When journalism goes bad

[thoreau]

Take a close look at Joy Reid's profile picture. Then ask yourself why you are calling her "ignorant." Are you racist? Well, are you? Huh?

Examine your privilege.

[dhex]

Not so much bad as hilarious

http://nypost.com/2017/07/21/parents-ar ... sex-guide/

So like I am presuming there is a patriot mommy bloggeur category along with all the other mommy bloggeurs.

[Mo]

Right, I mean, they're all braindead, who isn't braindead? No one who is listened to "seriously" is anything other than braindead.

Definitely, extremely braindead

You know, if Tucker Carlson or Rush Limbaugh said something that stupid, the MSM media would be all over them for their ignorance.

/tu quoque

I dunno. They say stuff that stupid all the time. Usually, they just get blasted for saying something extremely insensitive. Jumping all over Tucker Carlson when he says something stupid would be a full time job.

[thoreau]

Jumping all over Tucker Carlson when he says something stupid would be a full time job.

I would be happy to consider a career change.

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[Mo]

Jumping all over Tucker Carlson when he says something stupid would be a full time job.

I would be happy to consider a career change.

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This is like making a wish on a monkey's paw. It means you have to watch all of Tucker Carlson's shows.

[Sandy]

Betsy DeVos has confessed to mayhem. Interpol - and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered death by brazen bull.

Thank you for that lovely PII.

[Sandy]

Re Trump and Christianity--

Mo is right, and I think the reason is that they are going to rally around Trump the same way people after the election rallied around Hillary. This is Their Guy, dammit, and they don't want The Other Guy/Gal to ruin their lives. (Note if you aren't an immigrant from the Ban countries or an Obama flack hoping for a job in the Hilldawg administration, your life hasn't been ruined by Trump.)

Conversely, I think, contra Thoreau, that any churchiness might shore up a tiny fraction of his base, but I think it would come off as insincere to most people outside his core demographic. The rest were there because he promised anti-immigration ponies and pissed off the Democrats. I strongly doubt he's going to pull any more in.

[thoreau]

I'm not talking about winning more votes or getting people to say positive things to pollsters. I'm talking about getting more extremism from the people he has. Getting more people to do like the handful of Trump supporters who have attacked protestors at rallies.

There's a fear on the left that Trump will do more than just win an election, that he'll make himself into a dictator backed by brownshirt followers. And I think the reason he can't do that is because he doesn't have the necessary bona fides to take this to the next level. They like him pissing off libruls, but he could never make himself into a President-for-Life with a brigade of brownshirt types because he can't make this into a sacred cause.

He can do anything he wants and his followers will give a thumbs up to the pollsters as long as he's pissing off libruls. But they won't get off the couch for him. Thank God.

[thoreau]

Then again, I had a well thought-out reason why he would never get the critical mass of support needed to win the general election. So what the fuck do I know? I just hope I'm wrong in the "even religion wouldn't do it for him" way, not the "nope, he can take this to the next level without religion" way.

[Kolohe]

Betsy DeVos has confessed to mayhem. Interpol - and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered death by brazen bull.

Thank you for that lovely PII.

That is why I didn't participate in that twitter thing of 'what's the first news event you remember'

[dbcooper]

Not so much bad as hilarious

http://nypost.com/2017/07/21/parents-ar ... sex-guide/

So like I am presuming there is a patriot mommy bloggeur category along with all the other mommy bloggeurs.

Outraged mommy bloggers are like 30% of the economy now.

[Mo]

Betsy DeVos has confessed to mayhem. Interpol - and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered death by brazen bull.

Thank you for that lovely PII.

1 and 2 are announced by grylliade every year (let alone Facebook).

[Warren]

Not so much bad as hilarious

http://nypost.com/2017/07/21/parents-ar ... sex-guide/

So like I am presuming there is a patriot mommy bloggeur category along with all the other mommy bloggeurs.

Outraged mommy bloggers are like 30% of the economy now.

Outraging moms was the whole point.

[Jennifer]

I remain bemused by the thought that, especially in the age of the Internet, any parent thinks telling their teenager "This is too bad and too sexy for you to read" will actually decrease the possibility of said teenager reading it.

[Ellie]

Betsy DeVos has confessed to mayhem. Interpol - and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered death by brazen bull.

Thank you for that lovely PII.

What's a PII?

[Mo]

Personal Identifiable Information (in this case date of birth)

[Sandy]

It's more that it ties it to info that might be relevant for those stupid "security questions." I know you know the implications, but I find it funny.

I really want to do one with "last four digits of your SSN" and "your mother's maiden name" as options.

[lunchstealer]

It's more that it ties it to info that might be relevant for those stupid "security questions." I know you know the implications, but I find it funny.

I really want to do one with "last four digits of your SSN" and "your mother's maiden name" as options.

I've seen one that is "The last four digits of your SSN," "Your mother's maiden name," and "the first five digits of your SSN."

[Mo]

For all the jokes that conservatives make about liberals and celebrities, they sure do cream their jeans over every C-list celebrity that decides to run for office. Even Charles Cooke of NR was defending Rock's idiocy on Twitter.

[Aresen]

For all the jokes that conservatives make about liberals and celebrities, they sure do cream their jeans over every C-list celebrity that decides to run for office. Even Charles Cooke of NR was defending Rock's idiocy on Twitter.

OSMN.

[dbcooper]

[dbcooper]

LOL NY Times opinion section.

[Eric the .5b]

WTF?

WTF?

WTF?

[nicole]

In which Breitbart pretends not to know how anything works in order to defend Gorka/ruin the week of some poor young woman: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... -to-press/

[Kolohe]

Right, I mean, they're all braindead, who isn't braindead? No one who is listened to "seriously" is anything other than braindead.

Definitely, extremely braindead

You know, if Tucker Carlson or Rush Limbaugh said something that stupid, the MSM media would be all over them for their ignorance.

/tu quoque