White House Press Secretary Uses Her Position To Advise Breitbart Board To Consider Ousting Steve Bannon
[guest post by Dana]
Regardless of what you think about the ridiculous Bannon-Trump feud, and honestly I have a hard time caring about two bickering man-child narcissists who hold grandiose views of themselves and expect others to share those views, the internet is nonetheless going nuts over excerpts from Michael Wolff’s just released book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” which looks at President Trump’s first year in office. The book includes derisive comments made about the president by former White House chief strategist and Breitbart chief executive Steve Bannon. Hence the feud, the cease and desist letter and threats of “imminent legal action” by the president’s lawyer. Also, as a result, Breitbart News board members are now trying to figure out how to solve a problem like Bannon:
[Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer] and other Breitbart News Network LLC board members on Thursday were debating whether to oust Mr. Bannon as chairman, with many supportive of the move, according to a person familiar with the exchanges. Among the considerations are Breitbart’s contractual relationships with other entities, including Sirius XM radio, that involve Mr. Bannon.
Staffers at Breitbart, which Mr. Bannon has called his “killing machine,” described a “chaotic” day at the company, with writers—many personally recruited by Mr. Bannon—wondering whether he would last the day.
In spite of the tit-for-tat jabs between Bannon and Trump and a kinder tone adopted by Bannon on Wednesday during a radio show, Bannon (and by extension, his populist movement) continues to lose support from big money donors, politicians and candidates:
“I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was elected,” Ms. Mercer said in the statement. “My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements.”
Doug Deason, a Texas-based GOP donor who has said he admires Mr. Bannon as a “brilliant guy” who played a critical role in getting Mr. Trump elected, said the former chief strategist’s ego has gotten the better of him. He said that would likely doom him with donors.
“He doesn’t have any credibility out there with anyone in the big donor class,” Mr. Deason said. “If you support the president, you can’t support Steve Bannon. Anyone who was even considering giving him money—I can’t imagine they would do that now.”
Indeed, Dan Eberhart, a GOP donor and chief executive of a Colorado-based drilling services company, said he is rethinking plans to back Mr. Bannon’s political projects.
“If he’s not President Trump’s wingman on the outside, I really don’t know what Steve Bannon’s constituency is,” Mr. Eberhart said.
Candidates who very recently touted Mr. Bannon’s support have begun distancing themselves, including Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kelli Ward, who appeared with Mr. Bannon at a campaign rally in October.
“Steve Bannon is only one of the many high-profile endorsements Dr. Ward has received,” said Ward spokesman Zachery Henry, who declined to comment on whether she would welcome another campaign visit by Mr. Bannon.
Bannon-backed candidates are being pushed by their opponents to disavow him.
Rep. Evan Jenkins, who is running for the Senate GOP nomination in West Virginia, called on his rival Attorney General Pat Morrisey to “immediately disavow Bannon’s support.”
Morrisey spokeswoman Nachama Soloveichik put out a statement emphasizing the candidate’s support for the president over his alliance with Mr. Bannon, saying he “does not support these attacks on President Trump and his family.”
However, what I find most troubling about all of this is Sarah Huckabee Sanders using her position as White House press secretary to advocate that an organization consider removing its executive chairman for comments made in a new book that she labeled “complete fantasy” and “tabloid gossip.”:
Michael Bender (WSJ): Should Breitbart part ways with Steve Bannon after the comments in these books?
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (WH): I certainly think that it’s something that they should look at and consider
Breitbart is not a governmental entity. It is not answerable to anyone other than its board members. Do we really believe it is the press secretary’s job to stand at her podium, where she is representing the president, and opine that a private company should consider getting rid of an executive because he offended her boss? How is this appropriate? It’s problematic when an administration does not wisely decline to answer such a leading question. Consider, too, if Breitbart decides to keep Bannon on board, does the White House then cut off the media outlet off for defying its wishes? Is the organization publicly shamed at the next press conference, and how might that impact their numbers? This is the Trump administration after all, and Trump is known to hold grudges, keep score, and not let any personal slights roll off his back. Regardless of what one thinks of the Breitbart organization today, how is it the business of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to advocate one way or another regarding the firing of anyone?
