OT – but speaking of the press. I just watched my local news and you know when they have those short packages from the national news to address some national topic?..Well, in this case it was from ABC, with a reporter falsely stating that the State of the Union address is scheduled for Jan. (can’t remember the date she gave but it was the original date first offered). The reporter unequivocally reported this as fact and stated the date. Then she said that it was just a matter of whether or not Nancy Pelosi would un-invite President tRump and prevent that from happening. This reporting was so bad I almost had to do a double take because 1) The State of the Union was cancelled for that Jan. date, 2) Pelosi already sent tRump a letter saying it was inappropriate to have it in the House of Rep. while there was a shutdown going on for a number of very good reasons.
I’m gonna try to find it on the local news website but wow…just wow. I expect bullshit like that from Faux news packages that end up local news but, ABC? Fuck that.
Someone should really monitor what is getting passed off to the public at the local level 'cause it ain’t pretty or accurate. Not sure how that could be accomplished but there is a lot of propagandizing going on that national cable news or nightly news never reports.
There’s even a political commercial lately I’ve seen that promotes tRump and McTurtle’s judicial nominees in a partisan manner (from McConnell’s PAC, I think) directly blaming the Dems and asking the public to have Dems stop blocking them and vote for them. Dems have absolutely no ability to block those judicial nominees in the Senate. Rs only need a simple majority. That’s how Mitch has been appointing a lot of judges under the radar from the beginning. He’s also been running roughshod getting them voted in and confirmed in short order before anyone is the wiser. Its atrocious.