Sullivan, Maddow reject Lewis Carroll!

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2017

Big star slimes Kushner, spares Bernie:
We're so old that we can remember when Alice's retort to the Queen of Hearts was considered instructive, perhaps even cutting edge.

It came by way of Lewis Carroll. Alice's historic push-back went exactly like this:
"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first—verdict afterwards."

"Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice loudly. "The idea of having the sentence first!"

"Hold your tongue!" said the Queen, turning purple.

"I won't!" said Alice.
Sentence first, verdict later? At one time, everyone learned that you don't do that, courtesy of Lewis Carroll!

In everyday life, related concepts have long been understood, even by Us Over Here. You're innocent until you're proven guilty! You aren't guilty of a crime just because you've been charged!

We're so old that we can remember when liberals believed such concepts. Now, thanks to the mental derangement of a major cable news clown, we're moving in a truly heinous direction.

Today, we liberals swear by Rachel in MaddowLand, where a person is guilty of a crime even before he's been charged! In MaddowLand, you're guilty if you hire a lawyer, depending on which tribe you're from.

Maddow continued her ongoing horrible conduct at the start of last evening's program. Jared Kushner has hired a new lawyer, she purringly said in a four-minute opening segment. By rather clear implication, that seemed to mean that he's guilty as charged—even though, at the present time, he actually hasn't been charged!

Kushner is guilty without being charged! Our multimillionaire corporate Rhodes Scholar now trains us to "reason" this way.

Guilty without being charged? Alas! Our Own Tribal Tool has the soul of a modern-day Tailgunner Joe. In truth, she's been playing this game for quite a few years. But we liberals love our tribe so much we can't seem to see what she does.

Yesterday, the disorder spread to this column by the Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan. The column started with a brief profile of Amy Siskind, our tribe's latest source of abject dumbnification.

In fairness, Siskind has done everything right in her life. She spent twenty years on Wall Street, making oodles of Wall Street dough, before she retired to Larchmont, from which location she now devotes herself to dumbing our tribe way down.

At present, that involves her "Weekly List." Yesterday, Sullivan described this offering in her column while committing a ripe journalistic offense.

Let's start at the beginning of Sullivan's column. Last year, Siskind seems to have been one of the savants who didn't realize that Candidate Clinton actually might lose. The aftermath went like this:
SULLIVAN (6/26/17): Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, Amy Siskind took one of her occasional trips to Val-Kill, the Upstate New York home of Eleanor Roosevelt.

“I needed a Zen moment,” Siskind, who had campaigned for Hillary Clinton, told me. “And that is a place that inspires me.”

Soon afterward, Siskind began keeping what she calls the Weekly List, tracking all the ways in which she saw America’s taken-for-granted governmental norms changing in the Trump era.

The project started small, read by friends and with only a few items a week.

By Week 9, though, the list had gone viral.
Poor Siskind! Stunned by Candidate Clinton's loss, she started compiling a Weekly List. As our tribe's heroic resistance grew, her weekly hand-wringing took off.

In yesterday's column, Sullivan quoted three examples from a recent Siskind list. Sullivan had 85 items from which she could choose. The fact that she included the item we highlight is journalistically astounding:
SULLIVAN: As time went on, the list grew much longer and more sophisticated. Here are three of her 85 items from mid-June:

*“Monday, in a bizarre display in front of cameras, Trump’s cabinet members took turns praising him.”

*“AP reported that a company that partners with both Trump and (son-in-law) Jared Kushner is a finalist for a $1.7bn contract to build the new FBI building.

*Vice President Pence hired a big-name “lawyer with Watergate experience to represent him in the Russian probe.”

Now, in Week 32, every item has a source link, and rather than just a few items, there are dozens.
Good God! With 85 items from which to choose, Sullivan chose the item built upon this concept:

You're guilty even before you've been charged! If you merely hire a lawyer, you'll get slimed by our righteous tribe, with a Watergate reference thrown in.

It's bad enough that an amateur like Siskind would include an item like that on her list. It's astounding to think that, with 85 examples to choose from, Sullivan would decide to run that item in the Washington Post.

Like millions of Democratic officials before him, Vice President Pence had hired a lawyer. According to Sullivan, Pence's action represents one of "the ways in which she saw America’s taken-for-granted governmental norms changing in the Trump era!"

When Pence hired that lawyer, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin made the world's most obvious point. Hiring a lawyer at a time like this is a "non-event," he said. When a large investigation is underway, you'd be crazy not to do so.

Lewis Carroll understood such ideas; we modern "liberals" do not. Incidentally, Siskind links that item back to Maddow's increasingly disordered TV show. Maddow's destroying many brain cells in our sad post-liberal world.

