Vee

Not what he was saying. He was taken out of context from his full remarks (which were referring to the MSG speeches), which were quoted by Times reporters and he has already gone out to clean it up. I'm sure we'll hear the usual overblown predictions of doom from credulous anchors and the right, but it's not gonna go anywhere serious.

Surprising results from Trafalgar:

Good thread:

I'm sure you're wondering "but Vee, is there more Mark Robinson news?" The answer is yes.

It's classic Frank and co. GH. No real risks taken and if anyone tries they quit or get fired.

What a treasure.

Ridiculous they let it out without those two actually getting on with a proper affair.

Ignore the usual Politico game where they find any bedwetting Dem they can to write concern troll articles (a practice that goes back over a decade - I remember people telling me we were in real trouble in 2012 because Politico kept saying so) and keep at it.

What is not being said above is that due to some wonkery in NV a few years ago re: party registration and identification, it's common knowledge that much/most of the Other/Independent vote is likely blue. So you have from the outside what looks like a weakness in Dem voting but is likely being funneled through the third category.

To last night's discussion:

I didn't think it was. It's just a fun thing she often does with the actors or fans.

A good thread:

NC appears to have a pretty clean 3-way vote split today in early voting - blue, red and independents. Almost identical totals. If we get even half those indies (and I think we will get more than half) it is ours. In other news: This is not the own the very online right thinks, lol. Somehow I don't think is going to drive Walz's already sky-high favorability rating with the general public down. Blowing a young woman's mind in bed to the strains of "Careless Whisper," the beloved song that launched a thousand memes? It's only going to endear him further!

Ridiculous that it takes this much to ban one of these people, but overdue.

I think there are good people working at CNN, just as there are at any fundamentally skewed, messed-up media institution. There are talented reporters at the Times or the Post, or CNN or MSNBC or NBC or wherever else who work hard and mean well, some of whom still do very good work, and are unhappy with how the institutions have handled Trump. But I think too many of the on-air talent or star reporters go along to get along. I don't blame Abby Phillip for what happened, I blame CNN for insisting on staffing these panels with right wing operatives for a daily clown show and making the hosts or on-air talent (those that aren't instinctively Republican-leaning that is, which some certainly are) treat them credulously.