Trump Crime, Code, Why, Arraignment, Falling Down the Stares, White Angst

Before we dive too deep, we must ponder the solemn challenge of an unprecedented arraignment:


Okay. Now the deep:

  • YellowDog Granny has a few post-it notes on BathroomGate.
     
  • Dave Dubya goes to legal detail – including criminal code citations – in explaining the actual indictment content.
    Dave does research ordinary mortals don’t do but want done, and makes it understandable.
     
    Key clever snark/explanation combo – – –
    (on 18 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally):
    My theory on why this charge isn’t included is the penalty would apply to an election. Supposedly the FBI is loath to “interfere” in elections, right, James Comey?
     
  • Hackwhackers joins the online question. Why did mr Trump keep, shuffle, and hide so many documents?
     
    We have visual evidence of one possibility.
     
  • CalicoJack, in The Psy of Life, takes a detailed look at Donald’s known loopy impulses, asking whether Trump sold national secrets.
     
    Answer: Possible, not probable.
    Not to be excessively unkind, but a sale would require an organizational skill way above his level of executive ability.
     
    Key conclusion:
    He may have taken them thinking he could sell them during desperate financial moments or use them to blackmail someone, but it wasn’t his primary purpose in taking them.
     
    So why? There are likely answers.
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony speculates about whether mr Trump’s middle-of-the-indictment lawyer switch may be part of something deeper.
     
    Key snark about what attorneys will come next:
    Maybe it will be Four Seasons Law, Landscaping and Lies, headed by Rudy Giuliani?
     
  • The violence Donald Trump promised would happen at his arraignment pretty much fizzled out. Supporters evaporated and floated off in the wind.
     
    But Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged notes that Republicans are resorting to another form of violence.
     
    Key assault on truth:
    But the lie that Biden had anything to do with Trump’s predicament will persist because of the liars who support Trump.
     
  • Some side drama in the courthouse:
     
    Donald Trump has been energetically attacking President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the Department of Justice.
     
    But his most vitriolic attacks have been directed at Special Prosecutor Jack Smith and his wife.
    His wife? Yeah, his wife.
     
    At the Tuesday arraignment, there were some glaring contests. The Palmer Report paints the picture. As he marched out of the courtroom, Donald Trump made a show of glowering at reporters.
     
    Then the bellicose exhibition was dropped as mr Trump suddenly stared at the floor, studiously avoiding the unwavering gaze of special prosecutor Jack Smith.
     
  • In the Borowitz Report, a satiric new documents mystery: sensitive files and papers are now missing from the Miami Courthouse.
     
    Key bewilderment:
    The head of security for the federal courthouse acknowledged that he and his team have “no leads whatsoever” as to who took the documents.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit examines the notion that if they can get Trump, they can get you.
     
    Key What About:
    Neither Biden or Pence talked with aides and lawyers about hiding them, lying to the Feds and discussed schemes to avoid complying with the return demands.
     
    I happen to have a thought:
  • Dave Columbo goes Republican and articulates the MAGA case for Trump:
     

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Trump as a Danger to Real Lives

Hard to imagine the courage of those who risk their lives to get secret information to the US about impending terrorist or military threats

Asking us to keep their identities secret.
Accepting our promise that we will.

Trump Employee:
“I opened the door and found this…”
Even harder to image the reaction when those secret sources find out an ex-President stored information in a bathroom or shower or ballroom or desk.
Pictures of documents spilling out, strewn on a floor.

And Republicans arguing that, yeah, he did it but it was all okay.

Now, step right up. Risk your life and warn us of impending dangers to our country and its citizens.

HEY! Where did everybody go?

Indict, Outrage, Pride Month, SCOTUS, Voting Rights, Golf Assassin, Woke, ETs

First take a look:


Now, then:

  • Can this be coincidence? Okay, maybe!

    And friend tengrain of Mock Paper Scissors offers assistance:
  • Dave Dubya goes all US Criminal Code in explaining the law behind Donald Trump getting charged.
     
