Headlines

Cruz denounces Trump’s call for China to probe Bidens

Hunter Biden resigns from Chinese board following Trump attacks

Dems discuss detaining White House  official who don’t testify ...

New York Post: Fox News ‘misrepresented’ impeachment poll

Germany’s Merkel tells Erdogan to halt Syrian offensive

Superstar German DJ ‘permanently banned’ from China after liking a ‘South Park’ tweet

Envoy who denied quid pro quo now says he isn’t certain ...

It’s on: Bernie breaks truce with Warren

ISIS supporters escape amid Turkish attack

Boeing CEO loses chairman role to focus on 737 Max crisis

Turkey deliberately ‘bracketing’ US forces with artillery fire in Syria ...

Schiff: Don’t need ‘quid pro quo’ to get impeach

Headlines

Dems move closer to impeachment in strategy shakeup

S&P 500, NASDAQ notch another record close after strong earnings from Alphabet, Starbucks

[Q2] GDP: 2.1%

Donald Trump: No tariff wavers for Apple computer parts

Poll: No impeachment bump after Mueller’s testimony

Trump says he ‘might’ put tariffs on French wind in response to digital tax

Mystery: Rep. Omar splits with another husband ... Moves into luxury penthouse ...

Joe Biden: Donald Trump ‘won fair and square’ in 2016

Trump shuts down Navarro over ideas to devalue U.S. dollar

Kudlow: ‘I wouldn’t expect any grand deal on China’

Guatemala signs immigration asylum deal ...

Trump furious with Fox News poll ...

Headlines

As Trump rages over border, Kushner quietly plans legal immigration boost

Payrolls post another disappointing month in March as job market keeps slowing

Bernie denies spreading creeper accusations ...

House Democrats want ‘oversight’ on Fox News editorial decisions

Coming soon: The death of the filibuster

Weekly mortgage refinancing spike 39% after huge rate drop

Chinese woman carrying malware arrested at Mar-a-Largo while Trump in town ...

Nadler: ‘An agent’of POTUS — ‘Deserves no benefit of the doubt’

Black leaders blast Dem war on super PACs

Elizabeth Warren wants to make it easier to jail executives for company abuses

Lightfoot elected as Chicago’s first black woman and open gay mayor ...

Flashback: Joe Biden exposed himself to female Secret Service [agents]

Headlines

Mulvaney on cusp of permanent status upgrade

Elon Musk never sought approval for a single Tesla tweet, regulator tells judge

Poll: Sanders tops Trump in Wisconsin ...

Donna Brazile hired as Fox News contributor

Rep. Devin Nunez suing Twitter for $250 million

Deutsche Bank reportedly loaned more than $2 billion to Trump over two decades

6 people in audience for DeBlasio in NH ...

Democrats worry Census citizenship question could endanger House majority

Warren calls for ‘full-blown conversation about repararions’

‘Jaws of death’: England could face water shortages within next 25 years

Poll: 71% say economy in good shape ...

Donald Trump donates first quarter, 2019 salary to Homeland Security

Cable News

"Fox News clearly labels its news versus opinion people

CNN doesn't clearly separate their news from opinion

MSNBC doesn't seem to have news, just mind-reading opinion"

Scott Adams in "The Dilbert Blog" 

Headlines

Trump, no longer ratings Gold, loses his prime time spot on Fox News

Wall Street loses top through world markets as rate fear shake investors

Bezos loses $9.1 billion [in one day] ...

More illegal alien births in L.A. than total births in 14 U.S. states

Trump: Fed's have 'gone crazy'

Nearly $13 billion wiped off cryptocurrenciey market s as major coins plunge

CNN mocks Kanye [West] as 'token Negro' ...

Susan Rice's Republican son assaulted at pro-Kavanaugh rally

'Just ridiculous lies' Dems incensed over misleading GOP ads on Medicare for All

Russian space rocket fails in mid-air, two-man US-Russian crew lands safely

Mortgage rates 8-year high ...

McConnell: 'We're committed to help president get wall funding'

Observation

The only two TV networks that covered live President Trump's recent Tampa, Florida rally were Fox News and CSPAN. The over-the-air TV networks, MSMBC and CN did not cover this rally ... so why were many of these media cameras there?  And why was CNN's chief provocateur, Jim Acosta,  quite  visibly present? Hmm?

Punny

From Mostly Cajun blog

Shades of Shading

Some WaPo pajama boy has spent months documenting Trump's 3,000 "lies" ... see: Washington Post Story. Now there are lies and there are lies ... and it is best to differentiate between these shades of such shading. Below is my way of placing a metric (low to high -- 1) Shading the truth ... 2) Misleading  ... 3) Spinning ... 4) Exaggerating ... 5) Accentuating the negative ... 6) Fibbing ...  7)White lying ... 8) Prevaricating ... 9) Lying ...  19) Being mendacious ...  11) Telling whoppers)  on such mendacity ... and this author's take on where prominent "liars" lie on this lying spectrum.

