Cadet Bone Spurs John Barron",“John Miller” or maybe it was “David Dennison”.leaked them, right?
And then tRump went off to dig himself deep into a sand trap because this past week was all about John McCain.
sad
The shockin’ aw:
" Haberman, citing unnamed “people close to the White House,” said Friday that her sources had “raised [the] possibility that Trump ordered it put out.” "
… as I commented here at the time.
In other Breaking News, Dog Barks, Neighbors Annoyed.
Does anyone actually believe that Donald J. Fucking Trump cares about rules such as the “off the record rule?” The fucking guy has not disclosed his Tax Returns. The fucking guy paid hush money to his mistresses during the last month of the Presidential campaign he won. The fucking guy conspired with the Russian Intelligence Service to win the electoral votes he needed since he knew he was going to lose the popular vote. And he is bitching about someone breaking the off the record rule?
Trump leaks OTR in order to gin up faux outrage so he can scream fake news. He created his own fake news to distract from McCain’s memorial. He is a wretched excuse for a human being.
Yup.
One thing he has preternatural ability for is managing/manipulating the media.
I think this is a situation in which reporters should feel comfortable burning their source. Because it is very obvious a statement was made OTR, then leaked, in order to smear the media.
The Orange Monster and his cabal lie about their lying?
How could they?
In it’s current profit-seeking and readily corruptable state, yes. Same with the Republican party pretty much.
Let’s face it: a robust, truth-seeking press would never play the false equivalence, opinions on the shape of the Earth can differ game; they would have been calling Trump out from day zero. Neither would a healthy political party in a democratic republic allow an animal like Trump any closer to candidacy than the donor table.
Trump is an idiot savant whose sole talent is parasitic: sensing and exploiting vulnerability in a potential host. The press, the Republican party, yes and the nation itself, could not resist infestation. The path to recovery remains uncertain but a healthier press would certainly help.
Makes me ill to read about the nonsense generated by the WH. The sooner somebody puts out the Dumpster fire, the better. Let’s make America great again.
I’ve heard mention in some discussions that some of the WH leaks really do come from Pres. Dunderhead. Does he “order” that some lackey put the info out, or does he call someone up himself and tell them?
I read a while back at Axios that “This White House leaks like there’s no tomorrow.”
The leakers even leak about the reason for the leaks:
"To be honest, it probably falls into a couple of categories,” one current White House official tells me. “The first is personal vendettas. And two is to make sure there’s an accurate record of what’s really going on in the White House.”
And they leak about the meetings called to complain about leaks:
This White House leaks so much that meetings called to bemoan leaks begin with acknowledgement the bemoaning will be leaked, which is promptly leaked…by several leakers in a smallish room.
This incident has the distinct malodorous characteristics of another John Baron Leak.
Lock. Him. Up.
I like to remember that it is The POTUS that is dealing in questionable faith…that his intetions became known to the people he was looking to browbeat is unfortunate for everyone…especially his favorite punching bags in the press
Agreed…it is his “superpower”. Actually, shamelessness is the real quality required. Tindalos is near the mark - in order for a shameless media self-whore to flourish, you need an immense number of idiots with endless gullibility and a comparable stripe of shamelessness of their own.
As all media is born and matures, we see how they are all captured by corporations and then trained against the people. In almost every case, an altruistic person invents a technology that will help PEOPLE and corporations capture it and turn it into an advertising and brainwashing tool. These inventions have immense power to do good and rank among our highest achievements…only to be turned against us for the lowest and most debased purposes. Even when not actively LYING to us, these media could be used to confuse and keep us busy, turning us away from the truth…and always holding the power of omission. If they NEVER cover the complete corporate takeover of our nation, then it isn’t REAL.
Even as far back as the 60s and 70s, TV was a decent arbiter of some version of the truth. If you went on the Today Show with your Stiffy The Wonder Pony who could do advanced math…you would be unmasked as a charlatan, TV exposed you to too many people who could watch closely and see your tricks. You had to be afraid to go on TV and lie. Then we went 20-30 years where TV adjusted to allow liars as long as you never aired anything that proved/showed the lie and you just claimed the person “dissembled” or “mis-spoke”. Now it is overt, DJT lies in the open and everyone is clued in. I don’t think we are going to wrench the media/technology back into a semblance of truth and facts we can all agree on. I think the media is going to continue to wrench US into conforming to IT. Rightwing and Alt-right media is surely horrible, but the MSM is it’s own horror show and shaped us greatly. It gave Trump all the tools he needed.