Open Thread for Monday, August 12, 2013
“Well, I don’t know, was there a birth certificate? You tell me. You know some people say that was not his birth certificate. So maybe it was; maybe it wasn’t.” — Donald Trump, in an interview on ABC News, continuing to suggest President Obama was not born in the United States, even though both the long and short form of the official birth certificate have been released by the President and the State of Hawaii. You know, if I were a Republican, I would be quite upset that my party was represented yesterdy on the Sunday morning shows by the blowhard Trump, the racist Steven King, and the insane Louie Golhmert.
“Republicans are increasingly concerned about Georgia’s Senate race, where a crowded primary threatens to produce a flawed candidate who could put at risk a seat in a Republican-leaning state,” The Hill reports.
“Recent polling shows the two candidates Republicans are most anxious about — Reps. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) and Paul Broun (R-GA) — leading the pack. Whoever emerges from the clown-car primary, with seven candidates and counting, will face a candidate Democrats are high on in a state where shifting demographics benefit their party.”
Indeed, once again, as in 2010 and 2012, Republican primary fights are poised to deny the GOP their goal: control of the Senate. Right now, the odds favor the Democrats winning both the Georgia and Kentucky races and thus keeping control.
So last week that little worm Reince Priebus, the Chairman of the RNC, told CNN and NBC that unless they stopped production on a Hillary Clinton news documentary and a Hillary Clinton miniseries, respectively, that both news organizations would not host or air any Republican debates in 2016. The truth is Reince doesn’t care at all about the documentary or the miniseries, and he just wants to cut the non-Republican-fellating networks out of conducting debates, because, as he said last week, he wants moderators who care about the glorious future of the dear Republican Party, and not some objective neutral journalist who sole interest is the facts and the news. So the Hillary Clinton documentary and miniseries, respectively, were the reasons to cut out CNN and NBC from hosting or airing the 2016 Republican Primary debates.
Over the weekend, something totally predictable happened: Fox Television Studies is now seeking to produce the Hillary Clinton miniseries. Fox Television Studios is the sister company of Fox News in the same way as NBC Entertainment is the sister company of NBC News. If Reince Priebus has any honor or integrity, he will now of course issue a press statement where he wholly condemns Fox News and informs them that Fox News will not host or air any 2016 Republican primary debates.
Hell, no debates is probably what he wants anyway.
Delaware’s own Kent Jordan, judge on the Third Circuit, sez kids can be expelled for wearing “I ♥ boobies!” bracelets:
http://www.splc.org/pdf/Boobies_en_banc_opinion.pdf
[Turn to page 104, then try to explain the First Amendment to your kid.]
“………..and not some objective neutral journalist who’s sole interest is the facts and the news.”
Lol….name one.
I don’t know why the GOP would want NBC or CNN involved anyway. Their final objective would be to show the candidates in a bad light . Anyone who doesn’t realize this, I rate in the same category as a Christine O’Donnell supporter.
Also, unless the mini series is a total puff piece, I can’t imagine the Clinton camp would want it aired anyway.
JM — Jordan was part of the dissent on that case. The majority made it pretty clear that the school needed to take into account the context of the so-called profanity on these bracelets before they could ban them. So the kids wearing the bracelets could continue to wear them.
“Their final objective would be to show the candidates in a bad light ”
It is the candidates who show themselves in a bad light. For example no candidate in one of the debates said they would take a 10:1 spending reduction to tax increase. The audience booing a gay soldier serving in Afghanistan does not help the party. It seems that anytime conservatives do not like the truth, it is called liberal bias.
Don’t set spending limits disadvantage challengers, who have to contend against years of incumbent protection efforts like birthday cards and newsletters?
There is a good chance that if Fox produces it, it will show much of the bad of Hillary, and less of the good, so it might not be the same product offered on Fox that it would be on Cnn or NBC, So it makes since for the answer to be different.
If I play a 10 year old in Tennis who is not very good, I am probably going to win, But If I play an adult who is very good at Tennis, they will make me look bad. Even though I am the same person playing the same sport.
So Hillary is going to make herself look bad by embarrassing whatever child-minded dolt the GOP runs against her?
That is the 2020 GOP strategy. “IT WASNT FAIR!”
Cassandra: That was my point exactly. Jordan was among the dissenters who would have upheld the kids’ suspension. Students’ free speech is the issue, but the dissenters’ sole concern was the administrators’ leverage. See:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/08/_i_heart_boobies_the_case_that_could_decide_the_fate_of_free_speech_for.html
OK gotcha. But what I like about the decision is that it does preserve administrators’ judgment, they just have to use it — not just rely on a stark and unnuanced checklist.