This was mentioned in passing in an earlier thread but perhaps deserves its own post since we spend so much time here shaking our fists at the Beltway media. The White House Counsel’s Office sent a memo to major media outlets with the following (painfully awkward but righteously angry) subject line:
It’s Time For The Media To Do More To Scrutinize House Republicans’ Demonstrably False Claims That They’re Basing Impeachment Stunt On
Here’s a link to a story on it at The Hill. (I chose that outlet because they embedded a PDF of the memo on the page so you can read the whole thing if you choose.) Every administration I can remember — from Nixon to Biden — has complained about media coverage at some point, some with plenty of justification and some with none. But I can’t ever remember such specific media advice from a White House.
The memo notes that House Repubs, led by the deranged MT Greene of Georgia, have been investigating Biden for nine months and turned up nothing, let alone any evidence of malfeasance that meets the specific requirements for impeachment outlined in the U.S. Constitution.
The memo states that impeachment is supposed to be “grave, rare and historic” and provides a list of GOP congress-critters who have publicly denied that House Repubs possess any evidence that would justify impeachment.
Then the memo outlines how current reporting isn’t meeting the moment and reminds media outlets of their responsibility to the public:
(R)eporting that solely focuses on process rather than substance is woefully inadequate when it comes to something as historically grave as impeachment.
It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies. When even House Republican members are admitting that there is simply no evidence that Joe Biden did anything wrong, much less impeachable, that should set off alarm bells for news organizations.
For years, Republicans in Congress have tried to muddy the waters by attracting media coverage of their allegations, and as they choose to move forward with impeachment, it is the responsibility of the independent press to treat their claims with the appropriate scrutiny. Covering impeachment as a process story – Republicans say X, but the White House says Y – is a disservice to the American public who relies on the independent press to hold those in power accountable.
And in the modern media environment, where every day liars and hucksters peddle disinformation and lies everywhere from Facebook to Fox, process stories that fail to unpack the illegitimacy of the claims on which House Republicans are basing all their actions only serve to generate confusion, put false premises in people’s feeds, and obscure the truth.
House Republican leaders should be held accountable for the fact that they are lurching toward impeachment over allegations that are not only unfounded but, in virtually all cases, have been actively disproven – including by witnesses and documents in their own investigations, as well as years-old congressional probes and even the former President’s first impeachment inquiry.
Wowzers! Every word is true. The House hearings have been a clown show from day one, and McCarthy flip-flopped on holding a vote before opening an inquiry (also mentioned in the memo) only because nutcases like Greene have his wizened little grapes in their fist.
I’m especially pleased to see Fox mentioned in the context of “liars and hucksters peddl(ing) disinformation and lies.” (I’d love to see the White House follow up by yanking the Doocy nepo-baby’s credentials.) Will it have any effect? I don’t know, but sometimes working the refs works.
Open thread.
Old School
There will probably still be too many articles using phrasing like “that Republicans claim” and “Republicans believe”, but if more are willing to point out that no evidence exists, that would be a good thing.
Baud
👍
Baud
I can’t imagine they expect the media to change their ways. I wonder if this is really for the voters, to remind them that the media is not on their side.
waspuppet
It’ll probably have the opposite effect. Our courageous, crusading media stars don’t think they’ve made a single mistake since at least 2015 and more like 1995, and they’ll go full Mean Girl on anyone (other than Republicans of course) who says they did. Look for “Biden rattled” headlines for weeks.
Still glad this happened though.
robmassing
Will Jake Tapper angrily defend his “sister network” this time?
hueyplong
@robmassing: To ask is to answer. Of course he will, and he’ll mention “strong arm tactics.”
skerry
I saw that Kristen Welker, the new host of Meet The Press, has Trump as her first interview. Taping is tomorrow at Bedminster.
Trying to make us miss Chuckie
Old School
Some guy in Mexico talked about extraterrestrials and the Associated Press can’t find it within itself to treat him like a nutcase.
I’m not holding my breath for them to not report impeachment claims seriously.
Elizabelle
@Baud:
That is a bingo.
I do love seeing President Biden snarking at the MSM, particularly the FTF NY Times. (I wonder what he calls that paper in private?)