Note: The logical follow-up question to Sanders should have been, “What’s the supposed firing offense?,” but it wasn’t asked. However, this sounds like a perfectly fitting response for this administration:
What’s the supposed firing offense? Slamming the president’s son and son-in-law for being a pair of morons when they met with that Russian lawyer for dirt on Hillary? “Treasonous” was an overstatement, but whatever. It was Bannon’s opinion. Thinking he should lose his job for holding an opinion critical of Team Trump makes sense only if you view pro-Trump media as de facto White House spokesmen — which, I’m sure, is exactly how Trump and Sanders do view them. It *is* a firing offense for a PR flack to badmouth his or her employer. Trump’s not Bannon’s employer and increasingly he’s not even a good mouthpiece for Bannon’s ideology but he expects absolute loyalty from allies and associated media hacks. Bannon denied him that and now it’s only fair and right that Bannon lose everything, starting with the site he built into an Internet juggernaut.
–Dana
Good morning.
Dana (023079) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:33 amPeter Thiel can help out here, if Breitfart is reluctant to do anything.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:43 ambreitbart.com stinks of pee
maybe if sloppy steve leaves they can get a handle on that?
at the very least they should look at it and consider it
happyfeet (28a91b) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:46 amStill waiting for “what’s the supposed colluding offense?”.
harkin (8256c3) — 1/5/2018 @ 8:35 amIf there is no collusion he must proffer the delusion he is not a white-collar criminal.
Heh
Admiral Ben Bunsen Burner (b3d5ab) — 1/5/2018 @ 8:38 am^once you’ve gone full Johnny Cochran, alas with the Mueller grand jury pool, that might be the way to go…unfortunately
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 1/5/2018 @ 8:50 amGoing from jury nullification to a stacked jury? Republican cough syrup.
It’s like a speeding ticket. You were innocent in the infraction cited, but so many other times you weren’t caught.
Admiral Ben Bunsen Burner (b3d5ab) — 1/5/2018 @ 8:57 amand now it’s only fair and right that Bannon lose everything, starting with the site he built into an Internet juggernaut
some bottom feeder at that “Hot Air” fake news clickbait site is reading *way* too much into this i think
sloppy steve has demonstrated gross character defects (underline underline underline), and his canoodling with this sketchy wolff guy only further confirms his well-established penchant for engaging in disloyal self-aggrandizing leaks to the media
when you reveal your agenda to be wholly one of self-interest and self-promotion, Sarah Huckabee is absolutely correct! (she is a very perspicacious lady):
anybody employing you should take a hard look at that decision
and Sarah was well within bounds to say so (she’s a hard-charging no-nonsense gal)
happyfeet (28a91b) — 1/5/2018 @ 8:58 amMeanwhile…….
“Single-Payer in Crisis: Britain’s NHS Cancels 50,000 Surgeries Amid Long Waits For Care, ‘Third World’ Conditions”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/01/05/single-payer-healthcare-in-crisis-britains-nhs-cancels-50000-surgeries-n2429821?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true
Tell us again Madame Server would be an improvement.
harkin (8256c3) — 1/5/2018 @ 9:03 ammeanwhile a theranos, and planned parenthood connected firm does this,
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/949176899208667137.html
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 9:05 amjudge, remember this real news, yes it’s fraud but it was conducted through new York magazine, which employed halperin, if you recall, who was party to the phony jones memo exercise, who spiked the Weinstein story in 2016, so what’s new about that,
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 9:14 amHow can anyone take this soap opera seriously? Bannon’s got a piece of Wolff’s back-end. Trump probably does too.
Meanwhile, conservative treehouse has a rundown on five new developments in another reality show, the “Rumble in the DOJ Jungle”…..this is really shaping up to be a blockbuster.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
Lenny (5ea732) — 1/5/2018 @ 9:41 amActual LATimes Op Ed headline:
“Why Believe Michael Wolff? Because, for now, this stuff is too good not to”
https://mobile.twitter.com/jamestaranto/status/949331541121003521/photo/1
It’s kinda come full circle, has it not?
Because journalism!
harkin (8256c3) — 1/5/2018 @ 9:41 amthe odd thing as with Stephen glass or Jason blair he was not admonished,
https://newrepublic.com/article/67746/wolff-trapped
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 9:44 amthey are beyond satire:
https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/949290016781602816
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 9:52 amwe were interested in the prevezon matter, right
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/emails-show-clinton-ties-to-russian-oligarch-under-investigation/article/2601514
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 9:53 amPress secretaries have gone after other private companies before. Consider what Obama’s people said of Fox, or Nixon’s of the Post. No big deal.
