The New York Times has done an analysis of the striking degree of overlap between the incendiary rhetoric of right-wing media provocateurs and the language used by the Texas man who confessed to killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso. How the El Paso Killer Echoed the Incendiary Words of Conservative Media Stars … Read more
You knew that “Teleprompter Trump” being forced to read from a hostage statement prepared for him on Monday — a “low-energy, vacant-eyed mouthing of the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week,” as Joe Biden so accurately described on Wednesday — would not last. “Twitter Trump” used the tragedy of a mass shootings in … Read more
Tucker Carlson is a privileged white rich boy who got his start in media only because of his father’s extensive connections — Richard Warner Carlson is a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles who was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America. He … Read more
In 21st Century America, this is not the kind of headline one should expect to see, nor should it ever be acceptable. From the Washington Post this morning: Trump campaign sees political advantage in a divisive appeal to working-class white voters President Trump launched another broadside Saturday on a Democratic political opponent, calling a prominent … Read more
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony went like I thought it would as I warned you about lowering your expectations regarding his testimony: Mueller is not to discuss any limitations placed upon the scope of his investigation by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, or Attorney General William Barr, or any deliberations among … Read more