Political Theatre category archive
Credibility Gape 0
Ratted Out 0
Frankly, I’d rather associate with the rodent.
In related news, Dick Polman opines. A nugget:
But Hannity’s fans shrug off the naysayers; they feast on his insular stupidity.
Granted, they would be outraged — and Hannity’s head would explode — if someone like Rachel Maddow championed a Hillary Clinton lawyer while soliciting that same lawyer. But even though Hannity considers himself a member of the Fourth Estate (he said last year, “I’m a journalist”), he and his fans exempt him from the ethical rules that bind real journalists.
Rule of Lawless 0
What’s Cohen On? 0
Shaun Mullen wraps up this week in the Trumpling.
In Other Words, DHS Wants To Be like Facebook 0
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Aside:
Damn computers. They expect u to splet stuf rite.
Ryan’s Derp 0
Paul Krugman wonders how Paul Ryan got a reputation amongst the political media as being a “policy wonk.” An excerpt:
Look, the single animating principle of everything Mr. Ryan did and proposed was to comfort the comfortable while afflicting the afflicted. Can anyone name a single instance in which his supposed concern about the deficit made him willing to impose any burden on the wealthy or in which his supposed compassion made him willing to improve the lives of the poor?
And his “deficit reduction” proposals were always frauds. The revenue loss from tax cuts always exceeded any explicit spending cuts, so the pretense of fiscal responsibility came entirely from “magic asterisks”: extra revenue from closing unspecified loopholes, reduced spending from cutting unspecified programs. He’s been a flimflam man all along.
Justice Decried 0
Thom explains to a right-wing caller that a legally-obtained, well-founded search warrant is not a violation of civil liberties; indeed, itt is rather the epitome of them. (The conversation gets a bit contentious towards the end, but remains civil.)