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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2020 / Late Night Open Thread: Our Too-Often-Failing Media Needs A 12-Step Program

Late Night Open Thread: Our Too-Often-Failing Media Needs A 12-Step Program

by Anne Laurie|  November 26, 20201:07 am| 53 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Media, Open Threads, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up

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Yes we fvcking do. https://t.co/sIXYJ4hGfe

— Four Seasons Total Manscaping ???????? (@SJGrunewald) November 24, 2020

Yes, they know it was bad for the country — and in the long run, for them — but Donald Trump’s Insane Malevolent Clown Party tour was so fun!

I'm so sorry this is happening to you. https://t.co/xKXtG5JH3f

— Karajan My Wayward Son (@davidabenner) November 24, 2020

That Jake Sherman tweet is part of a long thread; he dutifully admits this will be a professional administration, but as a Politico reporter, professional is not necessarily good for his day job.

i mean, in the abstract, this is 100% true, and if i were a reporter for the NYT, i would probably avoid being so incredibly, stupidly obvious about how you're carrying the goalposts to an entirely different stadium.

— gonelikehellmachine (@golikehellmachi) November 24, 2020

and to be clear this obviously isn't a bad thing, it's just hard to top the sheer keystone cops absurdity of stuff like Four Seasons Total Landscaping

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) November 24, 2020

Politico has just become one long whine about how Joe Biden is hiring professionals rather than entertaining lunatics, not leaking to them anymore, and not 'spicy' like the Trump admin.

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) November 24, 2020

Not to pick on @seungminkim too much, but reporters breathlessly tweet every Trump utterance, like FLOODING my TL with his words. Biden introduces half-a-dozen members of his cabinet and this is literally all she shared: pic.twitter.com/ZwLqq0y0wV

— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) November 24, 2020

it's not anywhere near the most important thing about a biden administration, but i'm looking forward to the zeal with which they freeze out and starve this whole fucking rotten industry of trade publications for lobbyists

— gonelikehellmachine (@golikehellmachi) November 24, 2020

oh *now* you folks want to find your courage, great https://t.co/Y4pHnmNKI7

— gonelikehellmachine (@golikehellmachi) November 24, 2020

The Trump Presidency:

How it started | How it’s going pic.twitter.com/8Z1yJTxyMt

— Four Seasons Total Manscaping ???????? (@SJGrunewald) November 25, 2020

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  1. 1.

    VeniceRiley

    November 26, 2020 at 1:13 am

    Check out Hillary just tweeted about Bohlert’s new subscription pub about holding the media to account. Free to sign up. Voluntary donation

  2. 2.

    NotMax

    November 26, 2020 at 1:15 am

    Nothing – absolutely nothing – new. Politico has been a fetid swamp since the day it appeared.

  3. 3.

    JustRuss

    November 26, 2020 at 1:25 am

    Even a nation hooked on drama does not want to see a US president dragged out the front door of the White House on Jan. 20,

    Really Boston Globe, you’re going to need to show your work on this one.

  4. 4.

    Downpuppy

    November 26, 2020 at 1:32 am

    @JustRuss: The story has been retracted

    So far so good. But a single line—included with the stability of the nation in mind—set off a firestorm on Twitter. “Even a nation hooked on drama does not want to see a US president dragged out the front door,” it read.
    Well, forgive us. It turns out many people do want to see him dragged out, ideally kicking and screaming, as Ivanka tries to grasp his hands and Melania looks on coolly.

  5. 5.

    smike

    November 26, 2020 at 1:41 am

    @JustRuss:

    It is an event that would be celebrated world-wide. Really, world-wide. The videos would be just awesome. Inauguration day would be declared a national holiday and would be celebrated in Times Square with a continuous loop of the video footage on a giant screen. Think of the possibilities.

    Okay, I guess I should stop now.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    November 26, 2020 at 1:49 am

    No matter what else, come January 20th the entire White House complex needs to be swept for electronic bugs first thing.