MattF
The White House has to keep this up, keep doing it until the relevant reporters/editors get pissed off and beyond. Also, it keeps reminding the good guys that the media are not our pals— and will never be. It’s the only way.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I’m shocked at how honest that memo is. It doesn’t shy away from speaking truth to power.
JPL
CNN shows including Jake’s pointed out that there is no evidence implicating the President. Would have been nice if they did that a year ago.
JPL
@skerry:💩💩💩
When one is not good enough.
CaseyL
My respect for the MSM plummeted watching their bloodthirsty joy at W’s drive to war with Iraq.
But that’s nothing compared to the contempt I have had for them ever since they whored themselves out completed for the Trump Spectacle.
Their shift to totally monetized, infotainment-ized, ratings-uber-alles stenographic blather renders them useless as a news source, because every story they cover I now have to wonder how they’re slanting it to appease their owners and sponsors.
Betty Cracker
@skerry: Christ on a crumpet, for real? I don’t have an impression one way or another about Welker. Maybe she’ll surprise us all and bring the heat.
MattF
@Betty Cracker: It would be an opportunity for her to establish some credibility— but not an easy way of doing that. Or, just sucking up. We shall see.
Dan B
@Old School: The pictures look very fake and the claims that 2/3 of DNA matched “terrestrial DNA” and 1/3 did not, plus one had eggs. It’s truly nutty that an extraterrestrial would have some human DNA. And eggs?
Urza
@Old School: We just did this in America with absolutely no credible evidence but every news site had to report on it as though it could be true. And so much of the public is now talking like aliens are real and it was proven because no one bothers to both sides the thing that absolutely should have had another side presented. That side being how to tell when someones lying to you and why you should never trust them again without extraordinary evidence up front.
Dan B
@Betty Cracker: I read that Welker is pals with an anti abortion guy. MTP seems headed for worse juornicalism.
trollhattan
@Old School: Alien abduction in Mexico? See that and raise Norwegian princess to marry her shaman.
Baud
@trollhattan:
That’s what got Steve Jobs killed.
Jeffro
Kayleigh McEananey (sp?) was front and center on Fox News earlier today, calling the administration’s memo all kinds of bad things.
The GOP has to be worried that this Administration is playing offense. Good!
Baud
@trollhattan:
Durek Verrett sounds like a name a Cardassian would have.
cain
@skerry: Remember when scoring the President of the United States was a scoop?
trollhattan
@Jeffro: They would call the news media “deplorable” but that is just a step too far. So uncivil.
cain
@Dan B: I thought people were saying that she is a solid journalist?
Also, honestly I think a number of us are probably still facebook pals with some asshole who is anti-abortion.
Jay
@Dan B:
Eggs were very expensive at the time. $5.99 for a half pack of six.
Aliens understand inflation.
Dan B
@Jay: Apt observation.
Baud
Via Reddit, this will turn some heads.
Baud
@cain:
She’s about to define her identity.
Jeffro
Omfg Ari Melber is interviewing Matt Gaetz on MSNBC right now, and MG almost comes across as not insane.
evil, because he is a Republican, but not insane
wild!
japa21
@Jeffro: I never viewed him as insane. Immoral (amoral), yes. Unethical, yes. Evil, definitely yes. Insane, no.
RaflW
Reporting that solely focuses on process rather than substance is woefully inadequate when it comes to something as historically grave as pretty much every major policy choice or election.
We’ve ended up with a media that is incredibly easily bored by the actually crucial things like wether we are going to burn up the planet to inhabitability, while obsessing over who is going to get the edge on what.
FYFNYT today of course had a front page story about how a possible electric car autoworker strike will be be (you got it!) Bad News for Biden.
I applaud the WH for trying. Really!! But if anything, this will make the cadre of brittle dweebs in D.C. all the more resistant to reporting substance. That said, the WH gotta try. I don’t mean that the effort is wrong to attempt.
JaneE
While you are at it, try throwing in a few lines about SCOTUS rulings that state as fact again demonstrably false (video, no less) “facts” to justify a ruling that is based on lies from start to finish. Or that “harm” exists when the plaintiff lied to start the whole proceeding.
gene108
Nancy Mace explains the nature of Congressional fishing expeditions and how just opening an impeachment inquiry will hopefully catch the elusive Joe Biden fish.
From the 9/12/23 episode of CNN’s morning program.
On the last line, Mace is probably rational enough to know they won’t find anything, so they can avoid an actual impeachment that requires Republican Congress critters to actually go on record with a vote.
They’ll just dig out more crap to flood the zone with shit. Might not affect most people, but MAGA’s will have more talking points about Biden’s “corruption”.
https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ctmo/date/2023-09-12/segment/04
Geminid
@Baud: I think some people on the Left overestimated how “left” Fetterman would be. He’s more like Sherrod Brown than Bernies Sanders.
Some people on the moderate side worried he was too “left,” and that made the Lamb/Fetterman rivalry a heated one among their respective fans. But I didn’t see much grumbling among my fellow Lamb supporters when Fetterman won handily, and the ones in Pennsylvania I followed got right behind Fetterman once the primary was over.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
OT: What it’s like growing up in America.
Today, at age 40, I learned beets change the color of your shit.
I learned the same about blue food dye at 16.
Villago Delenda Est
When the “refs” are paid agents of your political opposition, the rules get tossed.
Baud
@Geminid:
Yeah, but it’s one thing to be left, but it’s another to stand up to those lefties that push anti-solidarity. Too often the pro-unity left has been silent in the debate.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: I’d be willing to bet my house that she won’t bring any heat at all.
Apparently she wants to choose her audience for her entire term on MTP – which is what she is doing by opening with Trump.
I would be happy to be wrong.
bbleh
Can we haz a new acronym? Like EAIAC or IOKIYAR? I propose AFT, as in about fking time.
Play hardball with the courtiers, and if they don’t toe the line, exile them to covering the South Dakota primary.
Mousebumples
Link to the poll
I’m not sure it’s not something of a push poll, but I don’t care. Even 14% of Republicans admit this is politically motivated!
Wisconsin has a history of not supporting recalls/etc., that overturn the will of the voters (see the failed impeachment of Gov. Walker).
I’m glad to see WisDems is keeping the pressure on…
RaflW
@Jeffro: There was a huge amount of bellyaching around the Beltway over how well Obama used social media, youtube and other direct-to-audience methods to reach both his base, and people he felt weren’t getting useful news about the O white house productivity.
The response was, of course, to double down on process/horserace/bullshit, not to improve the content of the impact of policy debates. (I remember endless, endless fucking stories about how ACA was being cobbled and impreiled and saved and blah blah, but damn little about what it was).
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@bbleh: We should spend every waking moment bitching about our unaccountable, uninformative press.
If we need a reference for methodology, see the Republicans. Just complain, apparently it doesn’t even matter if it’s true.
Villago Delenda Est
@robmassing: Jake Tapper is the current poster boy for nuking the Village from orbit.
Geminid
@gene108: I think Rep. Mace has her eye on Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat. He’ll probably retire in 2026 and she wants to keep her conservative credentials in order.
Mike in NC
McCarthy is as dumb as a box of rocks. He’s going to pull a Gingrich and it’ll blow up in his face.
Villago Delenda Est
@bbleh: The hardball with the courtiers I’m thinking of involves the Place de la Concorde.
Baud
Basically, the Republicans’ religious faith that Biden engaged in wrongdoing is all the evidence that they need.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Villago Delenda Est: Jake Tapper is the primary, though not sole, reason I blocked CNN on my YouTube account.
Ocotillo
Regarding the Ignatius (sp?) Post column saying Biden shouldn’t run for re-election because he’s old, Iggy is 75 himself.
Maybe we should all start calling on MSM to force some of these old crows out since they are past their sell by dates. How the heck old is Andrea Mitchell anyway? Who else?
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: Every bit as solid as the evidence for the existence of Jehovah.
wjca
@Old School:
Can a “serious look” at Jewish Space Lasers be far behind?
artem1s
it really is sad. this should be a golden age for investigative journalism. they have almost unlimited access to information and can publish thousands of words everyday without having to worry about how many column inches their story will take up. they have the opportunity to educate millions – if they wanted. and reap the benefits of ad buys on internet pages that will never ever disappear – if they wanted.
instead of taking advantage of all these opportunities they do everything they can to attract viewers (not readers) and clickers who have the least ability to focus on complex stories and are least likely to stick around and check out the rest of the site or return to the story to find out more. so instead they whinge when they have to be more than stenographers or have to type out more than 120 characters. it’s pretty pathetic when you think about it.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Ocotillo: For all this hand ringing over whether Biden is too old to be President; has anyone produced a single example, valid or otherwise, to show that Biden’s age has hindered him in his.job performance?
