Courtesy of The Hill:The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday. The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2018
Trump announced last week that he would present “The Most Dishonest & Corrupt Media Awards” on Monday to highlight reporters who run with what he calls "fake news."
Celebrity chef Jose Andres offered a free lunch at any of his popular restaurants to winners, and the watchdog group American Oversight planned to hand out “Most Dishonest and Corrupt” awards to Trump administration officials on Monday as a response to Trump's plans.
Some folks got themselves a little excited about the possibility of being singled out for one of these "honors."
For instance The Daily Show took out a full page ad in the New York Times.
.@realdonaldtrump, prove you're not semiliterate by reading our full-page ad in the Failing @nytimes! #InItToWinIt #TheFakies #Fakies2018 pic.twitter.com/sSVqah4rlx
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 5, 2018While Stephen Colbert bought advertising space in Times Square.
Now I am a little torn over all of this.Tonight! My desperate bid to get Trump’s disapproval! #TheFakies pic.twitter.com/7exZSesI8m— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) January 4, 2018
On the one hand these comedians have given Donald Trump positive attention, and clearly he is excited about stringing them along now.
But on the other hand if he focuses on putting together another reality show like this, he will be too distracted to keep tearing down the country.
Yep, that's a conundrum alright.
Conundrum? Heck, I'm in the twilight of my life and I'm rather enjoying this because he gets SMACKED in the end and always will be; positive is in the eye of the beholder.
ReplyDeleteNever forget the WHCD that blew his cork. Let him fast food himself to death in front of televisions.
People cry, "where is President Obama through all of this?" He doesn't have to say one WORD. Watching it unravel, as we all are, and encouraging us to be strong and help our friends and neighbors through it who are struggling.
President Obama is playing Trump perfectly!
DeleteHe knows (and has always known) Trump is a disaster and not fit for office.
9:22. Last year, the media kept harping that Trump's base was keeping behind him. I kept asking who is his base? Aside from the hilltards with their guns and heroin?
DeleteI think Russia has been working overtime to boost Trump. I think Russia finds a new strategy every day, and that's why their boy stays in the White House.
Putin is the president whisperer.
10:21 AM - your first paragraph doesn't even make sense.
DeleteI agree that the best strategy to deal with the attention-craving buffoon is to completely ignore him as President Obama has done this past year. Whatever the comment, he never mentioned the buffoon by name. The lack of attention and recognition must grate the buffoon to no end. There's nothing that the buffoon would like more than to have a public spat with President Obama and I'm grateful that President Obama has denied him that chance up to now.
DeleteCan you imagine if Harry asks Obama to be his best man? Trump might stroke out on that.
DeleteHow's *THIS* for irony: the most right leaning polling company comes out with this as a result!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2017/the_winner_of_the_1st_annual_fake_news_trophy_is
But also:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/white-house-staff-could-face-legal-trouble-if-they-help-trump-with-fake-news-awards/
Rasmussen poll: Americans give Fox News the Fake News Trophy
Deletehttp://thehill.com/homenews/news/362569-rasmussen-poll-americans-give-fox-news-the-fake-news-trophy
"40% of all voters think Fox News should be the winner of the first annual Fake News Trophy.
DeleteCNN is in second place with 25% support, followed by MSNBC (9%), ABC (4%), CBS (3%) and NBC (2%). Six percent (6%) say the award should go to someone else, and 11% are undecided."
*My* first choice would be the White House and Orange Abomination.
DeleteFAN*T*asyLAND.
ReplyDelete"Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “FAKE NEW$” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA.
Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails."
"“This is an important book—the indispensable book—for understanding America in the age of Trump. It’s an eye-opening history filled with brilliant insights, a saga of how we were always susceptible to fantasy, from the Puritan fanatics to the talk-radio and Internet wackos who mix show business, hucksterism, and conspiracy theories.”"
https://www.amazon.com/Fantasyland-America-Haywire-500-Year-History/dp/1400067219
http://www.newsweek.com/white-house-staff-could-be-trouble-if-they-help-trump-fake-news-awards-says-773794
ReplyDelete“WARNING to White House staff: the president may be exempt from the rules at 5 CFR § 2635.701 et seq. on misuse of position BUT YOU ARE NOT,” tweeted Norm Eisen, who served as White House Special Counsel for Ethics in the Obama administration.
Senate bill to reverse net neutrality repeal gains 30th co-sponsor, ensuring floor vote
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/policy/technology/367929-senate-bill-to-reverse-net-neutrality-repeal-wins-30th-co-sponsor-ensuring
OT. And also a thank you, Captain Obvious. We have Canadian fiends who are snow birds and come to the beaches in FL every winter. They say that all Canadians feel Trump is a danger to the world, and Canada fears they will be caught in the middle of whatever mess Trump creates. They also say that America is now scoffed at and considered a joke by Canadians.
