FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2025
Fleshing out what David French said: The designation started out as a joke. The leading authority limns it thusly:
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The show's premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody popular culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members.
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By 1975, Michaels had assembled the show's initial cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The cast was nicknamed the "Not Ready for Prime-Time Players," a term coined by show writer Herb Sargent. Much of the talent pool involved in the inaugural season was recruited from The National Lampoon Radio Hour, including the original head writer, Michael O'Donoghue.
From the talent pool, he'd assembled a cast. They were known as the "Not Ready for Prime-Time Players."
It's a bit like that on today's round-the-clock imitations of TV "news" programs. Within the realm of cable "news," cast members are sent out on the air from 5 a.m. until midnight.
Especially on the Fox News Channel, these actors have scripts they've been hired to read and perform.
When it comes to any actual discussion of any actual news topic, these players are very rarely "ready for prime time" themselves! Nor is that the actual role they've been hired to perform.
We've been discussing one such player all through the course of this week. Last Saturday morning, near the end of the 6 o'clock hour, she was dragged out on her mommy's show to offer a gong-show denunciation of a familiar Fox News Channel demon.
The player is question is just 25. Based upon her performance that day, she's about as "not ready for primetime" as a person ever gets.
Here's how her segment ended:
DUFFY-ALFONSO (9/13/25): ...[Kristen Chenoweth] had a normal to a horrific tragedy. The left can't even have—the radical left—a normal human reaction to the death of a father, of a husband, of a Christian man. I think that speak volumes.
CORKE: Evita, have a wonderful weekend. We appreciate your time this morning.
The youngster closed with a sweeping denunciation of "the left"—or possibly just of "the radical left." If she had simply said "some on the left": she might have been making an accurate point, if one that was inconsequential.
After all, "some on the right" had also produced imperfect reactions to the murder of Charlie Kirk. That said, cast members on this "news channel's" ersatz "news programs" will almost never mention any such fact.
This young woman became a cast member this day. That said, her extremely genial mother's is a Fox cast member too.
These cast members know the scripts they're being paid to recite and perform. On this particular day, the young woman unloosed a savage accusation against Barack Obama—a bizarre presentation for which her "news channel" should have been assailed.
That said, the game isn't played that way at the present time. At present, the Fox News Channel lashes out against Blue America's various players—but Blue America's various players all know they must avert their gaze from what is occurring on Fox.
If you're watching the Fox News Channel, one rule will prevail above all. The various cast members who are paid to feed you preferred corporate pablum will tell you about alleged misconduct on "the left."
They will also disappear any such conduct on "the right." That starts with the bizarre behaviors of the current sitting president and works its way down from there.
President Trump's endless weird statements and behaviors will be disappeared. So will those of everyone else on "the right." One recent example will involve the reactions by several members of Congress, D and R, to the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Murder is a heinous crime. It may produce strong reactions.
Some such reactions may go over the top. So it was when Rep. Onder (R-Mo.) took the floor of the House the next day and offered the wild reaction described in this Mediaite report:
House Republican Calls the Left ‘Evil’ And Willing to Kill Like Pol Pot In Wild Floor Speech
Rep. Bob Onder (R-MO) raised eyebrows on Thursday with a House floor speech on the killing of Charlie Kirk, in which he claimed Americans on the left “embrace the evil, the false, and ugly.” Onder went so far as to say his fellow citizens across the aisle “literally will kill those with whom they disagree, just as their predecessors—leftists Marx, and Stalin, and Lenin, and Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro—did.”
That was the start of the news report. The report continues from there at length, with videotape provided.
Bob Onder may be the world's nicest person—or possibly not, at least not all the time. Whatever the overall truth might be, he may not have been completely ready for prime time on this particular day.
One (1) person had killed Charlie Kirk, but Onder kept using the magic word, saying that "they they they they they they they " had done it.
Beyond that, there were very few crimes Rep. Onder wasn't willing to lay on "their" heads.
