It's been a long time since Wallace has appeared politically neutral
Wallace was once seen as a politically neutral figure who many thought of as more conservative than liberal. But recently he has started showing his true colors more and more. For me it really started taking hold the night Trump was elected President. Wallace was more than visibly upset during the election coverage, even at times stating things at odds with Barone and other election analysts. The wishful broadcasting (that Hillary could still win) from Wallace was exactly the same as you were seeing at CNN and MSNBC. Only difference was Wallace was the lone voice on FOX, where he would have been one of the guys at the other places.
More to the point, the Chris Wallace led Fox News Sunday has slowly dropped in the ratings and is currently running fourth out of the four major shows, only garnering about half the viewership of the other shows. This has to be humiliating for Wallace. But either way, it was probably Wallace's time to leave Fox. Fox can then decide whether or not to remain in the fourth spot with another liberal host, or decide to push to regain the top spot by placing a real conservative back into the lead.
Under normal circumstances, this would appear to be a major step down. Network show to streaming service show. But given his current audience, it may not be as far of a drop as one might think.
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CNN+ is different now because cable networks are going through tough path. Hulu is killing the cable network
Direct TV too
I use a free app to watch every game of any sports
DuFo sports
GO OUTSIDE, YOU PATHETIC FUCK
Chris Wallace Joins CNN
December 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 134 Comments
Chris Wallace, who unexpectedly announced he was leaving Fox News, will anchor a new show on the network’s upcoming streaming service, CNN+.
I THINK IT WAS SIMPLY a decision he made for the sake of integrity, of which there is NONE left at Fox.
There comes a time when some people insist on standing up for principle against lies. Wallace was not so much a "liberal" commentator as a principled one.
The other Scott Johnson Powerline
CHRIS WALLACE EXITS FOX NEWS
I learn via the Washington Examiner that Chris Wallace is leaving FOX News after 18 years. Wallace announced his departure on the broadcast network’s FOX News Sunday this morning. However, I learned of Wallace’s exit via the Examiner because, disgusted by Wallace’s performance in the Trump-Biden debate he “moderated,” I quit watching the show last year.
I should have quit long before then because the show had grown bad and boring. I would blame the boring qualities of FOX News Sunday in part on the general decline of Sunday morning gabfests, but Maria Bartiromo has bucked the trend on her Sunday Morning Futures show on FOX News Channel itself. By my lights Maria is the obvious successor to Wallace.
UPDATE: Axios reports that Wallace is headed to CNN to anchor a new weekday show. He should feel right at home there.
Funny thing is that I rarely watch CNN
MSNBC is more entertaining...
In recent years, Fox News, which always did tilt toward the right, has transformed itself into a hyper-partisan, right-wing talk network that regularly pushes conspiracy theories on a wide variety of topics. Even many of the network's so-called "straight news" anchors have abandoned any pretense of impartiality.
Fox News' top host, Tucker Carlson, has drawn extraordinary criticism for producing a special entertaining the false notion that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was a "false flag" orchestrated by the federal government. Carlson has also trafficked in anti-vaccine rhetoric and pushed the racist "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory on his show.
Wallace, who often found himself rebutting some of the falsehoods pushed by his own network, had reportedly objected to Carlson's conspiratorial January 6 special. NPR reported that he had voiced objection to network brass about the program, which also led to the resignation of two longtime Fox News commentators.
Wallace was an institutional person like his father!
And Bob Dole
Scott Johnson believes the same time.
the January 6 attack on the Capitol was a "false flag" orchestrated by the federal government. 50% of them were FBI agents like Tucker Carlson told him to think.
This why Scott wants her to replace Wallace.
Former attorney general Bill Barr says Fox News host Maria Bartiromo called him up "screaming" about imaginary voter fraud, according to his account in a new book.
"Betrayal," by ABC's chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl, highlights Bartiromo's damaging role as a promoter of reckless lies about the election.
