Margaret, the most surprising thing about the ABC settlement was that George Stephanopoulos went along with it (his name is in ABC's apology). I thought he understood the First Amendment and the laws surrounding defamation. He should have resigned rather than capitulate. RIP ABC News.
Michele Norris resigned from the WaPo after Bezos spiked the endorsement of Kamala Harris, and she landed on her feet. Stephanopoulos would have had no trouble finding comparable work elsewhere. Perhaps a contract is holding him in place, but this is very disappointing -- and very alarming.
Thanks, Ms. Sullivan, for your superb work (on the off chance that you'll see this).
I doubt that there is an "apology" clause regarding Donald Trump lawsuits" clause in any contract Stephanopoulos is under. On the other hand, the news outlet is likely to be required to defend him and if they refused, he could sue them for breach of contract and win.
I think people overestimate Stephanopoulos’s principles. He stayed part of Jeffrey Epstein’s circle even after Epstein’s conviction for sex trafficking, a fact most of the media ignored:
“ Fresh out of jail, Jeffrey Epstein was welcomed by the rich and powerful”
“In the meantime, let me know what’s worrying you most about what we’re seeing from the president-elect and his team. (Election denialist Kari Lake for Voice of America chief, anyone?)”
I wasn’t shocked in the least by ABC’s capitulation; especially after such capitulation by WaPPo, NYT, LA Times, Mika and Joe, etc…
And what worries me the most is t this capitulation; the MSM has always been a bunch of corporate invertebrates. Let’s not forget 9/11, and the Iraq debacle. The MSM sold their collective souls for access and Troop embedding. The NYT’s even held back on an illegal spying program under guise of The Patriot Act.
So when it comes to what’s left of the MSM, which isn’t already controlled by the right-wing media ecosystem, I have no illusions that they will be the Fourth Estate that saves democracy, because in the end, it’s all about self preservation.
That said, what worries me the most is the unknowns. Trump’s cabinet picks are disasters in the making, but most of the positions will be filled by loyalists of Heritage and The America First Policy institute. We have no idea who these people are, but that will have unchecked power behind the scenes.
We need to shed daylight on these clowns, because it’s not the devil you know who is the real threat; it’s the devil working his magic behind the scenes, who can do the most damage to our republic. IMHO!
I’ll warrant most voters don’t know that Trump raped a woman in a department store dressing room, though, admittedly, he may have only done so digitally, with those stubby fingers, not with his penis.
I rank the failure to call him a rapist as maybe the biggest failure of the press and the Democratic Party. You’d think this would have been easy, given that Trump boasted of his exact modus operandi in “just grabbing them by the pussy”. You’d also think that editors would focus on the crime given he’s nominated fellow rapists to the cabinet.
Instead, opinion editors deem it gauche to mention it, while news reporting alludes to “sexual abuse”. The Washington Post’s excellent Aaron Blake did have a good story about it with “rape” in the headline, but that was the exception, along with Stephanopolous’s admirable statement on air.
Btw, I recently learned from Taylor Branch’s great history that Times v Sullivan arose when Montgomery’s segregationist police chief sued the paper for an ad advocating civil rights. That’s what we’re going back to: MAGA is willing into existence an alternate history of the country where Calhoun, the Confederacy,
and the Klan are the heroes, and always were. We should consider the civil rights movement as a model of resistance to what we’re going to face—in particular, I think boycotts should be an “action item”. Think of everything you might need for the gruesome year ahead and buy it at a discount after the holidays and before Jan. 20. Take your last vacation for the next twelve or eighteen months. Don’t give them the benefit of a single positive tick of positive economic data. Let’s blow a small bubble with our last breaths, before we burst it with our swords.
Most of the mainstream press capitulated to Trump a while back. NYT refused to use the word “lie” when it was evident that he was lying. WaPo hired headline writers that could be part of Trump’s cabinet. CNN is owned by one of Trump’s pals, and Fox, well they are an arm of the administration. The list goes on and on.
I don’t know what worries me most, the fact that almost half the country doesn’t seem to care about what is happening or that we are easily 3/4 of the way down the road to complete capitulation by the one institution whose sole job it is to hold the power centers accountable.
Also, this WNY girl read The Buffalo News daily growing up! Also old enough to have read The Courier Express too!
Think about that, 2 papers a day delivered to a mailbox……wow, times have truly changed.
