The mainstream media and cable news are making a huge, very costly mistake again. They’re covering Defendant Trump’s legal troubles in the same way they covered his rallies in 2016 – wall-to-wall, every useless, repetitive moment he shows his spray-tanned face.
Someone pointed out to me in an email today that the NY Times ran a huge photo of Defendant Trump on the front page today alongside a two column hed above two columns covering his arraignment. They did the same kind of overkill in '16, at the time, because they thought they knew him so well as a local buffoon, they thought it was cute to drown him in coverage. I wonder what their excuse is now.
Money. Always and forever the bottom line...coverage of Trump pads the bottom line like no one else, apparently. Not that they would ever admit that, of course.
Yes, 100%. Also, stop these enormous motorcades. Secret service protection is required by law, but stop treating him as if he were indispensable to the nation -- it's the opposite.
I have to wonder, is this Secret Service protection immutable? Where is this authorized in law? Could Congress remove it? It would be fitting. (Not that I expect this Congress to do any such thing.)
Were there not an Electoral College, Trump would not ever have been President, and nobody now would spend even a single second thinking about him. The EC and Trump are the two biggest threats to our democracy.
yes, Richard, but those two phenomena are reversible. we're stuck with the EC. if the EC didn't have the winner-take-all bullshit in most states, it would, at very least, have SOME small chance of being, on some level, FAIR.
I don't think I agree about not televising the trial, on the basis that if it's NOT televised, it'll be pretty much THEORETICAL to the general public.
am I being too optimistic about the possibility that this sort of transparency will be able to change anybody's mind? very possibly.
as to the compulsive coverage of everything he does on a daily basis, I also hate it and want to see it GONE.
Sure David, I only meant to emphasize that before the EC gets into the process, the primaries already tend to weed out the less extreme candidates, or candidates simply less connected to the party establishment (Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020 perfect example of it), but I also share your ambivalence about televising the trial - I especially want to see every last segment that focuses on witness testimony and cross-examination:
In the words of John Henry Wigmore, cross-examination is “beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth.” 3 Wigmore, Evidence §1367, p. 27 (2d ed. 1923).
John Henry Wigmore (1863–1943) was an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his expertise in the law of evidence and for his influential scholarship. Wigmore taught law at Keio University in Tokyo (1889–1892) before becoming the first full-time dean of Northwestern Law School (1901–1929). His scholarship is best remembered for his Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (1904), often simply called Wigmore on Evidence, and a graphical analysis method known as a Wigmore chart. *****
Wigmore on Evidence
In 1904 Wigmore began publication of his most famous work, a treatise that would serve as an encyclopedic survey of the development of the law of evidence. This massive work, referred to as Wigmore on Evidence[26] or just Wigmore (see § Select works for edition titles), was the product of "10 years of monastic toil."[27] Over the course of the next forty years, the initial four-volume treatise would swell to ten volumes containing over 85,000 judicial citations.[25] Contemporary reviews would declare the "sun of Evidence does pretty much 'rise and set in Wigmore'".[28] Wigmore's peers called the Treatise "one of the greatest intellectual feats in law-writing of any age or any country."[23] US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter called the Treatise "unrivaled as the greatest treatise on any single subject of the law."[29]
Wigmore on Evidence was probably the most "heavily cited law text of its day"[14] and the dominant source of US evidentiary law up until the codification of the Federal Rules of Evidence in 1975.[2] Wigmore was a strong advocate of a standard Code of Evidence and participated in a 1938 effort by the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute to produce a Model Code. This Model Code later became a basis for the Uniform Rules of Evidence drafted in the 1950s which was then used to help draft the Federal Rules of Evidence.[30] Today the Federal Rules of Evidence have become the primary modern doctrinal basis for the law of evidence in US federal trials and serve as the basis on which many states have modeled their evidence rules.
I looked up this John Henry Wigmore. I don't know how he never got on the U.S. Supreme Court. He made Northwestern Law School a great school. After being Dean, he returned to teaching there until his 1943 death. So, I can reasonably assume that my great-uncle who went to NU Law in the 1930s (after Brown) was taught by him. My uncle became, after WW2 Army Field Artillery duty, the Federal District Attorney for Northern Illinois, appointed by Truman and re-appointed by Eisenhower. I'm sure his Wigmore training helped his career.
