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Soledad O'Brien's public service announcement for the day (Original Post) kpete Mar 2020 OP
I wish Obama would speak up. cwydro Mar 2020 #1
Obama knows better than to wrestle a pig. abakan Mar 2020 #15
True. cwydro Mar 2020 #26
It's not "nuts". It's a deliberate strategy. maxsolomon Mar 2020 #2
tRump set up this strategy early in his presidency. pazzyanne Mar 2020 #16
Its a Con. maxsolomon Mar 2020 #19
"Nuts" doesn't begin to cover it, but I appreciate her PSA! MFGsunny Mar 2020 #3
I loved Soledad O' Brian. She was let go, I believe it was MSNBC or CNN. because she was too liberal katmondoo Mar 2020 #4
She's one of the best in the business malaise Mar 2020 #6
Think that Rebl2 Mar 2020 #12
Replace Tweety with her in the 7 PM slot on MSNBC Traildogbob Mar 2020 #18
Yeah, she was on CNN hangaleft Mar 2020 #31
The worst thing about the nonsense that comes out of his mouth HotTeaBag Mar 2020 #5
No there is NEVER a tiny grain of truth. Caliman73 Mar 2020 #10
And the press never follows up. The RW sycophants run interference. maxsolomon Mar 2020 #20
This is what I was referring to in this instance: HotTeaBag Mar 2020 #32
Trump's administration uses alternate truth lunatica Mar 2020 #17
"there is always the tiiiiiiniest grain of truth at the core." NO, there is NO truth in delusion. VOX Mar 2020 #30
One of the responses is really funny. LisaM Mar 2020 #7
Love it. Farmer-Rick Mar 2020 #13
Joe Biden Regular Guy versus Orange Face Raccoon Eye Baboon Butt. sprinkleeninow Mar 2020 #23
not nuts. Evil, self serving, narcissistic, destructive NRaleighLiberal Mar 2020 #8
The Maggot says what? Laugh in its face. That's the only left to do other than vote him out SammyWinstonJack Mar 2020 #9
That's what really needs to happen-a whole room full just laugh at him when he says this shit captain queeg Mar 2020 #27
The press has to start reporting the truth, not just what each side is saying. Nitram Mar 2020 #11
Its the Food and Drug Administrations job.... Historic NY Mar 2020 #14
He just makes shit up like many Republicans. Mickju Mar 2020 #21
he lies and they swear to it.. eom sprinkleeninow Mar 2020 #24
The only people who believe the man, will always believe and never waver. Trump is just a modern LiberalArkie Mar 2020 #22
Its almost sad BigOleDummy Mar 2020 #25
The rethugs could never accept a black president. But an orange one is ok? captain queeg Mar 2020 #28
Good for her ... CatMor Mar 2020 #29

abakan

(1,819 posts)
15. Obama knows better than to wrestle a pig.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 07:28 PM
Mar 2020

He gets dirty and the pig likes it.
He could swat this tick and but why pay him any attention since that is what he wants.

maxsolomon

(33,400 posts)
2. It's not "nuts". It's a deliberate strategy.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 05:06 PM
Mar 2020

Always deny, always assign blame elsewhere.

Obama is perfect because he won't respond.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
16. tRump set up this strategy early in his presidency.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 07:33 PM
Mar 2020

Remember "Don't believe what your eyes see...don't believe what your ears hear...don't believe what you read..." tRump administration going full Orwell.

MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)
3. "Nuts" doesn't begin to cover it, but I appreciate her PSA!
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 05:15 PM
Mar 2020

HumptyTrumpy is just a revengeful, petty, childish, solipsistic fraud of a narcissistic person, and better known as MF45 for a reason.

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)
4. I loved Soledad O' Brian. She was let go, I believe it was MSNBC or CNN. because she was too liberal
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 05:28 PM
Mar 2020

I have always been angry about that. She was a good reporter.

Rebl2

(13,551 posts)
12. Think that
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 07:07 PM
Mar 2020

was CNN. She did weekend today show for a while and quit not long after her today show host partner David ? died from a blood clot in his leg covering the stupid war in Iraq.

 

hangaleft

(649 posts)
31. Yeah, she was on CNN
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 03:13 AM
Mar 2020

Last edited Thu Mar 5, 2020, 04:21 AM - Edit history (1)

I loved her. Watching her made my day.

Endorsements usually mean nothing to me. But O’Brien’s opinion would carry a boatload of weight with me. More than any individual since Barbara Jordan.

