Nailed it.

Lol @ all the Clinton conspiracy lovers hanging out with and taking happy snapshots with an actual confirmed human trafficker.

He can’t do a single thing right. Lol signing the cover.

Good job by this journalist interviewing Erik Prince today.

Mmmmm, sacrilicious.

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.

If I’m Erik Prince, there is no way I’m doing interviews, ever. These people have gotten away wth it for so long they just don’t care.

These bibles were just coffee table decorations, no one reads that ****. Why read when someone can tell you what tk believe every Sunday morning.

But she did win the Gold medal in '76.

This is great.

This sort of challenge by British journalists is fairly common. Why dont American journalists ever do similar?

Al Jazeera does A+ journalism, I've been saying that for a while.

Too busy scouring the diners of Novi, Michigan for economically anxious Trump voters.

That's a little regional humor for you Michiganders out there.

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."

I've been looking for the opportunity to drop some Willamette Valley zingers, good for you finding your spots

Safari reporters may outnumber employed citizens in Lordstown in fall 2020

First time I heard Melania speak without video I thought it was an old asian woman.

ugh

Maybe he could thanks the Creek Indians as well.

Creek Indians donate $180,000 to cover funeral costs for 23 Alabama tornado victims

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:

With Trump’s motorcade almost getting taken out by rogue car accident, the writers are really jumping the shark.

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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.

Us trolls nod in agreement

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:

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration

There is a breakdown by sector of the border here: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/s...-apprehensions

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!