He compared Kirk to Socrates, a talking-point which was being repeated by others, even including George Will. He also compared Kirk to Jesus Christ.
Concerning the people he referred to as "they," here's what Rep. Onder said "they" had done, and here's what he said "they" believe:
Most of all, [Kirk] was a very convincing advocate for love of God, family, and country, the hatred of which is a sacred creed of the left. They could not have it. They killed him.
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Charlie also died as he was answering a question about the transgender cult that has gripped so much of our society and destroyed the life and health of so many of our young people. They couldn’t stand for that. So they killed Charlie: martyr for the truth and for Christ.
Well, what for us? Well, everything has changed. If we didn’t know it already, there is no longer any middle ground. Some of the American left are undoubtedly well-meaning people, but their ideology is pure evil. They hate the good, the truth, and the beautiful, and embrace the evil, the false, and ugly. And they literally will kill those with whom they disagree, just as their predecessors—leftists Marx, and Stalin, and Lenin, and Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro—did. We must know that. And we must stand firm, and we must win this twilight struggle.
Some of "them" are well-meaning, he said. But what "they" believe is pure evil!
"They" hate the good, the truth, and the beautiful. Also, "they" embrace the evil, along with the false and the ugly.
Quite literally, "they" will kill those with whom they disagree. It's what Stalin and Pol Pot did, so "they" will do it too!
You can watch Rep. Onder's full statement that day at the Mediaite site. Along the way, he voiced some complaints about Blue America's current political culture which may well contain a substantial germ of truth.
That said, his inability to regulate the fruits of his anger was fully apparent this day. From there, he went so far over the top that you could no longer see the top from where he ended up.
His bottom line that day was this:
Kirk was Socrates and Jesus Christ. "They"—those on "the American left"—are Pol Pot and Castro and Stalin.
We'll assume that Rep. Onder is normally better than that. It would be hard to be much worse, basic sanity-wise. Disordered people may respond to such words with violence—to the claim that those on "the American left" hate the good, the truth, and the beautiful, and instead embrace the evil.
On that same day, another member of Congress—a Democrat—spoke about Charlie Kirk. We refer to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who spoke with Mehdi Hasan for his Zeteo News website.
Their discussion could be characterized in various ways.
The pair challenged the accuracy of some of the flattering portraits of Kirk which were being offered by people like Rep. Onder, and even by President Trump. Along the way, just for the record, Rep. Omar said this:
OMAR (9/11/25): You know, you have people like Trump who has incited violence against people like me. And so, you know, the these people are full of shit, and it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger, and sadness, and you have, you know, empathy, which Charlie said, “No, it shouldn’t exist, because that’s a newly created word,” or something.
Like, I have empathy for his kids, and his wife, and what they’re going through because I do not want that—
HASAN: No one should go through that! And we hold ourselves, I hope, to higher standards.
OMAR: And we consider, you and I, as people of deep faith, and our faiths are based on grace and mercy—which is empathy. And we want, you know, like for people not to dance on our grave, because that is not what our faith teaches us. We want to be able to mourn, and pray for—
At this point, Hasan cut Omar off again. We ourselves would have liked to hear what she was going to say.
We ourselves would not be inclined to speak unflatteringly about someone, even if accurately, the day after he'd been shot and killed. When a person dies, "what has gone is not nothing," or so Yevtushenko said.
We only note that Rep. Omar made a point of expressing the empathy she felt for Charlie Kirk's widow and kids. When The Five went after Omar a few days later, that statement—Surprise!—disappeared.
It seems to us that Mediaite's Isaac Schorr overstated the way Omar had "ragged on" Kirk in her discussion with Hasan. We refer to the report which starts like this:
Medi Hasan and Ilhan Omar Rag on Charlie Kirk One Day After His Murder
Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) held nothing back while criticizing Charlie Kirk on Thursday, one day after the conservative activist was assassinated in Utah.
Both Hasan and Omar expressed their horror at Kirk’s murder, but nevertheless were scathing in their criticism of him.
