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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Corn: "Snowflakes for Trump" (the Barr train wreck gave the Mooch a sad. A very big sad).
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David Corn Retweeted Anthony Scaramucci
Snowflakes for Trump.
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Anthony Scaramucci Retweeted Michael Knowles
When I was called a human pinkie ring and a goombah while in the @Whitehouse that was deemed acceptable comedy. Double standard. We better stop the macro punishments for micro aggressions soon. She made a joke in poor taste move on.
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Vinca
(50,261 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)"Pay attention to me!" tweets from him.
genxlib
(5,524 posts)As I recall, you were fired before your start date. Does that count as "in the Whitehouse"
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)I don't get the media attention this guy receives. He was someone who was supposed to be a somebody in the WH for 10 minutes. Then got launched without ever actually doing anything.
Why does ANYBODY in the media give him a gram of attention?
genxlib
(5,524 posts)Mildly controversial personalities like Mooch are a Godsend to fill time and generate attention.
I have always said that the 24 hr news cycle adheres to the law of Supply and Demand. When they supply 24 hours of space to fill, the value of the content drops precipitously.
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)Same result.
If they do as you suggest, that's just lazy. Wouldn't cost a dime more to do it. Just extra effort. Everything else is a sunk cost.
genxlib
(5,524 posts)To produce more content at an in-depth level would actually require some effort.
Journalism is expensive. Talking personalities are cheap.
I agree with you completely but that is just not what they do.
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)Sorry if i was confusing.
Not talking about further journalistic dig. Just keeping credible, and known, interviewees there for an extra 2 minutes, three times an hour, sucks up 2 hours of 24 minutes where they don't need to rely on a fake mobster like Scaramucci.
And, they could add one minute from the cutting room floor to the human interest stuff. The work was already done. They are consciously wasting that footage. That's another 24 minutes a day.
Now, it's 2.8 hours they don't have to fill, and the cost is zero.
genxlib
(5,524 posts)But that would not satisfy the conflict quotient necessary to keep people interested. Sadly, too many people find straight news boring so they artificially spice it up. You know Bread and Circuses.
I try not to be cynical, but then...reality happens.
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)Short attention span theater.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)or pathological liar KellyAnne Conway or the hopelessly confused liar Rudy Giuliani on the air, why not have people like Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu, Richard Blumenthal, Chris Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, Kamala Harris or any of several others?
genxlib
(5,524 posts)There are better choices
Of course we would like all the ones you would listed. But I daresay, I think the conservatives need to be represented.
But there are better ones that could be used without resorting to the usual cast of losers.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)to try to explain to Scaramouchi that he was called names based on his behavior, not on his skin color? Now granted, "goombah" is Italiian-specific, but we were all educated by The Sopranos--isn't "goombah" a mafia guy's girl on the side? Maybe Scar felt his sexuality was being impugned. Anyway, waah waah waah.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)a goombah is the equivalent of being a Mafia Boss' minion, which is usually a man.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)Thank you.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)the words are close, but not the same
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Mafia-related_words
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)Thanks so much--they are very similar. What a difference a 'b' makes!
Wounded Bear
(58,645 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Bahahaha wtf?! Sorry I blinked and missed that.
BootinUp
(47,139 posts)ooky
(8,922 posts)moved on.