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  1. #61
    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to acptulsa again.
    well, thanks for keeping this thread alive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by surf View Post
    well, thanks for keeping this thread alive.
    I couldn't give him any either. Seriously, I would not ever know what those clowns are saying without threads like this. I know I should pay more attention but I don't have the patience required to listen to it.
    "The Patriarch"

  4. #63
    This Week with George Stephanopolous without George Stephenopolous was without Alex Jones, too, this week. Of course, that's normal, except that ABC claims he was invited, agreed to come, and didn't show up. So, they made fun of the 'conspiracy theorists' talking about the martial law exercise coming up in Texas without him. They blamed local people doing things for ISIS on the Grand Theft Auto series of video games. They blathered about the three new hats in the Republican ring, Carson, Fiorino and Huckabee. They said nothing at all.

    Fox had Carson on. He said he loves his mother, a flat tax won't screw the poor, and it's good he has no Washington experience because government should be run like a business anyway. NBC had Fiorina on. She got a chance to say she does have Washington experience (without emphasizing it was bureaucratic in nature) and Washington should be run like a business, when the line of storms started to rotate a bit two hundred miles south of us. Since then, we've been treated to the psychedelic paisley stylings of modern doppler radars...

    And, in turn, Huckabee leads off Faze the Nation. Talking about diabetes and trying not to talk about obesity. Now we have Bernie Sanders praising socialism. He's using the fifty year old health care as a right argument as though no one woke him up and told him Obamacare passed. Maybe the fast talking fossil doesn't think Obamacare is good enough to be called a guarantee of this 'right'. Maybe it's just part of his 'litmus test' set of Seventies Maude Liberal Talking Points, and he's too old and has been saying it too long to change a single word. If he didn't just admit outright he's only there to make Clinton look 'moderate' and 'reasonable', and to keep grassroots liberals in the D primary in open states, then he made it easy enough to fill in the blanks.

    The CBS panel is predicting that the evangelical vote will be highly splintered when Iowa comes around. But the more interesting discussion is whether there is anyone in the country who trusts Hillary Clinton. More interesting still was Newt Gingrich earlier. He said the candidate and party who can convincingly promise a brighter future will win. Of course, that sounds like a dig at us on the face of it. But we can play that. We look to the past for the specific purpose of finding out why it sometimes worked better than what we're doing now.

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    'We come here to honor the past, and in doing so render more secure the present.'--Calvin Coolidge
    And the future. Our challenge is to convince less far-sighted people that we have learned from the lessons of the past a more promising way forward.

    Coming up--bread and circuses! Tom Brady is judged to have insufficiently puffed up balls, and will be thrown to an arena full of the sportscasting industry's hungriest lions!

    Kudos to CBS for a short but sweet coverage of the parade over the Potomac. Several WWII vintage warbirds did a flyover in honor of the seventieth anniversary of V-E Day. It included FIFI, currently the only flying Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
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  5. #64
    thanks again. there is a reason words, or the meaning, understanding, and use of said objects is so troublesome... and I just can't find the word to describe what that reason is.... so i'll just pull a couple of useful pokitical cliché words out of my arse... like robust, or unrest, or
    There might be some Democrat who isn't afraid to run against The Hillary Clinton Machine! There might! We don't know who, but it could happen! Jon Stewart retired!! OMG!!!
    I like the thought of Jon Stewart running against Hillary.
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  7. #65
    Quote Originally Posted by surf View Post
    I like the thought of Jon Stewart running against Hillary.
    I should add a poll. If the Democratic primaries were between Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Jon Stewart, would most people take the comedian the most seriously?
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  9. #67
    And some of them were and are Hollywood-quality actors and comedians.



    The jesters and fools always wind up taking over the castle.
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  10. #68
    Praise Our Special Forces and pass the ammunition. Amtrak can't keep their trains on the rails, but that's o.k. because Positive Train Stop will fix it. And even though only Amtrak seems to need it, the federal government is forcing all domestic railroads to buy it. And all the usual weekly crap--except for Meet the Press, which is about to interview Rand Paul.

    A short but good interview. Todd actually gave him time to answer. Paul did not talk about the real reason we went into Iraq any more than Jeb Bush did--they tried to go off the petrodollar--but he did actually talk about how we fight these wars, and the region comes out far less stable than it was before. Todd seemed confused by Paul's (why am I using last names but it doesn't feel like it?) desire to see virtual classrooms, which seemed to Todd like centralized control of education, not localized control. Apparently liberals can't conceive of things happening on a nationwide scale without federal government involvement.

    Someone should ask him how the fedgov managed to turn Pet Rocks into a nationwide fad.

    Scott Walker is saying on Faze the Nation that he considers the most foreign policy development of the last x number of years to be Reagan breaking the PATCO (air traffic controller) strike. A domestic strike broken=a foreign policy breakthrough? Yes, Walker says, because it sent the world the message that Reagan was a tough bastard. Well, then. Didn't realize the Berlin Wall fell because a retired B movie actor scowled at it. Learn something every day.
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    Memorial Day Weekend

    The blather has been preempted today by the Grand Prix of Monaco.

    At least on my television.

    Sorry.

    Meanwhile, a +rep to jct:

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  12. #70
    I've been asked about one of my signatures a few times so I thought I'd post a link to it here, Mad TV.

    "Nobody Wins In a Dairy Challenge - Kenny Rodgers"

    http://youtu.be/VV6In1K8zKk

    It's well worth the watch.
    "Nobody wins in a Dairy Challenge" ~ Kenny Rogers, RIP


    "When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest." ~ anonymous


    “The fate of all mankind I see
    Is in the hands of fools” ~ King Crimson

  13. #71
    This Week: Kerry fell off his bicycle and broke his leg. He can't even hold a candle to Ron Paul on a bike. Biden lost his son, a wound less likely to heal. Rand Paul is trying to kill the PATRIOT Act; the panel is about to kick that one around right now. So far, about all that has been said on that subject is that everyone hates Rand Paul and Rand Paul loves it. And former Maryland governor O'Malley is trying to figure out how to run against Hillary Clinton on a platform of being less beholden to Wall St., major banks and a bunch of other rich people and corporations than Clinton is without ever saying one negative thing about Hillary Clinton. Can he stay on that tightrope for the next year and a half? Stay tuned!

    Meanwhile, on Fox, Dr. Carson is going all mealy-mouthed and I doubt he's making anyone happy with it. He thinks the steps we've taken since 9/11 have 'prevented further insults' (three thousand dead on 9/11 was an 'insult'?) but he does actually like the Fourth Amendment--he promises he does.

    And now they have Bobby on just to trash Rand Paul. 'Nobody in America is to blame for the existence of ISIS. That is reckless--that is bizarre rhetoric...'--Bobby Jindal

    'We're not going to defeat evil through weakness. Unfortunately Rand Paul doesn't understand that.'--Bobby Jindal

    Bobby Jindal thinks he's the only GOP candidate with a specific and concrete plan to end Obamacare--I suppose because he has some single-payer socialism to replace it with...

    The spin is very interesting this week. They're talking and talking and talking about Rand Paul, so we can't say they're blacking him out. But they've hardly mentioned the PATRIOT Act at all, and they certainly aren't mentioning the Fourth Amendment. If it weren't for Dr. Carson, that particular section of the Bill of Rights wouldn't have come up at all.

    A little air time for the Gates' and Buffett to tell us they don't need to be taxed 90% because they give 90% anyway. They don't, however, say which networks and candidates they're 'giving' it to. And that's This Week.

    On Fox, Fiorina is harping on Clinton. On Bleats the Press, the press is bleating about Hastert. False left/right paradigm, anyone? What could be funnier on a Sunday morning than to see the panel of socialists at NBC The GE Channel talking about how they shouldn't be talking about Hastert without talking about the victims, but despite the fact that he got millions in taxpayer-sourced kickbacks, the only victims they can think of are all those millions of poor, honest congresspeople who look dirty by association now that Hastert got caught...

    'I've got news for Wall St. The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families.'--Martin O'Malley, who is saying far, far more interesting things than Sanders is.

    'I'm encouraging everyone to pass (the 'Freedom Act'), and we can move forward from there and see if it gives us the security we want.'--Rick Santorum, who seems to think we should have to pass it to find out what's in it.

    Michael Hayden is awfully good at ducking questions.

    'I want to read you something that a former predecessor of yours said...'--Chuck Todd. So, Taft is no longer an ex-governor of Ohio, Chuck? What happened?

    So, Britt Hume trashed Rand Paul for doubting the PATRIOT Act even for a second, and even George Will doubted that more than a handful of Republicans can be convinced to give a damn about their privacy. Looks like Murdoch will go ahead and sign their checks this week.

    'Rand Paul is against U.S.A. Freedom too.' Say what, Chuck Todd?! If you mean the U.S.A. 'Freedom' Act, why don't you act like a responsible journalist and say so?

    Jeb Bush certainly set himself apart from his brother on Faze the Nation. He didn't say a damned thing. But he mostly obfuscated in complete sentences containing nothing but recognizable English words.

    This hour's commercial for the wonders of the PATRIOT Act features Carl Brennan, who does not care about your liberties, but plays someone who does on TV.

