Speaking of National Prayer Day…
Trump says U.S. more religious now than under Obama: "You notice the big difference between now and two or three years ago?"
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 3, 2018
This is like a pilot on a plane that’s going down bragging that more of his passengers are praying to God https://t.co/4ccoVPJbXh
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) May 3, 2018
Hypocrite-in-Chief stands forth for his guy:
Vice President Pence tells CBN he has "lost count of the number of times that the president has nudged me, or nudged another member of the cabinet and said 'Let's start this meeting with prayer.'"
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) May 3, 2018
And, of course, this is just fine with the Media Village Idiots…
Fireworks today.
.@AprilDRyan: You were blindsided by the news of that the president repaid Michael Cohen for the $130K hush payment to Stormy Daniels.
Sarah Sanders: "With all due respect, you don't know how I feel."
April Ryan: I've been here 21 years, I know how this works.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 3, 2018
"We give the very best information we have at the time," Sarah Sanders says, when asked why the White House and Trump often say things that are not accurate.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 3, 2018
Sanders said this in March: "I've had conversations with the president about this. There was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he's denied all of these allegations." https://t.co/iwG7OK2rPj
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 3, 2018
CNN's @DavidChalian after briefing: "Circle May 3rd on your calendar, because this is the day that we will look back on, in this briefing, where Sarah Sanders made it so painfully clear that she has lost credibility with the American people, with the reporters in that room."
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) May 3, 2018
So @michelleisawolf was right after all, @DavidChalian? https://t.co/1a5yxW0mcG
— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) May 3, 2018
— Timmy Dale (@timmydale1118) May 3, 2018
hey remember 3 days ago when you all were defending Sanders from jokes about her being a liar. https://t.co/ZioyVwNGJF
— zeddy (@Zeddary) May 3, 2018
lamh36
And now I KNOW I need to go to bed.
Is this bizzaro world? Or is Faux News ready to try to slowing slip away from Chump co?
Full thread here: https://twitter.com/riotwomennn/status/992236636514783232
efgoldman
You fucking piss poor excuse for a journalist. Fucking NYT should have fired you last year..
It IS your fucking job, Mabbie Habbie.
Whatever J school issued your diploma should take it back.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: Cavuto’s check must have bounced.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: Here you go:
Felanius Kootea
The corporations that “own” the reporters are starting to get worried about Trump. They are still right wing, of course, but they are getting a little bit nervous. The reporters are still in the “access” business, not the news business. Maybe one day enough of them will get back to journalism so that Russia can’t manipulate so many people so easily. Watching BBC’s Hardtalk and then watching interviews on TV here is illuminating.
NotMax
Smokey tongue.
FlipYrWhig
Why are journalists about as weird about the word “lie” as teenagers looking in the mirror are about the word “candyman”? What exactly do they think they’ll summon if they say it out loud?
Jerzy Russian
Jesus, what a shitshow.
Starfish
The number system that Pence learned as a child did not include the number zero. This is why he has lost count of the number of times Trump wants to start a meeting with a prayer.
NotMax
@Starfish
More likely is it is a number greater than ten and he ran out of fingers.
trollhattan
@efgoldman:
Sarah Lawrence says “Hi, and please donate to the alumnus fund.”
dmsilev
Pence claiming that Trump is a deeply religious man means that either Mike Pence is a deeply stupid person or that Mike Pence is a deeply dishonest person.
Or both. Let’s go with ‘both’.
dmsilev
@FlipYrWhig: ‘Lie’ implies intent, and to ascribe intent to someone is Taking A Side, which is doubleplusungood to the Beltway media. At least when it concerns Republican apparatchiks anyway.
opiejeanne
@Starfish: Well, I heard that “zero” is one of them Ay-rab numbers. No wonder he didn’t learn it.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@NotMax:
That’s such a multilayered joke. It references both Pence’s stupidity and anti-Muslim bigotry
Yarrow
Yeah…no. Whatever her first day doing the press briefing was, that was the day she lost credibility with the American people. If the reporters in that room didn’t figure it out until today, that’s on them.
dmsilev
@Yarrow: Be gentle with the media. Most of them haven’t yet mastered object permanence.
Yarrow
@dmsilev: Remember that Paul Manafort pushed to get Pence picked for the VP spot on the ticket. Pence is a traitor.
Platonailedit
jesus fucking christ.
mai naem mobile
@Adam L Silverman: wow, when Dolt45 is losing Neil Cavuto…….
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
Neil Cavuto? I always thought his first name was Mark.
Jay Noble
I’m a bit steamed right now. I can’t do a whole bunch here in the deep red end of NE about Trump and the national other than to cheer all his administration to go down and soon.
However, I can be a local rabal rouser. We have a 10 year Econimic Development Plan ending that was slated to repave 9 specific blocks at a cost of $1,000,000 – half from a self-imposed sales tax and half from the City. 5 of the 9 blocks have been completed and came in at roughly half a million – just like it was supposed to.
Tonight, our City Manager basically said we had @ $200,000 dollars to work with, which would be the tax half of the funds. When asked where the rest of the funds that were promised he basically said “What $250,000? Who promised you that? Aren’t there other projects you want to spend that money on?” And more weaseliness. I have the actual City Council resolution from the Legal Notices section of the paper, but neglected to bring it along ‘cuz I was hoping not to need it. Silly me.
Anyway stuff will be hitting the local paper and facebook etc. But is there more we can do to get them to honor that resolution?
Well,
Mnemosyne
@FlipYrWhig:
They’re only weird about applying it to Republicans. They’re happy to call Democrats liars, as shown above.
B.B.A.
If you follow Harry Frankfurt’s trichotomy, Trump is a bullshitter, not a liar. To lie requires intentional negation of the truth, while Trump has never given a rat’s ass about whether what he says is true or not.
Truth: “Two plus two is four.”
Lie: “Two plus two is five.”
Bullshit: “You say two plus two is four? Maybe with your twos, but I’ve got the biggest most beautiful twos you’ve ever seen, believe me…”
lamh36
@Adam L Silverman: yep…bizarro world right!!
Mnemosyne
@Jay Noble:
If middle age has taught me anything, it’s that you will ALWAYS end up needing the thing you left behind because you hoped you would not need it. Let that be a lesson to you.
SiubhanDuinne
@Amir Khalid:
Well played, sir. Well played.
Yarrow
@dmsilev: Oh, they’ve mastered it. Just like with truth, they choose to ignore it until and unless it’s convenient for them.
Jay Noble
@Mnemosyne: Being in the past middle but not yet retirement age, you’d thinked I’d remember that!
lamh36
Oh…and I swear I am going to bed, but ya’ll know I’m got a Hallmark movie addiction right? I’ve weaned myself off of them slowly, but I do fall off the wagon from time to time…but mostly, I haven’t watched any new one in months.
I do however watch my daily rerun of Golden Girls on Hallmark channel, so I do still see previews for their newest and “greatest” movie premiering whenever.
As much as I “stan” for Hallmark movies, the lack of diversity in them does stick in my craw, which is one of the reasons why I’ve given up on them mostly, but this newest movie premiering on the day it’s premiering… had rolling my eyes soo hard.
So on May 19, on the day Prince Harry will be marrying Ms. Meghan Markle…Hallmark is premiering yet another girls meets Prince love story…with as you probably already guessed it…NO DIVERSE CASTING what so ever…
Ugh…darn you Hallmark…do you even try for diversity…Lifetime sure manages to do it well…but ya know what Hallmark… you do you boo boo…do you…
Good night BJ peeps.
Sm*t Cl*de
We are expected to believe that Trump’s cabinet keep forgetting how to sycophant properly, and keep forgetting to do the thing that Trump really wants. Yeah right.
Darkrose
I just tweeted Haberhack to tell her that I hope the ghost of Molly Ivins haunts her forever. She’s a disgrace to the profession.
efgoldman
@trollhattan:
If they rescind her degree, I’ll donate.
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
SiubhanDuinne’s reply makes me think there was a bon mot that I just didn’t get. What, pray tell, might it be? (I will get my face ready to receive my palm when I realize I shoulda got it without help.)
NotMax
Well, we managed a grand total of one day without rain. Coming down outside in sheets right now.
Jay Noble
@Jay Noble: Ya know, I’m thinking maybe I should hire a kid or two to follow the City Manager around on BMX bike and yelling “I want my 2 hundred thousand dollars!” ala Better Off Dead. :-)
Yarrow
@SFAW:
The Cavuto Mark, from our very own lexicon:
Mnemosyne
@Darkrose:
Hello, you! How is SJSU going? I can’t remember when you were scheduled to finish.
SFAW
@Sm*t Cl*de:
You’ll notice that Dense did not mention to Whom the prayer gets made. Given Shitgibbon’s tiny-dick insecurity and need for adulation, one might assume that the prayer is to Bubba Free Don, the Living
DickheadGodhead.Mary G
@SFAW: It was a Jon Stewart thing.
