. . . you do! Remind me of a man . . . (same ole 'repeat it enough and it will be believed-BY SOME)
(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/white-house-looks-both-be-impeachment-fray-appear-above-it-n1081946)
". . . White House aides and advisers said they believed that the first day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry Wednesday hadn't been enough to change the minds of the public — or that of any Republicans in the Senate — as President Donald Trump tried to portray himself as someone mostly, at least for the moment, away from the fray. . . One White House aide called the day a "nothing-burger.” Others close to the White House said they doubted the testimony would alter anyone's opinion — even as they acknowledged that acting Ukrainian Ambassador Bill Taylor came across as a credible witness. . . “Not one Senate vote was changed today,” said one person close to the White House. . ."
(from https://crooksandliars.com/2018/07/maddow-official-helsinki-video-and)
". . . The White House literally deleted this question and the corresponding answer from the official record: Reuters reporter, Jeff Mason asked Putin: "Did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?". . . Putin responded: “Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S./Russia relationship back to normal,.". . . THE WHITE HOUSE IS LITERALLY TRYING TO ERASE HISTORY. . . As George Orwell said in his dystopian novel, 1984: "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes & ears. It was their final, most essential command" - Orwell, "1984". . . "
(From https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Trump-Phony-Sources-Vets-Border-Stats-483841531.html)
TRUMP, on a possible summit with North Korea: "The Failing @nytimes quotes 'a senior White House official,' who doesn't exist, as saying 'even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.' WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources." — tweet Saturday.
THE FACTS: Actually, the source does exist. The White House official addressed a group of reporters as part of a background briefing arranged by the White House press office. . . While Trump has criticized the use of unidentified sources and labeled information related by anonymous officials "fake news," his White House regularly arranges briefings with officials who demand anonymity before relaying information. An Associated Press reporter in attendance at last week's briefing questioned why it was not on the record — meaning that the official's name could be used. The official said Trump had been talking publicly that day and so the briefing was intended to provide "background context."
TRUMP: "This whole Russia Probe is Rigged. Just an excuse as to why the Dems and Crooked Hillary lost the Election and States that haven't been lost in decades. 13 Angry Democrats, and all Dems if you include the people who worked for Obama for 8 years. #SPYGATE & CONFLICTS OF INTEREST!" — tweet Saturday.
THE FACTS: Trump's suggestion that the investigations into Russia meddling are "phony" and have yielded nothing is incorrect. So far, four Trump associates have been charged in Mueller's investigation, of whom three have pleaded guilty to lying to the authorities. Among them are Michael Flynn, former White House national security adviser, and Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide. Overall, 19 people, including 13 Russians, have been charged. (in response to additional Tweets) He refers to Mueller's team as "13 angry Democrats," but Mueller is a Republican and some others on his team owe their jobs largely to Republican presidents. Mueller did not work for President Barack Obama for eight years, as Trump states, but was FBI chief for less than six years under Obama, leaving in September 2013. He was nominated to be FBI director by Republican President George W. Bush in 2001.
TRUMP: "We've done a lot of work on the wall. We're doing a lot of work on security, generally speaking, security and border — border security. The border's down over 40 percent, and don't forget, we have a great economy, probably the best economy the country's ever had. So people come across, but we're going to get the rest." — interview broadcast Thursday with "Fox & Friends."
THE FACTS: Illegal crossings actually are up 20 percent since he became president, according to the yardstick he uses to measure them — the number of Border Patrol arrests. There is no precise measure of illegal crossings because some people don't get caught. The Trump administration uses arrests as the best gauge of whether crossings are going up or down. The Obama administration did likewise.
TRUMP: "This week, we passed a new landmark legislation to give more choice and better care to our great veterans. We're going to take care of our veterans. We're doing a great job with them. We are taking care, finally after decades, we're taking care of our veterans." — speech Friday.
THE FACTS: Congress passed a wide-ranging plan last week to expand private care for veterans as an alternative to the Veterans Affairs health system, but it'll take at least a year to implement and its actual scope in expanding choice to veterans will depend on the next VA secretary, who has yet to be confirmed. A successful expansion of private care will also depend on an overhaul of electronic health records at VA to allow for a seamless sharing of records with private physicians. That overhaul will take at least 10 years to be fully complete. The legislation would also expand a VA caregivers program to cover families of veterans of all eras, not just the families of veterans who were seriously injured in the line of duty since Sept. 11, 2001. Implementation of that program won't begin until after the VA secretary can provide assurances to Congress that the department's IT systems can handle a surge in new applicants. A phased rollout of benefits won't be fully finished until more than two years afterward.