  • Michael John Scott presents well informed, carefully thought out, speculation about what we have yet to discover in next week’s episode in the Trauma that is Trump.
     
    Key suspicions:
    The question that haunts the minds of many in the hushed corners of political discourse is this – who else, apart from the Saudis, was at the receiving end of Trump’s criminal largesse? Was this a solo performance, or were other shadowy actors hidden behind the scenes?
     
  • The Palmer Report explains what mr Trump doesn’t get about his own legal peril.
     
    Key satisfaction:
    There isn’t any way to get around it: this week is one Trump will look back on with bitterness, hate, and fury.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever says, and he’s right, that mr Trump is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but then Oh, come on! and he’s right as well.
     
  • News Corpse tracks the almost comically confused outrage as Republican politicians react to the indictment.
     
  • Fox hosts complain about the Trump charges:


    Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged shrugs, agrees, and reviews varying degrees of Republican angst and defiance, which seem to include advocating physical resistance.
     
    Key lowest standard of any patriot:
    So, yeah, I have a problem with espionage against the US and the willful sharing of our classified secrets, whoever is doing that but especially if I think it’s for malicious reasons. Why wouldn’t anyone else?
     
    I (um) have an opinion about the Trump age problem:

  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the poll numbers and demographics on which Americans think Donald Trump is guilty of serious crimes and which say he should not be elected if convicted.
     
  • Frances Langum has more poll numbers, bringing us the list of the companies with the worst reputations in America. Some predictable, but at least one surprise.
     
    Key raised eyebrow:
    We always knew they were garbage but now MAGA hates them, too.

     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit watches Jan 6ers, some especially notable, marching off to prison, and offers the best practical advice: running and hiding makes it all worse.
     
    Key wise counsel:
    And if you were dumb enough to run your mouth on social media about how much fun you had, you’re going to do even more time.
     
  • Green Eagle discovers a grand unified theory of MAGA.
     
  • Disaffected and it Feels So Good watches Congressional Republicans investigate wrongdoing by President Joe Biden. Past accusations have blown away upon investigation like dry leaves in the wind. And current charges seem to be fading as evidence evaporates. So Republican members are attacking news outlets for ignoring them.
     
    Mainstream media has been burned before, so this time they are waiting for more than bluster. Republicans are livid because: No evidence? That’s what they WANT you to think.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice David Robertson dives deep, deep into science, history, logic, and the Bible to document what we all should already know: Being born gay is not a sin.
     
    I got a bit personal a decade ago in an open apology of sorts to an extreme anti-gay legislator who turned out to be gay:
    Good People Participating in Great Evil vs Larry Craig
     
  • Scotties Playtime has a personal story of bullying and pain in explaining the importance of teaching acceptance in school. Acceptance is not recruitment.
     
    Key experience:
    I suffered, took the abuse, tried to fight the bullies who had the backing of the teachers. All on top of being abused at home. If I only had someone to talk to about it all, any positive role model to turn to. So much a lifetime of harm I could have been avoided / saved from if I had just had someone to go to who was LGBTQ+ friendly.
     
  • Child labor protections, indigenous children, and the right to have your vote count are on the table this month. Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group discuss four extremely important, underreported legal decisions that will hit our country from a corrupted Supreme Court in June.
     

    Imani Gandy is happy to be wrong in one prediction:

  • In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson covers the surprise decision as SCOTUS actually respects voting rights.
     
    Key rights implication:
    This leaves intact the ability of plaintiffs to sue when states appear to discriminate against minority voters. Similar lawsuits are pending in ten different states.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has the unexpected story and excerpts from one judicial dissent as SCOTUS cuts back the Alabama gerrymander which had been based on race.
     
    Something to do with letting voters have an effect on how they are ruled.
     
  • June 4th & 5th have come and gone, but not without Max’s Dad reminding us of that late night 55 years ago when hope was rekindled and the next early morning when it was taken from us, as Bobby Kennedy won California and was then killed.
     
    Key reason we still live with tragic history:
    And despair took the stage. And it hasn’t given it up yet.
     
    Because “real America” won’t let it.

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Memorial Day, Default, Fall & Get Up, Paxton Impeach, DeSantis, Pudding

When we look for it, we can see signs of good will:

  • Hackwhackers reminds us that Monday was more than a break from work.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice retired U.S. Air Force Major Dorian de Wind and family were able to devote this year’s Memorial Day at a monument honoring seven specific crew members very near where they died in France during World War II.
     
    Key homage:
    It was singularly emotive to be able to honor our heroes so close to where they fell, yet so far away from home
     
  • Army veteran Michael John Scott waves to an elderly stranger in the distance, and notices something familiar.
     
  • Botocchio, at Vagabond Scholar, likes the newest film version of All Quiet on the Western Front, and it’s anti‑war message, but feels it could have been stronger had it been more faithful to the book. The 1930 film was better.
     
    Review of the review: Detailed, engaging, well reasoned.
     
    Key principle:
    One of the cardinal rules of good adaptation is that, if you change something, make it better.
     
    Key decision:
    There’s no reason you can’t watch both (and read the novel as well), but unless you can’t stand old movies, if you could see only one version, I’d go with the 1930 one.
     
  • A reminder that Social Security and Medicare were not all that Republicans wanted to cut this week. Veteran’s benefits were also at issue:
     
  • The battle is not over for what Republicans still regard as entitlements:

  • In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson reviews the Biden victory in defeating the Republican default. The President casts it as a bi-partisan effort, reducing Republican bruised feelings, and preserving his ability to negotiate future agreements.
     
    It turns out demands issued by Republicans contradicted their supposed focus on deficit reduction.
     
    Key illustration:
    The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said that the $21 billion cut in funding to the Internal Revenue Service, for example, will result in $40 billion in lost revenue, increasing the deficit by $19 billion.
     
  • You might get the feeling, as do I, that Dave Columbo and Laura High are not really talking about their family budget. Okay, it’s a good, non-technical illustration of the semi‑near default:
     

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Nazis & Gays, DeSantis Misfire, Default, Trump Charges, Manhood, Tina Gone

Amazing what makes me happy:

  • YellowDog Granny has what should be the final word on drag queens, banned books, and gun regulation.
     
  • Scotties Playtime has a few uncomfortable facts about 1930s Germany and what Nazis did to gay people.
     
  • CalicoJack, in The Psy of Life, has a notable lack of sympathy for a Florida teacher who made and published a video saying the South should have won the Civil War. He seems to have gotten an unfriendly reaction from students, fellow teachers, and occasional parents.
     
    The teacher has filed a complaint against …well… everyone.
     
  • Although this satire by the Borowitz Report predates the actual Twitter disaster, it does wear well. Ron DeSantis hoped to use contrast to seem like a human person by appearing next to Elon Musk.
     
    Key alternatives:
    According to an aide, the campaign considered a shortlist of other foils, including Mickey Rourke, Dennis Rodman, and Ginni Thomas.
     
  • A long-time conservative notable went on the Fox Network and got righteously indignant at political criticism directed at Casey DeSantis, spouse of Ron. After all, Republicans have never gone after the spouses of Democrats. driftglass covers the shocked reaction as the host reminds him about Michelle Obama.
     
  • News Corpse watches as the Fox Network finally recognizes that the greatest problem faced by mr Trump is not Ron DeSantis.
     
  • The Palmer Report says the news is becoming so obvious that mainstream news media, however reluctantly, is finally reporting it: Donald Trump is going to prison.
     
    Key increasingly obvious fact:
    Donald Trump does not have magic powers. He can’t magically delay his criminal trials, just as he couldn’t delay his E. Jean Carroll civil trial. Nor can he just “decide” not to go to prison after he’s been sentenced to prison.
     
    Key cautious adjustment:
    It looks like we may finally be turning that corner – sort of. A news publication called The Messenger, which is run by former journalists from Politico, just ran this headline: “Could Trump Go to Prison? It’s Not Out of the Question.”
     
  • Couple of Jan. 6 Oath Keeper leaders are guilty of seditious conspiracy, and Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged goes to work on the Trump version of patriotism.
     