And so on from there.
That strikes us as overstated. Beyond that, we only note that Rep. Omar made a point of expressing the empathy she felt for Kirk's widow and kids—her statement that she doesn't want to see anyone subjected to the grief they were now experiencing.
We mention this because, on Monday, September 15, the not ready for prime-time players found at The Five devoted a segment to ragging on what Rep. Omar had said—and they based their pseudo-discussion on one tiny clip from the longer discussion, with no mention of what she'd said and Charlie Kirk's wife and kids.
They were appalled by what Rep. Omar had said—rather, by what they now said she had said. Meanwhile, the astonishing rant by Rep. Onder went completely unmentioned, as did these remarks by two other Republican members of Congress:
MAGA Congressman Goes on Wild Rant Blaming Democrats, Media, Canadians for Kirk Shooting: ’21st Century Brown Shirts’
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) reacted furiously to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, posting dozens of tweets and making angry comments to reporters blaming Democrats, the media, Canadians, liberal members of the European Parliament, schools and universities, and more for the fatal shooting, calling them “21st century brown shirts” and vowing to “be at war” for 20 years against them.
In the below clip, Van Orden shakes his finger at gathered reporters and blames them directly for Kirk’s death.
“Every. Single. One. Of. You. Here. You’re at fault,” said Van Orden.
For the full report, click here. But then again, also click this:
GOP Congresswoman Says ‘It’s Our Job to Tone Down the Rhetoric’—Before Suggesting Democrats Are ‘Evil’
Something went wrong with Mediaite's posting on that report about Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.). But as for Rep. Van Orden, there one of them went again!
According to Rep. Van Orden, a remarkably wide array of players are “21st century brown shirts." According to his colleague, Rep. Onder, those on "the American left" are Pol Pot and Castro and Stalin.
"They" hate the good, the truth, and the beautiful. "They" embrace the evil and false. And on Monday's edition of The Five, sure enough!
Rep. Omar was trashed. The diatribes by Reps. Onder and Van Orden were, of course, disappeared.
Based upon the rules of this prehuman game, Omar's empathy for Kirk's widow went unmentioned. Simply put, the Fox News Channel hires stooges—gangs of pretenders—to go out and play it like this.
In this recent column for the New York Times, David French—a man of the Christian right—said this about "the average Republican," many of whom are his friends:
The Corporate Logo That Broke the Internet
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The process of stoking outrage has another effect: It crowds out the news cycle. Most Democrats I know would be shocked at how little the average Republican knows about Trump’s actual conduct and his actual wrongdoing. Republicans can, however, cite chapter and verse about left-wing outrages and left-wing overreactions to Trump.
That creates a reality where they simply can’t conceive of how any reasonable, rational person would vote Democratic or oppose the president and his policies.
On Monday, September 15, the five pretenders who performed on The Five were stoking outrage about Omar. Two days earlier, a 25-year-old "independent journalist" had deceptively schooled the channel's viewers how to loathe Obama more.
This is what players are paid to do as part of the Fox News Channel's extremely large circle of "not ready for any time" player.
On Fox, they disappear people like Onder and Van Orden. They disappear every strange thing the sitting president says and does.
This leaves Red America full of badly misinformed voters. In Blue America, the finer pretenders avert their gaze from this misconduct as they stare off into the air.
On Saturday morning, September 13, Rachel's daughter was sent in for the kill. Her kill shot on this occasion was aimed at Barack Obama.
Viewers don't know that they're being conned. Over here in Blue America, our own gang of "not ready for prime time players" have agreed that they mustn't be told.
ReplyDelete"This leaves Red America full of badly misinformed voters. "
Perhaps so. But at least they're not in a death-cult, as you and your idiot-Democrat comrades are, you poor bastard.
Somerby is in his late 70s at best, perhaps 80. All of the elderly are in their own special "death cult" as you so tactfully put it. Somerby is not liberal. He may not even vote Democratic. If you are going to call him a "poor bastard" at least do it for the right reasons.