I don't think I'd have a problem with televised trial coverage if the cameras and commentary focused on the facts, the witness testimony and the real consequences of Trump's attempted coup. What I absolutely despise is the cameras focusing on Trump's theatrics.
I've waited long enough to post this rant. As the great Fred Friendly once told me, "Ed Murrow is dead. Get used to it." That was more than thirty years ago. Today the admonition would be that most news journalism is dead, you ought to be used to it by now. And so is my faith in anything that resembles the progressive wing of the Democratic Party fighting back against this ghastly trend. The micro-aggression hand-wringers at NBC aren't worth the journalism degrees and combat coverage experience they all lack. To them, the forebears of the party are hippies sliding in the mud at Woodstock, not the Lincoln Brigaders buried in the mud of the Jarama Valley or three boys buried in the mud of a Philadelphia, Mississippi dam. If Democrats don't wake up, this is going to be Weimar II, with the minority presiding over the end of liberty. I will be there fighting against that right here, not in Canada where the cowards threaten to relocate. But I get the feeling it's going to be a lonely experience. And that more than saddens me, as 70% of Republicans claim that Defendant Trump won re-election. It pisses me off that I hear little in rebuttal but snarky New Yorker cartoons. Wake TF Up.
Viva La Quinta Brigada ****** WHOA!!!!, what a charged crowd sing along on this one - I was looking for the older ballad in Spanish w/ English translation in Songs That Changed The World *****
They are far worse, here ya go, I have posted this before, we can discuss its merits or failure to do the job, but by all means, please read this and consider the moral implications being explored:
Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none
Reading is your choice. But if EVERY mainstream air outlet follows him moment by moment, then he achieves his goal. Sometimes turning away from MSNBC clears the fetid Trumpian air. Truth: I’m nuts about Rachel Maddow, Nicole Wallace, Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhl...BUT if coverage starts with the bloviating windbag, TV goes off.
I think "we" as in US," will transit after death to another plane, IF the " After all, it is no more astounding to be born twice than it is to be born once!" and similar considerations apply, maybe. Don't recall the source of that quote, or any past lives either, not trying to peddle some version of Bridey Murphy,* no way Jose.
If not, "we" shall be none the wiser, so there's that!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridey_Murphy In 1952, Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein put housewife Virginia Tighe of Pueblo, Colorado, in a trance that sparked off startling revelations about Tighe's alleged past life as a 19th-century Irishwoman.[3] Bernstein used a technique called hypnotic regression, during which the subject is gradually taken back to childhood. He then attempted to take Virginia one step further, before birth, and was astonished to find he was listening to Bridey Murphy.
Tighe's tale began in 1806, when Bridey was eight years old and living in a house in Cork. She was the daughter of Duncan Murphy, a barrister, and his wife Kathleen. At the age of 17 (c. 1815), she married barrister Sean Brian McCarthy, who she claimed taught at Queen's University Belfast, to which she moved. Tighe told of a fall that caused Bridey's death c. 1864, and of watching her own funeral, describing her tombstone and the state of being in life after death. It was, she recalled, a feeling of neither pain nor happiness.
Somehow, she was reborn in America 59 years later (in 1923), although Tighe/Bridey was not clear how this event happened. Tighe herself was born as Virginia Mae Reese in the Midwest in 1923, had never been to Ireland, and did not speak with even the slightest hint of an Irish accent. Murphy, however, spoke with a heavy brogue and used Irish expressions (some of which were not actually used in the 19th century).[3]
Book publication and response
Hypnotist Morey Bernstein with Virginia Tighe
The story of Bridey Murphy was first told in a series of articles by William J. Barker, published in the Denver Post in 1954.[4] In early 1956, Doubleday released a book by Bernstein, The Search for Bridey Murphy. Film rights had already been sold by the time of its publication (see below).[5] At her insistence, Tighe was given the pseudonym "Ruth Mills Simmons".
