CBS is imploding (again). This doesn't leak for no reason. @DRW50

 

I'm not surprised. And CBS will skate, as they always do.

Warmongering NYT and others who don't want to live without their daddy figure Putin are already working overtime to spin the Ukraine invasion as a success.

 

In fairness, Bret Stephens' bad hot takes are generally not the NYT editorial stance. (Except about 'woke culture') I have many issues with the Times but I def do not think they are pushing Putin propaganda.

Part of quite a long thread.

 

8 hours ago, Vee said:

 

I know people say that Democrats are terrible at messaging, but I'm starting to think that's a load of bull.  It's not that the Democrats are bad at messaging, it's just that the media doesn't want to hear anything they have to say.

Many Dems are often very bad at messaging! But some are not, and the blanket assumption that they always get messaging wrong is at times knee-jerk, lazy and incorrect. But they do have more they could be doing right now, and at the same time, DC and the media handicap everything for the right wing as well.

Meanwhile, Madison Cawthorn's insanity is being couched by the NYT as 'youthful brashness':

 

"I won't be fooled again."

Yeah, whatever, Roger Daltrey.

This is part of a followup of the tweet series I posted in the politics thread yesterday. Dave Rubin is shameless and grimy beyond belief - his "allies" are fine with inciting hatred against him, his husband and children-to-be to their followers, not to mention other queer people, and he still nods along. This is what you become when a desperate need for money rots away any soul you ever had.  

Edited March 31, 20223 yr by DRW50

I did not know until today that Ramin Setoodeh, who wrote a number of anti-gay screeds at Newsweek, whether on telling gay actors to stay in the closet, blaming effeminate gay men on TV for same sex marriage losses in Maine, or, most unforgivably, all but blaming a young boy killed for being gay ( http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/07/21/2399 ), is now a big name at Variety. He even wrote a puff piece on loathsome Meghan McCain late last year, where he had to mention that they were friends. I will no longer have much faith in anything from them again.

That also led me to this overwritten, incoherent defense by Aaron Sorkin, with my biggest laugh (funnier than any of his "comedy" ever was) being him begging people to keep reading Newsweek, as it is one of the few publications that still has news.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/now-that-you-mention-it-r_b_574210

 

 

Who are the not-so-smart people staying on a waitlist for this nonsense?

Exclusive: Two key tech execs quit Trump’s Truth Social after troubled app launch, raising questions about the company’s progress as many users languish on a waiting list, unable to use the platform https://t.co/ZuuXAlIfbt

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 4, 2022

CNBC pushing Russian propaganda. 

 

Linda Ronstadt is a gem for so many reasons. See the insight on display.

Linda Rondstadt on Australian TV in 1983: "Australia gave us Rupert Murdoch. Thanks a lot, you guys. Take him back!"pic.twitter.com/Q4VVlEAwGz

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 5, 2022

A major tragedy. Eric Boehlert of Media Matters has died in an accident.

 

 

 

Meanwhile: