On Wednesday night’s edition of NewsNation’s Dan Abrams Live, Hall joined Abrams to talk about what Hall called Fox’s “terrible, horrible no good, very bad week”:
DAN ABRAMS: So it has been a tumultuous week for Fox News. Are they reeling over there?
COLBY
HALL: I mean, you said it was a tough week. I think it was a terrible,
horrible no good, very bad week. I think the scale of this story. I
think they’re reeling and I think they’re acting very differently. I
don’t know if this is an existential crisis, but they’re treating it
that way. And I’ll say, Tucker, in the middle of all of these leaked
texts, the defamation lawsuit from Dominion. Tucker airing this sort of
whitewashing of January 6 attack on Monday and Tuesday came at the worst
possible time because, you know, they’re debating that they don’t lie.
And yet, Bret Baier and Republicans all, as you said, went after him.
And it’s really it’s beyond embarrassing. Will it be a tipping point?
We’ll see. I kind of doubt it, but it’s huge.
DAN
ABRAMS: Well, and they would maybe they wouldn’t say it publicly, but
they would probably cite the fact their ratings are still up. Right? I
mean, even in the past week.
COLBY HALL: Well,
I mean, they’ve gotten a ton of attention. And you know, what’s
fascinating to me is that they made the conscious decision to mislead
their audience, who are largely Trump voters and not really go after
never, ever really saying, I mean, there’s occasional examples. But when
the leading candidate for the Republican Party is consistently saying
that he, the election was robbed, that should be covered full-throated.
In fact, when Biden was in Selma on Sunday, he said that he was a civil
rights activist and immediately Fox News went to correct the record.
Trump is saying that the election was stolen and mum. So there’s a lot
of people that are willfully misled and they’re selling a lot of soap,
they’re making a ton of money and that’s what’s driving this.
What
do you think Glenneth Greenwald will do if his buddy Mother Tucker
Carlson becomes even more toxic? At some point, even The Great Glenneth
has to walk away, right?
HUFFINGTON POST notes
that Mother Tucker was pointing a finger at other last night, with the
other three and his thumb pointing at himself as he attacked liars:
But
many viewers saw a profound self-own in the comments of Carlson, who
has publicly whipped Fox News viewers into a frenzy of denial about the
2020 election and the ensuing attack on the Capitol. All the while,
documents released in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News
showed Carlson privately scorned Trump’s election lies and declared: “I hate him passionately.”
“Was he hosting a group therapy session on self-awareness and self-compassion?” one person on Twitter asked.
Glenneth Greenwald's good buddy Mother Tucker. He's a liar and birds of a feather . . .
In a letter to chairman Kentucky Rep. James Comer, ranking Democrat Jamie Raskin urged all Republicans to join committee Democrats in
signing a draft pledge denouncing "white nationalism and white
supremacy," as well the use of related conspiracy theories, including
the "Great Replacement" theory during committee hearings. A spokesperson
for the committee Republicans said the letter was an attempt to
"distract" from the Biden administration's record on border crossings.
This
is not the first time that Republicans have been urged to denounce
white supremacy. In 2022, when Democrats were in control of the House, a
resolution was brought forward in the wake of a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, to condemn "in strongest terms" the great replacement theory, a far-right claim that white Americans are purposely being replaced as the dominant race in the country by minorities and immigrants for political gain.
Raskin
said that during previous meetings discussing immigration at the
U.S.-Mexico border, Republican lawmakers expressed "dangerous and
conspiratorial" rhetoric which echoed the "racist and nativist tropes"
peddled by white supremacists and far-right extremists.
In
his letter, Raskin said the GOP now has another opportunity to "take a
public stand against the deliberate amplification of dangerous racist
rhetoric that has had deadly consequences in this country" and arrives as the GOP-led House looks to further scrutinize the Biden administration's handling of illegal immigration.
They
use the crackpot theories to scare people into voting for them so they
won't denounce 'the great replacement' theory and other nonsense.
That's just how it is. How very pathetic and sad of them that they are
unable to denounce racism. They are a danger to the country, that is
reality. Use the link to the NEWSWEEK story to read a full list of the
26 Republicans in the House who refuse to denounce racism.
On the topic of Republicans, S. E. Cupps (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) notes that many are not silently going on with the idiot Tucker Carlson and his nonsense on FOX NEWS:
A number of GOP lawmakers aren’t holding back about the absurdity of Carlson’s revisionist history.
“To somehow put [Jan. 6] in the same category as a permitted peaceful protest is just a lie,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer.
“I
think it’s bulls---,” said Sen. Thom Tillis. “I was here. I was down
there and I saw maybe a few tourists, a few people who got caught up in
things. But when you see police barricades breached, when you see police
officers assaulted, all of that — if you were just a tourist you
should’ve probably lined up at the visitors’ center and came in on an
orderly basis.”
“I thought it was an insurrection at that time. I still think it was an insurrection today,” said Sen. Mike Rounds.
Sen.
Mitt Romney was also pointed: “It’s a very dangerous thing to do, to
suggest that attacking the Capitol of the United States is in any way
acceptable and it’s anything other than a serious crime, against
democracy and against our country. And people saw that it was violent
and destructive and should never happen again. But trying to normalize
that behavior is dangerous and disgusting.”
Even Fox News seems to be shying away from Carlson’s freakish sideshow act. As Mediaite’s Colby Hall pointed out,
the rest of the network’s shows completely ignored the revelations,
seemingly opting not to boost the lame and embarrassing gimmick.
Then there’s this scathing statement from
the family of Brian Sicknick, the police officer who died one day after
defending the Capitol against violent insurrectionists:
“The
Sicknick Family would love nothing more than to have Brian back with us
and to resume our normal lives. Fictitious news outlets like Fox and
its rabid followers will not allow that. Every time the pain of that day
seems to have ebbed a bit, organizations like Fox rip our wounds wide
open again and we are frankly sick of it. Leave us the hell alone and
instead of spreading more lies from Supreme Leader Trump, why don’t you
focus on real news?”
Glenneth Greenwald loves Tucker. Tara Reade loves Tucker. Jimmy Dore loves Tucker. All the loons and grifters love Tucker.
Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Joe Biden needs to do his job and stop
delegating the presidential role to others, Marianne Williamson needs to
get her act and her campaign together or stop wasting everyone's time,
does Marjorie Taylor Green really want to live by her interpretation of
the Bible, and much more.
As we noted in yesterday's snapshot, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III made an unannounced trip to Baghdad.
All this time later, US officials have to sneak into Iraq. REUTERS notes:
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, making an unannounced trip to Iraq
on Tuesday nearly 20 years after the US-led invasion that toppled
Saddam Hussein, said Washington was committed to keeping its military
presence in the country.
The 2003 invasion led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi
civilians and created instability that eventually paved the way for the
rise of Islamic State militants after the US withdrew its forces in
2011.
I'm sorry, Lloyd ran for what office? The American people voted him to be what?
Nothing.
He's nothing.
Why the hell is he making the announcement?
He's
an appointee, he's not been elected anything by the American people,
let alone President of the United States. That's who an announcement
like that needs to come from.
An announcement
that US troops are still going to be in Iraq needs to come from the US
President, not some flunky that no one ever voted for. The secretary?
If DISNEY has a big announcement to make, it's coming from Bob Iger, not Susana Barraza.
The
news itself is disgusting, the manner of delivery was shameful. If Joe
doesn't want to get honest with the people himself, I think he's just
made clear he shouldn't be running for re-election.
Sadly, there doesn't seem to be much choice on the Democratic side.
What's that? Oh, well she's going to need a thicker skin. Marianne Williamson ran for the 2020 Democratic Party
presidential nomination. She did make some strong comments in one
debate. The business woman with no political experience has now announced she is running for the 2024 Democratic
Party presidential nomination. This makes her the first -- and only --
candidate to announce that they're running. Her name came up in
Monday's White House press briefing. She is not amused.
She had a lot of words in the news cycle yesterday.
I supposed we could spend time stringing them together into a coherent statement but I don't work for her.
