FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024 Paraphrase can never be perfect: Under current arrangements, denizens of Red America hear an array of statements and claims. Denizens of Blue America rarely receive those same presentations. This creates a type of Babel as our nation, such as it ever was, co … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024 Once again, Kubrick's last film: Given the way our discourse currently works, by the end of the week it's a Babel—a Babel of many parts. Eventually, we'll try to show you what we mean. For now, let's return to a torrent of babble which was produced last Sund … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024 No bait left behind: Has Candidate Donald J. Trump been using his words again? In Tuesday's speech in Michigan, he began flashing "blood bath" again, deliberately giving the term new weight. Along the way, he also offered the statement shown below, speakin … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024 One meaning of "everything's possible:" Did Israel stage a deliberate attack on those humanitarian aid trucks, resulting the deaths of seven aid workers? Kevin Drum explores that question in a post which carries this headline: Did Israel deliberately destr … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024 One "news channel's" secret society: Early this morning, we thought of Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film, Eyes Wide Shut. We've thought of that film fairly often of late. In our own imperfect recollection, it was frequently rejected by the critics. That said, th … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024 Hard to believe but true: It's hard to believe but it's true. Last night, on Jesse Watters Primetime, Jesse Watters pretended to interview Niya, who is "not only a polyamorous British Columbian wolf, but she's also an elite hacker who takes down sex traff … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024 Also, new polling data: Who will win November's election? We have no idea. It's our impression that Trump may win if he can survive his criminal trials. It also depends on what happens with the pair of major addiction addicts, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Corne … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024 If we did, we'd have three right here: If we believed in terrible people, they would be terrible people! We refer to one of the leadership cadres currently advocating on behalf of Candidate Donald J. Trump. Some of these leadership cadres actually make de … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024 Prime time "cable news:" Does there (still) exist a "national discourse?" Such myths may still be believed by some. To consider the actual state of the disintegration, consider what we saw on two of our nation's "cable news" channels last night. We'll start … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024 American Egg Board involved: Who ever knew there was some such organization as the American Egg Board? As it turns out, there is! To peruse the group's web site, just click here. Their "About Us" page includes this background information: History, Mission & … | Continue reading
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2024 In our view, they're just people people: If we believed in terrible people, they would plainly be terrible people. Luckily, we don't believe in terrible people! We would suggest that you stop believing in such fever dreams too. Hegseth and Kilmeade and Campo … | Continue reading
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2024 American leadership meltdowns: Last night, then again this morning, the poisonous conduct continued. The parodies of "journalism." The imitations of life. We're speaking of such people as Joey Johnny Jones. Also, we're speaking of Rachel Campos-Duffy. (Yeste … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2024 But mainly, Drum gets it right: We're so old that we can remember when topics like the ones we'll cite might have seemed to matter. In fact, topics like these never mattered. We're so old that we can remember when you could still pretend. We refer to seve … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2024But mainly, Drum gets it right: We're so old that we can remember when topics like the ones we'll cite might have seemed to matter.In fact, topics like these never mattered. We're so old that we can remember when you could still pretend.We refer to several … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2024Termagant calls his shot: Last evening, it seemed that Greg Gutfeld was having an off night.His hourlong "cable news" program began at 10 p.m., as it does each weekday night. But it wasn't until 10:05 that he issued his nightly joke—the nightly joke about Jo … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2024 Termagant calls his shot: Last evening, it seemed that Greg Gutfeld was having an off night. His hourlong "cable news" program began at 10 p.m., as it does each weekday night. But it wasn't until 10:05 that he issued his nightly joke—the nightly joke about … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2024 Real Time gets it right: Bill Maher's Real Time program now airs on CNN as well as on HBO. CNN re-airs the program on Saturday night, one night after HBO does the initial broadcast. Because its provenance has expanded, we were able to watch last weekend's e … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2024Thinking slow and slower: Professor Daniel Kahneman died yesterday. Headline included, the start of the New York Times obituary provides some basic background:Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90Daniel Kahneman, who never to … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2024 Thinking slow and slower: Professor Daniel Kahneman died yesterday. Headline included, the start of the New York Times obituary provides some basic background: Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 Daniel Kahneman, who never … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2024 Disputation within the tribe: Sometimes, representatives of two warring parties may engage in disputation. During the long-abandoned "Crossfire era" of American broadcast news, that was the familiar nightly practice on American "cable news." Some member o … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2024What's up with the New York Times? Misinformation has been playing a very large role in our modern-day politics.