This — you use off-the-record meetings to get to the real players. You don’t conduct them with the real players, in pursuit of some undefined benefit in the future.

Who even cares anymore? This country has proven it doesn’t give half a shit about anything Donald Trump says or does, and so far has done nothing to prevent him from doing whatever he wants. What’s he going to say? The N-Word? Would we even do anything about it?

Mainstream press has, almost without exception, mishandled everything about Donald Trump every step along the way. I pretty much don’t expect anything different now.
I look forward to eventually dying in a nuclear fire because he mistyped some tweet meant to be about McDonald’s lack of quality Happy Meal toys anymore.

Came for the Costanza reference. Have a star

Don’t forget to LIE about teaching that kid out in public. After you teach him out in public. That was the best part!

“You don’t need to teach out in the public all the time.”

Jed York sounds like a minor character from Grapes of Wrath, not a person in charge of a billion-dollar (for now) football franchise

Usually unwise to pick up so many discarded Trojans.

As a parting gift Alabama sent Kiffin a bus to his home but it kept pulling away a little bit as he approached the door.

Nothing is ever too fucked up, or hopeless for....

“RRRR!”

To add insult to injury, now they have to wait a full year for Santa gigs at local malls

A sad day for Western NY shoe stores, all-you-can-eat buffets, and under-achieving large adult sons.

I look forward to seeing him return in the second half of Duke’s next game.

If anyone in Gov says they want to say something off the record, there’s not a ton you can do. If you say no, they can blame you for an interview not going well, you don’t get the info, someone else does and you may lose access. It shouldn’t be the accepted practice, it’d be great if OTR stuff was something the entire…

Same here. Started in news and ended up in sports. I got info off the record once from someone who came to me with a story. I only accepted it because it was info that I could conceivably have gotten on my own (they just pointed me in the right direction), so I wouldn’t have to answer questions about a source, etc.…

The real question is whether the public have the media literacy and civic literacy to even be alarmed at this. I think the answer is no, and has been for some time. Trump is taking advantage of this preexisting vulnerability.

delightful: