The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.
That was a tag I repeatedly used on my blog between 2008 through 2016.
There was a huge, permanent homeless encampment in Fresno that was never reported on between 2008-2016.
But elect a Republican and - voila!!! - the Homeless are rediscovered.
The AP article notes that the phenomenon is due to high rents in urban areas, but it doesn't mention rent control.
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Sunday, November 12, 2017
Friday, May 26, 2017
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...
...even after they leave office.
//On Wednesday, investigative news site Circa News broke a blockbuster story about illegal spying during the Obama years. So far, only Fox News and a handful of conservative websites have covered the bombshell news. According to Newsbusters, the big three networks -- ABC, CBS, and NBC -- have completely omitted the story from their evening broadcasts. So have the Washington Post, the New York Times, and every other major mainstream media outlet. They've opted instead to cover RussiaGate fodder that continues to bear little fruit and negative news about Donald Trump.
"Trump shoved someone in Brussels today!" every mainstream media news outlet in America reported ad nauseam on Thursday.
In their report, Circa revealed that "the National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall."
“More than one in 20 internet searches conducted by the National Security Agency, involving Americans, during the Obama administration violated constitutional privacy protections,” Fox News’ Bret Baier reported near the top of Special Report Wednesday evening. “And that practice went on for years. Not only that, but the Obama administration was harshly rebuked by the FISA court for doing it.”//
...even after they leave office.
//On Wednesday, investigative news site Circa News broke a blockbuster story about illegal spying during the Obama years. So far, only Fox News and a handful of conservative websites have covered the bombshell news. According to Newsbusters, the big three networks -- ABC, CBS, and NBC -- have completely omitted the story from their evening broadcasts. So have the Washington Post, the New York Times, and every other major mainstream media outlet. They've opted instead to cover RussiaGate fodder that continues to bear little fruit and negative news about Donald Trump.
"Trump shoved someone in Brussels today!" every mainstream media news outlet in America reported ad nauseam on Thursday.
In their report, Circa revealed that "the National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall."
“More than one in 20 internet searches conducted by the National Security Agency, involving Americans, during the Obama administration violated constitutional privacy protections,” Fox News’ Bret Baier reported near the top of Special Report Wednesday evening. “And that practice went on for years. Not only that, but the Obama administration was harshly rebuked by the FISA court for doing it.”//
Thursday, May 25, 2017
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...
...but when a Republican is in the White House, there is always bad news.
CBS News reports that improving economy may lead to more traffic fatalities.
...but when a Republican is in the White House, there is always bad news.
CBS News reports that improving economy may lead to more traffic fatalities.
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...
...until it happens UNEXPECTEDLY!!!
Circumstances can be sneaky bastids.
//In an interview on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, President Obama accepted some blame for the decimation of the Democratic Party during his tenure in office.
Stephanopoulos said that the Democratic Party got pretty “hollowed out” during the last eight years with the loss of about 1,000 seats in Congress, the Senate, governorships and state legislatures. He asked Obama if that was his fault.
“I take some responsibility for that,” Obama said. “I think that some of it was circumstances.”
He said that those circumstances included taking office in the middle of the financial crisis, low housing prices and high unemployment, which meant that the party in power would take a hit. Obama added that his busy schedule also contributed to the party’s losses, as he couldn’t be both the chief organizer of the Democratic Party and Commander-in-Chief. He said that what needs to happen over the long haul is to “rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.”
What Obama failed to mention is that his policies—particularly Obamacare—were the main reasons that the Democratic Party lost so much ground during his tenure, as voters revolted against higher taxes, increased regulation and the loss of personal liberties that Obama and the Democrats were responsible for.//
...until it happens UNEXPECTEDLY!!!
Circumstances can be sneaky bastids.
//In an interview on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, President Obama accepted some blame for the decimation of the Democratic Party during his tenure in office.
Stephanopoulos said that the Democratic Party got pretty “hollowed out” during the last eight years with the loss of about 1,000 seats in Congress, the Senate, governorships and state legislatures. He asked Obama if that was his fault.
“I take some responsibility for that,” Obama said. “I think that some of it was circumstances.”
