Seriously isn't having someone autograph a Bible in direct conflict with the whole thing about not worshipping false idols? The golden calf and all I think.
Its the same with abortion. The smart ones in the GOP know that overturning Roe v Wade would be a disaster. Its a boogeyman and a tool for grabbing power, not a policy goal they wanted to accomplish. But their party got overrun by ideoligues and now they might actually pull it off.
Seriously isn't having someone autograph a Bible in direct conflict with the whole thing about not worshipping false idols? The golden calf and all I think.
These bibles were just coffee table decorations, no one reads that ****. Why read when someone can tell you what tk believe every Sunday morning.
It still amazes me every time we get to see just how uncomfortable he is when he has to fake human emotions. He literally has no clue how to act or what to do in this situation. "Do I touch the cross? I'm going to touch the cross Melanie. I think this is what I'm supposed to do."
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This sort of challenge by British journalists is fairly common. Why dont American journalists ever do similar?
American political journalists (at least, the ones who get on TV) are more concerned with being invited to fancy DC dinners and cocktail parties than they are holding power to account. They don't want to challenge the political elite, they want to be part of it.
Plus if they go too hard then Politician X gets angry, refuses to go on TV Station Y any more because their journalists are 'too aggressive', and now the journalist gets punished by their bosses for actually doing a good job.
It's not that different in the UK tbh, plenty of bootlicking swine here too. But I think a big difference in TV terms is we have the BBC, which doesn't have to worry about access and stuff because every politician has to go on the BBC, and its most prominent interviewer for the last 30 years or so was the notoriously aggressive Jeremy "Why is this lying bastard lying to me?" Paxman:
This sort of challenge by British journalists is fairly common. Why dont American journalists ever do similar?
The short answer is that many American journalists aren't so much journalists. They are "personalities". For many years its been a blurry line between news and entertainment. I've never been comfortable seeing the same guy who portrays the news anchor at night baking brownies on the Today Show in the morning. Real journalists wouldn't have time for such nonsense.
That said, I believe things are changing for the better in that regard. Pretty faces who are lightweights when it comes to interviews or moderating roundtables are slowly being phased out, though there are a few still around (see Brooke Baldwin). My hope is that tv news executives will eventually realize that you need more than good looks to command an audience in the days ahead.
There seems to be something going on with the border apprehension statistics. I saw a FB post that 76K people were apprehended in February, so EMERGENCY! Looking at the CBP web site, there's a spike in February:
where you can see El Paso and the Rio Grande areas are way up. I wonder if the spike is caused by Nielsjen adding staff or paying overtime to gin up the EMERGENCY!