I was going to publish something else this morning, but I came across this article in the Houston Chronicle. Of course, it’s not original reporting by the Hearst Corporation, now the largest cut & paste website operator in the nation.
But the real reason I posted this is the complete lack of shame in the vacuum of journalistic ethics regarding this piece, by the writers and their editors. Unsurprisingly, the NYT byline includes Maggie Haberman, a woman who seems to have been driven to the brink of psychotic breakdown by the mere existence of Donald Trump.
I have emboldened words and phrases that have no place in non-editorial reporting.
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox — his preferred network over what he considers the “fake news” CNN — and caused “a bit of a stir” aboard Air Force One, according to an email obtained by The New York Times. The email, an internal exchange between officials in the White House Military Office and the White House Communications Agency last Thursday, also called for the ordering of two additional televisions to support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming device, to make sure the president and first lady could both watch TV in their separate hotel rooms when they travel.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the President leaked the email himself just to humiliate CNN.
The channel-flipping flap was the latest example of how Donald Trump, at a pivotal moment in his presidency, is increasingly living in a world of selected information and bending the truth to his own narrative. As his aides work to keep him insulated from the outside world, Trump is doubling down in his efforts to tell supporters to trust him over the words of critics and news reports.
and,
On Tuesday, the president effectively said black was white when he claimed without evidence that Russians would be helping Democrats — but not him — in the coming midterm elections.
and,
Over the weekend, Trump claimed with no evidence in a series of tweets that his administration’s release of top-secret documents related to the surveillance of a former campaign aide had confirmed that the Justice Department and the FBI “misled the courts” in the early stages of the Russia investigation.
Pathetic.
You know it’s hot in Texas when…
Shabbat Shalom Texpat and happy barf day to boot.
Happened to catch Hannity interviewing Roseanne. Interesting, but she is a nutjob.
OMG, I think I’ve been so busy today that I never formally wished Senor Texpat a very happy birthday, and many more to come.
#47 TT I had my IRA rolled over to a financial management company that I had selected to handle all our accounts. This was done with me sitting in the mgmt.co’s office and my manager making all the phone calls. Everything I had done previously, I had done on my own: Creating IRA at Vanguard; creating SEP IRA at Fidelity,… Read more »
Russian technology threatens America.
https://youtu.be/xG2mbL4QyZQ
Seen over yonder:
Twitter is Trump’s laser pointer and the Democrats are all cats.
LOL!
Perhaps some of the really annoyed real conservative Republicans ought to consider being write-in candidates, presuming the time has not expired to get on the ballot. Then campaign as the alternative selection rather than allow the RINO that won the primary to sail in. If enough real conservatives did this, the RINOs might be seriously worried they don’t have a… Read more »
The hybrid collage of MST3K meets The Three Stooges vs Godzilla has kilt the blog.
It’s amazing how the 30 H.A.P. GOOPees for unlawful carnal knowledged the country right before the go/went on August recess.
Unlawful carnal knowledging is hard work for these masters of the bait and switch mayo staining salami sliders.
Mick and Texpat born on the same day.
Is it a conspiracy or is it….
That steak be lookin real good. Don’t know about rice with it. Happy Birthday Texpat, send Shannon the bone.
26, 28 Shannon
I never cared too much for Joni Mitchell. If it weren’t for Jaco’s bass playing on Hejira I wouldn’t care for any of her music. He’s in my top five of bass players.
Happy birthday Texpat. Enjoy that dinner out and stay there all night if you so wish.
Thanks for the birthday wishes. I’m getting ready to go out for an enormous steak dinner. Prime bone-in New York strip at El Cid.
You think they want to part with “their” money which belongs to you easily? They’ll probably eventually make you sue them for it. And you know what? You’ll find out that it’s not actually your money at all – it belongs to them, since you loaned it to them – you didn’t just let them hold it for safekeeping. These… Read more »
I spent an hour or more today on trying to do an IRA rollover from one management company to another. Their online system has poor documentation. I had to use a chat system (because their verification on their phone system sucks, too) and the lady assisting me admitted it was not intuitive. “Not intuitive”? Try “Counter intuitive”. To do the… Read more »
You mean to tell me that a swamp dwelling political animal tells the voters one thing and goes to DC, contracts Potomac fever, and does something else? That could never happen in America, could it? A pox of all of them. Culberson, Brady, that little lying Rice grad shix representing CD 22. The only one you can honestly count on… Read more »
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Big Brudda TP!!!!!
mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny HAPPY returns!!
