Someone commented off an article about John Fetterman that if they lived in PA, they would crawl through broken glass to vote for him. Same here! Been supporting Fetterman since the "beginning." Will do so til the end!
Thank you for the rest of Today's Edition. It's a "bute"!
There is a bright spot in the Tale of The 30 Nitwit Progs: the insufferable Pramilla Jayapal is no longer "in consideration" as a potential successor to Nancy Pelosi, who has forgotten more about politics than the condescending legend-in-her-own-mind Jayapal will ever know; that she tossed her staff under the bus as she did is a nice character "tell" that lets you know everything you need to know about a moron so stupid she has herself convinced she's a genius. We may also experience "less is more" from AOC and Cory Bush, also good news.
As to the coverage of Fetterman by the over-educated, under-intelligent, otherwise-unemployable trust fund babies at the Nation's Finest Fishwrap, with friends like these, we need no enemies. The NYT of the Pentagon Papers and the NYT of the past 20 years are two different organizations that wouldn't recognize each other. The mini-me's working there now couldn't rise to Neil Sheehan's ankle.
Stephanie Ruhle had an interesting commenter on tonight who asked a question worth pondering: how come when Kanye West was making attacks not appreciably different than those made this past week against other minority groups, Adidas and the rest of the corporate scum had no problem making him richer? But it was this line he crosses and all of a sudden he's poison?
The US Senate is commonly referred to as the world’s greatest deliberative body. I watched the entire debate. No Senator would ever be compelled to respond to someone on the floor in 15 seconds. Senators commonly read speeches on the floor and have staff to assist them. Even with closed captioning, the format did not favor Fetterman because he was compelled to read the questions or Oz’s responses and then immediately respond in 15 or 30 seconds. And it seems like Oz purposely was speaking incredibly rapidly in an effort to further hamper Fetterman. When Fetterman had more time, he did slightly better. But the clip of Oz suggesting a two-bit local politician should be in the same room as a woman and her doctor when discussing or performing an abortion is worth his weight in gold and was already the subject of Fetterman texts/emails I received. By the way, my Pennsylvania daughter already voted. 💙
I watched part of the Fetterman debate last night. People watching will conclude based on their own individual bias who won. The most telling comment came from Dr Oz when he said that “ abortion is between a woman, her doctor and local politicians “. I cannot believe the women of Pennsylvania believe that and hopefully will act accordingly. To their credit the Philadelphia Inquirer the daily newspaper of Philadelphia gave an honest review of the debate. They acknowledged that Fetterman had communication challenges but “ they are not cognitive problems “. What’s interesting and unfortunate about the media coverage is they did not focus on the policy and platform differences and in Dr. Oz cases avoidance of answering specific question about voter integrity and how he was going to help Pennsylvanians with inflation. John Fetterman showed courage and toughness and is willing to put himself out there for the people of Pennsylvania and you could not ask for any thing more from your Senator.
As you noted: "During the debate, Oz said he would put “local politicians” in control of women’s reproductive choices. And yet, the crass, insensitive, vapid commentators skip over Oz’s “fitness” for office and tut-tut and tsk-tsk about whether Fetterman is “fit” for office because he is successfully overcoming the effects of stroke."
I'd ask: can't people leave a woman's privacy to that woman and her doctor? I wish our country could leave medicine to doctors and women's decision making to themselves.
When I woke up this morning and looked at my phone, the NYT “alert” said “Fetterman struggles during debate.” Then I read Robert’s headline “Fetterman outshines Dr. oz” which calmed me down. I have long thought of canceling my NYT subscription and now I definitely will. But, dear readers, what do you think is the most effective way of letting the NYT know why instead of merely cancelling which would be just a blip for them?
I detect a smidgen of frustration in today’s letter—and I share it. Even my beloved NYT (we have no comparable paper in Canada) is unable to judge Fetterman’s performance fairly. Long accused of two-sides-ism, the Times has dropped the fairness ball recently.