The Bridey Murphy craze
The best-selling book created a sensation; people would throw Bridey Murphy-themed "come as you were" parties and dances, and jokes abounded, such as cartoons of parents greeting newborns with "welcome back!"[4][6]
Popular songs of the time included "The Ballad of Bridey Murphy" by Fran Allison, "The Love of Bridey Murphy" by Billy Devroe's Devilaires, and "Do You Believe (In Reincarnation)" by Lalo Guerrero. There was a "Reincarnation cocktail".[a]
Stan Freberg recorded a satirical sketch in 1956 titled "The Quest For Bridey Hammerschlaugen", based on the LP containing excerpts of the actual first hypnosis session.[8] Freberg hypnotizes Goldie Smith (voiced by June Foray) to regress her to different eras, with humorous interruptions by Smith. At the end, Smith hypnotizes Freberg, who becomes Davy Crockett. When Smith mocks him for not being able to profit on the recent Davy Crockett craze, Freberg says that in his next life, he "may be Walt Disney."[9]
The past-life themed 1956 film I've Lived Before is said to have been inspired by the craze.[10]
Research challenging the story
The biographical details related by Bridey were not rigorously checked before the book's publication. However, once the book had become a bestseller, almost every detail was thoroughly checked by reporters who were sent to Ireland to track down the background of the elusive woman. It was then that the first doubts about her "reincarnation" began to appear.[11] Bridey said she was born on December 20, 1798, in Cork and that she had died in 1864. No record was found of either event.[12] Also, no evidence could be found of a wooden house called The Meadows, in which Bridey said she had lived, just of a place of that name near Cork. Additionally, during the 19th century, most houses in Ireland were made of brick or stone. Bridey pronounced her husband's name as "See-an", although Seán is typically pronounced "Shawn", especially in Ireland. Queen's University Belfast did not exist at the time Bridey claimed her husband was working there. Brian, which is what Bridey preferred to call her husband, was also the middle name of the man to whom Virginia Tighe was married. Tighe claimed Bridey went to a St. Theresa's Church, which did indeed exist, but it was not built until 1911, long after Bridey was said to have died.[citation needed]
Some of the details provided by Tighe proved to be more authentic. For example, her descriptions of the Antrim coastline were very accurate, as was her account of a journey from Belfast to Cork. She recounted that the young Bridey shopped for provisions with a grocer named Farr; it was discovered that such a grocer had existed, although this may simply have been a coincidence.[citation needed]
Some researchers came to the conclusion that the best way to discover the truth was to check back not to Ireland but rather to Tighe's own childhood and her relationship with her parents. Morey Bernstein stated that Tighe/Simmons was brought up by a Norwegian uncle and his German-Scottish-Irish wife. However, he did not mention that her birth parents were both partly Irish, and that she had lived with them until the age of three. He also did not mention that an Irish immigrant named Bridie Murphy Corkell (1892–1957) lived across the street from Tighe's childhood home in Chicago, Illinois.[13][14][15] Bridie immigrated to the U.S. in 1908. Although Tighe claimed that she did not know Mrs. Corkell's maiden name, Bridie's spinster sister Margaret Murphy was living with the Corkells in the 1930 census.[13] Researchers noted that many of the elements Virginia Tighe described in Bridey's life corresponded to ones in her own childhood.[16] Similarly, Tighe had used an Irish brogue in theatrical plays as a teenager.[3] Cryptomnesia has been frequently mentioned as an explanation for Tighe's memories.[17][18][19] Because of correlations with Tighe's past life and discrepancies with the Ireland of the Bridey Murphy story's time, writers such as Michael Shermer consider any paranormal interpretation of the case to be "thoroughly disproven".[20]
Mistake? Think about the American oligarchs who own these once seemingly independent media platforms, who benefit from the tax breaks for the rich, who are a cynical bunch - they have to be, because there is nothing left hidden about the fat orange bastard who has wrecked America. Nothing. How you can read about the plan was to unleash hell on ordinary Americans if all else failed and not hammer that point 24/7. And the New York Times with a giant headline -- Trump Election Charges Set Up Clash of Lies vs Free Speech.. WTF is that? As Jeff Tiedrich says, 'there are not two sides, don't play these games, do your fucking job'.
I keep reading columns by journalists who are hardly fans of the man, Dan Rather, Robert Reich and more and they all keep running the same scenario of the inevitability of his return to the presidency. You think that's helpful? That is just discouraging, disheartening, it makes me want to vomit.
No one (except Lucian, Tiedrich and a very few others) are covering this responsibly.
It's honestly goddamn pathetic to be either (1) that demoralized and contagiously so, as they retain some influence or (2) so clueless, so tone deaf to the vibes, as we used to say in the sixties, and since then as well. The moment requires resistance, it ALWAYS requires some resistance in some form, but now...jeezus, who can find the words?
What the fork is going on with these people, do they think this is some kind of tv celebrity game show?!
Q1 - Why does a former president deserve a 20 car motorcade? Q2 - Why does any Trump motorcade deserve the OJ white bronco treatment. The answers - he doesn't and it shouldn't. But the corporate media needs to keep him relatively normalized to preserve the horse race. It's the only story they know how to tell, even when it doesn't apply.
More verification for the column's thesis (I maneuvered with the TCL Roku remote through the evening news at lightning blitz chess speed for this) - NBC News with GARRETT HAKE reporting, plenty of Trump photos, zero pushback to Trump's "defenses" to various charges; ABC News with PIERRE THOMAS reporting: same thing, Trump gets ample photos, his blustering texts are shown across the screen, NO counter-arguments presented, just some lame ABC poll which shows 46% of those polled believe the charges are "politically motivated," NO explication of the polling sample size, etc.; CBS News with John Dickerson hosting, same thing, NO spokesperson to counter Trump, and on one of the networks (this really was "blitz speed" w/ remote w/ no numerals, gimme a break for not recalling which!) Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy allowed to bloviate the same claims, "It's all political, weaponizing the legal system" or some such hypocritical bilge.
And as Lucian emphasizes so well, we can expect MONTHS AND MONTHS OF THIS TRAVESTY OF JOURNALISTIC ETHICS, I have even moved the inversion table into this main room of the apt. to save time using that for relaxation and a good deep stretch for neck and back, damn it!
ENERGIZING MUSIC ALWAYS HELPS TOO, just be ready to "SKIP ADS" -irony strikes again!
Any coverage of Trump is odious, but I don’t think the “free coverage” this time will be beneficial to him. It’s not his rallies that are being covered, it’s trials, where a lot of nasty stuff is going to come out. And if the trial is broadcast maybe voters will see what a complete loser he is.
If/when one listens to any broadcast or cable news show long enough he will be called President Trump multiple times. There should be a jar on the table in plain view to deposit a $100 bill for those who refer to Donald Trump as President Trump.
Have randomly counted the times they have while in the same day refer to President Biden as Biden. The former hasn't been president for >900 and the latter continue to be the one and only president for >900 days.
Note: You remain too generous to the media, my Brother and Friend. The focus has gone from being informative and objective supplemented by investigative reporting, thoughtful analysis and commentary while holding to journalistic standards to whatever the phuck passes for the media (all platforms) today. Didn't start with Trump nor in this century.
Absolutely spot on! It is maddening to me that these 'news' shows haven't learned their lesson--they enabled him and continue to do so. I don't give a flying F* about the orange menace traveling to his indictment or the news cameras outside the courthouse. Give me a break!
Bingo, Lucian! You are totally correct that the networks, or at least the two that provide cogent news, are being played again. What was that old saying that dubya bungled years ago about blame?
Someone pointed out to me in an email today that the NY Times ran a huge photo of Defendant Trump on the front page today alongside a two column hed above two columns covering his arraignment. They did the same kind of overkill in '16, at the time, because they thought they knew him so well as a local buffoon, they thought it was cute to drown him in coverage. I wonder what their excuse is now.
Money. Always and forever the bottom line...coverage of Trump pads the bottom line like no one else, apparently. Not that they would ever admit that, of course.
Yes, 100%. Also, stop these enormous motorcades. Secret service protection is required by law, but stop treating him as if he were indispensable to the nation -- it's the opposite.
I have to wonder, is this Secret Service protection immutable? Where is this authorized in law? Could Congress remove it? It would be fitting. (Not that I expect this Congress to do any such thing.)
Were there not an Electoral College, Trump would not ever have been President, and nobody now would spend even a single second thinking about him. The EC and Trump are the two biggest threats to our democracy.
With winner-take-all primaries and the Citizens United decision in the mix too, yes.
yes, Richard, but those two phenomena are reversible. we're stuck with the EC. if the EC didn't have the winner-take-all bullshit in most states, it would, at very least, have SOME small chance of being, on some level, FAIR.
