Welcome to DU, SonofDonald!

My head's just spinning over all of this. I can't wait for the Comey hearing.

I'm watching Michael S. Schmidt and Michael Isikoff on TV. Schmidt - who tried to nail Hillary on facing a criminal investigation because some source (I suspect Trey Gowdy) gave him that tip - and it turned out not to be true. Isikoff - who damn near needed to wear a bib when on camera talking about the salacious details of the Monica Lewinsky crap, because he was almost literally drooling with delight. Gee - now they've gotta investigate and dig up dirt on the other tribe, 'eh? I'm sure they'd both rather be digging into a sex scandal - preferably among Democrats.

Yeah, me too.

When he took over the role after Sean Connery, I lost interest in the James Bond films. "The Saint" was different. But his Bond portrayal kinda left me cold.

But he entertained millions and his version of James Bond was very well-liked. And his appeal in that role sure kept the franchise alive.

RIP, Roger Moore.

Or Matthew 25: 35-45

35‘For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; 36naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’ 37“Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? 38‘And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? 39‘When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40“The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’
41“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; 42for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink; 43I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’ 44“Then they themselves also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?’ 45“Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 46“These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

http://biblehub.com/context/matthew/25-35.htm

Yeah. I do remember that.

Astoundingly (at least to me), my reagan-loving tax-hating Republican dad watched Donahue EVERY day. Never missed his show. From way back BEFORE there even was an MSNBC. Back in the late 60s and 70s. He had a syndicated show based out of Chicago.

That's one thing I will always hold against Oprah Winfrey. Yes, I know that's sacrilege to some. And YES she's done much good, since.

But she came on the talk show scene in Chicago and went after him, because up till then he'd been the only game in town (and the nation, too, for that matter). Her show copied the same format that HE had pioneered - the roving host wandering around IN the audience sharing the hand-held mic with whoever wanted to stand up and comment or ask a question. Donahue was widely respected and well-established and she knew she had to get noticed if she was to knock him off the top. So, to make a splash and get a lot of attention, she went straight for the salacious. "Lesbian nuns!" and "I ran off with my father's illicit love child!" and "Abandoned. Beaten and raped. But she's having his baby!" and so forth. NO JOKE! Hell, I still remember the promo spots for the "Lesbian nuns!" episode. With the salacious-sounding woman's voice doing the voice-over. I'd be driving somewhere and that spot would come on the radio in high rotation.

She was, as we all know, wildly successful. It wasn't just her wildly appealing personality (that still serves, pleases, and genuinely inspires). It was her programming strategy. Go for the wildly salacious. Push the boundaries. Push the envelope. Go lower and grittier. If Phil went low, she went lower. If Phil went into the bedroom, she found the bedroom with the leather straps and handcuffs. She was the mother of Geraldo Rivera, Morton Downey Junior, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, and all the rest of those scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel junk talk shows where fists would literally start flying and chairs would be thrown and all the folks you'd see in those websites of Walmart shoppers dressed in their "wife-beater" t-shirts or with their thong underwear or butt cracks showing, were transformed from commoners (and usually white trash commoners at that) to TV celebrity status. Lowest common denominator stuff.

What happened after that was - Phil Donahue's ratings started dropping. Everybody wanted to watch the freak show instead of the quiet, thought-provoking hour-long interview with some intelligent author or researcher or thinker-of-our-times. Now you needed the salaciousness. And so he started dumbing down his show, too - to compete. And the low point came on the day he did his entire show wearing a dress. I can still remember the media coverage of it. It was along the lines of - "what Donahue has to stoop to doing now, to try to get ratings (because Oprah's sleaze and gutter topics and goons on parade were beating the hell outta him). And he finally got canceled.

But the REAL damage had been done. Civil discourse on television was so yesterday. Now you wanted flash and trash. The trashier the better! You wanted to see fights break out on the set and see Geraldo get his nose broken - because Geraldo realized that, to compete with Oprah, he had to go even lower and even sleazier. So did Maury and all the wannabes who came after him. Hell, Jerry Springer was the mayor of Cincinatti and an anchorman and super respectable at one time! I had a friend who lived in Cincinatti and attested to how terrific and even noble he was as a public servant. She confessed to being shocked out of her socks when she saw him doing his low-life shit-show thing on TV. She was stunned by how far he'd fallen and how low he now stooped for the sake of attention and ratings. Suddenly the airwaves were filled with this sleazy tabloid shit. Because it got ratings.

Eventually, of course, Phil Donahue was recruited on a fledgling MSNBC because he had a marquee name, and his show went well - because he went back to intelligent discourse with intelligent uplifting people. And it got ratings there. Until he was fired.

Eventually, of course, Oprah Winfrey saw the light and started using her show as a vehicle to lift people up, rather than merely titillate them for the sake of sheer empty bottom-scraping titillation. Which was a real relief. And in many ways, her show became a serious and wonderful and much-needed public service once she decided it was time to pull the whole works out of the frickin' gutter.

But it was too late.

The damage had been done.

And the bar kept getting set lower and lower until you needed a shovel to dig a pit before you could even set the bar. Now that I think of it, seems to me that's where and how reality TV got started, with the wall-to-wall sleaze and lowest-common-denominator crap for which it's now famous. Oprah even midwifed things like the Kardashians and the losers on "Jersey Shore" and other cheap tabloid jerks. She paved the way for all that. She WAS the climate change. She finally got religion and used that fabulous billion-dollar pulpit and all that power and clout she'd earned - for the greater good. But she got there by swimming through shit. And nobody else who jumped into the shit-pool to get a piece of all that ever got religion and climbed out, hoping to pull others out too. They stayed in the shit and did everything they could to spread it wider and deeper and thicker. Which is where we are now.

