SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025
...on our most watched "cable news" program: Early this morning, the thought came to mind:
Had we ever attempted to research the concept of "compulsive lying?"
We say had we ever attempted to research that topic for the obvious reason—we aren't medical specialists here. But our journalists refuse to speak to such specialists, and so we did a bit of clicking, quickly landing on this:
Pathological lying
Pathological lying, also known as pseudologia fantastica, is a chronic behavior characterized by the habitual or compulsive tendency to lie. It involves a pervasive pattern of intentionally making false statements with the aim to deceive others, sometimes for no clear or apparent reason, and even if the truth would be beneficial to the liar. People who engage in pathological lying often report being unaware of the motivations for their lies.
In psychology and psychiatry, there is an ongoing debate about whether pathological lying should be classified as a distinct disorder or viewed as a symptom of other underlying conditions. The lack of a widely agreed-upon description or diagnostic criteria for pathological lying has contributed to the controversy surrounding its definition. But efforts have been made to establish diagnostic criteria based on research and assessment data, aligning with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Various theories have been proposed to explain the causes of pathological lying, including stress, an attempt to shift locus of control to an internal one, and issues related to low self-esteem. Some researchers have suggested a biopsychosocial-developmental model to explain this concept...
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Pathological lying is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), although only as a symptom of other disorders such as antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders, not as a stand-alone diagnosis. The former ICD-10 disorder Haltlose personality disorder is strongly tied to pathological lying. Pathological lying is represented in both the DSM-5 and ICD-11 alternative models of personality disorder which emphasize dimensions of personality dysfunction, rather than specific categorical disorders. "Deceitfulness," an aspect of the Antagonism domain, is a trait encompassing pathological lying in the DSM-5's model, while the current ICD-11 trait domain of Dissociality (analogous to DSM-5 Antagonism) holds pathological lying to be a behavioral expression of the Lack of Empathy facet...
The complex discussion goes on from there. But "pathological lying" is, in fact, a clinical term in the DSM, though only as a symptom of other disorders.
Just yesterday, we had occasion to note the way one clinical psychologist linked antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders to one of her famous relatives in a recent best-selling book.
We did this clicking today for the obvious reason. Yesterday, we saw the commander in chief making this presentation again, as a group of malfunctioning upper-end journalists politely averted their gaze and kept their frightened traps shut:
PRESIDENT TRUMP (8/22/25): I have said to Pam and everybody else, give them everything you can give them, because it’s a Democrat hoax. It’s just a hoax, the whole Epstein thing is a Democrat hoax.
So we had the greatest six months, seven months in the history of the presidency, and the Democrats don’t know what to do, so they keep bringing up that stuff.
But it affected them. Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island, supposedly 28 times. I don’t want to bring that up, frankly. You have Larry, whatever his name is, Summers, the head of Harvard, who was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend. Nobody ever talks about that. I mean, but I don’t want to hurt Larry Summers, but he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein.
No, this is a Democratic hoax to try and get the significance of what we’ve done over the past seven months. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. They say it’s number one in history. What we’ve done, including stopping seven wars. I mean, just including that. And now you look at the stock market today, it’s way up to start off with, from where I took it.
There the gentleman went again, as the band failed to play on.
The president didn't want to say what he said, but he persistently says it, with the word "supposedly" thrown in to give him a way to hide. As he keeps doing this, the journalists in the room keeping fail to challenge or question his statement, and the children at Mediaite just keep publishing what he said without a word of comment.
Yesterday, the transcripts of the two days of interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell were released. There's no obvious reason to believe anything she said, but this very morning, on Fox & Friends Weekend, we saw legal correspondent Gregg Jarrett fleetingly refer to this:
TODD BLANCHE: I think you said you don't—you're not aware of President Clinton ever going to the island?
MAXWELL: He never. Absolutely never went.
Her elaboration goes on from there.
The fact that she made this emphatic statement doesn't mean that it's true. But there has never been any credible evidence saying that Clinton ever went to the island, despite the garbage the sitting president keeps serving to the individuals who are cast in the role of what's left of "the American press corps."
(For the record, we also know of no reason to think that Summers was Epstein's best friend. That was just crazy talk too, part of a string of crazy clams by the sitting commander.)
