Prose & Contradiction – MSNBC
Now…WHY does she come out and speak every four years, Chuckles?
Chuck Todd proves again why being sent to pasture and off of "Meet the Press" was a sound idea. He has this knack for speaking in a fashion that sounds serious and introspective – that is until you actually analyze the words spoken.
At the Democratic National Convention, Todd marvelled at the speech former First Lady Michelle Obama delivered. His assessment is that she is such a gifted and natural speaker, as he described her speech in a deeply curious manner.
Chuck Todd claims "[Michelle Obama] doesn't do this for a living. The fact -- every four years we're reminded she's probably the best nonpolitical speaker in the country...it is all the more remarkable how good she is at this for how little she does it for how little she does it" pic.twitter.com/gzRoCOgGBh
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) August 21, 2024
So she's a non-political speaker…at a political convention, giving a speech...which she does every four years when there is (wait for it…) another political election.
Fantastic as always there, Chuck.
Body Checking the Fact-Checkers – POLITIFACT
Saving us from satire one fact-check at a time...
The DNC convention is held in Chicago, a city that dyes the river green on St. Patrick's Day each year. At the convention this week, Planned Parenthood brought out portable abortion clinics and offered free procedures on-site. The satire site Babylon Bee made a gag headline stating that the city decided to dye the river red.
DNC Dyes Chicago River Red To Celebrate Abortion https://t.co/yaMTm6qWzI pic.twitter.com/1Ny0ND4m8F
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 19, 2024
The self-serious minds at PolitiFact noticed that some people online were sharing this joke, and it needed to step in and let people know about the false nature of this joke.
Panic at @PolitiFact! Accounts with 72 followers are sharing Babylon Bee satire as real! pic.twitter.com/smFsS0yp8v
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) August 21, 2024
Pounce of Prevention – POLITICO
Joe Biden's labor department reports that the jobs reported by Joe Biden last year through Joe Biden's programs ended up delivering to Joe Biden actually more than 800,000 fewer jobs than Joe Biden initially claimed, looking rather poorly upon Joe Biden.
So, Politico decided to make this about Donald Trump.
US job totals will likely be revised down by 818,000 as Trump cries fraud https://t.co/cjy4CJuJ2H
— POLITICO (@politico) August 21, 2024
Pathological Media Amnesia – AXIOS
At Axios, Emily Peck – the source of the Border Czar embarrassment a few weeks back – is at it again, running defense for Kamala Harris and, once again, running into herself in the process. This time, it concerns the proposal from Harris to get prices lowered through a government mandate. Realizing that this plan was receiving some harsh pushback and generating calls that Harris is pushing communism, Peck is here to tell us it is NOT "price controls" but is instead a ban against price gouging.
The only issue...last year, Axios covered this practice of addressing prices of food in the U.K. during inflationary periods. It was declared to be price controls. It was declared this by Emily Peck.
When the U.K. Wants Soviet-style food mandates:
— Lie-Able Sources (@LieAbleSources) August 21, 2024
"Price Controls"
When Kamala Harris wants Soviet-style food mandates:
"Don't call it price controls - it's a ban on oppressive gouging!"
The - same - reporter... pic.twitter.com/wltj24J0uj
Gilded Reframe – ASSOCIATED PRESS
It is not a good thing to be referred to as "The Tim Walz of Journalism," for the record.
This is what happens when you copy-paste what Democrats deliver. In eagerly detailing the wine-mom histrionics seen by State Senator of Minnesota Mallory McMorrow, the AP just ran her claims as is, and ended up needing to delete the original post once other people did the research and corrected the outlet. That would be, corrected the journalist(s).
Look, we know you guys WANT to help them all the time, but you need to learn at some point that they lie constantly, and verifying what they say and tell you might become a helpful skill set for you going forward.
Michigan Sen. Mallory McMorrow brought out a copy of Project 2025, a blueprint created by the Heritage Foundation for a second Trump term. She then slammed it on the podium.
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 20, 2024
This corrects an earlier post that was deleted because it misidentified the blueprint as Republican. pic.twitter.com/mR6azk3rxd
DNC PR Firm – ROLLING STONE
"Genius" normally describes an action seen for the first time.
Maybe it is a rarity in the big cities where publications are centered, but for most of the country, it is not unique to see camouflage hats worn in public. Not just hunting brands, but other companies also produce a variation of this headgear.
Rolling Stone thinks seeing the Harris-Walz campaign adopting this common practice – after the Minnesota governor/hunter was selected – is more than a good idea. Images from the first night of the convention delivered shots of Kamala's step-daughter wearing this hat, and Rolling Stone positively swooned.
That’s the genius work of this one small bit of Harris/Walz merch: the camouflage hat reclaims the rural and Southern identity that mainstream Democrats have long ignored.
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 20, 2024
Dems are finally embracing country music fans: https://t.co/bCw2tBURa5 pic.twitter.com/pw79D9UiRm
Calling this common promotional move "genius" is enough of a stretch, but then suggesting this somehow reclaims Southern culture is a GROSS example of the appropriation they always complain about on the left.
My Hunting Hat Is Not Your Campaign Swag!
