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In reply to the discussion: Eleanor Clift: Will Obama Ever 'Fess Up to His Merrick Garland Mess? [View all]Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Very lame argument 'from authority', you're attempting there, D. I'm not writing to please you, or your friends, either.
The one we're talking about can go back to whatever important work she's been doing behind the scenes, in her low profile make no waves or progress manner.
Never saw Lawrence O'Donnell appear on McLaugh In, though I appreciate his take on things. Did see Buchanan, Kondracke, Barnes, Lowry, etc. Not too hard to indict the lopsided rightwingery of the show, run by a rightwing ex-priest and Nixon speechwriter who controlled things. He could cut off the panelists' access in a heartbeat, which whipped them right the fuck into line. Page did make an effort, but it looked like an establishment version of hannity and colmes.
Smug inside the beltway we're all friends and insiders claptrap, designed to massage political reality into alignment with rightwing repuggery.
Always have liked your posts, this one excluded. It would have been more polite of me to say 'screw Clift's take on things', but it would have been more mealy mouthed, too, which means it would have been more in line with exactly why I hated the performance of the Dems on her show.
I doubt your friend reads these sub posts, so her feelings are safe. But maybe if she took after her rightie colleagues the way you took after me, I wouldn't have a problem with her take on things, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.