You're
begging for jokes, Marianne, and I'm trying to be nice to you. You
make a statement several sentences long? Then you issue it as a press
release. It's not anyone's job to do the transcription that you and
your campaign are too lazy to do. Do you have campaign workers or are you just farming it out to your assistant?
Let's go to an actual transcript, this is from Monday's White House press briefing:
Q
All right. And one other topic. Former President Trump said over the
weekend in his CPAC comments mul- — multiple things. One thing he said
to his supporters was, “I am your justice. And for those who have been
wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.” Does the White House have
a response to that?
MS.
JEAN-PIERRE: As you know, because of — he is a 2024 candidate and we
are covered here by the Hatch Act, I’m just not going to comment on
those — on the words that he — the speech that he made — the speech this
weekend.
Due to The Hatch Act, she's not commenting. Wise move. Much later in the briefing, this exchange took place:
Q Okay. And then, just real quick —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah.
Q
— I know you’re probably going to say Hatch Act is restricting you in
this, but is the President annoyed, frustrated with Marianne Williamson
for jumping in the race ahead of him? Did he want to clear field to run
against the Republican nominee in 2024?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Just not tracking that. I mean, if I had a — what is it called? — a little — a little globe here —
Q Crystal ball.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: — a crystal ball that I can tell you. But I — I —
Q A Magic 8 Ball.
MS.
JEAN-PIERRE: A Magic 8 Ball, whatever. (Laughter.) If I could feel
her aura. I just — (laughter) — I just don’t have anything. I just
don’t have anything to share on that.
(Laughs.) Gosh, you guys are making me laugh now. (Laughter.)
Is it respectful?
No,
it's not. Guess what, SNL mocked you repeatedly in 2020. No one has
to take you seriously. No one owes that to you. The spokesperson and
the press were being silly.
It
really wasn't the end of the world. And you should be glad they were
talking about things that don't have anything to do with you (you've
never spoken or written of crystal balls) and not about your 'medical'
belief on AIDS, for example. I think, honestly, that will kill your campaign if the
press decides to go there. It's all in the head, right, Marianne? Just
need that positive thinking -- COURSE OF MIRACLES and all that. You're
one of Oprah's spiritual advisors -- so was Jeremiah Wright. Don't
think either of you have earned all that much respect in the eyes of many Americans.
You want respect? Get your act together and issue an actual statement and not a Tweet. Issue it and post at your campaign website.
Marianne Williamson 2024 | Official Presidential Campaign Website
Create a new beginning. Support profound, positive, peaceful change in America for generations to come. Marianne...
If you don't take yourself seriously, don't whine that others refuse to.
Again, I
could assemble a statement based upon media reports. But that's not my
job. And let me make clear for this presidential cycle: I don't care.
"I'm
ignored." "I'm shunted to the side." "I'm . . ." Just shut up. Every
presidential election cycle I have wasted my time treating everyone
equal. Even handsy John Edwards got treated equal until he dropped out
and then I noted it wasn't a surprise that he'd cheat on Elizabeth. While he
was in the race, I hinted but never wrote about the pass that he seemed
to think I would enjoy and that he seemed to think was how you 'reward'
a donor. I was not impressed and, in real life, I wasn't silent. Told
Elizabeth she needed to lock him in the backyard and put him on a
leash.
I'm done with
pathetic candidates who say they want to be president but go a whole
week or two without a single press release, video or even Tweet. I'm
sick of having to dig around to include your campaign when we note other
presidential campaigns -- usually daily in the snapshots.
I'm done. And I'm also done covering everything equally.
We're
in the midst of a war on LGBTQ+ people. Saturday, I believe it was
Saturday, some vets for Trump sent a press release. In the past, I
would've posted it. I would've seen it as information people needed to
be aware of. I'm not there now. Donald attacked the LGBTQ+ community.
Done with it.
Don't
care about your Libertarian campaigns. Done with those. (The only
exception being Adam Kokesh. He did so much with regards to Iraq that I
will always note him.)
Don't care about any Jill Stein campaign. What a loser.
We
were supposed to, for example, infer that presidential candidate was against wars -- infer
since neither she nor her campaign -- in 2012 or 2016 -- could note the
ongoing wars.
