Yikes.
The latest cover of Private Eye magazine.
Meanwhile….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDVC-bHbGGs
Last night.
A protester wearing a ‘RAPE’ T-shirt – with a picture of Bill Clinton – was ejected from Hillary Clinton’s rally in Detroit.
Private Eye pic via James Ball
Donald Trump supporter Vicki Sciolaro, on CNN, exasperating anchors and other guests with the assertion that a benevolent interventionist is moving and operating via the human rubbish fire reality-show licensing magnate.
This morning.
Coffee Angel, Pembroke Road, Dublin 2
Weezer writes:
Only commentary for Hillary’s based on husbands’ actions so?
Fight!
Earlier: You Take The Low Road
Meanwhile…
Gulp.
This morning’s New York Post
The Wasteland is having an election and the candidates are campaigning.
Dusty freaks.
From Aunties GeekEasy.
Produced by Damon Blake and George Fox,
Part of today’s Irish Times coverage of Donald Trump’s press release on Denis O’Brien
What word has been redacted by the Irish Times?
Litigious?
Rich?
Cuddly?
We may never know.
Denis O’Brien remains silent after Trump’s attack on his record (Peter Murtagh, Irish Times)
Yesterday: Deplorably Good
The cover of next week’s The New Yorker magazine.
By Barry Blitt.
Cover story: Donald Trump is Barry Blitt’s ‘Miss Congeniality’ (The New Yorker)
Via The New Yorker
From top: Donald Trump and Denis O’Brien
In fairness.
Mark Malone writes:
….What’s even more striking, no media outlet even offers a hyperlink in its own self censoring coverage to the actual press release itself.
The press release [at link below] As we can see, none of it is original content, or even amounts to any sort of political analysis. Its simply copy paste of pieces, mostly uncontested facts already written online. Much of it from within Ireland.
Irish media outlets might consider their choice not to link or include any specifics outlined within ( eg O Briens donating to the Clinton Foundation whilst getting contracts from the US state department for mobile phone contract in Haiti) as pragmatic.
That I’m afraid is internalised logic, which any observer can see is based on internalising a fear of O Brien’s power and justifying something political as a business decision. And that’s a much bigger news than any copy paste job Trumps team fires out.
Trump’s Press Release re Denis O Brien in full (Mark Malone, Soundmigration)
Follow The Money (Donald Trump/Mike Pence)
Trump attacks Clinton over links to O’Brien (RTÉ)
Previously: Meanwhile, In The No Spin Zone
Pics: Getty, Rollingnews
Meanwhile…
Just spotted this Denis O’Brien/Trump cartoon on the web, I’ve no idea who the artist is, honestly I don’t!! #DenisOBrien #Trump pic.twitter.com/e44aroQ4f4
— Niall O’Loughlin (@nialloloughlin) September 29, 2016
Lester Holt and Hillary Clinton before Monday night’s US presidential Election debate
Further to Monday’s US Presidential debate…
Which brings us to [debate moderator[ Lester Holt and the accusations that he tipped Monday’s debate in favor of Hillary Clinton. Holt’s bias was obvious, but the impact was not inevitable. It mattered largely because, shockingly, Donald Trump was shocked that Holt was in the tank for Clinton.
How could Trump not see that coming? And if he did, why wasn’t he better prepared?
…It was outrageous — but no surprise. After all, Holt is part of the Big Media establishment that has uniformly protected President Obama and broken all its own standards to trash Trump and elect Clinton.
…It’s possible that anti-media sentiment could help decide the election. The nationwide numbers suggest the possibility.
A recent Gallup survey found a new low in public trust of the media, with only 32 percent of Americans saying they have a great deal or some trust in newspapers, TV and radio “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly.” Trust fell eight points in one year alone and is only 14 percent among Republicans.
In a change election where both candidates have historically high negative ratings, many voters could make their choice for secondary reasons.
Voting against the other candidate is the most likely option, while voting against the media as a proxy for voting against the establishment is emerging as another.
In that case, the news media could be more than part of the story. They could be the story.
FIGHT!
The media loves Hillary — and it could cost her the election (Michael Goodwin, The New York Post)
Yesterday: The People Have Spoken
