donald Trump thinks real life is reality TV, or an old cowboy movie. To counter the threat of more mass shootings in schools, he wants to issue guns to 20 percent of schoolteachers in America. The movie version of his idea should star Clint Eastwood as an octogenarian teacher:
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Young wacko enters schoolroom toting a semi-automatic rifle. A teacher confronts him. The wacko squares off with the teacher while students hide under their desks.
WACKO (Smiling) This school ain’t big enough for the both of us, old man.
TEACHER (Smiling) Feelin’ lucky, punk? You better git while the gittin’s good.
Wacko raises rifle and aims. Teacher whips out concealed handgun and shoots wacko dead before he can kill any students. Skinny student emerges from under desk.
STUDENT (Shouting) You killed him, Mr. Callahan! You shot him with your gun!
TEACHER: (Whispering) I did, Johnny. You run along now and tell the principal the showdown is over. The rest of you boys and girls can go home now. Tomorrow I’ll get back to learnin’ you how to read and write.
Patriotic music swells. Credits roll. Teacher slips gun into concealed holster and puts on cowboy hat.
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Setting sun faces teacher as he strolls out of school and into parking lot, casting a long shadow.
FADE OUT
McSweeney’s with what is meant to be a parody, but maybe not. After all, the Washington Post just hired the horrible Megan McArdle:
Here at the New York Times, we believe that all sides of the story should be tolerated and explored, from white supremacists being actually kinda cool if you think about it to people who believe that saying college campuses should be less PC is somehow an interesting use of 1,000 words. That’s why we’re expanding our editorial staff to include more dipshits. Because everyone, no matter how intellectually lazy their conservatism, deserves a column in our newspaper.
By the end of the year, we aim to have 200% more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together the words ‘the intolerant left’ and occasionally criticize Trump, you have a home here on our opinion pages. Because this is what conservatism is now, and we have to respect that.
Why do we hire dipshits? It’s simple. After the 2016 election, we got yelled at a lot by right-wingers. How could you report such negative stories about President Trump by printing the words he says? Why don’t 100% of your stories talk about Hillary Clinton’s emails, rather than just the ones on the front page? They had a point. So, despite the fact that throughout the last year the right has decided they hate everything from Keurig to the NFL, we have decided to do the journalistically correct thing and capitulate entirely.
So today we make a promise. A promise to every moron that was a little too intelligent to for the Wall Street Journal, to every idiot that will go write for the Federalist if they don’t get hired by us. To you, we say welcome.
Go read the rest. Sigh.
I do not ordinarily post long clips of Groundswell messaging machine Dan Bongino on Fox and Friends, but his appearance this morning has been seized upon by Russian trolls in order to trend dangerous, dark, false themes. Bongino and his troll pals are going to get someone killed with this kind of rhetoric. In this seven-minute… Continue reading “Radio Rwanda: Dan Bongino goes after Adam Schiff”
On Tuesday’s “The Last Word,” Ezra Klein suggested that the consequences of leaving Trump in office are greater than the consequences of impeaching him. We have grown too afraid of the consequences of impeachment and too complacent about the consequences of leaving an unfit president in office. https://t.co/C3AkqwitfL https://t.co/amRALIzkBJ – Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) January 3, 2018… Continue reading “Ezra Klein: Time to talk about impeachment”
Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter opened his show on CNN this Sunday with a warning about the extremely dangerous propaganda we’re seeing generated from Trump and his allies at Fox “News” and in the Republican Party. Now if we could just get his network to follow his lead and quit putting Trump apologists and propagandists on… Continue reading “CNN’s Stelter takes apart the dangerous Fox, GOP, Trump ‘feedback loop’”
So it turns out that Mike Cernovich, the same person who tried to get Sam Seder fired, is also connected to this manufactured smear against Chuck Schumer!
A story that had been teased out seductively on social media as being true abruptly sank into a fiery fake news wreck before ever reaching orbit on Tuesday. … in exchange for answers about what went haywire with the promised scoop. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office told Newsweek that he was to have been the victim of the fake news story—one purporting … Continue reading “Fake documents about Schumer almost became fake news”
The Colbert clip is from Monday, but we’re running it because it’s very important. A major cable “news” outlet is encouraging obstruction of justice. Jeanine Pirro is the lead offender. Her unwarranted attacks on the Mueller investigation and the FBI and DOJ in general encourage Fox News zombies to think Trump’s obstruction of justice is actually… Continue reading “Colbert goes after Jeanine Pirro on her FBI/DOJ attacks”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders seemed to be visibly rattled and hostile during her propaganda press briefing today, and her anger boiled over when she was asked about the photo posted by Dave Weigel. CNN’s Jim Acosta pinned her down on it, to her deep chagrin. The original question was this: “I wonder if you can explain the… Continue reading “Sarah Sanders: ‘News media ‘purposefully misleading’ Americans”
The hand-wringing over the 2016 election continues more than a year later. Fake news. Russia collusion. James Comey. Wisconsin.
But two researchers, David Rothschild and Duncan Watts, took on an in-depth analysis of the mainstream media that will add to the 2016 debate. Their findings, published in the Columbia Journalism Review, focus on the New York Times’s election coverage. Their starkest discovery: “In just six days, the New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all the policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election.”
There you go. All the news that fits!