DeleteDue go on about this death cult. I never knew this. Sounds fascinating, can't wait to join.
DeleteYou’re in.
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DeleteThe cast members of the first Saturday Night Live show were comedians, not pundits or news show hosts. They were jokingly called "Not Ready for Prime Time" but they had all established their talent before joining that cast, some in Second City and others in stand up comedy. Gilda Radnor was from Canada where she had performed in musical theater. Garrett Morris sang opera. The joke was that they were not neophytes even though appearing outside of prime time.
ReplyDeleteSomerby grabs the phrase "Not ready for prime time" because he wants imply that the 25 year old daughter of a Fox host was not ready for her gig. Given that it only involves reciting a script convincingly as her own opinion, it is hard to see how she is not ready. But Somerby doesn't like female journalists, especially not young, successful ones. So he has to snark. Beyond that, there is absolutely no resemblance between Fox and SNL, and none between SNL and Kimmel, whose brand of comedy is different than theirs was, especially on the now defunct Man Show.
You would think that, being a comedian himself, Somerby would recognize these differences, but he apparently doesn't care about them. His goal is to smear the left while pretending to smear the right, all while approvingly quoting a conservative NY Times columnist who contradicts Somerby's own message.
Somerby concludes:
"This leaves Red America full of badly misinformed voters. In Blue America, the finer pretenders avert their gaze from this misconduct as they stare off into the air."
Blue America has not been averting their gaze but Somerby doesn't notice those who have been loudly decrying what happens on Fox, on the right generally, and especially the disappearance of American free speech rights by Trump and his illegal use of the FCC to suppress his political opponents, Colbert first and now Kimmel. Trump is now targeting The View, but where will Gutfeld get his material if Behar is gone?
Somerby ends with: "Over here in Blue America, our own gang of "not ready for prime time players" have agreed that they mustn't be told."
Who has Blue America agree with? Not each other. Would Kimmel and Colbert still be on air if they had targeted Fox instead of Trump directly? I doubt it. But Trump is the source of Fox's campaign against its own watchers. And the left does not have access to Fox sufficiently to make any difference -- look at Tarlov for an example. It is far better that the left informs ALL viewers by discussing Trump's failings, than to appear to be wholly partisan by attacking Fox, which is a money-making corporation and not a political entity, aside from its target audience. And Fox viewers are not being compelled to watch Fox -- they have chosen it because they are being fed tidbits of outrage. They like what they hear there, just as they like the numerous right wing podcasts that spew more hate than Gutfeld. We on the left are not responsible for that. But Somerby is. He is their enabler and his projections of his own actions are like most Republican accusations, a confession.
Democrats didn't shoot Kirk, but Somerby should acknowledge that perhaps the Republican attacks on gays and trans people are producing a backlash against their most hate-filled voices, such as Kirk.
ReplyDeleteWhen Republicans cannot even remember the names of the four people shot in Minnesota, they undermine their outrage over Kirk. Those were explicit politically motivated killings, unlike what seems to have happened with Kirk, who was shot for his hate speech alone.
Here is a refresher on that:
"Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, were shot and killed in their Brooklyn Park home on June 14, 2025, in what authorities have described as a politically motivated assassination. The suspected gunman, Vance Boelter, also shot and wounded state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, on the same night. "
The guy had a list of 70 names of additional Democrats he was planning to kill. He was just too stupid to carry it out without being caught.
The people who dehumanized Kirk share in the responsibility for his murder. There are no words for the thousands who continue to demonize him right after his death. Thank you Kristen for your humanity.
ReplyDeleteKirk dehumanized himself through his bad behavior.
DeleteDiC, who was “dehumanizing” him? Examples? A large percentage of liberals had never heard of Kirk.
DeleteBut also, Kirk was a free speech absolutist. He said there’s no such thing as hate speech. So, by his own standards, any speech is ok, including dehumanizing people by, for example, calling them “vermin”, as your lord and savior did.
