On tomorow’s debate
I plan to have a thread tomorrow to discuss the debate. But I just want to say now that, in addition to my usual dislike of debates, I have a special layer of anxiety about this one. Way too much … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Press
The Trump/Harris debate: the battle of the mics
For the Trump/Harris debate on September 10 – which may end up being the only presidential debate of the 2024 campaign – it was finally decided that the candidates’ mics will be muted when their opponent is speaking. Kamala Harris … Continue reading →
The Harris and Walz interview was a lackluster and awkward affair
In last night’s CNN interview with Dana Bash, Kamala Harris exhibited problems on two levels: content and process. Content is what a person says, and process is just about everything else, including tone of voice, facial expression, and posture. It … Continue reading →
If you’re watching the Kamala/Walz cameo on CNN …
… here’s a thread to discuss it.
Continue reading →Walz will be present with Harris in her first major interview …
… which will also be by a very friendly interviewer, Dana Bash, and it will be recorded rather than live. The friendly interviewer part was pretty much a given. After all, there are few Harris-hostile potential interviewers in the MSM, … Continue reading →
Commenter “AesopFan” explains my own position vis à vis liberal Democrat friends and family, for the most part
Here’s the description [emphasis mine]: [From] JFM > “These are educated people who always take the news at face value. I can’t understand this. It drives me crazy.” When they only see the news from one side, in which so … Continue reading →
Can Trump get through the firewall?
The media is bound and determined to present Trump in the worst light possible, and Harris in the best light possible. To do this they will outright lie, distort the facts in more subtle ways, and ignore what doesn’t fit … Continue reading →
Trump spars with black journalists …
… and what you think about what he said depends on what you think of Trump – because at the venue, Trump was his inimitable self. The left will try to make hay of it. People on the right either … Continue reading →
More “now it can be told”: Chuck Todd says everybody knew about Biden
From NBC News’ Chuck Todd: NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd on Wednesday claimed a senior cabinet secretary told him in 2022 that President Biden couldn’t run again. The former “Meet the Press” host discussed dwindling confidence in Biden’s … Continue reading →
Matt Yglesias offers a primer on confirmation bias – his own
Democrat pundit Matt Yglesias admits to having been wrong about Biden’s mental acuity, and he seems to beat himself up for it so sincerely that I tend to believe he really didn’t see what was in front of his face … Continue reading →
Was last Thursday’s debate a game-changer?
In a sane world it would be a game-changer, either in the sense that Biden would be replaced as nominee (or even removed via the 25th Amendment), or he would lose the election. Robert Zimmerman asks the question: Last week’s … Continue reading →
Biden seems determined to stay in the race
No surprise here. Biden’s a stubborn cuss who’s always wanted to be president and he finally caught the brass ring. He sees no reason to give it up. That’s why I’ve said before that, although I understand why many people … Continue reading →