Robert, thanks for making the point about the focus by Politico and the NYT on John Fetterman's disability rather than on the debate itself. I have written to both organizations with the following message: In your title of the article on the Fetterman/Oz debate (I linked to the relevant article), I am disappointed that you chose to focus on Fetterman's disability rather than on the substance of the debate. If you really felt it necessary to point out the weaknesses of a candidate in your title, you could have chosen from myriad examples of Dr. Oz's weaknesses. It seems as though you are focused more on sensationalism, money, and ratings than on reporting news that is important to the American people.
Robert, your posts have inspired me to take action, to get involved, and to try to make a difference in political outcomes, and getting involved always gives me hope. Thanks so much for your insightful, thought-provoking, and inspiring posts!
Wow! Thank you for all of this. It's morning of the 26th here in Spain and Tweets of Oz's belief that women's rights are between a woman, her doctor, and......her local politician!
Also, just read a tweet from the other person running in PA that he is dropping out and fully supports John Fetterman.
It`s too late. The Democratic Progressives have done their damage.
Good news/Bad news. Ye can now proudly join the ranks of Andrew Anglin and Richard Spencer. Spencer was the white nationalist who gave the Nazi salute to Trump after his election. Andrew Anglin works out of a basement or in Thailand who hosts the Daily Stormer website. He is the one whose followers trolled a Jewish woman and her family in Whitefish, MT. Kanye/Ye can be a part of this wonderful trio who spread hate. Anglin had to go underground like a cockroach because of the lawsuits against him.
Now for the good news: Anglin is underground. Spencer's wife was divorcing him because of his alcoholism and abuse. And the crowning achievement is that a whole lot of businesses are dumping Kanye. Even his ex Kim is taking the high road. The woman in Montana who was trolled by Anglin is now one of the top realtors in the nation. She is also the subject of an Indie movie, along with a Holocaust survivor, about her experiences.
In the short term hate can win. In the long term the human spirit can rise to the top. It takes bravery.
My husband and I sat down with Fetterman once. We fell in love with him. He's absolutely the real deal. That said, I wonder why he pushed himself into this position without giving himself adequate time to recover from the stroke. As for the NYT, I'm disgusted. The last thing we need is more unfair and unbalanced from the media.....
"Despite knee-jerk criticism of the Progressive Caucus from many quarters, they have been reliable and responsible partners in Biden’s legislative achievements to date." Actually, I think they have been the main drivers of much of Biden's legislative agenda. Without their agitating Biden may well have resorted to the same tired corporatist policies as previous Dem presidents.
With few exceptions (The Atlantic comes to mind), the media are always "unwilling to focus on substance." They don't think substance sells and think it's more exciting to call elections as a horse race -- who's in the lead. Sad to see the NY Times going down that road.
And who are these people the pollsters are talking with? Are they truly representative of the general population? Every intelligent person I know doesn't answer unknown callers on their phone.
Thank you so much, Robert, for your encouraging and thoughtful perspective on the "news." You make my day.
A word of caution: there are several blue mailboxes in my small-ish neighborhood, that have been opened by "unauthorized personnel" ~ apparently, one key fits all. Our local US Postmaster says "Don't Use Them". Take your mail-in ballots to an authorized ballot drop-box, or inside a US Post Office - don't be tempted by proximity to use those blue mailboxes that sit in front of post offices . . . they are vulnerable too.
The only polls I'm obsessing over is the one I'll be working at next weekend through Election Day - reading all the manuals, watching all the training videos, digesting the in-person training. Anything can indeed happen, and the LA county election officials are preparing us well.
As for John Fetterman, until people stop defining an individual by a so-called disability, they won't stop saying stupid stuff. He is the epitome of true grit, being honest about his recovery from a serious medical(!) - not cognitive - event, and talking about how he's not the only one to do so. It's put the spotlight on the inequities in our health care system; not everyone has the access to care and family/community support as he does. And it highlights the commercial juggernauts of idiots like the NJ "doctor" who want to put local politicians in the room with a woman and her (real!) doctor.
I hope the identity of the person who leaked the Progressive's letter is known or discovered. But from where I sit, that person deserves a very nice reward from the GOP's campaign arm.
Someone commented off an article about John Fetterman that if they lived in PA, they would crawl through broken glass to vote for him. Same here! Been supporting Fetterman since the "beginning." Will do so til the end!
