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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: “But No PIZZAZ!”

by Anne Laurie|  November 14, 201910:34 pm| 92 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, Hail to the Hairpiece, Impeachment Inquiry, Information Warfare, Our Failed Media Experiment

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Susan Hennessey, “Lawfare Executive Editor, Brookings Senior Fellow, CNN National Security and Legal Analyst, Former IC attorney”, yesterday:

As a general matter there is too much focus on optics and too little on substance. But to the extent the Democrats needed to make the case to the public in this hearing, today was an extremely strong showing. And the Republicans offer zero substantive defense of Trump.

“Jonathan Allen, the poor man’s Chris Cillizza“, for NBCNews:

Analysis: The first two witnesses called Wednesday testified to President Trump’s scheme, but lacked the pizzazz necessary to capture public attention.

The Volatile Mermaid:

I AM AN AMERICAN! I LIKE PIZZAZZ! IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS SHOULD HAVE SWORD FIGHTS, TALKING ANIMALS, NINJA STRIPPERS, AND A POST CREDITS SCENE THAT FORESHADOWS THE PLOT OF THE NEXT HEARING!

Margaret Sullivan, at the Washington Post — “Media Beware: Impeachment Hearings Will Be the Trickiest Test of Covering Trump”:

The national media’s shortcomings have been all too obvious in recent years as Donald Trump has gleefully thrown the norms of traditional journalism into a tizzy…

But on Wednesday — as televised impeachment hearings begin in the House of Representatives — journalists need to be on their game. The stakes don’t get much higher when it comes to fulfilling their core mission: informing citizens of what they really need to know.

Here’s a refresher course in what needs to go right.

Stress substance, not speculation. Journalists and pundits love to ponder about how the public is reacting to news, though they aren’t much good at it.

Avoiding that would be a public service…

Don’t let stunts hijack the coverage. If we know anything about Trump’s reaction when things get tough, it’s that he and his allies will haul out some attention-grabbing performance art and its distractions…

Avoid Barr-Letter Syndrome. It was a little over six months ago that Attorney General William P. Barr took it upon himself to summarize the Mueller report in a misleading letter that the news media — pretty much en masse — represented as an accurate summation of the 448-page report about Russian interference in the 2016 election and its aftermath.

You might remember some headlines and news reports that said, essentially, “no collusion, no obstruction.”

Of course, that’s not what the report said, as Mueller himself later tried to set straight…

Beware mealy-mouthed and misleading language. Punditry will be running even more amok than usual once the hearings begin. And we’ll be hearing a lot about what a divided nation we have and how ugly politics has become. We’ll be hearing the term “quid pro quo” endlessly.

As for “polarization,” it’s a kind of false equivalence expressed in a single term, suggested Rosen: “We hear, ‘Oh things are so polarized now,’ when this is really about what’s happened to the Republican Party.”

In a potent Twitter thread last week, Ezra Klein of Vox pointed out that Trump’s abuses are so blatant that he “is the easiest possible test case for ‘Can our system hold a president accountable?’ And we are failing, because Republicans are failing.”

Monjula Ray

It’s weird how exciting a server story was for journalists even though statistically no one can really really define a server. Meanwhile bribery and extortion which literally everyone can define is boring. Maybe just report on the bribery story the way you did the email story.

 

 

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    1. 1.

      Avalune

      November 14, 2019 at 10:42 pm

      I’m so conflicted here. 1. Who the hell really uses the word pizazz anymore? 2. It’s a serious impeachment hearing not a high school musical. 3. Makes American public sound like idiots. 4. American public are idiots.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      O. Felix Culpa

      November 14, 2019 at 10:45 pm

      @Avalune: American journalist who made that comment is also idiot.

      ETA: Idiot journalists making idiot statements help ensure idiot public.

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Barbara

      November 14, 2019 at 10:46 pm

      @Avalune: Perry Mason?  Most legal proceedings lack pizzazz.  Whoever wrote that should be too embarrassed to write anything else.  Whatever happened to the idea of journalists writing in a way that conveyed the significance of what they were reporting on?