He said that those circumstances included taking office in the middle of the financial crisis, low housing prices and high unemployment, which meant that the party in power would take a hit. Obama added that his busy schedule also contributed to the party’s losses, as he couldn’t be both the chief organizer of the Democratic Party and Commander-in-Chief. He said that what needs to happen over the long haul is to “rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.”
What Obama failed to mention is that his policies—particularly Obamacare—were the main reasons that the Democratic Party lost so much ground during his tenure, as voters revolted against higher taxes, increased regulation and the loss of personal liberties that Obama and the Democrats were responsible for.//
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.
But when a Republican is in the White House it's always bad news.
The NYT returns to work.
But when a Republican is in the White House it's always bad news.
The NYT returns to work.
Friday, December 09, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.....the Return of the Homeless.
So, in time for Trump's inauguration, the Boston Globe is running a series on .....homelessness.
It's nice to see the media return to work.
So, in time for Trump's inauguration, the Boston Globe is running a series on .....homelessness.
It's nice to see the media return to work.
Thursday, December 08, 2016
It is has become impossible to parody the left.
Do they not understand that they are the punchline of a joke.
Homelessness has not been mentioned for eight years, which is why I've replaced my tag line "The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news" with "The Return of the Homeless."
And here comes Mother Jones to prove me right.
Do they not understand that they are the punchline of a joke.
Homelessness has not been mentioned for eight years, which is why I've replaced my tag line "The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news" with "The Return of the Homeless."
And here comes Mother Jones to prove me right.
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...
...but now the media has to go back to work.
It turns out that there is bad economic news after all.
//Now they tell us.
A new report on the economy finds that productivity growth is at a 50-year low and that much of the positive talk about the nation's financial situation in the last election, much of it coming from the administration, was a lie.
The report from the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and Gallup finds that for many, the economy is in reverse despite claims that there is an active recovery ongoing, complete with new jobs.//
I blame George Bush.
...but now the media has to go back to work.
It turns out that there is bad economic news after all.
//Now they tell us.
A new report on the economy finds that productivity growth is at a 50-year low and that much of the positive talk about the nation's financial situation in the last election, much of it coming from the administration, was a lie.
The report from the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and Gallup finds that for many, the economy is in reverse despite claims that there is an active recovery ongoing, complete with new jobs.//
I blame George Bush.
Monday, December 05, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.
We are about to start hearing about unemployment again.
You can see the media begin to tee up the new trope.
It seems that the "record low unemployment rate" may not be as good as it sounds because of "labor force participation."
We are about to start hearing about unemployment again.
You can see the media begin to tee up the new trope.
It seems that the "record low unemployment rate" may not be as good as it sounds because of "labor force participation."
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
The leftist media is beyond mere mortal ability to parody.
NBC breathlessly reports:
//As Trump Leaves Press Behind for Steak Dinner, Incoming Admin Already Showing Lack of Transparency by ALEXANDRA JAFFE and ALI VITALI
a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going.
The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media.
The only way the press eventually ascertained his whereabouts was after a Bloomberg reporter, who happened to be dining at the 21 Club, tweeted a photo of Trump and some of his transition team in the Midtown steakhouse.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks later told NBC News. "He is having dinner with his family."
Wife Melania, daughter Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump were all at the restaurant.//
My plan about having the media go to work again seems be bearing fruit.
I need a countermeme for my "The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news."
Suggestions?
NBC breathlessly reports:
//As Trump Leaves Press Behind for Steak Dinner, Incoming Admin Already Showing Lack of Transparency by ALEXANDRA JAFFE and ALI VITALI
a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going.
The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media.
The only way the press eventually ascertained his whereabouts was after a Bloomberg reporter, who happened to be dining at the 21 Club, tweeted a photo of Trump and some of his transition team in the Midtown steakhouse.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks later told NBC News. "He is having dinner with his family."
Wife Melania, daughter Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump were all at the restaurant.//
My plan about having the media go to work again seems be bearing fruit.
I need a countermeme for my "The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news."
Suggestions?
Monday, November 14, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.
With the media reporting to work after its eight years of vacationing from history, I wonder how long it will take for us to hear about the suffering of the elderly and homeless?