Thank you for the rest of Today's Edition. It's a "bute"!
There is a bright spot in the Tale of The 30 Nitwit Progs: the insufferable Pramilla Jayapal is no longer "in consideration" as a potential successor to Nancy Pelosi, who has forgotten more about politics than the condescending legend-in-her-own-mind Jayapal will ever know; that she tossed her staff under the bus as she did is a nice character "tell" that lets you know everything you need to know about a moron so stupid she has herself convinced she's a genius. We may also experience "less is more" from AOC and Cory Bush, also good news.
As to the coverage of Fetterman by the over-educated, under-intelligent, otherwise-unemployable trust fund babies at the Nation's Finest Fishwrap, with friends like these, we need no enemies. The NYT of the Pentagon Papers and the NYT of the past 20 years are two different organizations that wouldn't recognize each other. The mini-me's working there now couldn't rise to Neil Sheehan's ankle.
Stephanie Ruhle had an interesting commenter on tonight who asked a question worth pondering: how come when Kanye West was making attacks not appreciably different than those made this past week against other minority groups, Adidas and the rest of the corporate scum had no problem making him richer? But it was this line he crosses and all of a sudden he's poison?
The US Senate is commonly referred to as the world’s greatest deliberative body. I watched the entire debate. No Senator would ever be compelled to respond to someone on the floor in 15 seconds. Senators commonly read speeches on the floor and have staff to assist them. Even with closed captioning, the format did not favor Fetterman because he was compelled to read the questions or Oz’s responses and then immediately respond in 15 or 30 seconds. And it seems like Oz purposely was speaking incredibly rapidly in an effort to further hamper Fetterman. When Fetterman had more time, he did slightly better. But the clip of Oz suggesting a two-bit local politician should be in the same room as a woman and her doctor when discussing or performing an abortion is worth his weight in gold and was already the subject of Fetterman texts/emails I received. By the way, my Pennsylvania daughter already voted. 💙
I watched part of the Fetterman debate last night. People watching will conclude based on their own individual bias who won. The most telling comment came from Dr Oz when he said that “ abortion is between a woman, her doctor and local politicians “. I cannot believe the women of Pennsylvania believe that and hopefully will act accordingly. To their credit the Philadelphia Inquirer the daily newspaper of Philadelphia gave an honest review of the debate. They acknowledged that Fetterman had communication challenges but “ they are not cognitive problems “. What’s interesting and unfortunate about the media coverage is they did not focus on the policy and platform differences and in Dr. Oz cases avoidance of answering specific question about voter integrity and how he was going to help Pennsylvanians with inflation. John Fetterman showed courage and toughness and is willing to put himself out there for the people of Pennsylvania and you could not ask for any thing more from your Senator.
As you noted: "During the debate, Oz said he would put “local politicians” in control of women’s reproductive choices. And yet, the crass, insensitive, vapid commentators skip over Oz’s “fitness” for office and tut-tut and tsk-tsk about whether Fetterman is “fit” for office because he is successfully overcoming the effects of stroke."
I'd ask: can't people leave a woman's privacy to that woman and her doctor? I wish our country could leave medicine to doctors and women's decision making to themselves.
When I woke up this morning and looked at my phone, the NYT “alert” said “Fetterman struggles during debate.” Then I read Robert’s headline “Fetterman outshines Dr. oz” which calmed me down. I have long thought of canceling my NYT subscription and now I definitely will. But, dear readers, what do you think is the most effective way of letting the NYT know why instead of merely cancelling which would be just a blip for them?
I detect a smidgen of frustration in today’s letter—and I share it. Even my beloved NYT (we have no comparable paper in Canada) is unable to judge Fetterman’s performance fairly. Long accused of two-sides-ism, the Times has dropped the fairness ball recently.
