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Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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Friday Night Wind-Down Open Thread – David ‘BoBo’ Brooks Edition

by Anne Laurie|  September 22, 20239:41 pm| 173 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Our Failed Media Experiment, Show Us On the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Schadenfreude

You’ve probably seen something about this story already, if only out of the corner of your eye. It’s the ‘Reader added context’ that makes this tweet perfection… not to mention the number of replies (19.5 thousand and counting), most of them mocking:

This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible. pic.twitter.com/1qeV9qOBL3

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) September 21, 2023

You’d think by now, BoBo (he’s only 62! I could’ve sworn he was older than me, but I guess he’s one of those guys who was born age 40, and already wearing a button-down shirt) would’ve know better than to use social media after the first scotch, but…

David Brooks deciding 2 triples in to get into the price takes game and thinking he is super smart by saying meal and including the drink, lmao

— vocational politics appreciation account (@Convolutedname) September 21, 2023

This meal cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible. pic.twitter.com/UoR6WnoQcl

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) September 21, 2023

Jamele Bouie *also* writes for the NYTimes…
Friday Night Wind-Down Open Thread - BoBo Brooks Edition

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The Guardian was one of many major outlets to cover this saga (which I guess qualifies Brooks’ debacle as an international disgrace):

… Brooks posted his complaint on Wednesday. As of Friday morning, he had not posted again…

As of 9pm EST Friday, still no updates — possibly Wife #2 is keeping him away from the liquor cabinet?

If David Brooks had just tweeted "spent way too much money on whiskey at the airport" everyone would have been like "amen brother, been there, most relatable thing you've ever said in fact" https://t.co/GZ2C2An8tS

— Leigh Beadon (@leighbeadon) September 21, 2023

Capitalism remains undefeated https://t.co/uOW0WJagJv

— Jeremy Horpedahl ????? (@jmhorp) September 22, 2023

Friday Night Wind-Down Open Thread - David 'BoBo' Brooks Edition

The New Republic:

… Americans don’t think the economy is terrible because of inflated prices at the airport. But they might be swayed by commentators like Brooks who alternate between touting how great American capitalism is and cherry-picking details from their own upper-class lifestyle as proof that we’re nearing the end.

Airport food is expensive—but it’s not that expensive. Maybe Brooks could use this opportunity to pivot into speculative fiction, but in the meantime, if he ever wants to comment on economic news, he may want to lay off the whiskey first.

Some of the better clapbacks I’ve seen:

1) How many ?? did he have? Because the cheeseburger deluxe doesn’t cost that much.

2) Newark Airport has sneaky good restaurants.

3) Give his column to someone deserving please. pic.twitter.com/aLijvP3L2W

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) September 21, 2023

This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible. pic.twitter.com/fVJSWOlXWC

— ??????????Hollaria Briden, Esq. & Ally (@HollyBriden) September 21, 2023

(bar bill: $66. food bill: $12. tip: $0 N Y Times expense account) https://t.co/ZcmHOKuPIi

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) September 21, 2023

Biden is failing in the polls because of how expensive it has become to drink an airport double bourbon that's aged long enough to do porn

— Gas Stove Prayer Warrior (@canderaid) September 21, 2023

i'm happy that this food looks awful https://t.co/rCFOrRY1R6

— Jean-Michel Connard ?? (@torriangray) September 21, 2023

And the stomach-turning winner, h/t Satby…

These nachos just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible. pic.twitter.com/D21TuLa5nk

— John has the NebraskaBlues (@sun_dawg1) September 21, 2023

Brooks maaay just possibly be angling for a new job, one better aligned with his talents:
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: If I Can’t Dance…

by Anne Laurie|  September 19, 20236:51 am| 161 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Our Failed Media Experiment, President Biden, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republicans in Disarray!

How I'm showing up to the polls in 2024 to vote for @POTUS & @KamalaHarris pic.twitter.com/JZl0UnnvAG

— Tai Babilonia ?? (@taiskates) September 18, 2023

There was a thread interwoven across the twitter accounts I read, using gifs to convey the users’ 2024 intentions. Tai Babilonia‘s tweet best conveyed my own feelings!

President Biden addressed questions about his age at a fundraiser on Broadway: “A lot of people seem focused on my age. I get it. Believe me, I know it more than anyone.” But said democracy is at stake and “I will not walk away now.”

