There would have already been 10 investigations started.

The double standard just infuriates me!

I'm texting with my daughter who lives several states away. She's been watching the speeches and loving it. But she's a Millennial. While she's supported Hillary from the beginning (with no lobbying from me, btw - she got there on her own), she doesn't fully understand the full extent of the struggle that women have had - to bring us to this point now, where young women her age don't even HAVE to have an awareness of that struggle. It's just not in their world. We have, by now, broken down enough of the bigger barriers that her generation isn't hamstrung and having to fight their way through blockages and jump over hurdles like women my age did.

She's amazed, genuinely dumbfounded actually, when I tell her about how her dad and I were turned down when we first tried to rent an apartment after we'd gotten back from our honeymoon - because I hadn't changed my last name. Or about the horny state senator who tried to bend me backwards over a teletype machine when we'd taken the shortcut through the newsroom after an interview and he noticed nobody else was in there. Or the program director (who HAD been someone I considered an ally and friend) who fired me because he wanted to hire his buddy, telling me "well, at least you have a husband" - when my husband was between jobs and mine was the only paycheck we had. She's amazed to hear those things. "Wow, that's crazy!" she says. Yeah, my sweet baby girl. It was. And it still seems so now. But it HAPPENED. That shit HAPPENED. That shit, and more.

daughter will have to fight the same battles we fought all those years ago, calimary. I saw a protest sign a while back that summed it up perfectly, "I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M STILL PROTESTING SHIT WE THOUGHT WE WON 40 YEARS AGO" It's infuriating.

And another one cautioning that if we don't keep the White House, our daughters will have to fight for the same rights their grandmothers won, decades ago.

I teach high school, and my kids are constantly cracking me up with "today's kids will never know..." posts on Facebook. First of all, they're 16, moaning about "kids today". One of them posted up a question asking if "you would date someone of a different race". They were shocked, SHOCKED, that anyone would even ask that question, that's how stupid they thought it was. I, of course, went right into teacher mode and told them about miscegenation laws and just how recently they've been repealed. In a way I'm glad they have no idea this stuff happened, but with no "common memory" of those times, I fear it can be easy to slip back into them.

if only one side is buying ads. They must prop up the weak one at all costs, hence ' it was a joooooke', 'can't you guys take a joooooke?'. They had almost 24 hours to figure out how to spin it, this is all they came up with.

Hilarious. Like they'd cover Hillary's policies at all. They'd be bored. They'd go on to the emails or whatever is the latest they are attempting to drum up into a drama.

when her hour begins. I just won't watch her anymore. She actively, willfully, deliberately NEVER gives Hillary a break.

I've been firing off tweets to her this morning. I now have a habit - at a 9am Pacific time - of switching to CNN during her hour. Switched back to MSNBC a couple of minutes before her show ended. And SURE ENOUGH, there she is in the Castro interview, YET AGAIN dumping on Hillary, picking her apart, making sure to ask him all sorts of negative-leaning questions about Hillary. I mean - SHIT-AND-SHINOLA! She never lets up.

Hey, I know a few things about doing an interview and asking them, well, shall we say oppositional questions, or trying to elicit certain kinds of responses. BUT CHRIST ON A CRUTCH!!! When that's ALL you do??? I tuned away for the hour, at 9am, as soon as she started. I tuned back in at 9:57. And sure enough, there she was, at it AGAIN, making sure she brought up all the negatives to ask him about. That's all you've got, Mrs. Greenspan? That's ALL you've got?????? HONEST-TO-FREAKIN'-PETE...

I fucking GIVE UP. I just can't watch Andrea Mitchell anymore.

SO frustrated! I even tweeted to Joy Reid about it.

especially after Bush/Cheney were out, but I guess she's a reliable go-to person when they need a thinly veiled right wing hack. I have no other explanation for it because she's a piss poor journalist.

ugly as shit too. She could play one of the walking dead without makeup.

It's the LIGHTING.

I've covered a fair number of celebrities, on sets, in dressing rooms, as part of my last news-related job. I noticed that when Andrea Mitchell is in studio, you don't see as much of the flaws in her face as you do when she's out on the stump somewhere. It's the LIGHTING.

