tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post7061222630539375081..comments2024-03-27T18:00:02.032-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: A Circular Investigation SquadKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-37641489414700284592017-07-23T11:51:03.492-04:002017-07-23T11:51:03.492-04:00Trump's recent talk with the NYTimes was extra...Trump's recent talk with the NYTimes was extraordinary for what it showed of his irrational and disjointed thinking. Has anyone who's known Trump for a long time commented as to whether he's always been like that or whether this is a change?<br />voice-in-the-wildernessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-20982867862541743582017-07-21T19:05:19.605-04:002017-07-21T19:05:19.605-04:00Sorry about the "double post." Don'...Sorry about the "double post." Don't know exactly what happened but may relate to my confused vision and this teeny-tiny font. Please ignore.<br /><br />ZeeZeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-23080105245200790112017-07-21T18:46:37.718-04:002017-07-21T18:46:37.718-04:00An interesting article from the leftist "The ...An interesting article from the leftist "The Guardian:"<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/21/media-war-trump-destined-fail?CMP=share_btn_tw<br /><br /><i> The news media’s alarms about Trump have been shrieking at high C for more than a year. It was in January of 2016 that the Huffington Post began appending a denunciation of Trump as a “serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, birther and bully” to every single story about the man. It was last August that the New York Times published an essay approving of the profession’s collective understanding of Trump as a political mutation – an unacceptable deviation from the two-party norm – that journalists must cleanse from the political mainstream.<br /><br />It hasn’t worked. They correct and denounce; they cluck and deride and Trump seems to bask in it. He reflects this incredible outpouring of disapprobation right back at the press itself. The old “liberal bias” critique, a minor deity in the pantheon of Republican paranoia since the days of Trump’s hero Richard Nixon, has been elevated to first place. Trump and company now use it to explain everything. And the news media’s reputation sinks lower and lower as they advance into their golden age." </i><br /><br />Trump looks to be invulnerable.An interesting article from the leftist "The Guardian:"<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/21/media-war-trump-destined-fail?CMP=share_btn_tw<br /><br /><i> The news media’s alarms about Trump have been shrieking at high C for more than a year. It was in January of 2016 that the Huffington Post began appending a denunciation of Trump as a “serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, birther and bully” to every single story about the man. It was last August that the New York Times published an essay approving of the profession’s collective understanding of Trump as a political mutation – an unacceptable deviation from the two-party norm – that journalists must cleanse from the political mainstream.<br /><br />It hasn’t worked. They correct and denounce; they cluck and deride and Trump seems to bask in it. He reflects this incredible outpouring of disapprobation right back at the press itself. The old “liberal bias” critique, a minor deity in the pantheon of Republican paranoia since the days of Trump’s hero Richard Nixon, has been elevated to first place. Trump and company now use it to explain everything. And the news media’s reputation sinks lower and lower as they advance into their golden age." </i><br /><br />Trump looks to be invulnerable. The MSM media, not so much.<br /><br /><br /><br />Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-37948201248982992882017-07-21T16:47:48.293-04:002017-07-21T16:47:48.293-04:00I almost feel sorry for Jeff Sessions at this poin...I almost feel sorry for Jeff Sessions at this point: so loyal and yet so unappreciated!<br /><br />And while I am confident that Donald Trump will never be impeached or otherwise brought to any kind of trial--just remember that Mike Pence is waiting in the wings and is ever so much more capable than DJT, Sr.--it would be delightful icing on the cake if Judge Lance Ito came out of retirement just to hear the case. One can only dream.<br /><br />Zeenoreply@blogger.com