NYT and WaPo both refused to use the word "lie" back in 2016. I have emails from a WaPo editor defending the practice, tell me I was ungrateful because of the all the "good" reporting they did.
My parents got the Courier Express. When that shut down, they got the Buffalo News. I grew up a newspaper reader. Even wrote for the high school and college papers, and did a PhD dissertation on press coverage of occupational health. The legacy corporate media is sinking into the swamp.
We do need suggestions for taking action . . . time is slipping by and there is no resistance to any of trump's moves, including his myriad of despicable appointees.
I respectfully disagree. I see a lot of resistance already happening, much more so than Trump's first time around.
The most important first step is not to give in to fear. These bullies are cowards. They are so afraid of their own fear, they want to give it to us by terrorizing us. We need to stand firm and tell them that we aren't going to take it.
I agree, don't give in to fear. Chris Jones, Iowa water quality expert vilified for calling out agricultural pollution, wrote this right after the election: "It’s four years of vile, at least. Buckle up. But by god, enjoy the fight and get in some licks! Trust me, it’s fun to fight, especially when the bad guys are expecting you to lie down. And trust me on this too: courage is literally the only thing the bad guys respect. The only thing." (https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/a-democracy-runs-through-it)
The MSM had already done its worst when it scrutinized Biden’s every move and normalized or “sanewashed” Trump during the election. Instead of educating the public on project 2025, they were too busy talking about Biden’s age or the last Kamala gaff. A good portion of the country thinks that Trump will bring down inflation because they did not know that we pay the tariff or that other countries will retaliate and raise tariffs on us.
What concerns me the most is that we will be attacked because the spineless, idiot Republican Senators will confirm unqualified leaders who are hostile towards our national security organizations. The world is watching.
I just read a post from Brandon Friedman (on BlueSky) that presents an alternative (and troubling) explanation that also explains all this obeying in advance....
"Let's talk about power dynamics. Companies like Amazon, Apple, Meta and ABC News are not behaving 'cowardly.' Rather, they see the incoming government as an ally and vehicle to increase revenue. Even the individuals involved (Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.) do not fear Trump. They could buy him like the Kremlin buys a rural Republican congressman. They could make him go away if they wanted to. But they don't. This is why we need to shift away from the idea that for-profit corporations and news outlets were friends who suddenly betrayed us out of 'cowardice.' They were never on our side. This is a class war in which actual powerful, moneyed interests are gathering strength to rule as techno-fascists. Donald Trump is just the bag man, tasked with ending regulations, protections and democracy in exchange for a bit of their wealth and power."
This is probably the most accurate assessment I’ve seen, with the minor caveat that fear is part of the calculus - call it 10%. Whether that’s fear of retribution or lack of access I’m not entirely sure (my strong suspicion is lack of access, though). Libel/defamation claims require demonstration of malice, which has historically been extremely difficult to do. Just statistically, ABC was at an enormous advantage, and Disney’s pockets are more than deep enough to mount a formidable defense. They capitulated to avoid a protracted public battle that they almost certainly would have won, but didn’t care enough about to fight. If Stephanopolis had any journalistic integrity, he would have resigned rather than be associated with this bullshit settlement or - even worse - the utterly disgraceful apology. As George Carlin once said, “it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
The so called "Legacy Media" make themselves more irrelevant everyday. With all the good sources of information and commentary (like this blog) out there, I can't think of the last time I had time left over to go to ABC News for anything. I like Geo Stephanopolis. A podcast, perhaps?
Stephanopolis could have resigned, but only those far lower on the payscale had the integrity to leave legacy news.
My choice has been to walk away from all but independent news. There is far better coverage of "reality" in independent alternative news and foreign papers.
I expect we'll soon see a law making it a crime to call 1/6 an "insurrection". I expect a handful of Democrats to vote for this.
We have to face the reality that all guardrails have collapsed.
I sent the following note to ABC after the settlement was announced:
Craven decision to settle trump’s phony baloney defamation case. Another cowardly instance of anticipatory obedience. Count me, a now-retired journalist, as a now-former viewer. For shame!
I'm reading Alexei Navalny's Memoir, PATRIOT, and what Trump is doing here is what Putin did when he rose to power in Russia in the 1990s. Sell government to the highest bidder. All businesses go to the biggest bribe. Everyone pays because that's how to get rich, then they all owe Putin because what he gave, he can take away any time.
Bribery is the name of the game, and Trump has invited predators, both foreign and domestic to play.