I'm not interested in your fake assery. If I do start to cover a 2024 campaign and they start fake assing, I'm done.
Not
going to cover any WSWS candidate because they don't run serious
campaigns. If you're not talking about real issues and trying to get
them into the campaign conversation by using your own media platform,
I'm not wasting time doing it for you.
I've had with these lazy candidates that I'm expected to coddle and baby just because I believe in fairness.
Done.
It's over.
Run
a real campaign if you want to be covered. Jill Steins, Dario Hunters,
et al, you can continue to waste your own time but I'll be damned if I'm
going to let you ever again waste mine. You whine very good after the
fact, you just don't know how to run.
If Howie Hawkins runs, we'll note it.
He ran a real campaign in 2020. And find one Green Party candidate that has ever done what he did after the election.
Disappear?
No, that's what all the others did.
Howie
has spent every week raising real issues on YOUTUBE. He continued his
campaign channel and has not tried to play like he's the little brother
of the Democratic Party. He's addressed real issues and he's done that
at least once a week -- sometimes more than that. If the Green Party
ever expects to get anywhere in the United States, it needs to have that
kind of drive.
Marianne's
starting out a joke. It doesn't help that Krystal Ball felt the need to
spit on everyone while screaming, "GROW UP!" You first, Krystal, you
first. People like her never grasp how their drama and flame wars
impact their candidate and impact how people see the candidate.
"Is it about any woman who speaks out of turn."
Marianne's quoted saying that and insisting that she's running as a woman.
Huh?
Were you previously non-binary? How else would you, a cis gender woman, run for office if not as a woman?
I can't wrap my functional brain around your vast stupidity.
It
appears she just kept throwing around the term "woman" because she
wanted to draw attention to the fact that while others would take on a
political rival for office, she's going to be petty and go after an
underling. If that's not the case, that's why you
issue a full statement in text form, so that if you're words are
misconstrued -- intentionally or accidentally, your supporters can find
out exactly what you were saying.
You
clearly jumped the gun announcing a campaign that is non-functional at
present. Stop embarrassing yourself on the national stage -- meaning:
Get your act together or drop out of the race.
I
thought you were embarrassing, Marianne. I've just been told, as I dictate this, that on
your campaign site on "Issues," you don't even have war listed. Or
peace. Because you're a [insert curse word of choice here] idiot.
I
have no interest in your race at all. The US has been starting wars
for decades now and not finishing them. If you can't address that,
you're not fit to run as the 'alternative' to Joe Biden -- Joe who at
least ended the Afghanistan War.
If you need another perspective on Marianne, you can refer to THE VANGUARD clip below.
Gavin
and Zac are trying to make her happen. I'm not. If she wants to get
her act together and actually run a real campaign, she might be of
value. I'm not aware of how her whining "I am woman" in that inept
manner is helping anyone. Is she calling out the collapse of
reproductive rights? No. Is she offering a way out of these forever
wars? No. She's wasting her time.
Let's note her Tweet.
First
off, I'm not sure that selective editing of the spokesperson words
qualifies as 'respectful.' But let's note her defender. She might seem
like kind of a joke but so did --
Who do you
think your audience is? I didn't vote for Reagan and I didn't vote for
Donald. Nor would I ever. So telling me "seriously" that she could be
another Donald or Ronnie isn't winning me to your side, they weren't
qualified.
Second, Ronald Reagan wasn't "a
retired cowboy movie star." As an actor, you're your most famous role.
That's not a cowboy. On film, it's BEDTIME FOR BONZO or THE HASTY
HEART -- and those aren't cowboys. Maybe HELLCATS OF THE NAVY.
Certainly, the most watched film he made was his small role in Bette
Davis' DARK VICTORY.
Third, when he ran for
the presidency, he was a former two term governor of the state of
California. Though not a film role, that's kind of a big credit to have
on your resume.
Marianne's followers are coming off as stupid as she is.
And where there is stupidity, there is MTG.
