HRC giving devastating critique of Trump simply by recounting what he said and did. Facts speak for themselves.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) August 25, 2016
Reno crowd seems appalled by the stuff Clinton is citing from Breitbart.
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) August 25, 2016
I cannot stress this enough. Normal people who don't follow political news every day have never heard these things. https://t.co/okEBDEr8sH
— Anne Caprara (@anacaprana) August 25, 2016
Oh great. Here comes the "both sides do it." "Race to the bottom" blah blah blah. #namingwhitesupremacistsis justasbadasbeingone
— digby (@digby56) August 25, 2016
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton trade charges of racism in dueling speeches https://t.co/X6C29b3kym pic.twitter.com/YkcTKMvlhe
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) August 25, 2016
"Opinions on Shape of Earth Differ, and No, We're Not Going to Get in the Middle of That One"https://t.co/K7VSmFjdoc
— Billmon (@billmon1) August 26, 2016
Clinton tries to drive racial wedge between Trump and the GOP https://t.co/4OiVgdEONB pic.twitter.com/CxHNACGBne
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 25, 2016
This Clinton speech is basically one big guilt-by-association attack. AKA politics as usual
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 25, 2016
Association with his own campaign manager? https://t.co/v2S11h3XFZ
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) August 25, 2016
Trying too hard to act like you've seen it all before
Hiring a white supremacist supporter to run a campaign is new https://t.co/0WoCINYXmd
— Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson) August 25, 2016
Complaining that HRC is engaging in guilt by association doesn't really count when Trump is basically leg humping the associate.
— Badgertude (@socratic) August 25, 2016
TRUMP: *hires a racist*
CLINTON: Hey, he hired a racist!
PUNDIT: WOW GUILT-BY-ASSOCIATION HILLARY IS REALLY PLAYING DIRTY NOW.
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) August 25, 2016
Clinton’s speech in one way was show, not say: she didn’t call Trump a racist. But you have to be racist or dim to not get the implication
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton's short speech is pandering to the worst instincts in our society. She should be ashamed of herself!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2016
Correction: holding racists accountable is one of the very best instincts in our society. https://t.co/7XKLNK7VzY
— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) August 25, 2016
Big problem for Trump: Every single person HRC is calling out by name will LOVE it and take every TV interview request they get this week.
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) August 25, 2016
Bannon probably considering taking Hillary’s speech is putting it up on their website as their own campaign ad
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 25, 2016
Pro-Trump "analysts" can't be shamed away from Trump and Breitbart, but ordinary voters should be reminded of who guys like Bannon are. /5
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 25, 2016
Trump: "We are not racists."https://t.co/6SqbI3FuVz pic.twitter.com/Y1xzi1kGLA
— Billmon (@billmon1) August 26, 2016
redshirt
They’re afraid.
Now they know they can bleed.
r€nato
I would have blown several brain gaskets many years ago dealing with this patently ridiculous nonsense from the BSDI crowd. That Hillz keeps her cool is a pretty great reason right there to vote for her.
Also, what Anne Caprara said. We know all this stuff about Brainfart; average non-political geeks don’t and will find it shocking. Trumputin’s weak attempt to seem not-a-racist, strangled in the crib.
r€nato
shorter BSDI pundits: “No fair reminding people what kind of cretins Trump hires to run his campaign!”
I mean, it’s not like he would reward his campaign staff with positions in his administration. That never happens, so we shouldn’t pay any attention to that.
Eric U.
the media idiots have gone straight to advocacy for trump. Sheesh
Punchy
That tweet from Benjy is dead-on. Those scumbags pictured are PROUD to be both racist and Trump supporters. The DT team may try to distance themselves (doubtful but possible), but these shitbags are loud and proud and endowed with the big beat….they’re apt to broadcast their DT affiliation all the way to 11.
cmorenc
We can’t have a horse race if one of the horses has a broken leg. Some in the MSM are trying to mend Trump’s broken leg enough that he can at least put up some sort of race against Clinton that viewers/readers might be willing to stay tuned into, even if it’s becoming increasingly likely the only way Clinton can lose this race is if she stumbles and breaks a leg (or at least goes completely lame) herself. Most of the MSM aren’t hoping for a Clinton leg-break, but many seem to be rooting for something to happen rendering her just lame enough to leave a bit of suspense to attract eyeballs and ears to pieces questioning whether she might make it to the finish line before Trump’s handlers can figure out how to apply some sort of split in time to make it a close finish. Doesn’t matter that they’d have to put the Trump-horse down shortly after the race finish. It’s about the spectacle the MSM hopes will occur to draw viewer/reader interest.
gf120581
@Eric U.: No, just desperate to keep the “horse race” facade alive.
redshirt
PEACE
TS
So Trump spreads hate, calls Hillary everything he can think of & when she responds by calling out his core beliefs – she is the one running a negative campaign. The mind boggles at the political media. Democrats exist to accept the lies of the GOP, responses are not allowed.