And do you really think Robinson dehumanized Kirk, or killed him because others were saying bad things about him, supposedly? He seems to have listened to Kirk and got enraged by what he heard.
You should be teaching a course in Specious Logic, David. It's just plain nonsense. Anon@12:11 makes a good point. Kirk was a right-wing asshole and a general purpose blowhard. He was just another snarky, intellectual lightweight trying to sound middle school edgy. Is this dehumanizing him? Methinks not.
DeleteDiC, who was “dehumanizing” him? Examples? A large percentage of liberals had never heard of Kirk. I heard about him but never found him interesting enough to listen to any of his podcasts.
DeleteDid Vance ever call Kirk a Hitler-like figure, like he called Trump?
D & C, you have gone off the rails on this. You don't know what the assassin was thinking. You seem to be possessed by the relentless, propagandistic right-wing narrative that the "left" demonized" him pre- and post his death. Our own current president constantly, round the clock, demonizes democrats, liberals, judges who rule against him, illegal immigrants, anyone who criticizes him - its beyond the pale, sui generis, on his part. Not an inkling in your mind, apparently, that he is the one stirring up violence, along with guys like Onden and van Order, and Fox all the right-wing media that TDH cites so often.
DeleteShameless abject hypocrisy is another core tactic/value of the current GOP.
DeleteRightwing blowhards specialty is dehumanizing people, especially brown women.
DeleteDiC has enjoyed the benefit of a University of Chicago education in his youth (my dad's undergrad school). He now is on board with destroying Universities so today's youth can't enjoy the same. What a fucking pig.
DeleteVP Vance called Trump "Americas Hitler." This dehumanizing hate speech cannot be tolerated. Being in a leadership position it is exactly the same as a terrorist threat, which inspires others to attack our President. Vance needs to be jailed. Right DiC?
DeleteA pig? You’re dehumanizing David.
DeleteNo, I am saying DiC fucks pigs.
DeleteBut he maintains his humanity while doing it?
DeleteI don't know anything other than the pigs enjoyed his squeals of delight.
DeleteToday Tiedrich shows a photo of a young woman with a poster that reads: Shit is fucked up and stuff." Less than coherent but we get her point. Tiedrich continues:
ReplyDelete"shit, it must be noted, is fucked up and stuff.
shit, in fact, has been fucked up and stuff for a good long while now — and the problem with shit being fucked up and stuff for this long is that eventually, you forget that shit isn’t supposed to be this fucked up.
shit being fucked up and stuff becomes normalized. so it’s important for us, every now and then, to step back, take a deep breath, and remind ourselves: none of the fucked up shit going on right now is normal."
Somerby not only pretends this is normal but he assigns blame to the left, as if we have not been trying continually to unfuck the shit and stuff. What does Somerby do about it? He picks and carps and criticizes the people who are the only ones trying to do something about our situation -- the left. The right is making stuff worse. Because that's what they do, while grifting and cheating and provoking wars with places like Canada and Greenland.
Meanwhile Somerby only approvingly quotes right wing opinion essayists in the NY Times, Stephens, Brooks, and now French, while joining the scrum against Heather Cox Richardson, who made what he considers a tiny error and the rest of us consider to be speaking truth to power. Meanwhile Rome burns (Somerby likes those references to the classics, so maybe he will take this one to heart and stop reading and quoting filth here.)
As you say, shit is fucked up and stuff, but then you say that Somerby “pretends this is normal.” I don’t see that in his writing; perhaps you can help me out with a quote where Somerby “pretends” that “fucked-up shit” is “normal.”
DeleteWhen has Somerby changed his message since 2015 when Trump came on the scene? He has been saying for decades now that Blue America is bad and Trump is advocating for the red voters who those elite blue tribunes despise. Somerby is thereby expressing the same fucked up shit and stuff that the right pushes, pretending it is normal and we blues are in the wrong. He does say that Trump is cra-zee, but he never blames the right for electing someone like that. Somerby pretends that fucked up shit is normal by never changing his tune about how we got to be like this, his lies about Blue America, the stupidity on the right, and the corruption of Republicans. Somerby can't seem to see any of that.
