Day: March 27, 2024

«Явная ложь»: эксперты о заявлениях Кремля про связь теракта с Украиной https://t.co/cxP7zAuFwM

— Голос Америки (@GolosAmeriki) March 27, 2024

Israeli authorities and pro-Israel keyboard warriors, who systematically deny the evidence of expert research, aid agencies and Gazans themselves about catastrophic hunger in Gaza, have a clear, shameless motivation / @dahliasc https://t.co/OSNYHHksoZ

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) March 27, 2024

https://t.co/Qu7kbYs9lX

— Ben Hodges (@general_ben) March 27, 2024

This unravels the intricate web of the U.S. Intelligence Community – 18 agencies working tirelessly, united in the mission to protect our country’s security. https://t.co/PdhQsQKxEN#intelligence #odni #security #usa #nationalsecurity #covert pic.twitter.com/a5wyYpdgOB

— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) December 23, 2023

This unravels the intricate web of the U.S. Intelligence Community – 18 agencies working tirelessly, united in the mission to protect our country’s security. https://t.co/PdhQsQKxEN#intelligence #odni #security #usa #nationalsecurity #covert pic.twitter.com/a5wyYpdgOB

— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) December 23, 2023

This unravels the intricate web of the U.S. Intelligence Community – 18 agencies working tirelessly, united in the mission to protect our country’s security. https://t.co/PdhQsQKxEN#intelligence #odni #security #usa #nationalsecurity #covert pic.twitter.com/a5wyYpdgOB

— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) December 23, 2023

Episode 147 has been uploaded.

Preview:

YouTube, later.

A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: Those were Trump’s marbles he just lost.
• At 2:49 PM, Eastern Dementia Time: “I’m not running to terminate the ACA, as crooked Joe BUDEN … DIS-INFORMATES and MIS-INFORMATES all the time, I’m running to CLOSE THE BORDER …” There is no such word as “Disinformate.” There is also no such word as “MIS-informate.”
• Also, unless I’ve been getting it wrong since 1973, “BUDEN” is not how the president spells his name. Trump’s cheese has slid off his cracker.

****, his cracker has slipped off his cracker.

• It is impossible to say that he cannot possibly last like this,  what with the forces of aphasia and dementia and narcissism and head injury and whatever else there is, pulling him apart … but of course he’s lasted in approximately this same space for months now — and in spaces not really that much BETTER than this one for years and decades and if the early anecdotes are correct, a lifetime. Still: inventing your own words is a sign of a dozen different PHYSICAL problems, to say nothing of psychological ones like bipolarity and environmental ones like huffing D-Con Roach Room Fogger.
• HELP ME RONNA, HELP HELP ME RONNA: And now she belongs to the ages. Five days, one show. Not the shortest tenure in television history nor the fastest-cancelled program (still held by an ABC comedy show from 1969, cancelled just before the first commercial). But NBC’s decision to ax Ronna McDaniel — no matter how tortured, self-serving, and late the protests from its stars might have been, does offer some small hope.
• The point of all this — and perhaps the value of this internal rebellion — is that perhaps the somnambulant American political media, especially the American TELEVISION political media — has awakened from its naïve stupor. I have been saying here for eighteen months that EVERY news organization in this country has had the same meeting: what do we do if Trump regains power. Not “what do we do journalistically” but what do we do to protect our profits — and what do we do so when Trump starts jailing reporters and TV executives, he’ll leave us alone. Or, more realistically, he’ll let us become one of his propaganda channels.
• Remember, in the minds of its executives, television news isn’t a kind of NEWS, it’s a kind of TELEVISION. It is designed to fill the places between the commercials. If it serves some kind of public purpose, hey, great, as long as that doesn’t mean we have to go TOO many hours cancelling all those advertisements just because some POPE died or something.
• Putting Trump on and taking Mehdi Hasan off and hiring Ronna McDaniel was INOCULATION, nothing more, nothing less. It was proving to Trump and the MAGAs that while no, we aren’t shuttering MSNBC and we’re not in favor of this whole “end the peaceful transfer of power” and “fascism is the new democracy” stuff — hey, go on … we’re listening.
• American TV news isn’t going to save us from creeping fascism. But maybe — MAYBE = the scattered, largely selfish, righteous-ehhh-kinda righteous indignation at NBC means American TV news will stop HELPING fascism creep faster. Guard rail? No. Scattering spike strips across democracy’s highways? Uhh, ok, maybe we’ll stop.
• Also, I sing. I mean: “Help Me Ronna”? I was supposed to RESTRAIN myself from THAT?

