General Politics Discussion (VI) [ARCHIVED] • Page 1096

Brutus, go on Doughboys!

 

go liz

 

@Wharf Rat

 

Cursed image

 

missed seltzer talk, but Mineragua >>>

That new lime Topo Chico is also extremely good

 

man

 

Now THAT is a real American

 

My girlfriend is Chinese so I feel like I should probably more tapped into what is going on. This video was super informative. Fucked up stuff.

 

When Their Book Deal Blew Up After Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Glenn Thrush Kept His Advance. Maggie Haberman Had To Pay Hers Back.

The first two years of the Trump presidency were a boom time for political books, and one of the boomiest was the deal announced in September 2017, in which the New York Times’ star White House reporters, Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush, would write an insider’s account of the Trump presidency for Random House. The publisher didn’t release the size of the advance, but it was rumored to be huge, and for good reason: Haberman and Thrush were teammates writing the most agenda-setting coverage of the administration and the president.

Two years later, the book is no longer happening. Thrush was kicked off the project by the publisher after being accused of sexual misconduct and suspended from his job covering the White House for the Times, following an internal investigation at the paper. “Random House is planning to move forward with the book, but it will not be with Glenn Thrush attached,” a spokesperson for the publisher told the New York Times in December 2017.

The incident didn’t slow Thrush down much: He was later reinstated in a different, non-White House job, and was recently given a high-profile role covering the the 2020 campaign. And, as the Washington Post reported last year, he got to keep the portion of the book advance he had received because Random House dropped him from the project.

 

Dudes obviously in the bag for Biden but his point stands: national media sucks so much compared to local when it comes to horse race coverage

 

gaffes = click$$$

nobody clicking on links with the word "proposal"

 

another reason it's really, really, good that corporate media (which it is now a gaffe to say is biased in any way) has killed almost all local media

 

But ... her ... emaaaaailllllssssss.

 

Policy ideas are dumb and boring. I wanna see the blooper reel!