Kevin Koster commented on Fox Host Cavuto: I Don’t Think People Know How Much ‘Biden Might Have Lost His Fastball’
2020-08-16 14:59:28 -0400
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Always fun to watch the old Cavuto Mark being put into what an unsuspecting person would think was an honest question. In reality, Cavuto is following the most common angry Right Wing talking point for attacking Joe Biden – calling him senile.
The Right Wing has struggled to find a single easy playground nickname for Biden, so that they can label him and dismiss him as they did “Crooked Hillary” in 2016. So they’ve tried “Crooked Joe” in relation to whatever scandals they’ve tried to invent about him. They’ve tried “Creepy Joe” in relation to an invented sexual assault smear. They’ve tried “Sleepy Joe” and “Senile Joe” to say that he’s just too old to be a president. And they’ve tried “Bernie Joe” to see if they could use their anti-Sanders talking points on him.
The one they keep going back to as their standby is the senility idea. And they keep repeating it, on every outlet they can, from Fox News to OANN to Newsmax to Breitbart to The First to every angry Right Wing AM Radio shock jock in the country. And they’re figuring that they can build the same wall of noise around it that they did against Hillary Clinton. It doesn’t matter that their various “explosive” revelations about this or that gaffe by Biden don’t ring true, given Biden’s long history of gaffes. It only matters that they keep repeating it every day – hoping that even mainstream voters will be tricked into saying “Yeah, he’s too old, but hey, it’s better than Pence”. Because that’s a trap, and any sane person knows better than to walk into a Right Wing meme trap.
Angry Right Wingers are now putting all their eggs into the basket of the debates to try to somehow give Pence’s childish spokesman an edge. Except that Biden is a good debater and Pence’s spokesman has lost every debate he’s ever been in. Let’s see what happens in another month, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Right Wing media spin every debate as a massive win for the Pence White House, regardless of reality.
The Right Wing has struggled to find a single easy playground nickname for Biden, so that they can label him and dismiss him as they did “Crooked Hillary” in 2016. So they’ve tried “Crooked Joe” in relation to whatever scandals they’ve tried to invent about him. They’ve tried “Creepy Joe” in relation to an invented sexual assault smear. They’ve tried “Sleepy Joe” and “Senile Joe” to say that he’s just too old to be a president. And they’ve tried “Bernie Joe” to see if they could use their anti-Sanders talking points on him.
The one they keep going back to as their standby is the senility idea. And they keep repeating it, on every outlet they can, from Fox News to OANN to Newsmax to Breitbart to The First to every angry Right Wing AM Radio shock jock in the country. And they’re figuring that they can build the same wall of noise around it that they did against Hillary Clinton. It doesn’t matter that their various “explosive” revelations about this or that gaffe by Biden don’t ring true, given Biden’s long history of gaffes. It only matters that they keep repeating it every day – hoping that even mainstream voters will be tricked into saying “Yeah, he’s too old, but hey, it’s better than Pence”. Because that’s a trap, and any sane person knows better than to walk into a Right Wing meme trap.
Angry Right Wingers are now putting all their eggs into the basket of the debates to try to somehow give Pence’s childish spokesman an edge. Except that Biden is a good debater and Pence’s spokesman has lost every debate he’s ever been in. Let’s see what happens in another month, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Right Wing media spin every debate as a massive win for the Pence White House, regardless of reality.
Kevin Koster commented on Fox Omits ‘Golden Showers’ And More From Article About Michael Cohen Book
2020-08-14 12:37:16 -0400
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Bemused, just to set the record fully straight:
The Fusion GPS opposition research on Donald Trump was initiated by the American Free Beacon, a Far Far Right propaganda outfit. Their thinking was that Trump was a secret liberal and a “Hollywood” or “New York” guy they couldn’t trust. Their hope was for Ted Cruz to prevail. When Trump’s schoolyard bullying succeeded in intimidating the other candidates out of the 2016 race and even cowed Cruz, the Beacon quietly retreated. Fusion GPS was left with a LOT of material they’d compiled but nobody to give it to. Fusion then reached out to some Clinton donors and offered what they had, saying they needed more funding to complete their work.. The donors agreed to give some money to Fusion to finish up and get whatever they had. This final bit of work included the Steele dossier, which apparently included a lot of the same stuff Michael Cohen is readily admitting to here.
I note that Hillary Clinton herself never paid for Fusion GPS, and you’re correct to note that none of their work was ever actually used by the Clinton campaign.
The Fusion GPS opposition research on Donald Trump was initiated by the American Free Beacon, a Far Far Right propaganda outfit. Their thinking was that Trump was a secret liberal and a “Hollywood” or “New York” guy they couldn’t trust. Their hope was for Ted Cruz to prevail. When Trump’s schoolyard bullying succeeded in intimidating the other candidates out of the 2016 race and even cowed Cruz, the Beacon quietly retreated. Fusion GPS was left with a LOT of material they’d compiled but nobody to give it to. Fusion then reached out to some Clinton donors and offered what they had, saying they needed more funding to complete their work.. The donors agreed to give some money to Fusion to finish up and get whatever they had. This final bit of work included the Steele dossier, which apparently included a lot of the same stuff Michael Cohen is readily admitting to here.
