Yeah. If 40 years ago, Deep Throat had been unveiled as Mark Felt, the response would’ve bee: “Who?”
This. And what a let-down she’s been, although I’m not immensely surprised.
I hope it turns out to be Kelly-Anne Conway and that the piece was rewritten by her husband to throw off the detectives.
…Obama laying down the gauntlet today. Holy fucking shit.
That’s the precedent I had in mind.
I read something in the past day or so that quoted an anonymous White House source as saying he/she tried to mimic the speech of others in the administration to throw off leak-hunters. The use of “lodestar” would be a pretty good red herring, if indeed that’s what it is.
The BBC story quoted upthread also pointed out that the piece wold have probably gone through NYT editing, so any linguistic analysis based on word choice, sentence structure, etc., would be iffy at best. I doubt the NYT editor would have dropped in a “lodestar” on their own initiative, but things like tightening up the sentences for length and clarity seem likely (at least to me, as a non-journalist).
I haven’t seen anything. What’s up?
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His speech is like a balm. I’m so fucking glad he’s jumped back into the fray. Perfect timing, as ever.
Sorry, I don’t see the “gauntlet” here. He’s saying don’t wait for a savior, that our greatest enemy is indifference. Very sensible and indisputable
What am I missing?
I think whatever, it is entirely self serving. Maybe an attempt for those assholes running for re-election in November to cover their asses???
“Yeah we allowed all sorts of egregious shit to happen. We helped in formulating it. We lined our own pockets and advanced our own agendas in the process. We helped the effort to trash NATO, the effort to separate babies from their parents, we helped Putin to take over the country from the inside. We put Gorsuch in the Souprme Court and now we are putting in an even worse son of a bitch. But trust us. We are the adults.”
While the “glimpse inside” might make for good news ratings, it’s the same old tired shit we already knew.
There are NO “adults in the room”.
Additionally, it did not come out until AFTER Woodard’s book.
Unleash Michelle!
How many Vichy collaborators did they hang???
Good for Booker.
At this point, we don’t need any “both siderism”. We are way past that.
If he somehow, through some miracle gets impeached, indicted, arrested, and convicted, I don’t care WHOSE fault he says it is. He and his buddies and his kids need be financially broken and to rot in prison.
…he broke all the norms of what a former President is supposed to do: retire gracefully, don’t mention politics, don’t mention Trump by name, and threw it all out the fucking window. He’s injected himself back into the political arena. He’s called out all of the bullshit gas-lighting thats been going on. He called out Trump directly and he called out the Republican Party. He’s sent out the rallying call. America is in fucking trouble and the only people who can fix it is the American people.
Its a pretty fucking important speech. Even Fox news covered it. THERE IS SO MUCH FUCKING NEWS. TOO MUCH NOISE. TOO MUCH STUFF HAPPENING. Obama speech cuts through the bullshit. Gives people a path: a goal, a way out. Acknowledges that “no, we are not crazy, everything that is happening around you right now is BATSHIT INSANE, if you want to stop the insanity, you need to get out and vote.”
He broke the norms that no longer existed. GOOD! We all need to drop the pretense. All the old norms are gone.
Man, I can’t wait to see the Fox News segment on this! They will rip her a new asshole! How dare she disrespect our flag – and our troops! – like that!!