RaflW
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Eat a good size serving of beets, and it can (for some, including me to my alarm the first time) turn urine pink, too.
Salty Sam .
The White House should just shut down the White House Press Corp. Stop giving briefings, take no questions… just shut ‘em out.
And when they bitch about it, say “oh fuck right off. You’re just gonna make up some bullshit anyway…”
Eh, a guy can dream…
ETA: I heartily applaud the memo today, telling the media, in effect, “NO MORE MALARKEY!”
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@RaflW: I thought I was bleeding. No recent trauma, so I found it really concerning. I considered a medical evaluation before I recognized the distinctive color.
RaflW
@Ocotillo: Alan Greenspan’s wife is 76.
Geminid
@Baud: Oh man! If you followed people like Michael Paulauski or Ragnarok Lobster you’d find a whole twitter ecosystem devoted to fighting anti-Democrat Lefties. Some of the hardest hitters are women like Candidly Tiff and Melissa Hancock-Li. Those folks stay on the warpath.
But it’s true that not that many progressive “stars” in Congress aggressively push back against anti-Party Lefties like Fetterman did. That may change over the next year though.
schrodingers_cat
If I do a write up on the recently concluded G-20 in India and the political climate there would people be interested?
Scout211
The CNN website has some good news articles and many of the reporters do point out the fallacies of the GOP noise machine. I refuse to watch any cable or network news because that just doesn’t happen very often.
Like this one: CNN
The article goes on to explain how the Federal Education Department works and how the State Departments of Education work.
The only thing that they didn’t say is, “Donald Trump is a big fat liar and is telling you that he’s going bat for all you stupid MAGAs to fight a problem that doesn’t exist.”
That would be cool.
Jeffro
Fixed and all that. ;)
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@schrodingers_cat: If you have something that you find interesting to say about it, I’m sure plenty here would.share that feeling.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
Welker was one of the journalists who met with a trump campaign operative at a fancy steakhouse during the first debate.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44891839/milwaukee-reporters-trump-team-rare-steakhouse/ Charlie Pierce with the story
Jay
@schrodingers_cat:
Yes, please.
Baud
@Geminid:
Yeah, I don’t follow anyone. My view is based on whatever happens to come across my bubble randomly.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Jeffro: LIke the Republicans wouldn’t be falsely accusing Biden of crimes regardless of the criminal status of their last elected President.
Misterpuff
@Baud: My thoughts exactly.
Durek must be a secret Obsidian Order rank.
Alison Rose
@Jeffro: Yeah, except that Gaetz lied and babbled BS most of the interview and Melber didn’t push back on it hardly at all. I don’t know what the point of that interview was. Gaetz can take the clips and show it to his people like “Look, even MSNBC liberals think I’m right”.
Roger Moore
@gene108:
The point of the impeachment inquiry isn’t to remove Biden from office. It’s really threefold:
There may also be some further bullshit about using the inquiry as an excuse for why the Republicans in the Senate can refuse to cooperate with any nominations Biden tries to make.
mrmoshpotato
Fixed.
Geminid
@schrodingers_cat: I would be. I hope you do.
Geminid
Doggone double comment!
hueyplong
@Alison Rose: If I’m Melber I let him talk, encourage even more talk, and then bring receipts to tomorrow’s show and rip him apart (or bring on McCarthy for some “let them fight” action).
lamh36
Good evening BJ.
I’m back home in NOLA from my weekend trip to LA. Aside from some glitches, LA was a good trip. I’ll def have to make another more solo trip than this one since my sister traveled with me.
I came back a bit under the weather though, so haven’t been feeling great.
WaterGirl if you read this, I submitted an OTR post from my birthday trip to Italy last year. My goal is to send you one more from my trip to Japan this past May! I’ll work on that one tomorrow or later this week as I get to feeling better!
Alison Rose
@hueyplong: Well he had Josh Marshall on afterward, and I had turned it off because I was annoyed, but apparently Marshall called out the lies. But that’s useless. The host’s job is not to just sit there and let someone tell lies and not counter them at all. Countering them later in the show with someone else, or tomorrow, or whatever, doesn’t do anything. Like I said, Gaetz could absolutely take the clip and post it as proof that “even the liberal Ari Melber” agrees with him. Hell, at one point he referred to Biden “running the DOJ” or something and Ari didn’t say shit. It was a total softball interview the whole time and it was pathetic.
Baud
@lamh36:
Welcome home. Feel better. Traveling always lays me out too.
wjca
If you love “horserace” journalism, seems like a golden opportunity here. Why not grab it? Think of the headlines! Think of the clicks!
Kathleen
@Betty Cracker: Naw. The cogs in the machine are just “doing their jobs”, which is whatever management tells them to do. These are all hit pieces coordinated between the networks anyway. No one will ever convince me otherwise.
bbleh
@Mike in NC: and Gingrich was WAY smarter.
I’m with Fetterman. “Oh noes, Br’er Squeaker, don’t throw us in that impeachment patch!”
Villago Delenda Est
@bbleh: Epic. Both Fetterman and you!
hueyplong
@Alison Rose: Maybe I’m wrong. My background isn’t in any way related to the media. From my pov, getting a deponent to lie a bunch of times about things easily disproved when it matters is considered a job well done.
Kathleen
@Villago Delenda Est: Bingo. WaPoop just reprints stories from GOP that are based on lies or blown out of proportion. Biden admin provides hard facts to refute Republicans’ claims for impeachment. Shall we start betting pool on how Mainslime Media will respond? I’ll start. Avalanche of stories about what Republicans are claiming about information in WH’s memo to press. You heard it here first.
UncleEbeneezer
@Alison Rose: The problem is that Melber has already spent two years committed to bashing the DOJ wrt Garland. DOJ = Bad, is part of his branding at this point.
Omnes Omnibus
@Geminid:
I had a vague preference for Lamb because I figured he would be more electable. Since I am not from PA, I generally stayed out of the discussions. I think that Pennsylvanians chose well, and that Fetterman is really good addition to the caucus. This is a good object lessonwhy we should defer to local people on their elections. I don’t think there was a Pennsylvanian commenting on the blog who had an objection to him while a lot of out-of-staters had reservations.
twbrandt
@schrodingers_cat: yes
Scout211
@Roger Moore: Agree.
Their impeachment inquiry is “aspirational.”
Alison Rose
@hueyplong: But not if you don’t point out that they are lies and do the disproving. If you just let them say things and go “yeah, uh-huh, right, okay thanks for coming on”, that’s a massive disservice.
mrmoshpotato
Fixed. :)
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Appears to be a difference in philosophy. If I understand correctly, Alison believes “when it matters” is during the interview.
I’m honestly inclined to agree with her. At least some of that needs to be debunked contemporaneously. We can’t rely on enough people to follow up on facts on their own.
hueyplong
@Alison Rose: So tomorrow is too late? Your horizon is going to lead to a lot of disappointment in pretty much everybody.
BellaPea
@Ocotillo: I was watching that on Andrea Mitchell today and blew my stack. She never misses a chance to diss Biden. I try not to watch her, especially her interviews, as she has to search for words and flubs names and places. I used to have respect for her, but no more–it’s past time for her to retire.
Geminid
@Omnes Omnibus: I hope I respect the views of locals on this blog, and I often ask locals about their districts because of that. But when a Pennsylvania jackal bashed Lamb, I did not defer to them; I pushed back.
Baud
@Geminid:
I respect no one.
Roger Moore
@hueyplong:
For a news show, yes it is. You need to combat lies when they’re spoken, not a few days later. Plenty of people who hear the lie today won’t be listening when it’s debunked tomorrow, so they’ll continue to believe it.
lamh36
Any every had to do an associate professor’s interview before?
I’ve been trying to get out of the lab and into non-clinical lab world. So I applied for a job as an Associate Professor in Microbiology at my alma mater. TBH, other than having my Masters, I honestly didn’t expect any actual response, but the head of the department actually reached out today via email to set up an interview next week!!
They asked that I put together a 10 minute, presentation on a MLS topic of your choice to present to the faculty. Ummm wow. I have never done that for an interview before. I mean I’m not worried about it, but still wow.