My approximate positioning of this group is as follows:

Fox News -- 1.5

Mitch McConnell -- 2.5

Trump -- 4.0

Nancy Pelosi -- 4.5

MSNBC -- 5.0

Main-stream media -- 7.5

Chuck Schumer -- 8.0

Bill Clinton -- 8.5

Barack Obama -- 10,0

CNN -- 10.5

Hillary Clinton -- 11.5


Now, if this isn't taking a stilk to a hornets nest, I don't know what is?

Fake Cartoon

Lights, camera, fiction!

Mindless "humor" from the New Yorker magazine. Harold Ross would be chagrined ...

Headlines

Congress tries to cool partisan fever on Russia

Manafort's Trump Tower notes lend some support to White House claims about meeting

False missile alert shakes Hawaii

Associate in Hillary Clinton Uranium One Russian bribery case indicted ...

Feds resume accepting renewals from Dreamers

Trey Gowdy resigns from House Ethics Committee amid tumultuous tenure

Forget distractions. Brady dominates ... continues assault on record books ...

Trump warns European allies: fix Iran nuclear deals 'disastrous flaws' -- or America withdraws

Chelsea Manning files for U.S. Senate run

Obama: Fox News viewers 'living on a different planet'

Maxine Waters to skip State of Union ...

Former Mexican president calls Trump's mouth 'the foulest shithole'

Headlines

Secret super PAC backing Jones in Alabama is exposed

Terrorist's family is outraged at NYPD's treatment of him after his attempted suicide bombing

Former FACEBOOK exec: Social media ripping apart society ...

Credibility of Fox News on line with poll that shows Jones up by 10 points ...

 GOP lawmakers struggle to close gaps in the tax plan

Fusion GPS tied to story used by Clinton campaign to attack Trump week before election

'Sunday Night Football' ratings plunge 30% ...

Turkey's Erdogan: Israel 'a child killer' and U.S. 'a partner in bloodshed'

Theresa May unites Torries on Brexit (for now)

Top GOP senator says Obama misted Congress on key aspect of Uranium One deal

CNN investigates: Trump Diet Cokes ...

Putin orders Russian troops to begin withdrawing from Syria

Headlines

MSNBC contributor Harold Ford Jr. goes off air amid [sexual] misconduct allegations

Trump says country 'can't afford' to let Roy Moore lose

NYT: Emails 'undercut' Trump-Russia collusion

WSJ: Mueller 'pitbull' lawyer at Hillary's election night party ...

Trump declares state of emergency in California as wildfires continue to rage

Former Fox News anchor says she rebuffed Trump kiss in 2005

Sen, Al Franken is resigning -- or is he?

Britain, EU reach 11th-hour deal over divorce terms ...

Jamie Dimon: 'I'm open-minded about the use of cryptocurrencies' -- with regulation

Final tax bill vote in the House won't come next week, GOP leader says

Mika: OK, maybe let's not believe ALL women ...

Arabs' rage over Jerusalem is Islamic theater ...

Fooling Themselves?

MSNBC shows like the Rachael Maddow Show and Morning Joe have been climbing the cable TV ratings charts ever since they moved to the vanguard of the never-Trump movement. CNN on the other hand is emulating the Hindenburg. What's the diff? I think that the audience expectation for CNN is for news ... an area where it has lost great credibility ... whereas MSNBC is looked at for opinion which it offers in abundance ... mostly rabidly anti Trump and anything he stands for.

The question is: Is MSNBC and other "resistance TV"  channels fooling themselves? Surely, many Hillary voters are finding solace in the anti-Trump spittle spewing on these channels. But those on the right, like myself, also tune-in to see how over-the-top the rhetoric can go on these channels. The fact that Fox News has also moved leftward has also freed up some conservative viewership looking for comic relief.

Bottom line: If the liberal cable channels think that these ratings bumps are permanent, they may be disappointed once the American psyche adjusts to Trump's unorthodox style ... and these opinion rants become hyperbolic, like too much rich food ... and it's time for a diet.

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

ISIS attacks Paris on eve of election

Lights out San Fran

Sanctuary cities face cuts as DOJ tightens screws

Resistance group says Iran is violating nuclear agreement

Poll: Voters support allowing Syrian refugees

Majority of French armed police support Marine Le Pen

Fox [O'Reilly] staffers express relief, anger, uncertainty

How Trump blew up the conservative media

WH asks agencies to prepare for government shutdown

Clinton knocks Trump on LGBT rights 'Let's remember 2018'

MasterCard tests credit card with embedded fingerprint reader

Trump: White House will release tax reform plan next week

You Mifght be a Liberal if ...