Omnes Omnibus
Why could you do all this on this thread but not the last one? You left me a lot of cleaning up to do.
opiejeanne
I’m in Blue Jay, CA for a couple of weeks and was listening to KNX (local CBS affiliate in Los Angeles) today and they asked someone from Politico (I think) to define alt.right; he danced all around the answer, hemmed and hawed, and finally spit out something about nationalists but went right back to equivocation with no mention of the KKK and an almost whispered something about white supremacists, kept insisting that they were conservatives but just farther to the right. He sounded very nervous, almost on the edge of hysterics, and REALLY did not want to nail down his answer.
I wish I could remember his name, something like Joao? but I can’t find any mention of the interview or of him so I’m sure I have his first name wrong and can’t remember his last name. I hadn’t listened to Hillary’s speech yet, but this was around 2:30 PDT. Did anyone else hear this?
Villago Delenda Est
@TS: The Village. It must be destroyed.
Prime examples: Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell.
Major Major Major Major
Oh man, that’s depressing.
r€nato
@opiejeanne: Working the ref works. Ask any sportsball athlete… or the right wing.
Face
@Punchy: Do they hang out on a corner like horse thieves? #obscuresongrefgotit
Anya
Is Billmon back from the his madness or is he still dealing with side affects?
amk
Admire barro for ‘telling it like it it is’.
donnie dick projecting as usual.
danielx
I will bet ten dollars against a stale doughnut that we will read tomorrow from the Trumpenfuhrer hisself that he 1) was joking 2) was being sarcastic 3) was not quoted accurately 4) never said any of those vile things at all – nope, never – and insist that any recordings of him doing so are faked or biased in some fashion. Pick any or all of 1 through 4. It’s kind of like doing the opposite of whatever Bloody Bill Kristol says; this method cannot fail!
Mary G
“Projecting Harder than an Octoplex of IMAXes.”
Luv that title. I snorted out loud.
r€nato
Why do all these
homosexualswhite supremacists keepsucking my cockjoining my campaign?Major Major Major Major
@r€nato: Pretty much.
Ivan X
Has Billmon’s CDS ebbed? I feel like it’s been a long time since AL posted one of his tweets.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
A smidge off-topic, but I surfed over to Restate. They are shredding Trump, the Coulterwocky, and Saint Sarah… It’s quite entertaining actually.
hovercraft
The Donald has a very salient rebuttal to Hillary’s speech today. The 2008 primary. Does he realize that Obama did not have to make her Sec. of State, the fact that he did, she accepted, and he has since enthusiastically endorsed her, means that this is all water under the bridge.
redshirt
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Yes, right? They are melting and it’s amazing to read their last gasps.
opiejeanne
@r€nato: Yes, but it is like someone really conservative dropped the hammer on KNX or something; today and yesterday they were almost timid in their coverage of the election, although I did hear one commenter reading part of a Trump comment yesterday and thought he was having a hard time not laughing.
Maybe the guy who did the editorials retired or something, but this didn’t even sound like the same crew, even though I recognized the names. A few of the regulars are on vacation, so maybe this is just the subs not rocking the boat.
hovercraft
@gf120581:
THIS. They will lose eyeballs if the race is over, and they won’t be entertained. They want an exciting race so they don’t get bored. If the race ends, they will be forced to do things like dig through actual policy, and comment on substance. Such a fate must be avoided at all costs.
