tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post8205850219343553310..comments2024-03-28T06:12:24.003-05:00Comments on Althouse: "I'm just going to get ahead of the spin and announce that the Mueller report supports everything I already thought."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47937802933298267942019-04-19T05:52:02.114-05:002019-04-19T05:52:02.114-05:00I almost feel sorry for the TV news people. They h...<i>I almost feel sorry for the TV news people. They have to put on a show, but they'll have to talk about the report without reading it. It's 400 pages. What can they do except roll out some pre-written material?</i><br /><br />If they assume Barr is telling the truth, they’d be discussing what this means for the Democrats going forward. The news isn’t what’s in the report but the report itself. <br /><br />But if they assume Barr is lying they have to read 400 pages to look for the “lies”. <br /><br />Which did our media choose?Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01422170816604378287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3566772347634160902019-04-18T17:09:50.610-05:002019-04-18T17:09:50.610-05:00how about reciting proust, that's almost worth...how about reciting proust, that's almost worth a shot in the agonizer,narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07128976398798678295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60936665767882763222019-04-18T16:02:25.938-05:002019-04-18T16:02:25.938-05:00"it is so strange and refreshing to address y..."it is so strange and refreshing to address you with respect and seriousness"<br /><br />Don't kiss my ass. You're a fucking traitor. Our first date you'll be beaten to death with your own jawbone.<br /><br />Smooch!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Fenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01408540316487713850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66853594999502404382019-04-18T15:15:35.609-05:002019-04-18T15:15:35.609-05:00Blogger Browndog said...
Watching Rosenstein stand...<i>Blogger Browndog said...<br />Watching Rosenstein standing there cracks me up. As a central player in the coup to remove Trump, Barr forces him to stand front and center as it crumbles before his very eyes.</i><br /><br />Rosenstein’s look reminded me of the goat chained up as T Rex fodder in Jurassic Park—not sure what’s going on, but expecting something bad. RobinGoodfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10789931127997947127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-86634061617408104612019-04-18T15:10:07.188-05:002019-04-18T15:10:07.188-05:00Blogger Stoutcat said...
Jersey Fled: I have a str...<i>Blogger Stoutcat said...<br />Jersey Fled: I have a strange prediction to make. It's over.</i><br /><br />“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”RobinGoodfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10789931127997947127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56589073755685115872019-04-18T14:58:20.990-05:002019-04-18T14:58:20.990-05:00Blogger Temujin said...
I think they could get in ...<i>Blogger Temujin said...<br />I think they could get in front of the camera and start reading James Joyce's Ulysses ...</i><br /><br />I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.RobinGoodfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10789931127997947127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57402731392426977472019-04-18T14:39:28.972-05:002019-04-18T14:39:28.972-05:00"...pro-Trump weaselyness..."
This shou..."...pro-Trump weaselyness..."<br /><br />This should be interpreted to mean not indicting Trump for quasi-crimes.Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4371186035869225382019-04-18T13:38:50.461-05:002019-04-18T13:38:50.461-05:00Or, you could approach this not as click-bait but ...Or, you could approach this not as click-bait but as an important and complicated matter, have a qualified team analyze it part-by-part, and assembling all that into a coherent analysis that hits the high points (and Fox and MSNBC can and would disagree on what those high points are).<br /><br />But, that might take 3 or 4 days and God forbid we ever take the time to do something the right way, when we can quickly do it all wrong.<br /><br />The approach they are taking is like having the TV weather reporter stand in the middle of a storm just to get a visual of a person standing in a storm, but serving no real purpose. Because by next week people will have done the kind of analysis I suggest and those results will be available. But in the meantime we all have to hyperventilate until we pass out, because civilization will end if this (not life threatening) issue that has been percolating for 3 years were to percolate another 3 days.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13617687006180956861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42703276662530563432019-04-18T12:32:25.628-05:002019-04-18T12:32:25.628-05:00Fen said...
