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RussBLib

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23. haha - transcription
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 05:56 PM
Mar 2024

What the hell, I used the computer this time. Much easier. Perhaps the PTB didn't want all those names and all that damning testimony to be seen by a wide audience.

from MSNBC, approx 3:48pm Central, 3/20/24

Alicia Menendez: "Charlie, it (the hearing) was a spectacle. I think we've come to expect a spectacle, and yet that doesn't make it any less disappointing because to the Congressman's point, there is actual work that they need to be doing for the American people, right? All of this comes at a price, not just to our politics but to the very essence of our democracy."

Charlie Sykes: "Well, yes, um, but I do have to say that what happened today was truly amazing, even by our standards. I mean, it is one thing to say that this thing is falling apart but, that actually understates how horrifically bad this is. I mean, this is Dumb and Dumber. Lev Parnas, um, coming out and just humiliating this Committee. Calling out by name Senator Ron Johnson, you know, Congressman Pete Sessions, uh, talking about the disinformation, how it comes from Russia. If there was even a LITTLE BIT of shame in James Comer's, uh, personality, they would have just completely turned off the lights and left the room and gone off to, I don't know, a retreat someplace. This was a, uh, you know, really, in one day, you encapsulated how absurd this was. And then, juxtapose it with the actual serious business in front of Congress. We're a few days away from a shutdown, and yet we have this incredibly inept circus going on. And so, it is a circus. We've talked about that before, but the ineptness, the absurdity was just on display. I mean, I just urge people, go, go watch a YouTube video of his (Parnas) testimony. Watch the way in which, uh, the Republican members of this Committee were humiliated, how they are flailing here. And, um, again, this is not going to get any better. The criminal referral is a kind of Hail Mary pass. It's a way of saying 'We're doing something.' Doesn't mean that it's not dangerous. A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower. Uh, but, uh, this was a very bad day, um, after many many bad days for this Committee."

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Not only are they not covering it live senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #1
Yeah, you'd thihk M$m would be All Excieted about a Cha Mar 2024 #3
Weird, isn't it? senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #4
It's the Twilight Zone.. and Orwell's 1984. Cha Mar 2024 #9
NBC Nighty News with Lester Holt didn't get to the story B.See Mar 2024 #34
That's something I guess senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #35
Absolutely. Though for contrast, here's how FUX News handled it B.See Mar 2024 #37
Its all about the DiverDave Mar 2024 #44
I keep checking Google News. barbaraann Mar 2024 #2
Wow. senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #5
Yes NanaCat Mar 2024 #15
I do go to the google news site every morning and am consistently disappointed erronis Mar 2024 #30
Oh, I'll add that google (and everyone else) watches what sites/articles you look at. erronis Mar 2024 #31
I don't think so hurl Mar 2024 #42
MSNBC have it live on their youtube channel IcyPeas Mar 2024 #6
That's good to know but I wonder senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #7
Not that many people watch CNN and MSNBC Kaleva Mar 2024 #8
Doesn't explain the lack of coverage senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #10
And you KNOW you won't see it on the big networks RussBLib Mar 2024 #14
I haven't watched tv news in years Kaleva Mar 2024 #21
If my dad were still alive he would say MOMFUDSKI Mar 2024 #11
Alicia Menendez next segment on it RussBLib Mar 2024 #12
Glad to hear it senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #13
Fox does their spin afterwards. progressoid Mar 2024 #32
I had to turn it off... 2naSalit Mar 2024 #16
Did you turn it off during the R questioning? senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #17
Yes, both times. 2naSalit Mar 2024 #18
Argh! RussBLib Mar 2024 #19
Sorry that happened! senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #20
haha - transcription RussBLib Mar 2024 #23
Thank you so much! senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #24
Oh no! 2naSalit Mar 2024 #22
Fortunately I had recorded it RussBLib Mar 2024 #28
There are some good clips of dems in this thread, most short & to the point. CrispyQ Mar 2024 #39
Remember how the moniss Mar 2024 #25
That is a very good point senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #26
I saw that post also moniss Mar 2024 #29
And if HRC had left him they would have asked her, "Why couldn't you forgive him?" CrispyQ Mar 2024 #40
Eleven hours. niyad Mar 2024 #33
Unfortunately, yes. 2naSalit Mar 2024 #41
Remember how the moniss Mar 2024 #27
That's why these guys are cilla4progress Mar 2024 #36
That was great! liberalla Mar 2024 #43
You know at one time, this kind of testimony Johonny Mar 2024 #38
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