(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmaker-anger-builds-after-white-house-aide-mocks-dying-mccain-n873406)
". . . one of President Donald Trump's aides, Kelly Sadler. . . mockingly referred to Sen. John McCain's brain cancer diagnosis during a White House meeting. . . During a White House meeting on Thursday, Sadler reacted to McCain's announcement that he opposes Gina Haspel’s nomination as CIA director because of her involvement in the agency's enhanced interrogation program. . ."
. . . His Orangeness should have received the same furor a long time ago. If he had, maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess now!
. . . the truth (of some of the observations in Michelle Wolf's routine) may just be too hard to take . . .
(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/comedian-michelle-wolf-sparks-fury-debate-roast-correspondents-dinner-n869931)
". . . (Margaret) Talev (senior White House correspondent for Bloomberg News and president of the correspondents' organization) said she had heard from members "expressing dismay with the entertainer's monologue and concerns about how it reflects on our mission.". . . "Last night's program was meant to offer a unifying message about our common commitment to a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting and scholarship winners, not to divide people," she said. "Unfortunately, the entertainer's monologue was not in the spirit of that mission.". . ."
. . . on Charles Kushner, father of Senior White House Adviser to Donald Trump, Jared Kushner . . .
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner)
". . . In the summer of 2004, Kushner was fined $508,900 by the Federal Election Commission for contributing to political campaigns in the names of his partnerships when he lacked authorization to do so.[9] In 2005, following an investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Chris Christie negotiated a plea agreement with Kushner, under which he pleaded guilty to 18 counts of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering. . . The witness-tampering charge arose from Kushner's act of retaliation against William Schulder, his sister Esther's husband, who was cooperating with federal investigators; Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranged to record an encounter between the two, and had the tape sent to his sister. . . Kushner was sentenced to two years in prison[12] and served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Alabama before being sent to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey to complete his sentence. . . He was released from prison on August 25, 2006. . .As a result of his convictions, Kushner was disbarred from practicing law in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. . ."
". . . You're doing it wrong if you say the news media isn't covering terrorist attacks, and the list you release to prove your point includes San Bernardino and Paris. It undermines your credibility. . . A senior White House official explained the list this way: "The point here is that these terrorist attacks are so pervasive at this point that they do not spark the wall-to-wall coverage they once did. If you look back just a few years ago, any one of these attacks would have been ubiquitous in every news outlet, and now they're happening so often - at a rate of more than once every two weeks, according to the list we sent around - that networks are not devoting to each of them the same level of coverage they once did." . . . So if you take the White House at its word, what it wants is wall-to-wall coverage for every knife attack and every wounding. Why do they want that? What goal does that accomplish? So the White House wants the public to feel more terrorized? To what end?. . ."
(from wikipedia.com)
". . . The Fourth Estate (or fourth power) is a societal or political force or institution whose influence is not consistently or officially recognized. "Fourth Estate" most commonly refers to the news media, especially print journalism or "the press". Thomas Carlyle attributed the origin of the term to Edmund Burke, who used it in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of press reporting of the House of Commons of Great Britain. Earlier writers have applied the term to lawyers, to the British queens consort (acting as a free agent, independent of the king), and to the proletariat. The term makes implicit reference to the earlier division of the three Estates of the Realm. . ."
NBC News should have been ashamed to print this story. The president is pointing out what the press should have made clear to the general public over one year ago!
(from http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/barack-obama/president-obama-donald-trump-s-record-needs-be-examined-n569441)
". . . President Barack Obama . . . said presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a "long record that needs to be examined" and insisted that the race for the White House is "not a reality show. . . I just want to emphasize the degree to which we are in serious times and this is a really serious job. This is not entertainment, this is not a reality show. This is a contest for the presidency of the United States," Obama told reporters in his first public comments about since Trump's GOP rivals ended their presidential campaigns. . . Obama also said the media needs to play a role in vetting the candidates' policies and not focus on the "circus.". . . "If they take a position on international issues that could threaten war, or has the potential of upending our critical relationships with other countries, or would potentially break the financial system, that needs to be reported on," Obama said in the White House briefing room. . ."