— Steve Holland (@steveholland1) September 19, 2023

“Because in 2024 democracy’s on the ballot once again, & let there be no question: Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy. And I will always defend, protect and fight for our democracy. That’s why I’m running,” Biden said at fundraiser.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 19, 2023

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“I’m running because — hear this — I want the entire nation to join me in sending the strongest, clearest, most powerful message possible that political violence in America is never, never, never acceptable,” Biden said at Broadway fundraiser in NYC. pic.twitter.com/zpji7lubqW

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 19, 2023

Elsewhere, Our Failed Major Media:

"Bring the boys home……but not like that" https://t.co/26tqDqRZCe

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) September 19, 2023

OP-VIDEO: Is the deal to free American hostages Biden's 9/11, or Biden's 9/11? We have a bipartisan roundtable discussion with Bret Stephens, Henry Olsen, and Ross Douthat, moderated by Maureen Dowd

cc:@DougJBalloon

— The okayest poster there is (@ok_post_guy) September 19, 2023


 
Repubs in disarray!

1st DEM ad for 2024 Congress https://t.co/XEhsOjjkpL

— Jennifer Now at Threads Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 18, 2023

this is, for the record, exactly what Pelosi and Biden mean when they say there needs to be a strong Republican Party https://t.co/Su5Btm0nO9

— the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) (@merovingians) September 15, 2023

Then it wouldn’t be the Republican party. “We need respectable and calm fascists in control to rein in the brazen psychos” is not a winning idea

— Christian (@getheode) September 15, 2023

the collapse of the New Deal Coalition didn't lead to a different Democratic Party, it led to a different Republican Party

— the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) (@merovingians) September 15, 2023

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(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com)

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: President Biden, Staunch Warrior

by Anne Laurie|  September 17, 202310:10 am| 99 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, Our Failed Media Experiment, President Biden, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Stupidity

Sunday Morning Open Thread 12

(Clay Bennett via GoComics.com)

 
The following is from Mr. Charles P. Pierce’s Saturday newsletter, which is subscriber-only, so I’m not sure the link will work. Nevertheless, it’s a lovely essay — “President Biden’s Brass Ones”:

… The president was uninterested in doing his job, spending most of his time in the residence watching movies on television. Staffers were initialing documents on his behalf. The aide on the scouting mission wrote up a report for the people who’d dispatched him. The first item on his proposed to-do list was that the new COS consider the possibility of removing the president under the terms of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. It might be, the aide said, the only way to safeguard the national interest. He was deadly serious.

This account comes from Landslide, a book written by Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus. The year was 1987. The president under discussion was Ronald Reagan, entering the seventh of his eight years in the White House. The new chief of staff was Howard Baker, the former Republican senator from Tennessee who, as a member of the Senate Watergate Committee, had asked the crucial question, “What did the president know and when did he know it?” Now, a cruel variation of Baker’s famous inquiry sped around Washington,

“What did the president know and when did he forget it?”…

Last week, David Ignatius, a career sobersides writing in the Washington Post, wrote that the president should step away from re-election.

Biden would carry two big liabilities into a 2024 campaign. He would be 82 when he began a second term. According to a recent Associated Press-NORC poll, 77 percent of the public, including 69 percent of Democrats, think he’s too old to be effective for four more years. Biden’s age isn’t just a Fox News trope; it’s been the subject of dinner-table conversations across America this summer. Because of their concerns about Biden’s age, voters would sensibly focus on his presumptive running mate, Harris. She is less popular than Biden, with a 39.5 percent approval rating, according to polling website FiveThirtyEight. Harris has many laudable qualities, but the simple fact is that she has failed to gain traction in the country or even within her own party.

Suffice it to say, the “controversy” over the president’s age, largely ginned up among his conservative opponents, is not going to go into eclipse the way Reagan’s possible incapacity did. It’s too politically useful, both as a way to undermine confidence in the president and as a bludgeon to be used on vice-president Harris, about whom the elite political media has had doubts since the day she was selected. In pure political terms, Ignatius’ idea is flatly bizarre. While the Republicans are unable and unwilling to cut loose from a 77-year old alleged criminal given to unhinged screeds so unmoored from reality that they are a danger to commercial air traffic, the Democrats should voluntarily decapitate their national leadership and launch a noisy, uncontrollable primary contest of their own? This is a recipe for political suicide, or for a second Trump administration, which is pretty much the same thing.

In fact, I have never seen a politician who loves even the goofier aspects of his work than this one does. In 2012, he rescued Obama from the latter’s dismal performance in his first debate against Mitt Romney because he dismantled Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan with a barbed affability, He took Ryan apart because it seemed like he was having fun doing so. He used the same technique against the former president * in 2020, but there was more weight to the tactic that year. And my guess is that it will have to carry even more this time around.

It is a terrible bind he’s in, and I don’t envy him. He should be looking back on a long and distinguished career. His full-time job should be Grandfather in Chief. He should be the national equivalent of Irish president Michael D. Higgins, a keeper of the American traditions and the national stout fellow. But that isn’t the deal he made for himself. In 2019, he put himself forward for more than that because he saw what a danger the incumbent was to everything in which he believed.

