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  2. 2.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    Green Balloons, indeed. What a day. Trump in his own unique way is making the strongest case yet for a woman president.

  3. 3.

    hovercraft

    They are running it on as much of a loop as they can, while still spending time on Matthew.

  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    The prim and proper NY Times. I wonder whether they can be shamed into actually quoting what Trump said. It’s vulgar, but that’s kind of important because that is who he is.

  5. 5.

    ? Martin

    The media hold back on stories that they believe cross certain lines. They give a presidential candidate a huge benefit of doubt – after all, millions of people chose him – and I think that’s reasonable to do.

    But when stories like this come out, which are impossible to not report on and which undermine that benefit, that moves the line for what the media can go after. When a tax return drops, taxes are now fully on the table. This video puts a shit ton of things on the table – possibly even the rape suits. It’s impossible for the media to now say ‘there’s no reason to believe these accusations are true’. There are now proven reasons to believe that. These stories are now fair game in the election. Floodgates are going to open up even further now.

    Dems are going to fucking pummel every GOP house candidate and every GOP senate candidate over this. It is now open season on everyone who hasn’t bee loudly in the never trump camp for the last year.

  8. 8.

    Kyle

    Can’t wait to hear from the evangelicals. It’ll be hard for them to talk themselves around this one.

  9. 9.

    Steve!

    I almost love how much of a groveling suck-up Billy Bush is the most of all.

    No wait, it’s how pissed his producer is when he reminds Trump to take off the hot mic at the end.

    No wait, it’s that this is really awful for Trump, and that’s good for America.

  11. 11.

    The Dangerman

    Curiously, CNN ran it unbleeped; one of the others (I don’t recall if it was Fox or MSNBC) bleeped it.

    The debate, if it happens, might have to be on a 10 second delay ;-)

  14. 14.

    trollhattan

    @Kyle:
    Lemme begin on their behalf: “Hate the sin, not the sinner.”

    Never you mind that the Hillbeast is way, way worser and gawd will Smite Her with His Holy Vengeance. Think of the babies.

  15. 15.

    Cacti

    In response to Donald’s “Grab ’em” comment, Ivanka wondered why he was talking to other people about their secret handshake. ;-)

  16. 16.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    Leading all the news shows – “shocking” “devastating”. Paul Ryan can’t say he hasn’t heard it, tomorrow.

  18. 18.

    p.a.

    Can’t wait for the evan-fundies to turn against… ah crap, I can’t even pretend it will happen; why bother finishing the sentence…

  21. 21.

    piratedan

    I am positive that according to the NY Times that this will indeed cast a shadow on Donald Trump’s campaign, leaving many to question whether these attacks on his character have any merit. Since the NY Times is also a family paper, we choose to edit the more offensive parts of the video and audio in an attempt to lessen the damage.. er, outrage, that this developing, unsubstantiated story might bring to light. The NY Times admits that finding this video in Hilary Clinton’s deleted e-mails is something of a surprise….

  23. 23.

    sigaba

    @Kyle:

    Can’t wait to hear from the evangelicals. It’ll be hard for them to talk themselves around this one.

    I’m sure some learned sage will tell us exactly how many Thervingi women Constantine the Great raped, and he’s literally the most important political leader in Christian history. Trump’s the vessel, y’all.

  24. 24.

    scav

    @p.a.: At worst, Mike Pence and his minions maybe won’t serve him pizza. But electing him to high office? That’s totally in-line with their tender ethos.

  25. 25.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    CNN just allowed fuck. I know we make fun of this all the time, but who will think of the children?

  27. 27.

    Thoroughly Pizzled

    Obviously, the distorted two seconds contain Trump’s disclaimer that everything said previously was satire. Stop hiding the truth, lieberals!

  28. 28.

    gf120581

    Apparently Pence had the press pool booted out of the restaurant he was eating in when this broke. Sounds like he wants to talk about Trumpy even less than he did Tuesday night.

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    @Kyle:

    Nah. I already saw the Facebook post a few days ago from my Xtian cousin — it’s easier to bring an asshole to Jesus than a liar, so Trump is better than Clinton because he might maybe possibly reform someday, unlike her.

    So they’re just going to shrug this off as Donald’s pre-saved behavior that proves he can be reformed by the pure love of Jesus.

  32. 32.

    Keith P.

    Dana Bash looks traumatized reporting on this. I’ve never seen CNN this outraged…universally

  33. 33.

    Gravenstone

    @trollhattan: No, they’ll dig even deeper into the “Trump is just a vessel to deliver unto us Mike Pence” bullshit. In that calculation, Trump is explicitly expendable post election.

  34. 34.

    scav

    @sigaba: Or, David and Bathsheba — that one will allow him to grope the woman and shoot her husband in the street (two boasts in one event). That basic narrative also seems to involve just a few token apologies and punishment that involves other people dying but no loss of political office whatsoever for the main player who also still gets star billing in the book.

  36. 36.

