UPDATEDx3: Huff Po: Pete Sessions is House leader who said "I cannot even...
UPDATE 3: Well, it looks like this story continues...The Huffington Post now reports it was Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) who allegedly told President Obama he could not bear to look at him at a meeting...
View ArticleMSNBC AM is the newest FOX NEWS. (Iran rant)
We all know that CNN has gone through a foxification, from the dumbing down of the audience through Wolf Blitzer to the transparently conservative Erin Burnett: CBS was a little late to the starting...
View ArticleFactCheck.org calls out the Koch brothers
For a long time their email seemed to favor the GOP. But yesterday they unloaded on the Koch brothers. FactCheck.org calls itself A Project of the Annenberg Public Policy...
View ArticleThis Crap Again? Just Ban Me Now, OK?
An epic exercise in false equivalency and sophistry combined with a bit of definitional or psuedo-analytic creativity has called yet again for support for the idea of allowing people to throw HRs for...
View ArticleThe Biden-Carson Effect
THE OLD FALSE EQUIVALENCY GAMBITThis is characterized by seizing on a similar component in two distinct actions and using that as the basis for declaring the actions equally good or bad. This is...
View ArticleFalse equivalency jumps the shark
Republicans — greatly aided by some in the mainstream media — have feasted in recent years on the “false equivalency” gambit. The most basic and infamous such example is the often-used phrase, “Well,...
View ArticleTruth and Trumpism
is the title of this column by Paul Krugman currently available on the website of The New York Times. He explains the intent of his piece in the first paragraph:How will the news media handle the...
View ArticleShut The Bleep Up, Bob Woodward
In observance of the former Watergate co-star (with Carl Bernstein) and longtime worshipper at the altar of false equivalency’s latest extrusion of effluvium, that is his sad effort to a) tag Thomas...
View ArticleMore False Equivalence in the Guise of Investigative Journalism
I just watched (1:19 PM Pacific, Jake Tapper on CNN) a hit piece on Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation— it could have been a Trump campaign commercial. “Shocking” — transactional...
View ArticleTrump is not the GOP candidate, he is actually the media candidate with an...
When Donald Trump spoke about 2nd amendment methods to deal with Hillary Clinton I thought this would be fodder for a long time with media coverage. I thought they’d never let up. I was wrong. I have...
View ArticleMy analysis of what is being done to us. They are trying to F*$# us.
I keep hearing that Hillary has spent so much in money commercials, that she should be up by more. They say she is a weak candidate and should be winning by higher margins. I say that is BS. She is...
View ArticleNYT's egregious false equivalency against Planned Parenthood
It’s literally been years since I’ve written a diary here on DK, but I felt the need after reading how the New York Times equated Planned Parenthood with the criminals fraudulently editing videos. In a...
View ArticleItemizing the Media’s Double Standard with Hillary Clinton
The media obsesses over creating a false equivalency with Hillary Clinton. Any time she slightly exaggerates anything – or perhaps just inferring Trump’s political stance on an issue based on an...
View Article.. of deplorables and crackpots, polls and press
On a Thursday morning I might well write a post that focuses exclusively on the column of one of two men who are columnists for The New York Times, Nick Kristof, who has won one Pulitzer on his own...
View ArticleTrump’s Campaign’s “False Equivalency” strategy on Birther Issue
This morning I was thinking about how Hillary Clinton should respond to being accused by the Trump Campaign of starting the “Birther” issue. The following are my...
View ArticleHelp with Canvassing: Debunking the False Equivalency
And here is where I tell you that I need your help. From all of you.I learned when attending a MoveOn.org meeting that they are working to defeat Trump but couldn’t cite but a few of Hillary’s...
View ArticleGoogle Hillary's accomplishments or find a fair comparison between both...
I dare you to do that and tell me if you find anything useful.Every day, every freaking time, I look at comments responding to a post or an article at the different media sites, including news media,...
View ArticleBookmark this: Vine of Obama saying pvssy
You KNOW the rightwing will point to this and say “But what about Obama saying pussy?” Yes, it’s a false equivalency, but you know how they are.The article has a short Vine of him at the lectern...
View ArticleEnough with the False Equivalency
You know, I was going to write a piece on the ridiculousness of the false equivalencies the media, and especially the right wing, loves to draw between the ghoulishness of Donald Trump and the...
View ArticleMedia working on pushing the horse-race more and tilting election towards Trump.
Donald trump is unhinged, unstable, this guy is going totally berserk. He is someone who cannot control his emotions just on a daily life level. More specifically he over-reacts to little things as...
View ArticleFalse Equivalency, Normalization and Other Comforting Delusions
My sister-in-law asserts that both right and left have extremists and that the outlandish rhetoric being reported from the Trump camp is no different than that from Clinton and Obama in past years. A...
View ArticleWhoopi- that is a terrible comparison
During the Jan. 6 episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg decided to engage in the false equivalency game by saying that the four black teens now charged with hate crimes for recording their beating of a...
View ArticleFalse Equivalence Is the Worst Kind of "Alternative Fact"
I don’t really care about the Atlanta Falcons. As a Jets fan, I’m obviously obligated to root against the Patriots, and am utterly unable to forgive Bill Belichick’s deplorable act of treachery 17...
View ArticleSay Hello to the '2016 Lie of the Year' according to PolitiFact
—Most thought that saying America was a “post-racial” society, was a stretch — well how about “post-truth”? …We don’t need No Stinking Facts!2016 Lie of the Year: Fake newsby Angie Drobnic Holan,...
View ArticleThe Two-faced Statement of Donald Trump on the Violence and Hatred in...
—Donald Trump finally gives a tepid two-faced response to the vehicular homicide incident in Charlotteville, NC today ...cnn.com"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of...
