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sher-ee · 24 days

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“As soon as the lie I wrote and recorded for the audiobook was brought to my attention, I lied more about it.”

Pathological liar continues to lie.

The psychopathy of the GOP is staggering.

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 22 days

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Palestinians and others in the Middle East see the U.S. as an "enabler" of Israel in its war with Hamas, Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan said Sunday on "Face the Nation."

"People view the U.S. as being a party to this war," Rania said in an interview with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan. "Because, you know, Israeli officials say that without U.S. support, they couldn't launch this war."

• TRANSCRIPT: Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan on "Face the Nation," May 5, 2024

Jordan, a U.S. ally, has had a peace treaty with Israel since 1994. The queen, who is of Palestinian descent, has criticized the reaction to the war by the U.S. and other countries, saying there's been a "selective application of humanitarian law" that's causing a "loss of credibility" in the U.S.

"The U.S. may be Israel's most-closest ally, but a good friend holds a friend accountable," she said.

Rania said the world is getting "mixed messages" from the U.S., which she says has both made expressions of concern over civilian deaths in Gaza and provided offensive weapons to Israel "that are used against Palestinians." She urged the international community to use leverage to compel Israel to let aid into Gaza and bring an end to the war, saying the U.S. can do so by saying it won't continue to provide offensive weapons to Israel.

The queen described the war's toll on the Arab world, which she said has watched as Gaza has become "unrecognizable" over the last seven months. As Israel's bombardment of Gaza has stretched on for nearly seven months since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, the Hamas-run Health Ministry has said that at least 34,000 have died as the humanitarian crisis has escalated, although the Health Ministry does not designate between civilians and combatant casualties.

"It's been quite devastating. And the impact has been, obviously people are so traumatized by what they're seeing every day," she said. "We were traumatized by Oct. 7, but then this war, we feel is not, you know, Israel is saying that this was a defensive war. Obviously, it was instigated by Oct. 7, but the way it's being fought is not in a defensive way."

Queen Rania made clear that Hamas does not represent the majority of people in Gaza, and that Palestinians have been dehumanized in decades by Israel to "numb people to Palestinian suffering."

"When you reduce people to a violent people who are different to us — so they're not moral like us, so therefore it's okay to inflict pain and suffering on them because they don't feel it the same way we do — it allows people to do bad things," she said. "That's-that's the mental loophole of dehumanization, it allows you to justify the unjustifiable, to do bad things and still see yourself as a good person."

At the same time, the queen condemned antisemitism, calling it "the worst kind of bigotry" and "pure hatred." And she drew a line between antisemitism and speaking out against the war in Gaza and Israeli policy. Pointing to protests on American college campuses, Queen Raina said that law and order must be maintained and that it's wrong for students to feel unsafe on campus.

"Emotions are running high and I think people are losing sight of what these students are protesting," she said. "For them, the issue of Gaza and the Palestinian conflict is more about social justice. They are standing up for human rights, for international law, for the principles that underpin international law. They're standing up for the future that they're going to inherit."

Her interview comes as President Biden is set to meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan this week. The administration is also facing a deadline to provide Congress with a determination of whether Israel is using American weapons in accordance with international law in the coming days.

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Stephen Robinson at Public Notice (05.10.2024):

Not so long ago, the Sunday morning news shows were a vital part of the political ecosphere. Politicians and government officials clamored for the mainstream platform provided by ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, and to a lesser extent, CNN’s State of the Union and Fox News Sunday. This is where presidential campaigns were launched and political agendas defined. Regular viewers have probably noticed, however, that elected Republicans increasingly don’t perform that well outside the safe spaces of Fox and Newsmax. There’s a simple reason for that.

Last Sunday was a case in point. Trump’s vice presidential hopefuls fanned across the Sunday shows and made fools of themselves. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum spent the evening prior at a Mar-a-Lago donor event where Trump ranted about special prosecutor Jack Smith, spread his usual lies about the 2020 election, and compared President Biden’s administration to the Gestapo. On CNN, State of the Union host Jake Tapper asked Burgum if he was comfortable with this rhetoric, and the governor simply changed the topic. ”Yesterday, we had an opportunity to listen to the president talk for 90 minutes without a teleprompter, covering a wide range of topics, and largely very upbeat, because, if the election was held today, Trump would be winning,” he said.

Burgum downplayed the criminal charges Trump faces and insisted it would be a “travesty of justice” if he was convicted at the end of his New York trial. When Tapper asked him about the recent Time magazine interview where Trump seemingly supported political violence if he lost the election, Burgum could only ramble nonsensically about the 2000 and 2016 elections, neither of which ended in violent coup attempts. Yet Burgum condemned the January 6 attack on the Capitol as it happened, so he should understand the difference. Even worse was Sen. Tim Scott’s appearance on Meet the Press. On January 6, Scott voted to certify Biden’s win. But when host Kristin Welker asked him if he’d commit to accepting the 2024 election results, Scott wouldn’t say “yes.” Instead, he kept reiterating that “at the end of the day, the 47th president will be Donald Trump.”

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These shameless displays generated bad press for Burgum and Scott, which helps explain why some elected Republicans are choosing to stay away from mainstream interviews entirely. Notably, on April 28, not a single elected Republican appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. This came weeks after GOP Rep. Nancy Mace called for a boycott of the show over Stephanopoulos’s grilling of her. But there’s something deeper going on — Republicans simply can’t defend their ongoing support of Trump.

Mace’s This Week interview on March 10 was a complete disaster. She’s spoken publicly about her own experience as a rape victim, and Stephanopoulos asked how she squares that with her current support for Trump, who has been found liable for defaming a woman he sexually abused. Mace had no real defense, so she lashed out at Stephanopoulos. She argued that Trump wasn’t found guilty in a criminal court (neither was Mace’s rapist). She later accused Stephanopoulos of “mansplaining” rape and shaming her on national TV, when in reality she shamed herself.

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There’s no escaping January 6

Republicans who condemned Trump in 2016 mostly did so on character grounds. He was vulgar and sexist, hardly a “role model” for Americans. Haley said Trump was "everything we teach our kids not to do in kindergarten.” Rep. Elise Stefanik called out Trump’s “inappropriate, offensive comments” on the Access Hollywood tape. Then-GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte said she couldn’t bring herself to vote for Trump because he’d talked “about assault of women.” Now, after a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse, Ayotte says “there's no question [Trump’s] the right choice for the White House.”

It was much easier to walk back expressed reservations about Trump and simply focus on right-wing policy wins when he was in the office. Republicans could just pretend they never read his tweets. However, the last traces of plausible deniability went up in smoke on January 6. We all lived through Trump’s coup attempt. We witnessed his refusal to disavow the violence and his continued promise to pardon the convicted insurrectionists, who he calls “January 6 hostages.” Republicans who stuck with Trump after January 6 either minimize the Capitol attack or outright embrace it. When Sununu called out Trump’s election lies and his starring role in January 6, he sounded like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, but his shameless attempt to remain in MAGA’s good graces tars him as the worst kind of phony. Chris Christie and even Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, understand that rejecting Trump’s anti-democratic actions requires withdrawing even tacit support for his current candidacy. Of course, Cheney and Kinzinger are no longer in Congress and neither Christie nor Pence have realistic political aspirations.

Former AG Bill Barr has roundly repudiated Trump. He said Trump “will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest, there’s no question about it.” Nonetheless, he recently told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins that he’ll vote for him anyway because “I think Trump would do less damage than Biden, and I think all this stuff about a threat to democracy — I think the real threat to democracy is the progressive movement and the Biden administration.”

[...] These train wreck interviews make for entertaining clips on social media, but you’d think Republicans would like to avoid starring in a comic farce. Republicans with an agenda other than slavish devotion to Trump would prefer to hammer Biden and Democrats about the border or campus protests, but their presidential nominee is a criminal defendant charged with serious felonies who actively promotes political violence. They can’t escape their support for someone so unfit for office.

Trump has turned the search for his next top running mate into its own reality show, and the contenders like Vance, Cotton, Burgum, Scott, and confessed puppy killer Kristi Noem (who had her own Sunday show disaster on Face the Nation last weekend) will probably keep coming back for more. They have their “audience of one” to please. It’s unclear if Trump watches anything but Fox News and Newsmax, but it’s obvious from his social media feed that he’s aware if any Republican dares speak heresy against him. The mainstream TV interviews are humiliating for Republicans — but maybe that’s the point. Right-wing media outlets are less likely to challenge Republicans about January 6 or accepting the 2024 election results, so the true loyalty test is on the major network shows. Unfortunately, there’s no limit to the moral depths that elected Republicans will sink to remain in good standing with their orange king.

