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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Hail to the Hairpiece / Open Thread: Any Journalists Up for Some High-Stakes Adventure?

Open Thread: Any Journalists Up for Some High-Stakes Adventure?

by Anne Laurie|  January 9, 20179:49 pm| 28 Comments

This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Not Normal

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Reality: If Trump wont let ethics office do normal vetting of nominees, reporters will be winning Pulitzers for 4 yrs exposing their secrets

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 7, 2017

Next day:

I fear that the reason Trump's nominees arent filing typical disclosures w/ ethics office is a competence issue, not trying to hide things.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 8, 2017

Part of ethics office is ensurng nominee isnt in something that, as public official, wuld be illegal. Protects THEM. Once in office, 2 late.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 8, 2017

You know that old folk curse, “May you live in interesting times?”

* schrodingers_cat: The movie has been panned by critics but I love its title track, especially the panchakshara* stotra, the female voice in Sanskrit interspersed with a rapid fire, rap-like (in Hindi) description of Shiva.
Panchakshara == 5 letters (na ma shi va) nam = name shiva

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28Comments

  1. 1.

    Manyakitty

    January 9, 2017 at 9:52 pm

    So do we think he’s given up, too?

  2. 2.

    hilts

    January 9, 2017 at 9:53 pm

    The Sunlight Foundation has a good roundup of Trumpenstein’s conflicts of interest
    https://sunlightfoundation.com/tracking-trumps-conflicts-of-interest

  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    January 9, 2017 at 10:02 pm

    I think we’re underestimating Both Sides Do It here. The media are in the legitimation biz.

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne

    January 9, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    @Manyakitty:

    I think it’s more that he’s become afraid that the Trumpistas are going to destroy us out of sheer incompetence and ignorance instead of malice.

    That scares me, too. At least if it was malice, it would mean someone had a plan.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 9, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    @BGinCHI: the NPR dink whose name escapes me on the morning show asked Tim Kaine today if Republican X (Cruz?) didn’t have a point in saying that it’s a dangerous world, and it’s not a good idea to postpone these national security appointments? Tone and phrasing were incredibly tendentious. I think Tillerson and Mattis are the ones being the most cooperative with the ethics people, but Cruz (if it was him) was including Sessions as part of “national security”

  6. 6.

    Anne Laurie

    January 9, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    @Manyakitty:

    So do we think he’s given up, too?

    I think he’s putting down a marker on his Pulitzer, myself!

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 9, 2017 at 10:13 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Who is “he” in this context?

  8. 8.

    Sandia Blanca

    January 9, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I believe that was Steve Inskeep, and you are right that he was really pushing the Nice Polite Republicans line of questioning. To their credit, however, NPR has actually been bringing some Democrats on to discuss politics, lately–we haven’t heard much of that from them in at least a decade.

  9. 9.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 9, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    I like this version, better, since it doesn’t have too many of the ridiculous stunts, plus its the official version.

  10. 10.

    Mnemosyne

    January 9, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Eichenwald. I’m assuming that’s who Manyakitty meant, too.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    January 9, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    @schrodinger’s_cat

    Keep forgetting to ask if you’ve ever seen The Pink Mirror (Gulabi Aaina)? Seem to recall it was banned in India and remains so.

  12. 12.

    Anne Laurie

    January 9, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Okay, but I thought the ‘ridiculous’ hair-raising stunts went better with the quesiton of journalists pursuing the truth under Trump!

  13. 13.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 9, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Okay, that’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure. I get the impression Eichenwald is going to continue doing his reporting.

  14. 14.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 9, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    @NotMax: Nope. Never heard of it either.

  15. 15.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 9, 2017 at 10:48 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Sure, why not.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    January 9, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    @schrodinger’s_cat

    Wikipedia must have a page. (On hold music.)

    Ah, yes, and it confirms my recollection.

  17. 17.

    Miss Bianca

    January 9, 2017 at 10:55 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: I dunno, I kind of like the ridiculous stunts. Is that guy supposed to *be* Shiva?

  18. 18.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 9, 2017 at 10:58 pm

    @NotMax: It does, I read it, low budget film with no name actors. Not that there is anything wrong with it. My renewed interest in Hindi/Indian movies is less than a year old. So I totally missed many of the movies of the mid nineties to mid teens.

  19. 19.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 9, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    @Miss Bianca: No, he is supposed to be some mountaineer person, or something.

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne

    January 9, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I do, too, but I’m assuming that he has his holy shit, I can’t believe this is happening moments just like the rest of us.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    January 9, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    @schrodinger’s_cat

    Well whaddaya know, YouTube has the trailer.

  22. 22.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 9, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    @NotMax: Thanks, I will take a look.

  23. 23.

    Paul in KY

    January 10, 2017 at 7:43 am

    Excellent CGI in that video, looks really real. Thanks for showing it.

  24. 24.

    debbie

    January 10, 2017 at 7:58 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    I don’t think pointing to incompetence (and I read it as the incompetence of the transition team) is a sign of weakening resolve. Does it really matter whether they’re hiding stuff intentionally or through incompetence? Either way, they’re not sharing like they should.

  25. 25.

    manyakitty

    January 10, 2017 at 9:08 am

    @Mnemosyne: Good point, I guess. Criminally incompetent is a thing.

  26. 26.

    manyakitty

    January 10, 2017 at 9:10 am

    @Anne Laurie: Let’s hope so! He and David Farhenthold should share one, as far as I’m concerned.

  27. 27.

    manyakitty

    January 10, 2017 at 9:12 am

    @Mnemosyne: Yes, I was commenting on his tweets in the post.

  28. 28.

    artem1s

    January 10, 2017 at 10:01 am

    Part of ethics office is ensurng nominee isnt in something that, as public official, wuld be illegal. Protects THEM. Once in office, 2 late.

    you know, like getting and sending EMAILS!

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