03-02-2017, 05:52 PM
Quote:Are you arguing that Breitbart is now a legitimate news source, or you just like the juicy news on TMZ?
That's cute. No, I was referring to legitimate outlets engaging in gossip and innuendo. I don't read either one.
Quote:Where?
ON THE FAKE NEWS THREAD, as I literally pointed out in the bit you quoted.
NYT, Ellen Pao, radical rewrites, none of that rings a bell?
Quote:Al Franken isn't a lawyer. If I was in his position, I wouldn't make that case either. Several lawyer/legislators have made the case, which is a much better option.
In any case, is it more or less egregious than lying about a blowjob. That seems to be the standard.
I think a halfway competent lawyer could argue that that question was whether he had communications with the government in his capacity as a campaign surrogate, not in his day job as a member of the Senate Armed Forces committee.
But I'm not a lawyer either, so I will let them fight it out if that is the direction they choose to go with it.
Quote:Are you arguing that turnabout is not fair play? I know Bob is always on the side of compromise, but is letting this pass a compromise or a free pass to do anything?
We have a Congressional majority that got to be one by saying no to everything, and now wants the minority to let bygones be bygones. If the Democrats lie down and agree to let this pass, they will have performed the greatest self-neutering in history. Remember, the Democrats let the eight years of Clinton investigations go and tried to work with GWB. That didn't work at all well. I don't see them doing that twice, and they stand on pretty firm ground with Trump and the current Congress. They may lose, but they have to go down fighting if they ever expect to be taken seriously again.
What? The partisanship is stupid, on both sides, but that's not what I was talking about. I am more concerned with the popular hysteria, particularly in the political/media class, over Russia. A couple of cranks on an obscure message board is merely comical, the same beliefs among our senior political leadership and their mouthpieces in the press could lead to actual, no-bullshit Great Power war.
Which would be bad.