What IS a big deal is that Trump has been using non-disparagement clauses in employment contracts and here we have a guy openly flouting them. If Trump sued for libel, he’d open himself up to discovery but if he simply sued for breach, all he has to show is that Bannon disparaged him and there really shouldn’t be any call for discovery.
Kevin M (752a26) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:17 am“Why Believe Michael Wolff? Because, for now, this stuff is too good not to”
Gee, and those books about Obama and Hillary by Ed Klein were just as salacious, but they didn’t utter a peep about their contents.
Also, that headline would be Exhibit #1 in any libel trial. OPEN disregard for the facts.
Kevin M (752a26) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:20 amBannon’s departure this weekend will be due to POLITICS and the press secretary occasionally ddabbles in that. What the issue?
Kevin M (752a26) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:22 amI’ve been speculating: Vladimir Putin.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:26 amFirst printings; first impressions:
Best Dr. Evil look for 2018:
[ ] Mike Myers
[X] Michael Wolff
DCSCA (797bc0) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:27 amPlease.
There’s more than enough going on to have a dozen posts about meaningful issues.
Whether the Press Secretary – whose job it is to answer questions from the press — should answer a question from the press about a former senior staff member, is trivial.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:32 amMike Wolfe displaying his signature evil laugh.
papertiger (c8116c) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:34 am“Muuhahahaha” [jpg]
“There’s more than enough going on to have a dozen posts about meaningful issues.”
– shipwreckedcrew
What’s stopping you?
Leviticus (efada1) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:38 amThis administration is fundamentally premised on the avoidance of meaningful issues. Document the unseriousness of this administration is, in fact, serious business. For posterity. To show future generations the banal results of activist nihilism, with Trump as the posterboy.
Leviticus (efada1) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:40 amMichael Wolfe and Steve Bannon in a private meeting. [jpg] Don’t know how they got this picture. Can’t hide anywhere nowadays I guess.
papertiger (c8116c) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:40 am*DocumentING
Leviticus (efada1) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:40 amSaul goodman looking for profundity shocker.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:55 am@Leviticus @24
Shipwreckedcrew is not one of the guest posters here. Of course he can wroite something anyway and maybe it will interest Dana or Patterico.
What I find very interesting is the ideas for getting around the non-deductability of state and local taxes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/business/high-tax-states-law.html
California’s idea (coming from Kirk Stark, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles) is better than that of New York Governor Cuomo’s.
Kevin de Leon, president pro-tem of the California Senate, plans to introduce legislation. The idea is to allow dollar for dollar tax credits against state income taxes for contributions to the state (a state government is considered a charity. There’s no cap on charitable deductions.
This is already the law in Arizona, where it was introduced for a different reason – to allow state funding for private schools – scholarships get credits)
https://www.azdor.gov/TaxCredits/SchoolTaxCreditsforIndividuals.aspx
Governor Cuomo probably doesn’t want it, because Simcha Felder, who holds the balance of power in the State Senate, would insist that support for parochial schools be included.
So he’s going with 1) suing the federal government (on the grounds that income taxed away by a state or local government isn’t income) and 2) replacing the state income tax with a payroll tax.
If he does that, that should should be limited to the higher brackets. People below that income level will probably take the standard deduction anyway under the new law even oif they could deduct all their state and local taxes.
Governor Cuomo devoted a lot of attention in his speech yesterday to castigating the federal government for taxing blue states.
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/video-audio-rush-transcript-governor-cuomo-outlines-2018-agenda-realizing-promise-progressive
The three things are: Sue, lead a repeal and replace effort,
That last part didn’t hit the newspapers that I read.
Governor Andrew Cuomo probably is trying to avoid a controversy over aid to yeshivas and parochial schools, so I see he’s looking for other causes.
Infrastructure maybe? Fare subsidies?
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:00 amHowever, what I find most troubling about all of this is Sarah Huckabee Sanders using her position as White House press secretary to advocate that an organization consider removing its executive chairman…
Meh. She’s already a walkin’, talkin’ billboard for WeightWatchers.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:01 amAnother issue: Trump, or Sessions, is doing with marijuana what he did with immigratuion – on;y this time Trump is not saying he wants Congress to legalize the current suituation.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:03 amNYT: “Publicly, We Say #MeToo. Privately, We Have Misgivings.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/opinion/golden-globes-metoo.html?referer=http://drudgereport.com/
IOW: “Holy cr*p most of these dirtbags are on our side!!”.
harkin (8256c3) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:05 amIt’s a political organziation taht supposedly supports Donald trump’s agencda, or wahgt became his agenda.
And thia is somewhat similar to asking someone you have no connection with be fired for sexual harassment.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:07 am“She’s already a walkin’, talkin’ billboard for WeightWatchers”
As opposed to the billboard for WeightWatchers who was carried to the curb and tossed into the van like a sack of spuds?
harkin (8256c3) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:08 amharkin @32,.
The New York Times had a front page news article about this on New year’s Day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/us/politics/sexual-harassment-politics-partisanship.html
Some people are realzing this can affect both parties, including some people they would rather keep in office.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:10 amMike Wolfe and Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a meeting. Documented!!! [jpg]
With Bannon in the middle even!!! [jpg]
What in the Huck is going on here?
papertiger (c8116c) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:11 am30, the times have changed…thats why you dont see a Fox JV cheerleader in that spot, and if you can her, you risk the wrath of the Body Positive crowd even if 99.999999% might find disfavor with the policies of SHS’s boss.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:12 amI would again recommend people interested in up-to-the-minute info on the various Congressional investigations into the activities of DOJ and FBI during 2016 leading up to the election to visit Conservative Treehouse. They have another excellent summary of developments from this past week in a half-dozen different arenas, and I think they are correct in their prediction that many of these investigations are going to begin to merge and focus on a group of 12-20 Obama Administration officials in both agencies, both career and appointed, who orchestrated a “political” operation to undermine the Trump campaign, and later the nascent Trump Presidency.
One new report I had not seen is that DOJ Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expect to turn over 1.2 million pages of records he has accumulated in his investigation into FBI/DOJ activities during the election cycle that may have violated DOJ policies and regulations. Remember that Horowitz’s investigation was initiated by demands of DEMOCRATS in the Senate who were outraged by Comey’s press conference in July, and later by his public announcement in October that he had re-opened the Clinton email investigation.
It was Horowitz who first unearthed the text messages between various FBI personnel.
Also, they have a copy of a letter written by House Intel Comm. Chair Devin Nunes to the FBI and DOJ dated yesterday, which follows one day after the meeting between DAG Rosenstein and FBI Dir. Wray with House Speaker Ryan and Nunes, where Rosenstein and Wray were unsuccessful in attempting to continue withholding FBI records about the Steele dossier and the Carter Page FISA warrant application.
The letter says that designated Intel Comm members and staffers will be reviewing UNREDACTED FBI documents at DOJ today — no more hiding information from Congress. Also, all FBI and DOJ personnel requested by the Comm will take place in January.
So you have the upcoming double-whammy of the IG’s report and the sudden traction of Nunes at the Intel Comm and Grassley at the Senate Jud. Comm.
2018 is going to be a very bad year for former Obama Justice Dept. officials.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:20 amOf course Cuomo and brown could just lower their confiscatory tax rates, just a,thought.
Yes an actual document detailing doj abuses is apparently not of interest here.
Not is apparently the conviction of one of the prime money lauderers for erdogan
narciso (21eb6d) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:27 amAlso, the full draft of Comey’s original statement exonerating Clinton, as well as all the edits that were made to that draft by several people involved, was released on the website of Senator Ron Johnson yesterday.
There were 5 edits made which removed the term “grossly negligent” or similar phrases, which tracked language of the statute. And the original draft said it was “reasonably likely” that foreign intelligence agencies had gained access to the server, but the final draft said that was only “possible.”
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:32 amI have no ethical issue whatsoever with a POTUS press secretary publicly calling on a media company to fire a proven fraud. According to POTUS himself, this louse was denied the access he has claimed as proof of his work. His attorneys filed a request for prior restraint of publishing based on defamation.
This guy is a bad actor. Or, DJT lied to a court. If the latter, there is a genuine problem. A yooooooooge problem.
