tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3755700528116771804..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: NEWT GINGRICH'S BUTTHURT IS NOT ENTIRELY UNREASONABLESteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-29294463405398050112016-10-26T12:28:20.633-04:002016-10-26T12:28:20.633-04:00"You can take your anger issues and work on t..."You can take your anger issues and work on them elsewhere, Mr. Speaker."<br />Megan for the win! Short of someone shoving a sock in his mouth, I can think of no better way to shut down Newt "A dumb person's idea of what a smart person sounds like" Gingrich.Dr.BDHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16967210861668606959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-32762620752499716392016-10-26T12:19:41.521-04:002016-10-26T12:19:41.521-04:00I've read over two hundred of the hacked (tho ...I've read over two hundred of the hacked (tho no doubt mostly) DNC emails - maainly those in which Podesta or the HRC Campaign are involved. <br /><br />Anybody who's ever worked on a political election campaign & so has received emails or fax'd messages or mailers or attended meetings or been actively involved in speaking with fellow campaign workers or even the public will recognize as typical these almost uniformly banal discussions.<br /><br />The 'problem' with email, even more than text messaging or Twitter, is obvious to any of us who've ever read blog threads: it attracts gossip, rumors, anxieties, political football punters, blue skyers, sky's-falling types, streams of consciousness, rants. doggerel, hyperbole, mood swings, composure losses, & a torrent of doomed stupid ideas. (Put the DNC emails up side-by-side with just about any rightwing blog comment thread, or Fox, NRO, The Hill, Daily Caller, or Mediaite, no need to mention the likes of Breitbart or Ace of Spades HQ.).<br /><br />Thing Atrios often puts up for new open comment thread:<br /><br />"You talk too much."<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u0wuUktcfM<br /><br />Point being: it isn't, or at least isn't 'just', their nominee's self-absorption that's killing the supposed advantage of the Wikileaks: both the content & context mostly render all of it useless beyond as a boogeyman.<br /><br />Also, do the core Trumpers even read? or VOTE?<br />Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-46222543552943320892016-10-26T11:53:56.392-04:002016-10-26T11:53:56.392-04:00Is there anyone left who Trump hasn't insulted...Is there anyone left who Trump hasn't insulted? Besides his unhinged supporters? Threatening the media is a moronic move.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12977868106173983411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-592680103649724412016-10-26T11:38:48.378-04:002016-10-26T11:38:48.378-04:00"not enough [focusing] on issues like those r..."not enough [focusing] on issues like those raised by the speeches given by Hillary Clinton to bankers"<br /><br />I remember in 2010, Boehner & McConnell going to Wall Street & talking with bankers, along with coordinated speeches & interviews, with the sole message to WS bankster, hedge fundies, the US Chamber of Commerce and Corporate American, 'Give us money & we'll do everything you want, exactly the way you want it.' <br /><br />The repellent turtle & the openly corrupt cig-sucking wine-swilling golfaholic orange man were LOUD & CLEAR that they could deliver to order uniform Congressional caucus obstruction to everything the Dem president & Dem Congress critters tried to accomplish, with utter disregard for whatever supposed Republican & conservative principles they & their fellow Rs mouthed, including every single element of the Republican Base that wasn't Big Money.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-33315321086492132982016-10-26T11:23:56.330-04:002016-10-26T11:23:56.330-04:00SteveM - this is a smart, insightful piece. But in...SteveM - this is a smart, insightful piece. But in my eyes, the post title is crude without expressing the true message of the post: that the media is lazy and sensationalist, and in contrast to other GOP candidates, Trump's campaign is unable to capitalize on it. Of course, Gingrich relies on this laziness -- in the clip, he does <i>exactly</i> what you pointed out yesterday: he says that Trump is ahead in Florida, and he gets away with it. <br /><br />Anyway, since Gingrich is one of the people responsible for crafting Trump's/GOP's message and disseminating it to a credible media -- it's what he's doing here, by complaining about the amount of time spent on each story (a talking point I've heard from Trump and his surrogates) -- I'm not inclined to entertain the idea that he's being reasonable, even a little. Knight of Nothinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258071389769083850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-26329446692727756952016-10-26T10:55:58.301-04:002016-10-26T10:55:58.301-04:00It seemed to me that the tone of the press coverag...It seemed to me that the tone of the press coverage changed when Trump jerked them around with the birther press conference/tour of his new hotel. Sounded to me like they turned on him and haven't given him a break since. Granted, he hasn't deserved a break but that never stopped the media before. It is very dangerous to do something to the press that makes them feel misused or abused. Verbal criticism isn't enough -- they have a tendency to absorb and internalize criticism especially from certain groups. But pull a stunt like Trump did -- which he followed up the next day or so by stranding them while he flew off to a rally -- and they can turn on you like rabid dogs.mlbxxxxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05931351723996391533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65875699119760447362016-10-26T10:46:34.629-04:002016-10-26T10:46:34.629-04:00Who thinks HRC wants 600 million immigrants from s...Who thinks HRC wants 600 million immigrants from south America? Ever the salamander does not believe that..,he is just saying it.<br /><br />Most of the wiki stuff is mundane, stupid, or faked. Mostly gossip and thin reeds.Joey Blauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00185289301820663520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-69876632067558836672016-10-26T10:32:04.143-04:002016-10-26T10:32:04.143-04:00One wonders if another reason Kelly is brushing as...One wonders if another reason Kelly is brushing aside Gingrich's allegations about Hillary's speech to the Brazilian bankers is because she knows that Gingrich is misrepresenting what Hillary said. Is it possible that someone at Fox News is showing some reluctance to mindlessly repeating whatever the Right-Wing Outrage of the Day might happen to be?<br /><br />Probably not, but isn't it pretty to think so?Leo Artunianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09791102888537681220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-21547543365829244892016-10-26T10:26:16.941-04:002016-10-26T10:26:16.941-04:00The GOP v. t-RUMP v. Hillary:
Because of their can...The GOP v. t-RUMP v. Hillary:<br />Because of their candidate, the GOP is 'hoist by their own retard.'*<br /><br />*My apologies for using that term. <br />But, it fits far better than OJ's glove.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com