Last night, Maddow was at it again, opening her program with a four-minute rant about the fact that Kushner has hired a lawyer. Every possible insinuation was offered as part of the tribal stew.

Might we note another hire—a hire Maddow has chosen to skip? We refer to the hire described in this report in yesterday's Washington Post:
WEIGEL (6/26/17): Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has retained counsel as the FBI investigates whether his wife, Jane Sanders, committed fraud to acquire a 2010 loan for a now-shuttered Vermont college, predicted Saturday night that the probe would be a political fizzle.

“This was a story that just, amazingly enough, came out in the middle of my presidential campaign, initiated by Donald Trump’s campaign manager in Vermont,” Sanders said in an interview, between rallies in Pennsylvania and Ohio organized to defeat Senate Republicans’ health-care bill. “That’s about it. I don’t think it’ll be a distraction.”
Bernie Sanders has hired a lawyer! Maddow fans, let's lock him up!

You won't hear this outrage described on the Maddow Show, nor is there any reason why you should. That said, Maddow increasingly seems deranged. For years, she has longed to lock them all up. Increasingly, she is dumbnifying the liberal world as she pursues this Queen of Hearts impulse.

Increasingly, Maddow seems to be dragging others down. Sullivan had 85 items from which to choose, and she chose that slimy denunciation of Pence—because he hired a lawyer!

Long ago, Alice knew this was wrong. Today, in our badly declining tribe, we self-impressed, utterly hapless liberals are walking away from such norms.

Don't let the children watch: Last night, Maddow opened her show with four minutes of her trademark McCarthyism.

Escort the children from the room. After that, brace yourself and just click here. Insinuations 'R her!

21 comments:

  1. Giving someone due process of law with the presumption of innocence until proven guilty is a legal concept. It doesn't mean that anyone withholds judgment or presumes someone innocent on a personal or practical level before conviction under the law. Obviously, police try to find evidence to convict whoever they believe to be guilty. They investigate suspects who are assumed to be guilty. They lock them up, question them, bring them before the district attorney for charging. They obtain search warrants and they prosecute them. They do not pretend those charged are innocent.

    There is no requirement that the press pretend an accused person is innocent either. They refer to them as alleged perpetrators of crimes, but they fully discuss those charges and the evidence and they report the ongoing trial. Only the law presumes innocence in terms of the that evidence and the protections of proof required to deprive someone of liberty. The press is not required to pretend anyone is innocent.

    Everyday people assume guilt all the time. They are not courts and they have no legal responsibilities. They have minimal moral responsibilities beyond basic fairness. If I believe a neighbor damaged my car, but I cannot prove it, I will still park my car somewhere distant from that neighbor and I will not befriend him because who wants to be friendly with someone who didn't leave a note? We may these kinds of decisions every day. Do I believe a student who claims he forgot his term paper? Maybe and maybe not. There is no requirement to treat anyone as innocent. We weigh evidence and act accordingly.

    So Somerby's incessant claim that we must treat these guilty-as-hell Republicans as if they were innocent until the FBI tells us what happened, years from now, is offensive and ridiculous. His claim that we are being evil because we treat these guys as the cruds they are, is just plain wrong. It makes him sound like a Republican himself, defensive of wrongdoing because he cannot believe Trump is as bad as his past actions have shown him to be. These people are corrupt. Maddow is right to report on it and
    Somerby is stupid to pretend there is going to be any exoneration. In the meantime, he wastes our time here with this mistaken argument that we owe anyone involved in robbing us of the presidency any benefit of doubt.

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    1. Correct. And Maddow didn't saw Kushner was guilty of anything. She reported he had gotten a lawyer.

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    2. I guess I am reacting to Somerby's whole idea that there is a chase occurring to put Trump and his minions away for good. I think that is correct, but it is happening because of their crimes, not because the left is disappointed by the election results. I am offended every time Somerby brings up that "chase" garbage and his yay yay yay crap.

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    3. I'll whip your butt.

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    4. You spelled w-i-p-e wrong.

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    5. Basic decency requires a presumption of innocence in the absence of proof. It's hard to believe anyone has to argue that point but Trump Derangement Syndrome has robbed Democrat brains of the higher functions of reason and morality.

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    6. 2:22 AM,
      We got all the proof we needed about Corrupt, Corrupt Hillary from the 8 official (and dozens of unofficial) GOP-led investigations into her corruption. She was sloppy with her emails. And that's the full extent of her corruption.
      Hillary Rodham Clinton: The LEAST corrupt major-party Presidential nominee in at least a half-century.

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    7. "Hillary Rodham Clinton: The LEAST corrupt major-party Presidential nominee in at least a half-century."

      Quick reminder that this obvious truism ate at the American pubic so much, they elected a racist conman and admitted sexual predator to be President.

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