He’s only articulating what his gun-totin’ followers would love to do - shoot someone without consequence. Or load them on a sealed train and not pay attention to the smoke on the horizon and the ash settling in their hometowns.
@CPL593H-it ain’t his chest they’ll be double teaming.
I agree with the detox… I also have started to pull away. At this point even a dog catcher with and ® after his/her name could not buy my vote. Looks like it will be straight (D) voting for the first time in my 70 years.
[The Fourth Estate was killed when the corporations made their TV news organizations profit centers and entertainment shows. The death of newspapers also has much to do with the decline of journalism. There are some good reporters doing good work but not enough. The internet has good and bad reporting but I suspect many people only read the headlines and maybe the first few paragraphs of any article. Sad days.]
Two things…I remember the days of reporters like Sander Vanocur, Douglas Kiker, etc. Frumpy, colourless people with little visual “appeal”.
Fast forward to a true crime show my wife and I watched dealing with an individual who “wanted to go in to newscasting”. NOTHING in that individual’s aspirations dealing with “newscasting” had to do with actual “news”.
ALL of these aspirations had to do with glitz and fame.
The frightening thing is that, as a 68 year old, I was exposed to the former on a consistent basis. Think of the poor Millennials who EQUATE a real journalist like Richard Engel with a hack like the studio man who was with Engel during Arab Spring in Cairo. Those who saw this know exactly who that studio man is. Those who saw this heard the studio anchor’s voice shaking with fear, especially noticeable alongside of Engel’s calm and assurance.
I’m not quite as old as you but I remember Cronkite, PBS NewsHour with Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer. The fine reporting of Bill Moyers (still active but not as much). And who could forget the Huntley-Brinkley Report. The Golden Age of TV journalism as opposed to the news readers today. Unfortunately Edward R. Murrow was before my time but I have downloaded much of his reporting from London during the Blitz. Now those were journalists, men like Ernie Pyle, absolutely fearless.