The radio host who interviewed Biden two days ago - Andrea Lawful-Sanders - just told @CNN that the White House sent her 8 questions in advance and she picked four of the 8 WH questions to ask Biden during the interview.
Note that in response to one of the questions advanced by the WH Biden said that a 90-minute debate doesn't define "3.5 years" of performance. Not "3 and a half years" as he and others have said when running through talking points. "3.5" - like it's written on the answer card.
Jun 30 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One would be forgiven for assuming 100 reporters had a live-feed to Trump's Oval Office, personified through "sources close" and "sources with knowledge" - real or imagined (@Acosta) - dishing daily scoops.
3.5 years of Biden's WH under a seemingly impenetrable blanket and...
...suddenly we find journalists journalizing. What could possibly have prompted such a serendipitous influx of "sources close" to the Biden WH? And - imagine this - these brand new, never-before-reporting, out-of-the-woodwork insiders are astonished at Biden's decline.
Apr 27 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Folks - asking your indulgence for a personal matter. I spent the weekend in New Jersey attending the funeral of the 20-year-old son of one of my dearest friends on earth, Jim Beale - no relation, but I appropriated his last name for my pseudonym as an homage to our 30 or so...
...years of friendship. Jim's son, Sam Beale, died in a tragic one-car accident on a NJ highway Sunday, April 16. Sam's mother, Nicole Jesmer, is also a dear friend of 30+ years. We all met while stationed at the 513th Military Intelligence Brigade at Ft. Gordon, Georgia...
Feb 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Did he say that the Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House rejected Rick Scott's plan and similar statements by a handful of Republicans? Nope - that's not "what Biden said tonight." What Biden said was what his administration and Dems have been saying for months,...
...that "Republicans want to take away your Social Security and Medicare and we won't allow it." Despite the Herculean efforts of Dems and media to spin it as a brilliant display of negotiation by Biden, what actually occurred was the Republicans in the chamber rose up against...
Feb 6, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This, my friends, is what we call a lie of omission. It's of a piece with "I created 11 million jobs." Both statements are attempts to spread disinformation - the same disinformation Biden and his party claim to be the biggest threat to Democracy and ascribe exclusively to...
..."far-right ultra-MAGA Republicans." Every time Biden or anyone in the Dem party say he created 11 million jobs but fail to acknowledge that 90 or more percent of those jobs were simply re-filling the jobs temporarily lost during the pandemic shutdown and reclaimed once...
Dec 30, 2022 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Halfway through the Ray Epps interview transcript and holy shit @RepKinzinger and @RepAdamSchiff need to explain what motivated them and staff to question him like defense lawyers questioning their client. If the reason ISN'T that he was working for a government agency then...
...whatever the other reason is must be a fucking doozy, because they repeatedly lead him away from danger and into the most implausible excuses and explanations of his actions. Once they lead him to the answer they need on the record to keep him out of trouble, they...
Dec 31, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
You said that about $190 billion ago, @rweingarten. Give me and 10 of my colleagues the $190B and I guarantee you we would have resolved your imaginary testing, mask, ventilation, vaccine and booster excuses and had every school in America open in 3 months. With real teachers.
It's like saying, "Woe is me - I can't get to work because I don't make enough money to fix my car - I need the government to help me" and the government gives you 30 cars and two years later you still haven't made it into work.