       

      Reply
    4. 4.

      Major Major Major Major

      November 14, 2019 at 10:46 pm

      Tonight, three Jeopardy champions could not remember this man's name, and I wish I could have been in the room when he found out. pic.twitter.com/QgLqG7I9dk

      — Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) November 15, 2019

      Reply
    5. 5.

      LanceThruster

      November 14, 2019 at 10:47 pm

      I disagree. That one guy’s bowtie was pretty snazzy. Practically oozed PIZZAZZ.

      Reply
    6. 6.

      Cheryl Rofer

      November 14, 2019 at 10:48 pm

      @Major Major Major Major: HOW DID YOU DO THAT

       

      Reply
    7. 7.

      Leto

      November 14, 2019 at 10:48 pm

      Trump hikes price tag for US forces in Korea almost 500% as Seoul questions alliance
      “Nothing says I love you like a shakedown,” said Vipin Narang, an associate professor at MIT who follows the Korean peninsula, summarizing South Korean uncertainty about the US. 

      He’s going to destroy every single alliance that we’ve built over the past 70 years, and the “party of strong national defense” is simply going along with it. It would be one thing if we were asking for a slight increase in spending from a defense partner to cover new expenditures (the Japanese footing additional spending to help relocate the Marines off Okinawa comes to mind), but this is just whole sale extortion. “Pay up or we go somewhere else.” /eternalfuckinghate

      Reply
    8. 8.

      Martin

      November 14, 2019 at 10:48 pm

      There’s a general expectation that high crimes are not done out in the open. That the people in positions of power are smart enough to try and cover their tracks, obfuscate, and so on. So a believable crime is an obtuse one, that requires cleverness to figure out. If it’s just sitting there, it can’t be a crime – it must be okay – or else they would have tried harder to cover it up.

      Plus, a crime in the open isn’t a very good story. It doesn’t express how clever your journalists were. Reporting outfits are attracted to better stories than this crime expresses.

      Reply
    9. 9.

      O. Felix Culpa

      November 14, 2019 at 10:49 pm

      @Major Major Major Major: Ask me! I know! I know!

       

      Reply
    10. 10.

      O. Felix Culpa

      November 14, 2019 at 10:51 pm

      @Martin: Reporting outfits are attracted to better stories than this crime expresses.

       

      Would that ’twere so, but assumes facts not in evidence.

      Reply
    11. 11.

      Wapiti

      November 14, 2019 at 10:51 pm

      @Leto: All roads lead to Putin…

      Reply
    12. 12.

      mrmoshpotato

      November 14, 2019 at 10:52 pm

      as Donald Trump has gleefully thrown the norms of traditional journalism into a tizzy

      WTF is this?  Journalism fell on its fucking face in 2015/2016.  More interested in sandbagging Hillary, yelling about emails and giving hours upon hours of empty Dump podium in the name of ratings and “balance” when a laundry list of Dump’s crimes was available if they wanted to commit some actual acts of journalism.

       

      How many of Hillary’s casinos did she drive into bankruptcy?  How many of her businesses?  When did she ask for Russia’s interference on live TV?  When did she say women should be punished for having abortions or talk about the destruction caused by nuclear weapons being very important to her?

      Reply
    13. 13.

      Major Major Major Major

      November 14, 2019 at 10:52 pm

      @Cheryl

      I embedded it in the text tab and removed the script element at the end. After that, I believe the other embedded tweets on the page (which load the same script) picked it up.

      ETA: Had to edit this and add the @ up top, be happy when that’s fixed too.

      Reply
    14. 14.

      Anne Laurie

      November 14, 2019 at 10:53 pm

      @O. Felix Culpa:

      Heck, *I’m* not even allowed to embed tweets in my posts, at the moment.

      (Yes, I’m bitter.  And so will you guys be, if I have to keep using these clumsy work-arounds much longer.  But I’m assured it’s on the developers’ punch list!)

      Reply
    15. 15.

      Cheryl Rofer

      November 14, 2019 at 10:54 pm

      Alexandra Petri brings the pizazz

      Reply
    16. 16.

      Amir Khalid

      November 14, 2019 at 10:55 pm

      @Major Major Major Major:

      I remember! His name was Avocado, or something like that.

       

      Reply
    17. 17.

      Cheryl Rofer

      November 14, 2019 at 10:56 pm

      test

      ETA: Whoo-hoo! Many thanks to Major Major Major Major

      Trump sees the US military as a profit center.t.co/1e838Pcebk

      — Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) November 15, 2019

      Reply
    18. 18.

      Avalune

      November 14, 2019 at 10:57 pm

      Forget pizazz what it really needs is razzmatazz. And moxie! Then it would be a real ring-a-ding-ding!

      Reply
    19. 19.

      Adam L Silverman

      November 14, 2019 at 10:58 pm

      Ministry of State Security advises press its audio of call between Donald Trump and Gordon Sondland is of poor quality.

      Suggests inquiries be made to Russian FSB.

      — DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) November 15, 2019

      Reply
    20. 20.

      Kelly

      November 14, 2019 at 10:59 pm

      Kevin Kruze :Pizzazzgate, if you will.
      twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1194995515093442560

      Reply
    21. 21.

      Yutsano

      November 14, 2019 at 10:59 pm

      @Leto Can you say nuclear Japan? I knew you could.

      Please no one mention Taiwan.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      mrmoshpotato

      November 14, 2019 at 11:00 pm

      @Amir Khalid: Manuel Arrivederci!

       

      Reply
    23. 23.

      Eolirin

      November 14, 2019 at 11:01 pm

      @O. Felix Culpa:

      I think it’s because everyone already knows he’s a crook and the media (and republicans) have decided they don’t care. There’s no story here because there’s nothing new. This is expected and normalized behavior for him.

      We’ll get more breathless media coverage on things like using a sharpie on a weather map than we’ll get on the scandal with Ukraine. It lets the village point and laugh rather than have to do uncomfortable self reflection on how we’ve gotten here and how they’ve enabled it.

      Reply
    24. 24.

      p.a.

      November 14, 2019 at 11:04 pm

      Ninja strippers!!??

      Reply
    25. 25.

      p.a.

      November 14, 2019 at 11:05 pm

      Ninja strippers?!

      Reply
    26. 26.

      p.a.

      November 14, 2019 at 11:07 pm

      Hmmm 1st time at new/improved I’ve had to refresh to see comment.

      Reply
    27. 27.

      Jay

      November 14, 2019 at 11:08 pm

      (CNN)A Michigan city will pay $190,000 to a Marine veteran and United States citizen who was arrested by the police and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

      The Grand Rapids City Commission on Tuesday approved the settlement to pay Jilmar Ramos-Gomez, who was born and raised in Michigan.

      Reply
    28. 28.

      Avalune

      November 14, 2019 at 11:09 pm

      @p.a.: I thought you were just really jazzed about strippers.

       

      Reply
    29. 29.

      Jay

      November 14, 2019 at 11:10 pm

      @p.a.:

       

      yes, Ninja strippers

       

      Reply
    30. 30.

      Adam L Silverman

      November 14, 2019 at 11:10 pm

      @p.a.: Could be dangerous. No place to properly holster sai, shaken, shuriken, ninjutso, and various explosive and/or noxious powders.

       

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Major Major Major Major

      November 14, 2019 at 11:10 pm

      @Cheryl Rofer: there has to be another tweet on the page already, mind (possible the twitter widget takes care of that 🤷🏻‍♂️)

       

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Another Scott

      November 14, 2019 at 11:10 pm

      (Testing an embedded Tweet as a mere mortal…)

      FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SENDING ME THE JEOPARDY CLIP— NotOutlandishHat (@Popehat) November 15, 2019

      Does that magic work here? (I don’t expect the graphic, but the box with links would be nice.)

      [eta.] Success!

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    33. 33.

      Jay

      November 14, 2019 at 11:12 pm

      @Adam L Silverman:

       

      do not google Ninja Strippers,……

       

      sadly, I did,….

       

      Reply
    34. 34.

      O. Felix Culpa

      November 14, 2019 at 11:13 pm

      @Eolirin: You might be right. It grieves and worries me, though, that they find holding those who are subverting and perverting our democracy accountable boooring.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      mrmoshpotato

      November 14, 2019 at 11:14 pm

      @p.a.: Ya.  Not good enough for you?  What do you want – teenage(18/19) mutant ninja strippers?

       

      Reply
    36. 36.

      West of the Rockies

      November 14, 2019 at 11:15 pm

      Yeah, Dems need to emplot the ol’ razzle-dazzle!*

      *See Richard Gere, “Chicago”

      Reply
    37. 37.

      Adam L Silverman

      November 14, 2019 at 11:16 pm

      @Jay: I was texting with TaMara a couple of weeks ago and she texted me a gif of Samantha from Bewitched doing her nose twitch, I decided to see that and raise with a Jeannie from I dream of Jeannie doing her crossed arms head nod. So I googled Jeannie from I dream of Jeannie and used the image search. I had been unaware just how many I Dream of Jeannie porn parodies there were before that day.

       

      Reply
    38. 38.

      Jay

      November 14, 2019 at 11:19 pm

      The 876,601 Stupidest Things Fox News Said About Bill Taylor And George Kent
      Evan Hurst
      6h
       

      somebody watched Faux News so that you don’t have to,…

       

      wonkette.com/the-876-601-stupidest-things-fox-news-said-about-bill-taylor-and-george-kent

       

       

       

       

       

      Reply
    39. 39.

      Another Scott

      November 14, 2019 at 11:19 pm

      Outside @FedSoc dinner where Kavanaugh is speaking. Long line of dinner guests, many in tuxedos and gowns, snakes past women in Handmaids Tale red robes. Large video screen plays Christine Blasey Ford testimony implicating Kavanaugh in sexual assault, which he denies.— Mark Sherman (@shermancourt) November 15, 2019

      Good, good.

      More please.

      (via Cheryl’s twitter feed.)

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    40. 40.

      Mainmata

      November 14, 2019 at 11:20 pm

      Pretty sure, anyone under 70 years old probably thinks pizzaz is a kid of pizza, hence the confusion. But, yes, the vast majority of the public, whether they like Trump or despise him are just not paying a lot of attention to the hearings, if only because they’re working mostly.

      Reply
    41. 41.

      O. Felix Culpa

      November 14, 2019 at 11:21 pm

      @Jay:

      @Adam L Silverman:  Two sets of fun facts I definitely did not need to know.

       

      Reply
    42. 42.

      Adam L Silverman

      November 14, 2019 at 11:22 pm

      Ruh Roh!

      NEW: Attorney for career White House OMB official says if her client is subpoenaed he WILL appear for testimony, breaking ranks with other officials who have resisted. t.co/C3j9rrgnDn

      — Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) November 14, 2019

      Reply
    43. 43.

      Major Major Major Major

      November 14, 2019 at 11:23 pm

      @Adam L Silverman: oh, dear.

       

      Reply
    44. 44.

      West of the Rockies

      November 14, 2019 at 11:25 pm

      I’m intruding on the posted subject, but anyone have any experience with the Nissan Rogue? I’m probably getting one for my daughter tomorrow. Looking at a 2018 from a Hertz sale lot.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      Adam L Silverman

      November 14, 2019 at 11:26 pm

      @Major Major Major Major: It is what it is.

       

      Reply
    46. 46.

      debbie

      November 14, 2019 at 11:28 pm

      @Avalune:

       

      Who the hell really uses the word pizazz anymore?

       

      I’m picturing jazz hands.

       

      And by the way, what is with this “It doesn’t matter because it didn’t happen” defense?  🤡

       

      Reply
    47. 47.

      trollhattan

      November 14, 2019 at 11:28 pm

      Apparently I can’t stop watching this. Unlikely that anybody else will feel similarly.

      Reply
    48. 48.

      mrmoshpotato

      November 14, 2019 at 11:28 pm

      @Jay: Evan’s great and all, but that number looks low.

       

      Reply
    49. 49.

      Mainmata

      November 14, 2019 at 11:29 pm

      The GOP has to know, by now, that Trump (and Bannon) are Russian assets, if not active agents. MoscowMitch knows because he is in on it.

      To be honest, the Democrats should really be charging Trump not only with Bribery but also Treason (seriously).

      Reply
    50. 50.

      Jay

      November 14, 2019 at 11:30 pm

      Given the misogynist subtext of I dream of Genie, of course it’s going to have no shortage of porn ripoffs.

      Reply
    51. 51.

      mrmoshpotato

      November 14, 2019 at 11:32 pm

      @Another Scott: Good!  I welcome more protests of the blackout-drunk alleged college rapist whose $200K worth of credit card debt mysteriously disappeared.

       

      P.S. Who funds The Federalist?

       

      Reply
    52. 52.

      Avalune

      November 14, 2019 at 11:34 pm

      @debbie: It means if I get caught trying to rob a bank before I rob the bank I get off scot free right?

      Reply
    53. 53.

      SFAW

      November 14, 2019 at 11:35 pm

      @Amir Khalid:

      I remember! His name was Avocado, or something like that.

      Oh, SO close! I think you meant “Abogado.”

       

       

      Reply
    54. 54.

      Another Scott

      November 14, 2019 at 11:35 pm

      Wondermark understands Pizzaz

      It was a Perfect Trick!

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    55. 55.

      mrmoshpotato

      November 14, 2019 at 11:36 pm

      @O. Felix Culpa: You definitely don’t need to know there’s at least one Jaws porn parody that has a review on YouTube. 😁

       

      Reply
    56. 56.

      Jay

      November 14, 2019 at 11:36 pm

      Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman · 3h NEW: I got leaked documents from inside Wikistrat and talked with 7 former analysts. There remains zero evidence that Khashoggi worked for the private intelligence firm connected to Saudi officials like the firm claims. Employees are blowing the whistle.

      Reply
    57. 57.

      mrmoshpotato

      November 14, 2019 at 11:37 pm

      @trollhattan: I wish it had sound.  And possibly was real.

       

      Reply
    58. 58.

      Jay

      November 14, 2019 at 11:39 pm

      Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman · 3h Giuliani is officially being investigated for bribery of foreign officials.

      Reply
    59. 59.

      mrmoshpotato

      November 14, 2019 at 11:40 pm

      @Avalune: Silly rabbit.  There’s also no such thing as attempted murder.

       

      Reply
    60. 60.

      Avalune

      November 14, 2019 at 11:40 pm

      Or their other defense – people rob banks all the time! That’s how bank robbers do business!

      Reply
    61. 61.

      Another Scott

      November 14, 2019 at 11:41 pm

      @mrmoshpotato:

      OpenSecrets: Secretive group supported Kavanaugh’s nomination with $17M

      OpenSecrets: Tagged – Kavanaugh

      As one might expect, there are lots of interconnected groups many of which are not really independent of each other…

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      Jay

      November 14, 2019 at 11:41 pm

      Max Burns @themaxburns · 11h It’s a perverse state of affairs in the Democratic Party when a public servant with the policy chops of @JulianCastro misses the debate threshold, but billionaire vanity candidate Tom Steyer can effectively buy his way onto the stage.

      Reply
    63. 63.

      Adam L Silverman

      November 14, 2019 at 11:43 pm

      @Another Scott: The Judicial Crisis Network is simply one of the fronts that Leonard Leo, who runs the Federalist Society from his perch as Executive VP, funds through his dark money network. It’s a catspaw for him.

       

      Reply
    64. 64.

      Another Scott

      November 14, 2019 at 11:43 pm

      Before I hit the sack, I’d like to say that the site seems to be working very well at the moment. Kudos to WaterGirl, the coders, JC, the testers, and everyone else involved making it happen.

      Thank you.

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    65. 65.

      Mainmata

      November 14, 2019 at 11:45 pm

      @Cheryl Rofer: This is definitely the best piece I have ever read from “Petri Dish”. I always knew she had the great comedy in her but she always seemed to hold back in her weekly columns.

       

      Reply
    66. 66.

      Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

      November 14, 2019 at 11:45 pm

      You probably forgot Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Devin Nunes,  and Lindsey Graham to name a few.  The penetration at the top of the Republican party is so complete that to truly root out the rot would remove them as a coherent party for at least an electoral cycle, so the rest of the party falls in line.

      Reply
    67. 67.

      debbie

      November 14, 2019 at 11:50 pm

      @Avalune:

       

      No, I think it means if you run into the bank waving a gun around and scaring people, and you then change your mind and walk away, you’re a patriot!

       

      Reply
    68. 68.

      SFAW

      November 14, 2019 at 11:51 pm

      @trollhattan:

      Apparently I can’t stop watching this.

       

      Damn you! Now I’m a dickhead addicted.

       

      “When I say ‘Jump!’ you say ‘How high?’ Got it?”

       

       

       

      Reply
    69. 69.

      SFAW

      November 14, 2019 at 11:57 pm

      @debbie:

      But only if you’re white

       

      Reply
    70. 70.

      HumboldtBlue

      November 14, 2019 at 11:58 pm

      I think we should dance.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      Leto

      November 15, 2019 at 12:13 am

      @debbie: If nothing else, you’re elected to Congress.

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Leto

      November 15, 2019 at 12:19 am

      @Avalune: @debbie:

      Rachel Barkow ‏ @RachelBarkow Nov 13 Rachel Barkow Retweeted Josh Marshall

      This impeachment proceeding is a great review for my 1L criminal law students. Remember when we learned that 1) an attempted crime is a crime and 2) it is not a defense if the only reason you stopped your criminal behavior was that you were about to get caught

      Reply
    73. 73.

      Major Major Major Major

      November 15, 2019 at 12:29 am

      Man, am I happy to see left and right arrow buttons on the mobile site.

      Reply
    74. 74.

      NotMax

      November 15, 2019 at 12:36 am

      @Avalune

      Who the hell really uses the word pizazz anymore?

      Those too highfalutin to use floy floy?

      ;)

      Reply
    75. 75.

      patrick II

      November 15, 2019 at 12:39 am

      I happened to catch the end of the Steelers-Browns game tonight. The game ended with Myles Garret, defensive lineman for the Browns, removing the helmet of Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph and clubbing him over the head with it. He was lucky he didn’t kill him. I don’t think I will be watching much football for awhile.

      Reply
    76. 76.

      Chetan Murthy

      November 15, 2019 at 12:40 am

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Foot_Floogie_(with_a_Floy_Floy)

      In the second part of the title phrase, “floy floy” was slang for a venereal disease, but the term was not widely known and failed to catch the attention of censors.

      Reply
    77. 77.

      Felanius Kootea

      November 15, 2019 at 12:41 am

      @Major Major Major Major:

      Michel L’Avocat. Once wanted to run for president on the D ticket.
      Should have joined the Republican Party. They’d move a fraud like him to the top right quick.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      Omnes Omnibus

      November 15, 2019 at 12:45 am

      @trollhattan: You bastard!  I was going to go to bed, now this….

       

      Reply
    79. 79.

      West of the Rockies

      November 15, 2019 at 1:03 am

      That should end his season.  Could have killed him.

      Reply
    80. 80.

      grammypat

      November 15, 2019 at 1:05 am

      trollhattan

      Apparently I can’t stop watching this. Unlikely that anybody else will feel similarly.

       

      I have not laughed out loud for months.  This caused a sustained LOL.  Thx

      Reply
    81. 81.

      MobiusKlein

      November 15, 2019 at 1:09 am

      Are the links in this post borked for all of you all too?
      The first one is just http :// susan_hennessey/
      without the extra spaces. Goes nowhere.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      Mandalay

      November 15, 2019 at 1:10 am

      @Jay: From an unrelated link on the page you linked to…

      After an Alpine woman sued a Bergen country club for $30,000 in damages when a waiter spilled wine on her ultra-expensive purse, the country club has responded by suing the waiter, records show.
      In a response to the Oct. 29 lawsuit filed by Maryana Beyder against the Alpine Country Club, the country club denied almost every one of Beyder’s allegations — including that it was liable for the damage to her Hermès Kelly bag — and capped off the response by suing its own employee, according to court records.

      Had Cole not published the new code of conduct I would be calling for beheadings for everyone involved, except the waiter. But he has, so I won’t.

       

      It’s the same the whole world over,
      Ain’t it a shame, a bleeding shame?
      It’s the rich what gets the pleasure 
      And the poor what gets the blame.

       

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    83. 83.

      Omnes Omnibus

      November 15, 2019 at 1:14 am

      @Mandalay: If you can’t afford to have it damaged in the ordinary course of events, then you can’t really afford it.

       

      Reply
    84. 84.

      FelonyGovt

      November 15, 2019 at 1:36 am

      We have a Nissan Rogue and love it. Been a great car.

      Reply
    85. 85.

      CarolDuhart2

      November 15, 2019 at 1:55 am

      @West of the Rockies: Not just end his season.  Stunts like that should end a career.  The coach/commissioner/whoever is in charge should tell him to turn in his playbook and go about finding a new career.

      Yes, football is rough.  But there’s no place for stuff like this in any sport.

      Reply
    86. 86.

      CarolDuhart2

      November 15, 2019 at 2:03 am

      About the handbag:  is there such a thing as too expensive and precious to take out of the house?  It doesn’t look like the waiter deliberately spilled wine on her and her husband, is there?  I can easily see a waiter, tired beyond belief being yelled at by her, not really paying attention, then feeling sorry about the accident.  Now the waiter is given a judgement they probably can’t ever pay.

      Reply
    87. 87.

      Villago Delenda Est

      November 15, 2019 at 2:20 am

      The reasons for my nym continue to grow, and jackoffs like Jonathan Allen just reinforce my solution to the problem:

      Wipe them out. All of them.

      Reply
    88. 88.

      sukabi

      November 15, 2019 at 3:44 am

      @trollhatten wasn’t aware dogs could trigger anti-gravity bubbles. Learn something new every day. 😂😂😂

      Reply
    89. 89.

      Anne Laurie

      November 15, 2019 at 4:17 am

      @Kelly: <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Yeah you know what’s exciting? Baseless conspiracy theories! Shouting! Innuendo! Throwing wine in people’s faces. <br><br>Looking forward to Real House Members of Capitol Hill.</p>&mdash; ana marie cox (@anamariecox) <a href=”https://twitter.com/anamariecox/status/1195000753418575872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>November 14, 2019</a></blockquote>

      ETA:  Dammit!

      Reply
    90. 90.

      billcoop4

      November 15, 2019 at 6:02 am

      @West of the Rockies:

       

      I had a 2012 Rogue from 2014 to 2016.  Put 65k on it.  Great car, handled well.  Decent mileage.  Transmissions will tend  to make it until 125k.  Got rid of it before then.   Strong rec.

       

      Reply
    91. 91.

      Another Scott

      November 15, 2019 at 7:21 am

      @Anne Laurie:

      You have to be in the Text mode of the posting window, and you have to strip out the [script]…[/script] line at the end. Then “embedding” Tweets works. At least it did earlier!!

      Boris Johnson assures English flood victims that consolation can be found in the works of Marcus Aurelius and Mitch Albom. pic.twitter.com/sEsIBCtyDM— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) November 15, 2019

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    92. 92.

      pluky

      November 15, 2019 at 10:16 am

      @West of the Rockies

      Jerry Orbach, or go home!

      youtube.com/watch?v=sasH9TV7lsw

      Reply

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