Day: April 2, 2018
The Coming Storm
“It’s hard to believe then that when Republicans lose the House in 2018, maybe by 40 or 50 seats, that House is not going to impeach him. And it’s also hard to believe that a U.S. Senate that’s going to be scared to death, though may still be in Republican hands, is not going to take a serious look when it has to deal with this president. So get good legal help now, because the storm is coming.”
— GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, quoted by The Hill.
77 Percent Say Traditional Media Disseminates Fake News
77%
A new Monmouth University Poll finds large majorities of the American public believe that traditional media outlets engage in reporting fake news and that outside sources are actively trying to plant fake stories in the mainstream media. More than 3-in-4 Americans believe that traditional major TV and newspaper media outlets report “fake news,” including 31% who believe this happens regularly and 46% who say it happens occasionally. The 77% who believe fake news reporting happens at least occasionally has increased significantly from 63% of the public who felt that way last year.
Soulless Ted Nugent Bloviates on ‘Soullessness’
“I’m afraid to say this and it hurts me to say this, but the evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul.”
— Ted Nugent, interviewed by Newsmax, on the Parkland students’ demands for new gun control laws.
The GOP Party Line in a Nutshell
“Democrats hate our President more than they love our country.”
— RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, on Twitter.
Evidence of the Decline and Fall of FOX News
“You could measure the decline of Fox News by the drop in the quality of guests waiting in the green room. A year and a half ago, you might have heard George Will discussing policy with a senator while a former Cabinet member listened in. Today, you would meet a Republican commissar with a steakhouse waistline and an eager young woman wearing too little fabric and too much makeup, immersed in memorizing her talking points. … This wasn’t a case of the rats leaving a sinking ship. The best sailors were driven overboard by the rodents.”
— Ralph Peters
Chait: ‘Corruption, Not Russia, Is Trump’s Greatest Political Liability’
Read Jonathan Chait’s takedown of the Trump gang’s malfeasance at New York Magazine.
Right-Wing Media Giant Sinclair Orders Local News Anchors to Read Script Bashing Journalism
Check out this backgrounder on Sinclair from the Guardian: “This is Sinclair, ‘The Most Dangerous US Company You’ve Never Heard of.'”
