A political Hat Trick.
So heâs in custody, but will soon be back in Congress right?
Anyway, this does look like the start of the (eventual) end for him. 
irresponsible
And reprehensible.
And just, fucked up, man!
I see that CNNâs rightward drift continues apace. I suppose by 2024, the drift will have become a lurch.
Under the judgeâs order, he must submit to pretrial services, have random monitoring at his home, surrender his passport and keep his travel to New York and Washington, D.C. He can travel elsewhere, as long as he receives permission from the court and pre-trial services.
His defense attorney said heâs running for re-election and travels by car to campaign events so he will promise to give advance notice.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Shields said, âDonât assume something is OK. You have to ask first."
But how will we know what the right wing thinks if we donât give them a platform!!! /s
He means âvotesâ.
CNN is dead to me. Jimmy Fallon moment times a million.
CNN sucks.
Seriously. Itâs like giving Harvey Weinstein a talk show. A Charles Manson musical variety hour may have gotten good ratings, but you donât have to give platforms to horrible people who do horrible things.
I really donât know what CNNâs senior editorial management was thinking, allowing this event. Any remotely plausible rationale is cancelled out 10x by the loss of credibility the network would inevitably incur.
It seems very difficult for many so-called liberal media outlets not to give fascists and bigots and grifters platforms.
To me, CNNâs platforming of Trompâs rally reflects both its managementâs venality and its new ownerâs determination to pul it rightward.
As for whether it was a good night for Tromp, HC Richardson has a hopeful take on that:
Maybe. But according to legal analyst Andrew Weissman, Trumpâs embrace of the January 6 rioters and promise to pardon them if heâs reelected feeds a potential case against him. He made similarly revealing comments about his theft and retention of documents marked classified. It was that very kind of indiscretion that enabled Carrollâs lawyers to beat him in court.
More important, though, while Trumpâs base will love his performance, watching his lies and cruelty while his supporters laugh and cheer him on will remind voters of exactly what they worked so hard to reject in 2020. A Biden campaign advisor told NBC News White House correspondent Mike Memoli: âWeeks worth of damning content in one hourâŚ. It was quite efficient." It might turn out that, as journalist Ana Navarro-CĂĄrdenas tweeted, â[Joe Biden] is the winner of tonightâs town-hall.â
As Biden tweeted after the performance: âItâs simple, folks. Do you want four more years of that?â
Source:
The shift in CNNâs leadership made the news a lot last year:
I would say that network should not have been referred to as âliberal mediaâ since then. Folks on far-right outlets have enjoyed using CNN as an example of bias against them. Licht is eager to accommodate and pander to them. Iâm curious to see, if the equal time rule still applies, what kind of forum will be offered to President Biden.
Iâm sure now that Tucker has been fired, they see an opportunity to pull in some of his viewers by cater to their bigotry and hateâŚ
NopeâŚ
CNN hasnât been âliberal mediaââŚmaybe ever. Centrist at best, even in a US frame of reference. Their shift right just moves them into borderline fascist territory.
Ted Turner was openly liberal personally but basically pushed for standard corporate media balance on the network to give it credibility. Of course, he was also ultra-wealthy so the coverage and tone wasnât free of his class assumptions concerning capitalism. Still, I donât think he would have allowed anything like this travesty to occur. He was more about defending his staff against authoritarian repression (as he personally did during the coverage of Tiananmen Square) than throwing a member of his staff into a roomful of fascists.
I bet CNN also bowed to an insistence by Tromp that the CNN person on stage with him be a woman.
I wonder if sheâll have nightmares now.
