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In his memoir,  Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, he rcounts how during his first run for Congress he was counseled to stick to the center, whatever that is.  His response? “It is not my ambition to be in the political center, which blows around with the wind. It is my ambition to be in the moral center and to bring the political center to us.”

In Air Mail, Sam Kashner describes the way that corporate publishing is now circling the wagons around the thorny question of just exactly who really wrote J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.

More than ever, “Success has many fathers [and, of course, mothers]” has never been a truer word spoken. Let’s be polite and call the bok  a “pastiche.”

Why is Speaker Mike Johnson so intimately involved in his childrens’ sex lives?

Is J.D. Vance really gay, the way he thought he was, and is that why he hates LGBTQ so much?

Why does Trump’s Project 2025 want to ban contraception, pornography, and recreational sex?

Why does the GOP want to entirely control women’s reproductive health?

J.D. Vance’s new attack lines on Kamala Harris echo so precisely Karl Rove’s attack lines on Obama?

Nepo fail baby Jesse couldn’t hold down a job, until his wealthy and well-connected mother called in her markers and got him a position at Fox–not that that’s a real job.

The rest is one more sordid tale of greed and treason at Fox Propaganda.

Ironic, then, that Watters is calling out Harris voters for their alleged “Mommy issues.”

“The fact that he’s second-rate is an asset. Our audiences are second rate.”

Actually that’s a line spoken by an an executive at a proto-Fox TV network in 1971’s The Love Machine, based on Jacqueline Susann’s novel. But it comports exactly with the Murdochs’ and the Fox prime-time hosts’ contempt for America and for their viewers.

It’s almost amusing to see the Fox weirdos attack Harris for holding positions that are shared by large percentages or majorities of Americans, 

I shuddered as I watched Trump during his presidency enthusiastically endorse every horribly provocative and repressive policy of Netanyahu’s. Even someone as stupid as Trump had to know that there would be a terrible retaliation to come. And Trump’s pal Netanyahu was warned of the savage response that was imminent, and he did absolutely nothing to prevent it.

Exactly what type of message do we think Jeff Bezos is ending by hiring Murdoch hack Will Lewis to run the Washington Post, then allowing Lewis to humiliate and berate the reportorial staff, then continuing to support Lewis even after his squalid past as Murdoch lieutenant is revealed?

At Off Message, Brian Beutler writes that “the public can’t be well informed if journalists apply different standards to different politicians arbitrarily—or, worse, out of fear that certain politicians will seek retribution for adversarial coverage. . .If campaign journalists have taught us anything it’s they’re perfectly capable of turning reality on its head and making Trump’s opponents suffer for his sins.”

Of course, we saw it just now with the reverse-engineering by the corporate media of Trump’s insanity and dementia to implicate Biden.