    'Law enforcement will always use whatever tools and capabilities we have.'--Carl Brennan. For what purpose he did not say.

    The Faze the Nation panel: Be afraid of ISIS, not the federal government. Kudos to Peggy Noonan for mentioning the Fourth Amendment. I hope she doesn't get fired for it.

    'I am disheartened that Hillary Clinton gets away with not talking about these things.'--Peggy Noonan

    Bye bye, Bob Scheiffer. Please take the rest of the 'journalists' who helped hide the facts surrounding the Kennedy assassination with you when you go.
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  14. #72
    Chuck Todd was preempted by French clay and green balls.

    But the press was doing plenty of bleating today. This Week with George Stephanopolous without George Stephanopolous featured Martha Radditz co-starring with a Predator drone. She talked up at the beginning and end the wonderful place Iraq might turn into. The footboard was a piece on the biggest, most plain gray concrete, most massive block of identical high rises built since the fall of the Soviet Union. Fox talked about how scary Chinese hackers are, and gave Peter King another chance to call Rand Paul deplorable. Amazingly, Rep. Adam Schiff is even scarier-looking than King, but he makes a tiny bit more sense.

    ABC had to cover another of the dozen and a half Republican candidates. Scott Walker sat down in a Harley dealership somewhere, and took credit for the economic successes the residents of his state have achieved. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) then came on and unintentionally made him look like a poser by actually riding a Hawg (and when I say Hog, I don't mean a Sporty, or a Model K, or an Aermacchi dirt bike, or an Aermacchi golf cart, or anything else that weighs less than five hundred pounds). Fox had Santorum on. He got it right saying economic opportunity for working people can and should be revitalized, but his best specific seems to be a two-tier 'flat tax'. No talk about how to ensure FRN devaluation does not slide the poor into the rich tax rate sooner or later. He said everyone should get a chance to speak in the debates. Wallace said he remembered Santorum complaining to him about time limits in the last debates. Santorum suggested dividing the candidates into groups and having double debates like race heats. I guess he wants a 50/50 chance of not being on the same stage with, and getting pwned by, Rand Paul. Then ABC talked about the Democratic field. Or most of it. By any objective standard that they have ever espoused as an excuse for a blackout, McNalley would be the challenger to watch. He is, apparently, the Democrat Who Must Not Be Named, however. It's all about Clownders. Then Fox talked about the GOP field. Apparently only Bush Must Be Named this year.

    ABC talked about American Pharoah. Fox talked about Bruc--er, I mean Caitlyn Jenner. They did say that he didn't really break new ground, and talked about Renee Richards. They did not give Jenner credit for competing in sports against other people who were also born men first, and then making the change later.

    And now Christie is telling Dickerson he has a day job. And telling him that he'd send the DEA into the states of Colorado and Washington to bust people for weed.

    'Everyone is a genius in retrospect.'--Chris Christie, speaking to those conservatives who predicted that Common Core would fail spectacularly, a subject about which Christie was on record and no genius in retrospect

    Di Blasio is finished blathering. It's safe to come in from the kitchen.

    House Homeland Security Chair Michael McCall is now telling us we should be afraid of the internet, and promises that there will be Congressional Hearings about the utter incompetence of the TSA. Boogity.

    Faze the Nation has Perry on as well as Christie! An Also-Ran Two-For-One Special! He takes credit for running 'the twelfth largest economy in the world,' and creating a million and a half jobs between 2007 and 2014, but not for unemployment going up by 200K over the same period. He wants to regulate Wall St, but at least he doesn't want to bail them out, or overregulate community banks. He's working really, really hard at sounding intelligent. But the best quote he can come up with is...

    'Hillary Clinton thinks all wisdom originates in Washington, D.C.'--Rich Perry

    Rand Paul is getting coverage on Faze the Nation. On the one hand, he's broke. On the other hand, he's delusional if he thinks we can have security and privacy both at the same time. On the third hand, partisan Republicans will never vote for him. Go, guys! No coverage is bad coverage!

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    'I have found out that when newspapers knock a man a lot, there is sure to be a lot of good in him.'--Will Rogers
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    'All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.'--Will Rogers
    Rest in Peace Beau Biden, and (God willing) see the rest of you next week.
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    Hillary Clinton is running for president. Earth shattering stuff on This Week. And three Democrats are running against her, but Bernie Sanders remains the only one with either a name or a voice. The other two are allowed to show their faces--for three seconds.

    Chris Christie wants to arm Iran. Yeah. If they'll join a 'coalition of the willing' against ISIS, he'll arm Iran.

    Joel Benenson says people trust Hillary Clinton, even though they don't consider her trustworthy, because they think she's a friend of the working person. This is a disconnect we have to bring to light. No working person can trust that woman. But if we are to present Rand Paul as a friend of working people, we'll need his help. How he can break that message through their Spin Machine is another question. Rand's filibusters, among other things, should say it all. But the fact that Benenson is spewing this 'Hillary as Populist' nonsense with a straight face strongly suggests that we have our work cut out for us in that department.

    Sometimes This Week is surreal. Who points a camera in all seriousness at Billy Kristol, then follows that up with this quote? ''Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'--William Shakespeare. At times like this I suspect The Onion has taken over the world.

    TPP will happen because America has to dictate trade terms to the world, and because Obama is a friend of the working man from the moment he wakes up in the morning, and because NAFTA environmental protections are stuff for the 'children's table'. We have to fix Iraq's army because it sucks. It sucks, therefore we need to fix it. No one said it's broke because we broke it--for no good reason. No one said if we didn't fix it, ISIS would be your new next door neighbor, either; they used words like 'catastrophic' instead. Blather, blather.

    Sanders and Rubio are the Royal Opposition. But otherwise, halfway between their Official Campaign Kickoffs, it's 1992. If you aren't a Bush or a Clinton, you ain't $#@!. Clinton or Bush could obviously have bumped Christie, if either one of them ever did an interview. And neither Fox nor Bleats the Press is showing any sign of mentioning any other names, either.

    The screenshot of the week comes from Fox: CLINTON SPEECH LAYS OUT BROAD AGENDA

    If this week is generally taking us back to 1992, at least Fox and NBC have brought us up to 2012. Fox had Paul Ryan telling us how Obamacare must be replaced, not merely scrapped, and Romney bleated to the press that Rubio and Bush are the only GOP candidates worthy of your consideration.

    This week' major spin (and it's the same on every show): TPP is nothing, it just gives Obama authority to negotiate, it obviously doesn't favor big business because Republicans never look nervously at their restless voters and refuse to throw business a bone. Iraq needs our army because if they have one of their own, they'll use it to kill each other (and don't ask why it was we killed Hussein for the Fed because then you'll ask if the Fed is worth the trouble). Shut up and be afraid, be very afraid.

    Well, Bernie Sanders is eloquently stating that he's a real rail splitter, and the best friend the working man had since FDR and Woody Guthrie. But he has nothing specific at all. He's looking forward to working with the secretaries of this and that to fix it all--somehow. Wll Rogers once described him, I think...

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    Some people spend a lifetime juggling with words, with not an idea in a carload.
    'Is that a big distinction or a little distinction between you?'--John Dickerson

    'I think it is, John.'--Bernie Sanders

    This guy could prove to be as much fun as Yogi Berra.

    Faze the Nation's GOP Candidate of the Week is Lindsey Graham. The first two questions were about ISIS. She--er, he--it says this war cannot be won from the air.

    'Do you think any Republican candidate would be a better president from a foreign policy perspective than Hillary Clinton?'--John Dickerson

    'Yes--except for Rand Paul.'--Lindsey Graham

    Faze the Nation wins the Biggest Coverage of Hillary's First Big Rally sweepstakes by interviewing both Bobby Nook and John Podesta of her campaign staff. Which will have to do, since no one can interview her.

    Well, Mark Halperin was kind enough to admit that Rand Paul has a chance to 'influence who gets the nomination.' Better watch it there, Mark. Mention the name of the Son Of He Who Must Not Be Named too often and he'll be making a while bunch of nominations in 2017.
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  17. #74
    Well, the blather certainly seems to indicate the game plan of the status quo. Their increasing desperation to make us give a rat's ass about Jeb Bush clearly indicates that they desire for us to relive 1992, and once again decide if someone named Bush or someone named Clinton is less evil. This is clear. But they seem to be holding Scott Walker up as the Official Plan B, in the event that they finally discover that most of us would rather have an eye gouged with a hot poker than have another Bush in the White House.

    Bernie Sanders seems to be there primarily to push all the traditional liberal buttons. This could be why he gets so much press attention. If his button pushing causes some poll to blip somewhere, then Clinton can rush in and capitalize on that issue (by pushing the same hot button). Rubio is getting a similar amount of attention. He could be doing something similar for his fellow Floridian.

    And Graham is there to foam at the mouth and say Rand Paul's name a lot. His mission is pretty obvious, I think, and if I say this maybe you will too: Lindsey Graham is trying to sell himself as no more radical than Rand Paul, but in the opposite direction. His job is to convince us that he is one extreme, Paul is the other, and that only the people in between are reasonable. We who see through this know that Walker or Christie or Clinton or whomever (aside from Paul and maybe one other somewhere maybe) will all go to Syria and throw away our blood and treasure just as quick as Graham will. But this reality is not the appearance they are selling to the masses.

