Archive for 2020

OPEN THREAD: Buy me a drink, sing me a song, take me as I am ’cause I can’t stay long.

DIXIECRATS IN THE STRANGEST PLACES:

Related: Seriously eff’ed in the head! Frothy-mouthed harpies claim Melania Trump put ‘KKK’ and Nazis in her Rose Garden redesign.

Including Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post, formerly of Newsweek:

Flashback:

A political party is dying before our eyes — and I don’t mean the Democrats. I’m talking about the “mainstream media,” which is being destroyed by the opposition (or worse, the casual disdain) of George Bush’s Republican Party; by competition from other news outlets (led by the internet and Fox’s canny Roger Ailes); and by its own fraying  journalistic standards. At the height of its power, the AMMP (the American Mainstream Media Party) helped validate the civil rights movement, end a war and oust a power-mad president. But all that is ancient history.

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The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. The problem was that, once the AMMP declared its existence by taking sides, there was no going back. A party was born.

—“The ‘Media Party’ is over,” Howard Fineman, MSNBC, January 13, 2005.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “I just really don’t think ‘save the post office’ is the rallying cry the left thinks it is.”

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT-CHECKERS AND EDITORS:

The NASCAR reference was removed from the lede, but it’s still in the URL: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/us/indy-500-nascar-spt-trnd/index.html

And as of the time of this post, it’s still in the “lite” smartphone-oriented version of the article:

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