I note that Hillary Clinton herself never paid for Fusion GPS, and you’re correct to note that none of their work was ever actually used by the Clinton campaign.
Kevin Koster commented on Trump Admits He’s Blocking Post Office Funding To Prevent Mail-In Voting
2020-08-14 12:30:40 -0400
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If a Supreme Court vacancy happens at ANY point before Christmas, Mitch McConnell will ram through a Far Right gargoyle no matter what. And if the GOP keeps the majority in the Senate after November, this will apply all the way up to January 20th, 2021. And if Mike Pence is re-elected and the GOP keeps the Senate majority, this is all a moot point.
The sheer number of vicious statements and wild bald-faced lies coming out of the Pence White House has been truly staggering. It’s finally gotten to the point that most people are simply deadened to it. Which may be the point for the Far Right Wing – to have most people just shrug at all the bad behavior, throw up their hands and say “government doesn’t get anything done anyway.”
The amount of damage that angry Right Wingers have done to this country is staggering, particularly in how quickly they’ve done it. It will take years to start to clean up the mess they’ve made.
The sheer number of vicious statements and wild bald-faced lies coming out of the Pence White House has been truly staggering. It’s finally gotten to the point that most people are simply deadened to it. Which may be the point for the Far Right Wing – to have most people just shrug at all the bad behavior, throw up their hands and say “government doesn’t get anything done anyway.”
The amount of damage that angry Right Wingers have done to this country is staggering, particularly in how quickly they’ve done it. It will take years to start to clean up the mess they’ve made.
Kevin Koster commented on Eric Trump: ‘The Polls Are Looking Great’
2020-08-08 12:12:32 -0400
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The display by Pence’s childish spokesman yesterday at his golf club in New Jersey was frankly despicable. Tens of millions of Americans have been waiting for Republicans to take the COVID situation seriously, only to watch them continue to dissemble and lie. The House passed an actual comprehensive stimulus bill TWELVE WEEKS AGO, and the response from Pence and McConnell was to refuse to even acknowledge it. McConnell then refused to negotiate at the eleventh hour and allowed two of Pence’s minions to do all the talking – namely Steve Mnuchin (aka The Foreclosure King) and Mark Meadows, who was known in the House to be an extreme obstructionist and an incompetent negotiator. When they didn’t get their way on everything, the Pence minions stomped out and now we have the spokesman threatening what appear to be illegal actions and lying about what happened in the discussions.
It appears that Pence’s childish spokesman is hoping to campaign on having “done something”. Except that his actual comments don’t add up. He says that COVID “will disappear”, which I suppose he could try to tell the nearly 160,000 US citizens who have already died and the hundred thousand more who are likely to die from it while he dithers. He says that his big solution is a “payroll tax deferral”. Except that this will not help the unemployed at all, and it only means that anyone currently paying this will still need to pay the bill in a few months, just like someone getting a rent deferral. Further, it’s an obvious attack on Social Security and Medicare funding, intended to help set up massive cuts to those programs if Pence prevails this November. And Pence’s childish spokesman promises to extend a UI boost – but he doesn’t say for how much, which was a crucial part of the negotiations that the GOP failed. If I had to guess, he’s thinking he’ll just illegally repurpose funds from the CARES Act to fund a $200 boost rather than the $600 level that was needed.
I’ll give the Pence White House that they can probably do something for an extension of the eviction moratoriums. But that does nothing to help the landlords who cannot afford to keep running their units if they have no income. And it means that the tenant who no longer has income just racks up a larger and larger unpayable debt to their landlord. If I had to guess, I’d say that many tenants will still choose to move out anyway rather than be stuck with upwards of 10K in rent debt. If the GOP has its way, I expect that a large number of millenials will find themselves moving back in with their parents or other family members to ride out this crisis. I’m aware of multiple people who have already done so.
And here we have one of the sons of Pence’s childish spokesman lying his own head off in support of the whole rancid mess. November cannot come soon enough, and assuming that voters actually make their voice heard, the same applies to next January. At the very least, we would be able to see the various state criminal cases against this gang unsealed and perhaps justice could finally be done.
It appears that Pence’s childish spokesman is hoping to campaign on having “done something”. Except that his actual comments don’t add up. He says that COVID “will disappear”, which I suppose he could try to tell the nearly 160,000 US citizens who have already died and the hundred thousand more who are likely to die from it while he dithers. He says that his big solution is a “payroll tax deferral”. Except that this will not help the unemployed at all, and it only means that anyone currently paying this will still need to pay the bill in a few months, just like someone getting a rent deferral. Further, it’s an obvious attack on Social Security and Medicare funding, intended to help set up massive cuts to those programs if Pence prevails this November. And Pence’s childish spokesman promises to extend a UI boost – but he doesn’t say for how much, which was a crucial part of the negotiations that the GOP failed. If I had to guess, he’s thinking he’ll just illegally repurpose funds from the CARES Act to fund a $200 boost rather than the $600 level that was needed.