    Mandalay

    Well the vile Villager Gloria Borger seems genuinely offended and angry about these revelations on CNN.

    Good for her….except she has been chuckling and guffawing at Trump’s outrageous comments for over a year. She has known all along that he is a racist, a xenophobe and misogynist, and only this afternoon she has finally grown a spine?

    I despise her more than Trump.

  37. 37.

    Anoniminous

    To play Captain Obvious for a moment, this is the kind of thing that causes Wave Elections. We all need to be doing as much as we can to GOTV.

  38. 38.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Will Rahn ‏@ willrahn 1h1 hour ago
    BUSH COMPOUND, DECEMBER 2015 —
    JEB: We must stop Trump. Any ideas?

    GWB: Nope

    GHWB: Sorry no

    BILLY: Nope, no idea, nothing, zilch, zero

    Just noticed I have MSNBC on mute for the Halperin and notHalperin show…. and it doesn’t look like Halperin is there to explain why this is bad for Clinton.

  41. 41.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    Villager pearl clutching is just theater. Have they put the fainting couches on set? They love talking about this sewer dwelling gossip.

  45. 45.

    Patricia Kayden

    @? Martin:

    Dems are going to fucking pummel every GOP house candidate and every GOP senate candidate over this.

    Yes, hopefully this will help towards the Dems taking over the Senate. I believe the House is out of reach due to gerrymandering this time around though. Trump needs to be tied to the neck of each Republican running for office like the anchor that he is.

  46. 46.

    Lurking Canadian

    Is there a transcript somewhere? From the way people are reacting I’m reluctant to play it where my son can hear

  49. 49.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: And this probably isn’t the last trick in the bag.

    I’m thinking of my very conservative, as in nostalgic for Ratzinberger, Catholic relatives who were probably planning to hold their noses and vote for Trump because of “babies’ and Benghazi. This might push them into the Mcmullen camp, if someone they know from the Parish Council or the Society of the Virgin Mary (or something like that) has mentioned him in a chain email.

  50. 50.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Hal: You win all the internets, Dude. All of them!!

    P.S. Is this the end for Trump? Hoping so. What a nice way to end this week.

  52. 52.

    gogol's wife

    @dmsilev:

    But apparently they had a vaguer version earlier, because they’re being taken to task for it in the comments. Right now they seem to give the whole ugly picture.

  54. 54.

    ? Martin

    Read an article somewhere explaining the evangelical vote for Trump. They full realize he’s a shitbag, but they’re so convinced that Hillary is going to force them all to gay marry each other that they see Trump as the only source of protection that they have.

    Think of it as how we tolerated Stalin to beat Hitler. We never though Stalin was a good guy, but we could tolerate his shit long enough to win the war.

  55. 55.

    piratedan

    what I hope happens is that every GOP candidate is forced to come out in favor or not of this candidate. After all, they had an open primary that ran for the better part of a year and NOBODY on that side of the aisle bothered to do the least bit of due diligence on this fucker. Regardless of how many folks on the GOP side of the ledger find him reprehensible, they still allowed this to happen. They say that they should be in charge of our government, how fucking good are they as a political party if they can elect this shit stain as their standard bearer?

  58. 58.

    Patricia Kayden

    @gf120581: By November 9th, Pence will be saying, “Trump who? Who is this Trump person of whom you speak? He sounds like a horrible person!”

    If the Trump kids could do so, they’d throw Donald under a moving bus too. But alas, they have to worry about inheriting his billions.

  59. 59.

    ? Martin

    @Mandalay:

    Good for her….except she has been chuckling and guffawing at Trump’s outrageous comments for over a year. She has known all along that he is a racist, a xenophobe and misogynist, and only this afternoon she has finally grown a spine?

    This is the point when the Trump enablers realize they aren’t clever enough to explain their way out of this.

  62. 62.

    Mandalay

    @the Conster, la Citoyenne:

    Villager pearl clutching is just theater.

    In general you are right, and I can see how tough manly types like Bill O’Reilly might be dismissive of this stuff. But I can’t imagine that any female Villlager with a pulse (which might exclude Ingraham and Coulter) won’t be genuinely repulsed by Trump’s coments.

  64. 64.

    lamh36

    @gogol’s wife: LOL…yeah…I did…sorry…couldn’t resist…now you know Kelly Anne will be out soon, she’s bout the only female other than Katrina Pierson who is the go to person with lady parts to defend Trump BS

  66. 66.

    hilts

    Typical Corey Lewandowski: “We’re not electing a Sunday school teacher”

    What will babbling buffoon Chris Matthews say about this?

  69. 69.

    ? Martin

    @hueyplong: She won’t run the ad. No need to. Now that the floodgates are open she’s going to run nothing but sweet grandma who wants to make the world safer and fairer ads. I think it’s no coincidence that this is the ad that dropped today:

    The latest spot from Hillary Clinton features home-video footage of ordinary families, measuring the height of their kids as they grow taller over time.