Just found a very good piece on O’Brien, it’s definitely worth your time:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/soledad-obrien-twitter-media-critic-951542/amp/

 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
5. The worst thing about the nonsense that comes out of his mouth
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 06:25 PM
Mar 2020

is that there is always the tiiiiiiniest grain of truth at the core.

In this instance I have no idea what the Hell he's talking about, but I guarantee that someone told him about some incredibly obscure rule the Obama administration put into place that deals with medical testing or screening (but not in any way related to something like this), and that's the basis from which he says shit like this.

I find it maddening.

Caliman73

(11,744 posts)
10. No there is NEVER a tiny grain of truth.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 07:04 PM
Mar 2020

Trump interprets information in a very maladaptive and self serving way. There is no "truth" to what he is saying. They may have removed a policy the was put in by President Obama, but it was not getting in the way of anything and likely served an important purpose.

Trump very rarely gives any details about what he is doing, which policy, what did it do, how was it interfering with anything, what will be the results of removing the policy good and bad. Trump usually doesn't know because he is stupid and incurious, and he doesn't care because his function is not to provide information or facts, but to muddy the waters and make himself look good.

maxsolomon

(33,400 posts)
20. And the press never follows up. The RW sycophants run interference.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 07:41 PM
Mar 2020

I've seen a group of reporters back each other up in a "driveway interview" only once, back in 2017. Ask him for details, and the façade of confident bluster cracks instantly.

That's the only time he's ever taken a series of question on the same topic that I know of.

 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
32. This is what I was referring to in this instance:
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:16 AM
Mar 2020
Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said private laboratories used to be able to develop clinical tests but “in the previous administration that became regulated. For someone to do that they had to file with the FDA”, Redfield said.

But experts on lab testing have said they are unaware of an Obama administration rule that would have hindered the use of tests developed at university or private labs in an emergency
.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/donald-trump-obama-administration-coronavirus

My point is that there is SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE that Trump uses as the basis for what he is saying a lot of the time - I never said he doesn't interpret the information in a self-serving way, in fact that's pretty much exactly what I was saying.

In this case, there was in fact a regulation in place that required private labs to go through the FDA, which one can imagine would slow things down. This regulation existed, but was clearly not meant to get in the way of a situation like this and clearly Trump is using this as a smoke screen to hide as much incompetence coming out of his administration as possible as it relates to their handling of the virus.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
30. "there is always the tiiiiiiniest grain of truth at the core." NO, there is NO truth in delusion.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 09:13 PM
Mar 2020

Facts that are twisted to be disruptive, misleading, destructive or self-promoting are a perversion of the truth. They are anti-truth.

Here’s a sample of the vicious LYING that is Trump’s specialty. I defy anyone to find a “grain of truth,” however tiny, in these utterly false claims:

-‘An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that Barack Obama's birth certificate is a fraud.”
-Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election
-Biden acted corruptly as Vice President to benefit his son
-The whistleblower made a "false account"
-Article II of the Constitution lets me “do whatever I want”
-We're "taxing the hell out of China" with tariffs
-The Mueller report "totally exonerated" Trump
-Where Hurricane Dorian was expected to hit, repeatedly refuting the National Weather Service
-Windmills cause cancer
-"We’ll be going to Mars very soon."

LisaM

(27,830 posts)
7. One of the responses is really funny.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 06:49 PM
Mar 2020
I have been saying this for three+ years now. They all act as if there's nothing amiss here; they refuse to challenge him or confront him. As they sit there listening to a man who PAINTS HIS FACE ORANGE, with raccoon eyes. I mean...

captain queeg

(10,242 posts)
27. That's what really needs to happen-a whole room full just laugh at him when he says this shit
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 08:24 PM
Mar 2020

People have gotten numb to his BS. If they feel like actually giving him press time it ought to be followed immediately with fact checking. And laughter.

Nitram

(22,877 posts)
11. The press has to start reporting the truth, not just what each side is saying.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 07:04 PM
Mar 2020

The media need to call out lies, and present the evidence that they are lies. The best journalists are already doing this, but it needs to become standard for any professional media organization.

LiberalArkie

(15,728 posts)
22. The only people who believe the man, will always believe and never waver. Trump is just a modern
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 07:48 PM
Mar 2020

day Jim Jones. Not worth the effort to say anything about him or even acknowledge his existence.

BigOleDummy

(2,272 posts)
25. Its almost sad
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 08:08 PM
Mar 2020

.... in a way, to see how scared and inferior feeling our chump in chief is about Mr. Obama. If it wasn't so harmful to our country it would be pitiful.

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
29. Good for her ...
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 08:37 PM
Mar 2020

the media in all forms should be speaking out against crap like this coming from that monster.

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