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". . . The problem with television is not just what is reported but, more importantly, what is not reported. it's no accident that we get thousands of hours of discussion about the O.J. Simpson trial and almost no discussion about the growing gap between rich and poor or our regressive tax system. Why is it that there is massive coverage of airplane crashes, but almost no coverage of corporate disinvestment in the United States?. . . "
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(from Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders with Huck Gutman)
". . . The problem . . . is that groups representing the wealthiest people in this country are able to decisively influence the legislative process so that public policy reflects the interest of the privileged few and not the needs of the general population. And if you don't understand this simple fact, you haven't a clue as to what politics in America is all about. . . "
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. . . Torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise-latter of which is . . . surprising. Guantanamo was a torture chamber; a place used in violation of a treaty forced on Cuba. Torture has been routinely practiced; the least of the many crimes of aggression, terror, subversion, and economic strangulation darkening the history of the U.S. and many other great powers. Surprising is essentially the reactions to the release of those Justice Department memos, even by some of the most eloquent and forthright critics of Bush malfeasance: Paul Krugman, Hans Morgenthau, who as a scrupulous scholar, also recognized that the historical record was radically inconsistent with that "transcendent purpose." . . .
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(with excerpts from http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/29/21237370-white-house-president-didnt-mislead-on-insurance-promise?lite)
The White House argued Tuesday that President Barack Obama didn’t mislead the public when he repeatedly promised Americans “If you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan” under the Affordable Care Act.
Me: Yes, he DID mislead some Americans since he was speaking to ALL Americans when he said that. Some liked their plans. They ARE Americans. The President spoke to ALL Americans. Those whose plans did NOT qualify must purchase a new one and CANNOT KEEP the old one which they liked. (Is this fucking rocket science?)
“No, the president was clear about a basic fact,” Carney said Tuesday when asked directly whether Obama had misled Americans about the impact of his signature domestic achievement. “If you had insurance that you liked on the individual market, and you wanted to keep that insurance…you could.”
Me: Yes, he DID mislead some Americans since he was speaking to ALL Americans when he said that. Some liked their plans. They ARE Americans. The President spoke to ALL Americans. Those whose plans did NOT qualify must purchase a new one and CANNOT KEEP the old one which they liked. (Is this fucking rocket science?)
This part of the law does not apply to the 80 percent of Americans who receive health insurance through their employers or through Medicare or Medicaid.
Me: Yes, he DID mislead some Americans since he was speaking to ALL Americans when he said that. Some liked their plans. They ARE Americans. The President spoke to ALL Americans. Those whose plans did NOT qualify must purchase a new one and CANNOT KEEP the old one which they liked. (Is this fucking rocket science?)
Obamacare regulations estimate that, because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy.
Me: Yes, he DID mislead some Americans since he was speaking to ALL Americans when he said that. Some liked their plans. They ARE Americans. The President spoke to ALL Americans. Those whose plans did NOT qualify must purchase a new one and CANNOT KEEP the old one which they liked. (Is this fucking rocket science?)
Republicans have quickly seized upon the debate as further evidence in their longstanding case against “Obamacare.”
Me: This is only one aspect of the Affordable Care Act (it’s REAL name.) If the President had not said ALL Americans, no misrepresentation would have taken place. Affordable healthcare for ALL Americans (I said AFFORDABLE- not the SAME, not FREE, maybe even not CHEAP) is a good thing. Laws can be amended and need not always be completely repealed.
“If the president knew that these letters were coming and still indicated that you could keep your health care plan if you liked it -- now, well that raises some serious questions about the sales job of Obamacare,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
Me: This is only one aspect of the Affordable Care Act (it’s REAL name.) If the President had not said ALL Americans, no misrepresentation would have taken place. Affordable healthcare for ALL Americans (I said AFFORDABLE- not the SAME, not FREE, maybe even not CHEAP) is a good thing. Laws can be amended and need not always be completely repealed.
“There is no way to fix this monstrosity,” Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said. He vowed that the GOP would continue to seek the law’s repeal, even after a 16-day government shutdown triggered by Republican demands that Obama defund his own health care law.
Me: This is only one aspect of the Affordable Care Act (it’s REAL name.) If the President had not said ALL Americans, no misrepresentation would have taken place. Affordable healthcare for ALL Americans (I said AFFORDABLE- not the SAME, not FREE, maybe even not CHEAP) is a good thing. Laws can be amended and need not always be completely repealed.
“The real problem is that people weren’t told the truth. You can remember they were told that they would be able to keep their policies if they like them, and now you hear hundreds of thousands of people across the country being told they couldn’t,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
Me: This is only one aspect of the Affordable Care Act (it’s REAL name.) If the President had not said ALL Americans, no misrepresentation would have taken place. Affordable healthcare for ALL Americans (I said AFFORDABLE- not the SAME, not FREE, maybe even not CHEAP) is a good thing. Laws can be amended and need not always be completely repealed.
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