    “How do we measure greatness in America? The height of our skyscrapers? The size of our bank accounts? No. It’s measured by what we do for our children,” the Democratic nominee says in a minute-long ad that she narrates.

    The soft spot appears aimed largely at suburban voters, many of whom harbor doubts about both Clinton and her Republican opponent Donald Trump and are still undecided.

    And for the record, Trumps supporters will care after today. Lots won’t but he’s going to lose real support now. This is the kind of stuff you can’t look at your kids and neighbors in the eye if they learn you voted for him.

  70. 70.

    Aunt Kathy

    What got me was not the lewd, cussy, vulgarity. What got me was when, as the actress (?) was walking up (not in frame at that time and they were talking about her legs, etc, Trump sez “It looks good.”
    It.
    She is not a she. She is an IT.
    But they’ll stand by their nominee, yes they will.

  71. 71.

    Cacti

    For reals, how did Jeb’s campaign not get a hold of this tape months ago?

    Billy is his first cousin/George H.W.’s nephew.

  73. 73.

    Nemo_N

    Hillary better hang this around the neck of every “reasonable” conservative who supports Trump until they choke.

  75. 75.

    Mike in NC

    Ironically, the campaign for US Senate in North Carolina is all about who is softer on sexual offenders.

  78. 78.

    uila

    Republicans should be livid that their party didn’t air this garbage twelve months ago. Aren’t they supposed to vett the candidate? Do we need to make the primaries longer?? Hang it around every one of their damn necks

  79. 79.

    lamh36

    CNN has Corey Lew…on the phone…so how is he spinning this…I refuse to even listen…click.

    @kasie
    Lewandowski: “He speaks from he heart…he speaks the way many people speak around the dining room table.”

  80. 80.

    trollhattan

    @Cacti:
    I share this one crazy thing in common with each of the thirty-seven Republican candidates: at some point the Donald will blow up his candidacy saying something moronic, and drop out.

    Still can’t believe it never happened during the primaries, but I overestimated the Republican voter’s tolerance for/love of angry, uncontrolled belligerence.

  81. 81.

    jl

    Not in the mood to watch crap like that right now.
    And, IMHO, this is about stuff that should be obvious by now, but now they have a golden ‘gotcha’ (though not sure Trump is as obsessed with blondes as Ailes is). And, ohh… this is so good, a word that The Paper of Record cannot print, nay, even refer to.

    Most disgusting thing I heard was, press has worse, but a lot of Trump demolition material was held for the general election.
    Corrupt corporate hacks. Covering for lies of GWB, run-up to Iraq war, now malfeasance on Trump vetting. They could have done it without having to deal with their self-imposed ‘balance’ BS during the GOP primary. But Trump meant $$$$.

    Edit: and yeah, probably Kasich or Jeb would have been harder to beat, but the risk of a Trump presidency outweighs that for me as a citizen and Democrat.

    I heard on the news a while back that the corrupt corporate hack who runs CBS said that Trump was bad for the country but great for CBS. Clearly other corrupt corporate hack media chiefs felt the same. Does anyone seriously think that the likes of Blitzer, or Mitchell, or Todd, or Muir, or any of those wretched corporate hack schmucks would even think of not going along with what was best for their corrupt corporate hack bosses? The very idea is laughable.

    The miserable failed US corporate media experiment has completely discredited itself yet again.

  82. 82.

    ? Martin

    @Prescott Cactus: No, I’m telling you – the media are running with this on their own. There’s blood in the water. No point wasting money on it. Clinton here out should be providing the policy contrast – healthcare, taxes, infrastructure, jobs, etc. in nice, soft, grandmotherly tones.

  83. 83.

    hilts

    @lamh36:

    Kelly Ayotte: Donald Trump’s newly exposed comments about women are “totally inappropriate and offensive,”

  84. 84.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    @kasie
    Lewandowski: “He speaks from he heart…he speaks the way many people speak around the dining room table.”

    Note to self: NEVER accept a dinner invitation to the Lewandowskis’ house, especially with kids in tow.

  85. 85.

    David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch

    Evan Siegfried ‏@evansiegfried

    Trump’s Friday so far:

    •Says Central Park 5 still guilty of rape despite exoneration
    •Does not apologize for sexual assault boast/jokes

    82 retweets 123 likes

    Mindy Finn ‏@mindyfinn

    How could I, in good conscience, encourage any young woman to support Trump’s GOP? Enough.

    174 retweets 337 likes

    (((Harry Enten))) ‏@ForecasterEnten

    My Mother pretty much never sends me political emails… She just sent me the Trump/Billy Bush stuff…

    113 retweets 411 likes

    Jay Cost ‏@JayCostTWS

    You done effed up, @GOP.

    60 retweets 174 likes

    Tracy Platt ‏@WhimperNotABang

    The Republican Party allowed this sh*tshow misogynist to grab them by the p*ssy.

    39 retweets 109 likes

    Matthew Dowd ‏@matthewjdowd

    I have six brothers, and three sons. This isn’t boys will be boys stuff. This is him celebrating his ability to sexually assault someone.

