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ahh-plausibility....

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:31:57 +0000

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ahh-plausibility....

Maybe that's what Fox means

Jon — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 19:50:54 +0000

In reply to Balanced Coverage and Baseball

Maybe that's what Fox means by (Fair and) Balanced? http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/09/04/fox-s-chris-wallace-its-not-my-...

Of course, Chuck Todd said nearly the same thing years ago - http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chuck-todd-it-s-not-media-s-job-to.... He's also on record as saying that if he asks questions that are too tough then he won't get the guests back on his show, and what could possibly be more important than that?

One quibble: it was Florida

Jon — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 19:40:39 +0000

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One quibble: it was Florida's AG (Bondi), not a DA, who accepted the donation and then in a completely unrelated development chose not to pursue charges against Trump U.

Nice Polite Republicans Radio

NCD — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:16:56 +0000

In reply to Driftglass on 'serious

Nice Polite Republicans Radio, Morning Edition:

9/6-"this campaign anything but traditional (ohhh?....on both sides..?), it is a horse race, Trump has had trouble with message discipline (has he, did he say so, the KKK loves it..?) and has changed that recently has narrowed gap, Trump is now staying on message (or obfuscating and dissempbling?) he says he will "restore America's strength in world, says China pushing US around".

Why is this so close Mara Liasson?

Mara: Both sides are the most unpopular candidates ever, both have historically high unfavorablity, more than half supporters from both sides say vote is against a candidate, so inspite of all Hillary endorsements race is close, the electorate is in the mood for change, the change candidate is Donald Trump yet he has not yet passed the plausibility test with enough voters, we wait for the debates....

Mara Liasson: "Trump has not passed the plausibility test".....which is exactly what???

Plausibility to be the leader of America and the free world?

Does that have anything to do with his record of never holding or running for public or government office?

Never specifying details of policy beyond 'making it great, ending something the first day or first week in office'.

Record of lawsuits, bankruptcies, scams and business failures, incendiary statements, dislike of him and his statements from abroad, reckless positions on NATO and treaty commitments, ludicrous plans like 'the wall' paid for by Mexico?

Driftglass on 'serious

NCD — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 04:33:04 +0000

In reply to Balanced Coverage and Baseball

Driftglass on 'serious journalists':

"After years of maintaining the Big Both Siderist Lie by lending its tattered mantle of respectability to an increasingly dangerous and bizarre gallery of Conservative lunatics and con men in order to achieve "balance", the Beltway media finally arrived at the place it was headed all along: with a Republican Party which was now so openly and confidently racist and insane that there is no possibility of wishing it away any longer."

DG Shines light on 2 of the tribe, Brooks & Fournier:

This is really something Doc.

Richard Day — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 03:20:21 +0000

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This is really something Doc.

Just as an aside, Q once hit one of my blogs in the last few years and honored my Minnesota Twins.

We had this batter by the name of Tony Oliva who was one of the greatest batters of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Oliva

He was batting over 400 one year and the pitchers just began throwing at his head.

It was a damn shame.

Oliva was hit so damn many times, he lost his mojo.

Tony ended up hitting 380 or so.

BUT DAMN!

One side of this election contest is way off the mark.

There are no rules.

And in the end, the supposed 'umpires' have no sense of fairness.

As the bad guys just throw their entrails.

hahahahah

The only umps we have in this nation are the voters.

LET US PRAY.