Republicans’ appearances on Sunday morning talk shows (and any outlet outside the right-wing echo chamber) have been nothing short of disasters.

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Kristi Noem Confronted With Republican Criticism for Shooting Dog

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Kristi Noem Confronted With Republican Criticism for Shooting Dog

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was confronted with Republican criticism about her account of fatally shooting her dog in her upcoming book during an interview on CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday. Noem, a Republican who has been floated as a possible vice presidential nominee for former President Donald Trump ahead of this year’s […]

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#2024 election #dogs #Donald Trump #Face The Nation #Kristi Noem #Newt Gingrich #republicans #South Dakota #U.S. Politics #Dog News

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oldshowbiz · 28 days

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Face the Eyebrows

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realiv0 · 2 years

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#volodymyr zelenskyy #volodymyr zelensky #face the nation #did he start with joe because he wanted to say joe biden or does he actually call him joe?#I kinda think the first one but who knows #the interview was excellent #he makes several important and very good points #I hope people will listen #lastly #he says he was there #I wonder if he just meant the area #or if there is (a part of) a trip we don’t know about (yet)#wouldn’t be the first time after all

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By Red Painter

Crooks and Liars

June 12, 2022

Adam Kinzinger joined CBS' Face The Nation on Sunday morning to discuss the bombshell revelations from the first public hearing held by the bipartisan January 6th Committee and he had some pretty stark words for Donald Trump and his supporters.

DICKERSON: One of the findings on Thursday even, we were shown for the first time, is several people close the President telling him there was no widespread fraud, he was going to lose. How many people close to him do you think were sending him that message?

KINZINGER: I don't really know many people around him that truly believe that the election was stolen and they told him so. Yet a lot of people told him it wasn't.

DICKERSON: Were there people who knew it was a lie and yet carried on in his inner circle?

KINZINGER: Oh, for sure. All you have to do is look at he was surrounded by "yes people" that want to tell him everything that pleases him. We'll get more into at. I don't want to spoil the deep dive into some of this stuff. I think if anybody truly believed, after what you see, after what the Attorney General says, for instance, after what every piece of information comes in, if you truly believe the election was stolen then, if the President truly believes it, for instance, he is not mentally capable to be President. I think he didn't believe it. I think the people around him didn't believe it. This was all about keeping power against the will of the American people.

This is a KEY point for the committee to make, in fact it may be the biggest one, from a legal standpoint. If they can show that he KNEW he lost and that he continued to push the big lie to his followers in order to incite them to commit insurrection and to riot against the Capitol, that is something that cannot be overlooked by the Department of Justice. It is one thing for him to genuinely believe he won - not that he SHOULD have won - but that he really did win and no one told him that he lost. It is becoming crystal clear that pretty everyone told him he lost (Bill Barr, Jason Miller, even Ivanka!). Let's see what happens in subsequent hearings when they keep pulling this thread.

Watch the video clip.

#adam kinzinger #face the nation #donald trump #u.s. capitol insurrection

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arctic-hands · 1 year

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Margaret Brennan just asked if Marjorie Taylor-Greene and her ilk need to be educated and the entire house started laughing

#I love you Margaret Brennan #face the nation

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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The House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection concluded its meeting on Sunday where members discussed criminal referrals, multiple sources told CNN.

The subcommittee tasked with investigating criminal referrals presented its recommendations to the full panel at a 1 p.m. ET virtual meeting, but it is unclear if those recommendations were officially adopted. A source described the meeting as "successful" but did not elaborate.

"We are as a subcommittee, several of us that were charged with making the recommendations about referrals, going to be making that recommendation to the full committee today," panel member Rep. Adam Schiff said prior to the meeting on CBS "Face the Nation." Members on the Committee would then need to approve the recommendations.

The panel is weighing criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump and a number of other individuals, sources say, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, right wing lawyer John Eastman, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as CNN previously reported.

While the referrals would largely be symbolic in nature -- as the Justice Department has already undertaken a sprawling investigation into the US Capitol attack and efforts to overturn the 2020 election -- Committee members have stressed that the move serves as a way to document their views for the record.