    1,015 retweets 1,352 likes

    John Weaver ‏@JWGOP

    Said weeks ago, but now is time: Cut Trump loose. If u have endorsed, rescind. U work for campaign, can resign. #TwoPaths #Intregrity

    205 retweets 323 likes

    Jeff Flake ‏@JeffFlake

    America deserves far better than @realDonaldTrump

    711 retweets 1,142 likes

    Brit Hume ‏@brithume

    It is hard to imagine this won’t seriously hurt Trump among women. If you doubt that, listen to it. You’ll find it at the link below.

    John Ziegler ‏@Zigmanfreud

    Dear Trumpsters: Thanks for giving us Hillary, a Dem Senate, maybe a Dem House & destroying the GOP. May you all suffer like you deserve to!

    26 retweets 57 likes

    Houston, we have liftoff!

  86. 86.

    ? Martin

    @lamh36: I’ll admit to being a little surprised to learn that Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum talk about grabbing strange women by the pussy around their dining room table. They seem more of the saying grace type.

  89. 89.

    gogol's wife

    I keep remembering Mark Leibovich on some show, after Soledad O’Brien excoriated Trump, saying condescendingly, “We do not have the right to question Trump’s fitness to be president, because he is the nominee of one of the two major parties.”

  90. 90.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Noralenderbee at 72

    The [Trump] adviser, clearly exasperated, added: “Another day in Trump world … I hate it.”

    If only someone weren’t holding a gun to your head and forcing you to work for Trump!

    Until someone can prove otherwise, I shall choose to believe that the adviser is one Christopher “Reek” Christie

  94. 94.

    ? Martin

    We need to take up a collection for whoever is handling moderation today, because holy shit do they have their work cut out for them.

  98. 98.

    jl

    @uila: Like most of the stuff the GOP does now, their primary process jiggering was mostly a mix of goofy PR scam, and a corrupt attempt to fix their primary election. Their primary base dupes and the corporate media were supposed to play along. Things did not go according to plan this time. But if you make a regular habit of doing corrupt and stupid goofy shit and passing it off as real work, chances of things going very badly wrong get high quick.

  100. 100.

    piratedan

    in regards to Corey L’s spin over at CNN:

    “someone pass the butter because I’m going to move on those mashed potatoes like a bitch…. “

    yeah, wholesome thanksgiving day memory conversations, these are not

  102. 102.

    chopper

    now i know why, after his RNC speech, ivanka was so quick to step back when he came in for a hug. shudder.

  104. 104.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Wow, notHalperin pushes back on GOP strategist who tried to play a “Hillary Clinton has said strange things too” game.

  105. 105.

    scav

    @lamh36:

    @kasie
    Lewandowski: “He speaks from he heart…he speaks the way many people speak around the dining room table.”

    OK, Still image of this quote, perhaps with voice over.
    Switch to still images from Norman Rockwell, Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver, atl sitting at the dinner table with the audio voiceover..

  106. 106.

    Tim C.

    How the hell did the so-called “dirty tricksters” running other GOP primary campaigns miss this? Seriously. I’ve known that Trump was any number of deplorable things, but how the hell did this not break a year ago? How incompetent are the Republican campaigns that they missed this?

  109. 109.

    OGLiberal

    @Kyle: “He was lost but he found his way. He’s turned to Christ. He’s a different man…he told me so himself.” The Christianists like nothing more than a redemption story. Of course, Trump isn’t redeemed and they know that but as long as he hates on the right people, they’ll give him a pass on everything

  110. 110.

    Turgidson

    I mean, on one hand, anything that adds another nail to Small Hands’ coffin is a welcome occurrence.

    On the other, it’s pathetic that it’s this that the media finally decided was too much for them. Not the appalling stuff about banning Muslims, deporting all undocumented immigrants and building a fucking wall, letting a nuclear arms race break out among the Koreas and Japan, the Putinophilia, the stupefying level of proud ignorance that even Sarah Palin can’t compete with, the nonstop race-baiting, the nonstop lying, the racist attack on a federal judge, the unhinged attacks on the Khans or Alicia Machado…no, it’s this. Him saying some quite heinous things, but things that no one who’s followed this sick fuck for more than an hour should be all that surprised he would say. NOW he’s a pariah. None of that other stuff did it, but this did.

    Our failed media experiment, indeed.

  113. 113.

    geg6

    @chopper:

    You know that’s what Hillary is saying over a nice glass of fine Scotch this evening. I know I would if I was her.

  114. 114.

    lamh36

    @Keith P.: Bash is recently divorced and still working with John King, I think I read that there was some infedility allegations there??

    But don’t quote me

  115. 115.

    chopper

    @lamh36:

    Lewandowski: “He speaks from he heart…he speaks the way many people speak around the dining room table.”

    who the fuck are you having dinner with these days?

  116. 116.

    Cacti

    @scav:

    Switch to still images from Norman Rockwell, Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver, atl sitting at the dinner table with the audio voiceover..