I once invited an older actress onto a local cable show I had. Her first question was - "how'd the lighting? I'd have to see how I'm going to be lit." I was perplexed by that - until I drilled down into it a little and then completely understood the concern. OF COURSE someone in the public eye would be focused on how he or she was lit! Particularly someone whose appearance matters, professionally. Lighting is amazing, what it can do - and the flaws it can mask and diminish. You might assume this was just a picky little superficial thing. I certainly did, at first. But when you think about it, it really does make a difference. And then when you SEE it, well, as the cliche goes - seeing is believing.

I'm shocked he hasn't tweeted something anti Semitic about Bloomberg.

He looked straight into the camera and looked very seriously into the camera when he made that statement. He wasn't being funny - he wasn't being sarcastic. In my opinion he was realizing that he needed Russia's help to beat Clinton and the Dems - because his campaign is in trouble and he realizes he's going to lose unless he has the help of some intervention - like the help of the Russians.

I disagree... sorta...

HOWEVER

It's what Al Franken calls "Kidding on the square." He's trying to make it seem like a "too absurd to happen" bit of snark..... but a real investigation shows ties to Russia so, even tho' it's meant as a deflection, it doesn't work because it too close to the truth. "Kidding on the square.... you making a joke, but you really mean it.


And of course 1st and foremost.... shit like that shouldn't even be said in jest, Trump, you moron!

He simply doesn't take governing or government seriously.

To try to backtrack now is too late.

Besides, just cue the video.

The emails jave been destroyed, the server is on the shelf somewhere in the fbi. Hack something that is not hackable to find something that does not exist? Trump was just throwing up some chum for everyone to go nuts to distract the convention. Worked like a charm unfortunately.

Yes, it's treason. Period.

And then the next day said, 'Aw shucks, I was only joking'. The Secret Service would just turn to each other and say, 'Oh, OK, we can ignore this guy'?

If I said, "Hillary would destroy the country and somebody needs to 'take her out'", and then later said, "Shucks, I never said that!"?

I don't bloody think so! I swear to God, the media is going to get tRump elected! And won't they be surprised when they dare to criticize something he says or does and he jerks their broadcast license and the only things we can watch on television is Faux News and reruns of old musicals and old cowboy and indian shows.

They're stuck outside, not allowed into his news conferences anymore. They had their credentials yanked - because they weren't "nice to him". I even heard that mentioned on MSNBC this morning. It's definitely a thing. But don't forget, he complained about Pox Noise and other candidates, too, who were going to feel his wrath because they weren't "nice to him."

You think that'd stop if he got elected?

We already saw a more veiled version of that during bush/cheney. They didn't come flat out an say it, though, but they certainly did it. And in a more subtle way. They created a climate where the news media became compromised and lost credibility, and was hamstrung in what they could or were willing to risk reporting.

1) People got fired. Woe to those who dared even to photograph or publish a photo showing the flag-draped coffins coming back from Iraq. Hell, the networks never even covered the return of those caskets to Dover AFB from overseas. Media blackout imposed. This shit even filtered down to local papers and local reporters in some cases. By then, though, it wasn't the White House. But it was the climate that White House created - that editorial boards felt WAY down the food chain.

2) Access was threatened. "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," Candy Crowley's "State of the Union" or whatever that show was called, on CNN - they dutifully had rummy and Contradicta and other bush/cheney people, including cheney himself, on EVERY DAMN SUNDAY. More reliably even than David Gregory could be counted on to have John McCain on every Sunday, so he was almost a show regular. Tim Russert wanted to protect his precious access, too. Went around a Georgetown cocktail party with his gooooooood friend Jack Welch, then the bigshot tycoon whose GE owned NBC, with a bush/cheney campaign button pinned to the INSIDE of his suit jacket. And whenever he ran into some GOPer at the party, he opened his jacket and flashed that button so they could see. Wink-wink, snicker-snicker. Jack Welch also personally wandered his li'l ol' way down to the NBC news control room on that election night. Just stood there. Didn't say a word. Didn't have to.