With the media reporting to work after its eight years of vacationing from history, I wonder how long it will take for us to hear about the suffering of the elderly and homeless?
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.
So, with Obama about to leave office, appropriate for the controlled-media to start hinting that there is bad news that can't be ignored.
"With premiums expected to increase by twenty-five percent next year, even the New York Times has come to accept that the Obamacare is a costly and inefficient mess."
So, with Obama about to leave office, appropriate for the controlled-media to start hinting that there is bad news that can't be ignored.
"With premiums expected to increase by twenty-five percent next year, even the New York Times has come to accept that the Obamacare is a costly and inefficient mess."
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....
...but there can be "interesting" and "unexpected" news.
//The anchors of CBS This Morning expressed bewilderment on Tuesday at the sharp premium hikes in Obamacare insurance plans, with one asking for an understanding for “why this is happening.”
When Obamacare open enrollment begins in 2017, the cost of mid-level plans will rise by an average of 25 percent in the 39 states served by the federal online exchanges. In addition, major providers like Humana, UnitedHealth, and Aetna have scaled back or dropped out of the Obamacare exchanges, leaving roughly 20 percent of consumers with only one insurer to choose from.
After Charlie Rose read out the report, Norah O’Donnell said, “We need a bigger understanding of why this is happening.”
“We sure do,” Rose said.
“Because the idea was not only to spread coverage around, but that by spreading the coverage around, not only would it help people get more preventative care, but then it would ultimately bring the costs down, and instead, the premiums are skyrocketing,” O’Donnell said, sounding exasperated.
“And so the question is, what happened?” Rose said.
“Yeah, and who’s profiting on this?” O’Donnell asked.
“What can be done?” Gayle King, a Barack Obama donor, asked.
“Is the way the law was set up failed? It’s a really interesting story,” O’Donnell said.//
Gosh....Unexpectedly!!!
Isn't that always the way in the Era of Hope and Change.
...but there can be "interesting" and "unexpected" news.
//The anchors of CBS This Morning expressed bewilderment on Tuesday at the sharp premium hikes in Obamacare insurance plans, with one asking for an understanding for “why this is happening.”
When Obamacare open enrollment begins in 2017, the cost of mid-level plans will rise by an average of 25 percent in the 39 states served by the federal online exchanges. In addition, major providers like Humana, UnitedHealth, and Aetna have scaled back or dropped out of the Obamacare exchanges, leaving roughly 20 percent of consumers with only one insurer to choose from.
After Charlie Rose read out the report, Norah O’Donnell said, “We need a bigger understanding of why this is happening.”
“We sure do,” Rose said.
“Because the idea was not only to spread coverage around, but that by spreading the coverage around, not only would it help people get more preventative care, but then it would ultimately bring the costs down, and instead, the premiums are skyrocketing,” O’Donnell said, sounding exasperated.
“And so the question is, what happened?” Rose said.
“Yeah, and who’s profiting on this?” O’Donnell asked.
“What can be done?” Gayle King, a Barack Obama donor, asked.
“Is the way the law was set up failed? It’s a really interesting story,” O’Donnell said.//
Gosh....Unexpectedly!!!
Isn't that always the way in the Era of Hope and Change.
Sunday, August 21, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....
...and "bad news" means "doesn't fit the narrative of people needing government assistance and/or being nasty to minorities."
You know, stuff that would drive up the Democrat vote.
//Through it all, media coverage was so lacking that people living outside of the immediate area resorted to social media sites to updates themselves on what was happening in the area; using uploaded videos, pictures, and posts to piece together events and timelines, the pathways of the moving water, and how long the crisis would last. As cellular service failed, power went out across town after town, and families scrambled to find shelter, secure rescue, and just survive…news media coverage was virtually silent. A number of very good articles have been written about why, mostly speaking on the fact that the flood did not fit the narrative of entertainment the news media requires in order to garner coverage. The few articles that complain on the lack of national media coverage all have the same goal in mind… to get more media coverage on the event so that the scope of the tragedy can be known and help given to those people in need.
...and "bad news" means "doesn't fit the narrative of people needing government assistance and/or being nasty to minorities."
You know, stuff that would drive up the Democrat vote.