    Ward: “Beaver, grab that roast beef by the p***y and pass it over.”

    Beaver: “Awww, gee Dad.”

    Wally: (starts choking on his food in shock)

  117. 117.

    jl

    @OGLiberal: The sad and sorry and abjectly self-deluding authoritatian Xtianists will swallow anything. And plenty of TV preachers will say that grabbing P and similar assault is, hey, just how God made the boys. All you can do is try to control it a little, but harmful to try too hard. Prolly it’s bad but against God’s plan. The Xtianist God works in mysteriously convenient mysterious ways.

  119. 119.

    hilts

    Bret Baier is pissing and moaning that this Trump tape is getting too much attention and drowning out the revelations of the Wikileaks release of Hillary’s emails.

  120. 120.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: Wilson who IIRC worked for Cruz who was probably the last of the 16 to think he could tame Trump…. I wonder what leads he heard about but Cruz told him not to bother

    ETA: I think I have to watch the first few minutes of Tweety tonight as his guilty Catholic schoolboy collides with his own creepy issues about women

  122. 122.

    hovercraft

    @hilts:
    Tweety will be orgasmic, this is just the sort of salacious stuff he loves. He’ll have a panel on who can dissect it every which way, while pretending to be outraged. Never mind that he judges women by their looks, he’s had several hot mic issues himself, including about Melanoma.

    Corey is speculating that Hillary may also have made comments like this in those Wall St. speeches that we haven’t seen the transcripts to. Who knows maybe we’ll here here saying the same kinds of things next week if the transcripts come out.

  128. 128.

    Mnemosyne

    @Tim C.:

    Because, at base, they don’t disagree with him. Sure, he said it in a crude way, but they don’t really disagree that women should be treated as objects. The fundie attitude towards sex is really appalling — see the blog LoveJoyFeminism for a lot of coverage about how fundies give cover to abusers and demand that victims explain what they did to attract the abuser.

  131. 131.

    dmsilev

    @David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:

    Rick Wilson says there is even more devastating material in the oppo file that hasn’t been released.

    I’m guessing that Clinton has more than one harpoon in her armory. In fact, I’d say there’s a reasonable chance that this is actually just setting the stage for something …interesting on Sunday.

  133. 133.

    Mnemosyne

    Ponder this, my friends:

    If this is what Clinton had loaded up for the run-up to the second debate, imagine what she has ready to release before the third debate.

    The mind boggles.

  134. 134.

    Aleta

    @? Martin:

    It is now open season on everyone who hasn’t been loudly in the never trump camp for the last year.

    One might even say Giulliani and the rest of the pack have “enabled and supported a president(ial candidate) who is a disgrace to the White House.”

  136. 136.

    Mandalay

    @gogol’s wife:

    after Soledad O’Brien excoriated Trump

    She is one of the very few in the media that I hold in high regard. She must have complete contempt for her ex-colleagues at CNN.

    Here she is (correctly) telling CNN that they have been enabling Trump, and helping to normalilize white supremacy.

  137. 137.

    Turgidson

    @trollhattan:

    The GOP’s “deep bench” of clowns and charlatans was made up of a bunch of cowards and morons who had a collective action problem. They all were waiting for someone else to do the knife work on Trump, and as a result, none of them did it. None of them even tried until he was a runaway freight train and even then they didn’t mount a serious effort. They were all a bunch of pathetic frauds. And yet you can hardly swing a stick without hitting some GOP pundit lollygagger saying any of those guys would definitely be crushing Hillary Clinton. Hilarious. They couldn’t beat a demented orange carnival barker with a ferret on his head whose personal and professional baggage, much of which was public or fairly easily found, would fill the Atlantic Ocean, but they’d totally beat HRC. Sure, moron, keep thinking that.

  138. 138.

    jl

    @lamh36: Except I think the latest Wikileaks batch of emails is fraudulent. Not from HRC campaign or State Dept, but stuff from obscure accountants and suchlike at DNC and DCCC passed off as HRC State Dept and campaign.

  140. 140.

    dmsilev

    @Mnemosyne: Think about what this says about the rest of the GOP’s “deep bench”, that they were all either too collectively inept to dig up this sort of stuff or were too frightened of pissing off the deplorables to use it. Or, quite possibly, both.

  142. 142.

    Jeffro

    @hilts: that was really his defense?

    Jesus hurry up and get soccer practice over with so I can go home and watch some news … probably ought to pick up some popcorn along the way …

  146. 146.

    gogol's wife

    @Mandalay:

    Go to about 3:40 on that video and see what Leibovich says. It’s not journalists’ job to decide that Trump is racist and unfit because he’s been chosen as the nominee by one of the two major parties.

  147. 147.

    Fair Economist

    @Turgidson:

    On the other, it’s pathetic that it’s this that the media finally decided was too much for them. Not the appalling stuff about banning Muslims, deporting all undocumented immigrants and building a fucking wall, letting a nuclear arms race break out among the Koreas and Japan, the Putinophilia, the stupefying level of proud ignorance that even Sarah Palin can’t compete with, the nonstop race-baiting, the nonstop lying, the racist attack on a federal judge, the unhinged attacks on the Khans or Alicia Machado…no, it’s this.

