I am---again---sickened by the lying GOP "operatives" on my TV machine who are tryiing

[Atticus]

to defend Trump. My impulse is to ask "Where do they find such people?", but then I realize that being a shameless whore is considered a positive attribute in today's GOP.

So far, they have pulled all manner of outright lies and total irrelevancies out of their---well, you know where Republicans get their "facts", don't you? If they aren't allowed to deflect, change the subject or scurry down a series of "waddabout" rabbit holes, they accuse their opponents of---wait for it---deflection, changing the subject and unjustified hatred of that greatest of all presidents, Donald Trump.

They are rude, loud and completely uninhibited about looking into the camera and saying things they not only know are ridiculously false, but which they know that 99% of the audience knows are ridiculously false. And, the talking heads treat them with respect and eventually thank them for "sharing their views" or some other inanity.

My gag reflex has had a workout today. "CLICK".

[rzemanfl]

1. Please don't insult shameless whores. n/t

[ChazInAz]

6. I've known a few.

They're great fun.

[SHRED]

2. Randi Rhodes has a good idea

Make it so any Congressperson or president who speaks in the capacity of their position is automatically under oath.

If you want the label of "News" as a broadcast outlet, internet, or paper you must go through editing layers to arrive at the truth otherwise you don't get to use the "News" label.

[Volaris]

9. Or pass a law that says if you wanna call yourself news, your parent company

SHALL NOT make any profit off that broadcast.
You want to keep the money, you have to call it unfounded, un-fact-checked opinion.

Refuse, and the FCC will yank your licences. Because fuck you, that's why.

[Faux pas]

3. When those things appear on the tv machine

I change the channel, easy peasy

[pwb]

4. Lying with a smile. Worked for awhile

No more.

[Blue Owl]

5. *Click* indeed

Turn that shit right the fuck off!

[triron]

7. These "talking heads" are complicit in the shitshow reality we are in right now.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I clicked off all "news" broadcasts and talking heads in Nov. 2016.

[hunter]

10. My television plays DVDs and Netflix. That's all it does.

I think television "news" and opinion is toxic.

[Scruffy1]

11. I solved that problem years ago.

Unplug it and haul it to the curb. Television in America is crap.