Ed from SFV (3400a5) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:33 amLike when the new york Times was sued for libel by the huntress, or Zimmerman with NBC news or McFarlane with Esquire, yes justice prevails right?
narciso (21eb6d) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:39 amChuck Grassley and Lindsay Graham have now written to the FBI to ask that a criminal investigation be opened into whether Dossier author Christopher Steel lied to “federal authorities.”
The report in The Hill isn’t completely clear in terms of who he is alleged to have lied to — the FBI when they were working him, or Cong. investigators who have questioned him. But the story makes reference to some press reports of interviews Steel has given, as well as the contents of a “memo” they have been shown which remains classified. I’m guessing its most likely an FBI 1023 memo of an interview with a “confidential human source”, and something in there is contrary to what Steel has reportedly said to the press.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:41 amNarciso: the Spanish word for Whataboutism.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:43 amY tu mama tambien.
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:44 amOh, sorry, I meant that’s how you say it in Spanish.
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:46 amIt doesn’t really translate, in words suitable here. You can ask general Westmoreland or Ariel Sharon, no you can’t really.
narciso (21eb6d) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:46 amListened to Bannon this a.m.
mg (8cbc69) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:55 amPerhaps ya all will get your wish on the Friday afternoon press dump.
I hope he stays as he speaks well for the middle class.
Most of you have never listened to him on Breitbart so stuff your asinine remarks where the sun don’t shine.
SHS can host POTUS, Wolfe and Bannon at a Sweet Tea Summit.
Pinandpuller (8bad87) — 1/5/2018 @ 12:48 pmmg
Bannon must be a lot like Don Imus. I’ve listened to him a little and I don’t get the appeal. But I’m not taking shots at Brannon’s talk show persona because I’ve only heard a few clips. . I’m guessing he’s no Alan Berg.
Pinandpuller (8bad87) — 1/5/2018 @ 12:53 pmIf Bannon gets let go he can start a podcast. I’m sure he will get sponsored by Casper Mattress, Me Undies and Bark Box.
Pinandpuller (8bad87) — 1/5/2018 @ 12:55 pmOT, this looks like one of those Bachelor/ette pairings gone awry: http://abc7chicago.com/woman-killed-man-found-dead-in-downtown-lake-forest-idd/2862958/?sf178399512=1
urbanleftbehind (1d75fb) — 1/5/2018 @ 1:05 pmBannon is alive. I was living in Breckenridge when Alan was murdered.
mg (8cbc69) — 1/5/2018 @ 1:29 pmDid you grow up innchicago and moved to Tennessee.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 1:41 pm@54 narciso
If me, I’ve never been to Chicago. Grew up in Casper, WY.
@53 mg
I may have told you this already but the only time I ever had to testify was for a civil case at the Summit County Courthouse.
Some guy was at fault for hitting my buddy’s car at Copper Mountain. He ducked the insurance company for a while. We got to go back in late summer so we rode the Alpine Slide.
That same buddy went to law school, became a lawyer and is now a state rep. And wouldn’t you know it-somewhere I have a picture of him wearing makeup from a youth group trip.
Pinandpuller (8bad87) — 1/5/2018 @ 1:55 pmNow I’m speaking of Mr urban.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 2:15 pmBorn and grew up in Chicago, now in the county just north of it, with stops in Champaign, Columbus OH, back to the homestead and Berwyn il in between.
urbanleftbehind (1d75fb) — 1/5/2018 @ 2:18 pmThanks goodness neither one of these guys is a drinker!
Patricia (5fc097) — 1/5/2018 @ 2:35 pmWhile you may not find the subject worthwhile, I do. That a White House spokesperson used their position and publicly suggested a private entity consider ousting someone for being a putz without regard to the ramifications of such advocacy is troubling. And when that WH spokesperson Speaking for the president is too unwise to decline to answer such a question, then it reveals (or confirms) a lack of discernment and discretion.
You are certainly free to make your criticisms, of course, but because the subject doesn’t appeal to you does not mean that it is not worthwhile, and is trivial. With that, your insulting condescension has been duly noted.
