“Sure, Booth shot the president, but I think the press has been extremely unfair to me and to the Confederacy”—Jefferson Davis https://t.co/4OFjWdJD6M
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 26, 2018
Charles Manson never killed anyone. Like Trump, he just gave speeches.
— Gideon Mountain Hunt Will Vote Nov. 6th (@terriermanUSA) October 27, 2018
the difference between the trump administration and isis is that isis accepts responsibility for the attacks it inspires
— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) October 27, 2018
The Tweets are coming from inside the (white) house. https://t.co/leN7fLnj4Y pic.twitter.com/oxw0ZKKRF0
— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) October 26, 2018
There is a fuckmook with your name on television show who has done great damage to the body politic and shown no regard for the value of empirical truth that is essential for self-governance. Given that you share a name, perhaps you can send him the below sentiment and shame him. https://t.co/UFVDYT4U1f
— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 26, 2018
But when it comes to the real maestros of mealy-mouthing, there’s one publication leads the pack…
For the “both sides” hall of fame, here’s the New York Times insinuating that the people who received the bombs might have deserved it. Notable that they left CNN out of the piece. https://t.co/LzTwawdlA6
— Adam Jentleson ?? (@AJentleson) October 26, 2018
All the Times Jodie Forster Ignored John Hinckley Jr.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 26, 2018
The Midnight Lurker
Ten bucks says that next week we’re treated to another op-ed from the NYT on civility.
Raoul
Speaking of failed media. Chuck Todd is going to have Erick Erickson on his g-damned teevee show tomorrow morning.
Todd has learned nothing. His producers have learned nothing. I’m beginning to feel they want the mayhem to be happening, since they keep rewarding the wingers who helped foment this situation.
MomSense
Jesus fucking Christ. FTFNYT
Mike in NC
I’m supposing Megyn Kelly gets her old job back at FOX, with a fat pay raise as well. Then she’ll play mean girl to all those terrible people back at NBC.
eric
The David Simon tweet is a take-off of the greatest lawyer letter ever….
lumpkin
The NYT is nothing more than a trolling operation. Cancel your subscription. Don’t feed the trolls.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Literally blaming the victims. God, fuck the NYT! NBC was pretty bad covering the politics of the shooter. All they did was mention he was anti-Trump without giving any other proper context, like why he was anti-Trump.
Jay
Driftglass has had the Media’s “number” along with the ReThug’s for going on 30 years now,
“Like Prince Prospero in Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, a devastating plague has been sweeping across CNN president Jeff Zucker’s lands for many years. A plague of Republican madness and racism. Of paranoia and malignant ignorance. Depravity. Authoritarianism. And lying. Always. always lying.
And always escalating. Always getting worse.”
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/10/jeff-zucker-notices-plague-he-spread
Emerald
Had to turn off MSNBC this morning when Alex Witt said that Trump must be really feeling emotional about the attack on the synagogue because of his beloved son-in-law and his daughter, who converted! I gagged.
For the first time in years, CNN was better.
Jeffro
Why won’t they just ask him: what if the bombs had been sent to you and to Fox News back in 2014, and President Obama had said “well, gee, I mean, Trumpov and Faux have been really really unfair and mean to me, so…?”
ASK, media jellyfish! You have only your spines to reclaim!
Jeffro
And at the risk of pointing out the obvious: this is just another extension of the Trumpov Doctrine, as (correctly) analyzed by Adam. The world/the media/etc etc etc will treat me “fairly” or else, with “fairly” of course meaning “favoring me, doting on me, feeding my bottomless narcissism”.
Classic abuser mentality. “Sorry you almost got assassinated, but I told you not to criticize/oppose me!”
Mike in NC
@Jeffro: Rules are different for malignant narcissists. They are perpetual victims, as Trump reminds us every day. Woe is he!
Jeffro
@Mike in NC: I guess! He also complained that answering questions about 11 murdered Americans in the rain ‘messed up his hair’ and almost caused him to have to cancel his Klan gathering tonight. The nerve of those 11!!
Josie
@Jeffro:
I thought when someone mentioned that in another thread, they were making it up. He actually complained about his hair?!? Unbelievable.
lgerard
@Josie:
Donald Trump Jokes About His Hair Being Ruined by Having to Answer Questions in the Rain About Pittsburgh Shooting
Raoul
Anyone watch the video of Trump just awkwardly abandoning his open umbrella at the top of the AF1 stairs this morning? It’s kind of amazing.
The ‘best’ (and by that I mean worst) part might be the staffer who, like 28 seconds later, walks up the stairs, steps around the umbrella, and also boards without closing and removing it.
“Who’s the peon around here who closes umbrellas?!?” I suppose man #2 shouted once aboard. None of these f**kers are worth a dime. All high and mighty and yet lazy as an overfed sloth.
I think it’s finally at one minute that a secret service guy is a capable enough human being to close the umbrella.
(And indeed the secret service are capable, solid people.)
WereBear
@Raoul: That is correct. They want the brainwashed third of the populace who will fall for their pond scum advertisers. Just like FOX.
lgerard
@Raoul:
That was Reince Prebius’s job. but no one replaced him,
Ohio Mom
@Raoul: I don’t know about the Secret Service. There’s a retired member in my subdivision who is a Tea Partier. And a special needs dad.
Who does he think is going to make sure there’s funding for the supports his kids will need after he and his wife have shuffled off this mortal coil? Ain’t the turkeys he’s put up lawn signs for.
I wouldn’t know how to begin to look for it but I remember a video of Barack and Michelle climbing the stairs to Air Force One in the rain: Barack holding the umbrella over both of them, making sure Michelle got inside, turning around from inside the doorway to carefully close the umbrella and whisk it inside. It was so graceful a move, almost like a bit of dance choreography.
Eljai
@Emerald: Alex Witt is not up to the task. This morning when she referred to Dump’s argument for arming places of worship as “food for thought,” I had to stop myself from throwing the coffee pot at the TV.
mvr
@Ohio Mom: There were things to worry about and complain about with the last administration (as there would be with any bunch of people having to do that job) but it was all dance choreography by comparison to what we have now. Except that this guy (DT)
is a maestro of prejudice and resentment. Plays them for the rewards and denies the responsibility.
stacy
@Eljai: Notice how MSNBC switched from Joy Reid to Alex Witt shortly after the story broke? Hmm…
Villago Delenda Est
@The Midnight Lurker: No civility due for any of the collaborator scum of the Vichy Times. Once this is all over, they should suffer the fate that so many collaborator Frenchmen suffered after WWII.
J R in WV
@Villago Delenda Est:
IIRC they all had their heads shaved and were hated by everyone with hair for the rest of that year. Few were criminally accused, IIRC. I was still not even an idea in my parents mind, so I could be wrong.
Someone correct me if you know better, please.
jonas
Hey, to be fair, remember when the NYT ran that story after that disaffected Sanders supporter shot up the Congressional baseball game? “All the Times Congressional Republicans Offended Lefties?”
Yeah. Me neither. Never has the meme FTFNYT been more richly deserved.
SiubhanDuinne
He’s Holden Fucking Caulfield now?
Villago Delenda Est
@J R in WV: Petain was sentenced to death, but it was commuted.