16 minutes ago, JaneAusten said:

Vee they are still doing it. They spent weeks on a narrative about how democrats were losing control of key races in the California primary citing alleged polling and such. And when the results started coming it and initially showed some positives for the GOP(which flipped as the night went on), they were crowing over it. MSNBC especially., Frankly they had eggs on their faces the next day when the GOP got locked out of 10 races in the state legislature and the democrats not one.

 

 

Well, that's what I'm talking about. Old, lazy narratives that need to be slowly broken, and the compulsive need for a horse race is what good journalists and otherwise decent people are always working with or against - and sometimes both for and against without realizing the cognitive dissonance. Our media is complicit in a lot of ways. But that doesn't change the fact that there are also a lot of people doing good work in compromised institutions, and we need them because we have no viable alternative that can reach the most people. Further, it's sometimes the laziest personalities, shows or networks that reach the laziest or most ambivalent audiences in the middle of America when they get outraged about something like the camps. That is important, no matter the delivery system or the personality. The result is what matters.

 

16 minutes ago, JaneAusten said:

And I have not seen one publication or network apologize for their coverage.

 

And they never will. To me waiting for it is a waste of time.

 

The Morning Joe crew have a multitude of sins to answer for, but they'd still never cosign putting people into camps. They are human beings with some core of decency, however blinkered or hypocritical. More importantly, from a cold and pragmatic standpoint, they serve an important function, as I indicated above - they are an access point to the lazy Beltway media and bureaucracy. Everyone in Washington, in media or on Capitol Hill, knows about, watches or goes on that show and others like it. If people like that crew turn on Trump vehemently and often and speak to their human outrage - however hypocritical given their past sins - that trickles down to the rest of the lazy, cushioned Beltway class, bit by bit. It is using their own people to galvanize them. Their own tribe is what they understand. I don't have to forgive them to favor that usage.

Edited June 21, 20187 yr by Vee

Definitely not a "Be Best" moment.

 

 

boarding the plane this morning, @FLOTUS wore a @ZARA jacket, olive military style -- but it was printed on the back with the phrase "I don't really care. Do U?" An unfortunate sartorial decision ...

— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) June 21, 2018

Someone in that Trump cabal is being honest for once.  I definitely believe that Melania simply doesn't care.

I've only seen two members of the media acknowledge that they screwed up in 2016: Jeffrey Toobin (“I think there was a lot of false equivalence in the 2016 campaign. That every time we said something, pointed out something about Donald Trump — whether it was his business interests, or grab ’em by the p–––y, we felt like, ‘Oh, we gotta, like, talk about — we gotta say something bad about Hillary.’ And I think it led to a sense of false equivalence that was misleading, and I regret my role in doing that.”) and Amy Chozick ("The Bernie Bros and Mr. Trump’s Twitter trolls had called me a donkey-faced whore and a Hillary shill, but nothing hurt worse than my own colleagues calling me a de facto instrument of Russian intelligence. The worst part was, they were right.").

 

Everyone else is still out here doing what they did before.

Chozick has a lot of other shít to answer for. I'm not giving her too much credit.

 

A telling new profile:

 

 

According to one of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting participants, once Don Jr. began to realize he wasn't going to be handed the Russian dirt on Clinton, "the light just went out in his eyes," the participant told GQ. "He was totally disinterested." https://t.co/iKbM51rmtA

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 21, 2018

15 hours ago, juppiter said:

What are the thoughts on Peter Fonda saying Trump’s son should be locked in a cage with pedophiles?

I think it's sick and disgusting.  People need to that kid alone.

 

This is infuriating.

 

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1009895000031875072

 

 

Edited June 21, 20187 yr by Juliajms

https://t.co/u47CQGrgIA   'I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?' Melania wears a $39 jacket with a very controversial message scrawled on the back as she boards a plane to visit immigrant children at the Texas border  https://t.co/wVqfmYdizd  Crisis actor spotted at Texas child migrant detention center

Edited June 21, 20187 yr by victoria foxton

Hugging a child, Rep. John Lewis vows action to stop practice of family separation.

"Just tell me whatever you want me to do. I will go to the borders. I'd get arrested again. If necessary, I'm prepared to go to jail." https://t.co/CdvGwSIhzc pic.twitter.com/MGJYZs26ls

— ABC News (@ABC) June 20, 2018

A senior house leadership aide sends this note after trump's loco presser just now.

"[!@#$%^&*] him. He couldnt [!@#$%^&*] shut his [!@#$%^&*] mouth for 8 [!@#$%^&*] hours. [!@#$%^&*]."

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 21, 2018

WHAT.THE.F*CK 

 

 

That jacket actually makes my jaw drop. I guess they just are in Breitbart level trolling now.

Both parts of the Korean peninsula seem to be making the most progress of all of these summit meetings.

 

 

Two Koreas agree on family reunion in August #nhk_world_news https://t.co/OthRbakkzl

— NHK WORLD News (@NHKWORLD_News) June 22, 2018

Ron Howard throwing shade at the orange moron lol

 

 

When you're the First Lady, you know all eyes will be upon you, and that people will scrutinize your every move.  Even if Melania wasn't actually saying she didn't give a f**k about the immigrant babies and children being forced into concentration camps, she (or her team) had to have been aware of the kind of statement wearing that particular jacket would have made at that particular moment.  So, either they're clueless, or they truly do not care.  (Or, it's probably a little of both, lol.)

5 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

Ron Howard throwing shade at the orange moron lol

 

Aunt Bee and Marion Cunningham would be beside themselves at the sight of their Opie/Richie being so salty.

Edited June 22, 20187 yr by Khan

http://www.newnownext.com/melania-trump-jacket-reaction-wildfang/06/2018/  

 

That cover looks so cheap and tacky to me. If I had any respect for Time I might be more moved by it than I am. It just feels like a cash grab.

I think it would have been more effective to have the children inside the actual camps on the cover.