Saturday, September 24, 2016
Ex-cop nails CNN’s police apologist: You don’t get to kill somebody just because you say you’re scared
Ex-cop nails CNN’s police apologist: You don’t get to kill somebody just because you say you’re scared
Dorsey also wondered what had made Shelby so fearful, because she did not articulate her concerns in her statement to investigators.
“What was it? If you were in fear, why are you running up on him?” she said. “You don’t just get to say, ‘I’m in fear,’ and now olly olly oxen free — you get to kill somebody. Someone failing to comply does not require lethal force.”
Donald Trump Jr. and the white nationalist alt-right: A pattern that goes way beyond coincidence - Salon.com
Donald Trump Jr. and the white nationalist alt-right: A pattern that goes way beyond coincidence - Salon.com
When Donald Jr. spoke to a white-supremacist radio host in March, it set off a few alarm bells, if only because his father’s extreme immigration policies had been so ecstatically received by white nationalist groups. But most people chalked it up to inexperience and let it go. Surely Junior wasn’t as crudely racist as the old man, who was reported to have a book of Hitler’s speeches on his bedside table.
But just a few days later Donald Jr. retweeted a racist science-fiction writer named Theodore Beale, who goes by the handle of “Vox Day,” claiming that a famous picture of a Trump supporter giving a Nazi salute was actually a follower of Sen. Bernie Sanders. The apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree after all.
Friday, September 23, 2016
How Fox News Women Took Down Roger Ailes
How Fox News Women Took Down Roger Ailes
Ailes built not just a conservative cable news channel but something like a fourth branch of government; a propaganda arm for the GOP; an organization that determined Republican presidential candidates, sold wars, and decided the issues of the day for 2 million viewers. That the place turned out to be rife with grotesque abuses of power has left even its liberal critics stunned.
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