This is clearly and demonstrably false, because we know that Springfield is in the same state as Shelbyville.
Ergo it is in Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas
Apparently, it was originally Springfield, Oregon, despite Oregon not having a Shelbyville.
Trump complaining about the moderators last night, and demanding Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters or Laura Ingraham. Pundits so one-sided their own network declines to classify them as news, instead labelling them as entertainers.
In more serious, news Johnson appears to have lost the House GOP votes he needs to pass the funding measure he wanted. The perverse point about that is the consensus is that it is dead on arrival in the Senate, the White House would veto it, and the whole point of the exercise was political anyway. But GOP members have insisted that more extreme measures to be included, and declined to support it.
Still 19 days left before the US Government is no longer funded, which by the standards of Beltway silliness is loads of time. But this one is fairly unusual, because of the timing vis-a-vis the presidential election - the only time a shutdown/furlough like this has overlapped was October 1984, and that was not a remotely close election. Due to the spending framework of the time, it also covered only a portion of the government, for one afternoon. Very very hard to predict what the effects of one more like the recent ones would be.
Other parts of the press have at times, too often, gone to bat for Fox News against criticism from a Dem White House. I remember Jake Tapper when he was still a WH correspondent really going in on one of Obama’s press secretaries over his talk of rejecting Fox as being news. Given that I find it quite interesting that Kamala has made absolutely clear that Fox is a no go for the debates, and is so for obvious reasons, and no one else in the mainstream is questioning the appropriateness of that.
Yes, they are absurd and are not news. But they were just as much so in that period between 08-12 when Tapper went to bat to defend their reputation.
It is important to note that the classification of Fox News as a whole as entertainment is an urban myth. The kernel of truth is that some of the opinion shows were explicitly not counted as information for purposes of meeting the FCC’s over-the-air requirements. The failure to robustly separate the news from the opinion is what led to the Dominion fiasco, and that seems to have been a watershed among journalists.
They have also used as a legal defense in court that no reasonable person would take the information presented on their network seriously. Although again, with the caveat that was the opinion shows not the news shows.
But Obama’s point was more “those muthafuckers…” and people who agreed with him pretended not to for some misplaced sense of honour that no longer seems to be there after Fox’s conduct around the last election.
This is amazing. This is the guy they used as a stand in for Trump in debate prep.
https://x.com/PhilippeReines/status/1833850281613787390
He is a long time Clinton advisor who is famed within the party for going full method actor in preparing to do it for Clinton in 2016 
The open question being…wth is that orange?!?
Doug trying to curry favour with the middle aged white guys who havent yet come to terms with the fact they arent in their 20s anymore
Where’s your cagoule, Doug.
Last night’s debate was enough for the bookies to make Harris a slight favourite again. 
Legal or illegal? 
I don’t think the democratic aligned Arab/Palestinian community in the states will vote for Trump, however I suspect they won’t vote for Harris, and that in itself is a big blow, especially in the swing states.
A big blow to who?
The counter to that is things can always get worse.
Encouraged and armed by America, Israel have dropped bombs in quantities exceeding entire wars on humanitarian safe zones. Every hospital and school has been bombed. There are no universities left. The entire population is on the verge of famine. How exactly could it get worse?
Corrected for brevity.
To the extent that there are basically just two forces acting to restrain Netanyahu in any way at all, they are the Israeli polity and US influence. I have very little confidence in the first, and in the absence of the second I am not sure what would restrain the Israeli right for applying the same measures to the West Bank, as Trump has urged Netanyahu to do.
I’m more legal than Trump
