Media outlets should pay more attention to the headlines and subheads published on social media and wording of news alerts published on phones since a lot of people see those and never read the full article. Here’s an example that’s rightly getting dragged on Twitter: A real puzzler there since one party opted for science-denying …
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Biden the Uniter (Open Thread)
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Rarely has a snapshot of Memeorandum so starkly depicted the current state of play in U.S. politics: Trump couldn’t have more efficiently underscored the righteousness of Biden’s accusations if he had explicitly set out to do so. I assume that last item about Trump financially supporting the insurrectionists is a bald-faced lie since Trump doesn’t …
Open Thread: Our Failed Major Media Confronts the Mar-A-Largo Raid
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“What has become of our norms!” cries the court dwarf of the Mar-l-ago https://t.co/xUpQM12DNl — Promo Code: Rudy (@canderaid) August 9, 2022 That sound you hear is all the political hacks nervously deleting their anti-Biden tweets and posting ALL HAIL DARK BRANDON yard signs in front of their homes. — Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) August 8, …
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it’s wild to see a large number of journalists have already forgotten the cardinal rule of trump scandals, which is that they always turn out to be much worse than they look at the beginning
— GONELIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 9, 2022
Blog favorite chewtoy, per expectations!
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) August 9, 2022
The libertarian position is that yes, some people clearly *are* above the law pic.twitter.com/zkj9ED1Gzl
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) August 9, 2022
if 2020 didn’t break the instinct to immediately wonder if everything that seems pretty bad for Trump could actually be pretty good for Trump, then nothing will
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) August 9, 2022
when someone writes a responsible history of this era, the political media’s deliberate and willing participation in covering for a traitorous leader of a fearful and cowardly party should be a major part of the story
— GONELIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 9, 2022
The fact that the press is openly speculating about which strand of illegality the warrant was following down should tell critics what they need to know: Going after Trump probably isn’t a close call
— ProofOfBurden (@ProofofBurden) August 8, 2022
This wasn’t a presidency, it was a burglary. And they got caught. https://t.co/SfzexaGcAH
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 9, 2022
… The FBI calls the Secret Service and says, ‘Hey, dudes, we showed what we know to a judge and he said we could come to Mar-a-Lago and look for evidence of criming, so would you guys leave the door unlocked, OK?’ And the Secret Service says, ‘Sure, drop on by and stay as long as you like. We’ll leave some bottled water in the fridge.’ And so the FBI came to Mar-a-Lago…
… I did come away with a feeling that we’d all be better off if the media stopped hyping the “historic” and “unprecedented” nature of the events. The more these events are spun that way, the more the excitable people get ginned up to feel like prominent actors in a world-historical conflict. The Republican elite is more than willing to encourage them in their delusions of bloody grandeur. From the Washington Post:
“Merrick Garland, Chris Wray, come to the House Judiciary Committee this Friday and answer our questions about this action … which has never happened in American history,” [Rep. Jim] Jordan said on Fox News. “What was on the warrant? What were you really doing? What were you looking for?”
Bunk. This is an investigation into a possible federal crime. No legitimate aura of authority surrounds ex-presidents. The republic can survive the investigation, indictment and even the conviction of a former president, no matter what that old fool Gerry Ford thought back in 1974. But nothing permanent can be done about the reaction until someone or something knocks from a lot of heads the notion that every political defeat is Concord Bridge and that every pronouncement from their favorite TV news star is a message from Thomas Paine from beyond the grave. In 2016 (albeit with some help from abroad), the country elected a grubby little crook riding America’s longest lucky streak to be its president. Now the bill has come due.
This wasn’t a presidency, it was a burglary. And they got caught.
Future dissertation topics:
—first slide: compare, contrast, discuss.
—second slide: will analysts of our era argue that “press hysteria about emails” determined 3 Supreme Court seats, and therefore Roe, etc… pic.twitter.com/BkewDuWyIh
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 9, 2022
Saturday Morning Open Thread: Dangerous Enticements
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Enablers. pic.twitter.com/gKwYgCZfDM — Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) July 29, 2022
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One study, on fruit flies, so don’t give up your screen time — but maybe consider amber glasses / blue-blocking filters?