I’ll give the Pence White House that they can probably do something for an extension of the eviction moratoriums. But that does nothing to help the landlords who cannot afford to keep running their units if they have no income. And it means that the tenant who no longer has income just racks up a larger and larger unpayable debt to their landlord. If I had to guess, I’d say that many tenants will still choose to move out anyway rather than be stuck with upwards of 10K in rent debt. If the GOP has its way, I expect that a large number of millenials will find themselves moving back in with their parents or other family members to ride out this crisis. I’m aware of multiple people who have already done so.
And here we have one of the sons of Pence’s childish spokesman lying his own head off in support of the whole rancid mess. November cannot come soon enough, and assuming that voters actually make their voice heard, the same applies to next January. At the very least, we would be able to see the various state criminal cases against this gang unsealed and perhaps justice could finally be done.
Kevin Koster commented on Dan Bongino’s $15M Lawsuit Against The Daily Beast Tossed
2020-08-08 11:51:23 -0400
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This is the usual and expected result of nuisance suits from angry Right Wingers who don’t like it when journalists cover their actions. Of course Bongino sued the Daily Beast for 15 million, and of course he lost. And yes, he will need to pay the costs for the people whose time and money he wasted in needing to spend even five minutes on his tantrum.
The same thing applies to Eric Bolling’s 50 million dollar lawsuit against Yashar Ali from 3 years ago. You know, the one where Bolling didn’t like the fact that Ali had covered the story about Bolling sending unwanted sexting photos to his female co-workers until he got himself fired. Bolling announced his gigantic 50 million dollar lawsuit with a lot of sound and fury. And then Ali’s lawyer answered that they were ready to deal with Bolling in discovery and in court, and that they were going to countersue Bolling for far more. And then Bolling stopped talking about the suit. I wonder what might have happened to it. Hmm. Maybe it’s been tied up in procedures for 3 years or maybe Bolling forgot it was happening. Or maybe he did what he was told and backed down.
This is the same nonsensical approach we’ve regularly seen from Lin Wood, who has now been granted two pittance settlements for his 500 million dollar nuisance suits for Nick Sandmann. (And it would appear that Sean Hannity is hoping to get in on the action of the nuisance suits over coverage of his current legal woes, as he announced he’s retained Wood for that purpose…) One really has to consider whether these guys will ever learn their lesson. And to think – they’ve been the ones saying that liberals are somehow litigation-happy. I certainly haven’t seen President Obama or Joe Biden suing Fox News for 500 million.
The same thing applies to Eric Bolling’s 50 million dollar lawsuit against Yashar Ali from 3 years ago. You know, the one where Bolling didn’t like the fact that Ali had covered the story about Bolling sending unwanted sexting photos to his female co-workers until he got himself fired. Bolling announced his gigantic 50 million dollar lawsuit with a lot of sound and fury. And then Ali’s lawyer answered that they were ready to deal with Bolling in discovery and in court, and that they were going to countersue Bolling for far more. And then Bolling stopped talking about the suit. I wonder what might have happened to it. Hmm. Maybe it’s been tied up in procedures for 3 years or maybe Bolling forgot it was happening. Or maybe he did what he was told and backed down.
This is the same nonsensical approach we’ve regularly seen from Lin Wood, who has now been granted two pittance settlements for his 500 million dollar nuisance suits for Nick Sandmann. (And it would appear that Sean Hannity is hoping to get in on the action of the nuisance suits over coverage of his current legal woes, as he announced he’s retained Wood for that purpose…) One really has to consider whether these guys will ever learn their lesson. And to think – they’ve been the ones saying that liberals are somehow litigation-happy. I certainly haven’t seen President Obama or Joe Biden suing Fox News for 500 million.
Kevin Koster commented on While Fox Defends Him From Sexual Harassment Claim, Hannity Champions O’Reilly
2020-08-07 04:55:51 -0400
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The Hannity cupcake interview by O’Reilly was intended to promote Hannity’s screed “book” that essentially begs his listeners to vote for Trump or risk America’s immediate death. O’Reilly promoted this interview as a “non-cupcake” hard news interview. So what did he ask Hannity? A few cupcake questions about how great a job has been done by Pence’s childish little spokesman, a cupcake softball to Hannity about how proud his parents must be of him (O’Reilly waxed about how he thinks Hannity is more powerful than Rush Limbaugh, which clearly delighted Hannity), and a creampuff with icing for Hannity about how Fox News “has changed”, leading to Hannity musing about how he has so little time to watch the network other than Fox & Friends because he’s so busy in quiet contemplation for his daily radio screeds. (Of course, Hannity also talked about all the TVs and computers constantly on to feed him the latest news when he does his screeds…)
Hannity followed up by having O’Reilly on in his usual slot on Wednesday, with a few further cupcake questions about how they hope Trump will be re-elected. As a sidenote, O’Reilly has commented that with 2020, he’s had it with the Dems and can’t even THINK of voting for any Dem. When Hannity asked O’Reilly a week ago about if he’d ever voted for a Dem, O’Reilly said of 1996, “Well, I didn’t vote for Dole.” He didn’t say that he voted for Clinton, which is wise, given that Roger Ailes would have thrown him off the top of the NewsCorp building. Just that he didn’t vote for Dole – which I suppose for O’Reilly is just the same.