I don't think I agree about not televising the trial, on the basis that if it's NOT televised, it'll be pretty much THEORETICAL to the general public.
am I being too optimistic about the possibility that this sort of transparency will be able to change anybody's mind? very possibly.
as to the compulsive coverage of everything he does on a daily basis, I also hate it and want to see it GONE.
Sure David, I only meant to emphasize that before the EC gets into the process, the primaries already tend to weed out the less extreme candidates, or candidates simply less connected to the party establishment (Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020 perfect example of it), but I also share your ambivalence about televising the trial - I especially want to see every last segment that focuses on witness testimony and cross-examination:
In the words of John Henry Wigmore, cross-examination is “beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth.” 3 Wigmore, Evidence §1367, p. 27 (2d ed. 1923).
John Henry Wigmore (1863–1943) was an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his expertise in the law of evidence and for his influential scholarship. Wigmore taught law at Keio University in Tokyo (1889–1892) before becoming the first full-time dean of Northwestern Law School (1901–1929). His scholarship is best remembered for his Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (1904), often simply called Wigmore on Evidence, and a graphical analysis method known as a Wigmore chart. *****
Wigmore on Evidence
In 1904 Wigmore began publication of his most famous work, a treatise that would serve as an encyclopedic survey of the development of the law of evidence. This massive work, referred to as Wigmore on Evidence[26] or just Wigmore (see § Select works for edition titles), was the product of "10 years of monastic toil."[27] Over the course of the next forty years, the initial four-volume treatise would swell to ten volumes containing over 85,000 judicial citations.[25] Contemporary reviews would declare the "sun of Evidence does pretty much 'rise and set in Wigmore'".[28] Wigmore's peers called the Treatise "one of the greatest intellectual feats in law-writing of any age or any country."[23] US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter called the Treatise "unrivaled as the greatest treatise on any single subject of the law."[29]
Wigmore on Evidence was probably the most "heavily cited law text of its day"[14] and the dominant source of US evidentiary law up until the codification of the Federal Rules of Evidence in 1975.[2] Wigmore was a strong advocate of a standard Code of Evidence and participated in a 1938 effort by the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute to produce a Model Code. This Model Code later became a basis for the Uniform Rules of Evidence drafted in the 1950s which was then used to help draft the Federal Rules of Evidence.[30] Today the Federal Rules of Evidence have become the primary modern doctrinal basis for the law of evidence in US federal trials and serve as the basis on which many states have modeled their evidence rules.
I looked up this John Henry Wigmore. I don't know how he never got on the U.S. Supreme Court. He made Northwestern Law School a great school. After being Dean, he returned to teaching there until his 1943 death. So, I can reasonably assume that my great-uncle who went to NU Law in the 1930s (after Brown) was taught by him. My uncle became, after WW2 Army Field Artillery duty, the Federal District Attorney for Northern Illinois, appointed by Truman and re-appointed by Eisenhower. I'm sure his Wigmore training helped his career.
I don't think I'd have a problem with televised trial coverage if the cameras and commentary focused on the facts, the witness testimony and the real consequences of Trump's attempted coup. What I absolutely despise is the cameras focusing on Trump's theatrics.
I've waited long enough to post this rant. As the great Fred Friendly once told me, "Ed Murrow is dead. Get used to it." That was more than thirty years ago. Today the admonition would be that most news journalism is dead, you ought to be used to it by now. And so is my faith in anything that resembles the progressive wing of the Democratic Party fighting back against this ghastly trend. The micro-aggression hand-wringers at NBC aren't worth the journalism degrees and combat coverage experience they all lack. To them, the forebears of the party are hippies sliding in the mud at Woodstock, not the Lincoln Brigaders buried in the mud of the Jarama Valley or three boys buried in the mud of a Philadelphia, Mississippi dam. If Democrats don't wake up, this is going to be Weimar II, with the minority presiding over the end of liberty. I will be there fighting against that right here, not in Canada where the cowards threaten to relocate. But I get the feeling it's going to be a lonely experience. And that more than saddens me, as 70% of Republicans claim that Defendant Trump won re-election. It pisses me off that I hear little in rebuttal but snarky New Yorker cartoons. Wake TF Up.