In the book, which comes out on Tuesday, Karl writes that "Bartiromo had once been a widely respected and trailblazing financial journalist. As a correspondent for CNBC, she was the first television reporter to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Now she had her own show on Fox News and she was using it to boost a series of unfounded allegations designed to overturn a presidential election.
As president, Donald Trump frequently praised Bartiromo and granted her interviews. Karl, a co-anchor of ABC's Sunday morning program "This Week," suggests in the book that the TV segments on Bartiromo's Sunday morning program influenced Trump's anti-democratic crusade.
On Sunday, November 8, 2020, for example, one day after Fox and all the major networks said Joe Biden was president-elect, Bartiromo "used her Sunday show on the network to highlight the most outlandish allegations of election fraud" through an interview with Sidney Powell.
You know Roger...
The NY Times was one of the first outlets to report about FBI informants being present during the Jan 6th riots. There was an article where it was suggested that someone infiltrating the "Proud boys" reported that there was no plan to overthrow anything prior to Jan 6th and that the FBI did not respond when he and other informants started reporting the violence that day.
There was a time when you would not have tossed the NY Times aside as part of the conspiracy here. But I am guessing that you quite literally have ignored any and all of these stories (even those presented in forums you would otherwise trust) because it goes against your preconceived beliefs.
Since those initial reports, other people identified as being part of the riot (but not charged with any crimes) have been uncovered as having ties to the FBI as well. The problem with this being the 2020's is that everyone had a camera and everything is filmed. People can start to wonder about these things, especially those with suspicions.
Nobody is arguing that 50% of the Jan 6th mob was FBI or FBI informants. People are just arguing that like many other events looking for those violent white supremacist groups, they all lead back to the FBI playing a part in setting things up.
Nobody is even denying anymore that the Whitmer kidnapping was instigated and even planned by people planted by the FBI. The FBI does not even deny that there were people at the Jan 6th rally planted by the FBI. Not sure why you continue to deny it.
You said that several times before
They had a few CI. They are used every single day in investigations into gangs and other issues like business scams...
You are actually attacking the police officers Scott
Former RNC Chairman and Montana Gov. Marc Racicot (R) “warned that fidelity is in jeopardy in America, not only in regard to the state and national constitutions, but to the country’s spirit as well,” the Helena Independent Record reports.
“He also said there are serious warning signs that the U.S. Constitution and republic are at risk.”
Said Racicot: “The most probable way for our republic to vanish is through a lack of honor and fidelity. Not surprisingly that is precisely what is required by our constitutional oath of office.”
He added: “I don’t want to preach, so I am hopeful that I won’t appear pretentious, but with all that has dramatically changed with the political and social fabric of our lives in this last decade and a half – much for the worse – in my judgment, I would confess that I sometimes feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.”
When I lived in Billings Montana I actually met several Republican candidates who were not crazy cultist like you have become Scott
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WHO DIDN'T SEE THIS COMING?
The Daily Beast Reports:
Trump Tour Kicks Off With Many Empty Seats
December 12, 2021 at 3:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments
“Despite a Saturday evening statement promising ‘big crowds,’ the first date of ex-president Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly’s joint speaking tour seemingly failed to draw any such thing.”
THE SOUTH FLORIDA SENTINEL:
“Many seats remained empty in the cavernous arena. The top-level was closed, and ticket buyers were ‘upgraded’ to the lower bowl.”
WHO WANTS TO HEAR THESE TWO BLOWHARDS?
It used to be surprising how in the days of KKK lynchings, FBI informants were infiltrated into the KKK.
Nothing new.
Covid Cases Surge Post Thanksgiving
December 12, 2021 at 11:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard 108 Comments
Wall Street Journal:
“Covid-19 is surging in many parts of the country in the wake of Thanksgiving, with Christmastime gatherings on the horizon.
“Some 35 states have higher seven-day averages for new cases than they did before Thanksgiving.”
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Wouldn't that be "in many RED parts of the country?"
