The (Current year) General Political/Salma Hayek discussion Thread Part V

[Kutnupe14]

I would imagine that if we stepped back and looked at dc as a whole we would find that lots of foreigners are buying influence and favors there. The smart ones use a dc law/lobby firm as a cut out, but at over $1K per hour that probably limits the players to the really rich ones like asian business types, euro merchant bankers, and saudi princes. Your costs are lower if good marketing people can tie your influence to something big media likes, like climate change.

You very well may be right. But, the smart ones don't get caught. Any previous case is just as bad as this one, but if we don't know about it, we don't know about it.

 

[bwframe]

FNC reporting Anti-Trump protests are turning violent in Minneapolis. Attacking cops, burning MAGA hats, violent to reporters, etc.

There is a safety concern for the 20k rally attendants leaving the arena.

 

[ghitch75]

[h=1]Trump protest in Minneapolis erupts in pepper spray, MAGA hat fires[/h]
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-minneapolis-protest-impeachment-maga-hats-fire

 

[churchmouse]

[h=1]Trump protest in Minneapolis erupts in pepper spray, MAGA hat fires[/h]
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-minneapolis-protest-impeachment-maga-hats-fire

This whole thing is a mess.

 

[T.Lex]

This whole thing is a mess.

I can think of about 6 other threads, in GenPol subforum alone, that you could post that line in.

 

[jamil]

I can't help but think that there is a reason Trump chose to do a Rally in Minnesota. It seems he wasn't disappointed.

 

[bwframe]

Minneapolis is a perfect example of what we are up against. Lunatics that will stop at nothing.

This will get worse, before it gets better. If we fool around and let these ANTIFA dems win, we are in real trouble.

........................

Patiently waiting to hear Omar's response.

 

[T.Lex]

Minneapolis is a perfect example of what we are up against.

Frigid temperatures?

 

[KG1]

Frigid temperatures?

No worries. They kept warm while burning MAGA hats.

 

[halfmileharry]

I can think of about 6 other threads, in GenPol subforum alone, that you could post that line in.

Isn't that kinda like buying the bus driver a ticket?

 

[T.Lex]

Isn't that kinda like buying the bus driver a ticket?

I think he's trying to get to 50 quality posts... for the classifieds.

 

[halfmileharry]

I think he's trying to get to 50 quality posts... for the classifieds.

He's been trying that for a while now. I'm betting "quality" will continue to evade him.

 

[bwframe]

Notre Dame to host 2020 U.S. presidential debate

 

[jamil]

Okay. So Banks said Schiff lied about his role in the whistleblower. Schiff refutes that he met with the whistleblower before the complain was filed. But Schiff tweeted about this long before congress was notified. He got that information somewhere. Didn't Wapo report that Schiff or his office was contacted by the whistleblower initially. It's reasonable for Banks to claim Schiff lied when he said he nor his office had any contact with the whistleblower prior to the complain being filed. For NPR to call the claim incorrect just because Schiff says so, is kinda biased. Why take Schiff's word over Banks. It would instead be appropriate, after Banks claimed Schiff lied about that, for NPR to report that Schiff still maintains that he made no contact, and that somehow, the words just tweeted themselves, the details of the whistle blown.

This isn't dishonest reporting. I think they really believe they're being objective and reporting both sides. But they are indeed reporting form the left.

Only bringing this up again because I found this:

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/schiff-wrong-on-whistleblower-contact/

So Banks was right. It was Schiff who was full of ****. But the NPR listening public now largely believes it was banks who was lying because NPR took Schiff's word for it over Banks. And it's fair enough not to accept either of their word. Just report the facts.

 

[halfmileharry]

Only bringing this up again because I found this:

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/schiff-wrong-on-whistleblower-contact/

So Banks was right. It was Schiff who was full of ****. But the NPR listening public now largely believes it was banks who was lying because NPR took Schiff's word for it over Banks. And it's fair enough not to accept either of their word. Just report the facts.

Facts aren't always accurate on their own. They must be put into context to represent the accurate picture.

 

[jamil]

Facts aren't always accurate on their own. They must be put into context to represent the accurate picture.

Sure, reporting the context is just saying where the facts live. We saw two people who asserted opposing things. If you don't have the facts which informs which one is more truthful, just report what they said, and the context in which they said it and let people decide for themselves who is right. Their evidence that Banks mischaracterized Schiff's relationship with the whistleblower was that Schiff denied it. Well. Someone's lying. It turned out to be Schiff.

 

[Birds Away]

Sure, reporting the context is just saying where the facts live. We saw two people who asserted opposing things. If you don't have the facts which informs which one is more truthful, just report what they said, and the context in which they said it and let people decide for themselves who is right. Their evidence that Banks mischaracterized Schiff's relationship with the whistleblower was that Schiff denied it. Well. Someone's lying. It turned out to be Schiff.

Schiff wasn't lying. He is a Democrat and therefore incapable of an untruth. Apparently you learn that in Journalism 101. He was simply misunderstood.

 

[printcraft]

Shepy smith quit Fox...

https://www.apnews.com/6b9f26f305ba4846b35bd8aa165d9959

 

[jamil]

Well. I'm kinda not fond of administration officials meeting privately with media moguls.

Smith’s departure also comes one day after Attorney General William Barr met privately with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, founder of Fox News. President Trump has been increasingly critical of personalities on Fox News that he views as disloyal.

Maybe his departure had nothing to do with that. Who knows. But anyway, I'm sure Smith will be welcomed on any network like CNN, or MSNBC.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Finally! It's about ****ing time.
This Never-Trumper has increasingly been projecting his snide remarks from the beginning.
Like all the rest, he can't help himself.
Bye-Bye! Putz.

Is liking Trump the only scale that a person's worth is measured in the year of our lord, two-thousand and nineteen?

Either lavish praise, or get off the air?

Don't we hate them for doing that exact thing?