Sometimes you CAN tell a book by its cover.

I do see some female comics in the stated lineup, though, so maybe...progress?

Yes.

Oh, for heaven’s sake. No. Just, no. Of course AC already knows Trump is a racist, just like he knows that AOC knows he’s a racist, and just like Cooper knew the answer to ALL of the questions he asked before he asked them. Even if he lived under a rock and had never heard of AOC before, he knew every detail before…

Exactly. This sort of interview isn’t supposed to be any more hard-hitting than chatting with Colbert or Kimmel. The only difference is that CNN isn’t willing to admit that it’s a human interest set piece intended to introduce AOC to a slightly wider audience than the political junkies that were already familiar with…

I’ve made this defense of Cooper so many times that it’s practically engraved on my keyboard, but...he is not, by any stretch, a bad interviewer, a bad reporter, or a bad host. He’s actually very good at all of these things. He’s simply not a hard-ball political reporter, and it’s a ridiculous waste of his skills (and…

Exactly. I’ve never forgotten the labeling on the boxes delivered for the much-bragged-about steak night when I was in school. Grade E - “but edible”. Mm, yum, yum. I’m still fairly certain that my tennis shoes would have been an adequate substitute.

To be fair, when done properly, law enforcement is difficult, demanding, and hella stressful.

But under the Fairness Doctrine, it didn’t matter whether a station called themselves news, entertainment, or mashed potatoes. They could label themselves anything they wanted, it was the content of the programming that was the determining factor. 

In an odd way, the fact that Wallace usually just rolls over probably made his effort more effective this time. Trumpsters just write off pushback from roughly 95% of reporters as just that lying lamestream media at work, but a reporter on God’s own network? 

What makes you think that WalMart isn’t still selling clothes in that exact same style?

I’d say there’s the idea for Stephen King’s next book, but he’s already done that one.

No one is saying that it’s the power of positive thinking, but if you think that TSA passenger screenings actually deserve the credit, then you’re basically delusional. According to the TSA’s own data, screeners miss 70% of firearms and explosives during random testing. (Non-TSA testing has had an even more abysmal…

“The difference being that I have a choice when it comes to buying private insurance and if my insurer sucks, I can buy another policy.

Of course it’s a “softball” interview. Cooper is not a hard news reporter. He’s not an investigative reporter. He’s not an analyst. He’s a talented feature/human interest reporter - one who is being wasted in his current format, incidentally, although I don’t know whose decision it was to turn his show into just…

Ah, but not so fast. The Senate may be happy to kiss Trump’s flabby ass, but the House members whose districts are actually on the border want nothing to do with the wall, and neither do their constituents. Thanks to the fact that there’s only about 3 people living in West Texas, a single House district accounts for…

Mmmm, because ensuring that the American people would be able to know everything their elected officials say and do is the whole point of enshrining a free press in the Constitution in the first place? 

The problem is, no landlord or bank is going to give an extension to someone while the mango menace is bellowing about leaving the government shutdown for months. If anything, that would seem more likely to encourage them to cut folks loose even quicker so as to minimize their losses.

Meh, just tell him that the bells are as big as Pelosi’s balls seem to be this week. 

Ah, but don’t forget, Texas has fire ants. :D