    Key insight:
    The “tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots” types never seem to note that in a representative government, sometimes your particular flavor of “patriot” isn’t winning elections and violence isn’t so much a revolutionary action as a pity party gone badly wrong.
     
  • In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson reviews this week’s warning issued by the Department of Homeland Security about a persistent and lethal threat from domestic extremists and foreign terrorists.
     
    Key factor:
    The announcement warned that a key factor in potential violence is “perceptions of the 2024 general election cycle,” a reference to disinformation suggesting that U.S. elections are rigged. This false allegation is a staple of former president Trump’s political messaging.
     
  • PZ Myers has a thought about ex-General Michael Flynn’s new dating and reproductive website especially for anti-vax folk. The selling point is that you too can preserve your blood purity.
     
    Professor Myers is reminded of POE: Purity of Essence.

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Trump Trials, Cable, Post Truth, GOP, Hauling Hawley, White Supremacy

  • From Mark Waulberg not the American star
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony really, truly, hopes mr Trump appeals the E. Jean Carroll verdict.
     
  • In the Palmer Report, former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb provides an insider’s prediction on mr Trump’s legal future.
     
    Key direct quote:
    …yes I do think he’ll go to jail.
     
  • Tommy Christopher has the transcript. Bill Barr says mr Trump was legally exposed, very exposed, by his CNN Town rally. He predicts indictments in August or September.
     
  • CalicoJack, in The Psy of Life, performs a big-picture analysis, examines alternative future events, and explains what it will take to derail the Trump train.
     
    Key danger:
    The closer we get to trial and conviction, though, the more shrill and bombastic Trump will become and more violent MAGA will become. His one weapon is stochastic terrorism.
     
  • driftglass suggests that cable news is not in the business of presenting facts.
     
    Key motivation:
    Because the only thing media corporations care about is this strictly, cold-blooded profit-and-loss calculation: how they can most efficiently hook the marks, and how they can keep ’em coming back for more.
     
  • News Corpse is justified in slamming the Fox Network on this one. Fox aired reports on veterans being booted out of hotels to make room for migrants. Turns out that the entire story was a scam set up and paid for by the CEO of an advocacy group. A couple of local reporters did a little checking and uncovered the whole thing.
    That little bit of checking could just as easily been done by Fox.
     
  • Elon (Twitter) Musk has a name-calling response to what seems to be reasonable criticism:


    And gets a harsh reply from Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez

  • Infidel753 objects to terms like “post-truth world” and “death of truth”.
     
    Key challenge:
    Talk like “my truth” vs “your truth”, “alternative facts”, and suchlike must be forcefully denounced as the bullshit it is. Claims about reality are either true or false. A statement like “the 2020 election was stolen from Trump” is either true or not true — it cannot be true for some people and false for others. The Earth is not flat for members of the Flat Earth Society and spherical for everyone else.
     
    Key example:
    If you design an airplane based on some idiosyncratic “your truth” about mathematics and the laws of physics instead of based on the single, solid objective truth of those things that science has established, it will crash, if it even gets off the ground at all.
     
    Key exception:
    It’s important to distinguish between this and ordinary differences of opinion, even stark ones. A person who believes Trump was the best president ever, or that different races should be kept segregated, or that Hitler was justified, is manifesting the kind of differences of viewpoint people have always had, even if extreme ones.
     
  • Dave Columbo leaves comedy long enough to ask a few non-gotcha questions:
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil notices a new, most accurate yet, description of US Senator Josh Hawley, whom we here in Missouri sent to Washington.
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged is not sympathetic as she watches nationally known conservatives twist themselves into knots trying to claim that even self-proclaimed white supremacists are not really white supremacists.
     
  • The Onion helpfully brings us another lesson in basic etiquette with things never to say to a Proud Boy.

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SuperBowl Ad, Trump Assaults, CNN, Drag, Shootings, Thoughts & Prayers

The best SuperBowl ad I can recall came at us in 2008.

