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December 17, 2018

TCM Remembers 2018






November 21, 2018

At debate: Public hangings, African despots, pre-existing conditions and ducking the media

Familiar themes repeat at debate: Public hangings, African despots, pre-existing conditions and ducking the media

By Larrison Campbell and Bobby Harrison

On Tuesday night, after just under 10 minutes of questions, U.S.
Senate candidate Mike Espy thanked a crowd of reporters and walked away
from the podium.

The two dozen members of local and national media then waited for
Espy’s opponent in the U.S. Senate race, interim Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith,
who had just debated Espy in a room twenty yards from the podium, to
take questions.

Instead, Mississippi’s other U.S. Senator, Roger Wicker, appeared.
Asked if Sen. Hyde-Smith would be speaking to reporters, Wicker was
curt.

“No. I think the debate speaks for itself,” Wicker said.

“I am glad to be here tonight as a spokesman… I think the story
should be about the debate” and not what the candidates said after the
debate, he added.

https://mississippitoday.org/2018/11/20/familiar-themes-repeat-at-debate-public-hangings-african-despots-pre-existing-conditions-and-ducking-the-media/


Would not take reporters' questions as scheduled. Chickened out.


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November 17, 2018

In 2012 Luke 'Fuckin' Russert asked Pelosi if she was too old and needed to bring in younger leaders



. . . and she laid waste him and his question:





2012!

Chris Hayes showed this tonight on MSNBC.

November 16, 2018

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith responds to new controversial video

Source: WJTV Jackson, MS


Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith responds to new controversial video

Video was taken from campaign stop in Starkville earlier this month

by William Richardson

Posted: Nov 15, 2018 05:32 PM CST

Updated: Nov 15, 2018 05:40 PM CST

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A new video surfaced suggesting Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith calling for stricter voting laws.

The video, which was taken at a campaign stop in Starkville on November 3rd, starts with Sen. Hyde-Smith being asked about voting.

Sen. Hyde-Smith says: "And then they remind me, that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea."

Sen. Hyde-Smith was already facing controversy after comments she made during a Tupelo campaign stop on November 2nd where she said: "If I was invited to a public hanging, I would be on the front row."




Read more: https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-news/sen-cindy-hyde-smith-responds-to-new-controversial-video/1600468856




When the hole gets deep, the crazy dig deeper.

October 3, 2018

Pence: "He used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used, and he did it brilliantly"



From October 2016

. . . Mitnick worked for Trump and his father, Fred Trump, for nearly 30 years, from the 1960s until 1996. He told “Inside Edition” that he recognized the tax returns because at the time, his computer couldn’t print a number as large as the loss Trump declared in his 1995 returns: $915,729,293. “The numbers had to be put in there with a typewriter,” he said.

Yet even as Mitnick’s interview was airing on TV, Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was busy hailing Trump’s “brilliant” exploitation of the tax code. “He used the tax code just the way it’s supposed to be used, and he did it brilliantly,” Pence said.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jack-mitnick-trump-accountant-taxes_us_57f52344e4b015995f2c6a89


September 22, 2018

Spokesman for GOP on Kavanaugh nomination resigns; has been accused of harassment in the past

Source: NBC


WASHINGTON — A top press adviser helping lead the Senate Judiciary Committee’s response to a sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has stepped down amid evidence he was fired from a previous political job in part because of a sexual harassment allegation against him.

Garrett Ventry, 29, who serves as a communications aide to the committee chaired by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, had been helping coordinate the majority party's messaging in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago at a high school party. In a response to NBC News, Ventry denied any past "allegations of misconduct."

After NBC News raised questions about Ventry's employment history and the sexual assault allegation against him, Judiciary Committee Spokesman Taylor Foy replied in a statement: "While (Ventry) strongly denies allegations of wrongdoing, he decided to resign to avoid causing any distraction from the work of the committee."

Republicans familiar with the situation had been concerned that Ventry, because of his history, could not lead an effective communications response.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/spokesman-gop-kavanaugh-nomination-resigns-has-been-accused-harassment-past-n912156

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