David Corn: "Snowflakes for Trump" (the Barr train wreck gave the Mooch a sad. A very big sad).

[Miles Archer]

David Corn
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David Corn Retweeted Anthony Scaramucci
Snowflakes for Trump.

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Anthony Scaramucci Retweeted Michael Knowles
When I was called a human pinkie ring and a goombah while in the @Whitehouse that was deemed acceptable comedy. Double standard. We better stop the macro punishments for micro aggressions soon. She made a joke in poor taste move on.

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[Vinca]

1. Mooch is craving attention again. The limelight is so fleeting . . .

[oberliner]

5. I was thinking the same thing

"Pay attention to me!" tweets from him.

[genxlib]

2. While in the whitehouse...

As I recall, you were fired before your start date. Does that count as "in the Whitehouse"

[ProfessorGAC]

3. It Shouldn't

I don't get the media attention this guy receives. He was someone who was supposed to be a somebody in the WH for 10 minutes. Then got launched without ever actually doing anything.

Why does ANYBODY in the media give him a gram of attention?

[genxlib]

4. The 24 hr news cycle isn't going to fill itself

Mildly controversial personalities like Mooch are a Godsend to fill time and generate attention.

I have always said that the 24 hr news cycle adheres to the law of Supply and Demand. When they supply 24 hours of space to fill, the value of the content drops precipitously.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Or They Could Spend More Time on Each Topic

Same result.

If they do as you suggest, that's just lazy. Wouldn't cost a dime more to do it. Just extra effort. Everything else is a sunk cost.

[genxlib]

7. Extra effort is cost

To produce more content at an in-depth level would actually require some effort.

Journalism is expensive. Talking personalities are cheap.

I agree with you completely but that is just not what they do.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Didn't Mean It That Way

Sorry if i was confusing.

Not talking about further journalistic dig. Just keeping credible, and known, interviewees there for an extra 2 minutes, three times an hour, sucks up 2 hours of 24 minutes where they don't need to rely on a fake mobster like Scaramucci.

And, they could add one minute from the cutting room floor to the human interest stuff. The work was already done. They are consciously wasting that footage. That's another 24 minutes a day.

Now, it's 2.8 hours they don't have to fill, and the cost is zero.

[genxlib]

13. You are certainly correct

But that would not satisfy the conflict quotient necessary to keep people interested. Sadly, too many people find straight news boring so they artificially spice it up. You know Bread and Circuses.

I try not to be cynical, but then...reality happens.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Totally Fair

Short attention span theater.

[NewJeffCT]

14. however, instead of the disgraced Scaramucci

or pathological liar KellyAnne Conway or the hopelessly confused liar Rudy Giuliani on the air, why not have people like Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu, Richard Blumenthal, Chris Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, Kamala Harris or any of several others?

[genxlib]

23. No doubt

There are better choices

Of course we would like all the ones you would listed. But I daresay, I think the conservatives need to be represented.

But there are better ones that could be used without resorting to the usual cast of losers.

[Mc Mike]

8. Why do we have to keep hearing from this failed sopranos extra?

[BSdetect]

9. I see, Hitler was just macro punished for his mild racism.

[cyclonefence]

10. Is it worth the effort

to try to explain to Scaramouchi that he was called names based on his behavior, not on his skin color? Now granted, "goombah" is Italiian-specific, but we were all educated by The Sopranos--isn't "goombah" a mafia guy's girl on the side? Maybe Scar felt his sexuality was being impugned. Anyway, waah waah waah.

[NewJeffCT]

15. no

a goombah is the equivalent of being a Mafia Boss' minion, which is usually a man.

[cyclonefence]

17. Oh.

Thank you.

[NewJeffCT]

19. see #25 and #26

the words are close, but not the same

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Mafia-related_words

[cyclonefence]

22. Got it

Thanks so much--they are very similar. What a difference a 'b' makes!

[Wounded Bear]

11. Corrn is right...whiners gonna whine...

[jcgoldie]

16. "while in the @Whitehouse"...

Bahahaha wtf?! Sorry I blinked and missed that.

[BootinUp]

18. Trump only hires the best! LOL

[ooky]

21. uh...Mooch, that's exactly what ABC did -

moved on.