Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Perhaps they can’t find writers simply because no one can promote Trump in a story without lying their ass off. All that is left to say is that he’s an effective con artist.
the nation’s newspapers and major digital news sites — the dreaded mainstream media — are facing a shortage of people able, or more likely willing, to write opinion columns supportive of the president-elect.
The implication there that they could write cogent arguments in favor of Trump policies if they weren’t such fucking elitists, despising an honest day’s hackery. “You liberals are so precious with your ‘facts’ and your ‘ideas’. Think you’re too good to dirty yourself with a little old-fashioned lies and invective.”
the usual suspects will be groveling for those jobs just like Mittens did for SoS. WaPo may just be dickering over the salaries — why pay top dollar when there are more applicants than job openings.
Probably just speeds up the loss of a sort-of Democratic Senator by two years. She was likely on the GOP hit list and she would have followed the Clinton playbook — get those GOP woman voters. And not as noted by DocDurango: But what about a true progressive (with economic creds) like Tim Nolan whose Minnesota district went Trump by 17 points, but who won re-election over a well-funded Republican by a narrow margin? IGNORE! IGNORE! IGNORE! Does not compute! Or what about the largely working-class white voters of Placer County, CA, going for Trump by 11 but going for… Read more »
Or what about the largely working-class white voters of Placer County, CA, going for Trump by 11 but going for Kamala Harris, a black woman, by 28 points?
Does anyone know the votes in the Senate race in that county compared to the Presidency? I’m curious since the only other one on the ballot in the Senate race was a Hispanic woman, though also a Democrat. Yeah, given how lopsided CA now is, two Democrats can face off in the general in California since the primary is top 2 regardless of party.
Good point. It’s a weak example because there are too many cross-currents. Sanchez is definitely on the right side of the Dem Party, but she is Hispanic. Placer is also in N. CA which is outside Sanchez’s stomping grounds. The dropout/dropout vote in “Trump” counties from the presidential ballot line to senate was very high. It appears that Harris polled better in votes than Clinton in NorCal counties and ran even or better with Sanchez in SoCA
I got your “implosion.” Right here!!! Two sections of the PermaGov’s controller mechanism vying for control of the government. CIA=the neoliberal/neocon/centrist wing FBI=the alt. right/Trump/not-to-be-trusted-by-the-centrist- wing WAPO. Today. FBI and CIA give differing accounts to lawmakers on Russia’s motives in 2016 hack In a secure meeting room under the Capitol last week, lawmakers held in their hands a classified letter written by colleagues in the Senate summing up a secret, new CIA assessment of Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election. Sitting before the House Intelligence Committee was a senior FBI counterintelligence official. The question the Republicans and Democrats in… Read more »
Exactly. Imagine Brennan and Comey in helmets and long braids. Back in the Gibichung Hall, Gutrune awaits Siegfried’s return. Hagen arrives ahead of the funeral party. Gutrune is devastated when Siegfried’s corpse is brought in. Gunther blames Siegfried’s death on Hagen, who replies that Siegfried had incurred the penalty of his false oath, and further, claims the ring on Siegfried’s finger by right of conquest. When Gunther objects, Hagen appeals to the vassals to support his claim. Gunther draws his sword but Hagen attacks and easily kills him. However, as Hagen moves to take the ring, Siegfried’s hand rises threateningly.… Read more »
I’ll believe it when the troops come marching home…into the ghettoes and/or rural areas.
Until then? What the controllers really want is a nice-looking, slim young lady singing interesting songs quite well (backed up by a bunch of models and dancers and filmed/recorded at high professional levels), songs that have totally indeterminate political messages.
As was mentioned frequently before the election, Comey is allied with the NY branch of the FBI, which is viciously anti-Clinton for some reason. Probably because they’re right wing assholes. So that’s part of what’s going on here. It will be interesting to see how Trump handles the CIA. Be careful, Trump. Remember what happened to JFK.
Because they graduate from elite colleges and/or get a J-school or public policy post-grad degree. Old school journalists were working class and learned their craft by doing. Sort of a meritocracy based on talent, skill, and performance and not where they went to school. Carl Bernstein is on the cusp between old and new school: He attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he worked as circulation and exchange manager[4] for the school’s newspaper Silver Chips. He began his journalism career at the age of 16 when he became a copyboy for The Washington Star and… Read more »
They’ve become useful idiots to an elites business and political class. And perhaps now even the Russians. All in the name of profit. The political media companies will do their best to find some way to support trumps policies just like they did with Bush.
It’s time for the rest of us to cut them loose and let this business model die out.
They’ve become useful idiots to an elites business and political class.
