Natalie Allison won enough awards working for Gannett at the Tennessean in Nashville to merit a callup to DC and Politico. Fresh blood, however, brought no fresh ideas or approaches to covering national politics. She offers the same old throw-the-kitchen-sink-at-him coverage of President Trump.
I would say it’s the Left’s perversion of equal opportunity into equal “outcomes” - hiring solely based on quotas, i.e. race, or sex, rather than on merit - that has led to the erosion of intelligence and skill at any given occupation.
Well, that certainly is true of Biden, especially when he was operating as his own entity preObama - but Obama has F’d up more things in this country than Biden could only have dreamed of, particularly as he is now merely the 3rd term puppet of that American nightmare known as Obama.
Methinks you give Obama too much credibility. Yes, he most def was intentional in his designs in “transforming” America, but greed and most assuredly evil were/are also very much at play.
I always thought it was that great philosopher, Mediocrites. Maybe not. I flunked Latin I and Latin II. But, those did help me to a high score on a medical terminology test.
I knew Ms. Lindsey was a drunk, but playing "Drop the soap" with McCain of all people? I'll have to adjust my already low opinion of the traitorous John McCain.
Her story was a reminder of how gormless press coverage of President Trump is. A reporting class that ignored Biden pocketing millions in bribes from Red China and Ukraine through his family members pretended that Trump International Hotel in DC charging guests somehow or other violated the emoluments clause in the Constitution.
This is not new. The press went on and on about the Bush twins and their underage drinking but have portrayed Hunter’s felonious cocaine habits as something he heroically overcame. But he's a spoiled senator's second son who always called daddy to get out of trouble. What should we expect?
The press is unable to hold anyone accountable because it has no moral compass.
He has been primaried. In 2020 there were 3 candidates running against him. I voted for Duke Buckner who is a real conservative MAGA republican who happens to be black. Buckner ran against the odious Clyburn last year and lost.
Graham and Clyburn have massive name recognition which keeps them in office. Even my husband voted in the primary on name recognition alone, having not bothered to look at the other candidates. You better believe that he got an earful from me.
We know the regime media hates Trump. They write for 6-10 year olds because that’s the emotional level of the Democrats reading their fictional accounts of events. Beyond Trump’s enduring popularity, the interesting question to me is why Trump has Lindsay Graham within a hundred mile radius -- ever. Graham has stabbed Trump in the back numerous times. He’s a neocon Establishment
RINO whose ambivalence toward Trump is only explained by the fact that his voters love Trump
And Graham is afraid to publicly look too anti-Trump. When Trump was going through the absurd impeachment charades or his current legal persecution charades, Graham did nothing to condemn the activity. Like McConnell and other DC swamp toads, he’s not so secretly in favor of pushing Trump off the stage. Trump needs better friends. Lindsay is for the swamp. Trump is for America.
Tanto, I don't know for sure but I'd guess Lindsay may have asked Trump if he could take the stage with him. I heard Graham's numbers are down and he figured he has few opportunities to be in front a crowd as big as this.
My personal favorite is Kings Mountain. Brits taught those over-the-mountain boys a thing or two didn’t they? Never learned about that in Houston public schools, saw it for myself when daughter attended Washington & Lee (men’s college that now allows women to learn their secrets).
For as long as I can remember, the state's Political and Cultural Classes have suffered from such an inferiority complex that unless a current or former Minnesotan achieved any measure of notoriety or fame, it was not discussed. Culturally speaking, in that way, my former home state is every bit as parochial, and among the politicos and their cognoscenti, as in-bred as is the state of Arkansas.
I met Grahmnesty in 2016 during his 5 minute Presidential campaign. He was an ass. In New Hampshire you can meet them all if you choose to and I did. Republican and Democrat. Up close and personal in people's living rooms or back yards. Being the "First in the Nation" primary draws anyone and everyone who thinks they can win it. Some don't get all the way to the primary. Others' hopes are dashed by the dismal results their campaigns achieve at the ballot box. Most of them you have never heard of because they didn't get past New Hampshire but every year they all come. So do their supporters Senator this and Congressman that and you can meet them all. Trump and Sarah Palin were my favorites. Obama and Hillary not so much.
Politics in New Hampshire is a passion that is rivaled only by the American South's passion for college football.
I don't think that gormless applies to the media. It implies they aren't culpable, just careless or heedless. Their coverage is very careful to lie as believably as possible (less and less possible these days). You might call that foolishness, but there's a more fitting word than that: evil.
I also love the word gormless (but not what causes it). Silly me, I thought it was Yiddish. I had a bubela grandmother of no kin whatsoever. She taught me much, gormless was one. Putting 7 and 6 together I got it wrong.
"She offers the same old throw-the-kitchen-sink-at-him coverage of President Trump."
Yes, but that's what Democrats call, diversity.
I can recall an interview with a DNC consultant/operative (Bob Beckel, I think) who recounted his advising a candidate who was going to be announcing his candidacy for office to select the smallest room in the smallest venue, and then make sure the number of people in attendance (whether or not they were supporters) was sufficient to show that there were too many to be accommodated in the room - such would give the image of an immensely popular candidate because it was the optics that mattered. Additionally, the campaign had secured the local media's cooperation to only interview specific attendees.
When the Democrats rig the game, it's smart - since Trump doesn't have to engage in such stagecraft (it's an organic product of his candidacy), his choice of location and venue is strategic and sends the message that it's everyone in the hinterlands and in fly-over country that matters.
Whoever would have dreamed The Hill would be a much more reliable source of information than that soiled panty shield, Politico?
Ben "Bilbo Baggins" Shapiro's ability to take down any wokester stupid enough to challenge him is to be admired, but he severely diminished his value in revealing himself to be a Never-Trumper.
Enter the phrase, "covering one's ass" into any search engine, and along with the results returned will be a picture or an illustration of Sen. Graham.
What is with the cat, this morning? My understanding is that it is hot in South Carolina year 'round so I went with option #2 solely on just how badly the media blew the story.
"Hot" is relative. I live in and grew up in Texas. I was eight before we had air conditioning in the house and 10 before we had it in the car. My wife is from British Columbia. Her people think 80 degrees is unbearable.
I'm a life-long Texan also. Back in the '40's we had "swamp coolers" which one watered down to cool the room, later in the early '50's my grandfather had duct work added throughout the house, had a cistern built in the back to catch rainwater (remember the TX drought?) and had a large swamp cooler unit put on top of the cistern to connect to the duct work. It was better than what we previously had, but only kinda-sorta cooled the house! I remember the lady across the street had the first air-conditioned car I ever rode in, a Cadillac with those large clear plastic tubes up the back window!
Indeed, it is. I have lived in Texas since 2018 (I fled Chicago almost immediately upon the court certifying my divorce), and I still marvel at the summertime heat.
I've even stopped wearing my heavy, leather jacket when I'm riding my full dresser in near west Texas.
It's 32 C in Montreal today and horribly humid. I was thinking that I am far more tolerant of the cold than heat. I couldn't have grown up in the South.
In a cold climate, you can always add a layer (theoretically, anyway), but in a hot climate, once one is naked, it's still freaking hot, plus one has likely been arrested...
For those of you not on the metric system, imposed by Justin's father, Trudeau père, 32 C is about 90 F. We switched when I was in Grade 4 and I switch back and forth between both, albeit confused at times.
No worries, they did that in spelling for me. First it was phonics, then it was whole word, then phonics, then new spelling to go with new math. I have to route memorize words, I cant hear the difference between eh and ei to this day.
You are running about the same as the midwest in US. Running mid 80s plus and 110% humidity. Next month it will be mid 90s plus and 125% humidity... sigh, not ready for it yet.
In the antediluvian days of yore, people used to sleep outside on sleeping porches in damp sheets to cool down in the summer.
That used to melt Democrats. But with the advent of air conditioning and because their native coastal habitats are post-apocalyptic from bad government, they keep moving here and f-g things up.
Yeah. I don't brag about Texas heat to Arizonans. I had occasion to do a lot of walking there once upon a time. Also saw sidewinder tracks in the sand next to the highway.
Until monsoon season, which should be hitting any day now. Storms come up from the Gulf of California. Then it’s 113 and super humid with periodic violent sandstorms (haboobs) and thunderstorms. Not for amateurs.
Hot. That is a true fact. My nephew and niece fled to Arizona with their dogs and horses when ordered to by California authorities during the 2022 fires. Afterward, I asked how it went. He said one word, "Hot!" Driving through Arizona and New Mexico back in 1949, parents made us kids sleep all day so we could drive all night when it was cooler. But AZ is scenic country.
Beautiful state, spectacular scenery. Lots of forests and mountains in north and east of the state, 30 degrees color too. People are mostly nice. Getting crowded now in Phoenix. Dishonest GOP establishment. Trying to uproot them is difficult. Judges are in on the steal.
I can handle the heat. Need to in Mississippi. Fire fighting tends to help get one accustomed to HOT. My first two cars didn’t have air. Was in my late 20s before I got a car with air. I have one now (a ‘97 for local use) that didn’t for years and I just got it fixed. My wife can’t handle the heat.
The same people who bring you the stories about how not enough women have done X will also tell you transwomen (dudes cosplaying being a woman) are in fact women. So the question is do you really believe gender is real or not? Because this is only a problem if you think of gender in a binary connected to biological sex. As we're told gender is now, all those men were probably women at heart but they were oppressed and not allowed to affirm their womanness, so there's no problem. For all we know, George dressed up in Martha's clothes at home and was secretly a lesbian transwoman. So we've already had our first woman president (transwomen = women, or so we're told). We shouldn't let them have it both ways.
They say the people we elect to political offices are just a microcosm of society. I always resented that statement. We as a society have our problems and shortcomings but we are far better than the egotistical losers, liars, and crooks who we somehow elect. This tells me perhaps we are not presented with the best of choices by our political party’s. Wonder why?
. Equal opportunity has led to equal mediocrity.
Mr. Surber, I will give an A+ to whoever came up with that saying. Truer words were never spoken.
I would say it’s the Left’s perversion of equal opportunity into equal “outcomes” - hiring solely based on quotas, i.e. race, or sex, rather than on merit - that has led to the erosion of intelligence and skill at any given occupation.
Excellent point ! obama was right about one thing--Leave it to Biden to F**K things up.
Well, that certainly is true of Biden, especially when he was operating as his own entity preObama - but Obama has F’d up more things in this country than Biden could only have dreamed of, particularly as he is now merely the 3rd term puppet of that American nightmare known as Obama.
CORRECTION:
“Un-American nightmare”…
Obama did it by design with planning and forethought. Biden does it out of greed and evil and stupidity
Methinks you give Obama too much credibility. Yes, he most def was intentional in his designs in “transforming” America, but greed and most assuredly evil were/are also very much at play.
I always thought it was that great philosopher, Mediocrites. Maybe not. I flunked Latin I and Latin II. But, those did help me to a high score on a medical terminology test.
The only Latin I took was pig Latin and the only part I remember now is idenXay inksstay.
I remember when I was in Grade 6, pig Latin was a big thing. I tried to learn it. It never made any sense to me.
You should watch more of The Three Stooges. 😁
😁
I wonder if Lin seed learned anything about himself or the public’s perception of him during that six minute fiasco.
I doubt it. The arrogance is just too deep for such self introspection.
Miss Lindsey is the gormless one. She has been rudderless since her mentor "My Little Pony" McCain died.
I knew Ms. Lindsey was a drunk, but playing "Drop the soap" with McCain of all people? I'll have to adjust my already low opinion of the traitorous John McCain.
Great comment:
Her story was a reminder of how gormless press coverage of President Trump is. A reporting class that ignored Biden pocketing millions in bribes from Red China and Ukraine through his family members pretended that Trump International Hotel in DC charging guests somehow or other violated the emoluments clause in the Constitution.
This is not new. The press went on and on about the Bush twins and their underage drinking but have portrayed Hunter’s felonious cocaine habits as something he heroically overcame. But he's a spoiled senator's second son who always called daddy to get out of trouble. What should we expect?
The press is unable to hold anyone accountable because it has no moral compass.
But that would be an *amoral* compass...the press definitely has an *IMmoral* compass. They're corrupt to the core.
May Graham finally be primaried.
Sorry I can’t participate in that vote.
We don’t forget that for every fiery speech or proper vote, Graham delvers for or five RINO speeches and votes.
He has been primaried. In 2020 there were 3 candidates running against him. I voted for Duke Buckner who is a real conservative MAGA republican who happens to be black. Buckner ran against the odious Clyburn last year and lost.
Graham and Clyburn have massive name recognition which keeps them in office. Even my husband voted in the primary on name recognition alone, having not bothered to look at the other candidates. You better believe that he got an earful from me.
May Cornyn also be primaried!
He'll announce his retirement, soon - he knows he won't win re-election.
from your lips to God's ears!
He's gonna tutor Geo P Bush in how to take over the Bush family Senate seat.
God help us.
We've got a couple here that ride on previous relatives coat tails. May they be primaried too.
Another snake in the grass.
It would be much easier to get rid of him if there weren’t six other men on the ballot dividing the anti-Graham votes!
Need I say your article was a reminder that in a sane world the pen is mightier than the sword. FJB
We know the regime media hates Trump. They write for 6-10 year olds because that’s the emotional level of the Democrats reading their fictional accounts of events. Beyond Trump’s enduring popularity, the interesting question to me is why Trump has Lindsay Graham within a hundred mile radius -- ever. Graham has stabbed Trump in the back numerous times. He’s a neocon Establishment
RINO whose ambivalence toward Trump is only explained by the fact that his voters love Trump
And Graham is afraid to publicly look too anti-Trump. When Trump was going through the absurd impeachment charades or his current legal persecution charades, Graham did nothing to condemn the activity. Like McConnell and other DC swamp toads, he’s not so secretly in favor of pushing Trump off the stage. Trump needs better friends. Lindsay is for the swamp. Trump is for America.
Tanto, I don't know for sure but I'd guess Lindsay may have asked Trump if he could take the stage with him. I heard Graham's numbers are down and he figured he has few opportunities to be in front a crowd as big as this.
The easiest word in the English language is “no”. Trump gives too many second chances to bad people.
He has unmasked the polit frauds and will pick more wisely next time/maybe from red state govs.
Yes he does and if he is re-elected president I would like to see that stopped cold.
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
I suspect it was pretty sweet revenge for Trump to hear that home crowd Boo Graham so passionately - don't you?
Interesting. That would be a Trump move.
Truer words are rarely heard my friend.
Amen!
My personal favorite is Kings Mountain. Brits taught those over-the-mountain boys a thing or two didn’t they? Never learned about that in Houston public schools, saw it for myself when daughter attended Washington & Lee (men’s college that now allows women to learn their secrets).
Being raised in the Northeast, I was surprised to find out how much happened in the south. Up there, they might mention Henry Lee once.
Don't feel badly Kev! I was 15 before I found out damnYankee wasn't one word.
In Minnesota, he's never been mentioned.
For as long as I can remember, the state's Political and Cultural Classes have suffered from such an inferiority complex that unless a current or former Minnesotan achieved any measure of notoriety or fame, it was not discussed. Culturally speaking, in that way, my former home state is every bit as parochial, and among the politicos and their cognoscenti, as in-bred as is the state of Arkansas.
I could get to Pickens in an hour. It is MAGA on steroids. Northwestern SC is a Maga strong hold.
These folks didn't vote for Graham, Haley or any other RINO traitor.
The delusional leftist voter is shrinking, dead or dying by the vax.
Good stuff Don,
The house of cards is wilting, one delusional lie at a time
I met Grahmnesty in 2016 during his 5 minute Presidential campaign. He was an ass. In New Hampshire you can meet them all if you choose to and I did. Republican and Democrat. Up close and personal in people's living rooms or back yards. Being the "First in the Nation" primary draws anyone and everyone who thinks they can win it. Some don't get all the way to the primary. Others' hopes are dashed by the dismal results their campaigns achieve at the ballot box. Most of them you have never heard of because they didn't get past New Hampshire but every year they all come. So do their supporters Senator this and Congressman that and you can meet them all. Trump and Sarah Palin were my favorites. Obama and Hillary not so much.
Politics in New Hampshire is a passion that is rivaled only by the American South's passion for college football.
"And when you barely mention that a senior senator was booed relentlessly in his home county by his own party, you look like the fool you are."
It is almost like the globalist, establishment, Praetorian Guard media was on duty...
Almost...
Sneaky poll question
Dr Cat pulled a fast one this morning. I need more coffee.
Mr. Surber, thank you for the word "gormless," new to me.
I wonder if it's appropriate to use this word to describe Old Joe when he's holding an ice cream cone.
Gormless is someone lacking sense or initiative, stupid and unmotivated. Zou is highly motivated, he wants more money from his puppet master.
Polly want a cracker? Polly will perform.
Zou want a Million? Zou performs. As David noted the correct description is evil.
I learned two gormless and putsch.
A new word for me as well. From now on, the mainstream media is the gormless media.
I don't think that gormless applies to the media. It implies they aren't culpable, just careless or heedless. Their coverage is very careful to lie as believably as possible (less and less possible these days). You might call that foolishness, but there's a more fitting word than that: evil.
Gormful points there indeed.
Good points.
what a wonderful word!
I also love the word gormless (but not what causes it). Silly me, I thought it was Yiddish. I had a bubela grandmother of no kin whatsoever. She taught me much, gormless was one. Putting 7 and 6 together I got it wrong.
"She offers the same old throw-the-kitchen-sink-at-him coverage of President Trump."
Yes, but that's what Democrats call, diversity.
I can recall an interview with a DNC consultant/operative (Bob Beckel, I think) who recounted his advising a candidate who was going to be announcing his candidacy for office to select the smallest room in the smallest venue, and then make sure the number of people in attendance (whether or not they were supporters) was sufficient to show that there were too many to be accommodated in the room - such would give the image of an immensely popular candidate because it was the optics that mattered. Additionally, the campaign had secured the local media's cooperation to only interview specific attendees.
When the Democrats rig the game, it's smart - since Trump doesn't have to engage in such stagecraft (it's an organic product of his candidacy), his choice of location and venue is strategic and sends the message that it's everyone in the hinterlands and in fly-over country that matters.
Whoever would have dreamed The Hill would be a much more reliable source of information than that soiled panty shield, Politico?
Ben "Bilbo Baggins" Shapiro's ability to take down any wokester stupid enough to challenge him is to be admired, but he severely diminished his value in revealing himself to be a Never-Trumper.
Enter the phrase, "covering one's ass" into any search engine, and along with the results returned will be a picture or an illustration of Sen. Graham.
What is with the cat, this morning? My understanding is that it is hot in South Carolina year 'round so I went with option #2 solely on just how badly the media blew the story.
"Hot" is relative. I live in and grew up in Texas. I was eight before we had air conditioning in the house and 10 before we had it in the car. My wife is from British Columbia. Her people think 80 degrees is unbearable.
I'm a life-long Texan also. Back in the '40's we had "swamp coolers" which one watered down to cool the room, later in the early '50's my grandfather had duct work added throughout the house, had a cistern built in the back to catch rainwater (remember the TX drought?) and had a large swamp cooler unit put on top of the cistern to connect to the duct work. It was better than what we previously had, but only kinda-sorta cooled the house! I remember the lady across the street had the first air-conditioned car I ever rode in, a Cadillac with those large clear plastic tubes up the back window!
Yeah. Those first ACs in the house -- two of them -- were swamp coolers. They raised the humidity in the house and promoted mold growth.
Indeed, it is. I have lived in Texas since 2018 (I fled Chicago almost immediately upon the court certifying my divorce), and I still marvel at the summertime heat.
I've even stopped wearing my heavy, leather jacket when I'm riding my full dresser in near west Texas.
Welcome to Texas! Glad to have you, neighbor. If you ever venture to Bexar County, I'll buy you a cup of coffee. Or whatever.
