Thursday, July 26, 2018
Salon Mocks MSNBC for Doing 455 Stormy Daniels Segments in Past Year
Although I knew there was extreme MSNBC over-reporting about Stormy Daniels, even I was quite surprised at the high amount of coverage quantified in the Salon story title, "MSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels segments in the last year — but none on U.S. war in Yemen."
July 3, 2017, to July 3, 2018, MSNBC dedicated zero segments to the U.S. war in Yemen, but 455 segments to Stormy Daniels. This isn’t to suggest the Stormy Daniels matter isn’t newsworthy — presidential corruption is per se important. But one has to wonder if this particular thread of venality is 455 stories more important than...
CNN GOT COHENED: TRUMP WASN’T THE ONLY ONE COHEN RECORDED, HE RECORDED SOMEONE AT CNN TOO
First, let me give you some of the backstory. This week Cohen provided the tape to CNN. Then on Tuesday evening CNN talking head Chris Cuomo played the tape in full during that day’s broadcast of “Cuomo Prime Time.”
Full audio: Presidential candidate Trump is heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair Trump had with her years earlier, according to the audio recording
Oooooooh, exciting. NOT!
What makes this story interesting is a report confirming that the president wasn’t the only individual to be recorded by Cohen. It turns out that Cuomo himself was once recorded without his knowledge.
Via The Wall Street Journal:
But it gets even better. During the interview, Cohen assured Cuomo “that he wasn’t running a tape, according to the people familiar with the matter. He told Mr. Cuomo he was placing the phone in his desk drawer and that the conversation was off the record. The phone appeared to record the entire conversation, the people said.”
The irony of this was not lost on the denizens of social media:
Not that this information changes anything on the ground (there’s reportedly nothing damaging/incriminating in the Cuomo tape), but it’s funny nonetheless.
Michael Cohen recorded a conversation he had with a reporter this year in which he said he arranged “on my own” a $130,000 payment in 2016 to a former adult-film star who alleged an affair with Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
In the nearly two-hour conversation with CNN reporter Chris Cuomo, which the people said appears to have been surreptitiously recorded by Mr. Cohen, the former Trump lawyer discussed at length the payment he arranged in October 2016, a month before the presidential election, to Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels.
But it gets even better. During the interview, Cohen assured Cuomo “that he wasn’t running a tape, according to the people familiar with the matter. He told Mr. Cuomo he was placing the phone in his desk drawer and that the conversation was off the record. The phone appeared to record the entire conversation, the people said.”
The irony of this was not lost on the denizens of social media:
Chris punk’d big time. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…
And the Trap was triggered! LMAO.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/…
HILARIOUS! COHEN PLAYS BOTH ENDS TOWARDS THE MIDDLE -- Chris Cuomo Punked: Broke Big Trump Tape Scoop, But Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Cuomo Too legalinsurrection.com/2018/07/chris-…
CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WashPo Ignore Story Of Haitian Immigrant Arrested For Shooting Cop In The Head
CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post have all ignored the story of police officer Adam Jobbers-Miller who was allegedly shot in the head by Haitian immigrant Wisner Desmaret on Saturday in Fort Myers, Florida.
From Fort Myers News-Press:
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency filed a detainer last Sunday against the man suspected of shooting a Fort Myers police officer in the head Saturday night.
Fort Myers police Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller remains in Lee Memorial Hospital in "critical but stable condition" after he was shot responding to a call near the Marathon service station at Flint Drive and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Tammy Spicer, spokeswoman for ICE, Central and Northern Florida, confirmed Tuesday that ICE had placed a detainer on shooting suspect Wisner Desmaret, who the agency listed as a Haitian national.
An immigration detainer is a tool used by ICE and Department of Homeland Security officials to identify individuals who could be deported that are held in jails or prisons nationwide.
The ICE detainer policy, from its website, states: "ICE places detainers on aliens who have been arrested on local criminal charges and for whom ICE possesses probable cause to believe that they are removable from the United States, so that ICE can take custody of the alien when he or she is released from...
Media Gaslighting Can’t Hide Fact Trump Campaign Was Spied On
On Saturday night, heavily redacted copies of the FBI’s application to wiretap Trump campaign affiliate Carter Page were released. The portion of the 412-page document that was not redacted supported the claims of Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), as well as those made by the majority of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The senators and the representatives had issued reports alleging that the FBI used an unverified Clinton campaign document to secure a wiretap against an American citizen, that the application for the wiretap used circular reporting and lacked verification for its central claims, and that it made materially false claims related to the source’s credibility.
President Trump tweeted triumphantly and hyperbolically about what the documents showed regarding the FBI’s behavior toward his campaign. Whatever you think about Trump’s reaction to the release of the FISA application, the media reaction to the story was disingenuous and even more hyperbolic than the president’s tweets. After a year of continuous and alarming revelations, the media are still more interested in proving the Trump campaign treasonously colluded with Russia than wrestling with the fact that the FBI spied on a presidential campaign, and used dubious partisan political research to justify their surveillance.
The media reaction to both the redacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretap applications and President Trump’s tweets was pure gaslighting. They claimed the FISA applications hurt the critics’ case. It wasn’t that they reported the news that critics of the FISA application felt vindicated while defenders of the wiretap applications also felt vindicated. They wrote as partisans in a war with those skeptical of FISA abuse.
The New York Times went with both “Without Evidence, Trump Claims Vindication From Release of Carter Page Documents” and “How a Trump Decision Revealed a G.O.P. Memo’s Shaky Foundation.” The latter headline was in reference to the House Intelligence report. The accompanying article completely ignored the criminal referral from Graham and Grassley that buttressed the...
Facebook Admits It Blocked Republican Candidate’s Pro-Second Amendment Ad
On Tuesday the Tampa Bay Times reported that Caldwell’s ad had been blocked on Facebook, which included blocking news that the NRA had endorsed Caldwell for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture.
Caldwell’s campaign said they received a message from Facebook, which said: “Not Approved: Your ad can’t promote the sale of weapons or ammunition.” He responded, “Facebook’s liberal agenda is keeping our campaign for Commissioner of Agriculture from sharing our message. Facebook has mislabeled our ad in an effort to censor our pro-Second Amendment support and endorsement from the NRA.”
Fox News reports that Caldwell’s ad was 15 seconds long. In it, he said, “I’m Matt Caldwell. I like guns. I love the Second Amendment, and I support our president. That’s why I’m endorsed by the NRA.”
Amid public backlash, the social media site said they had mistakenly rejected the ad and, as of Tuesday evening, they had ...
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #329
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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