The best SuperBowl ad I can recall came at us in 2008.
(Note: Apologies to whomever. I do not recall from where I stole this.)
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the poll numbers, broken down every which way. Huge majorities of every category have the same answer to the most significant historical event of their lifetime.
The answer will not stun.
- The morning after the Trump sexual assault verdict, Tommy Christopher listens as an attorney for E. Jean Carroll reviews the impact of the Trump deposition:
Key question:
Who uses the word fortunately to talk about sexual assault?
- In Hackwhackers has a cartoon handle on mr Trump’s very bad day in court.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson expresses a bit of impatience with pro-Trump post-verdict hair splitting:
We're spinning sexual assault now. https://t.co/bxwkdcNPdH
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) May 9, 2023
- Green Eagle is happy (or relieved) at the Carroll/Trump verdict: legal accountability has just begun. But the large green bird is skeptical about whether this and future legal losses will ever turn into any political cost.
- News Corpse says what everyone seems to think. How was the CNN presentation a failure of basic journalism? Let Mark NC count the ways.
Key observers:
It was so useless that even some of CNN’s anchors and analysts were repulsed.
- driftglass possesses the best non-verbal visual summary of the CNN/Trump Town meeting, where the moderator got stomped on by mr Trump and his lynch-audience.
And I have a question:
- The Palmer Report watched the CNN/Trump/MAGA audience Town Hall rally, and was unimpressed with moderator Kaitlan Collins.
- Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez knocks down a couple of CNN defense arguments:
This is an insultingly silly false dichotomy. “Listening to what he has to say” doesn’t require you to give him a live, unedited primetime forum to lie before an audience of cheering acolytes. https://t.co/SYpWtnApwZ
— @normative@bsky.social (@normative) May 12, 2023
It’d “make news” if Jake Tapper strangled puppy on air too, but “making” news is not, in fact, their job. https://t.co/SgXZ7nsRTo
— @normative@bsky.social (@normative) May 12, 2023
- The Onion is there as mr Trump suffers widespread condemnation for giving a national platform to CNN.
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