WHO WANTS TO HEAR THOSE TWO BLOWHARDS?.
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You can put your hand down now, rrb.
James , Mr. Dennis is a millionaire, how much money should he share with you?
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! The day you get a job, goat fucker........LOLOLOLOL. BTW.....my net is well over a million thanks to my property investments.....something you never did!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Yes, and James believe you should share it with him.
You can give James Cash.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! You really are a fucking funny asshole goat fucker.......LOLOLOLOL. Maybe you can get Uncle Sugar to subsidize you POS dirt farm like you have in the past.....
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You really are a moronic lunatic with no grasp of reality goat fucker!!!!!!!
Millionaire Dennis is that a hard NO, you will not transfer your wealth with James as he requested?
Are you just another greedy Millionaire?
GO FUCK YOUR GOATS ASSHOLE!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I guess you are just the village idiot that leeches on society!!!!!
Mark Meadows indicated in a Jan. 5 email that the National Guard was on standby to “protect pro Trump people,in the Capitol building ” and the FBI agents were there to make Trump like a traitor.
look bad, according Scott and to an email obtained by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot and described in a public document Sunday night.
The context for the message is unclear, but it comes amid intense scrutiny of the Guard’s slow response to violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and conflicting timelines about their response from the Pentagon and National Guard leadership.
The description of the message is part of a 51-page document released Sunday by the select panel a day before it is set to vote to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress. The full House is expected to vote to hold Meadows, former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, in criminal contempt of Congress on Tuesday.
In other messages described by the committee, Meadows appears to have asked members of Congress to help connect Trump with state lawmakers.
“POTUS wants to chat with them,” Meadows said, according to documents obtained by the Jan. 6 committee and described publicly Sunday evening.
The messages also describe numerous contacts with members of Congress about Trump’s efforts to recruit state lawmakers and encourage them to help overturn the election results. They also included questions about Meadows’ exchanges with members of Congress as they pressed him urgently to issue a statement telling rioters on Jan. 6 to exit the Capitol.
Meadows’ attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The messages are the clearest insight yet into the conversations Trump was having with senior advisers in the chaotic months after his defeat in which he sought to cling to power in increasingly desperate ways. Though Meadows turned over thousands of text messages and emails, he has declined to sit for a deposition to discuss those messages, claiming he is barred by executive privilege. The committee and Meadows had reached a tentative agreement for him to come in for an interview, but the pact collapsed last week
Scott looks like the lawyers for mafia gangs who said that agents were the real criminals.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/12/meadows-jan-6-national-guard-trump-524133
Modern science is fiction designed to create a welfare state. The current era Republican party is fascistic.
What We Should Have Learned From this Epidemic, but Probably Won’t
By Kevin RocheDecember 12, 2021Commentary
I am going to pretend that people have come to their senses and realized that we have to live with CV-19 and stop obsessing over it. And as part of my effort to do that, I am going to write my initial retrospective on the epidemic now. After any great event in human history, we should attempt to step back and evaluate what the dimensions of the problem actually were and how effective our responses were, always mindful of human thinking process biases.
1. All people are human. That tautology is important because if we think that scientists, public health experts, politicians or anyone else is somehow not human, is above human frailties, we are wrong and we will suffer the consequences of giving greater credence to the pronouncements of these particular humans than they deserve.
2. The bigger the “title” or “role” certain humans have, the more likely they are to be unaware of their biases or to engage in constant questioning of their own beliefs and conclusions. And therefore the more likely that they will make mistakes.
3. A corollary to the first two points, and an important check upon these potential sources of policy error, is that all data and information should be completely, immediately and accurately disclosed to the public and any person who seeks further information for the purposes of analyzing and understanding such data should be encouraged and assisted. The role of citizen analysts should be highlighted and encouraged, as these persons often have perspectives that are more accurate than those of officials.
4. Those first three points are what I would call process ones. And they really apply to issues beyond how we responded to this epidemic. They are fundamental to good government. They should be embedded in the very structure of government.