Hannity followed up by having O’Reilly on in his usual slot on Wednesday, with a few further cupcake questions about how they hope Trump will be re-elected. As a sidenote, O’Reilly has commented that with 2020, he’s had it with the Dems and can’t even THINK of voting for any Dem. When Hannity asked O’Reilly a week ago about if he’d ever voted for a Dem, O’Reilly said of 1996, “Well, I didn’t vote for Dole.” He didn’t say that he voted for Clinton, which is wise, given that Roger Ailes would have thrown him off the top of the NewsCorp building. Just that he didn’t vote for Dole – which I suppose for O’Reilly is just the same.
Kevin Koster commented on Fox & Friends Hosts Pretend GOP Proposed Benefits Cut Great For The Unemployed
2020-07-29 12:35:15 -0400
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It’s clear that the Right Wing approach here is to continue denying the severity of the pandemic – other than to demand blanket liability shielding for big companies to make sure they can’t be held accountable if they endanger anyone.
It’s also clear that Mitch McConnell has no intention of trying to pass any relief legislation, other than a demand that schools reopen right away and a setup for a new round of Trump checks for individuals who regularly make under 75K per year, likely timed to be delivered in October, just before the election.
When it comes to the Unemployment Insurance boost, the approach is to get rid of it, demand that everyone just go find a job somewhere, and to present a false option for restructured state benefits that isn’t physically possible so the Right Wing can try to blame the Dems for not doing it. That 70% idea has a cap on it that really means a major reduction across the board, and would only happen if a state suddenly put all their resources into trying to rebuild their UI system. The simpler and more appropriate way to deal with the current pandemic is to just continue the benefit they’ve already established – which is why the Right Wing opposes that. Because they don’t want to continue any benefit.
I note that McConnell does not even have enough GOP support in the Senate to pass ANYTHING unless it’s just a liability shield. So for him to pass a bill will mean he needs Schumer and the Dems to support it – and they’ll never support this idea. He appears to be trying to blackmail the Dems and it’s not working. The Dems in the House had a full bill passed 2 1/2 months ago and McConnell publicly stated there was no need to deal with it. Now he’s trying to play the card that somehow it’s the Dems who are allowing the current relief to expire.
I also note that the House is scheduled to recess this Friday and the Senate is scheduled to recess next Friday for their August break until after Labor Day. Pelosi has stated that the House will stay in session but McConnell has made no such pledge. He has instead stated that it will take “some weeks” to get anything done. Meaning that he’s thinking he’ll let this drag out into September.
And the UI boost actually already expired, so as of now, those millions of unemployed people are now facing rent and other payments without the assistance boost. McConnell is clearly hoping he can make them desperate enough to accept the non-offer he made and just give him the liability shield.
It’s also clear that Mitch McConnell has no intention of trying to pass any relief legislation, other than a demand that schools reopen right away and a setup for a new round of Trump checks for individuals who regularly make under 75K per year, likely timed to be delivered in October, just before the election.
When it comes to the Unemployment Insurance boost, the approach is to get rid of it, demand that everyone just go find a job somewhere, and to present a false option for restructured state benefits that isn’t physically possible so the Right Wing can try to blame the Dems for not doing it. That 70% idea has a cap on it that really means a major reduction across the board, and would only happen if a state suddenly put all their resources into trying to rebuild their UI system. The simpler and more appropriate way to deal with the current pandemic is to just continue the benefit they’ve already established – which is why the Right Wing opposes that. Because they don’t want to continue any benefit.
I note that McConnell does not even have enough GOP support in the Senate to pass ANYTHING unless it’s just a liability shield. So for him to pass a bill will mean he needs Schumer and the Dems to support it – and they’ll never support this idea. He appears to be trying to blackmail the Dems and it’s not working. The Dems in the House had a full bill passed 2 1/2 months ago and McConnell publicly stated there was no need to deal with it. Now he’s trying to play the card that somehow it’s the Dems who are allowing the current relief to expire.
I also note that the House is scheduled to recess this Friday and the Senate is scheduled to recess next Friday for their August break until after Labor Day. Pelosi has stated that the House will stay in session but McConnell has made no such pledge. He has instead stated that it will take “some weeks” to get anything done. Meaning that he’s thinking he’ll let this drag out into September.
