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May 3, 2020

Can Congress get the Covid related PDBs?

They’re discussing that on Reliable Sources now. The people have a right to see the warnings.

May 2, 2020

My thoughts about Joe on Morning Joe

He did a pretty good job. But I think he would have better served himself to not feel like he needed to say anything when there was dead air after Mika asked a question and he answered it. So many people being interviewed feel that it's their obligation to add something to a "yes" or "no" answer if there's dead air after answering yes of no. Fuck that. It's up to the interviewer, Mika in this case, to fill the dead air with another question. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it was Sen. Stuart Symington that answered yes or know questions with a yes of no and that was it. No need to say anything else.

Mika: Did you assault her?

Joe: No.

Dead air created by Mika so Joe would say more and he should have resisted the feeling that he needed to add anything else.

Not "no, never, it did not happen". Just "no".

Again, this is going back to the 60's and I was just a kid but I think it was Symington and I remember my dad always getting a kick out of his simple yes or no answers without any equivocation when he appeared on Meet the Press with Lawrence Spivak.

I'm pretty sure it was Symington.

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