SFAW
@Yarrow:
Ah. Thanks.
Speaking of the Lexicon, I notice that your trademark comment is not included there. I plan to send a strongly-worded letter to Cole to protest. IN ALL CAPS!! Which I’m sure will get him to rectify the oversight, toute de suite.
Mandalay
@efgoldman:
No argument from me, but my blood pressure plummeted after I clicked AL’s link in the OP to Timmy Dale’s tweet replying to Haberman.
To say he skewered Haberman would be an understatement.
Ruckus
@Jay Noble:
Ahhh! The age when you start to forget to bring along your memory.
dmsilev
@Ruckus: “They say memory is the first thing to go, and I forget what the second thing is.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus:
Eh, wuts that?
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
You aren’t doing too bad, you remembered what the first thing to go is.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
If you can’t remember, I can’t help you.
dmsilev
@Ruckus: Tattoos, just like in the movie ‘Memento’.
Wapiti
@NotMax:
It’s actually very easy to count to 12 with just one hand. 4 fingers, 3 joints in each finger, and the thumb is used as a pointer. Apparently the ancient Egyptians counted that way. Not that Pence would know this.
r€nato
@Felanius Kootea: Indeed, I’ve gotten to spend weeks at a time watching non-US English language TV news. CNN International (it’s an entirely different product than the domestic version), BBC, Al-Jazeera International, AFP’s English network. Americans – even those who don’t watch Fox News Channel – are truly brainwashed and insulated from the much bigger picture outside our borders. That’s tragic considering we’re the people who choose the leaders who have tremendous influence over world events.
SFAW
@Ruckus:
Why did you bring this up? Oh, and welcome to … to … This Land.
Amir Khalid
@SFAW:
Tell Alain. He can add it to the Lexicon.
But her emails!!!
I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the prayers Pence is talking about resemble those of the Pharisee, in that they generously tongue bathe Trump regardless of whatever false humility and requests for guidance they contain. Even without Trump’s demonstrated behavior, Pence’s humblebrag about the quantity of prayers is a dead giveaway.
sanjeevs
I would love to know why Giuliani is back.
He was very prominent in the campaign. Was part of the transition. Could have taken his pick of head of DHS, DoJ etc. Probably could have made tens if not hundreds of millions with contracts to his businesses.
Then suddenly he quits the transition. On the same day (Dec 9) that the CIA concluded that the Russians had helped Trump win the election.
My guess is Rudy wasn’t really aware of the level of Russian involvement. He thought his work with the NY FBI was standard GOP ratfucking. December 9 he figures that there is actually going to be a serious investigation of this and Comey is furious.
So he bows out immediately and lays very very low.
Until now.
My guess is he figures he is a target (in the real if not legal sense) , is likely going down and his only hope is to help Trump win this extrajudicially,
hervevillechaizelounge
@Jay Noble:
I know I’m late with this, but you and your fellow townsfolk should band together and withhold your taxes; put them in an escrow account and let the lawyers fight it out.
You have proof of your original agreement and you agreed to the tax increase based on that agreement; don’t let Mayor Quimby scam you!
smike
@sanjeevs: I could believe all that. These guys have slithered through the cracks for so long they think they just need to find that special little bitty one and slither free.
joel hanes
the very best information we have at the time
The gaggle is provided with the currently operative information.
‘This is the operative statement,’ he said. (ca 1973)
Everything old is new again.
NobodySpecial
I actually can easily believe that Trump starts every meeting with prayer. Specifically, a prayer that the Lord strikes Mueller dead. It’s his only hope now.
joel hanes
@efgoldman:
Ms. Haberman seems to please her editors.
joel hanes
@FlipYrWhig:
What exactly do they think they’ll summon if they say it out loud?
responsibility, in the "no one is to blame, everyone is responsible" sense.
If they understood what they're doing they'd have to change what they're doing.
People hate that; they'll do *anything* to avoid acknowledging karmic burden.
Anything but that
So they pretend not to know what they do. Especially to themselves.
You might say they only fool themselves.
opiejeanne
@Mandalay: She probably blocked him.
Frankensteinbeck
@joel hanes:
You have a point, but I think a bigger reason is that Republicans lie constantly. Trump is not weird in that, he’s just so petty and inconsistent even the willfully blind have trouble not seeing it. Refusing to call out lies is necessary to pretending the Republican Party, it’s policies, and the motivations of its electorate are legitimate. The press are overwhelmingly Republican. Their personal buddies, who are Republicans, lie to them constantly. Following the road of admitting Republicans lie leads to scary places like “I am a racist and I go to barbecue parties with a man who wants to kill as many Americans as possible.” They bend themselves in pretzel knots to avoid it.
lollipopguild
@But her emails!!!: Pence is the type of “Christian” and there are so many of them who lie all the time and think that God is OK with all of their lies. They lie to “look good” and the lying gets them things like being VP so in their eyes God must approve of them lying.