Viva La Quinta Brigada ****** WHOA!!!!, what a charged crowd sing along on this one - I was looking for the older ballad in Spanish w/ English translation in Songs That Changed The World *****
youtube.com/watch?v=xQbXO828Vio
Christy Moore - Viva la Quinta Brigada. Live at Barrowland Glasgow
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Around the time I saw the light of morning
A comradeship of heroes was laid
From every corner of the world came sailing
The Fifty International Brigade.
They came to stand beside the Spanish people
To try and stem the rising fascist tide
Franco's allies were the powerful and wealthy
Frank Ryan's men came from the other side.
Even the olives were bleeding
As the battle for Madrid it thundered on
Truth and love against the force of evil
Brotherhood against the fascist clan.
Chorus:
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
No Pasaran, the pledge that made them fight
Adelante was the cry around the hillside
Let us all remember them tonight.
Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor
Form Killarney across the Pyrenees he came
From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother
And side by side they fought and died in Spain.
Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba
With Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun
From Dublin to the Villa del Rio
He fought and died beneath the Spanish sun.
(Chorus)
Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco
Joined Hitler and Mussolini too
Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers
Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew.
The call came from Maynooth, "support the facists"
The men of cloth had failed yet again
When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire
As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain.
(Chorus)
This song is a tribute to Frank Ryan
Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too
Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar
Though many died I can but name a few.
Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnelly
Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls
Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy
Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill.
(Chorus repeated)
Hear~Hear
Note: You are not alone.
If I was on my iPad I would be able use the clapping emoji , multiple times I would. I couldn't agree with you more. Wake TF Up alright.
I'm with you Charlie.
trump is a master @manipulating media to his advantage—media plays into his hand, for ratings ONLY, it seems pretty apparent
media players are nearly as bad as Trump himself
They are far worse, here ya go, I have posted this before, we can discuss its merits or failure to do the job, but by all means, please read this and consider the moral implications being explored:
Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow:
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Beautiful.
As a nation we need more visible models of integrity for children to aspire to.
Nice! Wasn't some of this (the last couplet) also used in a play? Macbeth or Hamlet maybe?
The rest of us are so sick of Trump. Will I have to read about him for the rest of my life!?!
Reading is your choice. But if EVERY mainstream air outlet follows him moment by moment, then he achieves his goal. Sometimes turning away from MSNBC clears the fetid Trumpian air. Truth: I’m nuts about Rachel Maddow, Nicole Wallace, Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhl...BUT if coverage starts with the bloviating windbag, TV goes off.
The only news station I watch.
I start screaming at it and ff until his face is gone.
There will be fewer of "us" when he is president, AGAIN!
I think "we" as in US," will transit after death to another plane, IF the " After all, it is no more astounding to be born twice than it is to be born once!" and similar considerations apply, maybe. Don't recall the source of that quote, or any past lives either, not trying to peddle some version of Bridey Murphy,* no way Jose.
If not, "we" shall be none the wiser, so there's that!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridey_Murphy In 1952, Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein put housewife Virginia Tighe of Pueblo, Colorado, in a trance that sparked off startling revelations about Tighe's alleged past life as a 19th-century Irishwoman.[3] Bernstein used a technique called hypnotic regression, during which the subject is gradually taken back to childhood. He then attempted to take Virginia one step further, before birth, and was astonished to find he was listening to Bridey Murphy.
Tighe's tale began in 1806, when Bridey was eight years old and living in a house in Cork. She was the daughter of Duncan Murphy, a barrister, and his wife Kathleen. At the age of 17 (c. 1815), she married barrister Sean Brian McCarthy, who she claimed taught at Queen's University Belfast, to which she moved. Tighe told of a fall that caused Bridey's death c. 1864, and of watching her own funeral, describing her tombstone and the state of being in life after death. It was, she recalled, a feeling of neither pain nor happiness.
Somehow, she was reborn in America 59 years later (in 1923), although Tighe/Bridey was not clear how this event happened. Tighe herself was born as Virginia Mae Reese in the Midwest in 1923, had never been to Ireland, and did not speak with even the slightest hint of an Irish accent. Murphy, however, spoke with a heavy brogue and used Irish expressions (some of which were not actually used in the 19th century).[3]
Book publication and response
Hypnotist Morey Bernstein with Virginia Tighe
The story of Bridey Murphy was first told in a series of articles by William J. Barker, published in the Denver Post in 1954.[4] In early 1956, Doubleday released a book by Bernstein, The Search for Bridey Murphy. Film rights had already been sold by the time of its publication (see below).[5] At her insistence, Tighe was given the pseudonym "Ruth Mills Simmons".
