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(23,309 posts)Stuart G
(38,453 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,289 posts)She knows first hand what this "hoax" virus does.
She's likely willing to go scorched earth.
Bad Thoughts
(2,537 posts)Brooke Baldwin had CV19.
ProfessorGAC
(65,289 posts)Brianna was sitting in when Brooke was I'll!
That's why I confused it.
Wasn't Brianna the one who choked up when talking with Chris Cuomo, when he was sick? She must be pretty good pals with both.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)publics are more receptive to it. In turn publics may be influenced by such stands.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)been around during Watergate.
We could have used it during McCarthy too.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)the extensive corruption of the republicons, [scared some corrupt Dems also]. Limit corruption for 45 years!!!
Be a different world.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I believe the next thing to say is Yippie kai yay!
MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)It deserves an extra "yai" - Yippie kai yai yay!!!!
wishstar
(5,272 posts)while saying he was not responsible.
Bettie
(16,134 posts)I think they caught the essence of him!
KatyaR
(3,447 posts)I never thought I'd see it....
FakeNoose
(32,833 posts)YES!!! Let's see more of this with the other cable news networks.
MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)if the "numbers" show support for CNN's position, you KNOW others will just jump on board to ride the train - for profit and ratings (wait, who said anything about conviction or integrity? This is a business, you know........)
StarryNite
(9,464 posts)lame54
(35,335 posts)On his lie about taking HC
They are covering it as if it's true
Wake up - it's a lie
Karadeniz
(22,599 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)But it IS about goddamn time!
Roc2020
(1,618 posts)yrs ago
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Trusted the weight numbers given by his doctors....
Warpy
(111,397 posts)Obese=overweight to the extent that health problems are imminent, from damage to the skeletal system to damage to the metabolic and cardiovascular systems.
Clinically obese: in no danger of imminent death, but will need to work at maintaining health in the absence of significant weight lose (easier to say than to do).
Morbidly obese: in danger of death from the complications of extreme obesity.
His doctors aren't giving the true number. I peg him at 260, probably more. His diet sucks and his trips to golf courses involve more driving than walking, probably because his legs aren't taking the weight well.
panader0
(25,816 posts)He probably weighs a lot more than he says and he's closer to 6' and not 6'3".
So Nancy may have stretched it a bit but I'll bet she did it to get under his skin.
Warpy
(111,397 posts)Piss them off. Then laugh at them when they overreact.
Enough of it will make him so horrendously uncomfortable that he will run away, especially when it's coming from all directions and he can't lash out at a small handful of people.
central scrutinizer
(11,665 posts)My new descriptor for Drumpf. BMI defn: Weight (kg)/(height (m))^2 = 45. Assuming height is 75in., convert height to meters, then we solve for weight and convert to pounds = 358 pounds.
yellowdogintexas
(22,282 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,739 posts)I saw him on TV this morning and noticed that his coat is fitting differently. It is loose at the shoulders to the extent that it bunches slightly when he does that stupid arm fold over his chest. Sleeves look loose, as well, as if he has suddenly lost weight.
Warpy
(111,397 posts)but his suits, always baggy in the wrong places, and likely fitting tightly over the Kevlar and we all know damned full well he's never discovered the miracle of proper tailoring.
colorado_ufo
(5,739 posts)noneof_theabove
(410 posts)just like women's sizes are getting small and soon will go negative to improve body image.
Just the opposite for a man. Get bigger numbers.
But he can still say I'm a XL when he had the suit custom made for XXXXXXL.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)The fit, the fabric -- it's all HIDEOUSLY wrong.
Embarrassing that he is so poorly dressed.
Berlin Expat
(950 posts)tailored suits. It's most likely his own Trump brand, off-the-rack stuff.
yellowdogintexas
(22,282 posts)I daresay that big gut hasn't gone anywhere, nor that disgusting rear end
belpejic
(720 posts)He's also 6'1" max, probably shorter in old age, probably wears lifts to make himself seem taller.
And his suit jackets are massively padded in the shoulders--he's not that broad shouldered at all--he's much narrower at the top and wider in the hips and ass.
Warpy
(111,397 posts)and is unbalanced because of them, tending to lean forward.
He's also developing a distinct hunch and that also affects his height. He looked a good 2 inches shorter than Obama at 6'1" at the inauguration. Barron now towers over him.
His body type screams "metabolic syndrome." I'm sure they're feeding enough pills to make him rattle when he walks.
I remember my first 300 pound patient in the mid 80s, we had to weigh the poor guy on the linen scales in the hospital laundry. Now 350 isn't that unusual. I doubt he's that heavy, he's lost lean muscle mass and bone density and fat weighs much less than both.
colorado_ufo
(5,739 posts)That is why it seemed like he had lost weight in the shoulder and arm area, because the shoulder pads were so evident with the bunching fabric.
MurrayDelph
(5,302 posts)I'm a few inches shorter, am currently 250-ish, and I'm nowhere near as fat as he is.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Changes his BMI.
I bet he's over 260. He's probably wearing a girdle and other foundation garments to artificially slim him down as much as possible.
superpatriotman
(6,253 posts)thanks
RainCaster
(10,938 posts)That would be a fine example to set for all the rest.
I guess its about time
McKim
(2,412 posts)The time for being worshipful of the presidency and polite is long past. We cant take a knife to a gunfight anymore! People wont vote for our side if we dont fight back.
Thekaspervote
(32,813 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)iluvtennis
(19,885 posts)Harker
(14,064 posts)is some news outlets straightening up and being truthful.
GoCubsGo
(32,098 posts)Last edited Tue May 19, 2020, 04:26 PM - Edit history (1)
Three years too late.
Harker
(14,064 posts)GopherGal
(2,010 posts)Treating his candidacy like an amusing reality show is part of what got us into this mess in the first place.
The Wizard
(12,552 posts)joshcryer
(62,279 posts)Giving full time to every single one of his bizarre candidate interviews for months at a time. It was absolutely repulsive how much airtime they gave this idiot.
oasis
(49,433 posts)Cha
(297,877 posts)oasis
(49,433 posts)Bullseye.
Aloha to you Cha
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Cha
(297,877 posts)lpbk2713
(42,770 posts)When they duke it out Trump and the GOP will lose bigly.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,111 posts)And how long before they are kissing his ass again?
calimary
(81,550 posts)Last edited Tue May 19, 2020, 11:56 PM - Edit history (3)
Sorry. As a retired journalist, I don't have much patience or forgiveness for squandering a few years trying to tiptoe around truth in order to avoid the wrath of the liar.
Sorry. NO EXCUSES FOR THAT, and YES, I'm SHOUTING!
DAMMIT! That's MY former profession to which he's laying waste. That he's almost literally (if not verbally) shitting upon. That's work I did and people I worked with and with whom I shared the workload. People I stood out in the cold and near danger when we were covering high-rise fires, airplane crashes, and campaigns and Election nights, and glamour gaggles like the Oscars and Hollywood Blvd Star Ceremonies. I stood behind rope lines with those people. I worked til 3am and 4am alongside them in newsrooms. I fought my way through obstacles alongside them. I covered death and grieving alongside them. I covered celebrations and glitz alongside them. I was elbow-to-elbow with them in small cramped space set aside for press, ropes behind which we were confined, police lines we had to have certified credentials to cross, and I even had a chance to throw an uncomfortable question to a slick-talking president in a room full of them.
I can say it now because I'm retired and no longer in a position where my opinion doesn't belong (covering actual news. Just the facts, ma'am. NOT doing commentary or generating editorials or other opinion-related material as I'm now free to do in places like this). I LOVED those people. It didn't really matter if we were "competitors." We ALL worked together. Somebody's mic fell off the podium? Whoever was closest scrambled up to set it back in place. Somebody's battery ran out on their tape recorder so they couldn't record the rest of the press conference? One of us invariably had extras to offer. OR, on occasion, some of us even had an extra tape recorder to lend out. One of us didn't get to the newser on time and missed the first half? One or more of the rest of us was happy to make them a dub or feed them the material back in the newsroom so they'd have it, too. Somehow, even in crowded rooms, there was always at least a little place for a late-comer, or a shorter person, to fit in so they could cover it and see what they were doing, also.
It was just that way. After all, we were all sharing each other's soundbites, weren't we? There was a collegiality to the news community when I was working. We WERE all in this together, and all on the same side, even while being competitors. There were exceptions, of course. An exclusive interview, for example. Well, you got it? You use it, but after you've just run it, you share it. And let everybody else pick it up. They'll give you credit, as anyone can see when CNN runs something from ABC World News Tonight or CSPAN, or MSNBC runs something from Pox Noise or CBS's "Face the Nation." And so on. There's a professional courtesy governing all.
