Quote for Today
“If Trump suggested going to the moon to harvest the green cheese to feed the homeless, rather than dismissing it as the ravings of a loon, [cable TV] would bring someone on to talk about the logistics of getting to the moon, and someone else on the dangers of a moon cheese diet.” — John Warner, Biblioracle
Unassailably true.
Fox News would invite Kellyanne Conway in for a 15-minute explanation of why it would work.
It has been said, but the media doesn’t know how to cover outright, willful lies by the President. That was, perhaps, excusable for the first year of his administration, but now – What the holy fuck?
My complaint about the media includes this, but it’s not my biggest complaint. My biggest complaint is that the news media doesn’t do comparative analysis. It doesn’t compare the economic and political system of the USA to other countries so that the American people can see the unnecessary inequities they have to abide compared to citizens in, say, social democratic nations. It needs to take a Michael Moore approach to the facts.