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still_one

(92,516 posts)
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 09:01 AM Nov 2017

Unfortunately, last nigt I caught Johnathan Turley on CNN where he was expressing support for

Session's to appoint a special council to investigate the "Clinton Foundation", and the so-called "uranium" bullshit.

I didn't stay long listening to this wing bag, but he is nuts. He was spewing that the Russian involvement wasn't nothing.

I never gave much thought to Turley, until he was out there predicting how the SC would rule the ACA unconstitutional, which they didn't, and when I realized what a jerk he was.

This latest appearance last night on CNN reminded me of just what an ASS Turley is.

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hlthe2b

(102,535 posts)
1. Turley and Dershowitz know they can only "stand out" for increased bookings
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 09:04 AM
Nov 2017

if they play the contrarians, facts be damned.

I have no respect for either.

still_one

(92,516 posts)
2. I thought turley was a Democrat. He is no Democrat. More like a souless libertarian, which is
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 09:11 AM
Nov 2017

exactly what Dershowitz is. Not only is their right wing bias evident, and they cloak it behind their view of their interpretation of the law, they are absolutely compassionless frauds.

 

Jim Beard

(2,535 posts)
6. It appears to me as if the guy holds a grudge and changes his whole thought
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 09:52 AM
Nov 2017

processes against those who dared oppose him. He really came down hard on the Obama administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Turley

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Wow. I think this goes way beyond being a "contrarian"
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 09:16 AM
Nov 2017

or wanting attention. He'd never have achieved his stature with this shockingly dishonest far-right anti-intellectual garbage. It looks like he's been turned, by someone. Note that this is right in line with:

WSJ EdBoard, disgracing themselves with these same positions as instructed by Murdoch.

Sean Hannity and others, who work for Murdoch and also take instruction from the Kochs. .

Trump, whose behaviors have had top experts speculating for 2 years now that Putin is blackmailing him.

Whose instructions is Turley dancing to? And why haven't he and George Washington University "agreed to part ways"? The Kochs have donated to GWU, which suggests probably a lot more money flowing in from others in their alliance of billionaires and centimillionaires (the usual pattern).

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Remember, tho, the Republican Party is no longer one of the big
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 09:35 AM
Nov 2017

decision makers. Its leaders mostly agree to please those who are or face being replaced with new agents who will. Just look at their almost suicidal behavior right now. Their big donors are insisting on return on investment, and if it looks like conservative voters are going to toss some of them out, their donors will just put their replacements on thesame ballot.

Our planet's wealth has literally quadrupled since the 1970s, probably half of it accumulated right here in our nation, and almost all of that going into the pockets of a few.

This isn't the America we grew up in. And neither party has anything like the power they once had to help direct this nation, although they could once again. Registered voters now top 200 million,and the wannabe kleptocrats know that very well.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. -- Louis D. Brandeis back in the 1920s-30s
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