IMO the lies told in the aftermath warrant a harsher sentence than a slap on the wrist.
Particularly if any of his changing stories conflict with what he told any investigating deputies in the immediate aftermath. Though in many jurisdictions, false reporting to law enforcement is also a misdemeanor.
I’ve been thinking about this guy a lot lately.
I’ve heard, although I couldn’t confirm with a quick googling, that Brooks broke his cane in the attack on Sumner. IIRC, Brooks then received a large number of canes as gifts.
I don’t think we should cede Montana to the Reich Wing. seriously, is the civil war II already happening?
I was cruising cable and stopped at Fox long enough to see some talking head barely able to contain his absolute Glee that Greg Gianforte (R-Montana) had body slammed a journalist from The Gaurdian. I fully expect a journalist to either get pummeled or shot at an upcoming Republican political rally.
There’s a name for this “they’re worse” principle-bashing. For any not familiar, it’s called “whataboutism”. It’s a favorite high-school-lunch-table propoganda technique, used extensively in Russia. Faux News uses it with great glee and abandon.
To Quoque
Ah, yes, that as well. A propaganda twofer. *Tu quoque* amounting to something like, "What Gianforte did was not morally wrong, because the other 'side' has committed similar acts of moral wrongness."
I intuited the sense of that in the Fox flim-flamming, without having a nice Latin-sounding name for it.
The upshot of course, our media tacitly encouraging a laxness in values/morals (here, with respect to violence).
I tuned in one evening last week out of curiosity.
The Trump Russia breaking news cycle was in full swing, so of course Fox had been running non-stop coverage of the Seth Rich murder conspiracy. Then the man’s family shut it down, so I was like -what will they cover now?
And they were talking about Trump Russia, but the flow was…This is a big win for Hillary…Hillary must be loving this…Hillary is in her hut in the woods, cackling her her heart out ( yes, that last one was real, I assume that “hut in the woods” and “cackling” are witch references) but in all fairness they didn’t talk about her pimpimg out Hansel and Gretel from the basement of her hut.).
But I couldn’t quite figure out why they took that angle. I guess they were trying to rile up the base against the investigation without addressing the truth of the story – just… this is going on and Hillary likes it so we have to be against it,maybe?
Fox News: New York Times boycotted Obama surveillance story. Fox News: Oops, maybe not.
Fox news reports incorrectly, corrects, then corrects again acknowledging that their original story was pretty much the opposite of what actually happened.
Egads!
Faux News summary:
“NYT didn’t even cover this jaw-dropping story!!!”
“Correction: They wrote like 9 words about it on page A21. LAME!!!”
“Correction: OK, they broke the story and carried on page A1. But, no one knew about it until now so they basically didn’t cover it. LAME!!!”
I know Fox’s bias been pretty well established by now but hopefully, we can still find some amusement in it… Out of six news organizations RSS feeds, five of them are dominated by discussions of the U.S. pulling out of the Paris climate agreement. Fox, however, has chosen to lead with the breaking news “Wisconsin gets official state cheese”.
Is Scott Walker allowed to hold two offices at once?
My in-laws visited for Memorial Day, and they would keep changing the station to Fox News, then I would change it back to MSNBC when they went out for something.
It was always the same — MSNBC would be talking about stupid things that Trump, or a high official in his administration, actually said or did.
Fox News would be talking about stupid things that some imaginary liberals secretly want to do, or else stupid things said by some nobody with no power and no fame in a man-on-the-street interview, as if he were the guy that all liberals take direction from.
This is from January but I just saw it.
The Fox story: Double Standard? Obama '09 Cabinet picks slid through; Trump’s face hold-up
The truth: Obama Has Waited Longer For Cabinet Confirmations Than Any Other Recent President
How three networks handled the Comey testimony.
That is an awesome bit of reporting, one that might not have happened if not for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (and the data collection methods they devised, is what I’m talking about here).
That’s awesome. The Washington Post, which I never really knew much of before Trump booted them from conferences, is my new favorite newspaper. That link has simple, true facts shown in a way that is undeniable in exposing another example of Faux’s bullshit “journalism”.
(Scroll down the page for the timeline.)
This month in Fox’s infamous history…
Did anyone review video recordings to see if our new prez bowed (or curtsied) to any foreign rulers on his last trip overseas?