[NOTE: I wrote the draft of this post before yesterday’s press conference, in which Trump certainly did call on hostile press representatives from liberal news outlets. So Cillizza’s very specific complaint (that Trump only called on friendly sources) no longer … Continue reading →
I don’t usually listen to these things (I’m not an auditory person, as I’ve said before). However, late last night I watched most of Trump’s presser, and I must say it was entertaining. But Trump has often been entertaining. It … Continue reading →
Not every single day, anyway. There is a repetitive pattern to it that has become extremely boring. “Boring” doesn’t mean “unimportant.” It’s important, and I will continue to cover these events and react to them and analyze them. But I … Continue reading →
A commenter here used to say quite often that the left had a lot more tricks up its sleeve than we knew, and that we were only seeing a small percentage of their power, maybe 5%. That person also said … Continue reading →
I am always wary of conspiracy theories. Left or right, they have proliferated during my lifetime, and I don’t find the vast majority of them convincing. I’ve written about this before (in particular here), and I haven’t changed my mind. … Continue reading →
Regarding attitudes towards Trump, there are three kinds of people. And it may be that each type represents about a third of the population, although that’s just a guess of mine. The first group is composed of the die-hards, those … Continue reading →
Remember Cloward-Piven?: The Cloward”“Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven… The two [sociologists Cloward and Piven] stated that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were … Continue reading →
Here’s a photo of the classic jumping-the-gun press faux pas: And this was the Superbowl story in an early edition of the Boston Globe, distributed in parts of Florida:
Continue reading →All answers are speculative, of course, but my answer is a resounding “yes.” Commenter Yancey Ward writes: One of the issues some on the Right keep bringing up here is paraphrased this way: “Trump should have better explained this EO, … Continue reading →
And when the press gets the vapors, so do its obedient readers. And yes, there are still plenty of those. Another thing that happens is that I’m sometimes moved to violate my Never On Sunday rule and write a Sunday … Continue reading →
It’s one of the most famous saying in American history (whether Lincoln said it, as reported, or not): You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool … Continue reading →
In that long long first press conference of Spicer, most of the attention went to the crowd count question. But embedded in all the verbiage was a far more interesting sequence, almost a monologue by Spicer in which he does … Continue reading →