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This took some brass ones. So did staying in the race after the early primaries when he looked like a pile of smoking meat by the side of an Iowa highway. He’s faced down all the furies of modern Republicanism without looking like a cutthroat. Looked at from that angle, his has been the most consequential Democratic presidency since before LBJ got lost in Indochina. Looked at from another, however, that looks like a mission accomplished. That’s what Ignatius was getting at, and it is not an inconsiderable argument. But it’s also completely moot. The president is going to be the Democratic candidate for the office he now holds, and he knows how old he is. Old enough may be the best answer he has.

This absolutely never gets old.

There is factional war *within* Republican party. McCarthy can't get members to agree.

And thus we have "Congress falters," "intense partisanship," and "shutdown looms." GOP mentioned about 8 grafs in.

I think they are just trolling us now. pic.twitter.com/Q9jYiEWhOt

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) September 16, 2023

At least John R. Parkinson was shamed into deleting his latest tweet…

Depraved bastard @jparkABC deleted his post where he proudly harasses Joe Biden by screaming at him in the cemetery where his wife and children are buried, demanding he answer a question he’d already answered.

This is what @abcnews and @Disney choose to represent them. pic.twitter.com/JQdfYNvax2

— Democrats in Array 🏳️‍🌈 (@DemsInArray) September 17, 2023

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: The Battle Continues

by Anne Laurie|  September 16, 20237:55 am| 313 Comments

This post is in: Biden Administration in Action, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Our Failed Media Experiment, Proud to Be A Democrat

New: VP Harris will be hitting the road for a monthlong college tour, traveling to more than a dozen campuses across several states —underscoring the push to mobilize young voters & the forceful role Harris is playing on key issues

with @FritzFarrow https://t.co/XivJsqlUwh

— Rachel Scott (@rachelvscott) September 7, 2023

So we’re flip flopping from “we never see Kamala Harris” to “Kamala Harris does too many interviews and photo opps”

Right on schedule. https://t.co/oBdIJ7jFmb

— Democrats in Array ?????? (@DemsInArray) September 10, 2023

Things are pretty clear cut in this day and age and there is very little subtlety and nuance in our politics. There are clear good guys and clear bad guys and Harris is quite clearly on team good.

— John Cole (@Johngcole) September 16, 2023

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Item from today's Politico. It describes how false equivalency and both-sides-ing is not just a lazy habit in journalism, but a tool of politics that builds the bad journalism into party behavior, thus making a mockery of the images of detachment on which the press sells itself. pic.twitter.com/OTnEonSNRe

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 15, 2023

Considering this has completely dominated conservative media for three years, 1 in 3 Americans is an extremely low number here. Just an extraordinarily small percentage considering the effort. pic.twitter.com/YG6JLluqqA

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 15, 2023

This is *America!*

in short succession yesterday I had an Afghan Uber driver who had returned in 2001 and fled again in 2021 and was deeply angry at the US "betrayal" and an Iranian who had fled after the Green Revolution and was deeply grateful, and I was like … am I in a Friedman parable?

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) September 15, 2023

And this is Brazil, where Trump-crony Bolsonaro’s partisans are discovering what FAFO means:

Brazil’s Supreme Court handed down the first sentence related to January capital riots, with convicted trespasser Aecio Pereira getting 17 years in prison.https://t.co/LISVDk4VBa

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) September 15, 2023

It's kind of hard to say you miss the Democrats of the 70s when the president is a Democrat from the 70s.

— Not up for trouble, please stop asking (@agraybee) September 16, 2023

if you look at footage of Nancy when she first came to Congress she was like "I'm here to talk about gay rights and fight AIDS" lol like if Reagan knew who she was he would not have been a fan.

— Henry the Dog (@DogHerny) September 16, 2023

As Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi knew her shit, didn't take any shit, and had her shit together.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy, on the other hand, is full of shit, doesn't do shit, and is scared shitless of Trump. pic.twitter.com/sJUCtO7Ph4

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) September 12, 2023

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Late Night Open Thread: If Our Major Media Had More Power, We’d Be Doomed

by Anne Laurie|  September 13, 202311:47 pm| 136 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Our Failed Media Experiment

Oh my God the Politico article was published *after* she got kicked out of a theater for vaping, singing and recording a musical

10/10, great job Politico, serious journalists, very saving democracy pic.twitter.com/xfJVIGNDXX

— The okayest poster there is (@ok_post_guy) September 13, 2023

Sometimes I’m genuinely grateful that most voters get their info from social media and ‘vibes’.