No. They’ve become a part of the elite class. Protecting those that in their own minds are like them. Constantly striving to be accepted by the wealthy elites that controlled who would and who wouldn’t be admitted to their special college clubs.
The fraud Tim “Big Russ” Russert’s pose as Buffalo-working-class from his multi-million$ Nantucket mansion while raking in his multi-million$ salary — and treated as a respected “journalist” by his cohort while (in)famously concocting dishonest and misleading gotcha questions — springs immediately to mind.
Don’t actually know whether he did J-School. He’s certainly a prime example, though, of an alleged “journalist” being co-opted into the social/economic elite, and neutered thereby, while still being lauded for his sorry excuses for “journalism” by his elite cohort.
I was thinking more of print journalists. TV anchors seem to follow a different career path with the same result. Radio > TV with college optional or any college followed by any law school and/or a stint as a political hire to either a Republican or Democrat. Marrying in is another option.
Well, as it happens, I live 1/4 mile from Blair High School, which is one of the highest performing high schools in the country. I also have two brothers that are both Pulitzer Prize winning journalists (Reuters and Dallas News). The Reuters brother won the first Pulitzer the news agency ever won. I am only mentioning this to say that they are rigorously fact based journos and, as someone once said, reality has a liberal bias. There maybe honest rightwing journalists who deal in facts but they are probably vanishingly rare. Most Conservatives deliberately create “facts” to conform to their… Read more »
The Telegraph — Nigeria church collapses onto worshippers, killing 160 … Congregants said the Reigners Bible Church was still under construction when it was crowded with worshippers to ordain a bishop on Saturday. … In 2014, 116 people died when a multi-story building of the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed in Lagos. A coroner blamed structural faults. … Reigners Bible Church Reigners Bible Church is one of the fastest growing churches in Uyo, located at Km1 Uyo Village Rd, Off Wellington Bassey Way,Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. TOPIC:THE PRINCIPLE OF FINANCIAL PROSPERITY TEXT:3JOHN1:2, 2COR8:9,ISAIAH53:,PSALM35:27 #WHAT ARE THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR… Read more »
Perhaps they can’t find writers simply because no one can promote Trump in a story without lying their ass off. All that is left to say is that he’s an effective con artist.
(i.e., any wingnut candidates) . . . or even give them a moment’s pause.
The implication there that they could write cogent arguments in favor of Trump policies if they weren’t such fucking elitists, despising an honest day’s hackery. “You liberals are so precious with your ‘facts’ and your ‘ideas’. Think you’re too good to dirty yourself with a little old-fashioned lies and invective.”
the usual suspects will be groveling for those jobs just like Mittens did for SoS. WaPo may just be dickering over the salaries — why pay top dollar when there are more applicants than job openings.
Looks like we will be down one in the Senate. No bench in ND, I assume…
Probably just speeds up the loss of a sort-of Democratic Senator by two years. She was likely on the GOP hit list and she would have followed the Clinton playbook — get those GOP woman voters. And not as noted by DocDurango: But what about a true progressive (with economic creds) like Tim Nolan whose Minnesota district went Trump by 17 points, but who won re-election over a well-funded Republican by a narrow margin? IGNORE! IGNORE! IGNORE! Does not compute! Or what about the largely working-class white voters of Placer County, CA, going for Trump by 11 but going for… Read more »
Or what about the largely working-class white voters of Placer County, CA, going for Trump by 11 but going for Kamala Harris, a black woman, by 28 points?
Does anyone know the votes in the Senate race in that county compared to the Presidency? I’m curious since the only other one on the ballot in the Senate race was a Hispanic woman, though also a Democrat. Yeah, given how lopsided CA now is, two Democrats can face off in the general in California since the primary is top 2 regardless of party.
Good point. It’s a weak example because there are too many cross-currents. Sanchez is definitely on the right side of the Dem Party, but she is Hispanic. Placer is also in N. CA which is outside Sanchez’s stomping grounds. The dropout/dropout vote in “Trump” counties from the presidential ballot line to senate was very high. It appears that Harris polled better in votes than Clinton in NorCal counties and ran even or better with Sanchez in SoCA
Hare are the CA SoS results maps.
Placer County CA
President
Clinton 73,509 39.5%
Trump 95,138 51.1%
McMullin 1,032 0.6%
Other 16,345 8.8%
US Senate
Harris 89,687 63.2%
Other 52,192 36.8%
So the Trump was a protest vote against Clinton and the Harris vote was a vote for CA’s actual interest and views.
Implosion in Asgard. Is this the finale?
I got your “implosion.” Right here!!! Two sections of the PermaGov’s controller mechanism vying for control of the government. CIA=the neoliberal/neocon/centrist wing FBI=the alt. right/Trump/not-to-be-trusted-by-the-centrist- wing WAPO. Today. FBI and CIA give differing accounts to lawmakers on Russia’s motives in 2016 hack In a secure meeting room under the Capitol last week, lawmakers held in their hands a classified letter written by colleagues in the Senate summing up a secret, new CIA assessment of Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election. Sitting before the House Intelligence Committee was a senior FBI counterintelligence official. The question the Republicans and Democrats in… Read more »
Exactly. Imagine Brennan and Comey in helmets and long braids. Back in the Gibichung Hall, Gutrune awaits Siegfried’s return. Hagen arrives ahead of the funeral party. Gutrune is devastated when Siegfried’s corpse is brought in. Gunther blames Siegfried’s death on Hagen, who replies that Siegfried had incurred the penalty of his false oath, and further, claims the ring on Siegfried’s finger by right of conquest. When Gunther objects, Hagen appeals to the vassals to support his claim. Gunther draws his sword but Hagen attacks and easily kills him. However, as Hagen moves to take the ring, Siegfried’s hand rises threateningly.… Read more »
“The fat lady is singing?”
I’ll believe it when the troops come marching home…into the ghettoes and/or rural areas.
Until then? What the controllers really want is a nice-looking, slim young lady singing interesting songs quite well (backed up by a bunch of models and dancers and filmed/recorded at high professional levels), songs that have totally indeterminate political messages.
Like this:
Watch.
AG
As was mentioned frequently before the election, Comey is allied with the NY branch of the FBI, which is viciously anti-Clinton for some reason. Probably because they’re right wing assholes. So that’s part of what’s going on here. It will be interesting to see how Trump handles the CIA. Be careful, Trump. Remember what happened to JFK.
Journalism has become a joke. Why not try used car saleman or debt collector instead?
Because they graduate from elite colleges and/or get a J-school or public policy post-grad degree. Old school journalists were working class and learned their craft by doing. Sort of a meritocracy based on talent, skill, and performance and not where they went to school. Carl Bernstein is on the cusp between old and new school: He attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he worked as circulation and exchange manager[4] for the school’s newspaper Silver Chips. He began his journalism career at the age of 16 when he became a copyboy for The Washington Star and… Read more »
They’ve become useful idiots to an elites business and political class. And perhaps now even the Russians. All in the name of profit. The political media companies will do their best to find some way to support trumps policies just like they did with Bush.
It’s time for the rest of us to cut them loose and let this business model die out.
No. They’ve become a part of the elite class. Protecting those that in their own minds are like them. Constantly striving to be accepted by the wealthy elites that controlled who would and who wouldn’t be admitted to their special college clubs.
The fraud Tim “Big Russ” Russert’s pose as Buffalo-working-class from his multi-million$ Nantucket mansion while raking in his multi-million$ salary — and treated as a respected “journalist” by his cohort while (in)famously concocting dishonest and misleading gotcha questions — springs immediately to mind.
Don’t actually know whether he did J-School. He’s certainly a prime example, though, of an alleged “journalist” being co-opted into the social/economic elite, and neutered thereby, while still being lauded for his sorry excuses for “journalism” by his elite cohort.
I was thinking more of print journalists. TV anchors seem to follow a different career path with the same result. Radio > TV with college optional or any college followed by any law school and/or a stint as a political hire to either a Republican or Democrat. Marrying in is another option.
Well, as it happens, I live 1/4 mile from Blair High School, which is one of the highest performing high schools in the country. I also have two brothers that are both Pulitzer Prize winning journalists (Reuters and Dallas News). The Reuters brother won the first Pulitzer the news agency ever won. I am only mentioning this to say that they are rigorously fact based journos and, as someone once said, reality has a liberal bias. There maybe honest rightwing journalists who deal in facts but they are probably vanishingly rare. Most Conservatives deliberately create “facts” to conform to their… Read more »
The Telegraph — Nigeria church collapses onto worshippers, killing 160 … Congregants said the Reigners Bible Church was still under construction when it was crowded with worshippers to ordain a bishop on Saturday. … In 2014, 116 people died when a multi-story building of the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed in Lagos. A coroner blamed structural faults. … Reigners Bible Church Reigners Bible Church is one of the fastest growing churches in Uyo, located at Km1 Uyo Village Rd, Off Wellington Bassey Way,Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. TOPIC:THE PRINCIPLE OF FINANCIAL PROSPERITY TEXT:3JOHN1:2, 2COR8:9,ISAIAH53:,PSALM35:27 #WHAT ARE THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR… Read more »
A real event that’s also a perfect metaphor.