Yesterday, Majorie Taylor Greene took her sad, unhappy
and pathetic life (that divorce really isn't helping) to the floor of
the House of Representatives to rage against drag queens because they
are, after all, much, much prettier than her. Sweat dripping from the
oversized pores of her pock marked face, Marjorie yelled that God didn't
make mistakes. Prior the emergence of Marjorie Taylor Greene on the
public stage, I would've agreed with that statement. Now? I mean, look
at her. Poor thing. If God doesn't make mistakes, Marjorie, what was
your marriage? And if you're so enthralled with the words of the Bible,
why are you divorcing? Doesn't that make you an adulteress, Marjorie?
That is what Matthew 5: 31 through 32 says. And, Marjorie, isn't the
Bible very clear on what happens to adulteresses? Stoning, I believe.
Am I wrong, Marjorie?
You
want to bring your interpretation of religion into America's House of
Representatives? Fine. Let me know when to show up with rocks and pass
them out to your peers so they can stone you. It's what God wants -
right, Marjorie?
I expect
Marjorie to be a good little Christian soldier and stand there patiently
while Lauren Boebert and Marjorie's other fellow Christian illiterates
take the time to stone her.
The Bible is not a buffet, Marjorie. If you're going to be a strict interpreter of it then live by the page, die by the page.
Of course, she won't.
She's
a hypocrite who wants mercy for herself but the harshest punishment for
anyone else. I need to know who the fools are that keep voting this
monster into Congress. She's not representing you and she's not working
for you. If you honestly embrace the hate she's preaching, you better
grasp that the country long ago passed you by.
Ron DeSantis is disgusting and he always does look like he's taking a dump -- resting dump face.
Bonnie asked if I could note a new video that she loves. It's Tyler Rich's "I Know You Do."
That's a nice song, Bonnie. Thanks for e-mailing about it. I love Chase Rice but he's really the only country artist that I seek out so I would've completely missed the song if you hadn't e-mailed.
While noting songs, I have another I have to note. My daughter's in love with "Sugar Sweet" by Benson Boone.
"I bet you think you're honey tastes like sugar/ Honey, sugar don't taste that bitter/ Baby, you ain't sweet/ Look at what you did to me" -- I think I know every word in that song because my daughter can't stop singing it. :D
Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III sneaks
into Iraq, Glenneth Greenwald loves pretending he knows something but
the crazies praising Donald Trump's coded speech apparently haven't let
him on their own separation from reality, and much more.
Let's start with Lloyd Austin III, the US Secretary of Defense. He's gone to Baghdad. Colin McCullough (CNN) reports, "Austin, the highest-ranking Cabinet official to visit the country since the start of the Biden
administration, according to the press pool, said in a statement that
he is in Iraq to 'reaffirm the US-Iraq strategic partnership as we move
toward a more secure, stable and sovereign Iraq'." Idrees Ali and Amina Ismail (REUTERS) note,
he visited with Prime Minister Moahmmed al-Sudani and that the the
secretary declared, "U.S. forces are ready to remain in Iraq at the
invitation of the
government of Iraq." Chenar Chalak (RUDAW) adds, "The United States’ only purpose in Iraq is its focus on ensuring the
defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS), said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
following his arrival in the capital Baghdad on Tuesday, as the 20th
anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq approaches."
Lloyd announced the visit on Twitter.
He announced it after he landed. In fact "unannounced visit" is a detail pretty much all the reports include.
What a glorious moment for a coward.
We've
covered Iraq for years now. It's the "unannounced" that's the story
this morning. A day or two less than two weeks from the 20th
anniversary from the start of the Iraq War, not only are US troops still
on the ground in Iraq -- with Lloyd insisting they're going to remain
there -- but US officials still have to sneak into the country.
If
you don't get the reality of the war and what the Iraqi people think of
the US, there it is. US officials have to sneak into the country.
Glorious cowards all of them.
The US Ambassador to Iraq Tweets the following nonsense:
Not
only had Lloyd been in the country for hours -- with the secretary
having posted it on his own Twitter feed over four hours prior -- but
he's also meeting with Nechirvan Barzani. When Alina leaves that out
of her Tweets it does register and it has. The US has an ambassador
currently who is being seen as anti-Kurd. That really doesn't happen
for US ambassadors but it's happening with Alina and it's not due to
those ugly circles under her eyes -- take some vitamin D -- it's
happening because nearly every time she Tweets, she shortchanges the
Kurds. It's becoming a very big issue.