  7. 7.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    November 26, 2020 at 1:56 am

    we asked experts in the art of persuasion how they go about dislodging the reluctant.

    Are they crowd-sourcing the list of ideas? I have a few, though not all leave the White House in a habitable condition afterwards

     

    UPDATE: Has anyone consulted the Philadelphia police? They have some expertise.

  8. 8.

    Craig

    November 26, 2020 at 1:57 am

    @NotMax: Biden’s team needs to be way more thorough than House Atreides moving to Arrakis. Every mole, every hole, root and branch find them, fire them. With these people it’s certainly more than missing keys on a keyboard.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 26, 2020 at 2:04 am

    Even a nation hooked on drama does not want to see a US president dragged out the front door of the White House on Jan. 20

    Fuck you Boston Globe!

    WE WANT TO SEE THE SOVIET SHITPILE MOBSTER CONMAN AND THE REST OF THE TRAITOROUS TRUMP TRASH MOBSTER CRIME FAMILY LITERALLY, PHYSICALLY THROWN OUT OF THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE!

    AND THEN BITCHSLAPPED ALL THE WAY INTO A POLICE TRUCK!  THEY CAN CRY FOR THEIR DADDY VLADDY ALL THE WAY TO THE JAILHOUSE.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 26, 2020 at 2:09 am

    Run over Jake Sherman with a Sherman tank.  Any questions?

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 26, 2020 at 2:20 am

    you’re carrying the goalposts to an entirely different stadium

    Bury Nick in an avalanche already.

  12. 12.

    piratedan

    November 26, 2020 at 2:29 am

    @mrmoshpotato: I don’t want JUST Don… I want them all, everyone who collaborated and took cash and laundered money and coordinated their data with outside actors, the media folks who were paid to print dirt and their editors who framed what kind of lying crap to publish. Each of the media propaganda arms in TV and Radio and print that perpetrated this shambling crime syndicate…

    I want them all, from the ICE staffers who beat up immigrants to the paper pusher that moved contracting bids to be awarding Trump allies…

    everyone….

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 26, 2020 at 2:34 am

    Politico has just become one long whine about how Joe Biden is hiring professionals rather than entertaining lunatics, not leaking to them anymore, and not ‘spicy’ like the Trump admin.

    Le Fuck ’em!

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 26, 2020 at 2:42 am

    @piratedan: Yes.  So do I.  There’s a shitton of trash to root out and investigate, and go from there.

  15. 15.

    John Revolta

    November 26, 2020 at 2:46 am

    I have never heard of Seung Min Kim before but now I know one thing about her and that is to avoid strenuously.

  16. 16.

    Jay

    November 26, 2020 at 2:51 am

    @JustRuss:

    I don’t want to see the Secret Service drag Dumph out of the White House kicking and screaming,

    I want to see the USFS trank him, weigh him, take his vitals, tag him and release him into the wild where  he will have no human contact.

  17. 17.

    burnspbesq

    November 26, 2020 at 2:57 am

    I’m a little bit pissed off at Ron Wyden. Dumbfuck, if you have a problem with one of the people being mooted as a possible nominee for director of the CIA, pick up the damn phone and discuss it with Joe, privately. Don’t be the genesis of dozens of bullshit stories about a supposed divide between the incoming Administration and Our Self-Proclaimed Progressive Betters.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/24/politics/biden-morell-cia-director-wyden/index.html

  18. 18.

    Luciamia

    November 26, 2020 at 3:10 am

    Lunatics are entertaining?

  19. 19.

    oclib

    November 26, 2020 at 3:22 am

    @Jay:

    I want to see the USFS trank him, weigh him, take his vitals, tag him and release him into the wild where  he will have no human contact.

    and where in the wild….the Northwest Territories…..I’m good with that…. :)

  20. 20.

