No, Gateway Pundit, Chris Matthews Did NOT Endorse Trump
Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit had a post yesterday titled WHOA! It Sounds Like Chris Matthews Just Endorsed Trump (VIDEO). Hoft — whose two-step editorial fact-checking process consists of 1) asking whether a story benefits Trump, and 2) determining how many exclamation points to include in the title — had this to say about Matthews:
No More Tingles—
Chris Matthews went off on Hillary Clinton last night on MSNBC.
It sounds like he just endorsed Donald Trump.
Hoft embedded the following tweet and following transcript:
BREAKING: Sounds like Chris Mathews from @MSNBC has just endorsed @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/YDYpvKNQc0
— MicroSpookyLeaks™ (@WDFx2EU7) November 1, 2016
Chris Matthews: If you like the way things are the way they are headed in this country. If you’d like to continue the destruction of our manufacturing base, and the jobs that went with it. If you like the uncontrollable immigration, if you like the string of stupid wars from Iraq to Libya to Syria. If you want to say yes to all of that, if you want to keep this all the way it is, fine, then vote for Hillary Clinton. If you don’t like the way things are headed you got a chance to really shake the system the system at its roots. If you wake up on Election Day and it’s the same as it is today, if its the same 4 or 5 or 8 years from now, remember you had a chance really change it up but you were to dainty to do it.
The problem with this video and this transcript is —
[Excuse me a moment. I have to go close the tab with the Gateway Pundit link. It keeps furiously auto-refreshing. Back in a sec.]
— as I was saying, the problem is that the video and transcript cut off the context, which plainly show Chris Matthews was not endorsing Trump. One hint: in the full video, Matthews says: “I say this not because I want Trump to win.” (WHOA! Sounds like he is endorsing Trump!!!) Here is the full video:
And here is the full transcript. I have placed in bold the parts that were surgically removed from the Trumper video that was so breathlessly and thoughtlessly distributed by Gateway Pundit:
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, I mean, whatever you think of Donald Trump, you have to wonder, why isn’t he doing it? Why isn’t he running for president? Why isn’t he spending every hour asking the voters again and again: Do you like the way things are, the way they’ve been headed in this country? Do you like to continue the destruction of our manufacturing base, and the jobs that went with it? Do you like the uncontrolled illegal immigration? Do you like this string of stupid wars from Iraq to Libya to Syria?
If you want to say yes to all of that, you want to keep all this the way it is, vote for Hillary Clinton. If you don’t like the way things have been headed you got a chance to really shake the system to its roots. And if you wake up the day after the election and it’s the same as it is today, if its the same 4 or 5 or 8 years from now, remember you had the chance to change it, but you were to dainty too do it.
I say this not because I want Trump to win, but because I can’t stand politics being practiced so pathetically.
I will say that Matthews’s commentary does seem to reveal a certain lack of complete comfort with the state of the country and the choice of Hillary Clinton. It does not seem hard for him to play Devil’s Advocate. But at the same time, only a con artist or a sucker would try to pass this off as a Trump endorsement. The guy who did the editing, like the candidate he supports, is a con artist. Jim Hoft (I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt here) is a sucker.
If you fell for this story, then you know what happened. Say it with me:
You went full Gateway Pundit.
Never go full Gateway Pundit.
[Cross-posted at RedState.]
sorry for assuming that tingles would have a clue, won’t make that mistake again, he still is the lowest rated anchor on msnbc, which is a certain skill set,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:33 pmi think the best choice is Mr. Trump
happyfeet (28a91b) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:36 pmhe doesn’t even register notably,
http://deadline.com/2016/11/cnn-wins-cable-news-ratings-first-time-15-years-fox-1201846347/
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:39 pmMatthews makes a good point. Hillary represents all the warts of the current system. All the corruption and all the mistakes of spending and foreign policy and elitism wrapped up into a person who has been involved with power for 50 years or so.
He’s just wrong that Trump represents a departure from this. He’s been a passenger on the Clinton movement for decades, and he’s been a paying member of the elite, using his access to roll over the rest of us. Trump’s fawning admiration of tyrants and butchers, and his mental instability make him a great danger to our freedoms, while Clinton’s corruption and devotion to the status quo continue a path for our freedoms and prosperity that is also unacceptable.
Matthews is also wrong that we can look back on this election as our chance to change things. While Trump would probably get us into one fiasco after another, get thousands of Americans killed, bankrupt us with his wishlist of powers and programs, he would not reform anything. He wouldn’t drain the swamp any more than his dear pal Nancy Pelosi did in 2006. He would try to eliminate political speech and conservatives in the GOP who don’t bend their knee to him, and he would try to find an excuse to use nuclear weapons.
