It was amusing watching contrarian Chuck Todd - who's never quite left his snide ways behind despite some good moments - ask a largely black, bipartisan panel (including Michael Steele) if DeSantis deserved the benefit of the doubt or 'guilt by association.' He got slammed down pretty fast, particularly by Steele.

 

Meanwhile:

 

 

This profile of Glenn Greenwald - by the absolute master of this sort of big juicy profile, Ian Parker - is deliciously unsparing.

Greenwald even admits that (though he is never wrong) he might have been just a *teensy* bit wrong about Russian meddling https://t.co/8ex0esn0nK pic.twitter.com/QFeUbrMjpv

— Patrick Radden Keefe (@praddenkeefe) August 27, 2018

55 minutes ago, Vee said:

It was amusing watching contrarian Chuck Todd - who's never quite left his snide ways behind despite some good moments - ask a largely black, bipartisan panel (including Michael Steele) if DeSantis deserved the benefit of the doubt or 'guilt by association.' He got slammed down pretty fast, particularly by Steele.

 

I read that even Faux News distanced themselves. Yet our heroes of the Beltway are still trying to remind us why we should support Republicans. They would do anything to help Republicans win. It's just sad. 

Trump is berating Sessions to “any Senator who will listen.” Hates his Southern accent, says he “talks like he has marbles in his mouth” — https://t.co/1gvRafnrIA

— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) August 29, 2018

Narrator Voice ... oh forget it. you don't need me to say it https://t.co/XUH6MoZka1

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 30, 2018

I've been reading the Sessions stuff and I'm just amazed all over again at how much influence Trump has over the GOP. Sessions was one of their good old boys, both in Congress and in the conservative movement. Now, day by day, more and more of them are happy to toss him to the side, humiliated and defeated. 

I do enjoy Sessions being humiliated on the daily. But oh God, the times are so much more dangerous, and that includes both men.

3 minutes ago, Vee said:

I do enjoy Sessions being humiliated on the daily. But oh God, the times are so much more dangerous, and that includes both men.

 

I saw an article yesterday with people from Pence's college days that reminded me again how terrified I am of him becoming President. 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6107325/Mike-Pence-believes-person-save-Donald-Trumps-soul-new-book-claims.html

President Trump and Michael Cohen reportedly had a plan in 2016 to buy all damaging information that the National Enquirer and its parent company had collected on him back to the 1980s. https://t.co/jqLs7vtt38

— Axios (@axios) August 30, 2018

Chain allegedly referred to the Boston Globe as "the enemy of the people" in phone calls.

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) August 30, 2018

 

Referring to a member of the media as an "enemy of the people" is very Trumpian language.

 

NBC News: According to the criminal complaint Chain threatened to travel to The Boston Globe and kill newspaper employees.

Here's what the FBI says is a transcript of one of his recorded calls: pic.twitter.com/XDNu2rDTSE

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) August 30, 2018

Edited August 30, 20187 yr by DramatistDreamer

Gives new meaning to the words "Chain of Fools," lol.

Edited August 30, 20187 yr by Khan

I don't want to see any journalist harmed but I can't help be think how the press treated Trump as entertainment for clicks and views. They didn't ever think that they would end up in his crosshairs but they sure didn't care about the people he targeted all through the campaign. Like so many others they thought he would only harm those people. They thought the violence would never touch them.

23 minutes ago, marceline said:

I don't want to see any journalist harmed but I can't help be think how the press treated Trump as entertainment for clicks and views. They didn't ever think that they would end up in his crosshairs but they sure didn't care about the people he targeted all through the campaign. Like so many others they thought he would only harm those people. They thought the violence would never touch them.

 

Yes.

I'm sure civil rights icon Bernie Sander will jump right on top of this.

 

 

Carl Bernstein helped take down one president, maybe he can do it a second time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45358883

This is so bad.

 

USPS is requesting that America Rising and its client, the Congressional Leadership Fund, return former CIA officer turned Democratic congressional candidate Abigail Spanberger's unredacted personnel file, which also contains highly sensitive SF-86 https://t.co/tyj6s1xDwO

— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) August 30, 2018

25 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

This is so bad.

 

I'll say!  It's embarrassing af!

4 hours ago, marceline said:

I don't want to see any journalist harmed but I can't help be think how the press treated Trump as entertainment for clicks and views. They didn't ever think that they would end up in his crosshairs but they sure didn't care about the people he targeted all through the campaign. Like so many others they thought he would only harm those people. They thought the violence would never touch them.

Yes. Also, I think some of them thought they could ride the ratings wave, but he couldn't really win.  I remember they were being accused of pretending the race was closer than it was just to keep people interested, but really they were underestimating him the whole time.