It was said this morning on Fox & Friends Weekend—said fleetingly, but yes it was said! It was said by Jarrett at 6:29 a.m.—and the three friends all ignored it:
Fox & Friends Weekend: August 23, 2025
Charlie Hurt: co-host, Fox & Friends Weekend
Rachel Campos-Duffy: co-host, Fox & Friends Weekend
Griff Jenkins: co-anchor, Fox News Live
They had opened the show with one of the stupidest presentations in the history of human stupidity—with a three-pronged attempt to say that Republicans are currently gerrymandering Texas because gerrymandered states like Massachusetts have forced them to do it.
The three stoopnagles took turns advancing this brainless claim, with Massachusetts offered as the featured demon. As we noted on Thursday, the New York Times has even gotten around to explaining the situation in Massachusetts. But as this nation sinks into the sea, the sheer stupidity of the Fox News Channel is one of the jagged icebergs which is bringing the ship of state down.
The exchange about the allegedly gerrymandered Bay State occurred at 6:03 a.m. In fairness, we'll guess that none of the trio of friends actually knew that what they were saying made no sense at all.
At 6:09, Campos-Duffy really began to earn her pay, saying that Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Senator Van Hollen were shown "having a margarita" together in that famous photo from El Salvador.
Actually, she actually said they were "having a margarita or whatever." With that, the genial Fox News Channel religionist seemed to be playing the president's "supposedly" game. We do feel sure that she understood the game she was playing this time.
These are the people who are working, around the clock, to sink the American ship of state, such as it is at this time. They're sinking the ship through their far-reaching dumbness, but also through their true belief in Red American tribal greatness.
Our human brains are wired this way. As we started telling you long ago, there's no obvious reason to believe that we'll be able to extricate ourselves from this ongoing tribal mess.
For what it's worth, the haplessness has also been general over Blue America. Down below, we'll link you to something Joy Reid has now said, thereby creating a bit of tape the Fox News Channel has been playing all week.
First, though, we turn to what we saw this Thursday on The Five. This array of children had been gathered together on the Fox News Channel set:
The Five: Thursday, August 21, 2025
Kennedy: former MTV VJ
Jessica Tarlov: designated Democratic pincushion
Jesse Watters: co-host, The Five
Dana Perino: co-host, The Five
Greg Gutfeld: co-host, The Five
Kennedy sat in "the Judge Jeannine chair" as the nation's most-watched "cable news" program went on the air. Six minutes into the clownish program, a pathetic but increasingly typical exchange occurred.
It started with the practiced idiot Watters ruminating about an inaccurate report—the report that President Trump was going to go on patrol that night with the federal troops in D.C. That notion never really made sense, but it was being widely reported.
It started as Watters clowned about that. It ended as two defectives joined forces to undermine the very possibility of maintaining an American nation:
WATTERS (8/21/25): I love that Trump's going out there like a general to inspect the troops...I'm with Greg. This is the best episode of Cops we're ever going to see.
[Laughter]
I hope he does a field sobriety test on some sloppy drunk kid from Georgetown. I hope someone, they arrest and pull drugs out of their pocket, and Trump's like, "That's a lot of crack!"
GUTFELD: Ha ha ha ha ha.
WATTERS: I hope he goes out with the vice squad and finds Adam Schiff trying to score some dope and women at some seedy hotel on the wrong side of the tracks.
KENNEDY (off camera): "Women?"
WATTERS (chuckles): Didn't say that! Not that there's anything wrong with that!
We wondered if we'd heard that right. When we played it back, we had.
An exchange like that would be par for the course on the Gutfeld! program. As we've noted in the past, the defective culture of that grisly program has been migrating down to The Five.
At any rate, six minutes into the nation's most watched "cable news" program, a pair of employees were now playing one of their channel's favorite games. It's the game where they say that various Democrats are secretly gay, or that Michelle Obama is secretly a man.
These are defective, ill-functioning boys and girls; they're hired because they're defective. Also defective is the Blue American world, which has agreed to avert its gaze as this relentless attack on the possibility of maintaining a nation goes on and on and on.
Something is wrong with the sitting president? In fairness, over here in Blue America, something is also wrong with us!
On Fox, the following bromide obtains:
It's the stupidity, Stupid!