    Jay

    November 26, 2020 at 3:29 am

    @oclib:

    NWT doesn’t really exist anymore, it’s Nunuvit now, an Indigenous Province, and we have rules against ‘Mercans crossing the border.

    I was thinking more like Kamichka or The North Slope.

  21. 21.

    Sister Golden Bear

    November 26, 2020 at 3:33 am

    @mrmoshpotato: If the government put it on pay-per-view, we could easily wipe out the national debt.

  22. 22.

    opiejeanne

    November 26, 2020 at 3:33 am

    @Jay: North Slope for sure. mr opiejeanne’s brother worked for the Barrow School District and there is an awful lot of nothing out there between the villages, hundreds of miles of it.

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 26, 2020 at 3:40 am

    @Sister Golden Bear: Hello surplus if foreign lands could get in on that PPV!

  24. 24.

    oclib

    November 26, 2020 at 3:48 am

    @Jay:

    I was thinking more like Kamichka or The North Slope.

    I assume you mean “Kamchatka”….and I’m good with that also…. :)

  25. 25.

    SectionH

    November 26, 2020 at 4:18 am

    @NotMax: Yep.now

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 26, 2020 at 4:22 am

    Reverend Warnock is great at the Twitter campaign.

    It’s a great day to request your absentee ballot: https://t.co/a1avWS9dUC pic.twitter.com/EU0EUu5U7a— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 25, 2020

  27. 27.

    sukabi

    November 26, 2020 at 4:44 am

    @oclib: my vote is one of the small islands in the Aleutians.

  28. 28.

    WereBear

    November 26, 2020 at 4:46 am

    I always prefer moving MAGAts to another planet. Mars would be appropriate. Though the science fiction book Anarchaos would be the result, I’m sure.

  29. 29.

    Sebastian

    November 26, 2020 at 4:54 am

    @JustRuss:

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Now, we’re getting them out anyway, but we’d like to get them out a lot faster. And when you see these towns, and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in rough. I said, “Please don’t be too nice.” Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put the hand over, like don’t hit their head. And they’ve just killed somebody. Don’t hit their head. I said, “You can take the hand away, okay?

    Yes, just like that, Donald. Just like that.

  30. 30.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    November 26, 2020 at 5:02 am

    @Jay:

    The blue suit and red tie must be left on.

  31. 31.

    Ksmiami

    November 26, 2020 at 5:14 am

    @smike: my daughter and I were fantasizing about watching the Secret Service tase Trump and keel haul his flabby ass onto the front lawn of the White House.

  32. 32.

    Abnormal Hiker

    November 26, 2020 at 5:15 am

    @oclib: Nunavut would be better. No trees … and polar bears.

  33. 33.

    Ksmiami

    November 26, 2020 at 5:16 am

    @WereBear: As long as we can watch through a space loop iPhone…

  34. 34.

    Ksmiami

    November 26, 2020 at 5:18 am

    @piratedan: plus Mitch McConnell… a tumbrel ride for him and his Wife

  35. 35.

    Ksmiami

    November 26, 2020 at 5:18 am

    @piratedan: ps – now we’re talking…

  36. 36.

    SectionH

    November 26, 2020 at 5:34 am

    @mrmoshpotato: YES WE DO.And the rest of Nazi wimps hiding. I don’t live in SoILL anymore, any more than aunt who worked at the looney bin I tried to help when I was 15, and fuck you if you get :onney bin” it was a not-stupid thing to do. But because my aunt & uncle were involved, 4 years later they ended up going “we can’t help” TALK ABOUT DEATH THREATS. Never mind actual shit like Dred Scott.

  37. 37.

    Aleta

    November 26, 2020 at 5:41 am

    Ask NBC if they want those ratings.

  38. 38.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    November 26, 2020 at 5:48 am

    @Ksmiami:

    Can we include Amy Covid Barrett and Neil Gorsuch on that tumbrel ride?

  39. 39.

