Not calling a lie a lie is a lie.

Not calling a lie a lie is a lie.

Flipping this on its head: Is there a way to use the new tools (social media platforms, crowd sourcing/funding/building, AI) to create a "sucessor" to 60 minutes? What would serious journalistic intent look if built from the ground-up now?

Why don't you convene a shadow or echo hearing after the real hearing with actors reading the GOP parts and invite Smith to repeat his testimony? You can use the transcript from the official hearing as s script. Much more tv friendly!

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If you heard this from someone in a bar, at an assisted-living facility, in a sanity-competence hearing, etc you'd know you were not dealing with a person in control of facts, reality, or himself.

Every medical professional knows this. Every normal person does.

Trump escalates Senator Kelly's chances of becoming president.

Stephen King would like a word. Which raises the question: which is both more great and more terrible, Carrie or Sister Carrie?

But they did choose our leader and then directed him to do this.

Midnight Special?

Those strikes are working their way north

Like most Republicans these days, it's Wiles who is suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. A person with a basic sense of morality and decency would simply walk away from such a deranged person and the party that enables him. It's not that hard. Many have done so. Susie has chosen not to.

Also, wasn't his claim on our attention founded on his substitution of empirical evidence for intuition and suppposition? Does he actually know anything, you know, factual, about HCR's readership demographics?

"initially aghast" then realized that complicity in evil was the price of admission and got over it.

Yes and no. They like it when he says evil stuff about people they loathe, like Hilary.They see it as fun trolling. When it is directed at someone they don't hate the framing of theatrical trolling for effect is removed and the ugliness is suddenly starkly visible, like switching on a light.