    Spoiling their illusion is an important job for us. And they are in the middle of their critical push. They will sell it, or not, soon.
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  18. #75

    Father's Day Blather

    This Week with George Stephanopoulos has two hosts this week, one in Charleston and one in Washington, and neither one of them is George Stephanopoulos. Apparently they realized that gun control laws would not have prevented Charleston, so more than half the show is about race. To his credit, Santorum refused to tell South Carolina that they should ban the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse grounds.

    Bernie Sanders is going to drag Clinton left and make her unelectable. Martin O'Malley still Must Not Be Named. Much was made of the fact that they would talk about Trump and Bush. They said Trump was a clown. Even the professional talking heads found Jeb! so boring this week that they couldn't think of one more nice thing to say about him. Despite promises to the contrary, the rest of the GOP field went unmentioned.

    No time to talk about anything of substance this week. Gotta have Hymns from Charleston.

    Well, Bleats the Press has proven that NBC is never hesitant to push for gun control. Ever. Whether events have given them a good argument in favor or not.

    Huckabee on NBC. Perry on Fox. The ABC 'round table' panel did not mention Santorum, even though he was on the show. The Fox 'round table' panel did not mention Perry, even though he was on the show. The NBC 'round table' panel did not mention Huckabee, despite the fact that he was on the show. They have these presidential candidates on, then don't talk about them. They barely talk to them. Every week, these people are treated like they were invited on to discuss the Themes of the Week. Should South Carolina ban Robert E. Lee's Battle Flag from the statehouse grounds? Should South Carolina ban Robert E. Lee's Battle Flag from the statehouse grounds? Should South Carolina ban Robert E. Lee's Battle Flag from the statehouse grounds? Thus the guide below.

    Because it's important we keep track of Who Must Not Be Named.

    After half an hour of race baiting, Bleats the Press is actually covering something that you don't hear about often. Saudi Arabia is shelling Yemen in order to beat up yet another separatist group. Saudi Arabia is bombing Huthis (sp?) in Yemen even though they also hate al Qaeda, but they shout, 'Death to America!' so the Saudis have to kill them.

    Guess we had better also not mention that al Qaeda was founded by a member or members of the Royal House of Saud.

    Michael Gershon of the Washington Post is on message today. This is about racism and radicalization via the internet. This is not about the abject failure of the psychiatric profession since it got nearly taken over by drug pushers. Obviously putting a stop to overdosing pubescent males with harsh, still experimental pharmaceuticals won't stop this. Steal the guns and ruin the internet!

    OMG. Somebody on the ABC round table panel mentioned Webb. Just came right out and said his name. I wonder how much of his pay will be withheld?
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    SPECIAL ISSUE!

    THE OFFICIAL MSM 2016 ELECTION GUIDE

    THE DEMOCRATIC FIELD:



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    THE REPUBLICAN FIELD:









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  21. #78

    6-28

    This Week led off with gay guys exulting over the SCOTUS ruling, and used that to lead right into Huckabee. This week seems not to have been the best week for him to get his turn.

    Stephanopoulos then asked Peter King what his intelligence sources had to say. Peter King showed, as always, no signs at all of having any access to anything resembling intelligence.

    Has a candidate polling as miserably as Bernie Sanders ever gotten as much media attention as Bernie Sanders? Ever? He's getting a hell of a lot more airtime on ABC than Huckabee did. On the other hand, Stephanopoulos did mention O'Malley. Indeed, they played one of his commercials--an attack ad targeting Sanders. That's it. All we learned about O'Malley is he attacked Sanders. Now O'Malley knows what he has to do to get the attention of the press--slam the Media Darling Sanders. And speaking of Media Approved Candidates, Georgie Boy just announced that the panelists will FOCUS ON TRUMP. Just like last week. And the week before. As if he has said anything intelligent at all since the last time they FOCUSED ON TRUMP.

    And bless their hearts, they never once mentioned the loudmouth. Religious liberty, discrimination against gays, a little about the flag, Donna Shelela praising Obama for singing (power worshipper that she is) and everyone else rightly saying that the big thing that came out of South Carolina was some Christians forgiving the one who did them wrong. A much better conversation than any conversation I've ever heard about Teh Donald.

    So far, Bleats the Press is all wrapped up in the fact that neither Clinton nor Sanders would say, verbatim, 'Black lives matter.' Fox, meanwhile, has its head up ISIS' ass as usual. What a surprise.

    'We need to inflict battlefield defeats on [ISIS] so they'll be less attractive...'--Gen. Hayden, who seems to have expunged the word 'blowback' from his vocabulary.

    Bleats the Press, having had the plaintiffs from the SCOTUS gay marriage case on, spent a few moments reminding us to be very afraid of ISIS as well. Charles Ogletree summed up the gay marriage case nicely. It isn't about left and right, it's about equality. No one is saying, not even Karl Rove, that 'The Right's' mistake came decades ago, when they let the state define marriage in the first place.

    Chuck Todd actually asked an interesting question. Will the piss poor performance of Dubya's and his daddy's SCOTUS nominees cause conservatives not to trust Jeb? Karl Rove ducked that question.

    Fox, true to form, isn't talking about that at all. The first half of Fox Sunday Morning is always dedicated to making us afraid, very afraid, and the subject there has turned to the Iranian nuclear deal and some unacceptable counterproposals from the Ayatollah.

    Bleats the Press has Miss Lindsay on. Whether it's his turn as a GOP candidate, or whether they're using the shooting in his state as an excuse to do what they love to do--point cameras at his ugly mug and point microphones at his lisping voice--we do not know.

    'I think Washington, D.C. is appropriately named, even though [George Washington] was a slave owner.'--Lindsay Graham

    Well, I guess we now know if Lindsay was getting his turn as a GOP candidate or was just on Bleats the Press because the old poufdah warmonger is always welcome on the General Electric Channel. Jindahl is on now. Clearly, he was the GOP Candidate of the Week on that show.

    There was a SuperPAC created called 'Jews for Cruz', and the FEC is making them change the name. Which is too bad, because that's a terrible name, and I'd prefer they not be forced to come up with a better one. Someone started a SuperPAC for Fiorina, too, and gave it one of those generic names--which just happens to fit e acronym C.A.R.L.Y. So, Bleats the Press decided to laugh about that, and suggested other acronym-friendly names for other SuperPACs. Specifically, SuperPACs for Clinton and Rubio.Even when they're trying to be funny, Those Who Must Not Be Named don't get named.

    Does anyone else remember Equal Time Laws? I miss those.

    Paul Ryan is on Faze the Nation. The classic RINO is alternately trying to make conservatives think he's conservative himself by badmouthing Obamacare, and all the while reinforcing the Official Narrative that it can't be repealed until we have a replacement for it. And he's saying that the TPP is America 'writing the rules' in terms of trade. Thanks, Paul RINO.

    Well, Rep Trey Gowdy is on talking about how Clinton lied when she said she made all her State Department-era emails available to the House Committee. He's accusing the State Dept. of incalcitrance in refusing to cooperate fully with the investigation into bin Ghazi. He's promising not to back down, and threatened to drag Kerry before the committee. Not what I expected from Faze the Nation.

    Kasich's turn on CBS. He's talking about how much he loves the poor and thinks they should get the help they need. And he's saying the right thing in talking about the economy. But he managed to say neither that people can help each other better than the government can help anyone. And he has nothing specific to suggest about the economy. Even so, he thinks these are more important topics than gay marriage, whether he has anything specific to say or not.

    'In terms of announcing [his candidacy] we're getting awfully close to being able to make a decision.'--John Kasich

    Someone is actually admitting on Faze the Nation that Obamacare really can be repealed without being replaced by anything. But still no one is admitting that this could be much better handled by the several sovereign states than by Washington, the District of Calamity. God forbid.
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  22. #79

    The Fifth of July

    Rick Perry on This Week this week.

    12th largest economy in the world... 12th largest economy in the world... Perry is offended by Donald Trump... All job growth lately has been in Texas... And he finally gets to the point, which is overregulation, but then moves right on to tax cuts for big corporations (without ever mentioning small business)... Predicts the invention of 'The Sunni Bomb'... He says he'll make the cut and be in the debates--and won't stick his foot in his mouth when he gets there.

    This Week's panel discussion: Donald Trump Donald Trump Bush Donald Trump Donald Trump Rubio Donald Trump Donald Trump Donald Trump Donald Trump. They're actually talking about Trump running 'third party'; no speculation about what might cause him to (hint: only if Rand is nominated, I'm sure). And they actually mentioned Rick Perry, but said only that he had just disagreed with Donald Trump. There is legitimate competition for Clinton, and so there will obviously not 'be a coronation', but anyone in that race besides Bernie Sanders still Must Not Be Named.

