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Many Americans are just too jingoistic to concede that the Taliban won this 20-year war. But the way the Taliban presided over America’s humiliating retreat from Kabul last month betrays the truth. As it happened, I declared the Taliban and al-Qaeda the winners 10 years ago. I argued that terror alerts had been spooking us… Read more.
I’ve been waging a quixotic campaign for years to out Rupert Murdoch as a greater danger to democracy than Donald Trump. Back in 2019, I called for mainstream and social media to pillory Murdoch mercilessly for presiding over a propaganda machine that would shock even Joseph Goebbels. His anchors present propaganda with such religious conviction… Read more.
In my July 12 commentary, “Folks, If Crime Stats Begin Rivaling Covid Stats, Trump Wins! So Shut Up, AOC!” I denounced Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for condoning looting as a way for people to get food to eat. After all, we see looters time and again fleeing with non-edible items like TVs, computers, smartphones, jewelry, designer… Read more.
Eugene Robinson is “the Washington Post columnist, MSNBC analyst and author.” He appeared in his second capacity on yesterday’s edition of Morning Joe to discuss the Trump administration’s latest dystopian meme. This one has everyone from Attorney General William Barr to Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany parroting the big lie that there’s no systemic racism in… Read more.
Evidently, Trump is still smarting from the way the media mocked him for hiding in the White House bunker from George Floyd anti-racism protesters. But he’s also still reeling from ex-military leaders rebuking him for using US soldiers in that infamous photo-op He clearly hoped the latter would make him look like a military strongman,… Read more.
Twitter: the case for banning political ads Last week, Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter would ban all political ads. The media lionized him. Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, said political ads, including manipulated videos and the viral spread of misleading information, presented challenges to civic discourse, ‘all at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.’ He… Read more.
I have been making P.T. Barnum analogies to explain Donald J. Trump for years. Nearly 10 years ago, I called Trump the P.T. Barnum of business: a huckster who thrives on the notion that ‘there’s a sucker born every minute,’ a self-aggrandizing buffoon who exposed himself as a self-deluding racist as well. As it happened,… Read more.
Donald Trump’s record of racism dates back decades. He sowed it in the 1970s in joint ventures with his daddy to discriminate against blacks seeking to rent in their apartment buildings. And, with all due respect to his birther conspiracy, he reaped it most notoriously in the late 1980s in full-page newspaper ads. In them, he… Read more.
I have been making this claim for decades. It’s based primarily on the fact that Frederick Douglass personified both the contradictions and promises that define America’s founding documents. And he did so like nobody else has or ever could. Unfortunately, even black historians have been so indoctrinated with white historiography, they invariably try to qualify my… Read more.
But this ruling merely affirms that justices are every bit as tribal as politicians. I pointed out in my June 24 commentary below that there’s nothing new about the tribalism that now defines life in America. I cited many commentaries in which I lamented how this became a defining feature of political debates. But I… Read more.