Any advice from anyone who has ever been interviewed for this type of position?
Oh also, at least 5 of the current faculty members were my actual teachers 20+yrs ago!
Baud
@BellaPea:
She needs to be on Fox. Can we have a real liberal network?
Baud
@lamh36:
Wow. Good luck.
Scout211
Good point.
In the many discussions here in the comments on DiFI’s replacement for next year, my unofficial tally is that the out-of-staters seem to prefer Katie Porter but the Californians seem to prefer Schiff for our next Senator.
National prominence doesn’t always equal local loyalty in a candidate. We would do well to listen to what local jackals think.
Oh, who am I kidding? This is balloon-juice, where everyone has an opinion. Listen? Pffft! 🤣
Alison Rose
@hueyplong: So you think it’s okay to have someone on your show, let them tell blatant lies, and not say a word in response, but then the next day be like “here’s why what he said was wrong”? But the people who Gaetz will show the clip to, and the normies out there, are never going to see the later fact-checking. It’s like when the newspaper runs a story on A1 that has a big falsehood or error in it, and the correction gets printed days later on page D10 or something. No one sees it, and all they remember is the wrong stuff.
News anchors like those on MSNBC are not supposed to just let people spread lies and then say thank you. If someone comes on a show and says “Biden wants to legalize infanticide in case a woman couldn’t get an abortion” and the host doesn’t say anything, that would be journalistic malpractice. Letting someone tell lies and not countering them is akin to agreeing with them.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan:
A cruise ship is marrying that insurrectionist, Trump-trash goatboy?
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: MSNBC is as close as we can get at this point. The three incumbent broadcast networks are as craven as CNN in seeking some of that sweet sweet reactionary ratingspalooza.
hueyplong
@Roger Moore: So they dip in today, miss tomorrow, and are spoiled for life no matter what comes out on that or any other show between now and Nov 2024?
Melber bears a heavy responsibility.
Villago Delenda Est
@Scout211: If I were a Californicator, I’d want Schiff for Senate, and let Katie continue to make life miserable for asshole CEOs in the House. But I don’t get to decide, I just get to blather.
lamh36
@Baud: yes…I am usually okay after a trip, but TBH I did start the trip with a little tickle in my throat and an occasional cough that I thought was just due to acid reflux maybe, but when I started to kind a lose my voice I knew it might be a bit more so I decided to stay home an extra day from work and I’m glad I did.
Good thing about working in Micro lab is I can always test myself to see what’s going on. Which I will do once I return to work.
Villago Delenda Est
@mrmoshpotato: Oh so close, but no. Actual member of the Norwegian royal house marrying some quack asshole who self-styles himself a “shaman”. He couldn’t pull off that trick in World of Warcraft.
Omnes Omnibus
@Scout211: I still have agita from when a commenter who had read a book on Wisconsin but never been there explained the state’s politics to me.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s cheese for days!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@mrmoshpotato: Honestly, the look works for me. Doubly so when I saw him without the viking horns and he was bald as hell.
Omnes Omnibus
@Villago Delenda Est: They weren’t even that close.
Villago Delenda Est
@schrodingers_cat: Please, your insights on the subcontinent are always informative and entertaining. I’ve taken to calling Ramasmarmy “Avivek” instead of “Vivek” because I’ve read it’s the opposite of the meaning of vivek.
Omnes Omnibus
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: While no one wants to kink shame here, it might be necessary in this case.
Princess
@Omnes Omnibus: it’s the reason I refuse to have an opinion on the CA senate race.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Omnes Omnibus: I court danger.
hueyplong
@Alison Rose: We’ll get to watch this one play out. If the game is already lost w/r/t Gaetz I too will be disappointed.
schrodingers_cat
@Villago Delenda Est: Vivek is a synonym for sense and reason. Indian Damian is quite the opposite of that, hence Avivek.
BTW I know his type. Bloviating and lying through their teeth, he resembles many many BJP-Sangh apparatchiks
I am wondering whether either of his parents have Sangh ties. It is not uncommon for some of their demographic to have Sangh ties.
Sure Lurkalot
@lamh36: How exciting! Best of luck in the interview.
