And also NBC should mention this to @NBCNews on 11/18/2018
And @NBCNews (and @RepAdamSchiff) should probably take this up with NBC News on 11/12/2018
And @NBCNews should probably flag this to NBC News from 11/11/2018
God this is so old.
I don’t know how to put a finer point on this: everyone knows what the problem is with California/West Coast wildfires except for the people who bring you the news.
It’s a lot easier for the Dems to say “we need a Green New Deal” than it is for them to recognize “holy shit maybe our laborious, politically motivated bureaucracy could be a problem”
Eventually this will be the consensus understanding (fingers crossed) and then I can call down the lightning on everyone.
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Another Russian-related lie was exposed today, this time the allegation that @nypost’s Biden coverage was “Russian disinformation,” something that every corner of the media & Democratic Party assured us was the case.
Don’t believe me? Well, take a look👇
Getting us started is @CNN, who had chief Russian conspiracist James Clapper on the program to talk about how the Post story was “classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft” (his words) and then did an “anatomy” of the “dubious” story.
But right behind them was @nytimes, who ran a similarly incredulous story, and whose chief political reporter @maggieNYT doubled down on the Russian disinformation angle.
1) I don’t get why these personal moments are newsworthy 2) they’re heartbreaking, and the type of heartbreak that anyone who has had a loved one battle addiction knows 3) this does more to humanize Joe Biden than any campaign ad. nypost.com/2020/10/16/tex…
More succinctly: dunking on a man for comforting his addict son is fucked, and if your politics leads you to do it, that’s fucked, too.
We are in the midst of the greatest addiction and overdose crisis this country has ever seen.
And we’re dedicating time and attention to dunk on a man struggling with addiction and a father who cares for him?
It’s become fashionable to criticize the US response to coronavirus. Perhaps that’s warranted. But cases are spiking across Europe and it’s gone unremarked across much of the media.
I ran the numbers. It’s grim, particularly compared to new US cases.
France
New cases: 29,641
Population: 67 million
Cases adjusted for US pop: 145,108
Actual US cases: 55,291
There’s still apples to oranges a bit, here, but for context, that would be about double the highest single-day case total in the US so far.
United Kingdom
It isn’t just France, either. This is all over Europe.
New cases: 17,502
Population: 67 million
Cases adjusted for US pop: 85,681
Actual US cases: 55,291
Much like Antifa in the Democratic telling, libertarians are an idea, a loose collection of ne’er-do-wells, marching under the same banner, burning cities in their wake.
Every time a man between the ages of 18 and 22 waxes poetic about the power of the inv*sible h*nd, a new libertarian hatches.
By now you’ve heard that @SteveScully’s allegation of being hacked was a lie.
I thought that, surely, there wouldn’t be a need for a thread on this, because no one could have possibly believed his original claim, but...
Nope. We had bad takes.
Starting off, we have the inimitable @joelockhart who thinks you are - I kid you not - “a damn liar” for so much as QUESTIONING Scully’s allegation that he was hacked.
I thought it would only be Joe out on gullible ledge on this one.