Jared's Moment: The Pardoner's Tale pic.twitter.com/3Mt0YawPWY
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 10, 2022
Peter Baker of the FTFNYTimes, last seen valiantly fluffing Brave Deciderer Jared‘s choice to disagree with TFG:
Maggie Haberman, consummate professional: Nothing personal, Mr. Kushner. We’re just divesting an underperforming asset, targeting a better return from our newly contrarian position…
At the other tip of the horseshoe, looks like I was right about how brilliantly Caroline Edwards’ testimony was positioned:
Fox knew that their viewer base would sympathize with an attractive, white, blonde woman (and the 50+ dudes who watch Fox would get horny), so instead they only showed the back of her head. Truly amazing. https://t.co/5ae0Kp9BOD
— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) June 10, 2022
Fox News didn't take the hearings live. Instead, Tucker Carlson hosted Darren Beattie. During the attack on January 6, here's what Beattie was tweeting. https://t.co/LU0FZvlW9O
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) June 10, 2022
Klown klaxon coda: Cameo from a blog favorite chewtoy –
Dopey-o
Frist…?
CarolPW
Having long blond hair was an asset in the video of the government overthrow attempt – you could see Edwards’ hair below her helmet and see how badly they trashed her.
lollipopguild
Tracey’s comment about Dems is a confession of what cons want to do to the Dems. Every accusation is a confession. Also trump complaining about how bad Barr was as an employee is funny because every employee of trump’s including his own kid was a “bad” hire!
Ken
I suppose it’s too much to hope that the reason for the lack of commercials is that no advertisers wanted to purchase time, knowing what Fox would be delivering?
Raoul Paste
And yet, if you mention these details about no commercials and the back of Caroline Edwards head to a Fox news watcher, they would rationalise it all away.
Nobody wants to realise that they’ve been played for a sucker for a long time
lollipopguild
@Ken: Fox does not want the plebes wandering off to another channel during the commercials.
dmsilev
@Ken: Fox can, if need be, dispense with ad revenue; most of their money comes from ‘carriage fees’, money that cable companies pay them that’s per subscriber (not per viewer). The real way to hurt Fox finances is to encourage people either to drop cable entirely or at least switch to a package that doesn’t include Fox.
MisterForkbeard
@Raoul Paste: They won’t, actually. They say “THAT’S all you have? They didn’t show her face? Look at all the lying CNN does!” and pretend that you have no other arguments.
zhena gogolia
@dmsilev: I’ve done that. I had to give up TCM. You can’t drop Fox and keep TCM
stinger
So Jared was in charge of The Wall, Middle East peace, medical stockpiles, and a half-dozen other things, but once he’s “interested in” pardons, that’s all he can think about? Can’t spare a moment to consider the threatened resignation of White House counsel?
Baud
Democrats, no.
Baud, yes.
Kay
Substacker tackles the big issues – just don’t cancel them for their boring, made up anecdotes about people they encounter.
Mousebumples
I thought I had heard awhile ago that the boycotts of all the Faux News nonsense meant that most of their $$ came from cable deals versus commercials. Ring any bells for anyone else?
MisterForkbeard
@Kay: I’m sure this isn’t made up. My kids often wear masks to school even when they didn’t have to. They kind of like it – it feels safer, protects their face from the sun and is warmer on cold mornings.
The real question is why anyone should care. Kids wanna wear masks, kids can wear masks.
Raven
@CarolPW: And she’s a Georgia Bulldog!
Kay
Why would they “stunned” he was talking about the pardon process if “many” of them criticized him for being involved in the pardon process? They knew he was running the pardon process and that’s what he said he was doing.
Privately criticized of course. Only to Maggie Haberman. The usual profile in courage on the Right.
Oh, well. Maybe he’s got info on which GOP House members begged for pardons. They would have to go thru The Prince, right?
stinger
Not a 50+ dude myself, but Officer Edwards has beautiful hair, and I think if I were that demographic and saw her from the back I’d be curious enough to change channels to check her out from the front.
lollipopguild
@MisterForkbeard: Your kid wearing a mask is an attack on their freedom!
Kay
@MisterForkbeard:
They all have the same theory that masks damaged children and they yammer about it constantly.
RedDirtGirl
OT – I was too late to the previous 1/6 thread to reply to several comments/questions about the cops not using their guns that day. I wanted to say that I remember one of them testifying a few months ago, (maybe Michael Fanone), that he knew that if he drew his weapon, it would be used against him, and unleash a whole other level of violence.
Ken
Only for the initial price quote. After that it depends on whether the check clears.
The Moar You Know
Where do I sign up for this?
Anne Laurie
Jared, like any good MBA, was most interested in whatever issue could be monetized immediately. The Middle East ‘peace process’, stealing from PPP funds, and Waaahl-related grifting had all individually been excellent for his bottom line, but the sale of
papal indulgencespardons to rich, desperate cronies had an end date certain.gene108
I wonder what tricks Fox News will pull on Monday?
I guess the Fox & Friends hosts will be on all day commercial free, so no Fox News viewer changes the channel.
Kay
@Ken:
AOC is like a dog with a bone about Boebert revealing where Pelosi was. She’s been saying it for months. It is clear to me that AOC believes Boebert deliberately put Pelosi in danger. I just don’t think that’s a wild eyed accusation.
BellyCat
Jared made Ivanka look good. Helluva’n accomplishment.
CarolPW
@Raven: Certainly a Bulldog but today I think we all get to claim her.
Kay
HumboldtBlue
Don’t know what it means, but that’s a lot of viewers.
gene108
@dmsilev:
One night of no ad revenue shouldn’t be a big loss for any major network, but it’s still taking away from the money going to Rupert and Lachlan just wee little bit.
TaMara
So according to the ratings data – on any night Tuckems gets 3 mil viewers and the Jan 6 hearings last night drew 20 million over all networks , that does not count streaming data, to my knowledge.
I think regardless of how FOX treated it, more people cared to watch it. And that does not count local news coverage on the late-night news and morning shows, which usually get a lot of local viewers. Many local papers led with it.
Faux News can do what it wants, but it looks like Americans care.
stinger
@Anne Laurie: You make $ome good point$$$.
japa21
@Kay: Mrs. japa calls her Bibbity-Bobbity Boebert. The woman is unhinged.
Michael Cain
@dmsilev:
At least for Xfinity (Comcast), the only package that doesn’t include Fox News is the lowest basic group: local broadcast stations, local government channel(s), and education channels. If you want anything else, Fox News comes with it. I believe that Dish and Directv’s cheapest packages include FN.
Unless you’re in an insider position, you have no idea what deals Fox provides content aggregators like cable and satellite. Eg, they may offer the aggregators a cheaper price for Fox Sports plus Fox News than for Fox Sports alone. I used to be in the business; the price sheets from the content companies were insanely complicated.
CaseyL
20 million viewers is an amazing number – in a time where people do have other places to go, if they really don’t want to watch. I hope the high numbers keep coming.
People reminiscing about the Watergate Hearings forget that the stations showing the hearings got a LOT of flack from people for pre-empting “their” soap operas.
Scout211
@zhena gogolia:
The plan I have with Dish Network has TCM and not Fox News..
piratedan
@Kay: wondering if one thing that comes out of this as a positive outcome that the Congress can control; is to boot sitting members who engaged in Sedition, be they in the Senate or in the House and state that they can no longer hold any federal office.
If the DOJ acts on it or not, I believe that Congress has that power to at least expel them, sure, let Rupe put them on his payroll, at least they won’t be on ours.
zhena gogolia
@stinger: Good point.
Baud
@CaseyL:
The Dems best not mess with my stories.
TaMara
@CaseyL: My GG being one of them, LOL. We were staying with her while our house was closing. Man, that church-going woman could swear a blue streak when her soaps were messed with!
zhena gogolia
@Kay: I don’t think so either. I wouldn’t put anything past that evil creature.
zhena gogolia
@TaMara: I am really surprised and heartened by that number.
gene108
@HumboldtBlue:
I’m not sure how much direct viewer ship matters, because many more times of people will be informed by what comes across their social media feeds and news feeds.
But it’s good to know so many people are interested in 1/6 versus Benghazi.
zhena gogolia
@Scout211: I have Comcast.
HumboldtBlue
@stinger:
That would go for anyone, we always want to see the speaker’s face, it adds so much to the testimony.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: The Young and the Restless?
O. Felix Culpa
@zhena gogolia: Ooh, FYWP is giving me the option to edit your comment. I would never do such a thing, of course.
Ken
@O. Felix Culpa: Me too, but as I’m
not as moral as youa software developer who wanted to gather information for WaterGirl, I tried to edit one.The comment was opened in the edit box and I could make changes. When I saved it, I was taken back to the thread. The comment was not changed, and it did not show the edit option for the other comments
EDIT: I am able to edit my own comments. Unless you don’t see this line, in which case I am not.
CaseyL
Refusing to subsidize Fox was one reason I cut the cord and went to all-streaming on my laptop. Another reason was the way Comcast kept coming up with new ancillary charges every month, so my cable bill kept getting larger and larger.
One of the unexpected benefits of getting rid of my TV was re-arranging the living room. Where the TV used to be is a sweet little nook of wall art, an oversized armchair, and a table with one of those glass-lily table lamps. Makes the room so much lovelier.
James E Powell
@HumboldtBlue:
I watched Hillary because I knew she would do well and make us proud.
gene108
@japa21:
I didn’t know much of anything about Boebert until I stumbled across this link from a link Adam posted a day or two ago.
Her father is most likely retired pro-wrestler Stan Lane, but he denies it. He has a negative paternity test, but the person who drew blood and attested to the results was convicted for falsifying another man’s paternity test.
Whole thing seems like more of train wreck than the average guests on Mauri Povich’s show.
HumboldtBlue
Interesting thread from my friend (and aspiring author) Linda Stansberry about the Tenderloin (and some reaction to an Atlantic article I don’t think she liked very much).
Ken
@gene108: “Aren’t bastards entitled to a little representation?” — Sen. Hruska
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
Average age of MSNBC viewer is 44
Average age of Fox News viewer is embalmed
gene108
@piratedan:
It takes 2/3’s of the members in the House to expel someone from the House and 2/3’s of Senators to expel someone from the Senate.
The last person to be expelled from Congress was House member Jim Traficant, in 2002, for the bribery, racketeering, etc. stuff he was eventually convicted of. Prior to that Rep. Michael Myers was expelled, in 1980, for his involvement in the Abcsam scandal.
I doubt any Congressional Republicans today will vote out anyone in their party from Congress for any reason, other than breaking ranks with the official Republican position on an issue and voting with Democrats.
HumboldtBlue
JUST NOW: Brian Sicknick’s brothers tell CNN Mike Pence called after Brian’s death to offer condolences. Pres. Trump did not.
Ghost of Joe Liebling’s Dog
@HumboldtBlue:
As someone replied on Twitter, that is a great thread.
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
@gene108:
Hmm, I’m wondering if there is an official Republican position on being caught with a dead girl or live boy
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
It’s been said before, but on of the worst things about Trump is how he made people like Pence look good.
planetjanet
@HumboldtBlue: That was a powerful statement from those brothers.
HumboldtBlue
@Ghost of Joe Liebling’s Dog:
Hah, that was me.
@Baud:
Yes, and Cheney is getting a lot of love as well (I admit I was impressed with her last night and I thought she was very effective) but she’s still a GOPer through and through.
HumboldtBlue
@planetjanet:
Yes it was, and I think the focus on how just how deadly this mob was is a great start to the hearings.
sdhays
@O. Felix Culpa: I had the option to edit several different commenters’ comments about an hour ago. I tried editing one to see how serious it was, and BJ didn’t take my edit (fortunately!).
Chris T.
That photo of Mango Mussolini keeps reminding me of what I saw the time his hair lifted in the wind and exposed the scars from his scalp rotation-and-reduction. The reason his cotton candy front swoop looks so weird is that it’s not front-of-head hair!
Kristine
@Michael Cain:
I finally cut the cord last month. I’m glad I no longer help support FN.
Redshift
@TaMara: It’s also important to remember that while Fox is the most watched news network, the nightly news shows on the broadcast news networks still draw 2-3 times more viewers.
And the audience for the hearing was the times that
planetjanet
@HumboldtBlue: I retweeted it and posted it to my FB page to help it get more attention. Thanks for sharing it.
MisterForkbeard
@sdhays: I saw that last week, too. It was weird.
Ruckus
@Raoul Paste:
“Nobody wants to realise that they’ve been played for a sucker for a long time”
A sucker that lasts 30 yrs really is likely to not be very good.
HumboldtBlue
stinger
Watched the hearing live, and watching it again now. One thing I noticed both times is how smooth the AV support is. No waiting while an aide or intern brings up the right video or image. Good job, AV persons!
zhena gogolia
@stinger: Yeah — I held my breath each time, but it was always right there.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue: Hahaha….I know Gould mainly as Monica’s dad on Friends. He was very good.
Kent
Trump is more or less toxic waste that contaminates absolutely EVERYONE who comes into his orbit. Other than Pence who was a pretty boy air head useless waste of space (who was going down in IN) before he joined Trump. Can you think of a SINGLE politician who joined the Trump Administration and and had their status and credibility elevated as a result? A single one? Even the generals like John Kelley and Jim Mattis had their reputations tainted by joining Trump’s orbit.
In fact, the only GOPers who seem to have elevated their status through Trump are those who did so by defying Trump like Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, and Mitt Romney.
Craig
@zhena gogolia: I have a huge catalog of TCM movies on demand included with HBO Max.
HumboldtBlue
@gene108:
Yeah, I no longer have a good sense about how impactful those numbers are in light of a dramatically new media age.
chrisanthemama
“Only the best people” will never not be funny.
Craig
@HumboldtBlue: She’s not wrong. I’ve always liked The TL. I’ve been in the recording studio she mentions, and there were a couple of bars around where you could smoke, only one of them still exists. Always an adventure in The Tenderloin.
Gravenstone
@japa21: Saw one wit on Twitter call her Klannie Oakley. I believe that will be my go to from now on.
Mike in NC
Clearly this country has a massive deficit of mediocre white men, as proven by the Fat Orange Clown.
Leto
4th grade survivor of Uvalde massacre suffers a heart attack after visiting her best friend’s memorial site.
eclare
@Leto: Saw that. Heartbreaking.
Ruckus
@Leto:
Damn that’s harsh.
4th grader, Illiana Trevino has heart attack – from stress visiting her best friends grave. One of the teachers that was shot and died, Irma Garcia, her husband Jose had a stress heart attack and died. At least Illiana didn’t die.
Ruckus
@Kent:
“Trump is more or less toxic waste that contaminates absolutely EVERYONE who comes into his orbit.”
100000% this.
mrmoshpotato
@Ruckus: I disagree with Kent’s including of “or less” when referring to Dump and toxic waste.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Of course she meant the Speaker harm
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
Saying more or less in this context is not a measurement of the toxic waste dump that is shit for brains or that fucking guy or whatever degrading thing you want to call #45. It is saying no matter what you call him he is a worthless piece of shit. And I doubt that Kent will disagree with me.
NotMax
‘@Ruckus
“It’s not only insulting but also degrading to be compared to that person.”
– Love Canal
//
Ruckus
@Ruckus:
What I am trying to say is that this concept that we need weapons of war in our homes is complete and utter fucking bullshit. The rational that conservative leaders are using, the guns, the bullshit is all about the money. They don’t give two shits how they make it, that they never earn it in any way, that their policies kill even their own supporters and create murderers out of their supporters, they just don’t give a fuck because it gets them power and money. They talk about god as if they actually give a fuck, but they don’t, it is all about the power and that this power gives them money. Because they sure as hell can’t actually earn money by creating anything, be it a product or service or even a rational idea. They are left using death as an ideal for power and money. Last time I looked that wasn’t a positive in that book they seem to like to say they believe in. And yes I’ve read that book, I’ve seen that over the decades many of the people that say they think this book is the one true concept are fucking lying. Their one true concept is money and the easiest way to get that is to use the concept of religion to sell their bullshit, which is they believe anything that gets them money and the power to make sure they get more money is the one true way.
mrmoshpotato
@Ruckus: I know. I was making a (lame) joke. :)
evodevo
@MisterForkbeard: Yep…already argued about stuff like this with a nazi on Facebook I know…deflection is the game, denial is all they have…
Tony G
@CaseyL: That’s right. I was a teenager during the two years of the Watergate investigations. There was a lot of support for Nixon right up until the end, especially among the older generation — and then Reagan was elected about six years later. Angry, bitter white men have always been with us.
Tony G
@Mike in NC: Mediocre white men are one of the few products that are still manufactured in this country.
Brit in Chicago
@CaseyL:
It’s a big country. If it’s 20 million people, that’s slightly over 6% of the population. That seems kind of a small number to me.
But maybe it’s 20 million households, rather than people—anyone know? That might get it up to 50 million viewers, which is better, but I still wonder how many of those are people whose minds could be changed.
Uncle Cosmo
As have smug knowitall media types clambering over one another to smear, besmirch and discredit in the eyes of the electorate a Democratic POTUS who’s a more decent human being than the bunch of them put together. (Sound familiar?)
J R in WV
@Brit in Chicago:
The Neilson number (If they haven’t changed their methodology) is of TV sets tuned to the Hearing. It doesn’t include everyone watching MSNBC or CNN or any network via streaming/the internet.
then when they dropped the audio (the audio was dropped, who know where that happened?) and then I brought up ABC News on a different laptop.