    What makes Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas uniquely qualified to trash Iran? He criticizes Iran's 'smug tone' but his own tone is downright abusive so far. He was asked if harassing Iran would strengthen ISIS. He ducked the question outright. Then Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland comes on as if to offer a counterpoint, but he's only a little less hard line on Iran. You gotta admit they air both sides--both the Establishment Hard Line Position and the Establishment Centrist Position.

    'This is a politically engineered liquidity crisis.'--Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

    'The Eurozone's response to the crisis of the last five years has compromised the global economy.'--Yanis Varoufakis

    He called the Eurozone a fiend. And now Krugman is on. Greece is too small to matter much, yet if they drop out of the European Union it will be catastrophic. It could end the EU, but Krugman has no intention of saying why that would be bad.

    'Wow... If Greece has its own currency we say obviously devalue it. In this case Greece does not have its own currency, but maybe they should consider devaluing it (anyway)...--Paul Krugman deflecting from a statement that the real problem is rampant debt

    And Rep. Tom Cole says it's perfectly valid to criticize the Iranian deal before there even is a deal because, 'Obama has been consistently wrong...' And that's This Week this week.

    Chris Christie on Fox. ISIS ISIS boogity boogity on Bleats the Nation on the General Electric channel.

    'One thing they'll never say about me is that I never lack action.'--Chris Christie Did I hear that right?

    Christie does not agree with Cruz that SCOTUS justices should be elected, but he does think the president should be able to kick them off the court every seven years. After asking him to respond to Cruz on that issue, now they're asking him about Rand Paul.

    'He (Rand Paul) is wrong... He's raising money off the internet from (his comments) and that's wrong... Sen. Paul's behavior has made [Americans] less safe.'--Chris Christie

    The federal government 'needs tools' and the Fourth Amendment be hanged. Rand Paul is wrong and his comments are making America less safe. But he doesn't bother to say how. He did say that safety and fighting terrorists is more important than the Fourth Amendment, though.

    'Yes sir.'--Chris Christie, speaking to Shannon Bream

    Cruz on Bleats the Press today. He says of course the fact that the federal government gives tax benefits and whatnot to married couple does not mean marriage is a federal issue. But though his answer is fairly lengthy, he does not say why not.

    'It is the justices that have politicized the Court... They got out the erasers out and rewrote the statutes. That is why I reluctantly called for a Constitutional amendment for periodic retention elections.'--Ted Cruz

    'I'm not going to participate in the media's game and throw rocks at other Republicans. I'm not going to do it.'--Ted Cruz on Donald Trump... Could come in handy when he gets around to talking about Rand Paul

    The Fox panel is talking about Bush and Clinton--and no one else--again. But they are fair and balanced. They're talking about their vulnerabilities, not their strengths.

    'I think the Clintons are operating the way the old Chicago Machine did. If you have a different scandal every week, nobody pays any attention.'--George Will

    Now they're talking about someone besides Bush and Clinton. Specifically, Bernie Sanders, of course.

    Bleats the Press just named--by name--all five of the Democratic contenders! All five! All he had to say about them is that every one of them but O'Malley switched to the Democratic Party. Webb was Secretary of the Navy under Reagan, though how that guaranteed he was a registered Republican I'll never know (Reagan himself was once a New Deal Democrat). Sanders has run for office as a socialist. Clinton once identified herself as a 'Goldwater girl' (though they admitted they don't know that she was ever registered as a Republican). And so on.

    Bleats the Press is also actually naming more Republican candidates than Bush, Rubio and Trump. But, of course, all they have to say about any of them is where they stand on Donald Trump and the call for the GOP to exile him.

    Those two Oregon bakers may be under a gag order, but Fox certainly isn't. NBC is debating whether Donald Trump has single-handedly ensured that no hispanic person will ever vote for any Republican. All the news that's fit only to ignore is being covered today. In depth.

    Fox has two commentators on, one saying that racists and other proponents of discrimination cloak their arguments as a religious freedom issue, and the other saying churches have always been in the civil rights vanguard. No one is saying that churches and the religious are in no way a monolithic, united bloc. So, now that Fox has spoken of race while applying the example of the Civil Rights Movement to the gay marriage decision, Bleats the Press has to do a whole segment on race. Has to be done.

    'This is a Democracy and we get the police departments we deserve.'--Ta-Nehishi Coates

    A black man just praised Rand Paul by name on Bleats the Press, and he didn't wind up on the cutting room floor. General Electric is going to fire somebody. This Ta-Nehishi Coates interview from Bleats the Press today would make one hell of a fine youtube.

    As Fox blathers in a wholly speculative manner about the Iranian deal, Bleats the Press is talking about how the number of unaffiliated voters has risen twice as much as the growth in the Democratic Party and the GOP combined. People just want to consider themselves 'independent', they say (as if that hasn't always been true) and they all actually lean toward one party or the other. No one could possibly lean toward one party on one issue and the other party on another issue. Can't be done. Take NBC's word for it.

    Now the NBC panel is talking about how Clinton and Sanders are running against each other, but not attacking each other. And then they want to talk about the Grateful Dead, which is anything but a political topic. But they found an excuse to do it anyway--the Grateful Dead has a higher approval rating among both Democrats and Republicans than either the Democratic Party or the GOP does. Well, of course they do. Who has the Grateful Dead ever harmed but themselves? That band always had a much higher sense of public service than Washington, D.C. ever did.

    Nobody's learning a damned thing so far this Sunday morning, but it's certainly a more interesting week than usual.

    Faze the Nation: Iran Iran Iran.

    Santorum's turn. He doesn't even think we should talk to Iran. He hates the Supreme Court because it isn't democracy. I guess this Republican has no clue that this nation has never been a straight democracy. He is making interesting points about marriage being an institution created for the benefit of children, and now we have divorced (so to speak) the marriage issue and children. And now Santorum gets to talk about Trump. Why can't any of these candidates speak for themselves? Why do they all have to talk about the clown? Just because he's the current selection in the Fox Candidate of the Month Club?

    '[Donald Trump]'s a... Well, he's a unique individual. Let's just put it that way.'--Rick Santorum

    Trump Trump Trump. He's damaging the GOP, but couldn't possibly be a Democrat infiltrator. Can't even mention the possibility. Despite all the evidence that this is exactly what the man is:

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ical-donations

    One Faze the Nation commentator did mention Carly Fiorina. But only to say the GOP wants her in their debates because she would improve their 'optics'. Or, to put it another way, they seem to be allowed to mention Fiorina only to point out that she's a woman.

    Sanders Sanders Sanders. '...not necessarily the right vessel.' Then why does he get all this coverage? The clowns are getting all the attention again today. Trump and Sanders are getting lots of searches on the search engines. Why don't they just come out and say, 'We are proud we're accomplishing our mission'?
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  23. #80

    7/12

    Interesting how the media works at appearing to give both sides of a story, then spoils it by saying things like, Iran's ability to produce nuclear weapons is a threat. Iran can't produce nuclear weapons. Their threat is that they're trying to get to the point where they can. But, you know, that couldn't be intentional, right? Martha Radditz has broad shoulders; we'll just accuse her of having misspoken. If anyone notices, that is.

    Carly Fiorina's week on This Week. She was asked three questions--one about Iran, one about Jeb Bush, and one about Donald Trump. She managed to parlay the question about Jeb! into a strong statement about the crushing of small business. She did not manage to turn a question about falling real wages into a statement about fiat funny money and the Fed. She observed--dryly--that she had just spent time in New Hampshire and no one outside the media asked her anything at all about Donald Trump.

    A little trash talking of Harper Lee and her daddy, who inspired the character Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird. But no one said the new Watchman wasn't a great book and worth reading. First Mark Twain, and now Harper Lee. No doubt the progs will next tell us how racist the people who ran the Underground Railroad were.

    Coming up--the Round Table talks about Donald Trump!! *groan*

    But not just yet. First Obama has to be blamed for the fact that most federal agencies have crappy cybersecurity. And Richard Clarke is just the guy to do not only that, but to call the fedgov a liar when it says recent computer problems with a certain airline, for example, are not cyber attacks.

    Donald Trump Donald Trump Donald Trump. 'He's sucking up a lot of oxygen here in the media space.'--George Stephanopoulos. And who is feeding him all the oxygen? They're talking about how the only thing Donald Trump has going for him is insane media attention, but they'e the media and they're insane enough to all sit there and talk about the clown like they're doing something useful.

    I guess they shamed themselves, because they found half a minute to talk about Clinton's disappearing emails--and ten minutes to talk about why that doesn't matter a bit because she's just so darned grandmotherly.

    One thing hasn't changed, no matter how much they criticize themselves for doing it--if you ain't named Clinton, Bush, Sanders or Trump, the discussion panel will not mention your name under any circumstances.

    Fox opens with Mitch McConnell saying that Obama and Kerry are resigned to allowing Iran to become a 'threshold nuclear state.' Bleats the Press has Nikki Haley on to try to say that there's more to South Carolina than the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia over their war memorial. Of course, Chuck Todd is having none of that.