5. With all due respect to the idiot hack Dr. Fauci, no one person is or represents science. Science is an ongoing process of discovering relevant facts and logical relationships between events. It constantly changes as new data and research emerges. It needs constant challenge, constant new ideas, to improve understanding. At no time can anyone claim that “the science tell us to do this” or “the data say we must adopt this policy”. Anyone who makes such statements should be immediately fired from any post in which they can influence policy. Unfortunately but realistically, knowledge and the guidance from knowledge is fluid; this should be acknowledged and accepted and the public should be told that we are taking the steps we take based on our current understanding, but we are constantly seeking new data and research and we will change our policies if that new information suggests it is appropriate to do so.
6. All data, analysis and research should be presented with full caveats that may affect its credibility. Weaknesses of a chosen experimental design and statistical analysis plan should be disclosed and potential alternatives and the results using those alternatives should also be given.
7. The big picture must always be kept in mind. What is the policy which advances the overall general welfare system.
We cannot be myopically focused on solely the current problem; we must consider what the consequences of policies to address the problem will be and we must weigh all of those consequences against any potential benefits. All potential consequences should be explicitly presented to the public.
8. In regard to a respiratory virus epidemic in particular, and really any epidemic, the following principles should be foremost:
A. Disturb normal life as little as possible–don’t close businesses, don’t close schools, don’t tell people to avoid health care, don’t tell people to stay home. There is little evidence that any of these measures have any meaningful impact on transmission.
B. Protect those who are most vulnerable as we can identify who those groups are. But respect the autonomy of individuals in those groups. Locking away nursing home residents, for example, against their wishes, deprives them of the few social contacts they may have and leads to more deaths from isolation and loneliness.
C. Do not politicize mitigation measures. This can be avoided by not invoking states of emergency and ensuring that any policies to fight the epidemic must have super-majority support among the political representatives making these decisions.
D. Develop and only use tests which are actually capable of determining that someone has an active infection and is infectious. Limit testing to symptomatic persons and limit quarantines to symptomatic persons. Excessive testing and tracing wastes resources and places a burden on healthy persons.d
E. Vaccines are likely to be the most effective measure to limit transmission and morbidity and mortality, so the emphasis should be on rapid vaccine development and deployment. But the public needs to be educated to have realistic expectations about the effectiveness of a respiratory virus vaccine. They cannot stop exposure and they likely cannot stop all infections.
I don’t know if anyone will pay any attention to these, and others may have other lessons learned that are equally valuable. But I also am keenly aware of human limitations and our clear inability to learn from the past when it comes to large-scale problems and issues, so I have no hope that the next epidemic will be handled better. Politicians will make the same stupid mistakes, think they need to assert their power and do something, anything, no matter what the consequences, and will ignore the damage their actions will cause.
I probably won’t be here, so good luck to all of you and all the future humans who have to live not just with our inherent weaknesses, but with our inability to recognize and correct for those known weaknesses.
The American Thinker believes the Democrats hate you.
They hate normal fellow-citizens. They hate anyone capable of the most rudimentary critical thinking. They consider voters sheep whom they can herd into the slaughter pens at their will and despise any of the flock that spot the pen and refuse to enter it. And, in their usual projection, they assume that those they hate are, in fact, hate-filled when they are not.
Here are some of their statements when the preposterous tale was spun. Read this and tell me I’m wrong.
Nancy Pelosi: "The racist, homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is an affront to out humanity. No one should be attacked for who they are or whom they love. I pray that Jussie has a speedy recovery & that justice is served. May we all commit to ending this hate once & for all.”
Adam Schiff: “I met Jussie Smollett at the Pride Parade in Los Angeles, and I’ve seen the passion and moral clarity of his activism first hand. This week he was the victim of an horrific attack. We pray for your speedy recovery, Jussie and reject this act of hatred and bigotry.”