    Amen.

  149. 149.

    Turgidson

    @gogol’s wife:

    Sure, but now that Ron Fournier has hit the ol’ dusty trail and gone off to Detroit, Matthew Dowd is the biggest “BothSides4Ever” dolt in circulation in the Beltway talking head freak show. I have no trouble imagining that he’d work a false equivalence in there using the Big Dog.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh36: poor bastard’s probably locked in a pee soaked corner of his bedroom closet dreading the appearance of “Auntie Bar” in his caller ID, afraid to sleep like the kids in the Freddy Kreuger movies lest she come take her revenge in his dreams…. “You had this, Billy, you knew. You could have saved Jeb…”

  152. 152.

    hovercraft

    @David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:
    David Brock said so months ago. When stuff was coming out towards the end of the primary, when Little Marco was dumping all that crap, Brock said that he was barely scratching the surface. Remember Brock was part of the Arkansas Project that cut it’s teeth trying to prevent Bill from first getting re-elected governor, and then elected president. He’s like the David Bossie of the left, the big difference is that Bossie already blew his wad over the last 30 years.

  154. 154.

    MomSense

    @lamh36:

    Speaks from the heart? What heart? If one of my boys ever spoke about a woman that ways the dinner table… They never would because I raised them better than that.

    They are shamelessly trying to spin Trump’s disgusting behavior. The first black POTUS brought all the racists out from under their rocks and now the misigynist pigs are joining them.

  155. 155.

    ? Martin

    Not that anyone should be surprised, but Rick Wilson on twitter said that there’s worse oppo out there on Trump than this. Rick Wilson is a GOP strategist who’s been pretty vocally #nevertrump.

  157. 157.

    Tim C.

    @Mnemosyne: Yeah, I agree. Thought I really really figured the Bush clan type Republicans were savvy enough to A) Find it. B) Have it come from nowhere and C) Use it to throw a patina of respectability on their own more subtle misogyny.

  158. 158.

    bemused

    Paul Ryan’s date to campaign with Trump in Wisconsin, quietly put out in the press recently, just got more awkward. Not that I think Ryan will bow out.

  160. 160.

    Jeffro

    @chopper: that is an excellent way to put it … Who knew that they were going to save so much money developing ads just by using clips of Trump’s own speeches??

  161. 161.

    dmsilev

    @? Martin: The Onion just now:

    Trump: ‘I Know That Was Pretty Bad, But Let’s Just Say You’re Going To Want To Save Your Energy’

    NEW YORK—Advising pundits, reporters, and the general public to rein in their indignation for the time being, Republican nominee Donald Trump admitted Friday that he knew his recently unearthed comments about groping women and attempting to engage them in extramarital affairs were pretty bad, but that everyone “should really save [their] energy” for what he was going to say next. “I’m fully aware that what I was recorded saying about using my celebrity status to sexually assault women is extremely vile and disturbing, but I want you to know that you’re really best saving your outrage and disgust for some thoughts I still haven’t verbalized yet, believe me,” said Trump, noting that if everyone worked themselves into a frenzy at his assertion that he couldn’t help but make aggressive advances on every woman he finds physically attractive or his use of the phrase “grab them by the pussy,” they simply wouldn’t have the stamina to denounce a series of forthcoming statements that the candidate assured would be even more reprehensible. “Look, I get it. What I said, frankly, should not be accepted in civil society, let alone by a major party candidate for president of the United States, but we’ve got another whole month until the election—I’m going to say a lot more unconscionably repulsive things. Trust me, you will be much more sick to your stomach with the stuff I’m going to say after this. It’s going to be so, so revolting.” At press time, Trump was standing at 44 percent in the national polls.

  166. 166.

    Gelfling 545

    @Steve!: It wil be harder in this case because Trump, by his own admission, has never confessed his sins and asked for forgiveness. This is a big deal in the evangelical world and, everybody knows (if they’re evangelical) that sex related sins are the WORST! Killing, maiming, lying, stealing, not so much. Still, the ability to accept without question all articles of the Christian faith does argue a certain gullibility.

  167. 167.

    hovercraft

    @hilts:
    Those poor babies at FOX, I am tempted to watch Megan Kelly for the very first time in my life. Not sure I can do it though, I feel dirty enough if I watch FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace.

  169. 169.

    ? Martin

    Some time next week everyone in Florida will get their power back and wonder how the fuck they missed so much.

  173. 173.

    bluefish

    Love the bit when he knocks on the bus door window to get out, as if expecting some lackey to be there to open it for him. What a guy!

  174. 174.

    MomSense

    @gogol’s wife:

    Yes there are good men in this country. Hillz’ twitter feed today had a video of our POTUS talking about Hillary and it was so nice to hear the insight of a thoughtful man who respects women.

