At what point Cory Booker must turn on Kushner?

[Pluvious]

Personally I've been impressed with Cory's appearances on Realtime, and was pleased when he became NJ's freshman Senator.

It's certainly not unreasonable to have been on the recipient side of the two children's largesse.

That's just politics these days, you can't win w/o donors, right ?

We all will be watching closely as this torturous Reality Show works through its first season.

Zeus help us.

[bettyellen]

1. He's not on Trumps side so WTF ? Kushners family is Jersey so of course they donated .../

[George II]

5. It's easy to take a sentence or two and jump to a false conclusion out of context...

Booker is analytical, an attorney educated at Yale Law School. What he said basically said is "we need to know all the facts before taking away Kushner's security clearance", that is completely different from what people are saying. He certainly is not Kushner's "fan" or defending him.

[NurseJackie]

6. You're smarter than his attackers are. (Frustrating, isn't it?)

Once again... just as before... we have a strong and honest and honorable and progressive DEMOCRAT being smeared and maligned with half-truths and innuendo.

MOST PROGRESSIVE SENATORS
========================
1TIE Harris, Kamala D CA
1TIE Van Hollen, Chris D MD
3 Markey, Ed D MA
4 Warren, Elizabeth D MA
5 Booker, Cory D NJ <<<=====<<<<

http://progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?house=senate

[still_one]

2. I think it will be sooner than later

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/25/fbi_s_russia_investigation_now_focusing_jared_kushner.html

[no_hypocrisy]

3. It will come in stages. First, he will go silent on passively defending Kushner.

He just won't reference him, respond to questions about him.

Then Booker will say he regretfully has to speak about past deeds, if in fact proven true.

Then it will be a condemnation among a multitude. Booker will be far from the first to throw a stone at Kushner.

[George II]

4. Not surprised the video is from TYT, stopped watching 5 seconds into it.

This whole full-blown assault on Booker has gotten ridiculous, there have five or six OPs about this now, each one taking what Booker said out of context. Booker never "defended" Kushner nor is he a "Kushner fan".

Please search for what Booker REALLY said and consider deleting this misrepresentation of what Booker said.

Thank you.

[NurseJackie]

7. I can't watch TYT videos either (and I've tried). It's not just Cenk... all of them are horrid.

(But, Cenk is definitely the worst.) Except for TYT's hard-core emoprog fan base and the ultra-hyper-purists who glom on to their every syllable, grunt or utterance... I'm amazed that anyone takes them seriously.

They're so outrageous and over the top, that it would almost be easy to believe that the whole thing was just some elaborate gag... or some sort of performance-art that was intended to poke fun at or ridicule the fringe left (you know, the Stein-loving Sarandon-types.)

Frankly, I don't know how they stay "in business". Where do they get their paychecks? Is this just a volunteer effort on their part? Are they doing this as a hobby? Or are they making a living off of this?

[George II]

8. Well, for a start, they got $4 million from Louisiana republican Buddy Roemer:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-young-turks-network-raises-4-million-from-former-republican-presidential-candidate/

[NurseJackie]

11. Really??!! TYT is largely a REPUBLICAN-FUNDED enterprise? (Which is worse GOP-funded or RT-funded?)

It's highly questionable... I wonder why it is that people are allowed to link to their videos or cite them as an authoritative or reputable source.

[George II]

9. A little bit about the founder, although he's "changed" his opinions years later*:

From wikipedia:

"In his college and law school years, Uygur espoused socially conservative views. He wrote a column in The Daily Pennsylvanian criticizing Penn's practice of affirmative action. He supported the "pro-life" position on the abortion issue, criticized feminism, and argued that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was treated unjustly during his Senate confirmation hearings"


*follow the money

[NurseJackie]

10. I question the intelligence (or the motives) of anyone who takes them seriously...

... and yes, you're correct: "follow the money" helps to explain a lot.

[Plucketeer]

14. Hmmmm...

Just WHO IS on the DU-approved list of watchables? Thom, Ed, Chris, Mike an' others all collude with the Russians. Bernie TV? Forget THAT shit! Turks only in it for the money, Seder's slanted, Pakman too - NONE of these folks would last long - speaking as they do - on DU.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. I'm not certain

But I would like to know more about Cenk's days as a foaming at the mouth Conservative!

[Plucketeer]

17. One can understand the opposition - and therefor be critical of it with accuracy

if one has actually been a part of it in the past.

[bettyellen]

18. In the past? He's taken big money from republicans lately...

[JustAnotherGen]

21. Yep -Buddy Roemer

Wants his $4 million dollars worth!

[JustAnotherGen]

20. He's not in the past

He's a very very dirty birdie.

[Plucketeer]

25. Time for grassroots funding

to get the Schumer-Pelosi channel up and running! We'd surely get the straight poop there!

[JustAnotherGen]

13. Typical Cenk

Always trying to make a buck with potshots at others.

[nycbos]

12. There is a famous quote about money in politics that make it into a West Wing episode...

...


"If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, take their money and then vote against them you've got no business being up here."

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Idea?

Every single Democratic AND those who caucus with the Democratic Party (Sanders and King) -

Must release their taxes and last FEC filings.

Let's air it ALL out.

Let's continue to take potshots at the left, get them all out of our system, fully demoralize the Demcoratic base -

And THEN we can hold Kushner accountable for being a greedy traitorous little maggot?


Will that make folks happy? If so - start with all of the last Primary candidates for the Democratic Nomination for President. HRC, Sanders, O'Malley, Webb and Chaffee should have to go first.

It's only fair.

[George II]

19. Excellent idea - let's hope ALL you mention participate in your proposal.

[JustAnotherGen]

22. All it takes is a dream

That one day - all things will be aired out!

[JHan]

26. fantastic post.

[murielm99]

23. Booker is on the Foreign Relations Committee.

This is a crucial committee, given everything that is happening with trump and his family.

This should be taken into consideration when looking at the recent smears against Booker.

[NurseJackie]

24. You know... that makes PERFECT SENSE! (Thank you!)