her revisionist retelling of what went down. Jake Tapper and others reporting on this are being too kind in my opinion.

There has been a lot reported about how the Trumps are enriching themselves, but the Republicans in power who can do something don’t seem to care. Therefore we need to change Congress in the midterms and your Mom is not helping with this book!!!!!!!!

Plenty of material out there Jake.

To put him in the same sentence or comparison with Pelley right now is just evil.

Tapper is an attention whore.
Pelley is maintaining integrity and putting his money where his mouth is in real time now.

Jesus Christ, do you remember what a corny lovestruck dweeb he was around McCain? Sucking his medals on camera even, most distasteful. He not once EVER pressed McCain on a tough question or put him on the spot in all the many dozens and dozens of interviews they did, total free throws for McCain to whip out what insipid line his staff wanted that day.

By the end he was acting like a McCain family spokesman instead of a journalist.

The Mara Lardo Mafia doesn't get nearly enough press coverage on all the shady theft of public funds through misuse of the power of executive power. The whole family and their co-conspritors need to fully exposed repeatedly in the press and heald accountable by law once the leagle system is purged of sycophants.

Yesterday Michelle Obama "endangered the Democratic party;" today it's Jill Biden.

It never fails. Democrats are ALWAYS blamed for the corrupt criminal MAGAts.

Jake Crapper "being too kind."

like he did with Pres. Biden?

Has Tapper ever mentioned Melania's job, yes she was employed by Epstein?

But Mrs. Biden is fair game tho.

I will read her book.

He has Biden Derangement Syndrome. It's like someone is paying him to try to tear that family down. We see it so often with the MAGA influencers like Candace Owens. But Tapper must really have a grudge against the Bidens because he is smart enough to know how petty he looks going after them, in lieu of the fact that they are a Mayberry family compared to the sloven greed image that the Trump family fosters.

It must be that gnawing dread of meeting the same fate of numerous journalists, even late night comedians with stronger vertebrae:
Pelley, Rather, Olberman, Colbert and others.

That stoop you’re seeing manifested when he appears full station before the unflattering cameras must be the weakening of spinal fortitude not lacking in his more courageous colleagues. I’m probably giving him the benefit of the doubt here. Must be the green he likes more than the truth that America doesn’t need the likes of him.

Question any exposé’s emerging from him and his producer’s desk.

Imagine a circus bear on a bike, That's chump.
Joe rode well and like so many of us, used toe clips on the pedals.
When they don't release, over you go. Looks bad, it's just an aww shit.

The public NEVER offered Joe Biden a hand up. Every slip, gaffe of minor mess up was on the news or late night. I quit Trevor Noah and hated Myers constantly showing the AF-1 slips or Colbert. Comedy giving chump aid and comfort. It helped.

Joe Biden was President, yet the nightly news focused on chump. They never ignored him!

Now we have a douche who if I found lying on the ground I would kick and spit on!

Not my leader.

Hang in there Mr. President!

My first move would be to back the car up and run him over a couple more times to be sure... THEN I would piss on his remains, allow them to dry and set him on fire with a blow torch to ensure good charring on the remains, finally I would bury those toxic ashes with a 1:1 mix of Lye and Ash to ensure that nothing ever grows in that spot again.

the Trump kleptocracy.

"Democrats are held to impossible standards and Republicans are held to none." -The Opinionated Ogre

I must have missed it, but I did hear Dana Bash getting her little digs in. She tried to cast doubt on Jill's version of what she said to Joe after the debate, and basically said that if Jill thought he was having a stroke why didn't they go to the ER? Was going to start a thread about it, but just didn't have the energy. These people are so exhausting and predictable and boring at the same time.

It would have been pretty obvious, and he couldn't have finished the rest of the debate, could he have?

Right or wrong doesn’t matter to that guy. We already knew that.

But that ain't gonna happen.

His supposed love for "The Troops" is also a charade.

Service is appreciated and combat troops are indeed a different breed - but so are police and firemen and first responders to disasters and medical personnel who run into harms way to protect and save others. But all active duty troops are not combat veterans, and not all of them are really good guys at their core. They deserve respect commensurate with their conduct - just like anyone else. I don't get misty eyed and choked up because of a uniform - but by the stories of heroism or bravery from the person wearing that uniform. Just like our flag. I love the symbol because of a deep and abiding love of the core concepts of self-rule and self-determination it represents - NOT the several states or the government itself.

The over-correction into vulgar troop worship following the fall out of the end of the Vietnam War, the plight of many veterans of that conflict and the revisionist history brought on by the Reagan years (with Rambo, and Norris and multiple paramilitary worship films and books) has left me with a life long aversion to stories about the military. I find many of them to be nearly insufferable.

There is a line (one of the only one's spoken by Stallone in the film "First Blood" - which introduced John Rambo to the country and the world... ironically, in the novel, the character of Rambo is killed in the end and the story is more about the tragic end of a Vietnam vet than an indestructible super soldier on a crime spree) where Sly intones:

In that mini-speech, many people my age cohort (teenagers of the mid-80's) were first exposed to the power of propaganda and the ability to color the past by those who control the present. The Vietnam War and its entire era cannot be distilled (satisfactorily) into a single speech, slogan or idea... yet Hollywood ran with the image of the abused and misunderstood vet, being put down by anti-War protestors as an inherent evil. This was reinforced ad nauseum though the Reagan years and the fall of the Berlin Wall was largely played as capitalism led by America "defeating" communism and Soviet Union era politics.

It took me until the first Gulf War build up to begin to recognize this, and it was all the way to 9/11 and our nation's collectively bungled and evil response to that attack before I fully recognized the BS and propaganda for what it was all along - a control metric for the population and an easy button to push for politicians looking to change the subject at any given moment.

At any rate...I offer thanks and appreciation to all service members - military or civilian - and a special degree of gratitude for those now or previously in combat operations or support; but not carte blanche and not universally without context.

I have to get up and sit down more times at a baseball game than at a Catholic church re: The Troops.

Basta!

“… the ability to color the past by those who control the present.”

They will pressure the public to support of war of the Republican's choice and under Bush anyways they would lecture anti-war protestors to "support our troops" and had yellow ribbons but after they come back they don't care including the Republicans. They try to privatize the VA or as AOC says "Like many public systems, GOP want to rip the battery out + say the whole car doesn't work, so they can sell it for parts," -- https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-veterans-gop-privatization-va-funding-healthcare-1405375

I wasn't alive yet during the Vietnam war but in my experience as a veteran Republicans will use troops as a political football if they're pushing for war but don't do much for them after they come back.

ever had a thought about tuning in to see if it is any better. Judging by the comments
and some of the stories I have read; it still sucks!

fucking asshole

excellent response