Ann Coulter banned from NBC for life, Today Show appearance cancelled?
Obviously Ms. Coulter, like many in publishing, seeks publicity in an attempt to sell her book. The bigger the drama, the better the chance of name recognition with a newly released title. This is first grade marketing at best. Don't forget to ask if Drudge has a monetary involvement in selling Ann's books? (Light bulb glowing...room getting brighter...wiat for it...) As for her books, there never is much journalistic content in them anyway. Pick one up and give it a quick read. It doesn't matter which one, they are all pulp fiction at best. Ann used up her 15 minutes of fame ages ago. She pushes an old version of the "hateful-hype", "beware the MSM but trust only us" silliness that some Republicans just can't seem to get past. Just like Rush and Hannity and the other of that dying breed. I always wondered how personalities like Rush/Ann/Hannity spew such hatred for Americans who will not fall lock-step in with their talk radio nonsense while they waive the flag claiming some uber-patriotism. And if we discuss censorship, we simply must review the actions of the Bush Adminstration for the past eight years. Talk about managing the media. How about planting fake reporters in White House press conferences to ask softball questions? How about appointing axe-men with an agenda to the FCC? How about paying syndicated Op-Ed writers to publish Bush-friendly articles? This list is too long to go on and on... I'll let you all do the research on that one. My personal opinion, Ann is way too mean and nasty of a soulless human to have on with those happy, morning America TV shows. As for those who are aghast at these quick release impressions of NBC, please realize the hype machine at work? Faux News (or Drudge or others of that obvious ilk) should never be considered a source of any journalistic integrity. They are far from "fair and balanced", oh wait...that was the old motto...the newer one...O, yeah..."we chuck it out there, you suck it up willing without checking any other sources". I suggest that everyone pass on this immediate book hype and wait three days for the gossip/People magazine garbage to pass and then you'll hear how Ann or Drudge manipulated this "event" for book selling value.
Why was George W. Bush the best president ever?
I don't think that President Bush was the best President ever but he certainly was not the worst. Very few wartime Presidents have been popular because with war comes the death of American lives. Only time will tell if he was good or bad. I remember not too long ago when unemployment was at the staggering 2.5% mark, all the liberals and media harped on was how bad the economy was. Now when unemployment has reached nearly 10% nationally those same people have the audacity to say, "well the economy is turning around" President Bush was a victim of the medias hate for him. Yahoo did a report a few years back that showed the major media coverage for President Bush and the media coverage was overwhelmingly negative. I dont remember the exact numbers but NBC was approx 80% negative, ABC was around 70% negative, CBS was about 65% negative while the liberal hated FOX was around 55% negative & 45 % positive. I would be willing to bet that Obamas positive press is just the opposite. Update: Buck- that was an informative article but our left wing brethren will not care what it says. They will simply say that the writer is a right wing fanatic and dismiss everything he wrote. Or... they will attack him personally and call him a hack and uneducated etc.
Was it reasonable to suspend Billy Bush from the Today Show for his part in the Trump hot mic tapes?
Billy Bush could have played the fly on the wall, opaque as to even had heard what Trump said. According to recaps of the tape, there was a recorded reaction that was not rejection, was not disgust, was not admonishment for Trump’s utterance.No. The word is that Billy Bush was verbally accepting and apparently receptive to the so called, “Locker Room Talk”.Sorry. Back in 2005 there was no way that anybody logging into their company-issued PC in corporate America could have avoided a daily click-through affirmation of an agreement with the company to abide by its policies against sexual harassment. In conversation, email and video.If Billy Bush was not sanctioned, i.e., slapped down, punished, sent to a corner, suspended or fired, then the parent corporation would be defenseless against a harassment suit by Jill, in Accounting, against coworker Bob. The corporation would have demonstrated that the policy against harassment in the workplace was spotty, at best, or outright ignored if there was a profit motive.Front office, executive suite and star talent have to play by the same rules as the rank and file in the back offices.[Edit]Upon reflection, I realize the answer above was incomplete. It only explored the situation where Billy Bush was certain that Donald Trump was speaking in jest. But Trump was describing criminal acts that he claimed to have committed. His comments were not voicing a potential hypothetical. That is a difference that should have introduced doubt that this was fantasy boasting.Suppose Trump had shared that the great thing about being rich and powerful was that he had extorted over $50 million in under-the-table kick-backs from suppliers, or that no one suspected him earlier that year, when he took a baseball bat to a lousy neighbor’s head, and sent the guy to the hospital for three weeks.All I just did was substitute different crimes. We have to notice that Billy Bush is not just shrugging off a corporate policy. Rather, by not escalating this, he became involved, indeed complicit in the cover up of the crimes.At the very least, Bush had a responsibility to notify management of the matter. Corporate policies likely made it clear.
