in his Washington Post column titled For someone who says she hates politics, Michelle Obama is a political powerhouse. Let me put it simply by starting with his final two paragraphs: Speakers tonight had no crowd to rouse, no applause to draw energy from, no way to gauge how their orations were being received. They…
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Top DHS staffer under Trump says pr*sident has 'damaged the country in countless ways'
Other than Sean Spicer, who’s spent his post-White House years defending Donald Trump when not dancing like an elderly canary being sucked into a vacuum hose attachment, how many ex-Trump staffers have rushed into the fray to support the guy? “Yay, evil!” Where are the detailed books and articles about Trump’s attention to detail and poise…
I know it's George Conway. But really, you should read
his op ed in Washington Post titled Trump’s name should live in infamy. It is delicious. Let me end at the beginning, with the closing paragraph: Trump’s sanction must come at the polls, and beyond. For the sake of our constitutional republic, he must lose, and lose badly. Yet that should be just a start:…
strong op ed by Lt Col Alexander Vindman, (ret)
just up at the website of The Washington Post, and titled Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters. Here is how he begins: After 21 years, six months and 10 days of active military service, I am now a civilian. I made the difficult decision to retire because…
Dana Milbank says Trump should play more golf.
Seriously. That’s the point of this Washington Post op ed today. There is a LOT of delicious satire in the piece, including a link to a piece in May by Andy Borowitz suggesting that Dr. Fauci wanted Trump to play MORE, not less, golf. But then Milbank gets semi-serious. He reminds us of some of…
Biden 55-40 over Trump new Washington Post – ABC poll
among registered voters, taken July 12-15. Margin of error +/- 4% Among those certain to vote Biden leads by 11. Post story on the poll is here It contains a link to the entire poll. From the story note the following two paragraphs: The current standing between the president and his challenger appears closely tied…
Conservative columnist: 'This is what national decline looks like'
Before Donald Trump made the U.S. presidency less dignified than workaday gigs like assistant bovine inseminator, I posited that voting for him would be like willfully electing Caligula. Or maybe Michael Scott. Either way, I knew it would be fucking bad. But clearly I underestimated how gobsmackingly bad it would actually be. This may not…
Rubin Blasts NY Times for not Calling Trump a Racist
Jennifer Rubin gets a lot of flack here over the suspicion that she isn’t really on our side, she’s just against Trump, and will go back to screeching at us the way she screeches at him now. That’s possible, maybe even probable. But let’s not be so suspicious that we miss a few things. First…
Melania saddled taxpayers with millions in security costs so she could renegotiate her prenup
She’s a Trump, after all. A new book by Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan — titled For the Last Time, Keep That Tang-Hued Monstrosity Out of Me … er, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump — alleges that the first lady used the early part of Trump’s presidency, when we all assumed…
“Trump’s soulless nature has done the nation incalculable harm”
That is the title on this Washington Post piece, authored last night be George Conway. It is well worth your time — and one of your free reads at the Post — for you to click and read. And then pass on to others. Consider just the opening paragraph: Just as crises can provide a…
Did Donald Trump commit voter fraud?
Okay, the title of this piece is clickbait. I know that. But consider this. Donald Trump changed his legal address from Trump Tower to Mar a Lago, and he voted absentee in Florida’s Republican primary. But here’s the problem: This story up this morning at the website of The Washington Post points out that Trump…
A MUST-READ from George Conway
went up this evening at The Washington Post. It is on the website titled George Conway: Trump went ballistic at me on Twitter. Here’s why he reacts with such rage. It begins like this: Americans died from covid-19 at the rate of about one every 42 seconds during the past month. That ought to keep…
I've started a new media newsletter, Press Run, to help hold the press accountable
Because now more than ever. Press Run is my proudly progressive dissection of the political press. And in this crucial election year, I feel like it's more important than ever. Press Run promises fearless media criticism. It will be a community where we'll find fault, sing some praise, and search for solutions. At a time…
New info emerges explaining why Tillerson called Trump a 'f***ing moron'
The new book A Very Stable Genius by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig has some fresh context surrounding former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s famous “he’s a fucking moron” dis. Seems Tillerson made the comment following an unhinged Trump tirade during which the commander-in-queef disrespected the military (not by kneeling at a…
New book, 'Very Stable Genius,' contains smorgasbord of Trump stupidity
And here we go again. Another book revealing what an irredeemable idiot our pr*sident is — and, of course, the people who really should read it won’t. Because, by and large, they don’t read. The book, A Very Stable Genius, by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig, is chock-full of insanity and inanity. Just…
Media pushes 'Dems in disarray' over impeachment—again
Poised to pass two articles of impeachment in the full House this week, Democrats have remained extraordinarily united throughout the process while nearly half the country stands in favor of taking the drastic action of removing Donald Trump from office. Yet press coverage in recent days has suggested (surprise!) that Democrats are in a state of…
WaPo Has the Knives Out for Warren
Until recently, Warren and Buttigieg had avoided attacking each other, but lately that’s changed. Warren said Buttigieg needed to be more forthcoming about his consulting work with McKinsey. In response, Buttigieg said Warren should release more of her tax returns (she’s released 11 years’ worth) to show her work on behalf of corporations when she…
The press doesn't have—or won't use—the proper language to describe today's radical Republican Party
Extreme times call for extreme measures, but the Beltway press just isn't willing to make that move in the Trump era. As a consequence, the news media fail to accurately capture the radical changes now underway in the country, and how today's Republican Party has become purposefully untethered from reality. Donald Trump remains a resolutely…
The GOP's 'process' attacks on impeachment are a joke—and the press should say so
Nancy Pelosi called the GOP's impeachment bluff this week, and in doing so she completely undercut the “process” attacks they have been making about the House inquiry. Demanding that a formal House vote be held on impeachment, Republicans have insisted the lack of a vote represents a tell-tale sign that the inquiry is unfair. But…
Fact-checking Democrats in the age of chronic Trump lies
At the outset of his presidency, several major news outlets eagerly and proudly announced that they were going to fact-check Donald Trump's every utterance and document all the misinformation he was spreading. To their credit, news organizations set aside considerable resources to dutifully unpack Trump's “falsehoods,” as the press preferred to call them. The unspoken…