Robert, thanks for making the point about the focus by Politico and the NYT on John Fetterman's disability rather than on the debate itself. I have written to both organizations with the following message: In your title of the article on the Fetterman/Oz debate (I linked to the relevant article), I am disappointed that you chose to focus on Fetterman's disability rather than on the substance of the debate. If you really felt it necessary to point out the weaknesses of a candidate in your title, you could have chosen from myriad examples of Dr. Oz's weaknesses. It seems as though you are focused more on sensationalism, money, and ratings than on reporting news that is important to the American people.
Robert, your posts have inspired me to take action, to get involved, and to try to make a difference in political outcomes, and getting involved always gives me hope. Thanks so much for your insightful, thought-provoking, and inspiring posts!
Wow! Thank you for all of this. It's morning of the 26th here in Spain and Tweets of Oz's belief that women's rights are between a woman, her doctor, and......her local politician!
Also, just read a tweet from the other person running in PA that he is dropping out and fully supports John Fetterman.
It`s too late. The Democratic Progressives have done their damage.
This is a good article in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/hurting-democracy-wont-help-the-economy/671862/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20221025&utm_term=The%20Atlantic%20Daily
May the Force Be With Us.
Good news/Bad news. Ye can now proudly join the ranks of Andrew Anglin and Richard Spencer. Spencer was the white nationalist who gave the Nazi salute to Trump after his election. Andrew Anglin works out of a basement or in Thailand who hosts the Daily Stormer website. He is the one whose followers trolled a Jewish woman and her family in Whitefish, MT. Kanye/Ye can be a part of this wonderful trio who spread hate. Anglin had to go underground like a cockroach because of the lawsuits against him.
Now for the good news: Anglin is underground. Spencer's wife was divorcing him because of his alcoholism and abuse. And the crowning achievement is that a whole lot of businesses are dumping Kanye. Even his ex Kim is taking the high road. The woman in Montana who was trolled by Anglin is now one of the top realtors in the nation. She is also the subject of an Indie movie, along with a Holocaust survivor, about her experiences.
In the short term hate can win. In the long term the human spirit can rise to the top. It takes bravery.
Stand up and be a shining light.
My husband and I sat down with Fetterman once. We fell in love with him. He's absolutely the real deal. That said, I wonder why he pushed himself into this position without giving himself adequate time to recover from the stroke. As for the NYT, I'm disgusted. The last thing we need is more unfair and unbalanced from the media.....
"Despite knee-jerk criticism of the Progressive Caucus from many quarters, they have been reliable and responsible partners in Biden’s legislative achievements to date." Actually, I think they have been the main drivers of much of Biden's legislative agenda. Without their agitating Biden may well have resorted to the same tired corporatist policies as previous Dem presidents.
With few exceptions (The Atlantic comes to mind), the media are always "unwilling to focus on substance." They don't think substance sells and think it's more exciting to call elections as a horse race -- who's in the lead. Sad to see the NY Times going down that road.
And who are these people the pollsters are talking with? Are they truly representative of the general population? Every intelligent person I know doesn't answer unknown callers on their phone.
Thank you so much, Robert, for your encouraging and thoughtful perspective on the "news." You make my day.
A word of caution: there are several blue mailboxes in my small-ish neighborhood, that have been opened by "unauthorized personnel" ~ apparently, one key fits all. Our local US Postmaster says "Don't Use Them". Take your mail-in ballots to an authorized ballot drop-box, or inside a US Post Office - don't be tempted by proximity to use those blue mailboxes that sit in front of post offices . . . they are vulnerable too.
The only polls I'm obsessing over is the one I'll be working at next weekend through Election Day - reading all the manuals, watching all the training videos, digesting the in-person training. Anything can indeed happen, and the LA county election officials are preparing us well.
As for John Fetterman, until people stop defining an individual by a so-called disability, they won't stop saying stupid stuff. He is the epitome of true grit, being honest about his recovery from a serious medical(!) - not cognitive - event, and talking about how he's not the only one to do so. It's put the spotlight on the inequities in our health care system; not everyone has the access to care and family/community support as he does. And it highlights the commercial juggernauts of idiots like the NJ "doctor" who want to put local politicians in the room with a woman and her (real!) doctor.
I hope the identity of the person who leaked the Progressive's letter is known or discovered. But from where I sit, that person deserves a very nice reward from the GOP's campaign arm.