After the "experts" told us Saddam had no WMDs, Hillary was a shoo-in, and Afghanistan was a winning cause, that's no loss to me. But, I simply think advanced insight would be a better use of non-experts (an insight into poverty or maybe someone with thought provoking observations into where society needs to change, per instance.)
Have you (or anybody) ever wondered if the premise behind Being John Malkovich might be true, and if Richard Nixon is actually living rent-free inside Trump's noggin, whispering sweet nothings to him about new and unique ways to cheat and steal while president?
It said it could not endorse Harris. That seems to leave only one choice. You have one perspective, I have another. But the fact is that the WaPo could not bring itself to endorse the Democratic candidate so the game was, in my book, called by default.
No, damn it David, no it wasn't. You can believe anything you want, but here are the facts: WaPo was on the verge of endorsing Harris. The editorial was written, it was scheduled to run on a certain date, a few weeks preceding Election Day, there was buy-in from everyone who needed to buy into it. Then, at nearly the last minute, Bezos's new publisher, at Bezos's direction, pulled the plug on running the endorsement. The reporting was that Bezos was on Trump's bandwagon, financially supporting the Trump campaign, and if his own newspaper wasn't going to endorse his candidate, then by God they weren't going to endorse anyone else (which effectively meant Harris). Everything else was a fig leaf to cover the uncomfortable fact that the Big Boss had overruled everyone else.
In both your case and mine, we were not there.
Which means you don't know squat but won't take Jeff Bezos' statement at face value.
that ship sailed long ago
We were probably both typing at the same time. I paused because I was looking for a good closing line, couldn't think of one, and decided to rearrange the post instead. Then I was hit with the problem that's occasionally happening, where it appears that the post is timing out without posting when in reality it has posted. When I refreshed the browser to see the actual outcome, I saw your post, but by then my post had succeeded as well. The board software seems to be failing to send an acknowledgment of successful posting to the browser but the post actually succeeds.
Well at the risk of derailing this in another direction...
Meanwhile (essential pull-quote):
CBS News Expected to Cut Ties With Contributor Peter Attia Over Epstein Links | Exclusive
Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss announced Peter Attia’s hiring last week as part of her new vision for the network, but since then he appeared in the Epstein files.www.yahoo.com
www.thewrap.com
The first one is paywalled. But think David Ellison is who people should be upset at, think Bari Weiss is just carrying out his orders.Katie Couric Sounds Off on Bari Weiss’ CBS News: ‘So Eroded and Really Destroyed’ | Video
Katie Couric shared her disappointment with Bari Weiss' leadership at CBS News in a conversation with Kara Swisher Wednesday.
Bari Weiss sparks outrage for 'deranged' dinner party 'ice breaker'
Editor-in-Chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has raised eyebrows after a short clip from her podcast revealed her sister's unusual icebreaker.www.dailymail.co.uk
MAGA Curious CBS Boss’ Wife Talks ‘Bawdy’ Hour With Epstein
Nellie Bowles penned an essay about her visit to the convicted sex trafficker’s home.www.thedailybeast.com
Here's more on the events surrounding Bari Weiss in this roundup. This comes as Katie Couric comes forward to criticize Bari Weiss management at CBS News.
I still can't precisely define in my mind what the term "gaslight" means, as it seems to have become a refuge word just like "fascist" when a person who opposes another has no actual facts or no cogent argument to make. It's sort of a "they are my marbles and I am taking them home" adapted to the 2020's.
Let me tell you a little story, Ted. Oracle's official, legal corporate headquarters relocated to Texas, but the guts of the company is on a campus that's within 10 miles from me as the crow flies. I drive by it often enough. I know long time employees. (My wife was a short-time one.) And for awhile, I held a few shares of Oracle stock in my IRA. One year, I decided to attend their Annual Meeting, since it was going to be at their campus, a reasonably short drive away. Senior executives were present, as were a number of their board directors. And of course the chairman himself, Larry Ellison.