3) They faked their own "news." The bush/cheney White House had, as part of its media manipulation operations, staged their own "news." They set up a feed of produced news stories with generic lockouts ("I'm so-&-so, from Washington&quot , more often than not a pretty young girl doing the "reporting," and the packages ALWAYS carried the underlying message that bush/cheney wanted to spread. No matter what the so-called "story" was about. Those packages were offered, free, to every TV station in the country, and INVARIABLY, stations in smaller markets where there wasn't much of a news budget or a news department with a lot of staff, and they were GLAD to take these easy freebies. Just plug 'em in, and most of your viewers aren't sophisticated enough NOT to assume it was from CNN or some other outfit. They did the same sort of thing with willing accomplice Armstrong Williams.

4) "Working" the NYTimes. cheney had a pet. Her name was Judith Miller. She had been a fairly credible reporter at the NYTimes. The secretive cheney "Office of Special Plans" used her as a convenient plant. They'd slip her tips. She'd eagerly lap them up. She was prominent enough already that it was easy to simply slip her info and they knew she'd run with it. She, on the receiving end, was certainly fine with swallowing as many tips as possible from these higher-than-high unnamed "sources" that SHE had, that nobody else did. And she routinely got this stuff on the front page of the NYTimes, always above the fold, and usually two-columns wide. What cheney's Office of Special Plans was doing was called stovepiping. The way those bastards worked around more traditional and impartial CIA vetting of sources, they took raw, unfiltered, unveiled intel that happened to come from Ahmad Chalabi or others. There was one in particular who had a one-word nickname and I can't think of it at the moment (my mind keeps wanting to go to "Corkscrew" or some such thing, but that's not it).

5) Jeff Gannon. These bastards even had their own broadcast/online puppet. This fellow who came outta nowhere from some junk "news organization" called Talon News. I first saw that and thought - "TALON NEWS? What the fuck is "Talon News"??? He was a poseur, who actually operated out of those seamy "down in his mom's basement" websites, cranking out all kinds of subversive shit that had no basis in fact but certainly spread the message bush/cheney wanted to spread. He got frequent access to the White House, and it was suspected kkkarl rove was his patron, ordering day passes for him, which he used to enjoy the run of the place, and go wherever he felt like going, to talk to insiders and then shit it all back out via his fake "Talon News" site, but because of his access to White House insiders, he somehow got taken seriously. And by then, with Pox News and Drudge and Andrew Breitbart as willing fellow puppets, of course his "reports" got a lot of attention. And because they made air, they got an air of "credibility." Jeff Gannon was not his real name. But I watched him, seated IN WHITE HOUSE NEWS CONFERENCES, asking long-winded leading questions that then-spokesman Scott McClellan would answer at length, because little Scott was ALWAYS going to make a point to call on Jeff Gannon and thereby give him airtime and face time because these things were always televised live.

6) Helen Thomas. This should probably be part of point 1 or 2, actually, but she deserves a separate paragraph. She was the venerable journalist who reported since, I think, as far back as the JFK days, was the Dean of the White House Press Corps. She ALWAYS sat in the front row - on the aisle when these new conferences were held in a larger room. She worked for UPI. So it would be she up front, on one side of the aisle, and whoever was covering for the AP, up front, on the other side of the aisle. And by tradition, every news conference started with HER, asking the first question. And every news conference ended when SHE uttered the official "Thank you, Mr. President." That's how it went, for years. The woman was revered. A giant in the industry. A staple of every kind of White House-based coverage. But she started questioning the Iraq War build-up and its rationales. The White House was not pleased. Soon enough, she was quietly removed. And some of us started noticing that Helen Thomas is not only not starting every news conference, or even asking a question. She was shunted to the BACK OF THE ROOM. No longer even allowed her traditional seat! I suspect they didn't have her fired because they figured it'd look bad. But what really burned me up was that NOBODY in the White House Press Corps spoke up, or complained, or stood up for her. NO ONE. Let's just say - message received.

In a way, they also got to David Gregory. I could not help but notice how his coverage of bush/cheney changed. He had been pretty good as a White House correspondent. And when the news broke about dubya's phony armed service record, how he cheated the system and got a rare, coveted spot in the Texas Air National Guard that many other young men would nearly have killed for - to avoid having to go to Vietnam (daddy pulled strings) which he skated through and then bailed out early, not even bothering to serve his full enlistment, David Gregory started asking some really hard, pointed questions about it. I remember it almost seeming like a verbal jousting match between him and Scott McClellan. And then, suddenly, for no explicable reason, he stopped. No longer pursued that aggressive reporting on this touchy subject. Besides that was an election year. And whaddya know? Shortly after he somehow "changed direction" in his reporting, he landed the "Meet the Press" hosting job. Gee whiz. Can you say quid pro quo?

The combined effect was JUST what they wanted. Totally tore down any "credibility" in the news business. You no longer trusted what was being reported. If you knew what was going on, you were aghast. If you were a "civilian" the result was - it all just sorta washed over you and you no longer cared, because YOU no longer trusted it either. This scheme just tarnished the hell out of the news business. Pox Noise coming along with its aggressively and baldly slanted coverage - LOUDLY LABELED "FAIR AND BALANCED" in EVERY network promo, viewers just were left completely uniformed, gullible, and generally mistrusting of what they were seeing. It was DEVIOUSLY brilliant. And it worked like a charm. Particularly when coupled with a propaganda network that was nothing more than a copying machine for whatever, first, the republi-CONS, and then second, what bush/cheney wanted.

As a retired journalist, it just burned. It BURNED. I spent most of that horrendously disgusting and discouraging era almost literally seething! I swear - I still don't know how my husband put up with me!

But I'm not going to waste my time.

However, it should be noted that Helen Thomas was moved to the second row at the request of the White House Press Corp. That's why they didn't say anything to help her keep the seat; they ask her to give it up. Seating arrangements are not coordinated by the White House.

I'm with you. Leave the press alone.

Thank you for the info. To me, when I see, read, and hear of closing out the press, I run the other way in my opinion. Thanks again. I notice you are quite vocal. Thanks you for some education.

I couldn't believe Helen Thomas was treated that way. I remember meeting her at one regional conference where she was the keynote speaker. I was so intimidated I could hardly shake her hand - that was ME shaking like a leaf! I knew people in the White House Press Corps in DC. NONE of them spoke up. It was really discouraging and tremendously disappointing.

I'm certainly no ultimate arbiter of all things news. But if I had been running a news department at that time, and had been shut out of the White House, or had my credentials yanked, or one of my people had been moved out of his/her seat because of something we printed or aired, seems to me THAT would have been the lead story.

Remember the words of the Watergate guy: when nothing else makes sense, follow the money...


rocktivity

It's very offputting., not to mention completely unprofessional.

It does not matter who you are you need to be accountable for your actions and your words.

He is just another high school bully that feels they can say and do whatever they want without consequence.

This has to stop. The press needs to stand up to him especially when treated poorly.

Won't take the crap, and he's heard it all. How a bunch of talking heads think they can trivialize Trump's poisonous bombast in front of a man who recognizes it before they do is beyond me. This isn't journalism, it is watered-down sensationalism.

Did these fucks watch the Republican convention in Cleveland?

Hell, have they been watching either convention?

I think the first 2 days of this convention they were fully focused on the Bob's and their little tantrums and sensationalizing it. They then had a squirrel to chase yesterday to avoid watching the DNC, but then they quickly forgot about that and bounced to claiming the Democrats are bashing Don the Con.

when he exposes the medias double standard

He says it just like it is!

There are aware that this is a political campaign, right? This makes about as much sense was when the media got angry at Hillary for saying that the Republicans are her enemies.

Fuck them and fuck their faux "neutrality" which always seems to turn into attacks on the left.

No, you wouldn't. You're part of the party machine and you're going to be protected, no matter what.

Politicians, unfortunately, are held to a lower standard than the people they work for.

Seriously? After that clusterfuck of a GOP convention? Seriously? After Chris Christy's "guilty guilty" speech? They have the nerve to claim the DNC is bashing tRump at the expense of outlining policy? What a sad fucking joke CNN and the rest of what passes for media in the U.S. has become.

are the biggest whiners and cowards on earth.