- You wore pajamas for your fraternity picture

- You tithe to the ACLU

- You wear a tie-dye tee shirt under your business suit

- Your Tesla bumper stickers say "Dump Trump" and "DIVERSITY"

- You often wear a dashiki to Starbucks

- You confuse carbon dioxide with chimney smoke

- Your wear Birkenstocks to shoot hoops with Obama

- You hate circuses because of their elephants

- You fly a rainbow flag above Old Glory

- You have twice been nominated for a "Profiles in Courage" award

 - You refuse to watch Fox News ... even for the weather

- You have promoted Al Gore and George Soros for sainthood

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Women's March turns nasty ...

[Women] Marchers vow to never leave Washington, DC

Sean Spicer rips media for lying about crowd size at Trump inauguration

Trump's first full day: Prayer, bowling and a visit to the CIA

Trump calls out Time Magazine for fake news story about removing MLK bust from Oval Office

Madonna: 'Thought about blowing up the White House'

Fox News declines to renew contract for George Will ...

Trump protester displays ISIS flags, beheading videos ...

Measles outbreak grows in L.A. despite strict new vaccination law ...

[Ashley] Judd: Trump has 'wet dreams' about daughter  ...

[Trump's] Address reportedly written by Bannon, Miller

Maher to Clintons: 'I never want to see either of you, ever again'

It's Over!

Watching television this morning, it seems clear that Hellary Clinton has already won the presidency. There was lots of smug discussion about who was being considered for her cabinet members. And Hellary has promised to maintain Michelle Obama's vegetable garden at the White House. On Morning Joe, John Heidlemann revealed that Trump has shut down his fund-raising operation and hasn't put any more of his own money into his campaign this October ... meaning that he already considers it a lost cause.

So it is a fait accompli ... Hellary is to be our first female president ... and the Clinton crime family is shifting into overdrive calculating how to turn hundreds of millions of dollars of political graft into billions. Illegal immigrants are flooding through our southern border expecting to be allowed to stay and made citizens. And the two year vetting process for Muslim immigrants has been cut to two minutes in anticipation of massive new acceptance quotas. A rate schedule has also been published for overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom and rides on Air Force One.

On the other hand, Trump has scheduled a two month cooldown at Mar a Largo and then a fund raiser to help recover some of his out-of-pocket campaign expenses. His children are hard at work starting the Trump TV Network from the ashes of Fox News. Speaking of which, Megyn Kelly has been invited to be an honored guest at the Clinton inauguration.

All in all there is muted celebration among the establishment pols in Washington ... which is pretty much all of them. No need to wait for November 9th!

Breaking: Maybe not ... FBI reopens investigation into Hellary e-mail case ... 

Observations of the Day

Why is almost every female talking head on the Fox News Network a bleached blond? Or, to offer a variation on an old chestnut, "Never get into a argument with a TV network that buys its peroxide by the barrel" (Rush Limbaugh has a quaint appellative for such female commentators ... he calls the them "infobabes.")

And speaking of Rush Limbaugh (who I haven't listened to for over a year) ... he kiddingly  used to call the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas ... the "Bill Clinton Library and Massage Parlor." How right he has turned out to be. Ed Klein in his new book, Guilty as Sin, has just revealed that the Clinton Library has been regularly used for foot massages and wet tee shirt contests ... see: Breitbart Story.

Again to paraphrase another old saw, "One should never underestimate the debauchery of Bubba Clinton."

A Bear Hug

Megyn Kelly has leveled her public-relations bazooka at her boss, the head of the Fox News Network ... Roger Ailes, clearly in order to bring him down. What did Ailes do to deserve this fusillade? He gave her a peck on the cheek and a bear hug ten years ago ... and this, to Ms. Kelly, was sexual harassment. Of course Megyn Kelly has risen through the ranks at Fox News during the interim period ... praising Roger Ailes all the while for his mentoring ... to the point where she is now a multi-millionaire media star with a prime-time program on Fox.

I have written in the past about Megyn Kelly ... about how her severe mien and whiskey voice has struck me as a would-be dominatrix ... see: A Foxy Question. My instincts about this woman seem to match Donald Trump's who clearly didn't and doesn't like her ... although, in typical Trump fashion, he tripped clumsily over his tongue during the presidential debate that she co-hosted.

Now apparently as many as 50 of Fox's superstars, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, Sean Hannity, etc. have threatened to leave Fox if Ailes goes ... see: American News Story.

SCOOP: Today on the Boston talk radio show, The Kuhner Report, the rumor was revealed that the Trump family is ready to fund a new cable network ("balanced and fair" Wolf News?) and hire this whole group who are threatening to leave Fox. Wouldn't it be an interesting twist of fate tf Ms. Kelly's traitorous payback of Ailes spawned this competing network. She would then be maybe the last standing star at Fox ... a once proud cable network with no more viewers!

And then who might Cruella Kelly dominate?