//Through it all, media coverage was so lacking that people living outside of the immediate area resorted to social media sites to updates themselves on what was happening in the area; using uploaded videos, pictures, and posts to piece together events and timelines, the pathways of the moving water, and how long the crisis would last. As cellular service failed, power went out across town after town, and families scrambled to find shelter, secure rescue, and just survive…news media coverage was virtually silent. A number of very good articles have been written about why, mostly speaking on the fact that the flood did not fit the narrative of entertainment the news media requires in order to garner coverage. The few articles that complain on the lack of national media coverage all have the same goal in mind… to get more media coverage on the event so that the scope of the tragedy can be known and help given to those people in need.
To accomplish this, they focus on the scope of the tragedy itself; as I resorted to earlier in this piece. In order to achieve the goal of coverage, those of us who care about the heartbreak in southeast Louisiana are forced to package it in those narrative frames of entertainment and historic loss in order to get anyone to care… and that to me is the larger tragedy. The tragedy is that strong, loving, cohesive communities, because of their strength and resilience, cannot be celebrated and assisted at the same time. That in order to be worthy of attention the very fabric of societal order has to have been sheered away; news media requires scenes that look like a zombie apocalypse, not scores of hometown heroes trying their best to rescue one another.
In these communities, families who lost everything feel guilty for letting someone give them money for a warm meal, because others have lost more. Neighbors organize care packages for people in the “devastated areas,” while floodwaters seep into their homes. Friends let friends of friends, and complete strangers off the street, sleep in their beds and on their couches because they have a place that is dry and some room to spare. People wait anxiously for the water to subside so that they can go and help their friends rebuild. Former high school classmates put up online lists of people to locate one another, connect with one another, and share supplies. The local fisherman run rescue missions through streets that have become rivers to rescue families stranded on rooftops and trapped on highways; forming a “Cajun Navy” of volunteers. And former residents travel from cities like Chicago and D.C., taking vacation days from work, to make sure longtime friends have someone there to help them remove the water-soaked sheetrock from their house.
No stories of looting, no stories of riots, no devolving of society to the lowest forms of humanity…instead a tragedy that has brought out the best in friends, family, and neighbors; people who help others before they help themselves…who see the assistance of others as an assistance of self.
Rather than reward that with aid and bringing the full force of our collective national attention to examples of what resilient and strong American communities look like when challenged…these communities are ignored and left to fend for themselves…simply because they can. The consequence of being a strong community is that your tragedy is not mentioned in national news, your strength uncelebrated, and your needs unmet unless they can be met through your own resilience. Humility and selflessly helping others does not fit the script of our news media… that is more of a tragedy than any flood.//
Friday, August 19, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....
....and national disasters are not so disastrous.
Bush was a racist for delaying three days to visit New Orleans, but Obama and Hillary get a pass.
Let's take a trip down memory lane.
//If ever there was a contrast to make around "then-and-now" media coverage of a Republican and Democratic president put in similar situations and their respective reactions to it, this one definitely makes the Top 5.
2005: President George W. Bush's presidency is basically declared over after he waits two days to cut a vacation short to return to the White House to directly engage in relief strategy around hurricane-ravaged Katrina. On Day 3, he would visit the Gulf Coast to survey the damage.
The headlines at the time and since have included, A compassionate Bush was absent right after Katrina, The 7 worst moments of George W. Bush’s presidency, Kanye West Rips Bush at Telethon, What If They Were White?, Jesse Jackson lashes out at Bush over Katrina response, Katrina thrusts race and poverty onto national stage: Bush and Congress under pressure to act
and An Imperfect Storm - How race shaped Bush's response to Katrina.
So it's clear how the narrative went from "Bush waited three days to visit the Gulf Coast" to "Bush is a racist who would have acted faster if white people were victims of Katrina."
Why? Because Kanye West said so.
Fast forward to August 2016 — several storms hit Louisiana, not just a hurricane — the floodwaters have created the biggest natural disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina.
At least 13 people are dead, more than 85,000 people have applied for federal disaster aid, 30,000 people needed to be rescued and 40,000 displaced. State officials report it is easily the biggest housing crunch since Sandy.