  177. 177.

    lamh36

    @JohnJHarwood 2m2 minutes ago
    for the record, most grown men do not talk or behave like that

  178. 178.

    OGLiberal

    The media is shocked and appalled but did they really believe for one second that something like this didn’t exist? I’m just shocked it’s only coming out now – and there are probably plenty more like it. Trump didn’t seriously start thinking about running for president until Obama destroyed is ego at the WHCD – talking like this, acting like, is part of his brand. And white dude effing love it.

  180. 180.

    lamh36

    @JebBush 38s39 seconds ago
    As the grandfather of two precious girls, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump’s reprehensible comments degrading women.

  181. 181.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @? Martin: I doubt anyone in the political world doesn’t know that Ivana says he raped her in a rage over a bad weave by a plastic surgeon she recommended. I’ve always figured they just don’t know quite how to frame it– I feel a little gross posting it. Also his repeated declarations that he is sexually attracted to his daughter:
    A Complete-ish History of Donald Trump’s Obsession With His Ideal Woman, His Own Daughter.

    ETA: @hilts: I was just thinking, as Tweety talks to Katy Tur, that what Tweety did to Burnett was very similar to what Trump did to Katy Tur at one of his rallies.

    (Ruth Marcus calls for a “better apology” from Trump.)

  184. 184.

    Shalimar

    @hilts: What Matthews should ask Lewandowski: “Mr. Trump was talking about a married woman. Was it your wife’s p*ssy he was trying to get? How can you support someone who talks that way about your wife?”

  185. 185.

    ThresherK

    @Turgidson: Well, as others smarter than I have observed, they couldn’t attack Trump without the spittle getting on his voters. They need his voters.

  186. 186.

    daves09

    As part of his *apology* Trump claims Bill Clinton has said worse things on the golf course.
    Paul Ryan isn’t sure it’s true because *Donald has never tried to grab my wife’s p***y.*
    Chrispy *it’s out of context.*
    Rudy *I don’t see the problem.*
    Pence *he never said that.*

  187. 187.

    jl

    @hilts:

    ” Matthews also drooled and ogled over Erin Burnett. I can’t wait till MSNBC cancels this fucker. ”

    The news talky and pundit goofs are weird. Sometimes I think most of them have serious mental or emotional issues wrt women (among many, many others). Matthews, Mornin’ Joe Jughead, O’Reilly, and many more. Might be nutcases held in check by desire to retain spotlight and fat checks for not much work.

  190. 190.

    hilts

    @hovercraft: @lamh36:

    The timing of the Wikileaks disclosure is convenient for Fox News. While the rest of the media covers this Trump tape, they’ll be fixated on airing quotes from Hillary to try and make her look bad.

  191. 191.

    MomSense

    @Mnemosyne:

    Good for you, Mnem. I couldn’t watch Happy Valley because of the subject matter even though I think that show is brilliantly acted.

  192. 192.

    jl

    @daves09: Been known for awhile that Trump ruthlessly grabs all sorts of people and other stuff: money, women, attention, the list goes on. But now the press has a clip and a gotcha.

  193. 193.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    I will say this: I’ve heard adult men say some pretty graphic things about women when they didn’t realize I could hear them, but never this rapey shit. There’s a big difference between look at that ass and bragging about grabbing women.

  194. 194.

    MomSense

    And now Andrea Mitchell is holding a stack of notes procured by Russian hackers showing notes that were taken during Hillz’ paid speeches.

  195. 195.

    hovercraft

    @daves09:
    Everyone is saying the “apology” will not fly. The “if” is a major problem, and they all say he needs to give a sit down interview to a real reporter, and knock off trying to pull Bubba into his shitstorm.

  198. 198.

    hovercraft

    @jl:
    I think it’s generational, and GOPers, most of the younger guys don’t talk like that. FOX is obviously different, but even those two morons looked flabbergasted when Trump attacked Merchad unprovoked.

  199. 199.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    @hilts:

    Kelly Ayotte: Donald Trump’s newly exposed comments about women are “totally inappropriate and offensive,”

    Media person: So, Senator Ayotte, is he a good role model for American children?

    Kelly Ayotte: Absolutely!

  201. 201.

    Cacti

    @MomSense:

    And now Andrea Mitchell is holding a stack of notes procured by Russian hackers showing notes that were taken during Hillz’ paid speeches.

    Good luck with that, Mrs. Greenspan.

    I’m guessing nothing in there is nearly as juicy as “Grab ’em by the p***y”.

  202. 202.

    hovercraft

    @hilts:
    The problem is they are preaching to the choir, everyone watching was already voting for him. How many outside their audience have hear of the “knock out game”, and all the other war on christmas crap. As long as the rest of the media is on this, they will drown out e-ghazi. This is new and fresh and involves sex, e-ghazi is old news.

  204. 204.

    Gelfling 545

    @? Martin: Do you think the members of the press have finally awakened to the fact that they, too, would still have tolive here if Trump were elected?

  206. 206.