There's
another issue in the Tweets about the visit -- not her Tweets -- that
we'll probably deal with tomorrow. I'm just not in the mood to go into
it today.
We'll note that Iran's TASNIM is reporting of the visit:
The Fatah (Conquest) Alliance in Iraq's
parliament emphasized the need for expelling all American troops during
an unannounced visit by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to Baghdad on
Tuesday.
Fatah
Alliance lawmaker Karim Aliwi said that the issue of expelling US
troops is not a factional decision but rather a "definitive" and
"national option." He added that efforts are ongoing at both public and
political levels to conclude the case of US forces' presence on Iraqi
soil. "There will be no negligence or hesitation in expelling the
Americans," Aliwi told Iraq's al-Maluma news agency.
Let's
move over to the great Glenneth Greenwald. He's laughing at Don Lemon
because Don's a sexist (as though Glenn's not?), he's such an idiot.
(That's not a defense of Don Lemon, CNN needs to realize he's harming
their ratings.) Glenneth also goes after an art critic because the
critic has reached their saturation level with Republicans calling for
lynchings and the "eradication" of transpersons. It really is more than
enough for this country -- unless you're Glenneth who, of course, chose
not to live in this country. Glenneth says a journalist can't do what
the critic is doing -- removing all Republicans from his life.
Actually, an art critic can do just that, Glenneth, you're just yet
again sporting your stupidity. There's not a movement led by
Republicans or conservatives in the art world.
But we mention that to lead up to this nonsense from Glenneth.
Does Glenneth have any idea?
No, I don't think he does.
"He
had his head chopped off and opened up for some reason or something
like that. It is really disturbing what is going on there."
What's that about?
That's
a QAnon loony tune show on BITCHUTE called JUSTINFORMED TALK -- a
religious extremist program apparently and, for the record, I don't
think Jesus needs you to dress like Patty Hearst in her Tania phase.
But, hey, you do you and we'll all pretend it's not a form of drag --
even though it is.
When JUSTINFORMED TALK (that
is how they run it together) speaks of "He had his head chopped off
and opened up for some reason or something like that. It is really
disturbing what is going on there," he's speaking of Joe Biden. Is the
host a con artist or is that ill in the head that he honestly believes
Joe Biden had his head chopped off?
Glenneth
wants you to know that he knows why Donald Trump got the reception he
received over the weekend at that hate-bash. But really it's because
Donald spoke in dog whistles that the other crazies picked up on. And
JUSTINFORMED TALK wants to decode it for you so you know that "DeSantis
is as deep state as it gets."
If Glenneth truly
knows about why Donald got embraced by the crazies, please, write about
it. Because I don't need to watch crazy ass QAnon garbage. I'd been
lucky enough to avoid it until this morning. Someone e-mailed asking if
I'd seen how crazy these people really were? I had no idea.
I
thought they had a different take on things than I did. But I didn't
know they believed that whatever walks around calling itself Joe Biden
is a thing that had its head chopped off -- and yet still walks around.
Deep state? Try deep s**t crazy.
JUSTINFORMED
TALK wants you to know that Donald is sending out "key information out
to everyone" -- you just use your decoder ring, apparently.
"I
think Q is great, I think Q is necessary." I think we do need to know
about these crazies. I think the more we know about them, the more the
majority of the American people will reject these crazies.
"They
want us divided!" says the crazy host of JUSTINFORMED TALK. We heard
that garbage from RAGE AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE, remember?
And that group hosted transphobes.
And the people like JUSTINFORMED TALK insist that others "wants us divided."
But these crazies get together and there they are dividing -- calling for the "eradication" of transgender persons.
They
are deep in their own crazy and rooting on Steve Bannon's speech
instead of fact checking it. The KGB isn't even around anymore. Does
no one grasp that was the intelligence apparatus for the Soviet Union?
How stupid are these people?
Watch DEMOCRACY NOW! below for the reality of that hate-fest.
