Going to be a big door swinging in Washington DC
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deltex1
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Russia....Schumer as clown...now this? I am horrified.......
When I've used "rightard" it's usually on response to libtard which gets irritating. I don't see MSM as a single category because it varies in accuracy and bias, not just in terms of ideology but in a currency. Some outlets do better jobs then others at covering certain topics. In my opinion, most still do a better job then some of the "fake news" sites on the right and the left because those have zero accountability and play on an emotional level. I have to admit, I am now much more skeptical of NYT from here on. I have always liked NPR because they are one of the few agencies that still do in depth reporting on issues. Throughout the election they covered all sides, talked with voters around the country in a respectful engaging manner, putting down no one. I learned more about people on both sides then any where else, as people - not ignorant, not America hating, etc. People with real concerns, fears, and hopes. That's a refreshing change from the demonizing that seems the norm.
defcon4
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Libtard...libtard...libtard....
My only issue with that is we have to guess at intent. Fake news, to me is like conspiracy theory, either fabricated or false links made between facts. Either way, the NYT created a false conclusion by leaving out info. I think it just means I have to be critical and fact check before assuming accuracy and getting good outraged.
Tresha91203
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Tresha91203
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Much of Pravda has truth in it. It is still take news IMO. When "news" intentionally misrepresents fact to steer public opinion, it is not news. News is information. False information is false news.
Tilly
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Guests of Matthew Barzun - US Ambassador to London, at their celebratory election party in the Embassy early hours of Nov 9th 
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Election party in London turns into a wake: US ambassador sees his 'celebration' wrecked by Trump win - and now he's set to lose his job too | Daily Mail Online
:Election party in London turns into a wake: US ambassador sees his 'celebration' wrecked by Trump win - and now he's set to lose his job too | Daily Mail Online
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Real news is not very exciting. In fact it can be downright boring. Therefore, all media outlets embellish the news in various ways in order to catch the attention of the public. This has been going on a long time.
In the early days of radio and tv, the FCC required stations to devote about 10% of their airtime to public service. Most stations considered this a real blow feeling their audiences would desert them during these messages. They considered the news as being the best way of fulfilling the FCC requirement and still keeping their audience tuned in. No one ever really though audiences would like the news. It was something to do while you waited for the entertainment.
By the mid 20th century, a significant portion of audiences were drawn to commentators such as Edward R Murrow, Gabriel Heater, Walter Winchell, and Paul Harvey. These programs were isolated from the real news. They were a cross between entertainment and news. Networks executives did not fail to notice that these commentators were drawing significant audiences. Network executives, seeing this decided that news could be made entertaining and eventually develop enough of an audience to operate at a profit. Within a decade that is exactly what they did.
Over the years, news programs spent less time worrying about details and facts and more time on human interest. If a story was to get on the evening news it had to be entertaining. If had to have a message. By the end of the century, news programs were well on their way to becoming entertainment. Within ten years, cable news and broadcast news had merged commentary and news together in such a way that it was often difficult to tell where the news ended and commentary began.
What was once a medium to inform the public of news stories has become not just part of the stories but a force that actually creates the stories.
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HenryBHough
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OK, so under President Trump some political hacks get to join the ranks of the unemployed.
Had Hillary been elected they might have stayed on the job longer. At least until they got murdered while Her Thighness sat on the throne smirking.
Surely one or two of them understand they're better off?
Had Hillary been elected they might have stayed on the job longer. At least until they got murdered while Her Thighness sat on the throne smirking.
Surely one or two of them understand they're better off?
American_Jihad
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Brits got there's, we got ours, canoduh will get there big swinging door in 2019, and the europeeons will get there's in the next 5 yrs...
/---- Don't be surprised if democRATS use this as an excuse to Impeach Trump. They did the same thing to GWB and his judges. Liberals are evil.You're fired, the door can't be big enough, good riddance...
In Break With Past, Obama Ambassadors Are Told to Quit Posts by Inauguration Day
The New York Times
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS 3 hrs ago
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. “Political” ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts.
A senior Trump transition official said there was no ill will in the move, describing it as a simple matter of ensuring that Mr. Obama’s overseas appointees leave the government on schedule, just as thousands of political aides at the White House and in federal agencies must do. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about internal deliberations, said the ambassadors should not be surprised about being held to a hard end date.
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In Break With Past, Obama Ambassadors Are Told to Quit Posts by Inauguration Day
/---- "Her Thighness" - I love it. Can I steal that line?
Tresha91203
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Brits got there's, we got ours, canoduh will get there big swinging door in 2019, and the europeeons will get there's in the next 5 yrs...
It is a global trend to be sure. I'm not so sure the Canadians are ready to swing right. The Brits and Americans are more than ready, so the pendulum swings. You might be right about Canada, but I think it will be in one of the 2020's elections.
Tilly
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I watched an interview with Barzun on either BBC or Sky, within days of Trumps epic win. For someone who graduated from ? Harvard, he seemed to be rather slow-witted and appears to have a very limited vocabulary. However, he was under no illusion that he'd be vacating the premises ASAP, in that it is 'normal' to do so when your team failed to get elected and secure your post, and he was quite pragmatic about it.
All he really wanted to talk about was his huge collection of crap vinyl music
. Let's hope Trump does better with these appointments.
All he really wanted to talk about was his huge collection of crap vinyl music
. Let's hope Trump does better with these appointments.
Since impeachment requires a majority vote in the House to bring charges, which democrats don't have and a 2/3 vote in Senate which democrats don't have, exactly how are they going to impeach Trump./---- Don't be surprised if democRATS use this as an excuse to Impeach Trump. They did the same thing to GWB and his judges. Liberals are evil.You're fired, the door can't be big enough, good riddance...
In Break With Past, Obama Ambassadors Are Told to Quit Posts by Inauguration Day
The New York Times
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS 3 hrs ago
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. “Political” ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts.
A senior Trump transition official said there was no ill will in the move, describing it as a simple matter of ensuring that Mr. Obama’s overseas appointees leave the government on schedule, just as thousands of political aides at the White House and in federal agencies must do. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about internal deliberations, said the ambassadors should not be surprised about being held to a hard end date.
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In Break With Past, Obama Ambassadors Are Told to Quit Posts by Inauguration Day
If Trump screws up, his own party in congress will impeach him. They didn't want him elected because he didn't have either the experience or temperament and Trump has done nothing to convince them otherwise.
usmbguest5318
Gold Member
If you consider the Carter presidency part of the modern pantheon of U.S. Presidents, his daughter too was school age during his Presidency. Indeed, there was a lot of "to do" about what school she'd attend. (He sent her first to D.C. public schools and later to Holton Arms.)
Yup and every elected POTUS has done the very same thing.
Looks, like that big swinging door swings both direction. Trump may find it hits him in the ass as it did Flynn.You're fired, the door can't be big enough, good riddance...
In Break With Past, Obama Ambassadors Are Told to Quit Posts by Inauguration Day
The New York Times
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS 3 hrs ago
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. “Political” ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts.
A senior Trump transition official said there was no ill will in the move, describing it as a simple matter of ensuring that Mr. Obama’s overseas appointees leave the government on schedule, just as thousands of political aides at the White House and in federal agencies must do. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about internal deliberations, said the ambassadors should not be surprised about being held to a hard end date.
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In Break With Past, Obama Ambassadors Are Told to Quit Posts by Inauguration Day
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