In Livingston Parish, officials report as many as 75 percent of the 52,000 homes there had been damaged by floodwaters. In Ascension Parish, water had seeped into one of every three homes.
“We’ve been through Hurricane Gustav, Katrina, Isaac and Rita, but this without a doubt is the roughest we’ve ever had in this parish,” said Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard.
A very simple question, if George W. Bush was president right now and playing golf with celebrities in one of the richest zip codes in the country, would the headlines again be everywhere that portray him as insensitive, out-of-touch, even a racist president be the same now as they were 2005? Of course they would.
Instead, President Obama continues his vacation that includes fundraising events for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and the relative silence is deafening.//
....and national disasters are not so disastrous.
Bush was a racist for delaying three days to visit New Orleans, but Obama and Hillary get a pass.
Let's take a trip down memory lane.
//If ever there was a contrast to make around "then-and-now" media coverage of a Republican and Democratic president put in similar situations and their respective reactions to it, this one definitely makes the Top 5.
2005: President George W. Bush's presidency is basically declared over after he waits two days to cut a vacation short to return to the White House to directly engage in relief strategy around hurricane-ravaged Katrina. On Day 3, he would visit the Gulf Coast to survey the damage.
The headlines at the time and since have included, A compassionate Bush was absent right after Katrina, The 7 worst moments of George W. Bush’s presidency, Kanye West Rips Bush at Telethon, What If They Were White?, Jesse Jackson lashes out at Bush over Katrina response, Katrina thrusts race and poverty onto national stage: Bush and Congress under pressure to act
and An Imperfect Storm - How race shaped Bush's response to Katrina.
So it's clear how the narrative went from "Bush waited three days to visit the Gulf Coast" to "Bush is a racist who would have acted faster if white people were victims of Katrina."
Why? Because Kanye West said so.
Fast forward to August 2016 — several storms hit Louisiana, not just a hurricane — the floodwaters have created the biggest natural disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina.
At least 13 people are dead, more than 85,000 people have applied for federal disaster aid, 30,000 people needed to be rescued and 40,000 displaced. State officials report it is easily the biggest housing crunch since Sandy.
In Livingston Parish, officials report as many as 75 percent of the 52,000 homes there had been damaged by floodwaters. In Ascension Parish, water had seeped into one of every three homes.
“We’ve been through Hurricane Gustav, Katrina, Isaac and Rita, but this without a doubt is the roughest we’ve ever had in this parish,” said Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard.
A very simple question, if George W. Bush was president right now and playing golf with celebrities in one of the richest zip codes in the country, would the headlines again be everywhere that portray him as insensitive, out-of-touch, even a racist president be the same now as they were 2005? Of course they would.
Instead, President Obama continues his vacation that includes fundraising events for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and the relative silence is deafening.//
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.
Even catastrophic flooding isn't bad.
//After Donald Trump visited Louisiana to help unload supplies for victims ravaged by the massive, unprecedented flooding, former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) thanked the GOP nominee and actually called out Hillary Clinton and President Obama for refusing to visit.//
Even catastrophic flooding isn't bad.
//After Donald Trump visited Louisiana to help unload supplies for victims ravaged by the massive, unprecedented flooding, former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) thanked the GOP nominee and actually called out Hillary Clinton and President Obama for refusing to visit.//
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...
...mass flooding in Louisiana?Who cares.
Friday, July 29, 2016
Saturday, July 16, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.
If this was a Republican administration, the fact that an unprecedented 51 State department officials signed a statement criticizing the president would PROBABLY be considered "news."
If this was a Republican administration, the fact that an unprecedented 51 State department officials signed a statement criticizing the president would PROBABLY be considered "news."
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....
//Clinton’s public statement on September 12 again referred to “a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet,” while her private chat with the Egyptian prime minister clearly said, “We know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack – not a protest. … Based on the information we saw today, we believe the group that claimed responsibility for this was affiliated with al Qaeda.”
Each day it goes on like this: Clinton tells family members of those killed in Benghazi that the video was to blame, while privately admitting their deaths had nothing to do with a spontaneous protest of a video. Administration members’ public statements all talk about the video, while most private statements don’t.
One exception would be Ben Rhodes’ email that says, “Goals: To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
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