My personal worries are mostly financial, as I rely on Social Security and Medicare, but Tulsi Gabbard is a huge threat to our National Security, and Pete Hegseth, in addition to his slimyness, is completely unqualified to run the DOD!
RFK, Jr. if put in charge, will be the deaths of millions!
And I really DO NOT want to see a bunch of innocent men, women and children deported and/or put in cages!
Congratulations on getting your own fears sold back to you like the women who were sold their own fat back to them in the form of soap in the movie “Fight Club”
In Russia under Putin, entire economic sectors were effectively overseen by politically loyal cronies, and oligarchs had their fortunes directly tied to political obedience. Putin came from Leningrad (St. Petersberg) - and consolidated power by allowing loyalists to maintain their fortunes. But he was appointed by Yeltsin first to the head of the FSB... You'll see plenty of pictures of Clinton and Yeltsin hamming it up. Yeltsin wanted Putin as his successor. And when he did take over as PM, his cabinet was selected for him. Putin defeated the rivals who tried to take over from Yeltsin on the back of how he handled the second Chech war.
From there, he won the power struggle against the Oligarchs in a grand bargain.
It's a tribal nation... a true mafia-style one.
And the fact that people still try to relate Russia in their own Western terms is comical, per usual, proving they have zero understanding of that foreign system.
Wealth wasn't built under Putin by paying bribes. It was ALREADY built by exploiting the people who had never lived under a market system before - and oligarchs exchanged vodka and bicycles for massive amounts of financial credits later used by the oligarchs to buy industries one block or refinery at a time. This was known as "bandit capitalism" and it's basic Russian history.
Such statements also completely ignore Russia's 98 financial crisis, the regional conflicts in Chechnya, and the Clinton administration's non-stop fascination with Brookings Institution fellows who are still consistently wrong about Russia geopolitics almost 30 years later and led the stupid hoaxes about Trump in the first place that have been disproven over and over, yet parroted by some of the people in this thread for years.
While there were indeed concerns about corruption and influence-peddling in the Trump era (corruption and influence was peddling in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden eras too), the U.S. system, even under strain, does not mirror the Russian model. It's not even close. It's delusional to make any association.
American businesses and investors still operate under established regulations and legal frameworks, and accusations of malfeasance often trigger investigations and legal challenges. This isn't that complicated.
This caterwauling thread is utterly incredible from journalists doing so in a substack whose name has the intellectual depth of an ideological and advocacy-driven high school senior's application to the Medill School of Journalism.
Did you miss the part where they impeached Trump for investigating Biden's son - who received a blanket pardon - while he sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm even though he had no background in energy - and that the father who pardoned his son - previously openly bragged about getting the investigators fired - who were looking into corruption and influence peddling.
Or what about Harris receiving 84 percent positive coverage, and Trump got 89 percent negative coverage?
This whole experience is just sad. Because the bias is on clear display, and you're too foolish to see it. There is no reflection in the mirror.
You still don't understand why you lost, do you? It's right in front of you.
Although a foreign (and war) correspondent for 55 years, Margaret, I can't suggest any macro steps. My only advice to younger journalists is: If journalism is not a VOCATION to you, get a job in a bank. If it is a VOCATION, fight fight fight. In the end, the pen will always defeat the sword. That's a proven fact. No peace agreement was ever signed by an AK-47. Always by a pen.
Ain't always easy, but if sure feels good when you see the bad guys fall.
What worries me most is the unholy (and I use that word deliberately) alliance between Trump’s cabinet choices who have white Christian nationalist beliefs and those who are simply loyalist toadies. Combine those with their counterparts in Congress and whatever you want to call our Supreme Court and that’s why I am looking for concrete action steps.
There is little respect left for the fourth estate. They used to keep us informed, now they distort and mislead. They sanewash, they equivocate. I would have thought Stepanopulous (sorry if I misspelled his name) would have resigned in protest. Guess his paycheck was more important.
Regular people are standing up to tyranny (see last week's protests at the North Carolina state legislature) while the rich and powerful are caving in.
Margaret, the most surprising thing about the ABC settlement was that George Stephanopoulos went along with it (his name is in ABC's apology). I thought he understood the First Amendment and the laws surrounding defamation. He should have resigned rather than capitulate. RIP ABC News.
Pretty shocking. I wish I could have heard those conversations.
Is the American Crisis in the room with you right now?