View ArticleRepublicans respond to Trump's latest Defense of Supremacists
—Specifically, they are responding to Trump’s latest “both sides do it” false equivalency: “I think there’s blame on both sides,” Trump told reporters Tuesday at Trump Tower. Ryan, other Republicans...
View ArticleEnough False Equivalency
In the past five days (and seven months), we've been through a lot. We have an unpopular President that denies losing the popular vote. We have a Congress that somehow rates lower than that...
View ArticlePlease stop using the term, "Alt-Left." You aid and abet Trump and the far...
From the very helpful NYT article, listing various political terms, both left and right:Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist LanguageAlt-LeftResearchers who study extremist groups in...
View Article22 million Americans think white supremacy and neo-Nazism are acceptable
One of the classic ways the right continues to justify the increasing violence and neo-Nazi behavior of their base is through false equivalence. We’ve all heard it from some of those we know, and now...
View ArticleNow It's Andrew Sullivan's Turn to Lie About the Left
I like Andrew Sullivan. Which is to say, I like his work, I like it a lot, and I’ve liked it for a long time. I used to read his old Daily Dish blog religiously after he publicly and emphatically broke...
View ArticleObama '10: Fairness Means Scott Brown Sworn In Before ACA Vote. GOP '17:...
As if anyone paying attention needed any additional proof that Republicans exploit every single opportunity to impose their minority views on America on each and every issue, the Republicans apparently...
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On what Planet are Policies like these possible ...
—Words fail me.But I will try to find them, anyways ...US lost track of 1,500 immigrant children, but says it's not 'legally responsible'by Dakin Andone, CNN — May 27, 2018[...]CNN reported earlier...
View ArticleSamantha Bee apologizes for 'feckless' Ivanka callout in wake of bipartisan...
After ABC (and countless syndicators) pulled the plug on confirmed racist and Ambien-blamer Roseanne Barr’s namesake sitcom this week, it didn’t take long for the right to start shrieking “double...
View ArticleNYT Op Ed Argues for "The Obama-Trump Grand Strategy"
Trump is one of a kind. Comparing him to any other American President is wrong. Comparing him to any Democratic politicians undeservedly enhances Trump's reputation. Trump has NO integrity. NONE....
View ArticleTrump and Nixon – a False Equivalency
Impeachment is another word for indictment. Impeachment of the president is an indictment by Congress. The trial is held by the Senate and with Republican majority in the Senate the president will...
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Heh, 'What about the Clinton Foundation, huh?'
—Since approximately a third of the populace still practices “What about-ism”— I decided that ‘turn about is fair play’ in this case.Soooo, What about that Clinton Foundation? something which...
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What-about-ism Strikes again in Trumpworld
—Here we go again. Trump just said Obama did the same thing that he did. So there. Not Guilty![...]“Many people currently a part of my opposition, including President Obama & the Dems, have had...
View ArticleWhy Those Who Loathe Trump Find It So Hard to Accept His Supporters
Throughout our country’s history politics have always been divisive, so much so that the Civil War was fought over slavery, at times pitting neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother....
View ArticleWhy I Support Ralph Northam
I support Ralph Northam staying in office. Not because he is a great guy. Not because he has handled the photo situation well, or even decently. Not because racism in Virginia is not a big deal.I think...
View ArticleDavid Brooks: "There are very [bad] people on both sides."
David Brooks is the master of false equivalency. Too many others (i.e., most of the media) try to ascend to his heights of both-siderism, but can’t quite come up to his level of denial, exaggeration...
View Article"Divide and Conquer"Is Still Effective
How many of you fellow Kossacks have had to try to have a conversation with someone who supports any point of view/issue that the dotard has expressed? Frustating to the point of banging one’s head...
View ArticleDemocratic congressman on Meet the Press burns down Rand Paul's 'both sides'...
Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut was on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd to discuss the news of the day. But before Rep. Himes could get into the interview he had to take down both Todd and...
View ArticleWhenever Charges of Impropriety Are Made Against Joe, This Should Be the...
Just as the general election campaign for president is getting underway now that the two major party candidates have been determined, new charges of sexual impropriety against Joe Biden have cropped...
View ArticleWhat's the matter with you??!!
An open letter to John Robinson Block and the opinion editors at the Pittsburgh Post-GazetteI emailed the following to all the opinion editors and, John Robinson Block, the owner of the Pittsburgh...
View ArticleWednesdays with The Village - Cherry picking; the continuing series with...
Oh this is one of my favorites! I love cherries and I’m certain I have cherry picked data in my arguments before. It’s easily done, that’s for sure because we don’t always stop for a moment and think...
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Cartoon: Hunter and Trump
Not sure it’s just the right-wing media that’s promoting this equivalency.
View ArticleGuess who George Will thinks is an Authoritarian, now!!
Back to “both sides have something to say” in THE WASHINGTON POST!! Today, George Will announced that Joe Biden is already an authoritarian— because he has taken these initiatives without Congressional...
View ArticleIt's a rant, y'all!
President Biden and the Democrats need to become aggressive about the Democratic agenda and loudly broadcast and celebrate the accomplishments of Democrats. If they did, they could take control of the...
View ArticleLet's NOT "agree to disagree"!
Long before we had the phrase “alternate facts”, we had the equally idiotic phrase “agree to disagree”.No can do! Certain things are objectively either true or false, and in many instances saying...
View ArticleTrump's Friday Talk at Trump Tower & the New York Times
I read through Trump's Friday talk at Trump Tower. Every paragraph evinced at least one symptom of dementia, sometimes more than five. Maureen Dowd's reporting gives Trump much more benefit of the...
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