I have heard of the cut-throat tactics, where somebody will actually pull out another reporter's mic cable and plug theirs in, instead. Mic cables have even been cut! When I was working, NO ONE did that. NO ONE did that! And if there wasn't enough room in the mult box to plug your mic in, somebody else patched you into their tape machine so you were in effect getting it through them. I saw situations like that frequently. Frankly, whenever the situation demanded it. And I saw a lot of those, especially A) working in a media market the size of Los Angeles, and B) covering the activities and business of the "company town" - being an entertainment reporter in L.A.).
Sheesh ... it takes me back. Those were some pretty doggone cool times, especially when viewed from a distance (in time) AT the time, I didn't think about it much, because I was always too busy working! Trying to get the story, get it right, and get it on the air. I feel almost ridiculously lucky to have been able to be part of it.
DAMN YOU, trump! You've disrespected and slammed and smeared people I cared deeply about, and worked closely with, and studied, and tried to emulate and to learn from. Some of these people I was so intimidated by the very idea that I'd be working with them - or doing "that" - that I could barely even speak to them, and when I would merely have told them how thrilling it was for me to be working with them. Some of them were big names. But most of them were more of just working stiffs. A whole bunch of mild-mannered Clark Kents (especially at the AP). People who worked like dogs. And tracked like bloodhounds. People who were out, in all kinds of weather, and in dangerous places with an out-of-control brushfire in the background or even wading out into a swollen river after hellacious rainstorms, and late on a dark night in dicey places downtown. Maybe there was a crowd and lots of TV camera illumination at the site of the breaking story, but if you drove, you had to find a place to park, and it was usually far enough away from the command post that you had to walk. Or you had to arrange rides, or you were with a crew in a remote unit.
DAMN YOU, trump! You sully the profession I loved and for whom some actually give their lives. I don't know a single soul among them in any capacity who was a "lazy moocher." And back then, I worked with everybody from every network, affiliate, and independent entity, TV, radio, print, cable, and the then-fledgling online outlets. You sully the only profession that's included, by name, in the Constitution of the United States. See the FIRST Amendment. Always lots of whoop-de-doo all the time about the Second Amendment. Sorry. We-the-news-media beat you. We're in the FIRST Amendment. Obviously whoever wrote all that up had THAT on his mind, not guns.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
Sorry this is so long. He hollers "Fake News". HE'S the Fake. Make that FUCKING Fake.
niyad
(113,668 posts)Thank you.
calimary
(81,550 posts)I added a recollection or two.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213480904
niyad
(113,668 posts)czarjak
(11,304 posts)BobsYourUncle
(120 posts)that goes a long way to explain why I so much like your posts. Thanks.
calimary
(81,550 posts)Thanks back atcha!
I remember when I first got hired at NBC Radio and had to go to New York for three months, back in 1979. They were launching a new young adult news network servicing rock stations, and they pulled us from big rock stations all over the country.
It was a mind-blowing experience. I'd see Tom Brokaw getting coffee in the commissary in the morning, John Belushi in the elevator (headed up a few more floors to the "Saturday Night Live" offices during its early days), and Linda Ellerbee (whom I idolized since "NBC News Overnight" in the ladies' room. Thought I'd died and gone to news heaven!
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)I'm bookmarking this sucker.
It took CNN a long time to get here, but they've finally arrived.
lindysalsagal
(20,765 posts)Finally in time for this election.
BComplex
(8,077 posts)Or are the comments just about the screen shot?
Joinfortmill
(14,486 posts)Mike Niendorff
(3,463 posts)My guess is this is in response to him trying to kick around their reporters -- if he wants to keep going that route, the network execs are showing him they can respond by taking the gloves off too.
This jackass only understands it when you hit back, and hit back hard.
"You want airtime again? Ok, here's your airtime. Enjoy. Now, you still want to talk to our reporters like that?"
Could be wrong, but that's my sense of it. It's a loud message delivered with a blunt object.
MDN
dlk
(11,585 posts)yardwork
(61,729 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)BootinUp
(47,207 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,206 posts)every Trump story after the first month of his term.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,578 posts)bout time . wish the other new$ outlets would get off their collective duffs as well.
TeamPooka
(24,273 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)and spared us years of towing the Republican Party lines and bullshit.
I guess better late than never. This is still great news. It's about time one of the news networks went for truth instead of psy-ops.
samsingh
(17,602 posts)Catch2.2
(629 posts)doing their job? Good for them! Others need to follow!
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)KG
(28,753 posts)JI7
(89,281 posts)musicblind
(4,486 posts)Not even making a big deal out of it, just calling it what it is.