Yes. For the love of all of the gods, yes, PLEASE no singing!!!

B-Block

• (30:57) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Congressman Tim Burchett sued by Denton Loudermill Jr., the Kansas City man he claimed was (a) a Super Bowl parade shooter and (b) an “illegal alien.” He was neither. Ari Fleischer actually slams Biden for supporting George W. Bush’s war in Iraq that Ari helped sell to a gullible America.

• And Maria Bartiromo (“wide open border”), Nancy “I Shoulda Stayed In Bed” Mace (“Biden”), Anthony Sabatini (“DEI”), Matt Schlapp (“I’m not an expert” — yes, we knew that already Matt — “but it was drug-addled employees and lockdowns during COVID”), Glenn Thrush (“the federal government”), Marjorie Taylor Greene (“terrorist attack”),  Phil Lyman (GOP candidate for the governor of Utah, who has the perfect name for a Republican) (“diversity”), Alex Jones (“WW3”), Andrew Tate (“cyber-attack!”) and a random stranger on the Internet named Rose Graham (“the Puff Daddy raid”) share the honors for spreading conspiracy theories about the Baltimore bridge accident.

(Sadly, I was able to add a few that weren’t on Keith’s list. And it was ANTHONY Sabatini, not David.)

David Simon asked a question that we’ve all been wondering.

C-Block

• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I mentioned those tortured anti-Ronna comments from MSNBC. Lawrence O’Donnell was astonishingly wrong in his recap of how TV news in the old days didn’t reward, say, Nixon’s Watergate conspirators with gigs (other than Pat Buchanan, John Ehrlichmann, Robert Bork, Gordon Liddy, plus Ollie North from Iran-Contra and a series of ice cream commercials for Ehrlichmann).

• Since I’ve brought [Lawrence O’Donnell] up, I might as well tell you what a schmuck he is, like when he guest hosted Countdown and while I was out a few weeks, he tried to get me fired so he could take over the show and when that didn’t work, he just stole a couple of the producers and got his own show. Oh, by the way, I WAS away for a couple weeks because my Dad was dying.

Episode 147 has been uploaded.

Preview:

YouTube, later.

A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: Those were Trump’s marbles he just lost.
• At 2:49 PM, Eastern Dementia Time: “I’m not running to terminate the ACA, as crooked Joe BUDEN … DIS-INFORMATES and MIS-INFORMATES all the time, I’m running to CLOSE THE BORDER …” There is no such word as “Disinformate.” There is also no such word as “MIS-informate.”
• Also, unless I’ve been getting it wrong since 1973, “BUDEN” is not how the president spells his name. Trump’s cheese has slid off his cracker.