And the UI boost actually already expired, so as of now, those millions of unemployed people are now facing rent and other payments without the assistance boost. McConnell is clearly hoping he can make them desperate enough to accept the non-offer he made and just give him the liability shield.
Kevin Koster commented on Fox Was Warned About Ed Henry’s Sexual Misconduct Before Promoting Him To Anchor
2020-07-02 19:50:42 -0400
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It’s not hard to understand why Fox News allowed and even encouraged Ed Henry’s predatory behavior. Sure, they made some public noises about reform and trying to have people act less like pigs. But there was no reason for them to really do so, without someone being willing to really make a major public situation out of it.
In the cases of Bill O’Reilly and Eric Bolling, there were public situations and fairly embarrassing ones. And with O’Reilly, there was a similar scenario of Fox News having sat on multiple cases or paid them off over two decades before finally being publicly humiliated over them. Looks like Ed Henry’s conduct was similar. I’d note that there are others within Fox News, who have been able to get away with this kind of thing – Charles Payne is one who comes to mind. And there are most certainly many others we haven’t even heard about. Yet.
As for why Ed Henry got a cushy promotion for himself even while behaving like this, there are a couple of obvious factors. One is that they were rewarding him for hounding the Clinton campaign all through 2016, particularly his biggest attempted “gotcha” moment about “wiping” the server. As part of their multi-year victory lap over “owning the libs”, they were delighted to give him a promotion and make sure that his face was front and center for all to see. And the other is, again, that they weren’t all that concerned about whether he was harassing women. Rush Limbaugh used to openly brag about scoring harassment and crude jokes – why would Fox News, which modeled its behavior after Limbaugh, do any different.
RW Fan brings up an interesting aspect – about whether or not Henry would be stupid enough to threaten a lawsuit. I agree that Fox News would have had to have enough to discourage him from that approach. And I again ask the question about Eric Bolling’s 50 million dollar lawsuit against Yashar Ali – how’s that going for him? And how are all the lawsuits that Bill O’Reilly said he would be filing to defend his “good name”? These guys seem to talk a big game but then not actually do anything. Similar in many ways to Pence’s childish little spokesman over the past 3 1/2 years, isn’t it?
In the cases of Bill O’Reilly and Eric Bolling, there were public situations and fairly embarrassing ones. And with O’Reilly, there was a similar scenario of Fox News having sat on multiple cases or paid them off over two decades before finally being publicly humiliated over them. Looks like Ed Henry’s conduct was similar. I’d note that there are others within Fox News, who have been able to get away with this kind of thing – Charles Payne is one who comes to mind. And there are most certainly many others we haven’t even heard about. Yet.
As for why Ed Henry got a cushy promotion for himself even while behaving like this, there are a couple of obvious factors. One is that they were rewarding him for hounding the Clinton campaign all through 2016, particularly his biggest attempted “gotcha” moment about “wiping” the server. As part of their multi-year victory lap over “owning the libs”, they were delighted to give him a promotion and make sure that his face was front and center for all to see. And the other is, again, that they weren’t all that concerned about whether he was harassing women. Rush Limbaugh used to openly brag about scoring harassment and crude jokes – why would Fox News, which modeled its behavior after Limbaugh, do any different.
RW Fan brings up an interesting aspect – about whether or not Henry would be stupid enough to threaten a lawsuit. I agree that Fox News would have had to have enough to discourage him from that approach. And I again ask the question about Eric Bolling’s 50 million dollar lawsuit against Yashar Ali – how’s that going for him? And how are all the lawsuits that Bill O’Reilly said he would be filing to defend his “good name”? These guys seem to talk a big game but then not actually do anything. Similar in many ways to Pence’s childish little spokesman over the past 3 1/2 years, isn’t it?
Kevin Koster commented on Ed Henry Fired Over ‘Sexual Misconduct’
2020-07-01 14:49:15 -0400
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Henry can now go join fellow disgraced sexual miscreants Eric Bolling and Bill O’Reilly in exile. Perhaps he could see if Bolling can get him a spot on his webcast? Or maybe O’Reilly can put in a word for him with the guys on The First webshows? Henry could shill on that webcaster in between Buck Sexton’s rants.
Or maybe Henry could try suing a journalist for having the temerity to report on his misdeeds. That’s always a winner for angry Right Wing pundits, isn’t it?
Speaking of which, how is Eric Bolling’s 50 million dollar lawsuit against Yashar Ali going? He was all gung ho about it three years ago, and how he was going to make so much money from it. I wonder why we haven’t heard a peep from Bolling since Ali’s attorney told them to drop the suit or face the consequences…
And will Bill O’Reilly decry this as Ed Henry somehow being “destroyed”?
Or maybe Henry could try suing a journalist for having the temerity to report on his misdeeds. That’s always a winner for angry Right Wing pundits, isn’t it?