Harm from blue light exposure increases with age, research suggests. Daily exposure to light from this part of the spectrum emanating from phones, computers & household fixtures worsen w/ age, damaging mitochodria—energy producers—in cells of the eyes https://t.co/76JX3aHG6S
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) July 27, 2022
huh, i wonder why Dems keep trying to tie Republicans to Trump early https://t.co/1dpEJ4WC2K
— post malone ergo propter malone (@PropterMalone) July 28, 2022
Our Failed Mainstream Media…
Wait What? NY Post Reporter Stuns WH Spox By Asking If Biden's Covid Was a Saudi Biological Attack https://t.co/dlHT4Fl2VE via @mediaite pic.twitter.com/59TQjMWrxP
— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) July 28, 2022
It was the New York Post so the follow-up question was whether Biden got it from a homeless person on bail https://t.co/43Q9qLE5NG
— YesterdayIsAHardWordForHat (@Popehat) July 28, 2022
Lemonade from, err, lemons:
Statues of mythical methamphetamine cookers Walter White and Jesse Pinkman were installed at a convention center in Albuquerque to celebrate the "Breaking Bad" TV series and its entertainment legacy. https://t.co/qliq7A1ZNZ
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 30, 2022
Can’t argue with the reasoning, since Salem, Massachusetts has pretty much turned itself into a witchcraft theme park… and the single most photographed tourist icon is a statue of Elizabeth Montgomery.
… Local politicians including Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller mixed with “Breaking Bad” stars Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and director Vince Gilligan to help unveil the artwork, donated by Gilligan and Sony Pictures.
The 2008-2013 show and its ongoing prequel “Better Call Saul” helped fuel a renaissance in filmmaking across New Mexico, while also cutting close to Albuquerque’s real-life struggles with drug addiction and crime.
Gilligan said he recognized that the statues of “two fictional, infamous meth dealers” won’t be universally cherished in New Mexico.
“In all seriousness, no doubt some folks are going to say, ‘Wow, just what our city needed.’ And I get that,” Gillian said. “I see two of the finest actors America has ever produced. I see them, in character, as two larger-than-life tragic figures, cautionary tales.”…
The show and its iconic lead characters already are lionized on T-shirts and airport merchandise, while tour guides in Albuquerque shepherd fans to former film locations in a replica of the RV from the show that doubled as a meth lab.
New Mexico has long struggled against the toll of addiction, with more than 43,000 deaths linked to alcohol and drug overdoses in the last three decades. Albuquerque also currently contends with a record-setting spate of homicides.
Surging overdose deaths from meth and fentanyl surpassed heroin and prescription opioids as the leading causes of drug overdose deaths across the state in 2020.
Keller heralded the positive economic impact of “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” on Albuquerque, acknowledging the dollars and delight it brings to a city he jokingly called “Tamale-wood.”…
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Fighting for Progress, While Battling Our Failed Media
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"If he's got time to fight against Disney, I don't know why he wouldn't have time to safeguard marriages like mine."@PeteButtigieg reacts to some GOP senators saying they will vote against a bill that is meant to codify protections for same-sex marriage. @CNNSotu #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/Le9OSepeW6 — CNN (@CNN) July 24, 2022
… The proposed rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services seeks to clarify that discrimination on the basis of sex includes decisions regarding “pregnancy termination.” This comes as the federal health department has already pointed to federal civil rights laws — including portions of Obamacare — to caution pharmacists about denying access to medications that can be used for abortions.
Health-care organizations that receive federal funding would also be barred from discriminating against gender transitions and other services that have increasingly become the target of state legislative battles and litigation. Officials also stressed that the new federal anti-discrimination language covers a patient’s sexual orientation and gender identity.
“I think most Americans are familiar with their rights to be free from discrimination — but too often, there are some communities who don’t have that freedom to exercise their rights to access care,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra told reporters Monday. “We want to make sure that whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you live, however you wish to live your life, that you have access to the care that you need.”