DeleteTrump is making a full scale attack on 1st Amendment rights and Somerby has nothing to say about it. The inability to witness what is happening to our free speech, his complete silence on that, is how Somerby normalizes what Trump does. Where is Somerby's protest? The left is really upset about this. If Somerby were even the slightest bit liberal, he would be too, yet he isn't. He's quoting conservatives on Kirk, not pointing out how illegal it is for Trump to target media individuals for criticizing him.
DeleteTrump said: "“when you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump … they’re licensed. they’re not allowed to do that.”
DeleteTiedrich says:
"yes, they are allowed to do that.
the way it works in America is that if someone did want to create an entire show that did nothing but mock Donny, the First Amendment says go for it.
in fact, back in 2001 — when George W. Bush was president — Comedy Central aired a show called That’s My Bush.
its whole premise was that George W. Bush was a moron. spoiler alert: they’re weren’t wrong.
did it bother Bush that there was a TV show devoted to mocking the shit out of him? we have no idea. he never said a word about it. George W. Bush was a lot of things — very few of them exemplary — but he wasn’t a thin-skinned baby.
anyway, That’s My Bush wasn’t very good. in fact, it sucked, and it got canceled after eight episodes. that’s how it’s supposed to work: the invisible hand of the marketplace gave That’s My Bush the finger, and it was gone.
by the way, the creators of That’s My Bush went on to create another show — one that’s running right now on Comedy Central. you may have heard of it. its current premise is that Donny is fucking Satan.
normal presidents can laugh at themselves. you know who was super fucking good at it? Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
can you imagine Donny poking fun at himself? absolutely not. he’s too weak and fundamentally broken inside. when Donny says ‘thanks, Trump,’ he’s being dead serious.
that’s not normal."
Chris Cuomo began by stripping the drama down to the essentials: “You can like or not like Disney’s decision on Kimmel.” He then explained the obvious point the media refuses to entertain: absent evidence of state interference, this is a brand protecting itself. “But until I see proof of actual government coercion of their decision, this is about Disney making a business decision about its brand and the responsibility it has to respect the desires of its audience and its license.”
ReplyDeleteWho's being naive now, Kate?
Delete“This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,” Carr said in an interview on conservative commentator Benny Johnson’s podcast. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
DeleteCuomo is a fucking idiot.
“ making a business decision about its brand”
DeleteAnd why do you suppose they are worried about their brand? Consider that Trump specifically demanded months ago that kimmel be fired. Yesterday, he said:
“I mean, they’re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr,” Trump said on Air Force One, referring to the FCC chairman. “I think Brendan Carr is outstanding. He’s a patriot. He loves our country, and he’s a tough guy, so we’ll have to see.”
Trump also said of evening shows on network TV: “All they do is hit Trump. They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that. They’re an arm of the Democrat Party.”
Trump also said:
"I have read some place that the networks were 97% against me, again, 97% negative, and yet I won and easily [in last year's election]," the president said.
"They give me only bad publicity [and] press. I mean, they're getting a licence. I would think maybe their licence should be taken away."
He is specifically saying their licenses should be taken away if they criticize him. So much for free speech, or freedom of the press.
Networks don't get licensed President Orange, stations do.
DeleteFuck u fascist Dave.
DeleteI agree with much of which Bob has put forth in this essay. Charlie Kirk has now been transformed into a martyr – by Trump no less. The censorship, in progress, and being subserviently enforced by those who were originally meant to be purveyors of meaningful reporting in service to the public, is something to behold.
ReplyDeleteI’ve mentioned this before, but things were quite a bit different just recently. Fox had a “Hannity and Colmes” episode in which Christopher Hitchens was invited on the show to talk about the recently deceased Jerry Falwell. He wasn’t assassinated, just dead.