Speaking of which, how is Eric Bolling’s 50 million dollar lawsuit against Yashar Ali going? He was all gung ho about it three years ago, and how he was going to make so much money from it. I wonder why we haven’t heard a peep from Bolling since Ali’s attorney told them to drop the suit or face the consequences…
And will Bill O’Reilly decry this as Ed Henry somehow being “destroyed”?
Kevin Koster commented on Chris Wallace To Trump Adviser: ‘You Guys Look Silly’ Denying Rally Attendance Reality
2020-06-22 15:28:30 -0400
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The deliberate exposure of thousands of people to a deadly virus just so that Pence’s childish little spokesman could strut around has got to rank down there as one of the most despicable acts ever committed by a political campaign.
Kevin Koster commented on Matt Gaetz Trots Out Cuban ‘Son’ To Tucker Carlson, Totally Proves He Gets Parenting Of Black Kids
2020-06-19 23:57:16 -0400
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Gaetz is an unimportant little troll. In reality, he chose to be a kind of “Big Brother” to Nestor Galban as an act of hatred toward the Cuban people and a way to try to bolster his “street cred” with angry Right Wing ex-Batista supporting Cubans who he hopes will continue to support him in his gerrymandered district in Florida.
He is not a father, and he did not rear Nestor from anything like childhood. He has no credibility in this matter, and Richmond was absolutely correct to school Gaetz on his viciousness. If anyone should be apologizing to the Congress, it’s Matt Gaetz.
He is not a father, and he did not rear Nestor from anything like childhood. He has no credibility in this matter, and Richmond was absolutely correct to school Gaetz on his viciousness. If anyone should be apologizing to the Congress, it’s Matt Gaetz.
Kevin Koster commented on Jeanine Pirro Blames Trump’s DACA Incompetence On Obama And Biden
2020-06-19 23:46:47 -0400
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I repeatedly warned people not to celebrate prematurely on this yesterday. I pointed out that Roberts made a point of saying that the Pence White House undisputedly could get rid of DACA. The issue was that they needed to file a piece of paper first to give a justification to show that it wasn’t just an arbitrary or capricious act. But there was no problem with Pence getting rid of DACA and immediately rolling up the buses to toss the kids into the Mexican desert.
Pence’s childish little spokesman predictably spent all of yesterday throwing a tantrum about this. I noted that all he had to do was get that piece of paper and he could start the deportations as soon as he liked.
And what do you know? As of today, Pence’s childish little spokesman announced he’s going to have that piece of paper submitted as soon as possible so they can get this show on the road. And I’m sure the same people who were celebrating yesterday will jump up and down in rage when he does it. Granted, it will likely be challenged again in court and get bogged down until after the election. But if people get complacent and fail to vote in November and Pence squeaks in again, I guarantee you that we’ll see DACA kids being thrown out of the country (and fleeing en masse) before the end of 2021.
Pence’s childish little spokesman predictably spent all of yesterday throwing a tantrum about this. I noted that all he had to do was get that piece of paper and he could start the deportations as soon as he liked.
And what do you know? As of today, Pence’s childish little spokesman announced he’s going to have that piece of paper submitted as soon as possible so they can get this show on the road. And I’m sure the same people who were celebrating yesterday will jump up and down in rage when he does it. Granted, it will likely be challenged again in court and get bogged down until after the election. But if people get complacent and fail to vote in November and Pence squeaks in again, I guarantee you that we’ll see DACA kids being thrown out of the country (and fleeing en masse) before the end of 2021.
Kevin Koster commented on Laura Ingraham: Democrats Have ‘Zero Evidence’ Trump Is Racist
2020-06-17 19:11:12 -0400
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There are times when I honestly wonder if Ingraham is actually doing some kind of advanced performance art – like Stephen Colbert once did on his show. She can’t possibly believe she’s fooling any sane person into buying statements like these.
The Pence White House and its childish little spokesman have a long, long record of bigotry and general hatred for most Americans and frankly for most human beings, period. We can look to the “Muslim ban”, the constant slurs from Stephen Miller, the attacks on Chicano immigrants, the infamous tantrum about “#@$%hole countries”, and even the nonsensical birther material that gave Pence’s childish little spokesman his big start in politics.
To say that these people aren’t racist is beyond laughable. To then accuse everyone else of somehow being racist is deeply offensive.
When this epoch of our history is hopefully concluded at the end of this year, bigots like Ingraham will have nowhere to hide and no ability to walk back their vicious behavior. They will simply need to live with their shame. November cannot come soon enough.
The Pence White House and its childish little spokesman have a long, long record of bigotry and general hatred for most Americans and frankly for most human beings, period. We can look to the “Muslim ban”, the constant slurs from Stephen Miller, the attacks on Chicano immigrants, the infamous tantrum about “#@$%hole countries”, and even the nonsensical birther material that gave Pence’s childish little spokesman his big start in politics.
To say that these people aren’t racist is beyond laughable. To then accuse everyone else of somehow being racist is deeply offensive.
When this epoch of our history is hopefully concluded at the end of this year, bigots like Ingraham will have nowhere to hide and no ability to walk back their vicious behavior. They will simply need to live with their shame. November cannot come soon enough.