    While Bleats the Press is sucking up all the oxygen and spewing their carbon about Trump, Fox has not only mentioned some Democratic candidate besides Clinton and Sanders, they have Jim Webb on the show. And among other things, Jim Webb talked about people getting health care services charitably at an event in the south--as he said, taking care of people that both political parties have overlooked. And as he finishes and Fox goes to commercial, Bleats the Press is still bitching that everyone is talking about Donald Trump all the time. Seldom have I seen NBC argue so persuasively that the best thing the United States of America can do on its own behalf is turn off NBC and never tune in to it again.

    While NBC argues that the fact that federal government computers are easy to hack means the federal government should be more nosy, not less, Fox is trying to say something intelligent about Greece. Only thing is, they can't stop fearmongering about Iran to do it.

    Bobby Jindal is the Republican of the week on Fox. Chuck Todd just said that Bleats the Press does have a Republican candidate on this week, but did not say the name. Apparently even the guest of the week Must Not Be Named. I can't wait for the actual interview. 'Mr. X, what do you think of Donald Trump?'

    Well, they named him--Scott Walker, who is slated to announce tomorrow. But not until Chuck Todd blathers at length about the important of the Yankee tier of 'midwestern states'. Which is still better than hearing Fox take their turn blathering about how horrible it is that everyone is talking about Trump while talking about no one but Trump. Or is it? Because Chuck Todd makes it sound like NBC has Walker on, but all he was really saying is how excited he is that GE is letting his panelists talk about Scott Walker. Fact is, apparently they reached their quota of Republicans with Haley and Corker, and will have no GOP candidate on at all today. Not that I blame him for being excited. This is the first time any MSM panel has been allowed to talk about anyone but Bush, Clinton, Trump and Sanders. But if you actually wanted to hear what Walker has to say for himself, you're out of luck.

    Seems to be any Republican as long as he's not a candidate this week. Faze the Nation chose Boehner and Tom Cotton. The latter, of course, is saying that we should give up on diplomacy with Iran. Nothing but war will do.

    Faze the Nation does have a candidate on, though. For half an hour. This is the first candidate interview this whole cycle that had to be continued after a commercial break. All the better to give him time to talk about how wonderful Clinton is three or four times.

    Then the panel. Not allowed to talk about anyone new yet, like NBC was. So, they tell us what Sanders' job is. No, no one expects or even wants him to win, but he does these favors for Clinton. Which maybe makes it the most informative Faze the Nation panel of the year.

    Damned faint praise, of course...

    But they did find a moment to talk of Iran. And in a week devoid of quotable quotes, I leave you with this:

    'I think this deal has become too big to fail.'--Tavis Smiley, talking about how Obama and Kerry have so much political capital tied up in the Iranian talks that there will be a deal even if it sucks
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  25. #81
    Trump ISIS on Twitter Trump Iran Trump boogity boogity.

    Fox spent ten minutes off this message carving up Planned Parenthood so they'd have some red meat to throw, and NBC spent five minutes off this message telling the liberals about some unfortunate who everyone hates so they could have someone to feel sorry for--specifically Hillary Clinton.

    ABC deviated from the official topics of the week not one whit. And CBS deviated from the script not one whit, though it was interesting to hear Kerry say that the Senate means absolutely nothing where this Iran 'agreement' is concerned (he was very careful never to use the word 'treaty'). And it was interesting to hear Diane Feinstein deplore free speech and just generally channel the ghost of Dubya.

    So, has anyone added up how many hours the media has spent now talking about how Trump isn't worth discussing...?
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  26. #82

    7-26

    Ditto.

    Oh, they talked less about Iran and more about Planned Parenthood. But that was about as different as it gets.

    Rand Paul did reasonably well in his appearance on Fox News Sunday Morning. If he's taking free advice, then...

    Wear sunglasses less. I know he knows more than most that UV puts extra wear and tear on the eyes. But he's getting tan lines.

    Smile. Yes, the media asking you questions about that bastard Trump is nothing to smile about. But the viewers want to see teeth. Oblige them.

    Yes, Rand did a better job than any other candidate of not talking about that ugly bastard that the media blathers about 24/7. Yes, there's a lot to be said for showing them how to do their jobs by pretending every question about Trump is a question about something real. But if you're handed one on a silver platter, like when Chris Matthews asks you if you're chipping and chopping up the tax code in an effort to out-Trump Trump, you can take the media to task without talking about the bastard. 'Well, who can blame the younger people of this nation for ignoring the mainstream media? They don't know why their elders are so fascinated by this moron with a bad combover that you keep giving free publicity to. Of course I will keep posting things to youtube. People want to have an intelligent conversation about the ills facing this nation, and the media can't pry their cameras off the circus clowns.'

    Of course, he probably said all that, and might have even smiled. If so, it all wound up in a familiar place--the Fox cutting room floor. That might be pearls before swine, anyway. Fox News viewers are the ones who don't ask why Fox camera crews are chasing through neighborhoods at fifty to catch motorists and take them to task for going through the same neighborhood at 35.

    Faze the Nation decided it was Paul's week, too, lest he get publicity on more than one week out of twenty. Nice to hear that line about a billion dollars worth of free publicity. Better to hear someone talk intelligently about Hillary Clinton's general untrustworthiness.

    I guess he sounded a little too intelligent. Rick Perry got at least half agains as much camera time...

    But I'm glad Rand Paul didn't call Trump a clown, or anything else. Trump is obviously the establishment shill who's role is to run independent and split the vote if Republicans nominate the 'wrong' person--which means Rand Paul. But he's saying he will only do it if he gets no respect. It's actually very canny of Rand to refuse to slam him. It takes his whole excuse for splitting Rand's eventual general election vote and makes it meaningless. The only GOP nominee he will run against is the only one who said nothing at all about him. Not that Trump doesn't hate being ignored more than he hates being insulted. But Rand is wise to give him no excuse for splitting the GOP vote, so when he does, everyone knows why his eyes are brown.

    'Why are you running against Rand Paul?'

    'Because everyone else in the GOP but Rand Paul insulted me.'

    Yeah, Donnie--That'll play in Peoria.
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  27. #83

    8-2

    This Week with George Stephanopoulos without George Stephanopoulos opens with talk about something that may or may not have fallen off a Boeing 777. That didn't last long, as the item has not even been identified yet, so there's nothing intelligent that can be said about it.

    Then Donald Trump. They tried to get him to attack Rand Paul specifically. He mostly declined, basically just saying that Paul has a reputation for being soft on defense. He was kind enough to say he thought waterboarding worked. Then Santorum saying that national polls mean nothing at all at this stage. Next--Cecil the lion...

    Sanders again. If anyone sees Martin O'Malley, please give him directions to the closest Sunday Morning Blather Show, as they seem to be having trouble getting together...

    Kasich on Fox this morning, saying that it isn't about Christian values, it's about Judeo-Chriatain values. Trump and Carson both got time on Bleats the Press, where Trump said he's basically a nice guy. If you want to hear Trump straddle the fence on an issue, listen to him on the subject of police brutality. Perry also got time on Fox, where he wore his glasses. Which doesn't help much, when he makes excuses for his poor debate performance four years ago by using the Royal We like his whole campaign staff had just had back surgery before that debate. But at least we discovered what Perry stands for. He stands for John McCain. And what is the first thing Perry would do as president? 'Tear up that agreement with Iran. I think that's the biggest challenge facing this country today.'--Rick Perry

    Oh, Biden's running. They're trying to make sure people notice. They're also trying to convince people to care, but it's hard since none of the talking heads seem to care either. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz says the Democrats will also have debates. She did not say whether or not Clinton will answer any questions during them. Meanwhile, the Bleats the Press panel is very educational this morning. I just learned that Democrats have supported Social Security for two hundred years. I could have sworn that the name Social Security was only coined about eighty years ago.

    The Fox panel is educational this morning, too. They say the Republican who backs up what he says with real action will take the lead among the Republican candidates. I didn't realize that Rand Paul, with his accomplishments and his filibusters, was already in the lead. Could he be overestimating the Republicans' appetite for substance over style?

    'Any implication that is attempting to be made along those lines is false.'--Hillary Clinton

    A small group. I know of no implications that are attempting to make themselves at all, false or not.

    And Trump on Faze the Nation. Apparently if they interview him by phone, and don't point cameras at him while he's speaking, it doesn't count toward the equal time laws. So he's on three out of four networks yet again. He says he might release his tax returns if Clinton releases top secret emails to the nation. Apparently his tax returns are more of a matter of national security.

    Faze the Nation promises to discuss why there is so much money in the campaigns. Any bets on whether or not they say, 'to curry favor and get advantageous laws passed'? And the answer is no! Trevor Potter mentioned the 'appearance of corruption', but that was about it. The panelists were so afraid to state the obvious that they had to play a clip of someone talking about candidates being owned and controlled. And that clip was of--who else?--Donald Trump.
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  28. #84
    i used to watch meet the the press, but just reading these recaps is way better
    Tax is theft. War is murder. Conscription is slavery. Government is organized crime.

  29. #85

    8-9

    We have Trump on by telephone, because pointing a camera and a microphone at him counts toward equal time for all candidates but hearing him blather while showing still pics of him doesn't. We have Kasich on so we can ask him three out of four questions about Trump, and turn off the camera in favor of showing pics of Trump while Kasich talks. We have Huckabee on so we can ask him half his questions about Trump, and Perry on so a third of the questions can be about Trump and the other two thirds about what a loser he is. Two rounds of panelists talking about how no one is allowed to talk about how Rand Paul knocked Chris Christie out of the race because we must talk about Trump. Oh, and the voting rights act turns fifty, Iran still exists and Jon Stewart retired. And that's This Week.