Irishweaver
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
it would be very helpful. Thank you for offering.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: I think that at this point you may just assume that people will be interested.
Steeplejack
Trae Crowder on Lauren Boebert’s undying trashness: “the ChatGPT of harmful ignorance.”
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Irishweaver: Haha not me but looks like everyone on board, Schrod
Dan B
@schrodingers_cat: Yes – please do a write up.
Mousebumples
I don’t know if I saw that thread. If I’m in the right mood, that can be highly entertaining. Though in peak election season… Likely less so.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Yes, that one came in a little while ago! Looking forward to more!
Happy to see it. :-)
Jay
@Alison Rose:
There used to be a gameshow, where the premise of the game, was a paid actor would tell a lie, and the contestant that caught it would hit a buzzer and win points.
Red Robinson, passed away sadly, had an on air interview with Gordon Campbell, going into the election, years ago. Two minutes in, (Red was a DJ) Red hit a buzzer, and said, “A new record, we have our first lie!” Gordon then tried to dissemble, and Red nailed him hard.
That went on for an hour with Red hitting the buzzer 22 times.
Red actually said to him, “I know you arn’t stupid, so why are you lying? Is it because you think your voters are stupid?”.
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: and vice-versa!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mousebumples: It was a few years ago. I don’t know if you were around then.
WaterGirl
@lamh36:
That may be part of why you got the interview?
I wonder if reaching out to Tom Levenson might be a good idea?
Dan B
@mrmoshpotato: Annnndd, Bobert was kicked out of Beetlejuice the Musical with her new boyfriend who owns an Aspen bar that’s had drag shows and LGBT nights. Annnndd, he’s a Democrat!
WaterGirl
@lamh36: oops. My neighbor got the new strain of Covid a few weeks ago, and her only symptom was losing her voice.
Hope that’s not your problem, but I feel I should mention it.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … GovExec.com:
Grr…,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
@Dan B: Speaking of kink shaming…. Hoo boy.
divF
@schrodingers_cat: 👍
jackmac
I’ve always believed that Fox “News” is propaganda first, news way down the priority list. Yanking Doocy’s White House credentials would be a good first step and other federal departments and agencies should also treat Fox as a pariah.
MagdaInBlack
@Steeplejack: I too feel as tho she could have come from my HS.
frosty
@schrodingers_cat: Yes, I’d be interested in a G-20 writeup from you.
(Will it be illustrated?) //
Villago Delenda Est
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: I picture Thanos’ evil grin in the aftermovie clip of Marvel’s Avengers.
smith
@Dan B: Get that guy an intervention, STAT!
Betty
@Betty Cracker: She has struck me as another one looking to find fault with Democrats. Not impressed.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: Yes. When I say losing my voice, what I mean is you can def hear some strain on my vocal cords from the coughing, but I finally got the coughing under control for the most part so at the most I sound like I have a pack of cigarettes a day type habit, but not complete loss.
As I said though, the great thing about working in an active clinical Micro lab is being able to test my samples easily. I’m back to work tomorrow so I’ll def be testing myself…pronto.
Having said that though, I DID test myself for a complete viral panel including COVID, so if it comes back as pos for COVID I’d be a bit surprised.
frosty
@lamh36: Very cool! I have no advice on interviewing for an academic job but I’ve done a lot of presentations. If you’re using PowerPoint, go light on the text and try to find illustrations, pictures, and graphs that cover your topic instead. And one slide per minute, so don’t make it longer than 10 or 12 slides.
People (including me) diss PowerPoint but it can be useful. I set it up so it was my outline and I wouldn’t forget anything. People read faster than you can talk, so if you want to add some detail to the text, go ahead, but for Heaven’s sake don’t read it all!
Mousebumples
I’ve been around for ages (pre John getting Lilly), and I think I first unlurked when she first head health issues many years ago. But if it was a few years ago, I don’t think I’d remember, lol.
frosty
That’s the exact sound of the Juice escaping from the Balloon!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mousebumples: The upshot of Wisplaining was that WI is lost forever because of reasons. As we can see, that turned out to be very true.
CaseyL
@lamh36:
Omigosh! That is amazing news!
