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Beyond shocking. My God. RIP.

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That "internal polling" thing is a right wing/concern troll push. I don't see any signs of its legitimacy or anyone beyond trolls claiming there's any rout ahead. Also, Never Trumper dudes always swoon over a law and order push.

Wrong thread!

Shemar Moore is trending at midnight on the West Coast and it's a lot.

Whoa. @DRW50

The Beltway folks are of course fawning over Melania's bare minimum speech. But I often expect that of them, especially in an environment when they are desperate for a horse race to materialize. But it won't move the needle IMO and I suspect they'll grudgingly flip the tone of coverage tomorrow when they see the public reaction and polling, which is how things have generally gone for them over the last four years any time they've attempted to normalize Trump.

Prince's lawyers put the kibosh on this stream that I'd never thought would surface - a James L. Brooks musical featuring music by Prince. The studio and bad preview screenings made them remove all of the music and run it as a straight drama. This is why dudes like this need to shut the fùck up on Twitter. Prince's estate does not play. That being said, cinephobe.tv is a great 24-7 stream of rare and forgotten film.

I do not think media is fawning over this event. I do think some of them will try to prop up Haley, as always.

The perils of no live audience.

You don't live here, so sorry, you don't get it. They may not all love Trump, but they love what he does for their business and ratings. And the mainstream media has been cowed by the right wing and Republicans in this country for being too 'biased' against them and elitist since 1984 when Reagan won in a wipeout; many of the elite media are of that era or grew up around it. And the right wing spent most of the '90s convincing the media they were too out of touch with the middle of the country and the American heartland, and viciously attacking media for any hint of 'bias'. As such, because of this generational conditioning, they slant a great deal of coverage to GOP talking points. Many may disdain Trump individually, but ultimately they adhere to soft GOP principles and POV unless forced not to. There is a double standard for Democrats and Republicans - Democrats are expected to take hard questions and always answer how they'll pay for any even speculative program, while Republicans are never challenged on how to balance the budget or why they're making more tax cuts for billionaires. They are allowed to spew talking points largely unchallenged in live interviews (note the shock when Chris Wallace and even longtime access journalist Jonathan Swan actually held Trump to the fire), while Democrats, even when they offer a full vision, are called 'too prepared' and yet also 'not for anything but anti-Trump' (or in the past, anti-Bush). Why? Because the GOP has drilled into the media that they are the party of both authentic Americans and fiscal hawks, and the Democrats are elite and pretentious. The media sees themselves in Democrats and so runs from it, overcorrects and sanitizes and normalizes Republican behavior. NYT headlines are regularly softened; note that they still refuse to use the word 'lie' much re: Trump. They print his wild allegations as credible by not immediately refuting them in the headlines or opening paragraphs, which is often what people read and internalize. After the white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, they attempted to call him 'the comforter in chief' when he egged on the Nazis. And CNN "attacks" right wing guests, but it has most of those guests on their regular payroll as commentators. Having them on to spew their talking points and then have an anchor act shocked and appalled is the equivalent of pro wrestling, all fake - especially when they allow Trump to run his events live, but rarely give Democrats equal time. CNN once held on an empty podium for Trump for almost an hour waiting for him to show up. They don't do that for Democrats - ever. When Michelle Wolf called prior Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on enabling Trump's endless lies, his fascist maneuvers, bigotry and putting children in cages at the (useless) WH press corps gala, the press corps and every major media figure at the Times and most networks called her outrageous and said she'd gone too far, but she was right. When Sanders left her post, these same media figures joined her at her private farewell party at a local DC bar - so long as no one gave their names to the rest of the press. As Kellyanne Conway leaves, you're already seeing media figures cheering her 'leaving for her children' and congratulating her on a job well done. Why? Because Kellyanne Conway, a racist piece of right wing trash who spent every day on the job lying to the American public and calling these journalists liars and enemies of the state, just like Sanders before her, is a primary source for access and on-background info in the Trump administration to most of these journalists and media figures. It is a game. They are friends and Conway will have a regular paid talking head post on CNN and MSNBC within a year, just like the rest. It is a club, and we are not in it. Without a full understanding of our daily intake and how our media got here, you have no idea what kind of subtle and overt bias we face everyday. That is always the media framing for Democrats, no matter the issue or what insane shít the GOP does - 'why can't the Democrats compromise?'

Glenn Greenwald's latest bright boy has said adieu to his political future after his past as a childhood revenge porn blackmailer of fellow 12-13 yos was revealed. But first, he'd like to blame cancel culture and feminism.

Did I mention Trump may speak every night? Good luck!

Not sure Biden needs the bounce.

Cute how you think this is a GIF topic to joke about.

There are always going to be attempts by the media to make it a horse race and give Trump a hand in the pursuit of network dollars. But this convention was a huge success and so was Biden this week. That is the mainstream media narrative last night, today and this weekend. We can acknowledge that success and still remain vigilant and focused.

Olivia Nuzzi, already mocked for being part of the "anti-SJW" online letter thing, is finally letting the mask slip more.

It was really hip and new 25 years ago.