Percysowner
MSNBC was interesting tonight. Tweety had a sad because Hillary isn’t winning this by taking the high road and simply touting her experience and being better qualified. She shouldn’t try to tie The Donald to racism. On Chris Hayes someone (I wasn’t paying attention to names) said Hillary shouldn’t have mentioned the Alt-Right because this will bring them attention and people who never heard about them will Google them, the movement will grow and IT WILL ALL BE HILLARY’S FAULT! Then on the 11:00 political roundup some Republican said that Trump rising to the top was the fault of the Democrats because they had been calling the Republicans racist for years when they had never, I say NEVER, really been racists, so when people started pointing out Donald Trump’s racism the public just thought it was another false, FALSE I TELL YOU, accusation and they didn’t realize that this time AND ONLY THIS TIME, there was a real Republican racist. He totally ignored the woman pointing out how the Republican Party has tried to keep African-Americans and other minorities from voting.
Mike J
@West of the Rockies (been a while): The revised Coulter covers are great.
hovercraft
@Villago Delenda Est:
Add the Morning Joe crew to that and I’ll second that. I include the regular guests in crew, Halpern, Fournier, Harold Ford, etc. Banish them all to a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific.
Villago Delenda Est
@Percysowner: The deep denial of the true nature of the GOP by both the GOP establishment and the Village is something to see.
Both groups need to suffer for their denial.
Villago Delenda Est
@hovercraft: Far from the shipping lanes. In well known tropical storm tracks.
KlareCole
@amk: I thought HRC’s speech was good, almost like one of Bill’s explainer in chief speeches. Something surreal about her level, low key delivery in contrast to the extraordinary speech content about the horrors of the alt-right. It’s a landmark speech, outing the alt-right. Let’s come up with names for the alt-right that convey their true character. Maybe heathens from hell, or some such. Something with meaning. Their postings are so evil. It makes my imagination hurt.
z
Great speech by HRC. Trump’s knee-jerk twittering is that her 3600-word speech was too short and indicates she lacks stamina (WTF)… his next tweet is to the transcript of his own 2500-word speech.
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sheesh, I put up the last post as a quickie place-holder while I put this one together (there was a lot of whittling-down involved). Appreciate your help there, though!
Adam L Silverman
@Percysowner: The guy on Chris Hayes was Benjy Sarlin, who’s tweet on the same thing is part of AL’s post. I didn’t get the name of the GOP operative on O’Donnell’s, but I’ve heard similar from others and he’s full of it. There wasn’t one mainstream anchor or reporter that referred to President Bush or Vice President Cheney as nuts or dangerous or racists. One of the good things about both of them is they seemed not to be racists/bigots. As for Democrats calling them dangerous, it was tied directly to their policies. As for those reporting on the Tea Party, they were either slavish or quickly reduced to cowering and whimpering after the reporter got beaten on for pointing out that showing up to rallies waving the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia and holding signs depicting the President with a bone through his nose eating fried chicken might be a bit unacceptable. Or stating that it is unacceptable for Glenn Beck to just flippantly state that the President has a deep seated hatred against white people.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
She knew you could handle educating noobs like yours truly.
eclare
@KlareCole: I wondered if Bill might have had a hand in that speech, it moved from topic to topic so well, building to a big ka-boom!
r€nato
@Mike J: love them.
There is indeed a metric shit-ton of karmic justice in this Coulter/Trump business. Just when I thought it wasn’t possible for goddess to love us this much… she proves she does and even more.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: Did they photoshop her chest in that photo for the cover? Cause every picture I’ve seen of her or when she’s on TV, while her tops are tight and she’s got a very slim frame, those never seem that big.
SFAW
@hovercraft:
Maybe, but after they had a “little chat,” he realized he didn’t want to end up in Fort Marcy Park, if you know what I mean.
Adam L Silverman
@KlareCole: We could just call them neo-NAZIs, neo-fascists, neo-Confederates, and white supremacists. Which is what they are.
hovercraft
@Percysowner:
The guy on with Hayes is from something called RARE politics, launched as a republican version of HuffPost. The boy who called wolf argument has been all over the place for the last few weeks, it’s their new tactic for blaming the democrats for Trump. I’m waiting for someone to ask, if all the accusations of dog whistle politics and racism were false, then how is it that a candidate who is so overtly racist has found such a large receptive following in your party? Obviously a large portion of your party was hearing the same thing that the democrats heard, because they were ecstatic to have a candidate who just tells it like it is.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: People got quite restless. You should have posted the sign, but you know that now. I know what you were trying to do and it would have been brilliant.
eclare
@Adam L Silverman: On another thread, someone (can’t remember who) referred to them as emo-Nazi’s. I like that.