I wish I had any useful advice, but I’ve never interviewed for a faculty position, nor been in on an interview for one. I have sat in on interviews for clinical orthopedic Fellows, and there was discussion about what procedures they had done, how they approached their cases, stuff like that.
I think all interviews, for any position, will ask about how you handle difficult situations, “challenging” (i.e., awful) people, heavy workloads, and what working environment you work best in.
Wishing you the very best of luck!!
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Well there are people who go to one Yoga class and think that they are geopolitical experts on all things Indian.
schrodingers_cat
@lamh36: It is pretty typical to be asked to give a presentation for a faculty job. Usually your hiring committee will be your faux students. They may also ask you to give a talk about your research if that’s applicable.
Good luck!
NotMax
Bears mention.
Old School
@Omnes Omnibus: Was the book Wisconsin Death Trip?
Betty
@Omnes Omnibus: Good observation. If you hadn’t followed Fetterman for a few years and knew what he was about and how he went about campaigning but instead relied on media reports, you weren’t likely to understand his appeal to a broad electorate.
H.E.Wolf
@lamh36:
They would be SO LUCKY to have you on their faculty! :)
BC in Illinois
For insight into the Republican thinking on impeachment, i give you . . . Alexandra Petri.
Omnes Omnibus
@Old School:
It was never specified as far as I can remember.
stinger
@schrodingers_cat:
I would.
Kristine
@lamh36: Best wishes!
lamh36
@schrodingers_cat: the most interesting part is that these are all my former teachers. I doubt they remember me from 20+yrs ago, but maybe. I’ve interacted with each of them some time over the years.
And funny enough, the only person who wasn’t a former teach, is the current professor who’s retiring, I actually worked with before Hurricane Katrina in the public health lab. She had just recently moved to US and had a PhD from a foreign university and couldn’t find work until after. I interacted with her a couple of times years after Katrina.
I mean it may be kismet!
cain
@jackmac: they should and invite Fox News to sue so they can push for discovery on Fox News.
There are plenty of stuff these assholes have said under oath on who they are in other court cases.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Villago Delenda Est: Haha, I like it. Though I aim to project a more sultry vibe.
Weapon X
@lamh36: keep it simple:
Part I: this is what I have done (show cool stuff)
Part II: these are the ways I am a good fit for the advertised position and will complement the existing faculty
P.S.: I (i.e. you) am a team player who works well with a variety of people
Doug Redecopp
@Dan B: I’d like to see an independent analysis of that DNA. Probably a mutant + contaminated test.
Doug Redecopp
Mousebumples
Rep. Vos reads the blog? I feel like he’s still trying that message…
Sounds made up. Maybe something a right wing politico wrote for a senior thesis?
RaflW
@WaterGirl: BTW, someone in the morning Covid thread mentioned CVS now has the new Covid vaxx and is taking appointments as soon as this Saturday.
Whoever that was: Thank you! BF & I are now scheduled to get our shots 9 days before we board a plane for our trip of a lifetime to N.Z. & Oz. I posted on that social crapsite livres de face and a teacher friend of mine now has an appt for this coming Monday, for which he too is grateful!
RaflW
@Another Scott: I wonder if there are strategic ways that — while painful, of course — the Biden Admin could carefully un-essential some popular government services?
I feel like while obviously there are non-essential services that people find handy that will shut down, one of the coping mechanisms that Dems have cobbled to blunt GOP malfeasance has been to shrink the discretionary areas that really do shut during a ‘shutdown.’
Yes, it’s a high risk strategy. And would have to be executed with some care, since the whole friggin point if it comes to it, is to hang the chaos vibes right around those Republican necks. But maybe what McCarthy and his band of 200+ poo flinging monkeys need is for there to be more pain from their utter bullshit.
Jackie
@Betty Cracker: I’ll catch the low lights on later programs. I have more important things to watch – like 🏈
Scout211
@RaflW: Me. You’re welcome. 😊
Uncle Cosmo
Perspirational, maybe – IMO they’re starting to sweat bucketfuls – but more likely it’s purely desperational.
Good. Let’s focus on kicking the everloving crap out of them in the next 13 months and 20 days
Manyakitty
@BellaPea: didn’t she have David Ignatius on there today? I shut off whoever it was as soon as I saw him scrambling to defend that ill-considered blather he puked out.
munira
@schrodingers_cat: I would.