Kevin Koster commented on Pence Makes It Clear Trump Administration Has No Plan To Heal Racial Wounds In The U.S.
2020-06-08 19:07:23 -0400
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Of course acting president Pence has no plan to do anything other than to continue trying to rally his base. He couldn’t care less about the pandemic, about the civil unrest or anything else unless it directly impacts his chance for another 4 years to damage our nation.
Kevin Koster commented on Megyn Kelly Interviewed Tara Reade
2020-05-10 15:28:39 -0400
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Reade’s motivation has been pretty clear from early on. But this interview with Kelly is obviously self-promotion for both of them.
It’s frankly offensive to see people trying to use the very real issue of sexual assault as a political cudgel, and it’s beyond strange to see angry Left Wingers collaborating with angry Right Wingers to do it.
It’s frankly offensive to see people trying to use the very real issue of sexual assault as a political cudgel, and it’s beyond strange to see angry Left Wingers collaborating with angry Right Wingers to do it.
Kevin Koster commented on Tucker Carlson Urges Caution On Tara Reade: ‘Be Very Wary Of Being Used’
2020-05-08 16:02:13 -0400
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Carlson is trying to inoculate himself from this story, which it’s pretty clear even Fox News staff know to be extremely problematic.
I’ll note that Carlson starts off with a couple of cheap shots – one to smear Dems for somehow being hypocrites and the other to play a little game about Biden somehow being senile. (That’s why Carlson was having so much fun talking about Biden stammering – not mentioning that Biden has always had to fight against a speech impediment)
Carlson does provide several of the facts we know about Reade’s allegations and her recent history of sketchy behavior, which is only part of the reason why her allegations are being looked at with skepticism. (And the fact that she’s repeatedly changed her story is only one other part of her credibility problem.)
The Reade story is just the latest attempt to chase Joe Biden out of the 2020 campaign, and it illustrates an odd alignment between Far Left and Far Right advocates. Earlier, we had the “Ukraine Corruption” approach, which the Right spearheaded and some Bernie Sanders fans echoed – but that was based on long-discredited conspiracy theories and only resulted in Pence’s childish spokesman getting himself impeached. Then we had the “Biden is SENILE!” approach, which they’re still playing today, and which Bernie Sanders fans have enjoyed indulging. And now we have a rape allegation being trumpeted by Sanders fans and then being amplified by Right Wingers – with both sides agreeing that they hate Biden and want him to lose.
I’ll also note that the hypocrisy on display here is not coming from principled Dems and Leftists. Comparing the Ford/Kavanaugh situation to the Reade/Biden one, there are some clear parallels. People on the Far Left immediately condemned Kavanaugh in the former matter and Biden in the current one, even before hearing any evidence. So to be fair to them, they’ve been consistent in their approach. Dems and Leftists trying to examine these cases have also been consistent – looking for actual evidence and a stable account. With Professor Ford, we had documentary evidence from her therapist and an unchanging story from the moment she first told it to the moment she was put in front of the Senate. And we had Kavanaugh’s own history and his bizarre tantrum when confronted about it. So Professor Ford’s story had and still has credibility. With Tara Reade’s story, we have conflicting versions from her and from her friends and brother, and we have no documentation of any rape or of her filing even a complaint about harassment. And we have clear indications of bias from her and from the people trumpeting her story on both the Right and the Left. So this is not a story that has credibility.
But let’s look at how the Right Wing has reacted to the two cases. In the case of Professor Ford, they immediately rejected it before they’d heard any evidence. They decided he was innocent without even asking any questions, because he was their chosen man to help tip the Supreme Court farther into the realm of the Hard Right. In the case of Tara Reade and Joe Biden on the other hand, they’ve immediately decided that Biden is guilty without even asking any questions. So the Right Wing guy is automatically innocent but the likely Dem nominee is automatically guilty. Good to know.
I’ll note that Carlson starts off with a couple of cheap shots – one to smear Dems for somehow being hypocrites and the other to play a little game about Biden somehow being senile. (That’s why Carlson was having so much fun talking about Biden stammering – not mentioning that Biden has always had to fight against a speech impediment)
Carlson does provide several of the facts we know about Reade’s allegations and her recent history of sketchy behavior, which is only part of the reason why her allegations are being looked at with skepticism. (And the fact that she’s repeatedly changed her story is only one other part of her credibility problem.)
The Reade story is just the latest attempt to chase Joe Biden out of the 2020 campaign, and it illustrates an odd alignment between Far Left and Far Right advocates. Earlier, we had the “Ukraine Corruption” approach, which the Right spearheaded and some Bernie Sanders fans echoed – but that was based on long-discredited conspiracy theories and only resulted in Pence’s childish spokesman getting himself impeached. Then we had the “Biden is SENILE!” approach, which they’re still playing today, and which Bernie Sanders fans have enjoyed indulging. And now we have a rape allegation being trumpeted by Sanders fans and then being amplified by Right Wingers – with both sides agreeing that they hate Biden and want him to lose.