Eric U.
@Adam L Silverman: Bush kept trying to appoint a guy who specializes in black voter suppression to the FEC. And the people they had thrown off of the voter rolls in Florida and elsewhere were almost all black. I think both Cheney and Bush are racists, they just use dogwhistles just like good republicans.
@hovercraft: they love to blame democrats for republican voter bad behavior. Remember when Bill Clinton’s bad behavior caused just about every bad thing that republicans did? Like gay republicans getting caught having sex in a park? The all powerful Clenis. It seems to make sense to them. Probably doesn’t make sense to them, but it’s some variation on Cleek’s law
Adam L Silverman
@eclare: While that fits, they are just the most recent incarnation of good, old American neo-NAZIs, neo-Confederates, and white supremacists. And they are neo-fascists and neo-nationalists.
KlareCole
@Adam L Silverman: That is a good start. I was thinking something lots meaner, just at a loss for words.
SFAW
@hovercraft: @Villago Delenda Est:
I was thinking more along the lines of Bikini Atoll.
Adam L Silverman
@Eric U.: There is no doubt that personnel is policy. At the same time, they made it clear we weren’t at war with Islam. And that American Muslims weren’t the enemy. That doesn’t excuse the voter suppression stuff, but that’s normal GOP MO going back decades.
eclare
@Adam L Silverman: I realize that, I think the “emo” belittles them in a different way, like a whiny child. Just calling them a Nazi is not enough.
SFAW
@z:
Not unlike his screeching about her too-long DNC acceptance speech (when hers was about 45 min, and his was over an hour). Fortunately for him, his supporters are either too stupid to notice, or don’t care, or both.
KlareCole
@eclare: I like emo nazi too. And Adam’s list. I still want something mean, degrading, with a strong element of macabre and evil.
hovercraft
@Eric U.:
Impeachment was because Gingrich had to exit from the back of Airforce One.
Nancy Pelosi was mean to the republicans so they couldn’t work with her.
Obama mocked them so they had to oppose him.
Funny how the party of personal responsibility is never responsible for anything.
Adam L Silverman
@eclare: @KlareCole: Think about what you’re suggesting: that somehow being called a NAZI isn’t bad enough.
eclare
@KlareCole: I prefer humiliating and belittling, something that implies that they are bed wetters. Just me, YMMV. And hey, we can use more than one!
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: If they don’t think it is, then it isn’t.
eclare
@Adam L Silverman: Yes, I realize that. When people are not ashamed/afraid to fly the confederate flag or wear the shirt or have the bumper stickers, calling people racist, Nazi, etc., is not enough.
KlareCole
@Adam L Silverman: Jeeze, that does say a lot. That nazi is not enough.
hovercraft
@Eric U.:
You mean this prince.
KlareCole
@eclare: Glad to include bed wetters.
danielx
Maybe it’s just that it’s late, but I was running through various scenarios and came up with kind of an ugly one. Suppose that Trump loses in an epochal fashion, or for that matter in any other fashion. All good and well, except that in Donald Trump’s mind he does not lose – by definition. Ergo, if available data (that he’s so far shown such regard for, you know) like vote counts shows that he lost, it can’t be right, therefore he was cheated. And instead of the customary concession call, he gets on national television and says something to the effect that “i was cheated, and are we going to stand for this?”, or something similar.
Call me paranoid, but I have seen nothing in Trump’s behavior ever that says he would not do something along these lines, consequences be damned. What does he care? He’s lived in a bubble his whole damned life, and nothing has ever made a dent in it. The downside is that his hard core followers would believe him if he said the moon was made of extremely edible green cheese, and believe you me that they have more firearms than you can imagine.
Major Major Major Major
LGF has a thing saying (not watched the clip) that tonight Trump is denying that the alt-right exists. Anybody see about that?
cthulhu
@amk:
Barro is a thinking youngish conservative and I appreciate his writing but my feeling is that, ultimately, he’s not offering anything much different from the neoliberalism of the 90’s. Is the best modern, reformicon conservatism can offer is neoliberalism?
SFAW
@danielx:
Somebody was ruminating about that the other day. Don’t recall where, might have been here. But, yeah, he does not seem to be one to concede gracefully, no matter the evidence. One hopes that this is just a baseless fear.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: Yep, it was part of the interview with Anderson Cooper. When confronted with the alt-right quote from Bannon, Trump did his usually stammer, bluster, just keep talking thing. ETA: Here you go:
https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/768999960050229249
Karen marie
@z: It was too short but he only watched a summary. Low attention span.
