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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreta Van Susteren is awful. Did anybody just see her?
Said the Comey meddling didn't affect the results.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,993 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)The world. That last part made me sick.
If you've seen video, they think it's fine to slander, harrass and threaten anyone who goes against them. Because tin cans said/ they paid to be told they are better than us.
At best she's also a bootstrapper asshole who is being blackmailed too. And fine w exploitation of the week and plots to deceive ....if it's by the Scientologists.
Chiyo-chichi
(3,580 posts)I've been watching Leah Remini's excellent show, "Scientology and the Aftermath," on A&E. My thoughts were exactly along the lines of yours.
Didn't LRH hate the media as much as Trump does? "Chaos merchants," I think he called them.
ETA: This is interesting. It's from last April, but...
"Donald J. Trump Is the L. Ron Hubbard of Politics"
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/03/donald-trump-is-the-l-ron-hubbard-of-politics.html
And this is even more interesting:
"What would Scientology gain from a Trump presidency? Plenty.
Trump enthusiastically supports limiting freedom of the press and altering libel laws. Nothing would please the Church of Scientology more. The mainstream medias allegations of Scientologys checkered history, abusive practices, and unrelenting demands from its adherents is well chronicled. Expanding paths to litigation would take some of the heat off the church and bolster its treasury.
Trump, an unabashed admirer of Vladimir Putins authoritarianism, has let it be known how he will facilitate the Russians goals: terming NATO obsolete and cutting back the U.S. commitment; encouraging the Russian hacking of U.S. Government agencies, endorsing Russias annexation of Crimea, and threatening to pull the plug on the U.S. alliance with Japan who is in the midst of a territorial dispute with Russia over the Kuril Islands.
Putins payback would not compromise any of his aggressive foreign policy goals. Russia has been tough on Scientology, not recognizing it as a religion. The Russian president could lift Moscows ban on The Church of Scientology and rein in Russian law enforcement authorities who have been conducting raids on Scientology centering on money laundering. Russias 143 million citizens, especially its growing number of celebrity Trumpian oligarchs, represent a fertile recruitment base.
Theres no doubt if Trump is elected president, the Church of Scientology will have its man in the White House."
http://tampabaybeat.info/index.php/2016/10/06/donald-trump-pam-bondi-and-the-church-of-scientology/
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)It's advocated against enemies.
mreilly
(2,120 posts)... when she insisted the idiot housekeeper who "couldn't remember" anything was somehow "pounding the prosecution."
I shut her off forever over 20 years ago... not worth watching nor listening to in any regard.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)but you can't take the Fox news out of them.
oasis
(49,386 posts)BainsBane
(53,032 posts)And it looked like Maddow was going to ignore the story. I wasn't about to watch Susteren.
coco22
(1,258 posts)I changed the channel.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)I may get the urge to throw something at the tv...Brooke baldwin irritates me, I take as much as I can of her bullshit.
procon
(15,805 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)How dare they trot her out to lie like that.
And no countering her false statements by the host, though she may have wanted to do so it looks like she erred on the side of reverence for the "other side".
The other side are liars and traitors.
still_one
(92,190 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)Oh, wait, there's a dozen a day. I think I'm gonna take to hiding 'em.
nobody is forcing anybody to watch her!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Kind of like a maggot at the bottom of your cereal.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)LEAVE GRETA ALONE!!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)It would be silly to watch it and then complain. I was watching Katy Tur's show and she was called in for commentary.
kairos12
(12,861 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)how does she know didn't affect results?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)The pre and post Comey meddling for the second time suggest otherwise.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)But lately even Rachel has gotten on my nerves, and GvS is enough to send me over the edge.
I thought I could avoid GvS by turning on something else during her allotted hour - but there she was, sharing her expert commentary on another show.
Maybe I should switch to CNN now that they're on Frump's hate list. (But don't make me give up Lawrence!)
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I was watching Katy Tur's show ans she appeared with her FOX NEWS talking points.
nolabear
(41,963 posts)That said, if they keep after that man I will be in solidarity.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)aaargh. over to CNN.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Which , of course, is totally irrelevant to an inquiry into investigative misconduct.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Rwers shamelessly say whatever the fuck they "feel" or deliver carefully prepared lines engineered to make the sheep "feel" the way the RW wants them to feel. And there are far too many Americans who are easily bamboozled by the most obvious trickery.
They are completely defenseless against the sophisticated deviousness of the RW propaganda machine. Not just because many of them are incapable of reason, but also because the RW is selling them what they want to believe.
Not that I need to tell you, but still had to say it.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Cha
(297,222 posts)and they obviously brought her over for that.
I hope it's a death knell and they have to realize.. "What were we thinking!!!111?"
nolabear
(41,963 posts)The fact they threw her over for this has finally broken me.
If ONLY Joy, Keith, Ed, all the actual liberals could find a home together.
brush
(53,778 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)She made an unannounced appearance on Katy Tur's show.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)soul several years ago to work at Faux Noise, I pay no attention whatsoever to anything she has to say.
Her departure from Faux has not improved anything about her and NBC lost credibility with me for hiring her. Her belief in Scientology - a truly first class science fiction religion - really puts the nail in her coffin. IMHO.
Oh, and her father was a longtime friend of Senator Joseph McCarthy of the HUAC days, who was best man at her parent's wedding. Greta would have been too young to remember much about that loathsome POS, but the taint likely has remained in the family.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)I'm disappointed in Rachel.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)of the Koolaid - either that or she has been threatened.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)and the FBI did not alter the election results.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)The person came from a 24 hour make up shit network. A far right propaganda network.
Fla Dem
(23,668 posts)Only watch Joy Reid on weekends or when she is filling in for someone else. May tune in to Rachael but while I like her POV, she tries so hard to sell it, like "aren't I a very smart person", so can only take so much of her. By the time Lawrence comes on, there's no breaking news, everything's been hashed out, and it's just a regurgitation of what has already been discussed 100 times.
Took a look at Greta, but she's just FOX light and frankly she is annoying to listen to. This was a big mistake by NBC. Plus,(and I hope I don't offend anyone here,) for an educated person like GS to believe in the science fiction of Scientology, well I just can't give much credence to anything else they stand for.
oasis
(49,386 posts)spanone
(135,832 posts)and she was saying we should give trump the benefit of the doubt on his businesses because it's 'complicated'
piss off greta...once a foxbot always
Cha
(297,222 posts)That's disgusting.. anyone who watches that should send letters/phone calls on why they're not anymore.