I’ll also note that the hypocrisy on display here is not coming from principled Dems and Leftists. Comparing the Ford/Kavanaugh situation to the Reade/Biden one, there are some clear parallels. People on the Far Left immediately condemned Kavanaugh in the former matter and Biden in the current one, even before hearing any evidence. So to be fair to them, they’ve been consistent in their approach. Dems and Leftists trying to examine these cases have also been consistent – looking for actual evidence and a stable account. With Professor Ford, we had documentary evidence from her therapist and an unchanging story from the moment she first told it to the moment she was put in front of the Senate. And we had Kavanaugh’s own history and his bizarre tantrum when confronted about it. So Professor Ford’s story had and still has credibility. With Tara Reade’s story, we have conflicting versions from her and from her friends and brother, and we have no documentation of any rape or of her filing even a complaint about harassment. And we have clear indications of bias from her and from the people trumpeting her story on both the Right and the Left. So this is not a story that has credibility.
But let’s look at how the Right Wing has reacted to the two cases. In the case of Professor Ford, they immediately rejected it before they’d heard any evidence. They decided he was innocent without even asking any questions, because he was their chosen man to help tip the Supreme Court farther into the realm of the Hard Right. In the case of Tara Reade and Joe Biden on the other hand, they’ve immediately decided that Biden is guilty without even asking any questions. So the Right Wing guy is automatically innocent but the likely Dem nominee is automatically guilty. Good to know.
Kevin Koster commented on ‘Straight News’ Anchor Bill Hemmer Partners In Pro-Flynn Propaganda After Charges Dropped
2020-05-08 15:33:56 -0400
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Given that the judge in the case (who’s a Right Wing Republican) already went after Flynn in court quite publicly, this will be an interesting situation to watch develop. I’m honestly unsure if he simply gavels out the matter or if he makes a public show of disputing it.
Either way, it’s clear that the Pence White House has no intention of allowing this case to proceed. I note that an actual prosecutor on the case made a specific point of stepping down just as Barr and Jensen were playing their toadie games with it.
Assuming that people show up to vote this November, I would hope that the next actual Attorney General will investigate this cover-up as thoroughly as possible. I have a feeling that some Pence White House people could be looking at criminal subpoenas next year.
Either way, it’s clear that the Pence White House has no intention of allowing this case to proceed. I note that an actual prosecutor on the case made a specific point of stepping down just as Barr and Jensen were playing their toadie games with it.
Assuming that people show up to vote this November, I would hope that the next actual Attorney General will investigate this cover-up as thoroughly as possible. I have a feeling that some Pence White House people could be looking at criminal subpoenas next year.
Kevin Koster commented on Sen. Kennedy: We Gotta Let Americans Die From Coronavirus So We Can Reopen The Economy
2020-04-17 00:32:30 -0400
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I’ll say it again. Every one of these angry Right Wingers pushing this narrative of “oh well, a few people will die” so they can frantically try to restart the economy in time to save the Pence White House must be challenged in the years to come. They NEVER get to play a moral high ground card about their opposition to women’s reproductive rights again. Because they cannot say that they are “pro life” when it’s blatantly obvious that they couldn’t care less about life. Their opposition to abortion isn’t about life – it’s about their wish to tsk-tsk at other people and to feel superior to them, in addition to the wish of angry Right Wing men to control the women in their lives and everyone else’s.
Kevin Koster commented on Fox Pretends Obama Didn’t Really Want To Endorse Biden
2020-04-16 17:47:02 -0400
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Fox News and the Pence White House both tried to play up the false premise that President Obama somehow had some animosity toward Joe Biden and that his waiting for the primaries to conclude was somehow in defiance of angry Right Wingers demanding he interject himself into the process.
This is part of their larger false narrative about how Joe Biden is a doomed candidate who can’t get anyone to support him and is certain to go down to crushing defeat. (Some angry Left Wingers are trying to push this false narrative these days as well…) What’s odd about that narrative is that it runs counter to their open panic over Biden getting the nomination. If Biden is such an ineffectual loser, why are they so frightened of him?
This is part of their larger false narrative about how Joe Biden is a doomed candidate who can’t get anyone to support him and is certain to go down to crushing defeat. (Some angry Left Wingers are trying to push this false narrative these days as well…) What’s odd about that narrative is that it runs counter to their open panic over Biden getting the nomination. If Biden is such an ineffectual loser, why are they so frightened of him?
Kevin Koster commented on Sarah Sanders Alternate Pandemic: Trump ‘Showing What A Leader Looks Like’
2020-04-12 23:20:37 -0400
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Honestly, who cares what Sarah Huckabee Sanders thinks about any of this? She was a thoroughly incompetent and unpleasant Press Secretary, and she’s done nothing to add to the national dialogue. I’m honestly surprised that Fox News is continuing to keep her on at this point.