Chris Cillizza: [Trump] is producing the greatest reality show ever.
Soledad O’Brien: It’s not accurate. It’s not funny. It’s not clever. It’s not analysis. It’s facile. It shows an actual lack of understanding of reality tv (can’t believe I’m typing that). It’s mediocre. It’s a time when viewers need to understand what’s going on at the highest levels of govt.
Tag: finally
He’s a bitter man now, who can barely tolerate the fact that he lost to Barack Obama. But he lost for an obvious reason: his campaign proved him to be puerile and feckless, a politician who panicked when the heat was on during the financial collapse, a trigger-happy gambler who chose an incompetent for his vice president. He has made quite a show ever since of demonstrating his petulance and lack of grace.
Joe Klein reflects on the fall from grace of one John McCain.
It’s both strong stuff and true, but the sad part is that he was always like this, it’s just that he was the MSM’s particular darling because he would sit there with them on Bullshit One and tickle their own bottomless fonts of self-importance for as long as they could stand it. Now that he’s through with national politics, and knows it, he (apparently) isn’t bothering anymore. And so blow-back against Saint John McCain (finally) begins. Keep on tapping, Tashtego.
It’s both strong stuff and true, but the sad part is that he was always like this, it’s just that he was the MSM’s particular darling because he would sit there with them on Bullshit One and tickle their own bottomless fonts of self-importance for as long as they could stand it. Now that he’s through with national politics, and knows it, he (apparently) isn’t bothering anymore. And so blow-back against Saint John McCain (finally) begins. Keep on tapping, Tashtego.
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