I feel like Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" should be the theme/anthem of this wreck of an administration.

Edited February 28, 20187 yr by Wendy

I want to know how people like Maggie Haberman are any better than Michael Wolff who they all complain about. She's no better than he is. Her entire reporting on the white house is fluffing up Jared and Ivanka and making excuses for everything that goes on. At least Wolff's stuff seemed more accurate than her fluff.

Why does this NOT surprise me lol

 

 

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

When the lying gets to be too much, I guess.

When the lying could send you to prison.

37 minutes ago, JaneAusten said:

I want to know how people like Maggie Haberman are any better than Michael Wolff who they all complain about. She's no better than he is. Her entire reporting on the white house is fluffing up Jared and Ivanka and making excuses for everything that goes on. At least Wolff's stuff seemed more accurate than her fluff.

 

She's done some good work, but she's also completely amoral about keeping her access. I think she still mostly knows they're all crooks and awful on some level, but her access depends on placating them and defending their stories. She will push any PR line, like this claim that Hicks always meant to leave (after five months) to keep her conduit to the WH and then, like all key staff at the Times, Haberman will passive-aggressively attack any critics. She also was very upset about Wolff because let's face it - he scooped her and her upcoming book on Trump. IMO her relationship with Trump and his administration is now partly Stockholm Syndrome - she has gone partially native. She sympathizes with too many of them.

She still gets roasted during her passionate defenses over her stories, so that's good. IIRC her father is old school NY journalism and she used to work for one of the gossip rags, she got grandfathered in. Because of her family I think she is entirely too close to the city's society set and therefore Trump to have enough objectivity and awareness of how glib she really comes off.

Edited February 28, 20187 yr by Vee

This is how she treated a very mild commentary from Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo:

 

 

The timing is clearly going to raise questions. But the fact that non-reporters believe their partisan analysis over actual reporting is a facet of the whole fake news problem in the first place https://t.co/fMN7AOrf36

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 28, 2018

Meanwhile, in The Adventures of Young Jared:

 

 

New: Jared Kushner, whose demeanor has been described as paranoid in recent days, suspects that the timing of the story about his foreign contacts was coordinated to be released when issues surrounding his security clearance were in the news. https://t.co/2d5ky3iuwk

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 28, 2018

NEWS: In statement, Walmart says it is raising its age requirement for gun and ammo purchases to 21. It's also taking items off its website that look like assault-style weapons.

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) February 28, 2018

Edited February 28, 20187 yr by Vee

Topical:

 

 

They had this running gag on Murphy Brown where every week she had a new secretary. Could handle the WH Communications Director gig that way.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 28, 2018

Last Straw? Trump Reportedly 'Berated' Hope Hicks For Admitting She's Told 'White Lies' For POTUS (VIDEO) https://t.co/X6dbHiXJnp pic.twitter.com/CC4MffT9f5

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 1, 2018

Haberman begins to backpedal from her strident defense of the Hope Hicks cover story:

 

To be clear here, could be any number of things, including overall Russia probe/culmination of a lot of factors. But it wasn’t yesterday’s hearing.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 1, 2018

Oh my god. "Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as 'Mr. Magoo,' a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling..." https://t.co/tpJWDt0m3o

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) March 1, 2018

Bye bye:

 

 

Execs from Apollo, the private equity firm, and Citigroup both had W.H. meetings with Jared Kushner.

Following the meetings, Apollo lent $184 million to Kushner’s family real estate firm. Citigroup put up $325 million, NYT reports.https://t.co/t4swvtnR7D

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 1, 2018

I'm just so sick of all of these damn people in this lousy administration.

But wait - there's more.

 

 

Wow. @SecretaryZinke tried to *pull pilots from fighting wild fires* to fly him around on a private jet in Nevada. https://t.co/H1bgNoGHIh pic.twitter.com/6TiGH4oyMm

— Corey Ciorciari (@CoreyCiorciari) February 28, 2018

A Trump admin official at the center of a series of court cases over undocumented teenagers obtaining abortions said in a deposition that he does not believe undocumented immigrants have the constitutional right to an abortion, BuzzFeed reports. https://t.co/wRQVGbhQ1c

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 1, 2018

Don't forget about sleepy, or (is that now greedy?), Ben Carson.

 

 

The White House budget proposes cutting Housing and Urban Development by $8.8 billion. HUD spent $31,000 on a dining set for Secretary Ben Carson’s office.https://t.co/1btivq2JGT

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 28, 2018

The day never ends:

 

 

Someone forged a nomination of President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Twice. https://t.co/6zgeKhCEqY

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 1, 2018

The New York Times seems to be eternally confused about what they are supposed to be (or as some say, they just seem more confused because they are now called out by social media, which wasn't an issue until the last 5 or so years). I was reading this about their editorial page editor, James Bennet, who has gotten most of the attention for bumbles and stumbles this year. 

 

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/new-york-times-op-ed-crisis-james-bennet

 

The most recent (aside from Bret Stephens repeatedly Twitter bitching about people who criticize his cool kid friends at the paper...) flap involves the Times briefly hiring a woman with ties to a white supremacist.

 

https://splinternews.com/the-new-york-times-just-hired-and-maybe-unhired-a-na-1822978000

 

11 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Too bad that approval ratings drop didn't happen in 2016 when Rubio was up for re-election.  I don't know why folks keep electing him. SMH.

 

A lot of Republicans benefited from it mostly being a good year for the party. They also nominated a flawed Democrat to run against him, and I think the Democrats were hobbled by him dropping out and then coming back in.

 

Media darling Marco has also benefited from a decade of gushing press. He was supposed to their hero. He was supposed to reach young people because he listened to Tupac. He was supposed to bring in more Hispanic voters. They were still gushing over him after he made half-hearted, obviously false promises at the town hall - oh he stood up so well to criticism, and so on.

 

They'll never fully give up on him, just as they never will on other forever friends (like McCain, Romney, "T-Paw," etc.) because it means they will lose face.