Joe Biden: “What happened today to @JussieSmollett must never be tolerated in this country.”
Pete Buttigieg: “While the struggle for basic hate crime legislation continues here in Indiana, this horrible attack calls all Americans to stand against hatred and violence in all its forms.”
Did even one of these people assume in the face of a nonsensical explanation that the city of Chicago was populated by racist homophobes so desirous of attacking Jussie they would wander around at 2 a.m. in freezing weather with a noose and bleach to nab him as he sauntered out to Subway for a sandwich? I doubt it. They were willing accomplices in what civil rights pioneer Bob Woodson characterizes as Smollett’s moral treason, a mockery of race relations and gay rights. Maybe the black and gay communities haven’t caught on to it yet, but the hatred of the rest of us extends to them, too. All that blather about loving you is just a mask for their manipulations.
Modern propaganda is very effective...
All alone naturally
Get a life, Alky
Go outside
Politico reports
The committee described a slew of other messages it obtained from Meadows including:
— Text messages with a “media personality” who had encouraged Trump to issue a statement asking those at the Capitol to “peacefully leave.”
— A text “sent to one of — by one of the President’s family members indicating that Mr. Meadows is, quote, ‘pushing hard,’ end quote, for a statement from President Trump to, quote, ‘condemn this shit.’”
— Texts in December 2020 regarding efforts to install Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general.
— Texts to and from a member of Congress in November 2020 seeking contact information for the attorney general of Arizona to discuss claims of election fraud.
— Texts to and from organizers of the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the violent attack on the Capitol.
— Texts “reflecting Mr. Meadows’ skepticism about public statements regarding allegations of election fraud put forth by Sidney Powell and his skepticism about the veracity of claims of tampering with Dominion voting machines.”
Meadows got caught in a tough time.
Breaking news
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) told "Axios on HBO" he expects Senate Democrats will find a way to get around the filibuster to pass federal voting rights legislation.
Why it matters: Protecting and expanding voting rights was a major issue Joe Biden campaigned on, but Democrats haven't been able to enact any protections nearly a year into his presidency. Clyburn predicted Congress will combine various bills into one — though he couldn't say when.
"It may require some jiu-jitsu, but that's not beyond the Senate to do that," he said."They'll come up with some way to get around it," Clyburn added. "We had better come up with some way to get around it, because this democracy is teetering on collapse."
Between the lines: The House has passed voting rights and election reform bills but they've been modified and stuck in the Senate for months.
The Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act are both stalled in the Senate, and Republicans killed the Democrats' For the People Act in the Senate last summer."We will find a way to get these voting rights bills passed," said Clyburn, the No. 3 Democrat in the House.
The backdrop: A small group of Senate Democrats, including Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, have been huddling to discuss rules changes that could help pass voting rights without Republican support — but not end the filibuster.
Last week, the White House released a fact sheet detailing how it's attempting to "restore and strengthen democracy."In March, President Biden also signed an executive order to promote greater access to voting.
Clyburn isn't encouraging his Senate colleagues to eliminate the filibuster, instead arguing the budget reconciliation process "ought to apply to constitutional issues like voting" — even though he isn't a fan of the partisan political ramrod.
"I happened to have been around in 1964 and '65, when we had to overcome filibusters to get the Voting Rights Act passed and the Civil Rights Act of '64," he told "Axios on HBO.""When you institutionalize the filibuster, you are institutionalizing racism." It was used to block racial discrimination laws, mostly by Democrats before the Nixon southern strategy. But the Republicans are using the same tactics
In 2021, the core threat is social decay. The danger we should be most concerned with lies in family and community breakdown, which leaves teenagers adrift and depressed, adults addicted and isolated. It lies in poisonous levels of social distrust, in deepening economic and persisting racial disparities that undermine the very goodness of America—in political tribalism that makes government impossible.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/brooks-true-conservatism-dead-fox-news-voter-suppression/620853/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Hillary Clinton predicts Trump 2024 run that ‘could be the end of our democracy’
2016 Democratic nominee says US democracy may not survive another Trump presidential bid
John Bowden
4 hours ago
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is warning that the US may not survive another Trump presidency or White House bid, especially were it to come coupled with Republican control of Congress.