Those who are so partisan they see the Hillary donor as the answer to Hillary are misguided. It’s not Hillary that’s the problem, but the ideas behind her, which Trump simply amplifies. Every new drip of news about Hillary’s email scandal change nothing Trump knew about her when he was telling us she would be a great president.
We can only look back at this election and be disappointed that the GOP blew its opportunity.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:40 pmI was banned at that site for suggesting that Trump might not win.
Gateway Pundit and Breibart are fan sites for Trump. He might as well be Justin Bieber to them.
lee (55777a) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:44 pmwhy would you suggest that
happyfeet (28a91b) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:47 pmSounds like Chris Mathews from @MSNBC has just endorsed @realDonaldTrump
????? This sounds much more accurate:
“Haaa!!!”– Chris Matthews, infamous signature chortle of MSNBC ‘Hardball’ pundit, Tip O’Neill CoS and ex-speech scribe for Jimmy Carter.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:48 pmOh, Gateway is waaaaaay further out there than Breitbart!
I feel sorry for the guy. It’s really gonna hurt if Trump loses.
Patricia (5fc097) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:12 pmThat’s the first swamp to be drained.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:12 pmlike the breathless claims about o’donnell back in 2010, like the phony tax lien, the octillions of electron spent over which oxford extension courses, or the whole eleventy over how her campaign expenses were illegal!!!
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:15 pmJeeze, Matthews. What a tool. He comes up from the sewer of big-city Democrat politics, carries water for a corrupt old hack like Tip O’Neill, then parlays that into a book contract to write an ok book about Kennedy and Nixon but then nothing but sheer monkey-on-typewriter dreck after that, then he’s able to launch a cable TV show where he bloviates as a mirror image of Hannity or O’Reilly (sometimes that kissing of the blarney stone can be a curse on my people too), then he shills for the hip young Halfrican-American candidate and assures us that he is going to be Lincolin/Roosevelt/Kennedy/King all rolled up into one, and now he decides that there is a pox on both sides in Washington and that his system that has made him rich and famous is rotten to the core. Screw Matthews, let him sell his possessions and wander around the world in sackcloth and ashes for his sins against the republic.
JVW (773988) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:38 pmwell when he had a wry chuckle with bill ayers back in 2008, having been at one point a capitol police officer targeted by the wannabe terrorist, was perhaps his lowest point,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:39 pmOh for the love of Mike–
If anybody deserves to get cut off for ONCE in his life it’s
CHRIS INTERRUPTIS MATTHEWS.
Honestly–I’m NeverTrump but this is ridiculous.
DRG (2fd998) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:41 pmJeezuz I thought there would be some smart blogging here about all the CLINTON CORRUPTION.
I might be NeverTrump but I’m not for ignoring Hillary’s mal-odor in the defense of—Chris Matthew’s right to not be cut off.
Holy crap that guy has a whole network to bloviate at America with–and be heard.
DRG (2fd998) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:45 pmwell tingles is mostly ignored at his own network, probably bloggers like newsbusters make the largest part of his audience, actually he shows himself stupider than the mouth of flint, were that possible,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMAFt2Q0zXA
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:47 pmYeah, that was too bad. She wouldn’t have accomplished anything anyway, of course. She wasn’t exactly a conservative leader. But consider what the real lesson is there. Trump has boasted about what he would do with the IRS. We can’t fix this by making both sides the same.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:49 pmHow many times has Hoft been suckered? As a friend pointed out today in an email laughing about this big news story, Hoft has been suckered more times than there are sand grains on a beach. It seems like this election is creating either a self-licking ice cream cone or an at worst a street fight in a telephone booth of “conservative” media sources all stumbling over each other to destroy the GOP and allow a Clinton presidency win again. Half these folks are executing self-inflicted wounds on themselves and the movement they claim to want to be in. I don’t read any of Hoft linked material anymore because it is about as accurate as WND or Daily Kos or Freepers or the Weekly World News. Hell half or >75% of the online “conservative” media have incestuous linking (all linking to each other like blogs of old used to do, but add their own spin and do no independent analysis). Worst still some of these sites spend more time on tangents and false leads than helping to spread a message about “conservative” principles which they claim to love. That is if they aren’t getting trolled by the likes of LGF or 4chan fansbois. It’s a sad state of affairs when the only reliable right of center media sources are NRO, Commentary and even Reason (yea, even reason if only to push back against Law and order fansbois when they ask critical questions about police corruption or judicial system shennigans).
