Oh, I don’t know … I thought this was pretty funny:
“But one week ago ‘The Gray Lady’ finally met her match,” McConnell said. “Vladimir Putin, no problem. Iranian propaganda? Sure. But nothing, nothing could have prepared them for 800 words from the junior senator from Arkansas.”
But, of course, there’s this:
Merrick Garland, too, values McConnell’s views on “free expression and open debate.”
Speaking to the group of people who actually read Cotton’s “op-ed”, was that the most juvenile and lurid piece of untruthful crap seen anywhere recently? Purposefully meant to inflame, it read like something a well-educated teenager might write to really “blow things up” at his high school newspaper. I read better op-eds every day here in the comments section of TPM. Please let me know when anyone who supports Trump actually says anything thoughtful or addresses any real issues. It is not a serious piece, and it does not try to be. I have to think it is crafted for Trump voters, because if that is his actual level of intellectual depth then we are talking a very shallow and stagnant pool.
The most infuriating thing about it is how he gets to posture both trolling the Times and using their platform to be heard while still somehow implying that his freedom of speech is being impinged.
The real news in McConnell’s speech is that he compared Tom Cotton to Putin, Iranian foreign ministers, members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the real icing on the cake, pedophiles.
Even he doesn’t hold members of his own party in very high regard.
I was a bit distressed to even LEARN of Charles Booker - that is, because I hadn’t heard of him and wish I had. Obviously, McGrath has much more money and visibility, but Booker is apparently much more popular within the state.
I keep reading that wily ol’ Tom Cotton “knew exactly what he was doing” by placing that opinion piece (that apparently Bennett pitched him and then didn’t read, if that story’s still operational?). Which, okay, sure, makes sense if you think there’s a plurality national constituency for “Fuck it, let’s just go to military dictatorship and shoot all the libs.”
Not that I’m convinced there’s not, or that there might not be after an interregnum of Democratic rule. After all, Trump. But the whole “This is a genius move by Cotton and sets him up beautifully to run against Kamala in 2024” theory strikes me as a bit far-fetched?
Meanwhile, hey, I’ve learned well not to expect The Gray Lady to reform herself any more than I would the NYPD, but getting rid of Bennett stands to possibly greatly improve an important bastion of independent/non-Foxified reporting. So thanks for that, Tom, you pencil-looking motherfucker.
A raft of fresh polling nationally and in battleground states shows Trump losing ground to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, a precipitous slide that has triggered deep distress within the GOP about the incumbent’s judgment and instincts, as well as fears that voters could sweep the party out of power completely on Election Day.
Trump’s ability to shape cultural flash points also appears to have ebbed, as some Republican leaders and legions of large corporations are openly supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, despite risking retaliation from the White House.