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bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:33 PM Oct 2018

Howard Fineman Tweet. This was his childhood synagogue.


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My God #TreeofLife synagogue in #Pittsburgh is the loving, dignified place where my sister and I attended, and our parents taught, Sunday school; where I was bar mitzah; where my sister wore to class a velvet jumper my mother made; the deep Jewish roots of my own tree of life.
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Howard Fineman Tweet. This was his childhood synagogue. (Original Post) bronxiteforever Oct 2018 OP
Ya? Maybe he and fellow journalists can quit normalizing this shit and "both sides" the issue. Wintryjade Oct 2018 #1
Yes...now that it's happened to "him" PCIntern Oct 2018 #2
Right. Wintryjade Oct 2018 #4
Howard Fineman is what's wrong with America in your mind bronxiteforever Oct 2018 #7
No... PCIntern Oct 2018 #8
I totally agree with the both sides point for the media bronxiteforever Oct 2018 #9
I don't recall Fineman doing the "both sides do it" as much as others BumRushDaShow Oct 2018 #5
Howard Fineman speaks for all journalists bronxiteforever Oct 2018 #6
Life in America! Has it become "Great Again"??? MagickMuffin Oct 2018 #3

PCIntern

(25,556 posts)
8. No...
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:55 PM
Oct 2018

I didn't say that and that's argumentative.

He often talks about Trump as though he's a variation of the norm. Then when something grotesque happens, he speaks out. Tired of it "from all sides".

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
9. I totally agree with the both sides point for the media
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 01:08 PM
Oct 2018

But I don’t think Fineman finds the Con is normal. Here is a recent Fineman tweet:

“There’s some truth to this: @realDonaldTrump has made the outrageous seem normal or at least tolerable by exhausting otherwise committed people’s capacity for outrage. That we could “get used” to him after the car crash that elected him is scary. “

He sees the anti Semitic rhetoric coming from the right. The Cons
crowd was chanting “lock him up”about Soros the other day. This shooting and the MAGAbomber are from the same infected limb. I think Fineman is a good person whose heart is in the right place.
I don’t seek an argument with you PCIntern. I admire your posts.
Peace

BumRushDaShow

(129,091 posts)
5. I don't recall Fineman doing the "both sides do it" as much as others
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:41 PM
Oct 2018

In fact he has been one of the few to cut through all the equivocating stuff from other panelists.

I remember watching Fineman years and years ago but he has really shifted over the past few years.

MagickMuffin

(15,943 posts)
3. Life in America! Has it become "Great Again"???
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:37 PM
Oct 2018

I sure the hell can't tell, but I'd wager a bet it is not. And it will not be until the Democrats take back control of the government.


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