    AlaskaReader

    November 26, 2020 at 5:52 am

    @Jay: We don’t want him in Alaska.

  40. 40.

    AlaskaReader

    November 26, 2020 at 5:53 am

    @opiejeanne: NO.  Just NO

  41. 41.

    AlaskaReader

    November 26, 2020 at 5:55 am

    @sukabi: Nohwere in Alaska do we need toxic waste

  42. 42.

    SectionH

    November 26, 2020 at 6:06 am

    Fuck me, I wrote  shit about what ouy family helpers we, which was only about as bunch of heros in  the black community in Cairo. Because they didn’t a have choice there then.

    Some white ppl, my aunt and her husband were working down there with lots people.Uphill doesn’t begin to describe any of it. FFS they were both looney doctors.

  43. 43.

    SectionH

    November 26, 2020 at 6:28 am

    Ok, I guess what I’m saying the focus of the fight shfts. And all the ppl fighting are just growing the FY, Black LIves Matter. Because it’s fucking  true.

  44. 44.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 26, 2020 at 7:32 am

    @Ksmiami:

    plus Mitch McConnell… a tumbrel ride for him and his Wife

    Doesn’t the Department of Transportation regulate tumbrels? Could be a conflict of interest there for Elaine.

  45. 45.

    Wanderer

    November 26, 2020 at 8:05 am

    Silly Boston Globe can be so out of touch sometimes.

  46. 46.

    daryljfontaine

    November 26, 2020 at 8:31 am

    This thread stalled out at 45 comments, which seemed an ill omen.

    Le Boston Glob might be right about me, I’d rather see him loaded into a trebuchet which launched him into the back of a padded truck. But I have specific tastes.

    D

  47. 47.

    SFAW

    November 26, 2020 at 8:40 am

    Even a nation hooked on drama

    “A nation”? The only people “hooked on drama” are “journalists” — and I use the term VERY loosely — like you. And Les Moonves, among others. As Shakespeare (I think it was) once said: “Fuck all y’all”

  48. 48.

    SFAW

    November 26, 2020 at 8:42 am

    @Wanderer:

    Silly Boston Globe can be so out of touch sometimes.

    That started after John Henry bought them; they went from being very liberal to Boston-Herald-lite. Fuckem.

  49. 49.

    tokyokie

    November 26, 2020 at 9:05 am

    I want him to flee for the safety of a dacha provided by his old pal Vladimir Vladimirovich. In Irkutsk. Where a high of a balmy 15 degrees is expected today.

  50. 50.

    J R in WV

    November 26, 2020 at 11:20 am

    @JustRuss:

    November 26, 2020 at 1:25 am

    Even a nation hooked on drama does not want to see a US president dragged out the front door of the White House on Jan. 20,

    Really Boston Globe, you’re going to need to show your work on this one.

    I would prefer to see him in a “special jacket” with very long sleeves, strapped to a gurney, surrounded by Secret Service agents, rolled out onto Marine One for a flight to Walter Reed for mental and physical treatment.

    Thence away to a select destination, a beach front Navy institution in Cuba… Gitmo~!~

    One can dream… I will accept any mode of departure, so long as it is to away, far away.

  51. 51.

    ljdramone

    November 26, 2020 at 1:53 pm

    @WereBear:

    the science fiction book Anarchaos

    Written by Donald E. Westlake!  Originally published in 1967 under the pen name Curt Clark, looks like it was reissued in the 21st century with Westlake as the author.

  52. 52.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    November 26, 2020 at 3:32 pm

    @Jay: NWT still is going strong. Nunavut split off in 1999 and covers much of the eastern mainland above 60 degrees north and the high arctic islands (along with all islands in Hudson, James and Ungava Bays). We can leave the tangerine tyrant on one of the uninhabited islands – Devon Island is the world’s biggest.

  53. 53.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    November 26, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    @tokyokie: Nah…more isolated and far away from any large city Verkhoyansk sounds nice.

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