Michele Norris resigned from the WaPo after Bezos spiked the endorsement of Kamala Harris, and she landed on her feet. Stephanopoulos would have had no trouble finding comparable work elsewhere. Perhaps a contract is holding him in place, but this is very disappointing -- and very alarming.
Thanks, Ms. Sullivan, for your superb work (on the off chance that you'll see this).
Thanks so much; I do read the comments and appreciate yours.
I doubt that there is an "apology" clause regarding Donald Trump lawsuits" clause in any contract Stephanopoulos is under. On the other hand, the news outlet is likely to be required to defend him and if they refused, he could sue them for breach of contract and win.
I think people overestimate Stephanopoulos’s principles. He stayed part of Jeffrey Epstein’s circle even after Epstein’s conviction for sex trafficking, a fact most of the media ignored:
“ Fresh out of jail, Jeffrey Epstein was welcomed by the rich and powerful”
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/fresh-out-of-jail-jeffrey-epstein-was-welcomed-by-the-rich-and-powerful/
“In the meantime, let me know what’s worrying you most about what we’re seeing from the president-elect and his team. (Election denialist Kari Lake for Voice of America chief, anyone?)”
I wasn’t shocked in the least by ABC’s capitulation; especially after such capitulation by WaPPo, NYT, LA Times, Mika and Joe, etc…
And what worries me the most is t this capitulation; the MSM has always been a bunch of corporate invertebrates. Let’s not forget 9/11, and the Iraq debacle. The MSM sold their collective souls for access and Troop embedding. The NYT’s even held back on an illegal spying program under guise of The Patriot Act.
So when it comes to what’s left of the MSM, which isn’t already controlled by the right-wing media ecosystem, I have no illusions that they will be the Fourth Estate that saves democracy, because in the end, it’s all about self preservation.
That said, what worries me the most is the unknowns. Trump’s cabinet picks are disasters in the making, but most of the positions will be filled by loyalists of Heritage and The America First Policy institute. We have no idea who these people are, but that will have unchecked power behind the scenes.
We need to shed daylight on these clowns, because it’s not the devil you know who is the real threat; it’s the devil working his magic behind the scenes, who can do the most damage to our republic. IMHO!
Yes, I agree on those unknowns. But the knowns are pretty bad, too! Thanks, Robert.
Just had a flashback to Katie Couric's "Navy SEALs rock" moment after 9/11. Sigh.
I’ll warrant most voters don’t know that Trump raped a woman in a department store dressing room, though, admittedly, he may have only done so digitally, with those stubby fingers, not with his penis.
I rank the failure to call him a rapist as maybe the biggest failure of the press and the Democratic Party. You’d think this would have been easy, given that Trump boasted of his exact modus operandi in “just grabbing them by the pussy”. You’d also think that editors would focus on the crime given he’s nominated fellow rapists to the cabinet.
Instead, opinion editors deem it gauche to mention it, while news reporting alludes to “sexual abuse”. The Washington Post’s excellent Aaron Blake did have a good story about it with “rape” in the headline, but that was the exception, along with Stephanopolous’s admirable statement on air.
Btw, I recently learned from Taylor Branch’s great history that Times v Sullivan arose when Montgomery’s segregationist police chief sued the paper for an ad advocating civil rights. That’s what we’re going back to: MAGA is willing into existence an alternate history of the country where Calhoun, the Confederacy,
and the Klan are the heroes, and always were. We should consider the civil rights movement as a model of resistance to what we’re going to face—in particular, I think boycotts should be an “action item”. Think of everything you might need for the gruesome year ahead and buy it at a discount after the holidays and before Jan. 20. Take your last vacation for the next twelve or eighteen months. Don’t give them the benefit of a single positive tick of positive economic data. Let’s blow a small bubble with our last breaths, before we burst it with our swords.
Most of the mainstream press capitulated to Trump a while back. NYT refused to use the word “lie” when it was evident that he was lying. WaPo hired headline writers that could be part of Trump’s cabinet. CNN is owned by one of Trump’s pals, and Fox, well they are an arm of the administration. The list goes on and on.
I don’t know what worries me most, the fact that almost half the country doesn’t seem to care about what is happening or that we are easily 3/4 of the way down the road to complete capitulation by the one institution whose sole job it is to hold the power centers accountable.
Also, this WNY girl read The Buffalo News daily growing up! Also old enough to have read The Courier Express too!
Think about that, 2 papers a day delivered to a mailbox……wow, times have truly changed.
NYT and WaPo both refused to use the word "lie" back in 2016. I have emails from a WaPo editor defending the practice, tell me I was ungrateful because of the all the "good" reporting they did.
