Political Shots Fired
The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
My Facebook page blew up with posts claiming the assassination attempt was “fake,” “fishy” and “staged.”
Trump and his enablers, still in tuxes and evening gowns, wasted no time blaming Democrats and “left-wing extremists.”
This is what 10 years of Trump hath wrought in America.
He shouldn’t be surprised by the doubters, cynics and skeptics. After all, he dismisses anything he doesn’t like as “fake news.”
Most of the 2,600 people who attended the dinner apparently have posted cell-phone videos of what happened after they heard “shots fired!”
So, now we debate whether Trump and his Macho Men bravely shielded their wives … or left them behind … or used their bodies to shield themselves so they can keep protecting America.
We also see some guests calmly helping themselves to bottles of wine and champagne from the tables.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
It’s time to retire the tired ritual of the correspondents’ dinner, at least for the duration of the Trump Administration.
Why would they even invite him to speak?
The headline before the event could have been, “Sheep invite wolf to speak at dinner.”
If he had his way, he’d have most of them fired or jailed – and the First Amendment repealed.
He made clear how he feels about reporters when he erupted at Norah O’Donnell on Sixty Minutes.
Depending on how you look at it, that was a remarkable high or low point in journalism: a President being asked to respond to a failed assassin’s accusations against him.
There is one benefit to what happened Saturday night: Now Trump, administration big-shots and Washington journalists have experienced the terror that stalks too many teachers and children in schools across America.
Just don’t expect any action to come of it.
We’ll revert to the norm in Trump’s America: more suspicion, more division and more hatred for the other side.
As AI seeps into our lives, our work and – inevitably – our politics, it will become even harder to separate truth from fiction, real videos from realistic simulations, and facts from lies.
This presents an opportunity – and a responsibility – to the Democratic Party.
It’s up to us to offer the American people an alternative to Trump and MAGA.
We can fight fire with fire, attacks with attacks, conspiracy theories with conspiracy theories.
Or we can offer something different, something Trump and MAGA Republicans aren’t capable of offering: decency, civility and the truth.
People might like that, for a change.
Political Shots Fired
The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
My Facebook page blew up with posts claiming the assassination attempt was “fake,” “fishy” and “staged.”
Trump and his enablers, still in tuxes and evening gowns, wasted no time blaming Democrats and “left-wing extremists.”
This is what 10 years of Trump hath wrought in America.
He shouldn’t be surprised by the doubters, cynics and skeptics. After all, he dismisses anything he doesn’t like as “fake news.”
Most of the 2,600 people who attended the dinner apparently have posted cell-phone videos of what happened after they heard “shots fired!”
So, now we debate whether Trump and his Macho Men bravely shielded their wives … or left them behind … or used their bodies to shield themselves so they can keep protecting America.
We also see some guests calmly helping themselves to bottles of wine and champagne from the tables.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
It’s time to retire the tired ritual of the correspondents’ dinner, at least for the duration of the Trump Administration.
Why would they even invite him to speak?
The headline before the event could have been, “Sheep invite wolf to speak at dinner.”
If he had his way, he’d have most of them fired or jailed – and the First Amendment repealed.
He made clear how he feels about reporters when he erupted at Norah O’Donnell on Sixty Minutes.
Depending on how you look at it, that was a remarkable high or low point in journalism: a President being asked to respond to a failed assassin’s accusations against him.
There is one benefit to what happened Saturday night: Now Trump, administration big-shots and Washington journalists have experienced the terror that stalks too many teachers and children in schools across America.
Just don’t expect any action to come of it.
We’ll revert to the norm in Trump’s America: more suspicion, more division and more hatred for the other side.
As AI seeps into our lives, our work and – inevitably – our politics, it will become even harder to separate truth from fiction, real videos from realistic simulations, and facts from lies.
This presents an opportunity – and a responsibility – to the Democratic Party.
It’s up to us to offer the American people an alternative to Trump and MAGA.
We can fight fire with fire, attacks with attacks, conspiracy theories with conspiracy theories.
Or we can offer something different, something Trump and MAGA Republicans aren’t capable of offering: decency, civility and the truth.
People might like that, for a change.