Dana (023079) — 1/5/2018 @ 4:26 pmShe was asked, Dana some twenty two questions about this foolishness, which is all the white house press corps is good for, they can’t find a fact, if its handed to them.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 4:31 pmTha Alpine Slide, wow does that bring back memories, Pinandpuller. My girls loved that slide, they had passes for the summer. We used to hike to the top of Breckenridge {Peak 8 of the ten mile range] and ski down to the highway by Copper Mnt. Akiwooo!
mg (8cbc69) — 1/5/2018 @ 4:59 pmI fault her for not saying “After CBS fires David Rhodes”.
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:02 pmStart a blog.
Which is more than it deserves.
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:14 pmThat’s pretty much anywhere on Sloppy Steve’s pasty carcass.
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:17 pmI would recommend a brief stop afterwards at Gateway Pundit, and then complete the trifecta with a layover at InfoWars. Yee haw!
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:21 pmThere’s another vote for the fever swamp. Happy to be providing them free advertising!
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:22 pmGot the Wolff book this morning. Read some this morning and more at lunch. It is a laff riot. Plenty of mistakes; not particularly reliable at all. Still, a rollicking good time.
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:24 pmThe gorilla channel stuff on Twitter is priceless.
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:24 pmDon’t forget your old “Go To” fave, CNN! Or Maggie Haberman at teh NYT!
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:25 pmAs we were reminded on planet of the apes the chimps were the pacifists. Could have been done a a roman a clef like that ridiculous tome ghosted by mark salter some years back. Gary hart had a terrible series under the name John blackthorne about a decade ago.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:29 pmWell here the curious thing, haberman debunked one of the wulfmeisters claims, and martiromo has likewise, but it seems only vanderbilt and marrow are the voices of reason.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:35 pmAre you actively obnoxious and dishonest in other people’s houses in real life too, or do you save such jackassery for the Internet?
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:37 pmSo that’s why the Comcast lady started laughing when I called and asked what number the Gorilla Channel was.
It’s just as believable as the KFC in bed. The White House has five full-time chefs who can, and routinely do, prepare state dinners for kings and other heads of state.
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:38 pmI’m announcing a one-week commenting vacation for anyone who insults the writers here, effective immediately.
Disagreement is fine. Insults will earn the vacation.
Try me.
Please. Try me.
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:39 pmLOL
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:40 pmAnd anyone who links Conservative Treehouse here gets the Virtual Dunce Cap.
You should know better by now.
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:41 pmClearly its on hulu, which has a series based on the looming tower.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:49 pmSo far my favorite part of the book is where he quotes verbatim Trump’s speech to the CIA from January.
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:51 pmAnd all the times I’ve told other people, “You only think you’re joking”. Is nothing too absurd to be only a joke, anymore?
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:52 pmShirley they can’t be serious, that also applies to the laughable product known as the 4 agencies assrsssment
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:58 pmthe times have changed…thats why you dont see a Fox JV cheerleader in that spot, and if you can her, you risk the wrath of the Body Positive crowd even if 99.999999% might find disfavor with the policies of SHS’s boss.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 1/5/2018 @ 11:12 am
Megyn Kelly would look pretty good down on her knees, begging for that job.
Pinandpuller (b4423d) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:04 pmBeers is like a modern day Shirley Jackson story, or an updated twilight zone.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:11 pmBorn and grew up in Chicago, now in the county just north of it, with stops in Champaign, Columbus OH, back to the homestead and Berwyn il in between.
urbanleftbehind (1d75fb) — 1/5/2018 @ 2:18 pm
I worked with these kids from ESL and Memphis and they didn’t get arm robbed and car jacked till they came to Nashville. I think they let their guard down.
Are you like Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence: ready to spring into action?
Pinandpuller (b4423d) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:11 pmJester takes off clown nose:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/949390098919051266
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:16 pmTha Alpine Slide, wow does that bring back memories, Pinandpuller. My girls loved that slide, they had passes for the summer. We used to hike to the top of Breckenridge {Peak 8 of the ten mile range] and ski down to the highway by Copper Mnt. Akiwooo!
mg (8cbc69) — 1/5/2018 @ 4:59 pm
Was there a zoo there? Maybe I’m thinking of Colorado Springs. Have you ever climbed Long’s Peak? I guess that’s technically the highest I’ve ever been.
Pinandpuller (b4423d) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:19 pmIt’s just as believable as the KFC in bed. The White House has five full-time chefs who can, and routinely do, prepare state dinners for kings and other heads of state.
