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October 29, 2019
Chickenshit... lol. You go, Nicolle!
October 29, 2019
In honor of #NationalCatDay, you gotta see this truly purrr-fect 🐈 house transformation!
https://twitter.com/AnimalPlanet/status/1189256285960704001
October 29, 2019
At White House: Secretary Pompeo and Ivanka Trump leading meeting of President's Interagency Task...
At White House: Secretary Pompeo and Ivanka Trump leading meeting of Presidents Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
https://twitter.com/RobbieGramer/status/1189251305455476738
https://twitter.com/RobbieGramer/status/1189251305455476738
October 29, 2019
Just, no... LMNOP is half the fun of the song!
They changed the ABC song to clarify the LMNOP part, and it is life ruining.
https://twitter.com/NoahGarfinkel/status/1187885082431741952Just, no... LMNOP is half the fun of the song!
October 29, 2019
For comparison:
https://twitter.com/McNaughtonArt/status/1189204966721740800
A McNaughton make-over:
For comparison:
https://twitter.com/McNaughtonArt/status/1189204966721740800
October 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1189221067585396737
Sean Duffy trying to walk it back:
Lt. Col. Vindman is an American war hero. As I said clearly this morning on air I salute Mr. Vindmans service. My point is that Mr. Vindman is an unelected advisor, he gives ADVICE. President Trump sets the policy.
https://twitter.com/Duffy4Wisconsin/status/1189197626224320525
https://twitter.com/Duffy4Wisconsin/status/1189197626224320525
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1189221067585396737
October 29, 2019
Why Did CNN Hire a Moron Like Sean Duffy?
The former congressman's turn as a pundit is a measure of the bankruptcy of both-sides journalism in the Trump era.
There are bad first days at work and then there is Sean Duffys first day at CNN. Appearing as the networks latest pro-Trump talking head last week, the former Wisconsin congressman (and Real World: Boston castmember) claimed that the hacking of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election was a false flag operation conducted by Ukrainians, not the Russians. The rest of the panel on State of the Union practically shouted him down: This is a disputed, absurd conspiracy theory that youre talking about right now, conservative pundit Amanda Carpenter said.
Duffy tried his luck again the next day, suggesting that all Donald Trump wanted was to find the real DNC hackers, i.e. anybody but the Russians. CNN host Alisyn Camerota cut him off. Thats a conspiracy theory, she said indignantly.
CNN executives certainly knew what they were getting into when they hired Duffy. A five-term congressman and Tea Party darling, Duffy has a long, well-documented history of making inflammatory and dishonest comments. Appearing on the network in February of 2017, Duffy defended Trumps Muslim ban by saying Middle Eastern terrorists are a more significant threat than white domestic terrorists because the latter commit one-off attacks. In the same interview he cited the good things that stemmed from Dylann Roofs massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. He has also suggested that George Soros was rigging elections, that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and that the Democratic Partys pro-choice policies intentionally targeted black communities and amounted to infanticide.
Unfortunately for CNN and any other organization that clinging to a both-sides model of journalism, Duffy is probably the best the network can get. Call it asymmetric punditry: As Republicans become more extreme, its become near-impossible to find non-loony ones to fill airtime on cable news.
https://newrepublic.com/article/155514/cnn-hire-moron-like-sean-duffy
There are bad first days at work and then there is Sean Duffys first day at CNN. Appearing as the networks latest pro-Trump talking head last week, the former Wisconsin congressman (and Real World: Boston castmember) claimed that the hacking of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election was a false flag operation conducted by Ukrainians, not the Russians. The rest of the panel on State of the Union practically shouted him down: This is a disputed, absurd conspiracy theory that youre talking about right now, conservative pundit Amanda Carpenter said.
Duffy tried his luck again the next day, suggesting that all Donald Trump wanted was to find the real DNC hackers, i.e. anybody but the Russians. CNN host Alisyn Camerota cut him off. Thats a conspiracy theory, she said indignantly.
CNN executives certainly knew what they were getting into when they hired Duffy. A five-term congressman and Tea Party darling, Duffy has a long, well-documented history of making inflammatory and dishonest comments. Appearing on the network in February of 2017, Duffy defended Trumps Muslim ban by saying Middle Eastern terrorists are a more significant threat than white domestic terrorists because the latter commit one-off attacks. In the same interview he cited the good things that stemmed from Dylann Roofs massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. He has also suggested that George Soros was rigging elections, that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and that the Democratic Partys pro-choice policies intentionally targeted black communities and amounted to infanticide.
Unfortunately for CNN and any other organization that clinging to a both-sides model of journalism, Duffy is probably the best the network can get. Call it asymmetric punditry: As Republicans become more extreme, its become near-impossible to find non-loony ones to fill airtime on cable news.
https://newrepublic.com/article/155514/cnn-hire-moron-like-sean-duffy
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