The proposed rule strengthens a provision, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, that was crafted during the Obama administration but weakened by his successor and has been the subject of extensive litigation. The proposal has also become part of the Biden administration’s strategy to ensure access to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade…
New letter from Biden’s physician: “His symptoms have now almost completely resolved.”https://t.co/IUGIRGRE1G pic.twitter.com/UbxL1GBEDT
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 25, 2022
Watch Merrick Garland turn into Samuel L. Jackson before our very eyes pic.twitter.com/t9x0Ych19L
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 25, 2022
I hear what you are saying. And, yes, the data is compelling. Cassandra has been right literally every time she has made a prediction. War. Famine. Rights rollbacks. (A phrase that makes it sound as though maybe the rights are part of a nifty sale rather than a horrible violation of the contract you thought you had with society!) Whenever she has said anything — “Don’t let that horse into the city! It’s full of armed soldiers!” or “If we don’t do anything about the climate, it will get worse” or “Susan Collins, do not take what Brett Kavanaugh just said as reassurance that he doesn’t want to overturn Roe v. Wade” — I have been forced to admit, in retrospect, that she has been absolutely on the money, every time, like that Masonic eye thing that is on the back of all the dollars…
And, yes, once again, Cassandra is trying to warn us. She thinks something terrible will happen and wants to tell us so that we can prepare, just as she told us in the past about Donald Trump not accepting the results of the election, or the horrifying consequences of state trigger laws about abortion, or the dozens of other things she has been right about. Now, given her track record, you might say: Let’s hear this lady out!
But I have to say: What are the odds that she’s right again?…
Who are you going to believe — me, a guy telling you that the Supreme Court has probably done all that it wants to do and there is no chance that it will come for Obergefell v. Hodges next, or Cassandra, a literal prophetess who has always been right and is screaming that I am wrong? I know only two things about Cassandra: She is a hysterical woman to whom we should not give the time of day, and she has been (technically, in only the strictest, most literal sense) right about every single thing that she has predicted so far. Also, her predictions are so depressing! I don’t want to live in a world where what Cassandra says is true, even though, technically, I guess, I do live in that world right now…
Monday Morning Open Thread: Stay the Course, You Meatheads
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If someone from the 1950's suddenly appeared… pic.twitter.com/v92BTxRIXj — Swedish Canary ???? ???? ???? ?? (@SwedishCanary) February 22, 2014
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U.S. economy slowing, but recession not inevitable, Yellen says https://t.co/NqPvu3pif8 pic.twitter.com/4FXVyuiCQB
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 24, 2022
One of few shared sentiments among U.S. voters right now is a desire for something new — and the possibility that the 2024 election could look like a 2020 rematch has some people on both sides wondering who else could carry their parties into the future. https://t.co/bUQA0VgnAu
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 24, 2022
Our Very Serious Media’s ever-anxious quest for novelty is going to be the death of democracy…
… In a nation faltering along seemingly every conceivable divide, there’s a shared desire among Democrats and Republicans for a new generation of political leadership. The conversation is most pronounced when it comes to the White House as Trump considers another campaign and President Joe Biden confronts skepticism about his ability to mount a reelection bid in 2024 when he is 82.
“There’s just a sense of like, that rematch between these two old guys seems ridiculous to people,” said Sarah Longwell, a Republican strategist who conducts almost weekly focus groups with voters across the country and political spectrum…
A new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll shows 83% of U.S. adults say the country is on the wrong track. Only 36% approve of Biden’s leadership overall, while 62% disapprove. Polling from AP-NORC in recent months captured deepening pessimism among members of his own Democratic Party about Biden, the direction of the country and the state of the economy. A January AP-NORC poll found just 28% of those surveyed and 48% of Democrats said they want Biden to run for reelection in 2024.
Julián Castro, a former Obama housing secretary and onetime presidential candidate, said there’s “no doubt” that members of his party are frustrated and that Democrats in Washington need to show a sense of urgency and produce results. In a telephone interview from the Texas Democratic Convention in Dallas, he said Democrats seemed energized.
“My immediate hope is that that angst and frustration is going to be channeled positively to turnout in November,” he said, referring to the midterm elections. “And then we’ll reckon with what’s beyond that when November happens.”…
Our Failed Media Open Thread: Some Modest Proposals
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Brian’s state has, all kidding aside, a lot of volcanos. https://t.co/B1weGTRyJ7 — Discorso Inferno (@ilpomodoro2) July 14, 2022
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SNARK ALERT:
which freshman member of congress should gun steve bannon down in cold blood. i’m thinking somebody from a safe dem seat. maybe a massachusetts +35 district. https://t.co/hDDZQI3Xlg
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) July 13, 2022
Source credibility/pundit accountability pic.twitter.com/qQgKX5FW5F
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 15, 2022
“RootsAction.org” comes up with *worst* idea in a week full of very bad ideas…
Possible rotating tag line?
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