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:38 pm
There was a disturbance in the kitchen.
Pinandpuller (b4423d) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:25 pmSo far my favorite part of the book is where he quotes verbatim Trump’s speech to the CIA from January.
Patterico (115b1f) — 1/5/2018 @ 5:51 pm
So it bears a passing resemblance to Jim Wright’s Reflections of a Public Man?
Pinandpuller (b4423d) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:30 pmfried chicken is a sometimes food
happyfeet (28a91b) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:31 pmMr. Moore, a back-slapping, gregarious consultant to many Democratic campaigns in Texas and a key political operatives for Mr. Wright, said he was surprised by the attention on what he called a ”two-bit book with very little fresh stuff.”
The book, which at 117 pages could be mistaken for a pamphlet, contains an assortment of Mr. Wright’s speeches and observations, often less than a page each.
The committee is investigating whether Mr. Wright was paid excessive royalties and whether they were in return for his giving substantial campaign business to the book’s publisher. The panel is also looking into whether Mr. Wright used a staff member’s taxpayer-paid time at work to help edit the book. Wright Denies Allegations
Mr. Wright denied the allegations in a long statement Friday and said he regarded Mr. Moore ”as a friend” who had ”assisted effectively” in seven campaigns.
In interviews here this week, several longtime associates of Mr. Wright said the book project had two purposes: as a profit-making venture and as a vehicle for him to expound his political philosophy.
NYT’s
Pinandpuller (b4423d) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:33 pmThe zoo in Breckenridge were drug crazed ski bums, in the eighties you could have thrown a net over the town and laid off half the DEA.
mg (8cbc69) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:36 pmMust have been Colorado Springs. Never climbed Long’s, but I bet it was a wonderful climb. It’s a big attraction to Rocky National Park.
Rocky Mountain National Park
mg (8cbc69) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:38 pmFor some reason, breaded fried chicken breasts is what I’ve been eating for lunch and dinner the last three days. Mostly with catsup, except today when I had one with buttered mashed potatoes and catsup just doesn’t go with buttered mashed potatoes.
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:39 pmAnd with chocolate fudge brownies, red velvet cake, and blueberry cake.
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:40 pmAnd a bagel.
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:41 pmHave you trued halo top icecream which comes in birthday cake, cookies and crime as well as the standards
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:48 pmNo, this is about as wild as I get, and that not often. I guess it’s the cold weather.
nk (dbc370) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:54 pm@34. As opposed to the billboard for WeightWatchers who was carried to the curb and tossed into the van like a sack of spuds?
Bob? Carol? Ted? Alice?
No.
Egbert Sousé.
Consider the possibilities.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:59 pmI made Christmas eve leftovers stretch 10 days, beef au jus, rotini, ravioli, and the kryptonite of someone here–tamales. The Polish sausage without sauerkraut doesn’t quite work.
urbanleftbehind (1d75fb) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:00 pmi should try the halo top
it’s on my radar but i just haven’t done it
happyfeet (28a91b) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:03 pmblueberry cake sounds special
happyfeet (28a91b) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:03 pmBlueberry if probably the odd one out, its more expensive at Publix rather than other outlets, yes we’ve had soup and stirfry for the better part of a week.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:07 pmThe point is bannons endorsement of a rizzotto press media critter and his enterprises vision are at odds,
narciso (d1f714) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:12 pmMarianos is a middling Chicago facsimile of Publix.
urbanleftbehind (1d75fb) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:12 pmHe’s an ivy educated Irish Catholic reared at the bottom of the East coast megalopolis. Worked on wall street, dabbled in entertainment production,and was kind of a REMF. This could reversion to expectation.
urbanleftbehind (1d75fb) — 1/5/2018 @ 7:15 pmNever climbed Long’s, but I bet it was a wonderful climb. It’s a big attraction to Rocky National Park.
mg (8cbc69) — 1/5/2018 @ 6:36 pm
I can only imagine that CO smells like Bonnaroo everywhere now. I’ve been through there twice since legalization but it only involved driving at night so I didn’t really get the full experience.
Nashville decriminalized MJ recently and I can really tell the difference.
This past summer, when I still had a car with a sun roof, a guy hot boxed me while I was just waiting at a light.
Pinandpuller (b4423d) — 1/5/2018 @ 10:02 pm