Charles (bf2a70) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:49 pmactually he shows himself stupider than the mouth of flint,
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LOL! Off to check out your link, narciso.
DRG (2fd998) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:49 pmDRG, bicurious. Is there room to despise them all?
I’m actually not #NeverTrump, BTW. There are things Trump could do to earn my vote. And every once in a while he shows a spark of knowing what it would take. And then he quits.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:52 pmnarciso—I was just thinking about that very thing today. No joke!
At reddit today they are running with–a photo of Trump with some mob guy—that Trump said he didn’t know.
I use to comment someplace during that Ayers Obama stuff–the blogger had everyone conned into thinking they were neutral or “suddenly conservative” and they and the Left were all screaming–
“You can’t do guilt by association waaaaaaa”.
Ayers killed military enlisted–but hey–it’s all good now that he donates liberally to the Liberals. That was the attitude.
DRG (2fd998) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:56 pmDRG, bicurious. Is there room to despise them all?
I’m actually not #NeverTrump, BTW. There are things Trump could do to earn my vote. And every once in a while he shows a spark of knowing what it would take. And then he quits.
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Steve57
Well fortunately I am in California–so as much as I have never liked the “clean toga” routine I get to do that with a write in candidate. If I was back in Nevada–I might have done something else–so I get that it is a bit of a weird luxury to live out here where my vote really, really won’t matter.
The thing that almost has me wanting to pull it for Trump is–the media, what the FBI tweeted from their FBI vault–The Hillary Clinton interviews (particularly an interview with someone at CIA who is asked to review certain emails that Hillary’s lawyer forgot to delete. There is one chain of emails that they asked him to look at and he reacts with “[deleted] is an idiot!” –and –ugh– that commercial that Tyrone Woods widow is doing for Trump.
Anyways—what would tip you over to voting for Trump?
Also–which candidate to think is more dangerous to national security?
DRG (2fd998) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:06 pmI am on the other hand #NeverObamaNeverClinton. You assault the white hats and you’re done.
The same goes if you ally with them.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:13 pmSay, DRG, didn’t you used to go by DRJ?
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:19 pmGreetings from the Bahamas.
That is all.
NJRob (fde051) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:23 pmI’m jealous, NJRob.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:24 pmMathews’ problem is that he’s got a 40 year history of populism in his rhetoric and he doesn’t know what to do when the populist in the race is a Republican candidate.
His historical rhetoric about the poor working class and middle class fits hand-in-glove with Trumps appeal to those voters.
And I think he’s been around DC long enough to spot “phony” populism when he sees it, and he sees it in BOTH TRUMP and CLINTON.
And, I think he’s actually quite offended by the way the Clinton’s have financially enriched themselves since Bill Clinton left office — its dirty, corrupt, and he knows it.
I think he was really a Bernie guy, and I think he’s 100% in the Obama/Warren camp of the Dem party, not the Clinton camp.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:27 pmHow’s the Tarpon fishing? You are fishing for Tarpon, right?
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:30 pmSay, DRG, didn’t you used to go by DRJ?
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:19 pm
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No–I just shortened my usual handle–“Danube River Guide”.
DRG (2fd998) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:31 pmAnyways–
I’m in an argument–debate– with a lawyer.
Can President Obama pardon Hillary of say–a state crime in New York? I thought the pardon power was pretty sweeping but they say it only applies to crimes on the federal level.
Then if Hillary is found guilty of a crime in New York can Cuomo block justice?
DRG (2fd998) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:36 pmLike you need my stamp of approval, DRG. Good on you for clearing that up for me. I appreciate it.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:37 pmDRJ will always be DRJ. She doesn’t sock.
John Hitchcock (02496a) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:37 pmhttps://pjmedia.com/election/2016/11/02/clinton-surrogate-more-elderly-americans-should-sign-up-for-food-stamps/1/
About 40 percent into that article, the rollback of a key platform plank begins.
urbanleftbehind (693a78) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:43 pmNo she doesn’t. For a brief moment I was unclear. To my eternal shame.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:43 pmThe President can only pardon federal crimes. State crimes are up to state constitutions, and it’s not always the governor. For example, in Texas the governor can only rubber stamp the pardon and parole board’s recommendations — he has no plenary pardon power as the President or the governor of Virginia do.
nk (dbc370) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:47 pmThe President can only pardon federal crimes. State crimes are up to state constitutions, and it’s not always the governor. For example, in Texas the governor can only rubber stamp the pardon and parole board’s recommendations — he has no plenary pardon power as the President or the governor of Virginia do.
nk (dbc370)
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Thanks nk.
I guess I should have made the second part of the debate issue more clear. It’s a hypothetical–if Hillary Clinton was found guilty in New York of RICO chargers or something like that–while she is President–could Governor Cuomo block New York law enforcement from doing anything about it?
DRG (2fd998) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:51 pmShit–not RICO–but something that would be a violation of New York state law.
DRG (2fd998) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:59 pmA Tingles endorsement could be the Kiss o’ Death.
Colonel Haiku (ce04df) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:59 pm?
nk (dbc370) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:03 pmWhy do I have the feeling that Kellyanne Conway in trying to win my vote? http://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/500352353/kkk-paper-endorses-trump-campaign-calls-outlet-repulsive
nk (dbc370) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:08 pm31. DRG is in California, (see #21) while DRJ is in Texas, IIRC.
35. RICO is a federal law. Maybe there is something similar in New York, but if there is any kind of state investigation of Bill or Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation going on, we don’t know it.
Sammy Finkelman (3fda43) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:21 pm“WAIT, SO OBAMA IS ENDORSING TRUMP NOW?”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/248059/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:28 pmTeh Three Stooges… https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwCse2vVIAAJzrm.jpg
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:30 pmhttp://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/joaquin-jackson/
I moved here for a reason.
https://www.americaremembers.com/product/texas-ranger-tribute-colt-45-pistol/
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:53 pmEven when you type it all out it still makes the point that Hillary is pathetic.
It’s as if Mathews is on the same idiotic psyop binge that Micheal Moore was.
And of course one should not go full on GWP just as one certainly should never go full on Patterico’s Whatever.
I think it’s amazing to see the list of people, including possibly Mr. P who have gone the way of Glenn Beck. Regardless of who wins. Watching people stripped bare to see they’re true selves has made it all worth it.
Drider (340c7b) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:54 pmAre you talking about me, troll? I’ve kept the faith. I always will keep the faith.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:01 pmThe Clinton Republicans will have to decide whether they prefer Loretta Lynch as AG or Chris Christie.
And do they prefer John Bolton as NSA or … who knows — Cheryl Mills?! (LOL)
Presidential terms are only four years.
But Supreme Court confirmations are for a lifetime.
Think hard about that Texans.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:06 pmReason to vote Trump #1908:
Three Mexican kids and an Anglo skateboarding into my lawn w/fresh grass seed down. Politely tell them to stop– then ask why aren’t they home watching the historic 7th game of the World Series. Give them the stats. Then one of the three asks, “What is the World Series?”
Build the wall.
Go Cubs!
“Baseball been berry, berry good to me!”– Garrett Morris, ‘Saturday Night Live” NBC TV
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:07 pmMaybe he was sarcastically lamenting that,besides tonight’s loser, the Doys will have among the longer droughts (i think Pirates since 79 tops them) of the original 16 MLB teams
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:43 pmtingles was tip o’neil’s aide de camp, but there was a time in the mid 90s, when he was sensible, he even guest hosted on Rush, then he went bananas sometime after 2000,
no Dustin, that is not the lesson, you bought every lie about someone you didn’t and didn’t even affect you, the whole tom ross trickbag, one of her big offense, was he ran as a independent candidate, and supposedly prevented the gop candidate from winning, the truth is since bill roth, it’s almost impossible to win the corporate citadel of the americas, as 2012 and 2014 proved,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:50 pmYou should refresh your memory. I called O’Donnell what she was. It’s true that she also was the victim of the kind of corruption Trump has threatened to engage in. But just because democrats are corrupt in their fight against O’Donnell doesn’t mean O’Donnell was a saint. The problem was that Castle was useless too. I’d liken that contest to the Trump v Jeb one. Clearly the RINO is less bad, but so what?
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:02 pmnarciso is right, of course.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:05 pmit’s must be my positronic core, coronello,
“Ted Cruz I think is being slightly disingenuous,” he said. “The Constitution doesn’t set the size of the Court. It sets a maximum, I think, of 15. But since the Judiciary Act of 1869, it’s been a nine-member court. That’s what the statute says. We take an oath to uphold the law, that’s what we’re upholding. Congress could change it, if Congress wanted to and had the votes, but Congress won’t. So until Congress does, that’s the size of the court.”
for those who think clem is even marginally more competent than red queen, or less corrupt,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:08 pmtake right scoop, please, specially in their ignorance of what raw story is about,
http://therightscoop.com/breaking-woman-accusing-trump-child-rape-hold-press-conference/
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:17 pmand politico well trawls itself,
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/02/the-right-stuff-trolls-politico-promises-herds-of-alt-right-voter-suppressors-in-the-ghettos-in-philly-with-40s-and-weed/
sort of an ourobouros, with salon as referee,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:40 pmnarciso cites Tim Kaine as an authority on what conservatives should think about the Supreme Court.
