The Politics Thread

[DRW50]

So I see that Comey was out there talking about McCabe even though he will likely have to testify ("talking about" as in "throwing under the bus"). Why has this perpetually self-serving man been given such a platform?

[DRW50]

China is putting its collective finger in the eye of Trump supporters yet again, and all of us by extension. The joke is that these people will still support him - I imagine China knows this and finds it hilarious. I wish I could.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/20/us-sorghum-fleet-china-grain-tariff-trade

Edited April 20, 2018 by DRW50

[marceline]

I give him massive props for timing.

 

 

[Khan]

Oooooooooooh, AG Foghorn Leghorn ain't gonna like that one bit.

[Vee]

A refreshingly candid piece from a NYT election correspondent on their failures, for once:

 

 

As a counterpoint, however, Amy Chozick was reportedly one of the Clinton campaign's most negative embedded journos at the time, and we have this:

 

 

[Vee]

[Khan]

C'mon, who DOESN'T he treat like garbage?

 

I truly do not care what Chozick has to say.  Yes, I, too, fell for the "WHAT ABOUT HER EMAILS??" con (although, not to extent that I would have voted for Trump or third-party).  But what good does admitting that do for us now?  Just do better!

[DRW50]

Why do people give money or attention to NYT? Does their news coverage actually have anything to offer? 

[DramatistDreamer]

 

The regional NYC section still offers some decent in-depth coverage from time to time but no, I do not give them my money and cannot remember the last time I purchased a copy of the paper, online or hard copy.

 

Anyhow,

 

 

[Vee]

I do think they offer decent coverage and analysis on some stuff. I also think about 95% of their major staff is blinkered and cloistered in a bubble of groupthink and knee-jerk resistance to any criticism of longstanding attitudes and bias. You have to take the solid material they do produce and then account for their weaknesses critically.

 

And no, I don't give them money either.

[Vee]

[Juliajms]

This is so awful.

 

[DramatistDreamer]

Speaking of the NYT, this was front page but it's not really most news media these days.

 

 

[dragonflies]

 

[DRW50]

I'm surprised Trump even wanted her to be there. 

 

I could say something very bitchy but I won't...