Mnemosyne
I finally saw the “Ghostbusters” remake and, screw the haters, I liked it. It had a bit of an act 3 problem, but the cast had great chemistry and Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon basically stole the show. I even loved the multitude of cameos (including, but not only) most of the original cast.
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: Wow.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: I saw the clip, it was even worse.
Mnemosyne
@SFAW:
“Trump spoke for 70-odd minutes — and I do mean odd.”
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: I liked it about as much as the original, which is to say, meh.
Although I was basically rolling on the floor at “Mercado… *gasp*… that’s Spanish for table!”
hitchhiker
Can’t let the night end without holding up HRC’s hilariously tossed off squashing of the Hillary’s Got a Terrible Health Problem line of attack.
“In your dreams, Donald.”
As in, hey asshole! You can’t beat me on ideas, substance, delivery, associations, temperament, money, honesty, or policy, and you know it. Your only hope is that I might get sick. In your dreams, buddy. Expect me, ’cause I’m coming for you.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
People tend to forget that the original has a lot of weird dead spots in it. But it has a blockbuster act 3, so people remember that and forget about the rest.
The villain in the remake could have been better explained, but I got a feeling that the more the filmmakers got attacked by GamerGate types, the less motivation they gave the villain.
Peale
@eclare: I feel like standing up against the emo association. Yeah, my chemical romance and fall out boy weren’t my cup of tea, and the emo kids as a group…well the cutting thing is a bit disturbing…and it certainly is difficult working with adolescents who get off on being misunderstood…but Overall the emos were relatively benign. And they read quite a bit. I don’t think the alt right is either benign nor well read.
Balconesfault
Man… I am wondering why Hillary would want to grace the wedding of that kind of person.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I got my new fisheye lens today, here’s some samples.
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
Actually, I think they’re suggesting something else: that we need to mock and belittle these guys. Neo-Nazi can actually sound cool and strong to a certain kind of person — after all, the Nazis had cool uniforms and killed 6 million people! That’s like, bad-ass, dood!
Emo-Nazis? Not quite so badass.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I’m still not crazy about the Nazi analogies for Trump and the alt-right. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte remains both more accurate, and more mocking.
Mnemosyne
Just saw the “but Hillary was friends with Robert Byrd!” meme on Facebook, posted by my cousin’s idiot husband.
Let’s just say that I was not surprised to find out that they live in Waukesha County.
Eric U.
we are mostly saddled with Nazi wannabes. That’s bad enough, but the Nazis were pretty terrible. It’s a bit of an odd distinction, I know, but our neo-Nazis are pretty pathetic creatures, pale shadows of the real thing
Eric U.
@Eric U.: Sad!
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
Pretty much agree. I saw it fairly soon after it opened. I thought it was fine, and it certainly didn’t desecrate the sacred memory of the original to have it remade by grrlz! There were some longueurs here and there, but there were those in the original, too.
I still occasionally chuckle over what I thought was the best line in the movie, which came in the first few minutes. Guide is giving a tour of the 19th-century mansion that will (of course) turn out to be haunted, and he says that when it was built it had state-of-the-art technology, “including an anti-Irish security fence.”
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
Yeah. My personal theory on the virulent reaction against the remake is that it basically came from a (male) demographic that was about 12 when the original came out and got it imprinted in their brains as one of the towering achievements of Western art.
ellie
@Ivan X: No, he is still suffering somewhat from it.
Villago Delenda Est
@danielx: He’s been hinting this himself…that if he does not win Pennsylvania, for example, obviously, the process is “rigged” against him. “Unfair!” he cries like a three year old. His followers are already formulating their rationalizations for a defeat. Clearly countless thousands of “illegals” cast ballots for Hillary to steal the election from the Great Orange Hope.
Villago Delenda Est
@hovercraft: It’s how they roll.
Chris T.
Shorter RWNJ: “Clinton is spreading hate by quoting us!”
Keith G
@eclare: No, not “emo”. That softens the edges and downplays the danger. It cuts them some slack in a way that I find fucked up.
KlareCole
@hitchhiker: I liked that too.
KlareCole
@Keith G:
sherparick
@Eric U.: They want a horse race and ratings. The MSM is run by same type of sociopaths that run all major American companies. It has been an environment that rewards sociopathy the last 40 years. Examples:
1. Les Moonves, head of CBS/VIACOM, ” Trump may be bad for America, but he is great for CBS” s http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464
2. Phil Griffin and the suits at COMCAST/NBC/MSNBC. http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/06/msnbc-year-of-standing-up-straight-004562#ixzz4AK03cqzb
3. Ben Sherwood of ABC/Disney. He kind sees Trump and Bernie Sanders as the same thing.
These are the guys that run the Media Infotainment Complex and they see political campaigns as just another form of Reality TV and the audience as sheep to be fleeced. http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-empire-business.html
liberal
@danielx:
A bunch of people have been talking about that for a few weeks.
Me, I think they’d get crushed. The only problem is that we wouldn’t use it as an opportunity to completely destroy them (the fascists).
sherparick
Still after 37 years, priceless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0
Matt McIrvin
@danielx: Trump already claimed the 2012 election was rigged and called for revolution against Obama the day after the election, on the basis of a false claim that Obama lost the popular vote.
I am absolutely certain that is he is going to say he really won and call for the violent overthrow of the government, because he already did that even when he wasn’t the losing candidate. The question is just how many people will try to do something about it. I don’t think Trump’s fans are capable of putting up any kind of organized resistance; I expect a little sporadic violence. Not as much as if Trump were to win.
Glidwrith
@TS:
You know, that strikes me as very much what they do to all the people they hate: women, POC, gays. No one is allowed agency if they are not of the tribe. Rules exist only to keep those people in check, they don’t apply to GOP.
germy
@Steeplejack:
Star Wars Syndrome
Matt McIrvin
@Mnemosyne: The way I put it after I saw it was that I thought the new Ghostbusters was actually funnier than the original, though the original held together better as a light fantasy-horror-adventure movie.
And the latter distinction mostly comes down to the third act: the original’s was terrific, revolving around the kind of joke for the ages that you can only do once; the reboot’s had the characteristic problem of post-9/11 action blockbusters, that you need to smash up a city somehow and you don’t much care how you got there or how it gets resolved.
But the reboot’s character comedy was terrific, and the laughs just keep coming, in a way they really didn’t in the original.
Groucho48
@Keith G:
Emo is something the right routinely mocks liberals for being. Soft, whiny, need safe places, participation awards, can’t handle mean comments. The whole nine yards. What the phrase emo Nazi does is flip that all back at them. Because, like all right wing attacks, it’s projection on their part. Right wingers are whiny, entitled brats.
Tim C.
@Matt McIrvin: Agree. The tea party/alt-right/sovereign citizens/confederate whatever love to fantasize about violent revolution, but take a look at the Bundys for a good idea of the level of organization and planning they are usually capable of. Could be bad, don’t get me wrong, but not a threat to the republic.
The Other Chuck
@Percysowner:
Tweety is sad because HRC doesn’t carry a lunchbox and sport big hairy round ones to dangle about. His worship of daddy figures is an embarrassment. He’s like a sitcom character from the 50’s.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@opiejeanne: Sadly, ever since Ustinoff (the old program director) left in 2005, I think (he was the last of the radio greats) KNX has adopted a CNN/Fox lite slant – in the tank for conservatives but still paying lip service to impartiality. Dick Helton, the morning guy, is the worst. Absolutely in the tank for the GOP and has been since he got hired there, and knows how to walk it to the line and no further. They’re such a disappointment. I’ve been listening to them since the 70s, when I was just a kid, and for decades they were just straight news, no chaser. Really nice station. Now, well, it’s not KFI AKA FuhrerRadio, but I don’t listen to them much anymore.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@CONGRATULATIONS!: Shit, not “Ustinoff”, what was I thinking? It’s George Nicholaw, the former general manager. Had a deep-seated commitment to “just the facts”. He was fired in 2003 by Viacom.
louc
I also loved her well-modulated talking voice during her speech. I thought her arguments were much more devastating in that reasonable, serious tone.
By the way, I hope she’s going to keep to that style of speaking. It’s much more effective.
eclare
@Peale: Point taken, there must be a better word, I just don’t know it.
Original Lee
@Adam L Silverman: Maybe we should take a leaf from Dr. Seuss – the OnBeyond Nazis.