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Begging for Watergate:

That is exactly what the press has become. Interesting that between Hillary's many crimes and Obama's likely crimes that there is zero interest in exposing them. If anyone still has any doubt about the bias of the press this should help them understand who the press really is today.

#1 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-05-13 09:28 (Reply)

MEDIA CREATES NEW SCANDAL: Trump Served Two Scoops of Ice Cream at Dinner While Time Reporters Get One Scoop

The infantilization of journalism, politics, and culture. And blogging.

#2 Ten on 2017-05-13 09:59 (Reply)

The Venezuela thesis is interesting, but I assume the average IQ hasn't changed over the last 20 years, whereas the political and economic systems certainly have.

#3 Texan99 on 2017-05-13 10:05 (Reply)

What happened to Paul Krugman’s concern about town hall civility? Paullie "The Beard" Krugman writes out of both sides of his mouth.

#4 Sam L. on 2017-05-13 10:31 (Reply)

"Venezuela: This is a familiar pattern in low-IQ countries."

The only "familiar pattern" in that article was good old-fashioned racism.

For shame.

#5 JJM on 2017-05-13 11:34 (Reply)

re Craven Journalists are Just Begging For Their Own Personal Watergate

Sort of ironic don't you think?

They had 8 years to 'uncover' many stories that made Watergate shrink to insignificance and yet they turned a blind eye.

#6 feeblemind on 2017-05-13 13:28 (Reply)

I usually have to put up with the pBS News on Friday night. In particular the segment with Mark Shields and David Brooks. DH likes David Brooks and I won't tell him what the problem is on that choice because DB is the first Republican DH will acknowledge. However, last night he was not there and the stand in was some very mild mannered and polite guy from India. Judy Woodruff let Mark Shields rant and rave and rant and rave and rant and rave for minute after minute after minute. The India guy only got to make one or two two sentence comments. My tax dollars were spent by PBS to let Mark Shields go on for about 10 minutes--how much did that cost? The other segment last night was Judy "interviewing" Condi Rice--no contest--you could see Judy seething with un correct journalistic attitude--but Condi kept her poise, her articulation and had the most direct and informative answers! Judy just raged internally--but, you could see her rage on her face. How much did that cost? If Congress defunded the news segment of PBS only that would be a huge improvement!

#7 faculty wife on 2017-05-13 17:24 (Reply)

re Democrat Refers to Middle America as ‘Podunk, USA’

Nothing new here. Dems consider the people in fly over country to be aliens at best and sub-human at worst.

If they had their way we wouldn't be allowed to vote.

#8 feeblemind on 2017-05-13 20:16 (Reply)

Not in the deep south. Nowadays' down here, the ultra-minority dems hail from the vibrant sector of our culture, with a few trial lawyers thrown in for diversity. They spend very little time on republicans. They harp mostly about medicaid, single mother stuff, and redistricting, constantly fussing about legislative districts. As soon as a redistricting plan is adopted they head to court to try to get it overthrown, even though they don't have a seat at the table for what would replace it. Entertaining, but something of a nuisance.

#8.1 BillhH on 2017-05-14 13:10 (Reply)

I don't drink coffee. Am I dead? I don't think so.

#9 Sam L. on 2017-05-13 20:37 (Reply)

Boy,I don't know about that,f w..
It takes all kinds.Would not be much fun if we were all the same.
Do you think Fox news is the way to go?

#10 RL on 2017-05-14 02:37 (Reply)

PBS has become exactly what you would expect from a government funded television/radio/news/commentary. It has become the propaganda arm of that part of the government that wants to fund it dedicated to eliminating that part of the government that wants to defund it. I for one am shocked; shocked, I tell you.

There is a good news part of the story though. If you want to know what the latest lies/spin/anti-American propaganda is then watch PBS. They are at the cutting edge of the propaganda wave and have their ear pressed to the lips of the various communist/socialist organizations dedicated to throwing out our constitution.

#11 OneGuy on 2017-05-14 09:38 (Reply)

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Saturday, May 13. 2017

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