Bruce K
@NobodySpecial: Somehow it wouldn’t surprise me. And it wouldn’t surprise me if cheeto and company are under the probably-false impression that Mueller’s a single point of failure in the investigation.
Jonny Scrum-half
@efgoldman: Bob Somerby would support Haberman, on the theory that if you go beyond reporting that statements were false and try to say someone lied you’re moving from reporting facts to reporting someone’s state of mind, which is a more difficult playing field for reporters than simply sticking to the facts.
Aimai
@Jonny Scrum-half: what about “the statements were false.”
Weaselone
@Jonny Scrum-half:
1. In many cases they don’t even bother to point out the statement is false, they just regurgitate it and let it stand at face value.
2. They seem to have less of a problem with doing this or at least suggesting it when a Democrat is involved. Why, I remember Keratingate as if it were just last week.
Kathleen
@Darkrose: OfTrump probably has no idea who Molly is.
Waynski
Trump’s daily prayer with Pence, “Three Corinthians walk into a bar…”
Thoughtful David
@Jonny Scrum-half:
Except if you click through on the Timmy Dale link you’ll see him pointing out where Haberhack said the Clinton campaign lied, and using the word “lied.”
The FTFNYT is very careful how they use the word, and it’s never against. Republicans.
Jonny Scrum-half
@Aimai: That language works for me.
chopper
@But her emails!!!:
chopper
@NobodySpecial:
somebody needs to tell pence that “jesus christ, can you believe we’re getting away with this shit?” is not a fucking prayer.
jonas
This is so heartwarming, particularly when you recall how Jesus himself observed that the people who put on a big show of praying in public are the truly pious ones.
jonas
The daily press briefing really just needs a permanent Ron Howard narrator’s voice-over going “None of that was remotely true…” or “actually, it wasn’t….” after each thing Sanders says.
jonas
@lollipopguild: Don’t forget the biggest hypocrite of them all, Scott Pruitt, who is perhaps the most corrupt administration official in modern US history and…of COURSE…a self-proclaimed evangelical Christian who basically clawed his way up the political ladder in Oklahoma by out-Christianing his opponents at every turn. What a scumbag.
jonas
@Frankensteinbeck:
I don’t think that’s the problem. I would suspect that to the extent journalists are personally politically active, there’s probably a good-sized tilt towards being registered Democrat. The problem with that, though, is that they then feel they have to go to great lengths then to be “balanced” towards conservatives, which entails not explicitly calling out the raging bullshit that folks like Sanders spews on a daily basis. Combined with the corporate press’s desire not to rock the boat and either 1. lose advertisers or 2. become the targets of some talk radio host’s rage at the “lie-brul media!!1!” (aka “working the refs”) and you have a MSM that is, as many have observed, structured to favor Republicans. Knowing they won’t be called out or questioned for flat-out lying or just saying crazy shit, their claims get mainstreamed.
Jonny Scrum-half
@Thoughtful David: I’m not arguing against what I think is the obvious fact that the media favor Republicans.
The Other Chuck
@FlipYrWhig:
Integrity.
J R in WV
@Jay Noble:
File a lawsuit, and name the City Manager personally, just for starters. Obviously name the city government as a whole as well as the City Manager for obviously spending that money illegally, after it was already allocated for a different purpose.
I’m assuming your group has a lawyer member who can do the work pro bono if necessary, but your suit should demand repayment by the City Manager for all fees and costs of the suit. City managers in general are not rulers by fiat, they have to follow the budget as approved, for example.
Also seek in the suit to have the City Manager who you name fired for cause…as in failure to abide by a legally binding agreement.
thalarctosMaritimus
@Weaselone: What’s Keratingate?
Bobby Thomson
@lamh36: is the loss of Cavuto a death knell?
Bobby Thomson
@dmsilev: it’s rude be question the character of
RussiansRepublicans.No Drought No More
In fairness to Sanders, Ron Zeigler set a high bar for obfuscation when he termed Nixon’s lies as being very suddenly rendered “inoperative”. She can never top that, and probably knows it. I’ll tell you something else she probably knows, too: Ron Zeigler was neither indicted nor imprisoned while others around the Trickster dropped like flies….