Jump to content

The Politics Thread


Toups

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 45.8k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Vee

    6816

  • DRW50

    5988

  • DramatistDreamer

    5521

  • Khan

    3459

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted Images

  • Members

Oh that liberal media.

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/20/government-shutdown-media-blame-353584?lo=ap_b1

 

For instance, Republicans crowed and Democrats cried foul Friday night when The New York Times sent out a push alert with the heading, “Senate Democrats blocked passage of a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open. Lawmakers have less than 2 hours before a shutdown.”

 

The AP ran a headline with wording similar to the Times, and its @AP_Politics feed tweeted out last night, “The Latest: Senate Democrats derail bill to avert shutdown.”

 

Conservative sites The Daily Caller and Townhall.com pounced on the headlines, highlighting them in stories.

 

That all led the Washington Post’s Robert Costa to report on Twitter Saturday morning: “House GOP read out headlines of NYT and AP, among others, and talked up idea this is a Dem-causes shutdown, per person there. Person adds that GOP holding to position and believe Senate Dems have to move toward them.”

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

While I agree with much of the article, I hope they and The NY Times and the others keep focusing on Trump and how the democrats are failing. Nothing gets people more fired up these days. This is the same media that predicted Clinton, was giving Gillespie and the GOP big wins in Va, Moore winning in Alabama,  and overlooked democratic wins across the country in state legislature and local elections. The Women’s march yesterday which the media is pretty much ignoring, is showing It. Yesterday wasn’t about Chicago, NY, DC, San Fran LA, St. Louis, it was about the marches that popped up in red states, smaller areas, that grew this year  I’m thrilled the media is ignoring the record number of women involved, standing up, running for office. I hope they keep ignoring us up thru and after Nov 2018. We’re used to being ignored unless there is some flaw that needs to be highlighted.

 

And it’s funny how there is no talk about the record number of GOP reps that are stepping down. But again why would Politico report on that.

 

the big flaw in all of this is how NONE of these folks are really running anti Trump. They are all running on issues key to their districts. Sure if the media keeps looking at the DNC and it’s failures. It is failing in many ways but I don’t know anyone running for office or supporters of theirs counting on that support. Or even wanting it at this point. And by the time Nov rolls along no one will remember a gvmt shutdown. There will be 1000 more Trump scandals/stories by then like how he eats 2dozen eggs and 2 pounds of bacaon  for  bkfst.

Edited by JaneAusten
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Please register in order to view this content

Well Dr. Jessie Jackson or whoever his doctor is told him to change his diet. This would be the media spin on his eggs and bacon 
decreased" consumption

 

 

And I hope people read this and see how women are polling against this fraud. I'm white and a woman and I don't know if I expect white women to shift dramatically but I do expect enough of a shift in certain areas such as in Va to make a difference.

Edited by JaneAusten
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

There are no words.... 

Please register in order to view this content

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42766159

 

The White House has changed its answering machine message to blame Donald Trump's political opponents for its failure to answer calls.

The US is in the middle of a government shutdown, leaving many federal services without staff.

But callers to the White House comment line at the weekend were informed that Democrats were to blame.

The recorded message says calls cannot be answered because Democrats are holding government funding "hostage".

The recorded message was set up on the White House comment phone line, which accepts calls from members of the public.

"Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because Congressional Democrats are holding government funding - including funding for our troops and other national security priorities - hostage to an unrelated immigration debate," the recording says.

"Due to this obstruction, the government is shut down."

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

 

There was an article last week that talked about how much Kelly resents Congress. I wonder how much of a role that plays. 

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/12/john-kelly-trump-chief-of-staff-337987

 

I saw this.

 

I also see that none of the Republicans who went apeshit over the old story about Clinton White House people taking the "w"s off the keyboards before W took over have had a peep about this.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • I can definitely see that airing the same week as The Love Boat colliding with an iceberg and sinking while crossing the North Atlantic on the Titanic anniversary with a “Who lives and dies?!” Promo next to Mr Belvedere being blackmailed over his wanted fugitive status back in the UK

      Please register in order to view this content

        Agree with you both. I am also going assume that while Hotel may had some big numbers the first 2 seasons the demographics weren’t great. Reason I say this is I distinctly remember my parents watching St Elsewhere and/or The Equalizer after Dynasty.    I still don’t get Hotel’s designation as a primetime soap opera either lol. ABC should have aired Paper Dolls in the 10/9 slot on Wednesdays in the fall of 1984 to give that show some more legs.    Obviously ABC was eyeing a double bill night in the same vein as Dallas & Falcon Crest and that might have worked better than leaving Paper Dolls to the wolves in an untested timeslot.
    • I tend to stay out of EP discussions, simply because I rarely know who EPs when. And they all have their good and bad sides. But how are we supposed to judge JFP on anything other than what we see? I didn't know she was a director or a music director. (and unlike say, Chris Goutman, I never saw her credited as anything other than an EP) Specifically in the matter of casting Crampton, she took credit for it (or at Crampton gave her credit for it, whatever) and it was arguably, one of the worst recasts of the '90's (and either as bad or worse than the actress she fired).  She lost two important actresses in '92 and still decided to kill Maureen.  She had a wildly uneven tenure at GL. It's no wonder she's polarizing. But it kind of proves a point--great soap is always a that rare combination of everything clicking at the same time. 
    • A degree does not make one an expert at their job, it just shows that you can follow directions from a technical standpoint.  It doesn't mean that they're creative. JFP was all about the look of a show without considering that technical beauty can only carry a show so far if there is nothing interesting to go along with it.  Equality means calling out flaws equally in both genders. 
    • NBC or P&G was even fool enough to take a full page ad for two consecutive weeks in TV Guide promoting this horrible storyline.

      Please register in order to view this content

    • JFP has had more defense for her decades of terrible producing than many male producers ever had.
    • It makes sense that she got a degree in directing. I've always said she should have been a director. I think she works better at the technical aspects of the show. I think her problem is the emotion/heart of a show.  She always guts the heart of the show she's on and she makes decisions that stop longtime viewers from watching a show. I don't think it's sexism to call that out especially as I've said similar things about Conboy. I've called out Rauch for much worse. 
    • "Aunt Blanche" first appears toward the end of this episode, about 57 minutes in.

      Please register in order to view this content

         
    • You're probably right. They may have just wanted edits of certain characters. Hopefully the rest is around.
    • Of course!

      Please register in order to view this content

      I'm wondering if there were bits cut from this footage, because to me it seems that may be the case. At 11:23, Laurie tells her psychiatrist that the bar phoned and told her Mark got into a fight and needs to be picked up. It starts to fade to the next scene, you hear some different music begin and get cut off between the static, and where you'd expect to see the aftermath of the fight, we cut back to a later scene of Laurie in bed worrying about what's happening. The credits at the end also show that more than Mark, Laurie and Dr. Northcote should have been in this episode. Another character, Brody, played by Ed Setrakian, is mentioned but not shown. If this is the case, perhaps the original fan who saved this episode has the additional scenes.
    • Anyway… It’s a shame that the video that depicted Leticia’s death was removed from YT.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy