Simeon Salus
Simeon Salus's JournalLooks like there WAS a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy after all
In 1996, Richard Mellon Scaife Scaife paid freelancer Christopher Ruddy to write about the Vince Foster case for the Tribune-Review and other right-leaning media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#Opposition_to_Bill_Clinton
Folks made fun of First Lady Hillary Clinton when she used the phrase on the Today show in 1998.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy
Today, Christopher Ruddy is the CEO of Newsmax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ruddy
Mark W. Smith even wrote a joking 2006 book about it: Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_W._Smith
In his book Smith recommended "...conservatives start using "liberal" tactics, identified as judicial activism, rather than stay with the more typical conservative tactics such as judicial restraint, strict construction, or originalism..."
I know those of us who've watched it at work for years are boggled that most Americans don't see it. But now we're faced with the reality. Hillary's words made a great media catchphrase, but she was the first to say it out loud and be made fun of for it.
Lewis Black on voting in America
New video featuring an inspirational essay Lewis Black wrote back in 1986 when he was not yet quite so jaded.
This year GOPs at all levels of government have made it clear they have no interest is solving the country's problems
They are running for election on those problems. They raise money on those problems. In many cases Republicans have caused those exact problems by refusing to legislate.
Repukes don't believe that government is helpful; when they do legislate, they craft bills in such a way as to keep the government from being optimally helpful, usually in favor of profit optimization.
For them all government=bad, all companies=good.
They believe a company can do no wrong and the government can do no right. This is what they've trained to see.
And they have a Supreme Court which will continue to move us that way no matter what the electorate has to say.
Trump is "...trying to offend us..." Who are you calling "us", David Brooks?
A brief rant at David Brooks, millionaire columnist at the New York Times:
Over the many years you've been wrong time after time. You're NEVER right. I can set my watch by it.
Clinton, Jethro Bush, the market crash, Obamacare, Romney, you're always wrong.
Then TFG came along.
This year third-generation immigrant Trumpf has used you over and over like a rancid handi-wipe. And you got paid for that use. You got paid to look down your nose at him, your particular function at the Times.
David Brooks (who lives in a fortified garden) makes a commentary today that Americans live in walled garden. What a revelation! This is the sort of writer who actually uses the disparaging phrase "flyover country" in his editorials.
Occasionally, you deign to dip your toes in the waters of flyover land, David, savoring the edible food and always making a big thing about how the people are "authentic".
What did you discover in a christian nationalist church? That members were honestly moved by their sincere religious beliefs?
GOOD CHRIST, MAN! The residents of Salem, Massachusetts colony were honestly moved by their spiritual beliefs. Jim Jones's believers drank poisoned Flavor-aid because of their sincere religious beliefs. The Pharisees and Sadducees were honestly moved by their spiritual beliefs. Where does it F&*KING END?
David Brooks, you should be careful when you include yourself in a group which wouldn't have you.
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