The 2016 Democratic nominee joined NBC’s Willie Geist for an interview that aired on Sunday TODAY in which she gave a stark prediction about the lengths Mr Trump and his Republican allies would go to change the fabric of US politics should they achieve power again.
“If I were a betting person right now, I'd say Trump is going to run again,” said Ms Clinton, who went on to say that unless the former president was “not held accountable”, apparently referring to the events of January 6, he would be emboldened to run again.
In her interview, Ms Clinton did not specifically mention 6 January, or the ongoing campaign of misinformation and outright lies the former president and his allies have spread about the 2020 election since it occurred.
Ms Clinton seemed to argue that the truest danger lay in Mr Trump not attempting to seize office via false claims of voter fraud and pressure on local officials to remain loyal, but rather in him being elected again and having the power of the presidency behind him.
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“I think that could be the end of our democracy [were Trump to be elected president again],” she said.
“Not too be too pointed about it, but I want people to understand that this could be a make-or-break point. If he or someone of his ilk were once again to be elected president, especially if he had a Congress that would do his bidding, you will not recognise our country,” said Ms Clinton.
Many political experts and analysts have taken to referring to the ongoing campaign to sow mistrust in US elections as a “slow-moving coup” being orchestrated by Mr Trump ahead of another White House run.
In recent weeks, it has been revealed that members of Mr Trump’s inner circle supported the idea of seizing control of the government via declaring a “national security emergency” and throwing out election results in states where Mr Trump and his allies baselessly alleged wide-scale fraud. Evidence of the plan was provided to a House select committee investigating 6 January by Mark Meadows, Mr Trump’s final White House chief of staff.
That plan never came to fruition, as Vice President Mike Pence refused to make any attempts to interfere in the certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6 after Mr Trump’s supporters attacked the US Capitol and tried to prevent the vote from occurring in the Senate.
Mr Trump’s efforts to pressure election officials in Georgia to “find” thousands of ballots in his favor after the 2020 election remain under criminal inquiry in the state, and lawyers connected to the former president now face massive defamation suits from voting machine companies that were the target of many of the Trump circle’s false claims.
You would cheer
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-trump-2024-democracy-b1974680.html
Dear kputz
NEW YORK (AP) - Inflation is painfully high, but this hopefully is close to as bad as it gets.
Consumer prices rose 6.8% for the 12 months ending in November, a 39-year high. Many economists expect inflation to remain near this level a few more months but to then moderate through 2022 for a variety of reasons. And they don't see a repeat of the 1970s or early 1980s, when inflation ran above 10% for frighteningly long stretches.
Households could even see relief in some areas within weeks. Prices have dropped on global markets for crude oil and natural gas, which is filtering into lower prices at the pump and for home heating. That should keep inflation somewhat in check, even if prices keep rising elsewhere in the economy.
To be sure, economists say inflation will likely stay higher than it was before the pandemic, even after it eases through 2022. More often than not in the last 10 years, inflation was below 2%, and it even scraped below zero during parts of 2015. The bigger danger then was too-low inflation, which can also lead to a weak economy.
"This is not going to be an easy fix," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP. "Just because inflation will eventually moderate doesn't mean that prices are going to go down. They're up. We're just lowering the rate of change, not the level of prices."
Russell Price, chief economist at Ameriprise, expects inflation to peak at 7.1% in December and January, for example. After that, he expects the inflation rate to fall toward 4% by the summer and below 3% by the end of the year, but to stay above 2% through 2023.
One reason for the moderation, he said, is improving supply chains. They had become ensnarled when the global economy suddenly returned to life following its brief shutdown, and economists hope increasing availability of everything from computer chips to shipping containers will help inflation to ease.
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