Heh.
DRJ (15874d) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:40 pmwell sarcasm obviously is impenetrable, over here, he’s a harvard law grad, and doesn’t have the basic understanding of the constitution,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:44 pmnarciso is still pretty upset about O’Donnell.
It’s a useful comparison so I understand why he brings it up. But the frustration for all these years is a little hard to understand. She was never plausible to actually win. Her candidacy was intended to stop a Republican from winning, not to actually get the seat for herself.
Trump on the other hand, I have to admit he could have won against Hillary. I’m glad he won’t, but she is so bad he could have won. A little debate prep, some oppo research on himself, releasing the tax returns like he called on other politicians to do in the past… he could have beaten Hillary. I don’t think the results will be close, but I imagine the frustration of O’Donnell amplified a thousand fold for years and years. Trump truly is the best thing to happen to democrats in our lifetimes and will be a wedge for the right for a long time.
While Trump’s supporters determine how it’s everyone but Trump’s fault that he lost, I’ll just be wondering why I’m not supposed to be very grateful he lost.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:50 pmNot trying to be rude, but you shouldn’t complain when people do not understand you. You go out of your way to be misunderstood.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:51 pmthe excerpt came through a puffington host piece, with kaine trying to sound authoritative, he ended up like otto from a fish called wanda, of course none of the major dailies will point it out,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:58 pmnow schoenfeld proved himself unworthy with his reaction to romney’s mild critique of reaction to the demonstration in cairo before benghazi
https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2016/11/02/trump-derangement-syndrome-schoenfeld-edition/
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:02 pmTim Kaine is right (almost, I don’t know where he got that maximum of 15). Congress does determine the size of the Court but it’s by statute duly enacted, say L-A-W, not the whim of Senators asked to vote on a confirmation.
nk (dbc370) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:04 pmHang in there, narciso. Your predilection for the meandering approach disguises the pot o’ gold normally found at the end of the journey. Much more rewarding than the lengthy, rambling bloviations of the few prima donnas that occasionally visit.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:05 pmWill teh Cubs do it?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:05 pmwell the indians have a taste for cleat lately,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:09 pmBless your heart, Haiku.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:16 pmyes, but as long as there is a quorum of 6, that doesn’t mean there must be nine,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:23 pmYou’re right. There need not be nine and there’s no reason for the GOP to vote for something that destroys their interests. There also could be twenty five justices if the president and the senate got on the same page about it. It’s funny how certain aspects of the Constitution get respected and others are flagrantly ignored. I wouldn’t put any faith in this working any better than a government shutdown has.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:30 pmif the results were backwards, and say ginsberg was the last hold out for a liberal majority, you think they would be making this argument, no just like they were glad to hold bork and the other ginsburg off till they got kennedy, and argued the biden rule, and obama’s filibuster proposal to any gop nominee,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:36 pmThat is still by statute, the Judiciary Act of 1869, that quorum of six. BTW, the Judiciary Act of 1869 reduced the number of Justices from ten to nine.
nk (dbc370) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:42 pmAbsolutely they would. In fact the debates over the Court are the most overtly cynical. Both sides echo each-other and their condemnations of the positions they once held just depending on who is in power and who is not.
The only problem is that I’m not sure the Senate will be the GOP’s for very long. So much was riding on this election, but it went from being the most important to least important / total trainwreck during the primary. The very thin silver lining is that Hillary may be politically hampered by her scandals and having barely beaten a dumpster fire in the general election.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:44 pm(my last comment was a reply to Narciso at 7:36 pm)
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:44 pmI don’t think so, ayotte may run into some trouble, but take deborah ross, burr’s opponeny, she’s all sorts of wrong, not least of which inviting benjamin barber to her fundraiser, we may even have an opportunity to take search light’s seat,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:51 pman elaboration of the barrett piece,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441675/clinton-foundation-fbi-investigation-loretta-lynch-obstruction
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:59 pmSo I misunderstood narciso? Maybe he should try to communicate his ideas clearly.
DRJ (15874d) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:04 pmclearly my view of kaine, has been clear, as my respect for cruz, notwithstanding some of his more foolhardy advisors like beck or alice stewart for instance, so what part is unclea?
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:11 pmReason to vote Trump #2016:
Maudie interrupts World Series Game 7 ‘election noise escape’ with her frigging commercials.
Leave us alone, Maude. It’s only nine innings.
“America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.” – Terence Mann [James Earl Jones] ‘Field Of Dreams’ 1989
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:13 pmyou have this obsession with terence mann, who wasn’t even in the book, shoeless joe, but the telescreeens are getting to be a bit much,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:20 pmSome will vote, some will bemoan what could’ve been as they whine about what is, in their descent into a fetal, thumbsucking position.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:29 pmWhat a game!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:29 pmHe is cryptic, I’ll give you that.
But maybe it’s because I used to work with cryptographers I’m used to it.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:30 pmthanks steve, once you have the vigeniere code key it’s a snap,
matthews, shows him nearly as clueless as the remainer pundit, in the days before the brexit vote,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:33 pmhttp://www.worldwar2history.info/Midway/mission.html
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:34 pmIf Charlie Brown had ever successfully kicked the football, then he would no longer be good ol’ wishy-washy loser Charlie Brown.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:36 pmLikewise if the Cubs win the World Series, they’ll no longer be the lovable loser Cubs.
Some enjoy following the logic, Steve. Some are mentally exhausted after a few minutes.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:36 pmthis is what is considered strong words, for the wet tories,
http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/11/louis-smiths-mockery-of-islam-was-neither-clever-nor-funny-but-his-suspension-for-it-is-outrageous.html
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:37 pmsorry about that, so if one can tie deborah ross by association to this hack, barber, who I put in the cache because language,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:43 pmIf you are going to crack the code, Coronello, you have to keep going after most people would be mentally exhausted.
http://www.usni.org/store/books/fall-great-book/joe-rocheforts-war
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:45 pmnotably I have seen very little comment about this,
http://www.wftv.com/news/pulse-shooting/channel-9-speaks-to-reporter-who-interviewed-omar-mateens-wife/462930498
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:56 pmAOCS was really a mind f**k. It wasn’t so much the physical challenge. Friends of mine who became SEALs said the same thing about BUD/S. Yes, it’s physically demanding. But it isn’t the people who are most physically fit that make it through. It’s the people who are mentally up to the challenge. As soon as you learned the Marines were trying to get inside your head, the easier AOCS became.
I credit my dad, the senior chief, for getting me ready for that.
Coast Guard raised. Navy owned. Marine Corps trained. The Steve57 story.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:02 pmwhat do you mean alternate is he a geologist, geographic, or plane geo,
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/us/president-obama-says-engineers-considering-alternate-route-for-dakota-pipeline.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:06 pmwhy does that name ring a bell,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-new-york-times-invents-a-narrative-on-comey/article/2005190
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:18 pmThis is, believe it or not, my DI. Gunnery Sergeant Holt. The anti-Christ, as I still think of him affectionately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415HQ1t2ZNI
Good times, good times. He spent 99.9% of his time ripping me a new orifice or making me bury my M-1 in the sand making me sweat all over it. But once, just once, he dropped the mask and told me he knew I would be a good intel officer. That was the highest compliment anybody has ever given me. I spent the next 20 years not letting him down.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:19 pm@78/@76- My mother, late father and late grandfather were at the home games in Pgh in ’60 when he Pirates and Yankees played…. and at Game 7 at Forbes Field when Maz hit the home run for the Pirates to win over the Yankees. I was home with granny listening on the radio… The two deceased spoke of it their entire lives– and Mom still talks about it at 85. Ticket stubs from the games were stuck in a sock drawer for years.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:19 pmDCSCA, Bing Crosby was a part-owner of the Pirates. Apparently, he was too nervous to watch game 7 in person or on television, so he had someone film the NBC broadcast with a kinescope. He later watched the film reels in the privacy of his own home.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:42 pmThey were discovered in his basement a number of years ago (his widow is still alive). And it’s the only known “tape” of that famous game 7.
so the pirates who are in the national league won that year, what does that mean for today,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:47 pm@93- Yep. Recall hearing that.
Cubs win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And all is right with the Universe.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:48 pmnow you know what you have to do, nk?
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:49 pm@94- It was just one of the more memorable WS Game 7’s ever.
This one is, too.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:50 pmyes, it was,
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/02/corruption-this-is-donald-trumps-hardest-hitting-ad-of-the-election-video/
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 9:59 pmWhoever thought that the Clinton-Trump contest would turn on the honest/trustworthy question? That’s like a Dole/Gore contest turning on the “compassion” question.
