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Barry

But "Five" is on only on weekdays . I highly recommend it if you can get home from work that early. I can b/c school lets out 3:30-4:00 and I could, if I so wished, walk home. I am not being sarcastic. I think it's a good show even tho' it's highly formulaic. For one thing, folks on there genuinely...

Barry

I just found out this morning that I'll likely continue to work at home until at least September. And even when people at my office go back, it will be with a lot of restrictions; the most notable being that we will still be working much of the time at home and only going into the office for limited...

Barry

With all due respect, you're missing the boat on Tucker if you just listen to what he says . You gotta watch his FACE. It's like silly putty. Come on, even Donna Brazile likes Tucker: "My dear boy ..." , she says. I also like Greg Gutfield and Jesse Watters and the legs of whoever it is that sits i...

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Whatcha talkin' bout? I love Fox! It's got the only TV entertainment I watch. But they do need to get rid of deadpan talking heads like Chris Wallace. I miss Bill O'Reilly. I used to enjoy his monologues. That was the only thing I would sometimes tune into. But I also find Tucker's monologues to be...

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How dare Fox point out NBC's deceptive editing!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/chuck-tod ... flynn-edit

Barry

Yet you seem to enjoy posting these irrelevant national polling numbers and making pronouncements on what the polling trends are. I'm merely pointing out that you're painting an incomplete picture. Another comparison would be to judge whether a film is good or bad based on one review rather than a c...

Barry

it may be helpful to go back and look at Obama's approval ratings at a similar juncture when he ran for reelection. I'm fairly sure they were no better than Trump's. He was not a popular president in 2016 [sic] At this juncture, in May 2012, Mr. Obama's approval rating as President fluctuated betwe...

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I was disgusted by the NBA's behavior with regard to China. That league pulled their all-star game from Charlotte a few years ago because of North Carolina's law mandating that people use the bathroom and locker-room corresponding with their natural gender. Yet there is essentially nothing the CCP c...

Barry

What about when Barr investigates and finds things? Regards, Len [only half sarcastic] :( https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/flynn-and-the-anatomy-of-a-political-narrative/ Flynn and the Anatomy of a Political Narrative Let’s look at some more of that Times report on Flynn’s downfall. For the l...

Barry

Different election, remember? Likely to be a referendum on the incumbent this time around. Different election; same media. And as far as the second part, it may be helpful to go back and look at Obama's approval ratings at a similar juncture when he ran for reelection. I'm fairly sure they were no ...

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8304471/Chinas-president-Xi-Jinping-personally-requested-delay-COVID-19-pandemic-warning.html?ito=facebook_share_article-top&fbclid=IwAR3GhTlZCxt15S4eyGclgxNKZthw-ta0VNi7Fy_NfxtvOCWPeYcheodRZe0 "Germany's Der Spiegel published the allegations this weekend, ci...

Barry

It's certainly possible you'll get what you want. But you also may be setting yourself up for a hell of a disappointment. I recall four years ago that there were multiple polls at various points in the general election race that indicated close to 60 percent of the public said they wouldn't vote for...

Barry

I agree that there is to much focus on polls, but I don't see it stopping any time soon. It can be maddening if you pay too much attention to them. You'll find trends to both cheer you up and depress you, depending on your side, almost every day. On my side, a recent extensive poll from Harvard's Ke...

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I agree that if Trump were to lose Texas, he'd have no shot. The extent to which Texas will be more competitive in coming years has been written about a lot. I know it's not good for the GOP. There is a lot of shifting around in the country. Some of it works for the GOP and against the Democrats. So...

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A lot of media outlets cherry-pick the polls that show their side doing better. The implication being that the Dallas Morning News cherry picks its polls to fit a "Mainstream Media" bias. Now that's NEWS! I can't speak to this specific instance, and I'm not accusing the Dallas Morning News of doing...

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Don't keep putting these up!!! I can't help reading, and it just raises hopes that will be dashed in November. My paper published a poll that showed Hillary up by 11 points in PA fairly late in the race. A lot of media outlets cherry-pick the polls that show their side doing better. That was part o...

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So what? FDR was not a crusader like his wife, who was only too aware of these and many other bad decisions by her husband and did something current Republicans seem to have extreme trouble with—she acted to reverse bad policies by her President, who tolerated her dissent even to the point of allow...

Barry

Was this before or after FDR refused to support a law making lynching a federal law because it would have damaged him politically in the South, where his party dominated and maintained a system of apartheid? I know it was before he incarcerated Japanese-Americans and refused to accept the St. Louis,...

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There have been a few other highly credentialed medical people, including someone from Stanford, who have come out recently in opposition to wide spread shut-downs of the economy and people's ability to carry on their lives. They don't say the virus is a non-issue. But they claim that there is now e...

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I messaged you privately with a bit more information, Barney.

One needs to be careful now days.

Barry

Well it's true that you've named a huge issue, one that I have been well aware of over my 45 years in journalism - and so have my papers. I agree: what you leave out can be as important as what you put in. All I can say is that editors I worked for were generally aware of that problem and pro-activ...

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I've done a decent amount of reading about FDR; enough to know he'd drop dead a second time if he knew how off the rails the country were culturally (his own party's take on religious freedom would be enough to throw him into a rage) and also the extent to which entitlements have gotten out of hand ...

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https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/04/umpc-argues-covid-19-not-as-deadly-as-feared-says-its-hospitals-will-shift-back-to-normal.html UPMC doctor argues COVID-19 not as deadly as feared, says its hospitals will shift back to normal Apr 30, 2020; Posted Apr 30, 2020 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2...

Barry

Absolutely and it's not confined to the US. Years ago people were urged to believe "lawyer" was a dirty word and implied that lawyers couldn't be trusted. (remember all those lawyer jokes?) Nowadays you'd have to apply that tag to the media. I have virtually stopped watching and reading mainstream ...

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Obviously also I disagree with you about the higher-quality US media - you named, or Joseph did, the WSJ, NY Times and Washington Post. Their columnists may dislike Trump, and many certainly do, but their news coverage is usually scrupulously factual, from what I see. My claim isn't that they lie (...

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The Scribes and Pharisees were hypocrites. It's a very old world. Joe Biden has to answer for his conduct, just like Clinton, Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas answered for theirs. Maybe Biden and Trump should hold a joint press briefing where they could field all questions about this matter together. ...

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:46 am
Maybe Biden and Trump could hold a joint press briefing where they could field all questions about this matter together.

Works for me.

Barry

Our local paper also finally reported on this. The obvious difference is that it took no corroborative evidence for them to jump on Ford's charges against Kavanaugh. The cry was, "Women must be believed," and the pouncing was immediate. The conservative media that did that this time was behaving exa...

Barry

The American people might give the heave-ho to Donald Trump, as is their right. But before that happens, or at least afterwards, there needs to be some soul-searching starting with the question, "what just happened to us and why"? Well put. I have no idea what will happen in November (Biden is curr...

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All of these problems pre-dated Trump. You think we should continue to accept the situation because having Trump as president "trumps" the other issues. Obviously, for me and many others, those other issues "trump" all others. Trump is not fixing them, Barry. It's probably not possible to fix them ...

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I mentioned the incident with the two women as an example of how far off the rails American society has gotten (at least on the coasts; it's not quite as bad in fly-over country), not to say that one moment was the driving force behind my attitude. If I had time and a better memory, I could spend th...

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The two lead editors of the Real Clear Politics web site, which I maintain is the best source of news because it's probably the only place to go to get the news from a variety of perspectives, discuss the media coverage of this issue: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/28/joe_biden_sexu...

Barry

If it's true, it's disturbing, and would seem to indicate yet another deeply self-entitled politician. But may I ask how it can possibly matter to you, since you have no problem with a President who boasted about a regular practice of grabbing women by the vagina on the grounds that he was rich and...

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https://english.alarabiya.net/en/coronavirus/2020/04/27/China-envoy-threatens-boycott-after-Australia-calls-to-investigate-virus-s-spread.html China envoy threatens boycott after Australia calls to investigate virus's spread AFP, Sydney Monday 27 April 2020 China’s ambassador in Australia has warned...

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The reason is obvious: one accuser was consistent and credible, even to Donald trump; the other not. Interesting response in light of the fact that the witnesses from the time in the Ford case didn't back her story, while there are now several statements or clips from other people that go in the di...

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.... unless, of course, they accuse a Democrat. Then the Times, Post, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, etc. can whistle a different tune. So why did they think Dr. Ford was so believable and compelling, while not giving a hoot about Biden's accuser? Maybe the same reason they didn't "believe" Bill Clinton...

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It's been addressed ad nauseum, including by Dr. Birx. Let it go, Henry. I told people who were going out of their minds when Trump invited the Russians to hack Hillary's emails that their reaction was helping Trump's chances of winning the last election. It should only take a second of thought to r...

Barry

Thanks for presenting another side, Belle. ".... that this board has evolved into little more than a forum for left wingers to belittle large portions of the population that have no representation on here. How many of you that do that are small-business owners that are worried about losing your busi...

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I see we crossed posts and your most recent one confirms my view. You're out of your mind, frankly, to think the things you do about the situation (although it's understandable if your main source of American news is what you see on here). You see the way Americans are acting now out of impatience a...

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It's not the potshots I mind, Barry. I do a fair bit of that too. It's the evading of questions, and pointing in different directions that bothers me. When the conversation is about Trump, you talk instead about China, Democrats or Trump-haters. I think it's dishonest. Second, my near total contemp...

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You're hardly in a position to complain, Barry. You've evaded every direct question put to you. No conversation is possible with you because you only post to snipe. I've learned over the years, Barney, that it's not a productive use of time to get involved in a long back-and-forth where I'm one arg...

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Your irrelevant interpretation of my rights not aside, I see nobody is willing to say whether they think it would be alright for people to be locked in, even in parts of the country without a serious problem, for a year-and-a-half, as Emmanuel argued, or even longer.

Barry

It's like you're Maher and I'm Crenshaw.

Barry

And I'm contending that 95 percent of the country is so dug in on Trump, that it's a miracle that he got a small bump in the early days of the crisis. NOTHING significantly moves this guy's polling numbers. What you did was what the mainstream media has become expert at during the Trump era. They ch...

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I wish it were just a figure of speech to call Mr. Trump Xi's pimp. It is not. Trump's tweet you quoted above misstated the facts: China doesn't pay the newly imposed Trump tariffs, Americans do in the form of higher prices. That's why conservatives like David Jones, Sr. and Gary Cohn opposed these...

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Quite the leap of logic to extend the average of polling numbers to "average leadership or performance." What's your next trick? I just checked. There are 13 job approval polls for Trump currently listed on Real Clear Politics. The 43 percent for Gallup is the lowest number. The other 12 are all hi...

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I saw Boulez conduct the VPO in Mahler's 3rd at Carnegie Hall. I'm not a fan of Boulez's way with Mahler. The answer is Giulini. He stopped coming to Philly to guest conduct about a decade before I started attending the Orchestra's concerts, and I think he had retired by the time I started going to ...

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Quite the leap of logic to extend the average of polling numbers to "average leadership or performance." What's your next trick? I just checked. There are 13 job approval polls for Trump currently listed on Real Clear Politics. The 43 percent for Gallup is the lowest number. The other 12 are all hig...

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Ultimately, he's right. I'm not saying we should be immediately rushing back to past normality. But there is a limit to the amount of economic and cultural destruction we can endure if we're going to have anything left to eventually return to. While we're obviously not literally in a war, there are ...

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As someone who has followed the approval polls on real clear politics regularly throughout Trump's presidency, I can tell you that 43 percent is about average for where he has been in Gallup. His 49 percent rating in the previous poll was the one that was an outlier. However, Gallup is generally one...

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