That's how a Donald Trump could rise and thrive, too, come to think of it.

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Welcome to DU, mark fromelko!

Awfully nice to see Pox Noise sinking.

Meantime, we need to keep the (so far still) Good Ship MSNBC intact:

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Eloquent as can be.

Welcome to DU, sandensea!

Well, gotta add another "title" to the appellations for Agent Orange.

Short-fingered Vulgarian
Cheeto Jesus
Twitler
Humpty Trumpty (or Trumpty Dumpty - take yer pick)
Antichrist
President Tang
Wiggy Trumpzealea
Toupee Fiasco
Bouffant Buffoon
Captain Chaos
Butternut Squash
ChickenDonald
Cheddar Boy
Cheez Doodle
Damien Trump
Creep Throat
Der Groepenfuehrer
Der Trumpkopf
Dehydrated Orange Peel
Don the Con
Donald Dump
Donnybrook
Dr. Strangelove
Genghis Cant
Grandpa Fucko
The GreatWhite Dope
Groper-in-Chief
Liar-in-Chief
Herr Hair
Lord Voldemort
Man-Baby
Mein Furor
The Man of Steal
Narcissistic Human Airhorn
New York Dork (or New York Pork Dork)
Orange Anus
Orange Manatee
Putin’s Pet
The Shambling Sasquatch
Predator-in-Chief
Screaming Carrot Demon
Prima Donald
Scrooge McTrump
Ryan’s Nope
Snake Oil Salesman
The Spin King
Sniffles
The Swamp Thing
T-Rump
Trumplethinskin
Trumpmeister
Trumpenstein
The Tufted Taliban
Trumpster
Vanilla Isis
World’s Greatest Troll

DONALD TRUMP NICKNAMES
https://followmehere.com/2017/01/09/donald-trump-nicknames/

Orange Julius
Mango Mussolini
The Orange Sphincter
Dolt45
Carcinogenic Creamsicle
Toxic Tangerine
Fuckface Von Clownstick
president*
Donald Drumpf
Putin's Puppet
Cheeto Satan. Tangerine Voldemort. Persimmon Hitler.
and
President Tang
Wiggy Trumpzealea
Toupee Fiasco
Bouffant Buffoon
Captain Chaos
Butternut Squash
ChickenDonald
Cheddar Boy
Cheez Doodle
Damien Trump
Creep Throat
Der Groepenfuehrer
Der Trumpkopf
Dehydrated Orange Peel
Don the Con
Donald Dump
Donnybrook
Dr. Strangelove
Genghis Cant
Grandpa Fucko
The GreatWhite Dope
Groper-in-Chief
Liar-in-Chief
Herr Hair
Lord Voldemort
Man-Baby
Mein Furor
The Man of Steal
Narcissistic Human Airhorn
New York Dork (or New York Pork Dork)
Orange Anus
Orange Manatee
Putin’s Pet
The Shambling Sasquatch
Predator-in-Chief
Screaming Carrot Demon
Prima Donald
Scrooge McTrump
Ryan’s Nope
Snake Oil Salesman
The Spin King
Sniffles
The Swamp Thing
T-Rump
Trumplethinskin
Trumpmeister
Trumpenstein
The Tufted Taliban
Trumpster
Vanilla Isis
World’s Greatest Troll

( https://followmehere.com/2017/01/09/donald-trump-nicknames/ )
Sunkist Stalin
Sir Orange Tinyhands
Squirrelwig McRacistPants
Cheeto Satan
Coral Babyhands. Fanta Fascist. Dreamsicle Demon. Orange Menace. El Hombre de Tang. Marmalade Mussolini. Orange Anusmouth. Don the Con. Hair Gropenfuhrer. Sunkist Stalin. Habañero Hitler. Mandarin Orange Mugabe. The Orange Peel. Orange is the new Splat. Tangerine Nutsack. Angry Creamsicle. Human-toupee hybrid. Cheetolini. The Orange Shitweasel. Persimmon Toddler. Kim Jong Orange. Pantone Beelzebub. Hair Gropenfuhrer. Minute Maid Mao. Clueless Orange Julius. Papaya Batista. Sweet Potato Saddam. Doorknob Trundlefuck. Tropicana Mussolini. Pumpkin Pinochet. Cheeze Wiz. Lemonhead Elect. Peach Nehi President. Trump Brulée. Orange Foolius. Pumpkin Spice Satan. Tang Tyrant. Mandarin Manchurian Candidate. Sunburned Stalin. Babyhands McCheetodick. Cheeto-in-Chief. Salmon Voldemort. Candy Corn Kremlin. The Nacho Nazi. Toupée Fiasco. PEEOTUS.
New additions to this list: The Angry Yam. Tangerine Palpatine. Tangerine Turd Tumbler. Orange Kumquat. Yam Vader. Genghis Con. Cantaloupe Caillou.
( http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2017/01/guide-disrespecting-donald-trump.html )
Ludicrous tangerine ballsack
Weapons-grade plum (and more from the locals when then-candidate trump visited Scotland in June, 2016
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and
Larcenous Baboon !

And I'm sure, by now, that isn't even half of it...

Yep. This. Just quote this.

Know who DIDN'T plead the 5th? Hillary.

Because she has A) nothing to hide and B) she has done nothing wrong.

When one has kept everything above board, no need to worry about getting caught for anything.

This is hilarious!!!