This whole year has been one headbang after another.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:00 pmlike chris cilizza, he gets one thing occasionally right, then drifts into catatrophic category error,
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2016/11/02/matthews-hopes-hillary-e-mails-weiner-laptop-are-just-pleas-pick
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:05 pm94. A post midnight victory speech for team Tall OompaLoompa, ’60 was a 2 state (IL, WV) turn, I imagine somewhat the same.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:11 pmI jumped the gun and bought the proverbial Egg McMuffin yesterday, but this long suffering South Side Sellout Cubs fan accepts the ascension of Donald J. Trump as quid pro quo.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:14 pmo’keefe gets results up to a point,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:15 pm@93- CS- off topic but yeah, when my grandfather passed we found a lot of Pirates stuff– Crosby, Joe Brown, Clemente, Stargell, Maz…. KDKA’s Bob Prince and so forth… stuff from that era. Forbes Field was like Wrigley. Really a classic ball park. Gramps did a lot of civics/banking work with the Pirates in town back in that era as well as w/t Homestead Greys– they’d see Satchel Page pitch and so forth. My late father told of how Honus Wagner lived a few houses down from my great aunts and he’d play catch w/him. But the old biddies were high collared temperance leaguer and disapproved of my father playing w/a ball player who’d spill off a street car after nickel beer nights and so forth. Recall Wagner’s tiff about cigarettes and his ball card, too; well, he didn’t smoke but chewed tobacco like a cow… when they’d go to games at Forbes, gramps had seats by 1st base and kept a package of RedMan in his pocket as Honus was a base coach then w/Pgh and in between innings my Dad said Honus would waddle over, ask for a chew from Gramps then say ‘hiya kid’– and tussle my Dad’s hair- cleaning off his tobacco-stained fingers. Dad said he brought home so many signed score cards that my grandmother got fed up with them being stacked up– and she threw…. them… out. Ugh.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:23 pmIt was rigged. The Cubs could have won it in four games but the MLB wanted to milk it for all the revenue possible.
nk (dbc370) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:34 pmSounded like an endorsement.
About as close to an endorsement of Donald Trump as your likely to ever hear from an MSNBC host.
papertiger (c8116c) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:36 pmwell calling out chapman late in the last two games suggest something, but a promise is a promise,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:38 pm105. David Stern is the real MLB commissioner. 106, that’s bad for cup o Joe.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:39 pmsince I’ve referred to it twice,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Psclfgfhw
narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:59 pmswamp water for your brandy
https://youtu.be/gZzL1DHHSsQ
papertiger (c8116c) — 11/2/2016 @ 11:16 pmCongrats to Chicago. Contrats to us all. Miracles do happen.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 11:31 pmI prefer my brandy straight up, but I’ve been a duck hunter since I was eleven. If a little swamp water gets into the mix I won’t mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMcWRt0KL88
“Ouch, Jim, that’s got to hurt. I’ll be back at the hotel drinking Margaritas.”
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 11:56 pm“FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton’s server has been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information had been taken from it.”
Colonel Haiku (ede614) — 11/3/2016 @ 6:32 amAnd nate pewter said it couldn’t happen.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/3/2016 @ 6:46 amAbout mcguffin, there are some interesting things that have been found our.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/3/2016 @ 6:48 amThe Wall Street Journal has another update this morning on the history of the Clinton Foundation investigation.
Sammy Finkelman (643dcd) — 11/3/2016 @ 7:46 am“SCOTT ADAMS THINKS HILLARY’S “WOMAN CARD” STRATEGY WON’T WORK, BECAUSE SHE’S TOO SCARY:
Once the contest became Trump versus Clinton, Trump had the early fear advantage because Clinton was talking about her policies and experiences while Trump was talking about rapists, terrorists, and ISIS drowning people in cages. If that matchup had stayed the same, Trump would have coasted to victory. We saw him briefly pull ahead earlier in the summer.
Then Clinton went “full fear” in her messaging, cleverly framing Trump himself as the biggest risk to humanity. While Trump was scaring the public about crimes and atrocities that might affect some of us, Clinton was talking about Trump’s “temperament” leading to nuclear war, and his “dog whistles” leading to a new American racism. That would affect all of us. You can’t top that kind of fear message. And so we saw Clinton’s poll number zoom ahead of Trump’s later in the summer.