The decision has loomed large over the Committee. Members of the panel have been in wide agreement that Trump and some of his closest allies have committed a crime when he pushed a conspiracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, as they've laid out in their hearings. But they have long been split over what exactly to do about it.

"We are in common agreement about what our approach should be. I'm not ready or authorized at this point to tell you what that is," Schiff, a California Democrat, said. "I think we are all certainly in agreement that there is evidence of criminality here. And we want to make sure that the Justice Department is aware of that.”

Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, told reporters Friday he expected to reach a decision on criminal referrals at Sunday's virtual meeting. But Schiff reiterated on Sunday that the Committee will wait to announce its decision until December 21, when it plans to present the rest of its report.

Schiff stressed his view on Sunday that criminal referrals from the Committee make "an important statement, not a political one, but a statement about the evidence of an attack on the institutions for our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power that Congress -- examining an attack on itself -- is willing to report criminality."

"So I think it's an important decision in its own right if we go forward with it," he said. "And one that the Department ought to give due consideration to."

#us politics #news #cnn #cnn politics #2022 #house select committee #capitol riot #capitol riot investigation #trump administration #criminal referrals #Rep. Adam Schiff #face the nation #cbs news #Mark Meadows #John Eastman #Jeffrey Clark #Rudy Giuliani #rep. bennie thompson #department of justice

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justinspoliticalcorner · 20 days

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CHLOE SIMON & GIDEON TAAFFE at MMFA:

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has been in the doghouse after several passages from her memoir have received negative viral attention, including references to shooting animals and a made-up story about meeting North Korean leader Kim Jung Un. During her appearances on various news programs, both mainstream and right-wing figures grilled Noem about the controversial passages in her book. In response, Noem doubled-down, deflected, and expressed contempt for being questioned. Noem has now called off the rest of her book tour, canceling appearances on Fox News’ Gutfeld! and CNN’s Inside Politics. [...]

Mainstream outlets grilled Noem about “celebrating the killing of the animals” and her fake meeting with Kim Jong Un

Noem recently made two separate appearances on CBS shows on Face the Nation and CBS Mornings to discuss her new book, No Going Back. During those appearances, CBS hosts grilled Noem about the controversial chapter in her book in which she admitted to shooting her 14-month-old dog Cricket, as well as a now-retracted passage about a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. On May 5, when Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan asked why she shot her dog and if she regretted sharing the story, Noem defended her actions, arguing that she was “protecting” her children and livestock. The next day, on CBS Mornings, she reiterated her claim that she was protecting her family and told the story so “people would know I don’t pass my responsibilities onto anybody else."

At one point, Brennan asked Noem about another passage in her book in which she suggested that President Joe Biden’s dog, Commander, should be euthanized. “Are you doing this to try to look tough?” Brennan asked. “Well, number one, Joe Biden’s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,” Noem said. “So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog and what to do with it?” Noting that Commander has been removed from the White House, the moderator asked, “You’re saying [Commander] should be shot?” Noem replied: “That’s what the president should be accountable to.”

Brennan also asked Noem about another passage in which she admitted to shooting a family goat and commented that it seemed as though the governor was “celebrating the killing of the animals.” Noem was also asked in her CBS interviews about her book’s now-retracted claim that she met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while serving in Congress on the House Armed Services Committee. She deflected, saying that she has met with “many, many world leaders.” Following the interview, Noem decried CBS as “fake news” and claimed that conservatives “are always treated differently” in mainstream media. During a May 6 appearance on Elizabeth Vargas Reports, NewsNation host Elizabeth Vargas also grilled Noem about the inclusion of Kim in her book. Vargas asked Noem why she “didn’t notice” the factual error when recording the audiobook version of her memoir and told Noem she was just trying to “get a straight answer from it.” Noem’s publisher, Center Street, has stated that it is removing the passage about Kim from the book and has directed “further questions about the passage” to Noem.

Noem retreated to right-wing media, where she faced similarly tough

questioning from conservative outlets

Even after Noem retreated to right-wing media to promote her book, she did not escape criticism and tough questions.

Even much of the right-wing media aren't interested in cleaning up after Kristi Noem's defense of dog killing.