Shelby's view? She's excited by the promise of future leaks and scoops from the Ramaswamy campaign https://t.co/nzMB7R39CV pic.twitter.com/yskGjn4EmK

— The okayest poster there is (@ok_post_guy) September 13, 2023

WTF https://t.co/fcycPW1adO

— vocational politics appreciation account (@Convolutedname) September 12, 2023

This week:
-WaPo used revenge porn for an oppo drop on a Dem candidate
-WaPo laundered GOP oppo on a whisper campaign against Tim Scott
-Punchbowl went all in on GOP impeachment
-Semafor sanewashed Ramaswamy insane ideas
-Politico did a soft puff piece on Boebert
Going great!

— vocational politics appreciation account (@Convolutedname) September 13, 2023

is this broken and insane? yes. us political coverage is very, very bad, especially at the top. a single British interviewer unleashed into this context is like a cat that has just landed in Australia in 1788.

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) September 12, 2023


Our marsupial major media!

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During Trump’s presidency I told a reporter, who is now more well known, that he will unleash hate and bigotry against POC communities. Their response: "Yeah but that also means I get more airtime."

DC political reporting in a nutshell. Doesn't describe all but…sadly a lot.

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) September 10, 2023

Another WH reporter lamented Trump’s loss in 2020. Said they don’t have as many contacts within the Biden Administration and it’ll hurt them with scoops.

Four years ago at the annual UTA gala in DC before the WH Correspondents Dinner, who was the person having the greatest time? Sean Spicer. Same man whose job was to lie on behalf of Trump, gaslight the world, and spur on hate against the press.

About two years ago was told by a TV producer they were looking for a conservative to fill out a roundtable political show. The bar was the following: they had to accept the 2020 election results & not be openly white supremacist. That’s it. Even with that low bar…it was tough.

All of this is to say the current media & reporting model is not built for this moment where one political party, the GOP, has become a radicalized authoritarian force beholden to minority rule. The old playbook won’t work. You need to be agile & adapt. 8 years on, still failing.

Yeah, that puts it well.

"Find something that is genuinely suboptimal about the Democratic candidate, and dwell on it endlessly to 'balance' coverage." https://t.co/vhNRd1cJIj

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 11, 2023

there are more think pieces on why biden shouldn’t run again because of age than why trump shouldn’t run again because of many, many crimes

— Deanna McDonald (@deannagmcdonald) September 13, 2023

Worth noting that @brianbeutler has been predicting this for months, if not years. The lesson Dems learn and then forget over and over is that if you keep hammering away at something, it gets embedded in the public consciousness, especially if they don't take the threat seriously https://t.co/3MQFWyseDS

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) September 13, 2023

(The thing the GOP has figured out is that since politics is unpredictable, it's often worth throwing as much junk at the wall as possible, because you never know when the press will get bored and start taking the bait, polluting the minds of millions.)

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) September 13, 2023

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White House Working the Refs

by Betty Cracker|  September 13, 20235:13 pm| 170 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Our Failed Media Experiment, Politics, Republican Stupidity

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.

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Dank Grey Dawn Open Thread: A Shift in the Political ‘Vibes’?

by Anne Laurie|  September 11, 20235:06 am| 130 Comments

This post is in: 2024 Elections, Open Threads, Proud To Be A Democrat!, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement

Someday, somebody needs to write a doctoral dissertation on how and why so many on the Bernie Sanders campaign team ended up on the far right of American politics, and so many on the Mitt Romney team ended up on the center left.

— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 10, 2023

Simple as: Some ‘political’ people are interested in getting their priorities into law; some are authoritarians who just want to force voters to act as they ‘should’…

Rubber is hitting the road with Biden admin and blue states getting wins and we’re now figuring out who actually cares about moving the ball forward vs who is crypto fash or willing to make a career on taking their money https://t.co/F8Ub7XmSE2

— Giacomo Volpe ?????? (@_jack_fox_) September 10, 2023

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More and more people are finding themselves on the road to Brandon Thought https://t.co/0CJmyWaeL1

— Sviatoslav Richter Scale (@ilpomodoro2) September 9, 2023

“Biden can be ten times better than Trump, let’s concede that for the sake of argument, I’m not voting for him.” ??????? https://t.co/E8PZYKB7VS

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 9, 2023

Briahna Joy Gray can’t afford to stop telling people to vote against Democrats!

A reminder of who really bankrolls the anti-democratic fckery of Gums and Roses https://t.co/A7ygPui9si

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) September 10, 2023

I'm just pleased as punch to see the Cosplay Socialists wounding each other.

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) September 10, 2023

Another ‘prominent Leftist commentor’ with too much invested in his priors:

Cenk is out here strongly pushing for the John Bel Edwards-Henry Cuellar Democrats for Life national ticket https://t.co/VEVf9vY4tB

— AquaImperium (@aquaimperium8) September 10, 2023

People can learn — as long as all their (emotional as well as political) capital isn’t invested in not learning…
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