Then came the Wikileaks. And Project Veritas. And the FBI’s latest announcement about the emails on Weiner’s computer. We watched Clinton physically collapse in public. Individually, none of that news was big enough to make a difference. But collectively it framed Clinton as a drinker in dubious health, who hired bullies to start violence at Trump rallies, and runs a Mafia-like shadow-government called The Clinton Foundation, funded in part by companies that benefit from war. Add that to Clinton’s confrontational language about Russia, and suddenly Clinton looks as dangerous as Trump. The fear persuasion was approaching a tie.
Then the Access Hollywood tape dropped. Our brains forgot about fear for awhile and concentrated on the appalling things Trump said and – according to several women – actually did. Voters abandoned Trump and put his poll numbers in a big hole.
But here’s the catch. You might be disgusted by Trump’s interactions with women. You might think he is a terrible role model. You might think it is an insult to the women you know and love to even consider such a person for President of the United States. You might think a dozen different bad things about Trump. But – and here is the important part – you probably are not afraid he will try to kiss you personally, or grab your p*ssy. And given his busy schedule, there is not much chance he will get around to acting inappropriate with anyone you know. Fear-wise, Trump’s interactions with women don’t have much impact on you as an individual. Your brain took a vacation from “Trump has a bad temperament and might destroy the Earth” to “Trump is a p*ssy-grabber.” The new frame is the less scary version of Trump, albeit icky.
Quite by accident, the Access Hollywood tape took the scare off of Trump. It made you think of Trump as an ordinary flawed human and not Hitler planning the Holocaust. . . . Clinton’s new messaging this week is focused on Trump’s views on women. She wants you to think a President Trump would take the country backwards in terms of how men treat women. Her persuaders are doing a good job of piecing together evidence and producing ads. But there is one problem.
It doesn’t scare anyone.”
Also, it reminds people of Bill’s worse problems, which she enabled.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/248110/
Colonel Haiku (ede614) — 11/3/2016 @ 7:50 amI was shocked to see lifelong Yankees fan illary Clinton going crazy with joy over the Cubs’ victory.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/3/2016 @ 7:54 amHow about obama being not able to name a favorite player on their roster.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/3/2016 @ 7:56 amnarciso, that was one of the most amusing audio clips I ever heard in my life.
He couldn’t name anyone who played for the White Sox or Cubs back in the day, so he pivoted to the “well, growing up in Hawaii, I was an Oakland A’s fan.”
And that conversation all happened after he threw that terrible first pitch while wearing the famous Mom Jeans! (LOL)
COMINSKEY Park! (LOL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX0PSoCTFas
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/3/2016 @ 8:29 amI bring up these examples, because when stelter yells squirrel, you should know what it’s about.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/3/2016 @ 8:34 amLuckiest dude or a great beard?
http://chiqui-delgado.univision.com/un-flechazo-de-30-anos-1788529817
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 11/3/2016 @ 8:36 amHe picks the best of the office poofl of you get my drift.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/3/2016 @ 8:47 amThat’s all the endorsement Trump ever gets, though. “Don’t vote for HRC” in so many words.
SarahW (3164f0) — 11/3/2016 @ 8:48 amI think that has to be called a passive aggressive endorsement.
No one watched matthews, so he appreciates the hit, he’s still in the burrow like an ostrich.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/3/2016 @ 8:55 amDustin (ba94b2) — 11/2/2016 @ 7:30 pm
To increase the number of justices, they’d need the House, too.
There’s nothing about the size of the Supreme Court, which has remained at 9 since a decade or so after the start of the Civil war, or the size of the House of Representatives, which has remained at 435 since 1911 (the House was not reaportioed after the 1920 Census because they let arguing how to do it – the real reason is the south did not want to lose seats)
Sammy Finkelman (3fda43) — 11/3/2016 @ 9:05 amThis election was lost when neithr Sanders nor Omalley did anything decisive when the BLM jumped the stage in Seattle.
urbanleftbehind (c8adc7) — 11/3/2016 @ 9:06 amActgually the House temporarily went up to 437 in 1959/1960 when Alaska and Hawaii became states and were assigned one representative in Congress.
The 1960 election had 537 Electoral votes, and 1964 and since, 538 (2 less when the House went back to 435 members, and 3 for DC due to the 23rd amendment) Between 1912 and 1956 there were 531.
Sammy Finkelman (3fda43) — 11/3/2016 @ 9:10 amHillary is terrible. This is a good point. Unfortunately the other side can just use the same argument, and the GOP will always lose these arguments. It’s why Romney and Mccain lost, and they weren’t even that bad (compared to Trump, I mean).
this is the perfect election to stop caring about politics and start enjoying everything else about this country.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 11/3/2016 @ 9:37 am