****, his cracker has slipped off his cracker.

• It is impossible to say that he cannot possibly last like this,  what with the forces of aphasia and dementia and narcissism and head injury and whatever else there is, pulling him apart … but of course he’s lasted in approximately this same space for months now — and in spaces not really that much BETTER than this one for years and decades and if the early anecdotes are correct, a lifetime. Still: inventing your own words is a sign of a dozen different PHYSICAL problems, to say nothing of psychological ones like bipolarity and environmental ones like huffing D-Con Roach Room Fogger.
• HELP ME RONNA, HELP HELP ME RONNA: And now she belongs to the ages. Five days, one show. Not the shortest tenure in television history nor the fastest-cancelled program (still held by an ABC comedy show from 1969, cancelled just before the first commercial). But NBC’s decision to ax Ronna McDaniel — no matter how tortured, self-serving, and late the protests from its stars might have been, does offer some small hope.
• The point of all this — and perhaps the value of this internal rebellion — is that perhaps the somnambulant American political media, especially the American TELEVISION political media — has awakened from its naïve stupor. I have been saying here for eighteen months that EVERY news organization in this country has had the same meeting: what do we do if Trump regains power. Not “what do we do journalistically” but what do we do to protect our profits — and what do we do so when Trump starts jailing reporters and TV executives, he’ll leave us alone. Or, more realistically, he’ll let us become one of his propaganda channels.
• Remember, in the minds of its executives, television news isn’t a kind of NEWS, it’s a kind of TELEVISION. It is designed to fill the places between the commercials. If it serves some kind of public purpose, hey, great, as long as that doesn’t mean we have to go TOO many hours cancelling all those advertisements just because some POPE died or something.
• Putting Trump on and taking Mehdi Hasan off and hiring Ronna McDaniel was INOCULATION, nothing more, nothing less. It was proving to Trump and the MAGAs that while no, we aren’t shuttering MSNBC and we’re not in favor of this whole “end the peaceful transfer of power” and “fascism is the new democracy” stuff — hey, go on … we’re listening.
• American TV news isn’t going to save us from creeping fascism. But maybe — MAYBE = the scattered, largely selfish, righteous-ehhh-kinda righteous indignation at NBC means American TV news will stop HELPING fascism creep faster. Guard rail? No. Scattering spike strips across democracy’s highways? Uhh, ok, maybe we’ll stop.
• Also, I sing. I mean: “Help Me Ronna”? I was supposed to RESTRAIN myself from THAT?

Yes. For the love of all of the gods, yes, PLEASE no singing!!!

B-Block

• (30:57) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Congressman Tim Burchett sued by Denton Loudermill Jr., the Kansas City man he claimed was (a) a Super Bowl parade shooter and (b) an “illegal alien.” He was neither. Ari Fleischer actually slams Biden for supporting George W. Bush’s war in Iraq that Ari helped sell to a gullible America.

• And Maria Bartiromo (“wide open border”), Nancy “I Shoulda Stayed In Bed” Mace (“Biden”), Anthony Sabatini (“DEI”), Matt Schlapp (“I’m not an expert” — yes, we knew that already Matt — “but it was drug-addled employees and lockdowns during COVID”), Glenn Thrush (“the federal government”), Marjorie Taylor Greene (“terrorist attack”),  Phil Lyman (GOP candidate for the governor of Utah, who has the perfect name for a Republican) (“diversity”), Alex Jones (“WW3”), Andrew Tate (“cyber-attack!”) and a random stranger on the Internet named Rose Graham (“the Puff Daddy raid”) share the honors for spreading conspiracy theories about the Baltimore bridge accident.

(Sadly, I was able to add a few that weren’t on Keith’s list. And it was ANTHONY Sabatini, not David.)

David Simon asked a question that we’ve all been wondering.

C-Block

• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I mentioned those tortured anti-Ronna comments from MSNBC. Lawrence O’Donnell was astonishingly wrong in his recap of how TV news in the old days didn’t reward, say, Nixon’s Watergate conspirators with gigs (other than Pat Buchanan, John Ehrlichmann, Robert Bork, Gordon Liddy, plus Ollie North from Iran-Contra and a series of ice cream commercials for Ehrlichmann).

• Since I’ve brought [Lawrence O’Donnell] up, I might as well tell you what a schmuck he is, like when he guest hosted Countdown and while I was out a few weeks, he tried to get me fired so he could take over the show and when that didn’t work, he just stole a couple of the producers and got his own show. Oh, by the way, I WAS away for a couple weeks because my Dad was dying.

Episode 147 has been uploaded.

Preview:

YouTube, later.

A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: Those were Trump’s marbles he just lost.
• At 2:49 PM, Eastern Dementia Time: “I’m not running to terminate the ACA, as crooked Joe BUDEN … DIS-INFORMATES and MIS-INFORMATES all the time, I’m running to CLOSE THE BORDER …” There is no such word as “Disinformate.” There is also no such word as “MIS-informate.”
• Also, unless I’ve been getting it wrong since 1973, “BUDEN” is not how the president spells his name. Trump’s cheese has slid off his cracker.