The Bridey Murphy craze
The best-selling book created a sensation; people would throw Bridey Murphy-themed "come as you were" parties and dances, and jokes abounded, such as cartoons of parents greeting newborns with "welcome back!"[4][6]
Popular songs of the time included "The Ballad of Bridey Murphy" by Fran Allison, "The Love of Bridey Murphy" by Billy Devroe's Devilaires, and "Do You Believe (In Reincarnation)" by Lalo Guerrero. There was a "Reincarnation cocktail".[a]
Stan Freberg recorded a satirical sketch in 1956 titled "The Quest For Bridey Hammerschlaugen", based on the LP containing excerpts of the actual first hypnosis session.[8] Freberg hypnotizes Goldie Smith (voiced by June Foray) to regress her to different eras, with humorous interruptions by Smith. At the end, Smith hypnotizes Freberg, who becomes Davy Crockett. When Smith mocks him for not being able to profit on the recent Davy Crockett craze, Freberg says that in his next life, he "may be Walt Disney."[9]
The past-life themed 1956 film I've Lived Before is said to have been inspired by the craze.[10]
Research challenging the story
The biographical details related by Bridey were not rigorously checked before the book's publication. However, once the book had become a bestseller, almost every detail was thoroughly checked by reporters who were sent to Ireland to track down the background of the elusive woman. It was then that the first doubts about her "reincarnation" began to appear.[11] Bridey said she was born on December 20, 1798, in Cork and that she had died in 1864. No record was found of either event.[12] Also, no evidence could be found of a wooden house called The Meadows, in which Bridey said she had lived, just of a place of that name near Cork. Additionally, during the 19th century, most houses in Ireland were made of brick or stone. Bridey pronounced her husband's name as "See-an", although Seán is typically pronounced "Shawn", especially in Ireland. Queen's University Belfast did not exist at the time Bridey claimed her husband was working there. Brian, which is what Bridey preferred to call her husband, was also the middle name of the man to whom Virginia Tighe was married. Tighe claimed Bridey went to a St. Theresa's Church, which did indeed exist, but it was not built until 1911, long after Bridey was said to have died.[citation needed]
Some of the details provided by Tighe proved to be more authentic. For example, her descriptions of the Antrim coastline were very accurate, as was her account of a journey from Belfast to Cork. She recounted that the young Bridey shopped for provisions with a grocer named Farr; it was discovered that such a grocer had existed, although this may simply have been a coincidence.[citation needed]
Some researchers came to the conclusion that the best way to discover the truth was to check back not to Ireland but rather to Tighe's own childhood and her relationship with her parents. Morey Bernstein stated that Tighe/Simmons was brought up by a Norwegian uncle and his German-Scottish-Irish wife. However, he did not mention that her birth parents were both partly Irish, and that she had lived with them until the age of three. He also did not mention that an Irish immigrant named Bridie Murphy Corkell (1892–1957) lived across the street from Tighe's childhood home in Chicago, Illinois.[13][14][15] Bridie immigrated to the U.S. in 1908. Although Tighe claimed that she did not know Mrs. Corkell's maiden name, Bridie's spinster sister Margaret Murphy was living with the Corkells in the 1930 census.[13] Researchers noted that many of the elements Virginia Tighe described in Bridey's life corresponded to ones in her own childhood.[16] Similarly, Tighe had used an Irish brogue in theatrical plays as a teenager.[3] Cryptomnesia has been frequently mentioned as an explanation for Tighe's memories.[17][18][19] Because of correlations with Tighe's past life and discrepancies with the Ireland of the Bridey Murphy story's time, writers such as Michael Shermer consider any paranormal interpretation of the case to be "thoroughly disproven".[20]
Mistake? Think about the American oligarchs who own these once seemingly independent media platforms, who benefit from the tax breaks for the rich, who are a cynical bunch - they have to be, because there is nothing left hidden about the fat orange bastard who has wrecked America. Nothing. How you can read about the plan was to unleash hell on ordinary Americans if all else failed and not hammer that point 24/7. And the New York Times with a giant headline -- Trump Election Charges Set Up Clash of Lies vs Free Speech.. WTF is that? As Jeff Tiedrich says, 'there are not two sides, don't play these games, do your fucking job'.