Don't think I won't take you up on that offer!
An old associate of mine lives in San Antonio, and I'm planning on a long ride there to tie up a loose end, or two.
It's 32 C in Montreal today and horribly humid. I was thinking that I am far more tolerant of the cold than heat. I couldn't have grown up in the South.
In a cold climate, you can always add a layer (theoretically, anyway), but in a hot climate, once one is naked, it's still freaking hot, plus one has likely been arrested...
Unless the cop is cruel in which case one is sun burnt.
You don't see many naked people in a deep freeze!
For those of you not on the metric system, imposed by Justin's father, Trudeau père, 32 C is about 90 F. We switched when I was in Grade 4 and I switch back and forth between both, albeit confused at times.
No worries, they did that in spelling for me. First it was phonics, then it was whole word, then phonics, then new spelling to go with new math. I have to route memorize words, I cant hear the difference between eh and ei to this day.
You are running about the same as the midwest in US. Running mid 80s plus and 110% humidity. Next month it will be mid 90s plus and 125% humidity... sigh, not ready for it yet.
In Arizona we live on the surface of the sun.
In the antediluvian days of yore, people used to sleep outside on sleeping porches in damp sheets to cool down in the summer.
That used to melt Democrats. But with the advent of air conditioning and because their native coastal habitats are post-apocalyptic from bad government, they keep moving here and f-g things up.
Yeah. I don't brag about Texas heat to Arizonans. I had occasion to do a lot of walking there once upon a time. Also saw sidewinder tracks in the sand next to the highway.
But it's dry heat, right?
Until monsoon season, which should be hitting any day now. Storms come up from the Gulf of California. Then it’s 113 and super humid with periodic violent sandstorms (haboobs) and thunderstorms. Not for amateurs.
...and for some foolish enough to play in the drainage canals, they risk meeting their end.
Flash floods are not a joke.
Not for me!
An oven is dry heat as well.
Don't get a rent car in AZ with vinyl seats....
Remember the first time I went to Phoenix for work in 1980s, dude at the Circle K payphone had a 14" bowie knife on a belt scabbard.
Hot. That is a true fact. My nephew and niece fled to Arizona with their dogs and horses when ordered to by California authorities during the 2022 fires. Afterward, I asked how it went. He said one word, "Hot!" Driving through Arizona and New Mexico back in 1949, parents made us kids sleep all day so we could drive all night when it was cooler. But AZ is scenic country.
Beautiful state, spectacular scenery. Lots of forests and mountains in north and east of the state, 30 degrees color too. People are mostly nice. Getting crowded now in Phoenix. Dishonest GOP establishment. Trying to uproot them is difficult. Judges are in on the steal.
I can handle the heat. Need to in Mississippi. Fire fighting tends to help get one accustomed to HOT. My first two cars didn’t have air. Was in my late 20s before I got a car with air. I have one now (a ‘97 for local use) that didn’t for years and I just got it fixed. My wife can’t handle the heat.
The same people who bring you the stories about how not enough women have done X will also tell you transwomen (dudes cosplaying being a woman) are in fact women. So the question is do you really believe gender is real or not? Because this is only a problem if you think of gender in a binary connected to biological sex. As we're told gender is now, all those men were probably women at heart but they were oppressed and not allowed to affirm their womanness, so there's no problem. For all we know, George dressed up in Martha's clothes at home and was secretly a lesbian transwoman. So we've already had our first woman president (transwomen = women, or so we're told). We shouldn't let them have it both ways.
I wouldn't have picked George and Martha when we have Barry and Big Mike.
Well, George DID wear a wig...
That was so funny! Thanks for the belly laugh (aids in digestion).
The Lamestream Media is useless.
They say the people we elect to political offices are just a microcosm of society. I always resented that statement. We as a society have our problems and shortcomings but we are far better than the egotistical losers, liars, and crooks who we somehow elect. This tells me perhaps we are not presented with the best of choices by our political party’s. Wonder why?
The corruption ignited by money.
Many are chameleons that adapt to the dc swamp overnight.
I know. And also the statement that we deserve the govt we get.