Rep. Connolly Exposes The Jim Jordan Klown Show. Just skip down and watch the video of Connolly’s destruction of two so-called ‘independent journalists’. You’re welcome.
That’s when Wasserman Schultz went to Taibbi’s own past words. “I ask you this because, before you became Elon Musk’s hand-picked journalist, and pardon the oxymoron, you stated this on Joe Rogan’s podcast about being spoon-fed information, and I quote: ‘I think that’s true of any kind of journalism. Once you start getting handed things, then you’ve lost. They have you at that point and you gotta get out of that habit. You just can’t cross that line,’” she said. “Do you still believe what you told Mr. Rogan. Yes or no?” When Taibbi didn’t answer immediately, she repeated, “Yes or no?”
Stuck, Taibbi could do nothing but answer “Yes,” which Wasserman Schultz crisply followed with “Now, you crossed that line with the Twitter Files.” He tried to answer no, but she reclaimed her time and kept moving.
“Elon Musk spoon-fed you his cherry-picked information, which you must have suspected promotes a slanted viewpoint or at the very least generates another right-wing conspiracy theory. You violated your own standard,” Wasserman Schultz summed up. “And you appear to have benefited from it.” She went on to detail the tripling of Taibbi’s Twitter followers since he took up with Musk, and noted that since he has a subscription-based Substack, he has presumably profited. “Now I’m not asking you to put a dollar figure on it, but it’s quite obviously that you profited from the Twitter Files. You hit the jackpot on that Vegas slot machine to which you referred. That’s true, isn’t it?”
Taibbi twisted and squirmed and tried to dodge as she continued to press him. “I’ve also reinvested … “ he said. “I think it’s probably a wash honestly,” he said.
Here’s What Real Journalists Do. ProPublica investigative report discovers 21 people in New Mexico who are eligible for parole. They had been given life sentences as children, and the state lost track of them.
Yet Another Norfolk Southern Derailment. (Memo to self: Research which Delaware legislators are in thrall to Norfolk Southern and its bagman, Bobby Byrd. There are quite a few…)
Judge Uses Pro-Slavery Law, Rules Frozen Embryos Are ‘Property’. Yes, I’m writing this in 2023:
Frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel,” a Virginia judge has ruled, basing his decision in part on a 19th century law governing the treatment of enslaved people.
The preliminary opinion by a Fairfax county circuit court judge, Richard Gardiner, which he delivered in a long-running dispute between a divorced husband and wife, is being criticized by some for wrongly and unnecessarily delving into a time in Virginia history when it was legal to own human beings.
“It’s repulsive and it’s morally repugnant,” said Susan Crockin, a lawyer and scholar at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics and an expert in reproductive technology law.
Solomon Ashby, president of the Old Dominion Bar Association, a professional organization made up primarily of African American lawyers, called Gardiner’s ruling troubling.
“I would like to think that the bench and the bar would be seeking more modern precedent,” he said.
Wilmington City Council To Pass Anti-Nepotism Law? Um, not likely. I may be the only one, but I find Zanthia Oliver’s opposition especially ironic, considering she got a job in the General Assembly exclusively due to her family connections:
“Why is it just for City Council and not for the whole building?” Oliver asked. “I understand the whole concept of it all, but why do we as council members keep bringing up resolutions and ordinances that are affecting us instead of going out and supporting our community? I thought this position was about helping the people, not about policing City Council.”
Call me Captain Obvious, but creating an ethical City Council and supporting the community are not mutually exclusive. Oliver is every bit as willfully(?) clueless(!) as she was during her brief time in Dover.
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