ReplyDeleteI watched a couple of year end political satire shows from Canada and they had quite a few skits on trump and melanomia.
Deletealso gave an "award" to Obama for reminding them a president can speak in complete, grammatically correct sentences.
Imagine that the same thing happened but Muslims, Hispanics or African Americans were involved. This is absolute bullshit....http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bundy-ranch-case-dismissed-with-prejudice
ReplyDeleteAmendmetn 25 is the ultimate wishful thinking that will never ever happen - legal experts agree - it is impossible - the vice president has to file to congress (won't happen), then 2/3s of congress has to agree (won't happen), and then it goes the president who can simply nope I am capable of being president and it ends there (would happen if the other two did) -- so folks have to STOP wishing for a fantasy and get to work protecting our country and helping each other through this nightmare until we get through this (hopefully with our democarcy intact) - educate others about facts, encourage and help others to vote, etc etc etc
ReplyDeleteNot exactly how it works.
DeleteFB excerpts
ReplyDelete"Did you catch the weasel words? "Recorded history"
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
ONLY HAS DATA FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT RATES BACK TO 1972.
That's right, "Lowest in RECORDED history," which only goes back ... 46 years.
Because we only started keeping track of black unemployment AFTER the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972.
Because before that, nobody gave much of a shit about unemployment for people of color. Before that, the government didn't give much of a shit about black EMPLOYMENT. And it's taken nearly five decades for the law to slowly, painfully, begin to even things out.
Not much of a history, eh?
Trump's tweet WHITEWASHES away the FACT that we've ONLY kept statistics on African-American (and for other people of color) since passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.
Which mandated the requirement."
"Trump's tweet is based on something he saw on Fox and Friends, which whitewashes these statistics down to a simple context-free, exists-only-in-present, pro-Trump blurb.
There's NO depth here. NO history. NO context.
Now, I expect nothing more from Fox and Friends, or Fox News in general. Fox makes no attempts to hide their bias, and Fox and Friends is an OPINION show."
"When Trump says, "Dems did NOTHING for you but get your vote!" he dismisses decades of work, from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into to law by Lyndon Johnson all the way up to the Americans With Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 signed into law by Barack Obama. Democrats (and many Republicans over the time frame in question) have done far more than "NOTHING" when it comes to employment opportunity. Maybe they haven't done enough, but it's hardly nothing. It's DECADES of work."
"The President of the United States is NOT getting his info from actual verified and VETTED sources.
Despite having the resources of the entire United States government at his fingertips, non-partisan information sources such as the Government Accounting Office and (in this case) the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Trump instead gets his information processed though Fox News like grass processed through a cow."
"This is the difference between populism and actual leadership.
Trump doesn't really know ... anything.
He doesn't exist in any moment other than the present.
He surrounds himself with people that are even dumber and more intellectually lacking than himself because it makes him the "smartest" guy in the room.
There's no depth to this guy.
He's as shallow as piss on a plate."
Jim Wright IS RIGHT.
Protests Anticipated Ahead Of Trump’s Atlanta Visit For College Football Playoff
ReplyDeletehttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/protests-trump-atlanta-college-football-game
(THREAD) BREAKING: NBC reports that Mueller plans to interview Trump about his ties to Russia. This thread—by a former a criminal defense attorney—breaks down this major news. I hope you'll read and share, as this could be the single most consequential interview of our lifetimes.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/950404182061838336
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/950404182061838336.html
So now we're supposed to believe Ivanka was coincidentally entering Trump Tower at the *exact moment* a gaggle of Kremlin agents was leaving? (And moreover, even with *that* coincidence, they could only have recognized each other if Ivanka knows Rob Goldstone well.)
Sorry, *no*.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/950450629188751361
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-california-not-iowa-could-pick-the-next-democratic-presidential-nominee
ReplyDeleteReally? The last Democratic nominee was picked by the DNC and their elites, no matter who the little people voted for in the primaries.
DeleteJoe Scarborough: Trump confidants believe president has ‘early stage dementia’ — but Washington Post wouldn’t print it
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/joe-scarborough-trump-confidants-believe-president-has-early-stage-dementia-but-washington-post-wouldnt-print-it/
I don’t care what he nor Mika have to say. They gave him free rein call-in during the campaign, paid to be among the elite Mar-A-Lago New Years 2017, and NOW whining?
DeleteREAL:
ReplyDelete"Parenthetically, Mr Trump did not revolutionize reality TV. He had middling success with a proven formula, and his show and spinoff collapsed when he left--hardly revolutionary. Also, as he often notes, he NEVER won an Emmy, the highest mark of performance in the industry."
Trump’s new ‘Buy American’ plan will call on Pentagon, diplomats to play bigger role on arms sales
ReplyDeleteOne national security analyst said that easing export restrictions to allow defense contractors to reap greater profits internationally would increase the danger of top-of-the-line U.S. weapons going to governments with poor human rights records or being used by militants.
