GOLIKEHELLMACHINE: your average milquetoast herb of a centrist dem congresscritter is absolutely glued to the front page of the NYT 26 hours a day, if you wonder why they all seem like they’ve had their brains irrigated with battery acid as of late, well, they sort of have

your average milquetoast herb of a centrist dem congresscritter is absolutely glued to the front page of the NYT 26 hours a day, if you wonder why they all seem like they’ve had their brains irrigated with battery acid as of late, well, they sort of have

lolsob

Like, how can you read that sort of shit from two NYT reporters and not come away with the conclusion of “yeah they’re in the tank for Republicans.”

there's only one way to get them to talk about me, Backbencher McOatmeal, and for god and country, I shall do it

i could try being the kind of elected figure who people want to donate to or i could just answer the phone calls of donors and let them stick their hands up my ass and move my lips to their voice

In Bennet’s case the battery acid is coming from inside the house. James Bennet is his brother, he’s also the guy who greenlit the Tom Cotton “shoot the protestors” op-ed, and then blamed the kids for his ouster from the NYT.

Ugh. I had to pry my dad away from Bill O'Reilly twenty years ago, now I have to pry them away from the NYT

There's a bit in a book about Florida 2000 where the top Dem GOTV guy is basically tearing his hair out to get a ground/media game behind the recount and everyone above him was worried how it would look in the Times.

What’s the book?

"Too Close to Call" Toobin, which, bleh, but it's a good day-by-day account of the Florida recount

NYT’s new mission is to maximize Gell-Mann Amnesia among its readership en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Ma...

Gell-Mann Amnesia effect - Wiktionary, the free dictionaryen.wiktionary.org

The metastisized version of Knoll's Law effectiviology.com/knolls-law/

Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy: Remember that Not Everything in the News Is True – Effectiviologyeffectiviology.com

Big Dean Phillips energy

NPR is just as bad.

Also worth considering that the DC local supply of “Ah! Well, nevertheless” is getting pretty low. Not a ton of time left for the invisible hand of Somebody Else Doing Something to take Trump out of the race.

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