My parents got the Courier Express. When that shut down, they got the Buffalo News. I grew up a newspaper reader. Even wrote for the high school and college papers, and did a PhD dissertation on press coverage of occupational health. The legacy corporate media is sinking into the swamp.
We do need suggestions for taking action . . . time is slipping by and there is no resistance to any of trump's moves, including his myriad of despicable appointees.
I respectfully disagree. I see a lot of resistance already happening, much more so than Trump's first time around.
The most important first step is not to give in to fear. These bullies are cowards. They are so afraid of their own fear, they want to give it to us by terrorizing us. We need to stand firm and tell them that we aren't going to take it.
I agree, don't give in to fear. Chris Jones, Iowa water quality expert vilified for calling out agricultural pollution, wrote this right after the election: "It’s four years of vile, at least. Buckle up. But by god, enjoy the fight and get in some licks! Trust me, it’s fun to fight, especially when the bad guys are expecting you to lie down. And trust me on this too: courage is literally the only thing the bad guys respect. The only thing." (https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/a-democracy-runs-through-it)
The MSM had already done its worst when it scrutinized Biden’s every move and normalized or “sanewashed” Trump during the election. Instead of educating the public on project 2025, they were too busy talking about Biden’s age or the last Kamala gaff. A good portion of the country thinks that Trump will bring down inflation because they did not know that we pay the tariff or that other countries will retaliate and raise tariffs on us.
What concerns me the most is that we will be attacked because the spineless, idiot Republican Senators will confirm unqualified leaders who are hostile towards our national security organizations. The world is watching.
I just read a post from Brandon Friedman (on BlueSky) that presents an alternative (and troubling) explanation that also explains all this obeying in advance....
"Let's talk about power dynamics. Companies like Amazon, Apple, Meta and ABC News are not behaving 'cowardly.' Rather, they see the incoming government as an ally and vehicle to increase revenue. Even the individuals involved (Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.) do not fear Trump. They could buy him like the Kremlin buys a rural Republican congressman. They could make him go away if they wanted to. But they don't. This is why we need to shift away from the idea that for-profit corporations and news outlets were friends who suddenly betrayed us out of 'cowardice.' They were never on our side. This is a class war in which actual powerful, moneyed interests are gathering strength to rule as techno-fascists. Donald Trump is just the bag man, tasked with ending regulations, protections and democracy in exchange for a bit of their wealth and power."
This is probably the most accurate assessment I’ve seen, with the minor caveat that fear is part of the calculus - call it 10%. Whether that’s fear of retribution or lack of access I’m not entirely sure (my strong suspicion is lack of access, though). Libel/defamation claims require demonstration of malice, which has historically been extremely difficult to do. Just statistically, ABC was at an enormous advantage, and Disney’s pockets are more than deep enough to mount a formidable defense. They capitulated to avoid a protracted public battle that they almost certainly would have won, but didn’t care enough about to fight. If Stephanopolis had any journalistic integrity, he would have resigned rather than be associated with this bullshit settlement or - even worse - the utterly disgraceful apology. As George Carlin once said, “it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
Excellent points! :)
The so called "Legacy Media" make themselves more irrelevant everyday. With all the good sources of information and commentary (like this blog) out there, I can't think of the last time I had time left over to go to ABC News for anything. I like Geo Stephanopolis. A podcast, perhaps?
Stephanopolis could have resigned, but only those far lower on the payscale had the integrity to leave legacy news.
My choice has been to walk away from all but independent news. There is far better coverage of "reality" in independent alternative news and foreign papers.
I expect we'll soon see a law making it a crime to call 1/6 an "insurrection". I expect a handful of Democrats to vote for this.
We have to face the reality that all guardrails have collapsed.
I sent the following note to ABC after the settlement was announced:
Craven decision to settle trump’s phony baloney defamation case. Another cowardly instance of anticipatory obedience. Count me, a now-retired journalist, as a now-former viewer. For shame!
I'm reading Alexei Navalny's Memoir, PATRIOT, and what Trump is doing here is what Putin did when he rose to power in Russia in the 1990s. Sell government to the highest bidder. All businesses go to the biggest bribe. Everyone pays because that's how to get rich, then they all owe Putin because what he gave, he can take away any time.
Bribery is the name of the game, and Trump has invited predators, both foreign and domestic to play.