...The Trump administration is nearing completion of a new “Buy American” plan that calls for U.S. military attaches and diplomats to help drum up billions of dollars more in business overseas for the American weapons industry, going beyond the assistance they currently provide, U.S. officials said.
President Donald Trump as early as February is expected to announce a “whole of government” effort to ease export rules on purchases by foreign countries of U.S.-made military equipment, from fighter jets and drones to warships and artillery, according to people familiar with the plan.
Trump is seeking to fulfill a 2016 election campaign promise to create jobs in the United States by selling more goods and services abroad to bring down the U.S. trade deficit from a six-year high of $50 billion.
The administration is also under pressure from U.S. defense contractors facing growing competition from foreign rivals such as China and Russia. But any loosening of the restrictions on weapons sales would be in defiance of human rights and arms control advocates who said there was too great a risk of fueling violence in regions such as the Middle East and South Asia or arms being diverted to be used in terrorist attacks.
Besides greater use of a network of military and commercial attaches already stationed at U.S. embassies in foreign capitals, senior officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said another thrust of the plan will be to set in motion a realignment of the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR). It is a central policy governing arms exports since 1976 and has not been fully revamped in more than three decades.
This expanded government effort on behalf of American arms makers, together with looser restrictions on weapons exports and more favorable treatment of sales to non-NATO allies and partners, could bring additional billions of dollars in deals and more jobs, a senior U.S. official said, without providing specifics.
The strategy of having the Pentagon and the U.S. State Department take a more active role in securing foreign arms deals could especially benefit major defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing Co.
“We want to see those guys, the commercial and military attaches, unfettered to be salesmen for this stuff, to be promoters,” said the senior administration official, who is close to the internal deliberations and spoke on condition of anonymity.
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/08/exclusive-trumps-buy-american-plan-call-pentagon-diplomats-play-bigger-role-arms-sales.html
Oh, GREAT! Now we want to militarize the whole world and supply them with more weapons, no matter how sleazy the other parties might be.
DeleteWhat could possibly go wrong?!
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/08/trumps-attack-michael-wolffs-book-crashes-burns-strategist.html
ReplyDeleteAs Trump Stands Exposed, Republicans Rally Around Him
ReplyDeleteThe same Republicans who like to posture about standing up to the president are predictably, pathetically, falling in line.
...Trump is being killed in the press on Wolff-book coverage. Republicans sit around and think, what can we do to push back? And they come up with this.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/as-trump-stands-exposed-republicans-rally-around-him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJXrfNQUGfE
ReplyDelete'Television: Drug of the Nation'
Here's a scam for ya:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-spiritual-adviser-warns-followers-of-consequences-if-they-dont-send-her-up-to-a-months-salary/
The United States is weighing the possibility of launching strikes on North Korea, the Wall Street Journal reports. The strikes, called a “bloody nose” option, would reportedly be a “limited” strike on a North Korean facility, in retaliation for future North Korean weapons tests. U.S. officials are reportedly uncertain if they could conduct the strikes without setting off all-out war. Strikes on North Korea come with the risk of massive consequences: the isolated country has an arsenal pointed at nearby Seoul, the capital city of U.S. ally South Korea.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/report-us-weighing-possibility-of-limited-north-korea-strikes
In a shocking report in The New Yorker published Monday, students at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism have identified more than 60 instances in which undocumented immigrants who were deported from the U.S. were killed shortly after returning to their home countries. The team based its numbers on interviews with more than 200 legal-aid groups, shelters, NGOs, families, and mortuaries across Central America— the U.S. government doesn’t track such records—and spanned the Obama and Trump administrations. Dozens of living deportees who were tracked down described widespread violence and living in fear. Further, more than a dozen women seeking asylum told the Columbia team that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents did not ask them the required questions about the threat facing them at home, ignored rights of due process, or were mocked or sexually threatened after protesting.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence
So presdential and I thought hid tutor when over the 1st amendment.
ReplyDeletehow about the most FAKE administration award,trump would win hands down.
They could give him a fake plaque and bragging rights.
Trump and his buddies.
ReplyDeleteAmid the public discourse of fake news and President Trump's announcement via Twitter about his planned "fake news" awards ceremony, CPJ is recognizing world leaders who have gone out of their way to attack the press and undermine the norms that support freedom of the media. From an unparalleled fear of their critics and the truth, to a relentless commitment to censorship, these five leaders and the runner-ups in their categories have gone above and beyond to silence critical voices and weaken democracy.
Most Thin-skinned
Winner: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey
Runner-Up: President Donald Trump, United States
Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom
Winner: President Donald Trump, United States
https://cpj.org/blog/2018/01/press-oppressor-awards-trump-fake-news-fakies.php
Sad.