Has President Trump performed better than President Obama thus far?
Quite a vague question, which will allow all the negative, anti-Trumpers to complain about two scoops of ice cream and the Russians. Often brought up is the obtuse “First 100 days” which really mean almost nothing. We elected a President, not a King whose very word is law. The President must work with the Congress to tick things off his list.So let’s look at the basics, no arbitrary time frame:From Bloomberg, about November figures: Consumer Confidence in U.S. Increases to a Nine-Year HighFrom US News and World Report (hardly a right-wing outlet) about December figures: “Trump Victory Shoots Consumer Confidence to 15-Year High https://www.usnews.com/news/arti....From Rasmussen: Since the Election of Trump, the public feeling about how the country is headed has jumped from the 20%s during most of 2016 to as high as 47% under Trump. Notably, the only time during the Obama years, it rose to close to that level was at election time, when the Republicans were voted in. Right Direction or Wrong TrackSo obviously, the country in general has a positive sense about what’s going on. That would be a success for the President, as it is merely his presence and leadership which are inspiring hope.He is working with the Congress to get rid of the albatross which is DemOcare, which, while it ‘gave’ coverage to many, they could not afford to use it, and is collapsing in on itself financially. It was "written in a tortured way" to avoid a bad score from the Congressional Budget Office, using "exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter," taking advantage of voters' "stupidity" and “lack of transparency”. More on it’s failures here: Obamacare: What we didn’t see coming from Politico.So while a rapid-fire legislative agenda may not be compared to FDR’s first 100 days, the economy is re-surging, after the longest recovery in American history, Jobs are being created and we’re not borrowing trillions of dollars for ‘shovel-ready jobs’ which are not. That $Trillion ‘stimulus package” Obama borrowed from the Chinese () didn’t work (The Reason That Shovel Ready Stimulus Didn't Work Is That There Wasn't Any Stimulus), and he got us into deeper debt… record debt… more debt than he condemned his predecessor for.So, so far, so good.
Why Was George Bush a Bad President?
Do you mean George W. Bush or his father? George W. was a terrible president for so many reasons. Prior to 9/11 he was just considered a clown and lame duck doing anything his big corporate friends told him to do. He rescinded all of the laws put in place by Clinton that would have forced automakers to make modest improvements to emissions and mileage. After 9/11 occured, everyone felt this was Bush's big chance to step up and be a leader. Unfortunately, he blew it. While he did keep true to his promise about attacking terrorists by declaring war on Afghanistan, he then immediately started demanding we go to war with Iraq. His arguments for going to war with Iraq were all false - and this was known by the Bush administration long before Congress voted to go to war with Iraq. But that didn't stop Bush from using 9/11 and terrorism as the 21st century boogy-man to basically scare congress into doing whatever he wanted "or else...911 will getcha!" Compared to that, his other misdeeds don't seem as bad. I mean, he set the record for most vacation days taken by a president - even in time of war. Even when Katrina hit, he didn't cut his vacation short even as 1000s were homeless and in need of immediate government action. Bush's educational policy, "No child left behind" has destroyed the education of a generation, and those effects will be felt for decades to come. Bush appointed his good buddies to top government positions without any thought as to whether they could actually do the job. The most spectacular failures was his appointment to the head of FEMA whose total job experience was running a small horse show...badly. Finally there's all the other stuff Bush just didn't pay attention to, nor do anything about. He came into office with the largest surplus in US history, and left us with our largest deficeit (until Obama came in.) His appointees in the economic sector totally ignored growing problems with the banks, and unemployment - which finally blew up during Bush's final months in office. Honestly about the only good Bush DID do was donating several hundred million to various areas in Africa for sex-education and condoms to try and combat the spread of AIDS.
Liberal Media did a hit job on the meat industry yesterday on NBC & PBS, guess who Obama is invading next?