They keep it up all day long, and then on into the night. At 6 o'clock on weekend morning, Campos-Duffy comes on, serving those margaritas to her viewers.
"Or whatever," of course.
Starting on Monday, we expect to sample more mental health / "mental disorder" content. We'll also try to keep you posted about what the stoopnagles have done. Last week, they were delightedly playing tape of these recent statements by Joy Reid:
Joy Reid claims 'mediocre White men' like Trump, Elvis can't 'invent anything,' steal culture from other races
You can assess the merits of her statements for yourself. Almost surely, the politics of that tape is the politics of ongoing defeat.
Regarding Senator Schiff:
Stating the obvious, it wouldn't matter if he was gay. We know of no reason to believe that he is, but many people are.
On the other hand, we give you Kennedy and Watters, bringing the demented culture of the Gutfeld! program all the way down to The Five. Please note:
As they played their soul-draining game, no one else said a word:
Dana Perino kept her trap shut. In accord with whatever theory, so did Jessica Tarlov.
Something is wrong with that channel's terrible children. Also, something is wrong with us.
ReplyDelete"MAXWELL: He never. Absolutely never went."
Riiight. But of course it depends on what the meaning of "he" is. And what the meaning of "never" is. And what the meaning of "went" is.
When someone is a liar, it makes it hard to trust anything they say. That doesn't mean that every word out of their mouth is a lie. It means it is often hard to tell which is lie and which is truth.
DeleteWhile you are busy implying that Clinton was in fact an Epstein client, consider also that Summers was not a best friend to Epstein. As President of Harvard, he curried favor with him to get donations and funding for academic research, which Epstein dispensed in his role of investment advisor to wealthy men. That makes Summers an opportunist, just as Clinton was busily soliciting charitable contributions to his Global Initiative during that time period. There is plenty of other evidence about the nature of both men's relationships with Epstein, besides Maxwell's bought and paid for interview statements.
There does seem to be a cadre of Harvard men who hung around with Epstein, including Steven Pinker, Stephen Kosslyn, Alan Dershowitz among others. And various men in his informal science club. The point of that was perhaps to provide cover for sex activities, but that makes it hard to know who did what, without reference to the depositions of the victims. I find it odd that no one wants to talk to them, but one virtue of Maxwell being a liar is that her statement was obviously controlled, whereas the victims may tell the truth.
Yesterday Somerby said that sexual politics are difficult, specifying attraction, romance and sex. That may be so for the average guy with poor social skills, but shifting that idea over to the issue of sexual abuse and rape in an attempt to normalize the illegal acts men commit against women is despicable on Somerby's part. There are no misunderstandings involved in sex trafficking, on the part of the traffickers or the users (Epstein's clients). They all knew that what they were doing was illegal. Why is this stuff illegal? Because it harms women. And if a man cannot tell the difference between romance and hurting a woman, there is something majorly wrong with him and he is unsafe to let loose in the world.
DeleteThere is nothing at all complicated or confusing about "no means no," which is the simplification women have created to prevent men from pretending to be too confused about whether teens are legal for sex. Underage girls are incapable of saying "yes" to sex, by definition. If a boy's father has not taught him that, and his friends have not discussed it among themselves, then there is still no excuse for ignorance of the law.
I am very tired of Somerby's sly attempts to excuse men who target underage girls, or commit other sex crimes with older women.
Ghislaine could be the biggest liar in the world and it wouldn't excuse what she and Epstein and various clients did to the girls they trafficked. There is no doubt of their guilt because both Epstein and Maxwell were convicted in court.
Trump's lying is different from Maxwell's because Trump lies frequently, even when there is no personal gain, even when a lie is unhelpful and the truth would be better. Trump has a psychological problem but Maxwell is telling lies for the same reasons normal people tell them (and we all do from time to time).
A good book at Somerby's level of understanding about lying is Paul Ekman's Telling Lies. It would make clearer why Trump has a psychological problem and Maxwell does not. It would also connect some dots about why Trump's lying has always been a problem but is now worse because of his deteriorating cognitive status (dementia).
11:31 - Now you tell me Somerby is attempting to “normalize” the raping of young girls. Really? Have you considered the possibility that you might be a complete and utter nut?