(Note: Apologies to whomever. I do not recall from where I stole this.)

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Friends of Justice, Biden Memory, Kremlin Drones, Debt Ceiling, Mouse

11 seconds of an example I’d like to follow:

  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged reads the main defense of Clarence Thomas, that he should not be criticized for hanging out with friends who are willing to share a ride. He happens to be blessed with the best friends anyone could have.
     
    Key question:
    Who in the world has such generous friends?
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has the links, and a suggestion that a lawyer who happened to be on those expensive vacations with Justice Clarence Thomas may not be the best choice to loudly defend him.
     
  • At The Onion, the Supreme Court is once again interrupted as Justice Thomas receives a live cheetah as a donor gift.
     
  • The Propaganda Professor dives into the current state of contemporary conservatism: What makes “conservatives” tick?
     
    Key thesis:
    “Conservatism” isn’t built on values. It’s built on attitude.
     
  • Hackwhackers expresses skepticism bordering on cynicism as Putin minions claim a child’s-toy-sized drone that tried to kill Putin by attacking the roof of the wrong building was sent by Ukraine. PutinFolk then claimed it was sent by the US.
     
    My thought: Reichstag fire.
     
  • Green Eagle has a couple of scenarios that seem more likely.
     
  • Nikki Haley wants President Biden tested for cognitive decline.
     
    At The Moderate Voice, retired U.S. Air Force Major and former aerospace/defense executive Dorian de Wind suggests we should be concerned about all candidates and a more basic test of competency: a test at which Biden happens to excel.
     
  • Author John Scalzi does not actually mention Nikki Haley, but he does have notes about his own memory.
     
  • In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson has the facts on what is misleadingly called the Debt Ceiling. It is not a ceiling on debt. It is only authorization to pay existing bills so the national credit, and our economy, don’t get wrecked. Seems all sorts of bad stuff will happen in the next month or so.
     
    Republicans say they will cause the calamity unless they get all manner of slashes to popular programs.
     
    Key summary:
    Senator Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans are including…
    “… steep cuts to law enforcement, veterans, families, teachers, and kids And will gut Medicaid for over 20 million Americans, rip away SNAP benefits for over a million recipients and eliminate Pell grants for tens of thousands of American students every year.
     
    But Republicans are mostly angry at the Department of Veterans Affairs for pointing to what will become a 22% cut in veteran health, disability, and food benefits.
     
    This crop of Republican legislators are an odd but destructive bunch.
     
  • Supply-chain bottlenecks are vanishing. The Russian oil cut off has been mostly overcome with domestic production. Good news, right?
     
    tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reads the Wall Street Journal so you don’t have to. Economists now see more evidence that inflation persists because corporations are still price gouging as much as they can, for as long as they can.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger shows us Willie Nelson, who has what some seem to regard as a radical view regarding unfairness. He’s against it. Interesting that this is now considered a controversial value.

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Tuckered Out, Bud Protest Peters, Trump Rape Trial Bully, DeSantis

The eloquent phrasing alone is worth the click.

  • Nojo has a word (Yes really!) for Tucker Carlson.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors finds a visual self-own from the late great Tucker Long may he wave!
     
  • Hackwhackers proves you can get bitten by a cartoon, and unleashes several on poor Tucker.
     
  • Dave Columbo becomes Tucker, with a post-separation message:
     
  • News Corpse explains why, in his eventual Twitter video, Tucker Carlson revealed so little about his firing.
     
    Key deserved snark:
    Carlson’s assertion that truthtellers will always prevail over liars is at least partially correct. He, as a proven, relentless liar, is now shrunken and weaker.
     
    Key provided Tweet:

  • The Onion brings us their exclusive, satiric, fictional interview with Tucker Carlson.
     
    Favorite key question:
    The Onion: Were you fired?
     
    Key answer:
    Tucker Carlson: No, it was 100% my decision. When I showed up to work on Monday and was denied access to the building, I decided that was the last straw and quit right then and there.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice David Robertson brings us Republican posts in the wake of the Tucker ousting.
     
