April 1, 2018: Want to hear an April Fools’ joke? You do! Okay: A porn star and a 62-year-old businessman walk into a bungalow. The businessman drones on about himself. Finally, the porn star grows tired, orders him to drop trousers and spanks him with a copy of Forbes magazine.
Spanked with a copy of Forbes magazine.
The businessman’s picture is on the cover. Then they have uninspired sex.
A decade later the porn star sues the President of the United States….
Wait. That’s a real story?
Okay, try this. A right-wing banshee named Ann Coulter sashays into a bar. Three Trump supporters are drinking in a corner booth. She walks up to the first guy, swats his red MAGA hat off his head and says, “Did you know Trump is a shallow, lazy ignoramus?”
The Trump guy replies…
No. Really? She said that? She said that because Trump might give up
his idea to build the big, beautiful border wall?
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A “mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.”
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
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Damn. Let’s try a Fox News joke. Once upon a time there was a network that hated everything government did. No one on the network trusted President Obama, not even if all he did was scramble eggs and add Swiss cheese. Then a new leader took over and began lashing out at the free press. Fox News loved him so! Isn’t that hysterical! A purported news organization sucking up to an enemy of the First Amendment! That would be the best April Fools’ jooooooo…
Are you kidding? Fox News really does support Trump?
Is Fox now nothing more than a propaganda outlet for the Trump administration? We report. You decide.
A longtime Fox News analyst
sharply criticized the network, denouncing the outlet as a “propaganda machine”
devoted to President Trump, and saying that it was “wittingly harming our
system of government for profit,” in a stunning internal email announcing his
exit from the company.
Ralph Peters, a US Army
lieutenant colonel who served as a military analyst for Fox News, said he felt
“compelled to explain” his departure from the company to colleagues, before
skewering the network he has called home for years. Peters had been telling
friends that he planned on leaving the network in a “nuclear” fashion, one of
those friends told CNN.
“Four decades ago, I took an
oath as a newly commissioned officer. I swore to ‘support and defend the
Constitution,’ and that oath did not expire when I took off my
uniform, Peters wrote in the letter sent to a handful of colleagues.
“Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the
rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers.
Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am
ashamed.”
In the letter, which was first reported on by BuzzFeed and confirmed by CNN,
Peters said that he believed Fox News “degenerated from providing a legitimate
and much-needed outlet for conservative voices” to morphing into a “mere
propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.”
Peters cited the Fox News
opinion hosts’ relentless attacks on the FBI, Justice Department, intelligence
agencies, and other branches of government. He said he believed Fox News was
knowingly causing harm to the country in exchange for profit.
Who reported this story, cited above? Was it the “Fake News” Washington Post? Nope. It was Fox News.
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SEN. TIM SCOTT of South Carolina announces opposition to pardons for Paul Manafort or Gen. Michael T. Flynn.
“I think it’s important that the White House be clear on this position as it relates to not treating either person differently,” Scott said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“Fact of the matter is, keeping the pardon off the table is a necessary part of the process [emphasis added],” he added correctly. “I would be disappointed if President Trump were to pardon either one of these individuals.”
BLOGGER’S NOTE: In the end, we must assume, Sen.
Scott was disappointed in what Trump did. He pardoned both. See: 6/3/18, where Trump makes it known he also believes
he can pardon himself.
Also: 11/25/20, for Trump’s pardon of Gen. Flynn,
and 12/23/20, highlighting pardons, including
one for Manafort, issued on Trump’s way out the White House door.
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