DeleteIt wasn't rape. They were paid for their services. Mostly to gently masturbate him as he lay on a table. And they were not underage.
DeleteSexual issues are not difficult for men in general, so why does Somerby make such a fuss?
DeleteI guess you haven’t considered that possibility.
Delete@1:55, it was rape because (1) the victims were underage, (2) teens don’t choose sex with old men, (3) the kinds of sex acts required gross out teens and are not willingly done, (4) they couldn’t say no without the ability to leave the traffickers, (5) drugs and threats were used, (6) they may not have known where they were or how to leave & get somewhere safe esp if locked in and deprived of cash.
DeletePeople who victimize women tell themselves she wanted it. That isn’t true if she has no choice.
ReplyDelete" As we noted on Thursday, the New York Times has even gotten around to explaining the situation in Massachusetts."
Your idiotic newspaper lied to you, Bob. It lies to you 24x7; it's all it does.
There are two or three large Republican-majority regions in Massachusetts. The two largest are, one in central MA and the other one in the south. Both are split, and quite deliberately, it's obvious.
Specifically, look at the congressional district 4, how it goes from Fall River all the way into Boston. If you look at it and you still don't see gerrymandering, then you're either an idiot or a liar, or most likely both.
There is a highway that goes from Fall River all the way into Boston. It is natural that people would congregate along that traffic corridor and not live in the empty hinterlands away from transportation access. There are cranberry bogs in that area. Do you suppose many people live in them? You need to look at something besides the districting map to understand why districts were created as they are.
DeleteSssssh. Don't confuse a trumptard with facts. It can cause them a great deal of butt hurt.
DeleteToday Somerby quoted technical information from professional sources in psychiatry. From his reaction to it, he doesn't have a clue what the words mean. Then later he promises to quote more of that stuff during the upcoming week. People get university degrees and are required to serve supervised internships in order to understand and apply this stuff that Somerby just grabs and quotes.
ReplyDeleteThat makes Somerby the Stoopnagle, especially if this is what he thinks the press should be doing to Trump and Maxwell. Medical specialists are licensed because there are abuses that can be perpetrated upon the public if their expertise is misused. There is no way to constrain such abuses by the general public (they have no license to take away and no leverage to impose fines) but practicing medicine without a license (and presumably training) is illegal in all states.
Somerby needs to stop pretending that the press could diagnose Trump and talk about his mental illness, if it wanted. It can't and it won't and it shouldn't, to protect us all.
"Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island, supposedly 28 times. I don’t want to bring that up, frankly."
ReplyDeleteIf I'm being candid, I'll say Trump's a lying asshole but I'll say it with the greatest reluctance.
"Frankly" is a big tell. Whenever Trump throws in a Frankly, he's about to tell a whopper and knows it. Gingrich does the same thing.
DeleteWhen Trump takes out his accordion and starts going to town, you might as well just walk away cause he is about to dump a full dump truck of bullshit on you.
Delete"What we’ve done, including stopping seven wars."
ReplyDeleteWith the utmost reticence I'll admit Trump's a pathological dickweed but as I say it, I instantly regret it.
He is up to 10 wars stopped now.
DeleteActually I just saw the tape where he made this announcement. The 3 additional wars you reference were characterized by Trump as 'pre-wars'. I hope the Nobel committee is listening and is flexible enough to add this neologism to their consideration.
DeleteLie of the Century:
ReplyDeleteIf you raise taxes on corporations, they'll leave the country.
All these businesses folding under Trump's extortion exposed that lie.
Trump did the opposite. He raised taxes on items manufactured abroad. As a result, more manufacturing moved into America.
DeleteAnother example of a lie -- thanks, David.
DeleteIf the manufacturing moved to the US, then you can't boast about all the tariff revenue we will be collecting. You can't have it both ways, Dickhead in Cal.
Delete"He raised taxes on items manufactured abroad" is not the opposite of raising taxes on US corporations.
DeleteThink. Who pays the tax? The US company importing the tariffed items. These companies are often corporations.
Some manufacturing moved to the United States. Some manufacturing stayed offshore and pays tariffs.
DeleteIt is a tax increase on American businesses and consumers, the largest one in peacetime in US history. And it was enacted by presidential fiat, not the will of the people, and it continues to be in violation of court rulings. But you’re all in on the autocracy, willing to abandon any principles that would have caused you to object if a Democrat had done this, DiC.