****, his cracker has slipped off his cracker.

• It is impossible to say that he cannot possibly last like this,  what with the forces of aphasia and dementia and narcissism and head injury and whatever else there is, pulling him apart … but of course he’s lasted in approximately this same space for months now — and in spaces not really that much BETTER than this one for years and decades and if the early anecdotes are correct, a lifetime. Still: inventing your own words is a sign of a dozen different PHYSICAL problems, to say nothing of psychological ones like bipolarity and environmental ones like huffing D-Con Roach Room Fogger.
• HELP ME RONNA, HELP HELP ME RONNA: And now she belongs to the ages. Five days, one show. Not the shortest tenure in television history nor the fastest-cancelled program (still held by an ABC comedy show from 1969, cancelled just before the first commercial). But NBC’s decision to ax Ronna McDaniel — no matter how tortured, self-serving, and late the protests from its stars might have been, does offer some small hope.
• The point of all this — and perhaps the value of this internal rebellion — is that perhaps the somnambulant American political media, especially the American TELEVISION political media — has awakened from its naïve stupor. I have been saying here for eighteen months that EVERY news organization in this country has had the same meeting: what do we do if Trump regains power. Not “what do we do journalistically” but what do we do to protect our profits — and what do we do so when Trump starts jailing reporters and TV executives, he’ll leave us alone. Or, more realistically, he’ll let us become one of his propaganda channels.
• Remember, in the minds of its executives, television news isn’t a kind of NEWS, it’s a kind of TELEVISION. It is designed to fill the places between the commercials. If it serves some kind of public purpose, hey, great, as long as that doesn’t mean we have to go TOO many hours cancelling all those advertisements just because some POPE died or something.
• Putting Trump on and taking Mehdi Hasan off and hiring Ronna McDaniel was INOCULATION, nothing more, nothing less. It was proving to Trump and the MAGAs that while no, we aren’t shuttering MSNBC and we’re not in favor of this whole “end the peaceful transfer of power” and “fascism is the new democracy” stuff — hey, go on … we’re listening.
• American TV news isn’t going to save us from creeping fascism. But maybe — MAYBE = the scattered, largely selfish, righteous-ehhh-kinda righteous indignation at NBC means American TV news will stop HELPING fascism creep faster. Guard rail? No. Scattering spike strips across democracy’s highways? Uhh, ok, maybe we’ll stop.
• Also, I sing. I mean: “Help Me Ronna”? I was supposed to RESTRAIN myself from THAT?

Yes. For the love of all of the gods, yes, PLEASE no singing!!!

B-Block

• (30:57) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Congressman Tim Burchett sued by Denton Loudermill Jr., the Kansas City man he claimed was (a) a Super Bowl parade shooter and (b) an “illegal alien.” He was neither. Ari Fleischer actually slams Biden for supporting George W. Bush’s war in Iraq that Ari helped sell to a gullible America.

• And Maria Bartiromo (“wide open border”), Nancy “I Shoulda Stayed In Bed” Mace (“Biden”), Anthony Sabatini (“DEI”), Matt Schlapp (“I’m not an expert” — yes, we knew that already Matt — “but it was drug-addled employees and lockdowns during COVID”), Glenn Thrush (“the federal government”), Marjorie Taylor Greene (“terrorist attack”),  Phil Lyman (GOP candidate for the governor of Utah, who has the perfect name for a Republican) (“diversity”), Alex Jones (“WW3”), Andrew Tate (“cyber-attack!”) and a random stranger on the Internet named Rose Graham (“the Puff Daddy raid”) share the honors for spreading conspiracy theories about the Baltimore bridge accident.

(Sadly, I was able to add a few that weren’t on Keith’s list. And it was ANTHONY Sabatini, not David.)

David Simon asked a question that we’ve all been wondering.

C-Block

• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I mentioned those tortured anti-Ronna comments from MSNBC. Lawrence O’Donnell was astonishingly wrong in his recap of how TV news in the old days didn’t reward, say, Nixon’s Watergate conspirators with gigs (other than Pat Buchanan, John Ehrlichmann, Robert Bork, Gordon Liddy, plus Ollie North from Iran-Contra and a series of ice cream commercials for Ehrlichmann).

• Since I’ve brought [Lawrence O’Donnell] up, I might as well tell you what a schmuck he is, like when he guest hosted Countdown and while I was out a few weeks, he tried to get me fired so he could take over the show and when that didn’t work, he just stole a couple of the producers and got his own show. Oh, by the way, I WAS away for a couple weeks because my Dad was dying.