35 Yep the backstabbing GOOPees make it possible for 32 million Central Americans to illegally enter the USA. They want to throw the election. I just called Culbersome’s office.–Thoroughly disgusted with him and them. Of course the person answering the phone is useless. I bet his neighborhood still looks like 1950s Leave it to Beaver much like Joe the Pizza… Read more »
Well, I got highjacked and had to grab my camera and go off with 2 board members who had brought in 3 lending-library stands that were donated to the neighborhood by HISD. It will be a children’s lending library system. Bizarre that I am not on the board but they came to me to find out where to put them.… Read more »
Takes a big man to admit his mistakes. But I’ll tell you, you will never make it as a politician – those guys never admit their mistakes.
I just wish the farmers bailed out to keep them quiet would have been required to wear MAGA caps the rest of their days.
The contrast between the Jugeared Jackass and Trump is stunning. Where everything the former accomplished was destructive the later accomplishes 3 times as much and it is all very beneficial for We The People. One would struggle to find a more stark contrast between bad and good for the country.
Just a drive by for a small mia culpa.
A long while back Hamous asked what my thoughts was on Trump tariffs. I stated I was against tariffs. After watching Trump tackle tariffs against us from other markets with reciprocal tariffs, Well I must withdraw my angst. Trump gets two thumbs up from me for his plans.
TRUMP 2020.
As far as all of the snowflake accommodations in colleges…. ….if you don’t learn how to handle stress (e.g., testing scenarios) in college, how the heck are you going to handle stress in real life? Like when you have a hard deadline of tomorrow and the project isn’t finished? Do these idiots think you can take a cuddle kitty into… Read more »
#7 Texpat: Some of the idiocy associated with the ADA stuff in Schools is staggering. As an example, one semester I had a Vietnamese student enrolled in a video editing class. No problem until he showed up with not one but TWO interpreters. It seems he was profoundly deaf – completely incapable of detecting any sound at all. He also… Read more »
Well, good. House Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan will formally announce his campaign for speaker of the House Thursday at noon, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. TheDCNF confirmed the announcement with two sources with direct knowledge of Jordan’s plans. Jordan has received an onslaught of support from conservative groups and his colleagues in the House Freedom Caucus to… Read more »
20 phil This is from your linked article by David Horowitz at Conservative Review. Everyone needs to read this article. For years, conservatives have been begging House Republicans to use the power of the purse in the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bills to stand for our borders, fight sanctuary cities, defund amnesty, and block judicial tyranny on immigration. Yet… Read more »
#32
Since I’m partial to the Mother of Jesus, I’ve always found it satisfying that we share a birthdate. Well, according to the Church.
#25
I saw her picture next to a table covered in a tablecloth of the same fabric.
I’m the only famous person born on my birthday. Well, me and Nikola Tesla.
My #22 from yesterday. I thought somebody might comment on the FakeNews absurdity of my fake headline.
24 Shannon
Hey, it’s Sandra Bullock’s birthday today too. I should give her a call.
On a sad note, Sam Houston died on this day 155 years ago.
28
You bass guys should read his whole bio. It’s just great.
In my #26, the bass in the Mitchell song always put a smile on my face. This guy was the bassist on the recording:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaco_Pastorius
corrected
26 Shannon
Maybe the Stones figured nobody would notice they stole a riff from Joni 33 years later.
The opening guitar riffs on these two songs are eerily similar….
Stones
https://youtu.be/g8hwTG4wbo0
Mitchell
https://youtu.be/iWUgPIQNgGo
First the silverware now the shower curtains. 😀
Yes. Texpat, Mick Jagger, and other assorted peacocks.
#21 Iron Mary, Yup, Dave’s phone.
😀
Actually, no, I got my first phone in August of 2009 and replaced it last fall with one almost just like it…..Not sure just how the picture wound up on my phone,…..Russians, maybe???
I finished up a project done as a volunteer to my HOA, now today I am starting a new one. Time to start cranking out the next newsletter.
#18
Dave, are you still using your same phone from 1995?
They smile to your face…the backstabbers.
and look, there’s John Abney Culberson’s name on that list.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
#12 – I was looking on line to try to find where to order one of those snakes. I can think of a few people I would like to gift one of them to. In reading the article, they found the snake dead too, so did the bite that killed the woman also kill the snake? In other words, was… Read more »
I was looking through some pictures on my phone and stumbled across my wife’s first Tahoe, a 95 2 door. I wish that we still had that thing.
I am operating on about 2 hours’ sleep, folks. Forgive me if I get a little loopy later on.
Currently on my second cup of coffee, with my green/peppermint tea backup for after.
Caffeine is my engine today.
Happy birthday, Texpat!
#3 Texpat, that is a neat story, another “Made My Day”, story.
#10 Tedtam, I need one of those.
#13 Really?! Happy Birthday Texpat!