PBS did the worse dishonest one sided crap filled disinformation piece on the meat industry I've ever seen. Simultaneously NBC aired a program about a filthy meat packing plant with graphic scenes of disgusting bugs all over the meat, and guess what? They murdered a worker who was going to rat them out. The meat packers were bad violent people! What a surprise they would be on Obama's biggest sycophant network ... Oh, and on both shows horrible republicans not only murdered people, they loved the idea of having nasty disgusting meat and they treated people horribly. On law and order this old lady who seemed all nice and sympathetic ended up going to jail with the cool cops making disrespectful wise cracks about her ... what a great advocacy for dehumanization! On PBS in with the theme they drew correlations to how pigs are treated to how a country under a bad republican would treat people in other countries, and their own workers! I mean OMG! This Pravda network Conglomerate is working hard in it's propaganda against people to rival Goebbels work under Hitler in a hit job on the Jews. What's next? The endowment for the Arts who the Obama regime started muscling in on and bribing off so they would act as his own propaganda group, starts dishing out money to artists for slaughterhouse art? These guys are really going after the food production. Shutting off the water to the San Joaquin Valley, (known as the bread basket of America for good reason) was only a start. Did you notice vegetable prices? It's not just high fuel prices bringing it up, a huge % of our production is down, and if you think we have it bad, think about the people where they grow our imports who can't even afford their own food at the prices it goes for now that much of our production is cut off. People in other areas are in really hard times, but you don't see that explained, on the Pravda Networks, now do you?
Has President Trump performed better than President Obama thus far?
Quite a vague question, which will allow all the negative, anti-Trumpers to complain about two scoops of ice cream and the Russians. Often brought up is the obtuse “First 100 days” which really mean almost nothing. We elected a President, not a King whose very word is law. The President must work with the Congress to tick things off his list.So let’s look at the basics, no arbitrary time frame:From Bloomberg, about November figures: Consumer Confidence in U.S. Increases to a Nine-Year HighFrom US News and World Report (hardly a right-wing outlet) about December figures: “Trump Victory Shoots Consumer Confidence to 15-Year High https://www.usnews.com/news/arti....From Rasmussen: Since the Election of Trump, the public feeling about how the country is headed has jumped from the 20%s during most of 2016 to as high as 47% under Trump. Notably, the only time during the Obama years, it rose to close to that level was at election time, when the Republicans were voted in. Right Direction or Wrong TrackSo obviously, the country in general has a positive sense about what’s going on. That would be a success for the President, as it is merely his presence and leadership which are inspiring hope.He is working with the Congress to get rid of the albatross which is DemOcare, which, while it ‘gave’ coverage to many, they could not afford to use it, and is collapsing in on itself financially. It was "written in a tortured way" to avoid a bad score from the Congressional Budget Office, using "exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter," taking advantage of voters' "stupidity" and “lack of transparency”. More on it’s failures here: Obamacare: What we didn’t see coming from Politico.So while a rapid-fire legislative agenda may not be compared to FDR’s first 100 days, the economy is re-surging, after the longest recovery in American history, Jobs are being created and we’re not borrowing trillions of dollars for ‘shovel-ready jobs’ which are not. That $Trillion ‘stimulus package” Obama borrowed from the Chinese () didn’t work (The Reason That Shovel Ready Stimulus Didn't Work Is That There Wasn't Any Stimulus), and he got us into deeper debt… record debt… more debt than he condemned his predecessor for.So, so far, so good.
How bad have the past 8 years of BUSH been for you?
First of all, you don't have any liberals in USA. You only have right wing, extreme right wing and screaming insane religious rightwing. The people you label as extreme left are considered moderately conservative in the civilized world. You really don't have any real conservatives either and the screaming insane religious rightwing calling themselves conservative is simply ludicrous. They are more like baby fascists than anything. The problems with Bush were his policies that favored a very small but very rich part of your population. Under Bush America saw 0 new jobs created. Now similar period of time since the 1930s ever saw less than 20 million new jobs created. He also let USA corporations form monopolies almost unrestricted. As well he almost singlehandedly created the housing bubble to enable government to borrow against a falsely inflated dollar. He had to do this because he refused to tax the rich to pay for the wars he gave them for free. Bush was a bigger disaster for USA than even Reagan was but you won't find out how bad he was for at least 20 years, more likely 40 years and maybe never. Bush has no intention of ever releasing his papers or memoirs publicly.
Why was everything that happened while Bush was president Bush's fault, but everything that happens now?
That depends on whether or not it's a good thing or a bad thing. If good then yes Obama gets credit, if bad, of course that's Bush's fault. Bottom line, you cannot win with liberals, because if it goes well, then they hog the glory, but if you side with them, and the issue goes south, then "Look, the Republicans agreed too." The best way to reach across the aisle when working with Democrat is to hand a subpoena.
Was George H.W. Bush a good President?
He was alright. His foreign policy was pretty good. He ended up appointing a pretty liberal justice to the Supreme Court so I like that. He was no doubt intelligent and thought carefully about what he was doing. There is no comparison between him and his son. One of HW's flaws was probably that he used his connections to allow George W. Bush to go up the ladder. Helping his son get into Yale and such. The American people may have been able to detect more of Jr.'s flaws if George H.W. Bush didn't help his son out so much.