    Cacti

    You’re all going to feel really embarrassed when it turns out that Trump was talking about grabbing women’s pet cats!

    -Trumpkins

  208. 208.

    Turgidson

    @ThresherK:

    Right, the collective action dilemma I mentioned. But there’s so much easily-found crap on Trump, there must have been stuff in there that might have damaged him. We heard about none of it during the primaries. No one even tried. I can’t even imagine that everything in the Trump oppo file is stuff the GOP base would have been OK with.

  212. 212.

    sigaba

    @hovercraft:

    Corey is speculating that Hillary may also have made comments like this in those Wall St. speeches that we haven’t seen the transcripts to. Who knows maybe we’ll here here saying the same kinds of things next week if the transcripts come out.

    If Hillary swears like a sailor in Wall Street speeches it can only improve her standing with the male demos.

  213. 213.

    TS

    @Mandalay: Trump says all sorts of despicable things & suddenly the GOP pundits and politicians have only just realised – b.s. that they let him take them over so very very easily. Whole thing says more about the GOP than anything else. Sane folks already knew who/what was Trump.

  214. 214.

    GregB

    Has Good Upright Christian Mike Pence delivered a stern head shaking denouncement of Hillary’s insult based campaign yet?

  215. 215.

    Turgidson

    @MomSense:

    Trump could murder an infant on live TV and Andrea f’ing Mitchell would still insist that Hillary’s emails/foundation/speeches are the issue we should really be focusing on.

  217. 217.

    Mandalay

    @bemused:

    Joy Reid grilling Bachmann is awesome.

    Except where Tweety tells Joy Reid to STFU for daring to ask Bachmann about her comments linking Trump and God. What an asshole.

  219. 219.

    Gelfling 545

    @chopper: Just served notice on my family via facebook that any such talk around MY table will cause them to be hungry for a long time to come!

  220. 220.

    Mandalay

    @TS:

    GOP pundits and politicians have only just realised – b.s. that they let him take them over so very very easily

    In this particular case I think the issue is that female Villagers (correctly) can’t avoid the conclusion that Trump despises them simply because they are female.

    They could live with being despised for being in the media – just part of the job – but when they realized that they were seen by Trump as being even lower than bozos such as Hannity and Blitzer simply because they lacked a cock it was all too much.

  222. 222.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    @lamh36:

    Lewandowski: “He speaks from the heart…he speaks the way many people speak around the dining room table.”

    June: Did you learn anything interesting in school today, boys?

    Wally: I learned that I can grab my teacher by the pussy, I can do anything because I’m a star!

    Beaver: Gosh gee, Wally, is she the one who got the big phony tits and everything?

    Ward: (giggles)

  223. 223.

    Original Lee

    @dmsilev: It’s more like a bullfight than a whale hunt. I think we’re past the first passes with the cape and the varas and are witnessing the banderillas. N.B., I don’t know much about bullfighting – I looked it up on Wikipedia to get the vocabulary right.
    Here’s the link.

  224. 224.

    Jeffro

    @Turgidson:

    Right, the collective action dilemma I mentioned. But there’s so much easily-found crap on Trump, there must have been stuff in there that might have damaged him. We heard about none of it during the primaries. No one even tried. I can’t even imagine that everything in the Trump oppo file is stuff the GOP base would have been OK with.

    Exactly! Couldn’t any of them ‘walk and chew gum at the same time’ – i.e., bash Rubio while dropping some serious oppo on Trump?

    Ah well…it’s just good to be a Dem. Competence AND hearts in the right place. When the GOP has either, much less both, we’ll be in trouble. Not too worried about that…

  226. 226.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    @MomSense:

    Russian metadata

    “Metadata” is Donald’s next wife. That she’s Russian is gravy.

  227. 227.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    @Gvg:

    Is this Billy Bush guy related to The Bush family?

    Yup. His father and GHWB are brothers. He’s first cousin to Dubya and Jeb.

  228. 228.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    @Mnemosyne:

    I still love the songs and the dancing, but the plot creeps me out too. I’m ashamed to say, though, that it took me a long time to realize it. Good for G.

  230. 230.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    @Original Lee:

    N.B., I don’t know much about bullfighting – I looked it up on Wikipedia to get the vocabulary right.

    And I was listening to Bizet’s Carmen this afternoon!

    Coincidence?

  231. 231.

    Cowgirl in the Sandi

    Anna Navarro is ON FIRE on CNN – just taking it to Trump and the Republicans. If they were smart, they’d get her to run for something. Wow!

  234. 234.

    john fremont

    @Shalimar: Speaking of
    Trump talking about someone’s wife, anyone heard from Ted Cruz yet about this ? His conscience led him to endorse Trump a few days ago.

  235. 235.

    The Lodger

    @lamh36: This is way late, but… if the bushes didn’t use this tape, it’s because Billy never told them about it BECAUSE BILLY DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT.

  236. 236.

    Iron City

    Provided he really has billions. Starting to look like he has billions in assets and more billions in debit

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