  • Frances Langum covers the “dystopia beat” as 4Chan, the dark conspiratorial site, has a very bad day. Seems Tucker has been borrowing their white nationalist stories and broadcasting them as his own. Now they’ve lost the influence of their most influential influence peddler.
     
  • Disaffected and it Feels So Good begins with the collapsing Bud Light boycott and zooms out to the weird self-contained bubble that started it.
     
    Key belief:
    What conservatives believe is they are the majority and it’s only because of tyrannical liberal fake news media, indoctrinating education system which poisons the minds of young people against them, and cheating Democrats who stuff ballot boxes with bamboo lined Chinese Fakes and Dominion Voting Machines that keeps True Conservatives from handily winning every election.
     
  • PZ Myers is moderately impressed that Mattel is making a Down Syndrome Barbie.
     
    Key observation:
    Every kid deserves a little happiness and recognition of their existence.
     
    A video-casting conservative thinks the idea is pretty funny, and so are kids with Down Syndrome.

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Pill Ban Banned, Fox Stomped, Pillow Smothered, Thomas Trips, Shootings

  • Hackwhackers has the big, but not exactly stunning, news. SCOTUS put a hold on lower court restrictions to the medical abortion drug mifepristone.
     
    Really. Did they have a choice?
     
    The original judge had issued an opinion that was less legal than a blog‑level diatribe. It could have been written in crayon.
     
  • Another big bit of news:
     
    Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit briefly summarizes the Dominion/Fox settlement. Shorter Fox News: “Yes, We Lied. Here’s $787,500,000.”.
     
  • Vixen Strangely is disappointed that the Dominion defamation case against Fox News has been settled merely for money. But, with other FOX plaintiffs and more Dominion defendants in the works, it may not be over.
     
    Key hope and caution:
    I still say Fox is in trouble–because I can’t convince myself the bubble has yet been created that can’t eventually be pierced, and I think the docs that Fox was hiding with respect to Rupert Murdoch must be very not great for them to have been hidden.
     
    But perhaps I should by now know to keep my hopes lower in the stratosphere.
     
  • To those a bit disappointed by the conclusion of the Fox lawsuit, Dominion lawyers have been hinting that there will be more.
     
    The Palmer Report decodes those somewhat oblique comments and speculates that the settlement of the civil case could graduate to an unsettling (to Fox) criminal investigation.
     
    Key legal point:
    Dominion v. Fox News has always just been a civil case, and was never going to be a criminal case. But when you get caught trying to obstruct the courts in a civil case, now you’ve committed a potential criminal act.
     
  • Frances Langum has the judgment against pillow guy Mike Lindell who issued a challenge and must now pay five million dollars to some enterprising soul who proved Mike’s stolen-election claims were lies.
     
    Key free retroactive advice:
    Gee Mike Lindell, maybe you shouldn’t have issued a ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge.
     
  • As the settlement settles in, News Corpse speculates on whether the separation of Fox from a Trump commentator represents the first firing.
     
    Key point:
    Times are changing fast at Fox News now that a court has affirmed that they are staffed by shameless liars.
     
  • In The Borowitz Report, the Dominion lawsuit has been settled at an extreme cost to the Fox Network. In fact, the cash strapped network is now forced to sell Kevin McCarthy.
     
    Key separation desire:
    “I wish Kevin well,” Rupert Murdoch said. “I hope whoever buys him finds as much use for him as I did.”
     
  • In the wake of the massive settlement, Dave Columbo has a suggestion or two for Fox:
     
  • The Propaganda Professor says:
    Even Fox host speaking patterns designed to inundate and deceive
    will continue to combine with
    the desire of viewers to be deceived.
     
    He does not believe the Fox settlement and the disclosures preceding it will have any effect on Fox believers.
     
    Key factors:
    All of this despite the fact that Fox “News” has repeatedly admitted that it lies to its viewers, and that its “entertainment” is not to be construed as news — indeed, that “no reasonable person” would believe what its personalities say.
     
    And it hasn’t made a damn bit of difference. The faithful flock are still as gullible as ever.

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