Coons Honored Among the “Thirstiest Members of Congress” in Politico’s First Annual Thirsty for Media Attention Awards
It’s official. Coons is gross. And it isn’t just me saying it.
Presenting the first-ever Thirsties, for those who excel in Washington’s signature art form: trying to get on your TV screen tonight.
Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Washington hasn’t had its own awards — until now.
Introducing the Thirsties, a celebration of the quality that defines this place.
You know what we’re talking about: the thirst. That unquenchable drive for publicity, attention, buzz. Call it what you want, This Town is full of it. The thirst can be found in staffers, lobbyists — even journalists, who are supposed to be covering the story, not angling for a starring role in it. To paraphrase a hoary old Washington line on something almost as obscene: You know thirst when you see it.
And here is the thing, I don’t even really care about Coons trying to get on TV every week. Whatever, weirdo.
What bothers me is the knee-jerk dipshit centrism that undercuts popular Democratic initiatives. What bothers me about Coons is his constantly putting the powdered sugar of bipartisanship on rapacious greed of the Corporatist wing of the party. There is probably much more of that perniciousness going on behind the scenes than he could ever get out on 100 segments of Morning Joe.
Ha! naturally…
https://apnews.com/hub/news-shows
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.; Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.
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Tune in tomorrow morning to hear Coons restate his nonsense about wh have to talk to the good Republicans, but not because they are holding a debt ceiling gun to the nation’s head.
Saw the headline. Assumed it was Satire Jason-Style. It wasn’t. ‘…rapacious greed of the Corporatist wing of the party’ can’t be improved upon. Perfect!
Oh yeah. I could see how my recent turn to some outright bullshit might obscure actual newsy stuff. I’m trying to use the tag “satire” now to keep the lines a little less blurred.
The Republicans party is based on insatiable greed and the money that goes with it, the problem is far too many Dems are right behind them. Would seem Coons leads the pack. But be honest, do any of you watch the Sunday political shows anymore? Do any of us care? I don’t.
https://apnews.com/hub/news-shows
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.; Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.
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“Until then, though, he’s content to get as much juice as he can out of his role as “shadow secretary of state,” in which he’s dispatched to foreign hot spots and put on glad-handing duty with dignitaries..”
Glad-handing galore, and that cheesy grin in every. single. photo. But most of the overseas trips I’ve observed lately are to spots that are lukewarm at best.
I have yet to hear anyone from Team Biden say that he and Coons are close, for the simple reason that they are not and never have been. Nobody in the DC press has ever bothered to follow the simple procedure of looking into the claim.
True. The pretense for this award is lazy bullshit. They tried to reverse engineer an award for him, knowing he must be included on the list of thirstiest.