"for Barr's press stunt, er, ...<i>Fen said...<br />"for Barr's press stunt, er, conference"<br /><br />When did Barr become Chuck's enemy?<br /></i><br /><br /><br />That's one of the first sensible things, and probably the first sensible question, I've ever seen from you. It's a good question. I'm not sure Barr is my "enemy." I rather expect that you are recalling that at the time of Barr's confirmation, I supported it. Even after his confirmation hearing. I am quite certain that if I had been in the Senate, I'd have voted to confirm Barr.<br /><br />But Barr has released the Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election. He's done it with what I think is a mostly reasonable number of redactions. (We'll set aside the specifics of the various redaction disputes until later.)<br /><br />I see a whole lot of disappointing pro-Trump weaselyness from Barr now. And it is disappointing. But I don't yet see Barr as an enemy. I say that respectfully (it is so strange and refreshing to address you with respect and seriousness) insofar as I think you had some good reason to ask this question.<br /> Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07676108366725199186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60566240674640827262019-04-18T12:27:24.327-05:002019-04-18T12:27:24.327-05:00When the list of questions Mueller wanted to ask T...When the list of questions Mueller wanted to ask Trump was made available, it was clear to any critical reader that the investigation had nothing. It's not news, it's "news" dished up by media platforms to keep people coming back for seconds and counted for the ad men.Freeman Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202310075717963694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84007611420591173042019-04-18T12:14:09.855-05:002019-04-18T12:14:09.855-05:00The hypocrisy here is rank. The vast majority of t...<i>The hypocrisy here is rank. The vast majority of the commenters on this site have already decided what is in the report and spent a lot of time telling us exactly what the report says.</i><br /><br />Bullshit, Freder. The reason we 'knew' what was in the report is because if there was anything remotely resembling collusion, we would've found out about it two days into the investigation.<br /><br />Instead, people like you spent two years and millions of dollars looking for a pony in a pile of shit. While the rest of us were smart enough to figure out there was no pony.<br /><br />Nothing hypocritical about that. It's actually called using your freaking brain. Try it sometime.Jim athttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271099587684174816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60810100334386015632019-04-18T12:04:33.624-05:002019-04-18T12:04:33.624-05:00I am reminded of that December night in 2000 when ...I am reminded of that December night in 2000 when Bush v. Gore came out and those television reporters were frantically looking through the slip opinion trying to figure out what it meant. They didn't but they tried to bluff their way through it. Hilarious. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74162183693262028082019-04-18T12:03:25.179-05:002019-04-18T12:03:25.179-05:00Sounds like Barr's press conference about to b...<i>Sounds like Barr's press conference about to become inoperative.</i><br /><br />readering is not listeningQuaestorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688608372863540573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80418696246579701552019-04-18T11:43:25.346-05:002019-04-18T11:43:25.346-05:00Trump and his circle are facing weeks of harmful s...Trump and his circle are facing weeks of harmful stories after this report. What will be do to distract?readeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699913625782012426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13076798617611467642019-04-18T11:21:28.689-05:002019-04-18T11:21:28.689-05:00Reporters will spend effort demonstrating stories ...Reporters will spend effort demonstrating stories Trump folks called lies confirmed in the report. Report shows Trump viewed lying as a matter of course. Reason his great lawyer Roy Cohn took no notes! (I witnessed Cohn's handiwork for Trump back in '85.)readeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699913625782012426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43173410192396969322019-04-18T11:17:49.772-05:002019-04-18T11:17:49.772-05:00Chuckles...because those reporters would likely as...Chuckles...because those reporters would likely ask some very good questions...<br /><br />Via Insty seen on FB:<br /><br />I loved Barr’s response to some reporterette who asked why he called President Trump’s situation at the beginning of his presidency, with him, his family, and associates under intense scrutiny and investigation “unprecedented.”<br />Reporter: “Why do you say that is unprecedented?”<br />Barr: “Has it happened before?”<br />Reporter: “No.”<br />Barr: “Then it’s unprecedented.”Seeing Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338495289040972548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11561246761166817902019-04-18T11:16:53.179-05:002019-04-18T11:16:53.179-05:00Sounds like Barr's press conference about to b...Sounds like Barr's press conference about to become inoperative. readeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699913625782012426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71706986165637656172019-04-18T11:16:09.979-05:002019-04-18T11:16:09.979-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Seeing Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338495289040972548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13038429666086680632019-04-18T11:04:32.611-05:002019-04-18T11:04:32.611-05:00"I almost feel sorry for the TV news people.&...<i>"I almost feel sorry for the TV news people."</i><br /><br />I do not feel the least bit sorry for the news-readers. Few have been honest brokers during the course of the Mueller investigation, and the media invented "instant analysis" decades ago. <br /><br />The media built this house of cards on a fake foundation of objectivity and omniscience, and they fully deserve to have it fall on them like a ton of bricks.LA_Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775262019154051166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32591843646947852602019-04-18T10:57:22.144-05:002019-04-18T10:57:22.144-05:00A lie about journalism from another age.A lie about journalism from another age.Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11447941669393271582019-04-18T10:48:24.116-05:002019-04-18T10:48:24.116-05:00We watched All the President's Men the other n...We watched All the President's Men the other night and were laughing out loud every time the journalists worried over getting things exactly right and making sure that information was confirmed. Journalism from another age!Freeman Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202310075717963694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12788351980655007412019-04-18T10:33:57.201-05:002019-04-18T10:33:57.201-05:00YOU have hope. I don't.YOU have hope. I don't.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29217197489494502282019-04-18T10:21:37.076-05:002019-04-18T10:21:37.076-05:00Freeman Hunt,
AG Barr already did.Freeman Hunt,<br /><br />AG Barr already did.Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28642818337613812522019-04-18T10:21:10.260-05:002019-04-18T10:21:10.260-05:00Ken B,
If Mueller didn't seek the limelight w...Ken B,<br /><br />If Mueller didn't seek the limelight why didn't he close up show in August 2017 when he found there was no underlying crime to investigate done by Administration officials?<br /><br />You're TDS is showing. It's fucking sad.Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37859639381442523452019-04-18T10:16:04.471-05:002019-04-18T10:16:04.471-05:00Or viewers could wait until someone has had time t...Or viewers could wait until someone has had time to read and analyze it soberly. Then the viewers could turn off the television and read an article by that person because nothing that intelligent and measured will ever be on TV.<br /><br />Or everyone could get a life and stop obsessing over the "issues" marketed to them.Freeman Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202310075717963694noreply@blogger.com