(Sometimes, the misinformation qualifies as disinformation. It isn't always easy to know if that has occurred.)At any rate, the promulgation of … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2024 What's up with the New York Times? Misinformation has been playing a very large role in our modern-day politics. (Sometimes, the misinformation qualifies as disinformation. It isn't always easy to know if that has occurred.) At any rate, the promulgation … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2024 Musings from the gurney: Does it matter? Does it matter how we characterize a misstatement? Does it matter if we call the misstatement a "lie" as opposed to (let's say) a simple "falsehood?" What the heck is in a word? Does it matter which word we use? Y … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2024Combatting falsehoods (or possibly lies): We'll be absorbing a medical procedure tomorrow morning. For that reason, we don't expect to post again until Thursday. As of this very afternoon, we had shut things down for the day! Still and all, we were drawn in … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2024 Combatting falsehoods (or possibly lies): We'll be absorbing a medical procedure tomorrow morning. For that reason, we don't expect to post again until Thursday. As of this very afternoon, we had shut things down for the day! Still and all, we were drawn i … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2024 Concerning the size of the bond: For us, the story started yesterday with a post by Kevin Drum. The size of Donald Trump's bond had been reduced! Headline included, the Drumcat offered this: Trump fine cut in half—for now Donald Trump has been let off the … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2024Fox's Joe Concha proves it: In this morning's report, we asked you the following question:Is RICO a crime?As we noted, this latest tribal semantic dispute arose last Wednesday, during the latest, and possibly the last, impeachment inquiry concerning Presiden … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2024 Fox's Joe Concha proves it: In this morning's report, we asked you the following question: Is RICO a crime? As we noted, this latest tribal semantic dispute arose last Wednesday, during the latest, and possibly the last, impeachment inquiry concerning Presi … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2024 Friends, is RICO a crime? Dearest readers, please riddle us this: How about it? Is RICO a crime? We ask the question because Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently said that RICO isn't a crime. On the red tribe's Fox News Channel, she's been ridicule … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2024Cable star can't figure it out: Yesterday morning, in the 7 o'clock hour, Joe Scarborough gave voice to a long-standing bit of puzzlement.At this site, we're puzzled by Scarborough's puzzlement! That said, here's the question Scarborough posed to Michael … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2024 Cable star can't figure it out: Yesterday morning, in the 7 o'clock hour, Joe Scarborough gave voice to a long-standing bit of puzzlement. At this site, we're puzzled by Scarborough's puzzlement! That said, here's the question Scarborough posed to Michael … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024First the toad-smoking expert, now this: The kind of programming being offered by the Fox News Channel is truly hard to believe.As we noted yesterday, Jesse Watters' latest book was finally published this week. We saw "finally" because Watters has been promo … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024 Toad-smoking expert, now this: The kind of programming being offered by the Fox News Channel is truly hard to believe. As we noted yesterday, Jesse Watters' latest book was finally published this week. We saw "finally" because Watters has been promoting the … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024The candidate feeds on such meat: Briefly, let's recall the basic facts which were established in yesterday's report.Last Saturday, Donald J. Trump made an array of familiar yet very strange claims during his campaign rally in Vidalia, Ohio:At the start of h … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024 The candidate feeds on such meat: Briefly, let's recall the basic facts which were established in yesterday's report. Last Saturday, Donald J. Trump made an array of familiar yet very strange claims during his campaign rally in Vidalia, Ohio: At the start o … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024Toad-smoking expert expounds: What happens on the Fox News Channel program, Jesse Watters Primetime? According to the channel itself, this is the basic thumbnail:Weeknights at 8pm ET, Jesse Watters brings his fresh take to Primetime. Each night, he’ll spea … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024 Toad-smoking expert expounds: What happens on the Fox News Channel program, Jesse Watters Primetime? According to the channel itself, this is the basic thumbnail: Weeknights at 8pm ET, Jesse Watters brings his fresh take to Primetime. Each night, he’ll sp … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024So did Ali Velshi and his erudite guest: Judged by any traditional standard, Donald J. Trump made some very strange statements during one of his endless speeches at a recent Ohio rally.The candidate spoke in Vidalia, Ohio last Saturday afternoon. In this r … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024 So did Ali Velshi and his erudite guest: Judged by any traditional standard, Donald J. Trump made some very strange statements during one of his endless speeches at a recent Ohio rally. The candidate spoke in Vidalia, Ohio last Saturday afternoon. In this … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024MacCallum thinks she may know: Why did Donald J. Trump say "bloodbath" during last Saturday's speech?Thanks to Acyn's early alert, the use of that word triggered a wave of blue tribe pundit reaction. Fox News veteran Martha MacCallum thinks she may know w … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024 MacCallum thinks she may know: Why did Donald J. Trump say "bloodbath" during last Saturday's speech? Thanks to Acyn's early alert, the use of that word triggered a wave of blue tribe pundit reaction. Fox News veteran Martha MacCallum thinks she may know … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024Donald J. Trump versus Yale: Donald J. Trump is smarter than we are, Michael Moore has now said.For ourselves, we can't swear that the Oscar-winning film-maker is wrong! Headline included, here's the start of Ron Dicker's report from HuffPost concerning w … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024 Donald J. Trump versus Yale: Donald J. Trump is smarter than we are, Michael Moore has now said. For ourselves, we can't swear that the Oscar-winning film-maker is wrong! Headline included, here's the start of Ron Dicker's report from HuffPost concerning … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024He puts a smile on your face: Every night, at the end of the 9 o'clock hour, Sea Hannity signs off in the way he did last night:That's all the time we have left. In the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. Greg Gutfeld is standing by to put a smile on … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024 He puts a smile on your face: Every night, at the end of the 9 o'clock hour, Sea Hannity signs off in the way he did last night: That's all the time we have left. In the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. Greg Gutfeld is standing by to put a smile o … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024Segregation by viewpoint: We lost large chunks of time yesterday afternoon and then again this morning. This will likely be our only post today. We did want to highlight one presentation from the war of the past few days concerning Trump's "blood bath" comm … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024 Segregation by viewpoint: We lost large chunks of time yesterday afternoon and then again this morning. This will likely be our only post today. We did want to highlight one presentation from the war of the past few days concerning Trump's "blood bath" com … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2024The New York Times gets it right: We were struck by a front-page report in this morning's New York Times.The report discusses a culture shift we've been struck by at the Fox News Channel. The headlines on the Times report say this:Piety and Profanity: The Ra … | Continue reading