Delete"Some" moved to the US and "some" stayed off-shore.
DeleteI doubt if the "some" that moved to the US is significant.
A foreign manufacturer watching the chaos Trump has created, with tariff rates appearing and disappearing and rates constantly changing (subject to Trump's whims) is highly unlikely to undergo the enormous and time-consuming expense of moving their manufacturing to the US. They'll sit tight and wait to see how things play out.
The list of companies committing greater investment here and the amounts look impressive. But, I don’t know how much of the total economy they comprise.
DeleteList https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/08/trump-effect-a-running-list-of-new-u-s-investment-in-president-trumps-second-term/
DeleteTrump and his White House say lots of impressive things, which turn out to be lies or half truths. He fired the chief statistician at BLS, for heaven’s sake, and wants to replace with a hack who wants to suspend the jobs reports.
DeleteDiC,
Deletethese 'announcements' are either of projects that were already going to happen or will never happen (no written agreements). We might as well believe in Trump's bonespurs.
And it was enacted by presidential fiat, not the will of the people, and it continues to be in violation of court rulings.
DeleteThis is why I say the courts are useless. The Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled unanimously in May that Trump was violating the Constitution with his phony bullshit national emergency. The appeals court says go right ahead and continue to violate the Constitution, and basic fucking democracy until they get around to hearing the appeal. All the while the government is forcing the American companies and consumers to pay these tariffs which are totally on their face illegal. Then the government goes to the appeals court and argues that it would be impossible for the government to refund the illegal tariffs it collected from America, so even the tariffs are illegal, there's nothing the courts can do about it now. It is a fait accompli.
And fucking fascists pricks like DiC don't even blink. They come here to claim victory by the glorious Fuhrer.
@2:53 lists plausible reasons to imagine that manufacturing won't go up. However, actual data shows that it IS going up..
DeleteUS business activity picks up in August, factories lead the way, survey says
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-business-activity-picks-up-august-factories-lead-way-survey-says-2025-08-21/
DiC,
DeleteAt 2:31 I listed reasons--not why manufacturing won't go up--but why it would not go up as a result of Trump's tariffs.
Is it your position that tariffed firms have, faced with the uncertainties I outlined,:
a) made the decision to relocate,
b) planned and built their factories and
c) started production in time to add to August manufacturing numbers?
A good illustration of how to tell when someone is lying, from Tiedrich today:
ReplyDelete"New Jersey congressman Jeff Van Drew has a wee bit of an ectoplasm problem.
[Video of Van Drew saying the quote below]
“people who were passed away, these are real people. I spoke to large numbers of them.”
dude, I’m contractually obligated to ask: are these ‘large numbers of people whom you’ve spoken to who have passed away’ in the room with us right now? I’m guessing they are, and you’re the only one who can see them."
Attention Somerby: This isn't lying, this is blithering!
ReplyDeleteFrom Tiedrich, on Newsmax and CSPAN, here's Trump speaking as the Chairman of the Board of the Kennedy Center:
"they built these rooms nobody’s gonna use. rooms underground. and I’ve often wondered what are the big cubes they have outside that block the view. the cubes with the door in them so that people can get down to rooms that nobody is going to use. and it’s a shame. it’s a shame.” [Mar, CSPAN]
and then the fucking idiot blithered about ‘these cubes’ a second time.
“I can’t use bad language, but it’s been so badly run. and they built these cubes outside, these cubes. and there’s stairways that go down to little rooms that nobody uses. it’s so crazy what they did. they spend hundreds of millions of dollars. it’s like throwing money out the window. they built cubes. all it does is block off the view. you know, they go down to little stages, but nobody uses them. and we’re taking care of our big, beautiful stages that people really want.” [Yesterday 8/22 on Newsmax]
Most people, when they don't understand the purpose of something, they ask questions. Not Trump. Those who work around Trump say that he speaks continuously in a stream of gibberish that no one can interrupt. No one else can get a word in edgewise. He speaks for hours, even with diplomatic staff and world leaders and they cannot break in to say anything.
That is a psychological problem that has nothing to do with lying. Why is this man our president? Why hasn't Congress done something about this?
"Joy Reid claims 'mediocre White men' like Trump, Elvis can't 'invent anything,' steal culture from other races..."
ReplyDeleteSomerby implies there is some problem with this statement (to be disclosed later, I assume) but on the face of it, how is she wrong? Elvis would be the first one to acknowledge that he got his style of singing from black artists. He used to hang around black performance venues to listen. It is part of his legend.
Does Somerby not know this about Elvis?
Maybe Somerby has never been to Graceland, despite the jag his was on a few years ago, extolling Paul Simon (who is another first class narcissist).
DeleteSomerby does say you can debate the merits of what she said, but that it is politically bad. He doesn’t say why the politics are bad, but we can guess. (It hurts white people’s feelings).
DeleteElvis hung around with and was influenced by country artists as much as black artists.
DeleteReid is wrong for a number of reasons. The first is that that Elvis was undisputably a badass white boy.
Reid is expressing an uninformed, unintelligent boilerplate opinion, which we all do at times.
People, come on. After all these years we all know that Joy Reid is not an especially smart person.
DeleteYou guys don’t know much about Elvis.
DeleteElvis had a pelvis.
Delete"But our journalists refuse to speak to such specialists."
ReplyDeleteOnly if you stubbornly insist on ignoring internet journalists and podcasters.
Joy Reid suggested that Elvis Presley stole “Hound Dog” from Big Mama Thornton.
ReplyDeleteIt’s very common for a singer to record a song previously recorded by someone else. Also, Big Mama didn’t write that song. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote it.
True, but the idea probably is that because Thornton was black, there was no chance at that time of her version gaining any traction.
DeleteBob Dylan also acknowledges the influence of black artists, as does the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (until Trump gets hold of it). It is a legacy of segregation in the music industry.
DeleteSomerby may be expressing a political reality, that an opinion like Joy Reid’s is politically bad because it hurts white peoples’ feelings, but it also exemplifies the way a black person’s opinion is made to be politically “unwise” and therefore has the effect of wishing that opinion to be silenced, whether that is explicitly what Somerby says or means. It also shows the way in which the right wing tactic of assigning to all liberals the viewpoint of a single person who identifies, presumably, as liberal, gains traction with ostensible Democrats/liberals like Somerby.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know if she identifies as liberal, but what she said about Elvis Presley was stupid and dishonest.
DeleteAnother example of a troll lie. Why do they bother?
DeleteSomerby didn't express that what she said was politically bad because it hurts white people's feelings.
DeleteBob presents some background on "pathological lying" . But, Trump's many lies are not "pathological." They're sane and very effective.
ReplyDeleteNo, they are not. Some don’t even benefit Trump.
DeleteHow “effective” is a lie that everyone recognizes as false?
DeleteHow effective are Trump's lies? They got him elected President. They passed the "Big Beautiful Bill."
DeleteAnd for that he owes thanks to people like you.
DeleteI do not understand why red voters are OK with Trump promising to do a ride-along and never getting any farther than the police station. As Tiedrich points out, they were brutally mocking him in comments on TikTok. If you outside his red bubble, people are not swallowing his lies.
DeleteDavid and other trolls here want to pretend that people voted for Trump because of his lies, but many did so in spite of them. Also, they keep assuming the election was fair and not manipulated by Russia and Republican dirty tricks (such as vote suppression, fake videos against Biden and so on). When Republicans cheat, they cannot then attribute the victory to anything about Trump's campaigning except his dishonesty.
The stupidity on the right boggles the mind, especially the idiots here trying to pretend Elvis was a country singer. His whole schtick was that he was NOT a country singer.
Elvis was suave, urbane, sophisticated.
DeleteSomerby says the Stoopnagles were playing tape of Reid to make political hay. Thenn he says we may or may not agree with Reid, but it is the politics of defeat.
ReplyDeleteReid is not a politician. The context of her remark is disappeared, but it isn’t clear whether Somerby is objecting to the Stoopnagle jabs as defeat or Reid, who isn’t running for anything. Is she assumed to be a Dem because she is black and referred to race and cultural appropriation?
Are we Dems supposed tofind a way to shut Reid up, according to Somerby? How is that any different than what Trump is doing with our museums, as he tries to erase accomplishments of black people?