My personal worries are mostly financial, as I rely on Social Security and Medicare, but Tulsi Gabbard is a huge threat to our National Security, and Pete Hegseth, in addition to his slimyness, is completely unqualified to run the DOD!
RFK, Jr. if put in charge, will be the deaths of millions!
And I really DO NOT want to see a bunch of innocent men, women and children deported and/or put in cages!
Congratulations on getting your own fears sold back to you like the women who were sold their own fat back to them in the form of soap in the movie “Fight Club”
… ???
In Russia under Putin, entire economic sectors were effectively overseen by politically loyal cronies, and oligarchs had their fortunes directly tied to political obedience. Putin came from Leningrad (St. Petersberg) - and consolidated power by allowing loyalists to maintain their fortunes. But he was appointed by Yeltsin first to the head of the FSB... You'll see plenty of pictures of Clinton and Yeltsin hamming it up. Yeltsin wanted Putin as his successor. And when he did take over as PM, his cabinet was selected for him. Putin defeated the rivals who tried to take over from Yeltsin on the back of how he handled the second Chech war.
From there, he won the power struggle against the Oligarchs in a grand bargain.
It's a tribal nation... a true mafia-style one.
And the fact that people still try to relate Russia in their own Western terms is comical, per usual, proving they have zero understanding of that foreign system.
Wealth wasn't built under Putin by paying bribes. It was ALREADY built by exploiting the people who had never lived under a market system before - and oligarchs exchanged vodka and bicycles for massive amounts of financial credits later used by the oligarchs to buy industries one block or refinery at a time. This was known as "bandit capitalism" and it's basic Russian history.
Such statements also completely ignore Russia's 98 financial crisis, the regional conflicts in Chechnya, and the Clinton administration's non-stop fascination with Brookings Institution fellows who are still consistently wrong about Russia geopolitics almost 30 years later and led the stupid hoaxes about Trump in the first place that have been disproven over and over, yet parroted by some of the people in this thread for years.
While there were indeed concerns about corruption and influence-peddling in the Trump era (corruption and influence was peddling in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden eras too), the U.S. system, even under strain, does not mirror the Russian model. It's not even close. It's delusional to make any association.
American businesses and investors still operate under established regulations and legal frameworks, and accusations of malfeasance often trigger investigations and legal challenges. This isn't that complicated.
This caterwauling thread is utterly incredible from journalists doing so in a substack whose name has the intellectual depth of an ideological and advocacy-driven high school senior's application to the Medill School of Journalism.
Did you miss the part where they impeached Trump for investigating Biden's son - who received a blanket pardon - while he sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm even though he had no background in energy - and that the father who pardoned his son - previously openly bragged about getting the investigators fired - who were looking into corruption and influence peddling.
Or what about Harris receiving 84 percent positive coverage, and Trump got 89 percent negative coverage?
This whole experience is just sad. Because the bias is on clear display, and you're too foolish to see it. There is no reflection in the mirror.
You still don't understand why you lost, do you? It's right in front of you.
Just look.
Save your scolding. You are in no position to lecture anyone about bias.
Corporate media caved long ago when they started sanewashing trump.
Although a foreign (and war) correspondent for 55 years, Margaret, I can't suggest any macro steps. My only advice to younger journalists is: If journalism is not a VOCATION to you, get a job in a bank. If it is a VOCATION, fight fight fight. In the end, the pen will always defeat the sword. That's a proven fact. No peace agreement was ever signed by an AK-47. Always by a pen.
Ain't always easy, but if sure feels good when you see the bad guys fall.
ABC pays Trump before Trump gives a penny to Carroll. The world is upside down. Shame on ABC.
What worries me most is the unholy (and I use that word deliberately) alliance between Trump’s cabinet choices who have white Christian nationalist beliefs and those who are simply loyalist toadies. Combine those with their counterparts in Congress and whatever you want to call our Supreme Court and that’s why I am looking for concrete action steps.
There is little respect left for the fourth estate. They used to keep us informed, now they distort and mislead. They sanewash, they equivocate. I would have thought Stepanopulous (sorry if I misspelled his name) would have resigned in protest. Guess his paycheck was more important.
I have the highest respect for the 4th estate but they will not be found on television and especially not on ABC.
Regular people are standing up to tyranny (see last week's protests at the North Carolina state legislature) while the rich and powerful are caving in.
I'm with the regular people on this.
Thank you!
Yes, and the Moral Mondays protests at the legislative building in Raleigh will continue.