I keep reading columns by journalists who are hardly fans of the man, Dan Rather, Robert Reich and more and they all keep running the same scenario of the inevitability of his return to the presidency. You think that's helpful? That is just discouraging, disheartening, it makes me want to vomit.
No one (except Lucian, Tiedrich and a very few others) are covering this responsibly.
It's honestly goddamn pathetic to be either (1) that demoralized and contagiously so, as they retain some influence or (2) so clueless, so tone deaf to the vibes, as we used to say in the sixties, and since then as well. The moment requires resistance, it ALWAYS requires some resistance in some form, but now...jeezus, who can find the words?
What the fork is going on with these people, do they think this is some kind of tv celebrity game show?!
Here, here!
Q1 - Why does a former president deserve a 20 car motorcade? Q2 - Why does any Trump motorcade deserve the OJ white bronco treatment. The answers - he doesn't and it shouldn't. But the corporate media needs to keep him relatively normalized to preserve the horse race. It's the only story they know how to tell, even when it doesn't apply.
More verification for the column's thesis (I maneuvered with the TCL Roku remote through the evening news at lightning blitz chess speed for this) - NBC News with GARRETT HAKE reporting, plenty of Trump photos, zero pushback to Trump's "defenses" to various charges; ABC News with PIERRE THOMAS reporting: same thing, Trump gets ample photos, his blustering texts are shown across the screen, NO counter-arguments presented, just some lame ABC poll which shows 46% of those polled believe the charges are "politically motivated," NO explication of the polling sample size, etc.; CBS News with John Dickerson hosting, same thing, NO spokesperson to counter Trump, and on one of the networks (this really was "blitz speed" w/ remote w/ no numerals, gimme a break for not recalling which!) Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy allowed to bloviate the same claims, "It's all political, weaponizing the legal system" or some such hypocritical bilge.
And as Lucian emphasizes so well, we can expect MONTHS AND MONTHS OF THIS TRAVESTY OF JOURNALISTIC ETHICS, I have even moved the inversion table into this main room of the apt. to save time using that for relaxation and a good deep stretch for neck and back, damn it!
ENERGIZING MUSIC ALWAYS HELPS TOO, just be ready to "SKIP ADS" -irony strikes again!
VAN MORRISON - WAVELENGTH - 6/18/1980 - MONTREUX
youtube.com/watch?v=l6oZK004AWM
You hit the nail on the head again, Lucian. I find it utterly sickening what the media is doing!!
Any coverage of Trump is odious, but I don’t think the “free coverage” this time will be beneficial to him. It’s not his rallies that are being covered, it’s trials, where a lot of nasty stuff is going to come out. And if the trial is broadcast maybe voters will see what a complete loser he is.
Steve Schmidt on the motorcade theater, and treating Trump as if he were a head of state, instead of a criminal defendant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYWP9NgAsOk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIhY8Uv-6LY
Preach!
If/when one listens to any broadcast or cable news show long enough he will be called President Trump multiple times. There should be a jar on the table in plain view to deposit a $100 bill for those who refer to Donald Trump as President Trump.
Have randomly counted the times they have while in the same day refer to President Biden as Biden. The former hasn't been president for >900 and the latter continue to be the one and only president for >900 days.
Note: You remain too generous to the media, my Brother and Friend. The focus has gone from being informative and objective supplemented by investigative reporting, thoughtful analysis and commentary while holding to journalistic standards to whatever the phuck passes for the media (all platforms) today. Didn't start with Trump nor in this century.
I weep for this land and her people.
Absolutely spot on! It is maddening to me that these 'news' shows haven't learned their lesson--they enabled him and continue to do so. I don't give a flying F* about the orange menace traveling to his indictment or the news cameras outside the courthouse. Give me a break!
Bingo, Lucian! You are totally correct that the networks, or at least the two that provide cogent news, are being played again. What was that old saying that dubya bungled years ago about blame?
Fool me once...than throw me off the cliff! Thank you
HA! Sounds about right!