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?

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, 20187 yr by DRW50

I give him massive props for timing.

 

 

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

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

 

 

‘They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President’ https://t.co/egQt6QKNEE pic.twitter.com/e0NEnC9rhA

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 20, 2018

I think this, from The New York Times' Amy Chozick, is the most detailed and direct admission from someone on the 2016 Clinton beat that journalists were played by Russia. https://t.co/rJI6GmYiqG pic.twitter.com/MYzuUA0rhI

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 20, 2018

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:

 

 

Hi @amychozick! The 1st line (“Things were already looking bad when Chelsea Clinton popped the Champagne”) is false. I would have been happy to tell you that if you’d asked, which you didn’t. Looking forward to the correction once you fact check. Thanks! https://t.co/gqppfDEEW1

— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) April 20, 2018

That’s a pretty damning admission. Amy Chozick also says in her book, “I can’t explain [the insatiable appetite for email-related stories] exactly except to compare it to a fever that spread through every newsroom and made us all salivate over the tiniest morsels.” https://t.co/2pDwy506aO

— Sarah Lerner (@SarahLerner) April 20, 2018

The thing is, @amychozick, I doubt Hillary Clinton thought about you at all. But if she did, I think she'd agree with your self-assessment. pic.twitter.com/rWAfB2lPta

— Cipher (@snarkylicious) April 20, 2018

After a decade, I still can't figure out if Chozick hates HRC, loves HRC, or hates HRC because she loves HRC and isn't loved back. But I do know she's very far from a neutral reporter. https://t.co/vZPzRJ8F4w

— Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera) April 20, 2018

Stone says Trump has gone out of his way to treat Cohen like garbage https://t.co/coxNMRE22N

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 20, 2018

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!

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

18 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

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

 

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,

 

 

Breaking — Missouri Governor Eric Greitens charged with a second felony in St. Louis. This time... felony tampering with computer data.

Missouri AG recommended the charge after finding Greitens illegally used a charity donor list for political purposes.

— Blake McCoy (@BlakeNBC) April 20, 2018

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.

....non-existent “sources” and a drunk/drugged up loser who hates Michael, a fine person with a wonderful family. Michael is a businessman for his own account/lawyer who I have always liked & respected. Most people will flip if the Government lets them out of trouble, even if....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018

....it means lying or making up stories. Sorry, I don’t see Michael doing that despite the horrible Witch Hunt and the dishonest media!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018

Trump, of course, talks to Maggie Haberman regularly.

This is so awful.

 

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

 

 

Front page of the New York Times depicts "deadly clash" at the Gaza border between Israeli snipers and Palestinian...rocks.

Israeli troops have killed 38 Palestinians in the past four weeks. pic.twitter.com/yPocpKramq

— Zach Carter (@zachjcarter) April 21, 2018

 

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

 

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