6 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

Thing is...it's not just Democrats that this is happening to.

 

If it's happening to anyone who is not a far right extremist then conservatives won't care and neither will the media. 

UPDATE: Reuters reports, citing a person familiar with the situation, that there was no suspicious package addressed to the White House. https://t.co/dybJYYrl6b

— CNBC (@CNBC) October 24, 2018

16 minutes ago, marceline said:

Sorry but I'm just going to say it. There's a whole lot of chickens coming home to roost today. The NY Times and CNN worked overtime to put Trump in office. They didn't see him as a threat to themselves and they didn't give a [!@#$%^&*] about the rest of us. Even now they are doing everything they can to hand the midterms to the Republicans. I don't want to see bloodshed because we've already had too much but I refuse to take to the barricades for these people just because their years of malpractice have caught up to them because tomorrow they'll be right back to rehashing Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and chasing after Nazis in diners.

 

If anything all of this is likely to make them even more beholden, as they seem to have intractable ties with the GOP now. The amount of time they have spent in the last few years carrying water for literal Nazis is astonishing. 

2 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

If it's happening to anyone who is not a far right extremist then conservatives won't care and neither will the media. 

 

CNN will certainly care, I would believe.

1 minute ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

CNN will certainly care, I would believe.

 

Nope. They will go right back to chasing clicks. Remember Jeff Zucker keeps a framed Trump tweet on his office wall. No matter how many bombs get sent to CNN, he's safe and I doubt he gives half a damn if some of his employees get killed.

1 minute ago, marceline said:

 

Nope. They will go right back to chasing clicks. Remember Jeff Zucker keeps a framed Trump tweet on his office wall. No matter how many bombs get sent to CNN, he's safe and I doubt he gives half a damn if some of his employees get killed.

 

I will have to take your word on that but as someone who used to live, study and work in NYC and was there on September 11th, I think most people are underestimating the effect that the effect of something like that can have on your psyche.  

 

Perhaps CNN headquarters in Atlanta won't care, I'll give you that but I would think those people in the Time Warner building would care.

I also lived in NYC ten years. They will.

I hope you're right and I'll admit to feeling really depressed this morning so my thoughts are in a dark place but again, that comes back to the idea that they didn't care until personally affected. So much of the reason we're here is because too many people in and out of the media have lost the ability to care how their behavior and decisions affect people.

Now deleted from the NYT story but still relevant:

 

 

this is how NYT is covering Clinton bomb scare. pic.twitter.com/kn2a8wVGct

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 24, 2018

1 minute ago, marceline said:

So much of the reason we're here is because too many people in and out of the media have lost the ability to care how their behavior and decisions affect people.

 

That is absolutely correct.

Last night he told a crowd that Beto O’Rourke and Hillary Clinton should share a jail cell. https://t.co/Y3RxwI4tzo

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) October 24, 2018

All of the block around CNN's offices is blocked off. pic.twitter.com/GFFumDLGSI

— 💀andrew👻kaczynski🎃 (@KFILE) October 24, 2018

.@PoppyHarlowCNN, @jimsciutto are now broadcasting/reporting live outside of evacuated @CNN building in NYC via cell phone after bomb threat pic.twitter.com/hSojFd0GDu

— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) October 24, 2018

49 minutes ago, marceline said:

There's a whole lot of chickens coming home to roost today. 

 

Yep.

 

I couldn't see it before, but I do now: a lot of the MSM worked their asses off to help Trump become president, because, IMO, eight years of a scandal-free (and, in their eyes, boring) Obama administration was more than they could handle.  They NEEDED some good, gossipy [!@#$%^&*] to keep their audiences and readerships from deserting them.  Enter Trump, the "star" and EP of a hit "reality" series, and the GOP, who were ready, willing and able to deliver the meat necessary to keep their hungry selves fed.

 

Factor in the media's long-simmering hatred of the Clintons, a couple who's long been able to dodge whatever boulders they've lobbed at them, and you have part of the recipe for the shitstorm that is unfolding at the moment for them.

Edited October 24, 20187 yr by Khan

Blessedly unrelated:

 

 

Poll: Kavanaugh confirmation motivating more Americans to vote Democrat than Republican https://t.co/U89oLajpYd pic.twitter.com/B03hsOe1hc

— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2018

If that's true, then maybe B**** K******** isn't such a waste of humanity after all.

Speaking of people in positions of prominence not doing their jobs, I keep wondering when a serious and earnest discussion of voter suppression will take place.

 

New allegations of voter suppression in Georgia. This time, the Georgia NAACP alleges that malfunctioning touchscreen voting machines are suppressing voters pic.twitter.com/fsHrwJzCWq

— Kira Lerner (@kira_lerner) October 24, 2018

2 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Speaking of people in positions of prominence not doing their jobs, I keep wondering when a serious and earnest discussion of voter suppression will take place.

 

It's not exciting enough.

 

Now, if Brian Kemp were hopped up on meth and screwing a male prostitute as he tinkered personally with the voting machines....

Edited October 24, 20187 yr by Khan

Breaking: The package with an explosive device sent to CNN’s NY offices today was addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan, according to city and local law enforcement officials.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 24, 2018

#BREAKING: Sunrise Police Department confirms an office building has been evacuated due to suspicious package in the mail. It’s the same building where the office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is located. @CBS4Ted is live at noon.

— CBS4 Miami (@CBSMiami) October 24, 2018