I’m not sure that this is instructive of how far things have devolved in the MSM, but at least you get to see someone who is brutally honest. He might have been whipped off the stage today if he were to talk about Kirk in such a manner.
I agree with much of which Bob has put forth in this essay. Charlie Kirk has now been transformed into a martyr – by Trump no less. The censorship, in progress, and being subserviently enforced by those who were originally meant to be purveyors of meaningful reporting in service to the public, is something to behold.
I’ve mentioned this before, but things were quite a bit different just recently. Fox had a “Hannity and Colmes” episode in which Christopher Hitchens was invited on the show to talk about the recently deceased Jerry Falwell. He wasn’t assassinated, just dead.
I’m not sure that this is instructive of how far things have devolved in the MSM, but at least you get to see someone who is brutally honest. He might have been whipped off the stage today if he were to talk about Kirk in such a manner.
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Whoopsie, sorry about the repetition. Been a while since I started posting here again, couldn't seem to find a 'preview' option. Ah well.
ReplyDeleteThat repetition was something to behold.
DeleteMAGA Senator Markwayne Mullin, accusing fired CDC Director Susan Monarez of lying during a Senate hearing this week:
ReplyDelete“...I tell my kids all the time, one thing I want from you, I can deal with any situation we walk into as long as I know you’re being honest 100% with me.”
Mullin made this statement as he was lying to Monarez that her meeting with RFK Jr. had been recorded.
The GOP have simply adopted lying, blatant pathological lying, as a core tactic. RFK, Patel, Lutnick, Noem, sitting congress people. It’s astonishing.
DeleteFirst he thought he could trap her into changing her testimony by saying she was taped. Then the fascist bitch was demanding she lie to satisfy what happened in his mind. Fuck wrong with these shits. For the love of life, impeach that idiot RFK, who testified that folks shouldn't take his medical advice. Fucking brain wormed heroin addict, piece of idiocracy.
DeleteThe GOP understands that the media will never make them pay a price for their blatant lying.
DeleteFor the love of God, we just witnessed a sitting VP do a fucking propaganda filled podcast from the fucking White House, with special guest, Joseph Goebbels II. Our WH press corps is too scared to do challenge the lies, and for good reason, they want to keep their jobs.
“ to speak unflatteringly about someone”
ReplyDeleteIs speaking the truth unflattering?
You obviously can't handle the truth, snowflake.
DeleteThe truth is leftist.
Delete“ They disappear every strange thing the sitting president says and does.”
ReplyDeleteAre you listening, DiC?
AOC voted against the resolution condemning political assassination and also got fat.
ReplyDeleteAOC is almost thirty-six years old and still looking good.
DeleteConservative women look like Botox-injected cadavers.
DeleteYou can't mean Kimmy Guilfoyle. Can you?
DeleteMara Lago face. Must be contagious.
DeleteCaribou Barbie dun turned into a nasty old skank.
DeleteGood for AOC, more of this please:
Delete"We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was: a man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted Black Americans the right to vote was a ‘mistake,’ who after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi claimed that ‘some amazing patriot out there’ should bail out his assailant, and accused Jews of controlling ‘not just the colleges – it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.’ His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans – far from ‘working tirelessly to promote unity’ as asserted by the majority in this resolution…
AOC ended her remarks with condolences for Kirk’s family and loved ones.
AOC is the great statesperson of our time. Naturally, Republicans hate her.
DeleteMY TWO CENTS:
ReplyDeleteFree speech absolutism is as dangerous and stupid as gun rights absolutism.
Here’s a clue — Nazis don’t have free speech rights. We already listened to everything they had to say and then we executed them for crimes against humanity.😎
Your two cents are severely inflated.
DeleteI thought the ACLU was nuts defending Nazis' free speech. Under the fascist Trump regime, I now know what is all about.
DeleteToday’s ACLU wouldn’t do it.
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