    And not just This Week this week. Bleats the Press has Trump on--again, by phone--while so far two of the three questions Fox has asked Fiorina were about Trump. Of course, Fox doesn't have an official policy of shoving Fiorina forward--perish the thought that a fine journalistic organization would do such a thing--but she got damned near fifteen minutes' worth of softballs this morning. And she said the right things. Small business is suffering because they have to hire as many accountants and lawyers as the corporations (damn it, she stole that line from me). Progressive policies always result in greater income inequality. Much better than listening to Bleats the Press blather nonstop about Trump for that same, whole fifteen minutes.

    Rand Paul got half as much time, and in spite of being interrupted by Wallace 100% more often, managed to kick at least twice as much ass. He even got a little of that Ronald Reagan Trying To Be Patient With The Slow Children Of The Media thing going on. What sense does it make to send our young people overseas to fight to the death for the Constitution while we're destroying that same Constitution at home? How does sending less of Americans' money to Washington harm the economy? Beats watching Rubio on Bleats the Press.

    Fox is actually talking the least about Trump today. And, as usual, talking the most about Bush. But their talk about Bush is starting to sound a whole lot less like a sales pitch and a whole lot more like a eulogy.

    Kasich is also using NBC's questions about Trump to talk about himself. Go, man! The panel? Both Kasich and Bush have a 'combativeness deficit' with regard to Clinton.

    And on to Faze the Nation. I have never in my life seen someone defend his main political opponent as constantly, as consistently, and as fervently as Sanders defends Clinton.

    Carson said Americans' biggest enemies are not other Americans. And he said that black-on-black crime ends even more black lives than cops do. He seems to like having Trump in the race, because he can say politically incorrect stuff and not get called on it.

    It's amazing how many of the panelists today are trying to say Chris Christie came out of that debate looking good. They seem to be resigned to eulogizing Bush today, but they sure aren't going to give up on the Jerseyan.

    Hilarious to hear John Dickerson ask, 'What if George W. Bush had said, either you're on our side or you're with the people who are against us?' What part of this did he not understand...?



    Kudos for the panelists for not laughing at him. They did have to work at it. You could see them biting their lips.

    The first anniversary of Michael Brown's death. Please tell me nobody's going to make a holiday out of it.
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  30. #86

    16 August

    Martha Radditz just proudly announced that ABC followed Trump around the Iowa State Fair like a puppy dog. He doesn't just suck all the oxygen out of 'the room'. He sucks so much he can suck all the oxygen out of an entire fairgrounds. But she found a little time between helicopter rides to point cameras at Carson, Fiorina, and various Iowans eating disgusting fried things. Just, not a lot.

    They just showed Clinton saying she loves snapchat, because the messages are self-deleting. Easy to laugh now. Apparently she considers national security breaches and federal laws a 'partisan distraction'.

    Sen. Claire McCaskill is on This Week saying that Clinton has no motivation to put the nation at risk. No mention that carelessness needs no motivation; no mention of the fact that just feeling above the law is its own motivation; no talk about the facts at all. Imagine that.

    The Round Table is about to talk about Trump Surge. Probably exclusively. Not a good subject at breakfast time. You have been warned.

    A blatant promo for a new movie about Gore Vidal and William Buckley Jr, and that's This Week.

    Chuck Todd is announcing his interview with Trump like he didn't talk to him by phone but one week ago. No confirmation of the rumor that Rand Paul would be on. He wants to take the oil away from ISIS and sell the oil to take care of the vets for a change. How? Don't go to him for details; he's an idea man. The Iran deal was a crime, we're all in mortal danger, and Kerry is incompetent. So hat' he going to do about it? Look for loopholes, because he's good at that. More to come--NBC is so desperate to promote Trump they're actually playing his interview in two parts. Maybe he'll actually say something in the second half.

    Carson is on Fox. Presenting one or two details. Like his new flat tax plan, which smells a whole lot like Rand Paul's. Next up, Fox must have cooked up some numbers they like in their latest poll, because they're about to play it up.

    Trump jumped on the amendment to end automatic citizenship for those born in the country bandwagon. In the second portion of his interview on Bleats the Press, Trump the Anti-Establishment Champion just said he loves the District of Columbia and everyone in it. That would make a good t00b.

    Universal Talking Point of the Week: Trump, Fiorina and Carson are outsiders. Rand Paul, who almost the entire Senate has come to hate since he arrived less than six years ago, is naturally the Ultimate Insider, apparently. So, politicians who don't take bribes are insiders, while business executive who do pay bribes are not. Got it. Going to try to sell me a bridge next?

    Clinton has also said recently that national security is a 'partisan game'. Now you know.

    Bleats the Press jumped straight from Trump to Sanders. He's trying to say it's OK that he is and isn't a Democrat, as long as it fools people into thinking he's not the establishment politician he is. And that the U.S. is the only industrialized country on earth that doesn't have socialized medicine. Is there a completely non-industrial country left on earth?

    Fox seems desperate to make themselves relevant to Republicans again, because they're spending most of their hour today trashing Clinton. But if they wanted to be really useful to Republicans they'd mention who can beat her. All of Rand' bad numbers in their new poll they proudly displayed, but they not only didn't show how well he polls head-to-head against Clinton, they didn't mention who does best against her. As usual. Not even Bleats the Press is still defending her. It's starting to look like they're sticking forks in her to see if she's done yet.

    Kasich on Faze the Nation, saying he doesn't want to talk abut Trump. He wants to talk about himself, but all he can say is he won a bunch of elections against incumbents and wants to win this one as well. Never mind that there is no incumbent in the 2016 presidential race at all.

    Meanwhile, Graham is happy to talk about Trump. But all he can say is anyone who criticizes John McCain is trash. When asked about other candidates being novices, he talks about destroying ISIL before they come here. When asked about Clinton, he talks about letting the pros handle it. Unpredictable is not something Graham does. So, three questions and out.

    Good God. They're pointing a camera at Martin O'Malley. If you ever heard of this Democratic candidate (wasn't he the first Democrat to throw his hat in the ring?) but have never seen his face or heard his voice, tune in to Faze the Nation quick!

    Now that that's over, we have Mark Halperin saying that Cruz is anti-establishment too (He Who Must Not Be Named was not named), and we have the usual Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump. And Cruz. Mentioned twice in one show, which is more than he has been mentioned on Sunday mornings for more than two months. Mark my words--Cruz is the next Candidate of the Month Club Selection after Fiorina.

    And Cuba and out. Another week, another dose of pablum. Glad I could report the good news that the forks are being stuck in Hillary. Fearless prediction: She is done, and you're about to hear the name O'Malley day and night.
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  31. #87

    8-23

    This Week opens with Trump by telephone. He said nothing. How are you going to deport all the illegals when you don't even know how many there are? 'Management.'

    Biden met with Elizabeth Warren. Nobody knows what was said. But it was reason enough to talk about something besides the candidates whoa re actually in the race.

    Walker also says nothing, but says it fast enough that he doesn't get interrupted. O'Malley says nothing but the Republicans are the Party of Hate. If you're on a western European train, it's good to have brave Americans around.

    Clinton's emails. Fox could talk about nothing else for the first fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, Bleats the Press was so intent on talking about Trump that they even showed a clip of Rand Paul trashing him. There's more of that interview on their website.

    Funny to hear Gov. Jerry Brown of California talk about how the email issue has 'dark energy'. He stopped short of recommending she do transcendental meditation in a little pyramid to get rid of it. Ore of that interview at their website, too, if you're running short on Valleyspeak.

    NBC says the 'other outsider who has been making waves in the Republican race' is Carly Fiorina. How the chairman of HP is more of an outsider than an eye doctor who goes to the Senate and immediately starts in with genuine talking filibusters no one knows. How someone who says he has brib--er, I mean made campaign contributions to more than half of the GOP presidential candidates is an outsider is also a mystery. NBC will have Fiorina on shorty.

    Meanwhile, Huckabee is on Fox talking about Trump by way of saying he has begun refusing to talk about Trump.

    You can also watch Fiorina hit softballs on the NBC website. I think I just heard the ultimate softball question--how do you refute Gov. Jerry 'Dark Energy' Brown refuting your point that more dams and man-made lakes might help California by saying that more reservoirs who't prevent wildfires or make all the ground in California muddy just by sitting in a reservoir? A child could refute Brown. A parrot could do it.

    Isn't it a wonderful thing that we have Fox to provide a counterpoint to the 'liberal media'? How wonderful to her Fox talking about how exciting it is that Biden talked face to face with Elizabeth Warren. How else could we get a counterpoint to a bunch of liberals like NBC gently tossing softballs at Fiorina? Such a huge difference.

