US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

And oh man, did someone get owned and is rapidly trying to save face:

Any student should be proud of a 4.2 GPA —incl. @DavidHogg111. On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland. For the record, I believe my show was the first to feature David...(1/2)

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 29, 2018

Like I said (Seth Abramson was suggesting) above...

"The reality is my job is to make sure that the White House interacts with the special counsel in an honorable, ethical, responsive way. That’s a relatively important task for the dignity of this White House and future White Houses, and it’s a serious task. I don’t represent the president personally, like Jay and John did."

surely a coincidence that she tweeted that right after one of her advertisers dropped her

xxp God bless the goddamned Onion: Nation's Ivy Leaguers Share Hearty Laugh That Dartmouth Grad Thinks She Can Talk Shit On Anyone

Happy days!

JUST IN! Mattis first words to Bolton on Pentagon steps. Mattis joking in an off mic moment said, “I heard you’re actually the devil incarnate and I wanted to meet you.” Bolton laughed.

— Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) March 29, 2018

god, massive eyeroll at ingraham's "On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize..."

fuuuuck oooofff

i bet in the spirit of Holy Week she wants to administer capital punishment

"On reflection, in the spirit of Mammon..."

I like how Hogg gained 0.1 in GPA between the two tweets

That's Soros' work, I bet

haha

I'm figuring part of Trump's corporate tweets are probably triggers so him and his cronies can buy stocks cheap on the temporary plunge.

conservative talking heads that gave up attacking teenagers for Lent must be thrilled to miss this one

this is cute

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/28/trump-campaign-and-rnc-are-advertising-alex-jones-youtube-channel/219767

the new base

How new is 'new'

One of my friends went ham on Fredo on Twitter.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19366053_10216063699415714_5960829547700921533_n.jpg?oh=0af8201d2062388a2a17aa0153a3ba73&oe=5B28CE06

how neu

xp

these ppl are really shook by teenagers

David Hogg Is (Still) A High School Bully https://t.co/S0so5GYdYA

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 29, 2018

xxp God bless the goddamned Onion: Nation's Ivy Leaguers Share Hearty Laugh That Dartmouth Grad Thinks She Can Talk Shit On Anyone

― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, March 29, 2018 5:45 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was going to say. I didn't even apply to that place.

this was a good tweet

Pick a number 1-12 contact the company next to that #

Top Laura Ingraham Advertisers
1. @sleepnumber
2. @ATT
3. Nutrish
4. @Allstate & @esurance
5. @Bayer
6. @RocketMortgage Mortgage
7. @LibertyMutual
8. @Arbys
9. @TripAdvisor
10. @Nestle
11. @hulu
12. @Wayfair

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 29, 2018

Republicans recognize bullying because they wrote the handbook

OMG, can't believe Hogg would bully Ingraham's financial portfolio like that, what a meanie.

how fucking dumb (and obv evil) do you have to be to not realize that you can give full-throated rebuttal to the "anti-gun" people without personally attacking the Parkland kids

Ingraham has never shown any sign of being intelligent. I mean, she doesn't even do the vocabulary-showoff thing. She brings nothing to the table.

Case in point: Dartmouth grad who clerked for Clarence Thomas.

From that Erick Erickariah Erickson piece:

He may be a survivor of the high school shooting in Parkland, FL, but he is using that position to avoid being challenged on his increasingly inane and hostile statements. He is using his position to bully others.
...
If he cannot hold all the people who screwed up accountable because of his agenda and he accuses anyone who disagrees with him of hatred, he is not someone any of us should pay attention to.

Lololol "lemme shine my spotlight on this person so as to say he shouldn't get any spotlight"

wrt: "hold all the people who screwed up accountable", these people are so addle-brained that they can't realize that it's not just about Parkland

these people are so addle-brained that they can't realize that it's not just about Parkland

There is no big picture for them because their entire worldview is "whatever libs are against, we're for, updated hourly." It's endless frothing rage combined with the memory of a goldfish.

if it's one thing i know and remember about being young it's the ability to just... keep... going... so erickson can do what he wants but he has to go to bed in like 3 hours and the parkland people are gonna be up allllllll night fucking with him rip his mentions tomorrow

Yeah, I’m sure it’s been said a million times, but why would you ever think it was a good idea to pick a fight on social media with rich teenagers

these people are so addle-brained that they can't realize that it's not just about Parkland

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, March 29, 2018 10:36 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the line i've seen emerging among the regular right online is that "the fbi failed these kids" as a way to sidestep the gun question

A little extra fun

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/30/fbi-questions-ted-malloch-trump-campaign-figure-and-farage-ally

corruption junction, who's that republican?

T/S:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZfQrfHXcAEW-IO.jpg vs. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZfSdLUVoAANlU-.jpg

the presence of paper, bread and fruit negates them both

the horror

top one

delicious

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-pruitts-epa-security-broke-door-lobbyist-condo/story?id=54129080

The incident occurred in the late afternoon on March 29, 2017

hmm

It was a Wednesday

no?

creepy

pic.twitter.com/RL1hCSeNnH

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) March 31, 2018

Local newscasts nationwide last week decried “fake” and “one-sided” reporting by reading from a shared script written by one of the most powerful broadcasters in America.

The so-called “must run” script, which local stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group were required to read, according to several reports, blasts “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.”

“The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media,” the script continues, according to a copy published Friday by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/watch-in-unison-sinclairs-local-stations-denounce-one-sided-news-stories

very bad

Par for the course. And somewhat mild compared to past efforts!

In November 2010, it was reported that five Fox affiliates and one ABC affiliate owned by Sinclair broadcast an infomercial critical of then-President Barack Obama, Breaking Point: 25 Minutes that will Change America, which was sponsored by the National Republican Trust Political Action Group.[174] The infomercial painted Obama as an extremist, and claimed that, during the 2008 presidential campaign, he received some campaign money from the Hamas terrorist group, and that Obama said in a speech, "You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers! You gonna have to kill some of those babies." The special also discusses Obama advisers Van Jones and John Holdren, as well as Obama staff Anita Dunn, Kevin Jennings, Carol Browner and Cass Sunstein – all in an unflattering light; in one case, the special claimed that Holdren said that trees should be permitted to sue humans in court.

This Fuckin' Country...

that is awful, and anyone involved in airing that should have been fired. but there's something different about having the local news anchor deliver the message while looking straight into the camera, in a commercial break during a newscast.

xpost RE: the "Breaking Point" disinfomercial

True. Sinclair has done the forced newscaster "editorial" thing for a long time unfortunately, their wiki is something else.

that is awful, and anyone involved in airing that should have been fired.

also, at first i thought "wouldn't the FCC be interested in regulating unadulterated hate speech that reaches millions of people? but then i remembered that the fun part of US Politics is that 2010 obama's FCC couldn't regulate it because he would be accused of suppressing his ideological enemies, while a trump/GOP FCC won't regulate things like that because they don't care as long as it damages the other team.