    It's amazing how Trump can flip flop before he finishes a sentence. I will build a beautiful wall but it will have a big beautiful door, I will kick all the immigrants out then let them right back in, we don't need immigrants but if they graduate from Harvard or Wharton we need to make them stay because we need them. We spend 130 billion, but we spend more than that, and I won't tell you what we spend it on or how kicking illegals out will save us that, but kicking all the immigrants out will save us that, and it was illegals immigrants who caused all the trouble in Ferguson, Mo. but no I won't tell you how.

    Not that Chris Christie, on Faze the Nation, is any better. Trump's plan is too simple, we can do this the right way, it doesn't involve amending the Constitution which is too complex, I can enforce the law because I've done it before, but I won't tell you how either. He just spent his entire interview blathering about how he answers questions, and never answered a single question because he was too busy blathering about how he answers questions.

    Cruz will fight illegal immigration with biometrics. He did not say if he thinks that can be done without chipping the entire population. Otherwise, his schtick is talking about how gays are persecuting Christians. He's acting like this will be this pony's one trick from now through Iowa.

    Judging by the abrupt way that John Dickerson just interrupted Manu Raju of politico, it would seem to be verboten to talk about how the constant MSM Trumpspamming is harming the serious candidates in the race. Just like it's still forbidden to mention that there might be somebody--like O'Malley, like Webb--already vying for the Democratic nomination besides Sanders and the email lady. Because God forbid Democrats find out they have other choices besides the raging pinko or the criminal--they just might choose one.

    Ken Burns' Civil War is remastered, and about to be shown on PBS yet again. Which gave Faze the Nation a chance to point a camera and microphone at Ken Burns. And he's being very accommodating. He's working very hard to associate states' rights, jury nullification, secession and Obama's 'natural born' controversy with racism. He did, however, make an interesting point that the modern media is 'too big' to deliver important messages. I think he was trying to say it's too manic to do it. You might need to digest the message, but the talking heads have to keep blathering.

    Newborn pandas and out. Another week with the serious candidates all trumped. Joy, joy.
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  32. #88

    Last Sunday of August

    Sanders Trump Trump Sanders Sanders Trump. Gee, Bernie, why is there absolutely nothing on your website about foreign policy?

    'Well, in all fairness, we've only been in this race for three and a half months.'--Bernie Sanders

    Martha Radditz is pretending to play 'gotcha' with Bernie, but won't let him finish the answer to any questions. His top-down populism is funny. He will fix the economy so the richest one percent don't get all the money, but he can't say how he will fix the economy so it actually works.

    Bobby Jindal has now been asked two questions, and they're both about Trump. So, Jindal changes the subject--to Hillary Clinton. Even Jindal doesn't want to talk about Jindal.

    Youtube clip of the week, courtesy of This Week with(out) George Stephanopolous: 'We were helped by people from all 49 states.'--Bobby Jindal

    He should have taken his shoes off so he could count on his toes, too. Hear that, Hawaii? Jindal says, 'You're fired!' He seems to have lost touch with reality in the middle of 1959, considering we went from 48 to 50 in the space of a few months.

    Why is St. Paul's School a major national news story, again? Because there's a 'campus culture of sex'? Is there a campus full of hormonal teens which can claim anything else? Hasn't anyone been raped in some ghetto high school lately? Why isn't that national news?

    Clinton still won't talk with the media. But she doesn't have to. Sen. Klobuchar (D-MN) is all too happy to do it. And smile all the while. She thinks everything every Democrat does is great, and can see Iowa from her front porch. And wants you to read her book about how she used to be a carhop at an A&W drive in. Since when do Democrats give plugs to large corporations like A&W?

    The Panel: Hillary's about to fall on her face again; if you don't like Sanders Sanders Sanders Sanders Sanders then pray for Biden, because Martin O'Who? There's a guy in the race named Webb? Huh? You'd think Karl Rove would know about these people, but if he knows there are already four or five Democrats in the race, he's not letting on.

    Jorge Ramos of Univision says Trumps Mass Deportation would cost 137 million. Probably, but how can that estimate be better than 130 or 140 million at this point? But it sounds good, I guess.

    One mention of Rand Paul. A panelist tries to say his policies are as thin as Ben Carson's. Say what? Just because your network refuses to talk about Rand Paul's policies does not mean they have no substance. Martha Radditz interrupted him before he could stick his foot deeper in his mouth. Oops, someone said Rand Paul's name. Show's over.

    Bleats the Press is trying to say all the GOP is imitating Trump. But it's just an excuse to show him trying to slam Rand Paul. Fox is trying to get Chris Christie to say it was Trump, not Paul, who knocked him out of the race. Christie, of course, is in denial and thinks he's still in it. NBC doesn't even pretend it isn't a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, yet hasn't stopped talking about Trump yet ten minutes in. Seems there's a clue for us in that somewhere...

    Christie just said that Clinton's email account could be hacked because they were on a non-government server. So, government servers can't be hacked? Christie isn't much for watching the news, is he? Or the polls--he's still talking about busting pot smokers in Colorado and Washington State like that's actually a selling point in this day and age. OMG his eyes are red and he's laughing at me! He's a terrist!!

    Scott Walker is on Bleats the Press, and hasn't been asked a question about Trump yet. He seems to be the Candidate of the Month Club Selection for September.

    The Bleats the Press panel: Who cares if there are three other Democrats already in the race? If Clinton is toast and Sanders is too goofy, then Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden. Meanwhile, on Fox, on the alternative, on the network of fairness and balance, the exact same thing. Biden Biden Biden.

    ABC kept threatening to talk about Katrina, but didn't. NBC is making the time, though. Given the numb of clear shots of the new sign on the front of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, I think we may assume they were under contractural obligation to Daimler-Benz to do so.

    Fox is literally saying the only thing wrong with our stock market this past week is the Communist Chinese don't intervene in their own stock market enough. This is the Great Conservative Media in action, folks. At the same time, we have uberliberal NBC doing some ISIS warmongering. Fair and balanced.

    Fox seems obsessed with guys who shoot reporters this morning. No one seems to shoot journalists; maybe they should hire some. Is it my imagination, or is Fox saying the fact that the government is too incompetent to provide anything but a clean background check for soon-to-be homicidal maniacs means we should only entrust the government with guns?

    Faze the Nation: Trumps Sanders Sanders Trump no such people as O'Malley or Webb so pin your hopes on Biden. But first we celebrate the tenth anniversary of Katrina by pointing a camera at Jindal and asking him questions about Trump. Same song, fourth verse.

    'Immigration without assimilation is invasion.'--Bobby Jindahl

    'You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.'--The Borg

    At least he said, '...the other forty-nine states...' this time.

    CBS sticking a fork in Hillary to see if she's done, and intimating that if you don't like either her or Sanders you need to pray for Biden to throw his hat in the ring. Martin who? Jim who?

    Trump Trump Trump Trump Katrina and out. At least they are--finally, after only ten years--saying that the U.S. Federal Army Corps of Engineers really screwed New Orleans over. See you next week.
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  34. #89

    9-6

    Refugees invading Europe. Trumpspam: He has no ceiling. He does have a ceiling. He'll be the first one out. He'll be the nomination. Billy Kristol says he, Carson and Fiorina are 'the three outsiders', which is strong proof they're all insiders in my book. The Carter County clerk and Kim Davis.

    Stephanopolous is badgering Huckabee trying to get him to say that Davis refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples is the same as a hypothetical clerk refusing to issue licenses to interracial couples in defiance of the Supreme Court. Huckabee prefers to talk about Lincoln ignoring the Dred Scott decision. But he makes a good point when he says that Supreme Court decisions are not statutes.

    Bill Kristol literally just said on This Week that if Biden gets into the race, it's a three way race. Despite the fact that Martin O'Malley is in the race. Despite Jim Webb. Despite Lincoln Chaffee. A sixth candidate gets in the race and Kristol says that makes it a three way race. Or is it seventh? They are saying another Democrat is about to throw the proverbial hat in the ring--a Harvard professor.

    Kasich: 'We don't run for president based on national polls. We go state by state.' His 'count your blessings you were born here' rhetoric is starting to sound like the line from the movie Head of State--God bless America and no place else. He doesn't agree with Huckabee: 'I believe in traditional marriage but the Court has spoken.' Davis has to comply, but shouldn't be in jail.

    Lawrence Lessig is the Harvard Law professor. His campaign promise is that he'll resign and turn the job over to his VP. He doesn't seem inclined to say who that will be. He's full of rhetoric about how 'The One Percent' buy elections, but he's basically a placeholder for a secret candidate. He will give a speculative list of who it might be, but won't say. Vote for him if you don't want to know who you're voting for. This is more important than admitting O'Malley, Webb and Chaffee are in the race? Meanwhile, he's admitting Obamacare has massive perks for cronies built in and saying the Democratic Party can do no wrong all at the same time.



    Final segment: Gen. Dempsey talking about how singing about emotional topics is easier than talking about them while they show him singing the Sinatra song New York New York. Deep. Brought to you this week by the PIAAIA, which supports the Iran nuclear deal.

    Fox opens with 'the propaganda war on police'. Bleats the Press opens with Colin Powell telling us that, yes, the Iranian deal has 'a lane' which allows Iran to work toward a bomb, but before they were on 'a superhighway with no speed limit.' Haven't seen any little test tubes of yellowcake uranium yet. His argument: All these other countries (none of which Iran can reach with any of their existing weapons) are going forward with this deal, and if we don't jump in with the lemmings we will be standing on the sidelines.

    Fox News placard:

    MURDER RATES RISE--What is the cause?

    Well, since last I heard murder rates are down in most of the nation, I imagine the fertile imagination of some Fox propagandist is the cause.

    Colin Powell is talking about what was done right and what wasn't in Iraq without ever addressing what we were doing there in the first place. Summary: H.W. did it right spending billions to beat up Hussein, then leaving him in place. Dubya did it wrong taking over, because if you break it you own it. No mention of the petrodollar so far, for some reason...

    'Black Lives Matter is a way of dealing with the fact that black people are getting killed by police officers in a way that is inappropriate--not that killing someone is ever appropriate.'--former Secretary of Defense and promoter of the Iraq War Colin Powell

    Fox blathers about Trump and the loyalty oath. Right on the same script as ABC, they repeat the lie that the 'outsiders' in the race are Trump, Carson and Fiorina. Keep repeating a lie over and over until it is perceived as the truth. And Fox is the fair and balanced counterpoint to liberal networks like ABC. Don't forget that, now, or you might notice that all the parrots are singing the same tune.

    Fox is going to keep sticking forks in Hillary Clinton to see if she's done until she's burned to a gnarled black lump of carbon. And then the fork won't go in at all, and they'll pronounce her still viable. Now Bleats the Press is doing the exact same thing to Jeb Bush.

    'If someone came to [Trump's] office to do a real estate deal and refused to say any specific numbers, he'd throw them out of his office.'--Tom Brokaw on Trump's voodoo economics

    Powell on NBC trying to sell the Iran deal, and none other than Lord Darth Cheney himself on Fox saying the opposite. This is the first time I ever saw those two read from different scripts. Cheney must be their new reverse psychology guy, hawking whatever position they don't want us to agree with. Why not just bring in Charlie Manson to talk it down?

    AFL-CIO president Trumka got invited on to Bleats the Press to say Democrat good, anything else bad, and to refrain from mentioning O'Malley, Webb and Chaffee. I would so love to see Saturday Night Live do a bit where those three are walking around in a room full of cameras, and the cameramen are trying to keep shooting without shooting any of them. If SNL wasn't on NBC, we actually might.

    Well, if the U.S. created ISIS specifically to destabilize central Europe with refugees, it's working. And Fox is busy calling it a 'perfect storm'. NBC isn't using the exact same words, but they are saying the exact same things. All on the same script, but don't forget that one of them is fair and balanced, now. They even aligned the pieces perfectly so that if Fox News Sunday Morning and Bleats the Press are on opposite each other, you can't escape the propaganda on this subject by channel surfing. Move along, no monolith monopoly to see here...

    'Both the former Secretary of State and certain Republicans who are advocating for intervention in Libya are going to have to answer for this.'--George Will

    Sounds nice, George, but I think you're overly optimistic.

    NBC asks whether Kim Davis should stand by her conscience or the law. The answer--not her conscience, of course. Goodwin says she's the only one, and ought to assume that this makes her wrong like a good little democrat. Brokaw presumes that she took an oath to obey the law, without actually explaining how some Supreme Court decision that never went through Congress and never crossed the president's desk qualifies as a law. And so Bleats the Press.

    And on to Faze the Nation, also brought to you this week by the PAAIA. Carly Fiorina is ready to be Commander in Chief, but won't say what she will do. She will provide leadership, but won't say in what direction. She ignores the fact that Obama has done lots of things in Syria, and instead says he hasn't intervened.

    Karl Rove says he doesn't know how to end the current 'kick over the table' and damn the consequences attitude among the public today. But, of course, he does. He, too, mentions the usual people being put forth as 'anti-establishment', and does not include Rand Paul in that group. The guy who admits to buying and renting politicians is not establishment, the guy who filibustered the PATRIOT Act away is. Karl Rove said it, so it must be true, right?

    It's 45 minutes past the hour, so refugees, refugees, refugees. Still waiting for Trump to say he's going to build a big, beautiful wall around Syria and steal their oil to pay for it. Then on to talk of how nobody seems to care if Trump has principled positions or stands by them, just as long as he fights. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

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    "There is one thing in common with all revolutions (in fact, they are pretty much like wars in that respect), nobody ever knows what they are fighting about."--Will Rogers
    Somebody mentioned Scott Walker's name! Of course, that was just to stick a fork in him to se if he's done. Candidates actually in the race Who Must Not Be Named this week, in alphabetical order: Chaffee, Graham, Jindal, O'Malley, Paul, Perry, Webb. The only reason Huckabee isn't on it is it was his turn to be on ABC. Fearless prediction: Huckster's comment that a Supreme Court decision is not the same thing as a law will keep him on the Must Not Be Named list for weeks to come.

    Gotta keep up with that list. It's unusually short this week, which I think is a small but good sign. They usually manage to ignore over half of the 22 declared candidates.
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  35. #90
    Lead story: Trump only loses to Clinton in a new WaPo poll by a little bit. Lead story spin: This indicates Trump is getting stronger, not that Clinton is crashing and burning even faster than Trump is. What is not said at all: Several of the other Republicans can kick her dog ass--especially Rand Paul.

    Carson interviewed--mostly about Trump.

    'You don't have to be loud to be energetic.'--Dr. Ben Carson

    'We have a responsibility to help deal with this humanitarian crisis...'--General John Allen

    Um, only if we have culpability as Syrian $#@! stirrers, General. Is that an admission?

    Still no mention of Webb or Chaffee on This Week. But we are about to get a second full segment on speculation about Joe Biden...

    Holy Moses! Between blather about Biden' great statesmanship, Clinton's detailed plan to increase her spontenaiety, and Sanders' broad appeal, someone mentioned O'Malley's name! Martha Radditz changed the subject instantly--to Donald Trump. Now she's 'changing the subject' again, from Trump to Fiorina--specifically what Trump said about her face. *yawn*

    Kasich on Fox not getting asked about Trump, and Bleats the Press trying to prop Christie up. Christie is painting Congress with a broad brush. The Republicans in Congress did nothing they promised to do. No props are forthcoming for the one Republican Senator who is actually trying. Gee, I wonder why Christie isn't giving Rand Paul his due? Could it be because Paul gave Christie his due, and Christie didn't want what he earned?

    While Fox takes their turn issuing Bidenblather, Bleats the Press has Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) and DeMint on to tell us who the Tea Party is and what they want. No one is asking the people who founded it, of course. But one sensible statement came out of it...

    'You know, we don't appropriate for Planned Parenthood. We appropriate for the Department of Health and Human Services.'--Tom Cole

    Did George Will really just say that the only candidate who has taken on Trump in a serious way is Bobby Jindal? George! Get real, dude.

    Bernie on Bleats the Press. He fancies himself quite the champion of the common man. But he's actually bragging about how well he works with John McCain.

    Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) is being allowed to talk about how our interventions in the middle east don't always go well on Fox. I think I caught a glimpse of someone offstage tying a noose. Or not. Now Bleats the Press is saying the same thing. This seems to be their way of convincing us to take Syran refugees. How can we make a backfire out of it and turn it against our continual and ill-advised interventions?

    Amazing that there are twenty-one candidates actually in this race, yet speculation about Biden constitutes as big a part of the blather as any of them, and a 100% bigger part of the blather than most. Almost makes Fox giving coverage to a college student simply because he happens to be good at both mathematics and football seem downright sensible and informative by comparison.

    A phone interview with Donald Trump leads off Faze the Nation! Yay! It had been almost five minutes since I heard Donald Trump say seven times that he's a dealmaker and this country needs great deals and he can make great deals because he's a dealmaker! I was having withdrawal!

    On the plus side, he just said that corporate heads can actually be--indeed, actually are--part of The Establishment! Now there's a flip flop we can use!

    Now he's saying that when he ragged on Fiorina's face, he wasn't talking about her face, he was talking about how she nearly sank HP and was using her face as some kind of analogy for that. Guys, if I'm going to keep doing this, I might have to set up a chip-in. My hip waders are quickly becoming insufficient. I might be needing a SCUBA suit.

    Carson is being asked about how a good many of his donors are small donors. I don't recall Ron Paul ever being asked about that. Carson is talking about 'turning off the spigot' of benefits to illegal aliens, but not until he said that nothing means anything until we seal the border. If he's serious about hermetically sealing our million miles of border before he gets around to turning off that spigot, then that spigot is never going to get shut off.

    We're still sticking forks in Clinton.

    'I think the authentic Hillary Clinton is the one who didn't say she's sorry.'--Peter Baker

    And talking about Biden like no other Democrats are already in the race.

    This week's Candidates Who Must Not Be Named list does not include O'Malley, though I think someone just didn't get the memo. Perry got named; it seems the easiest way for some of these guys to get a modicum of coverage is to drop out. So, we wind up with Chaffee, Graham, Huckabee, Pataki, Paul, Rubio, Santorum, Walker and Webb. Good luck, guys...
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