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Rudy Giuliani’s Desperate Efforts to Clear His Name Blow up in His Face

by Cody Fenwick | September 28, 2019 - 7:14am | permalink

This yet another of Trump's confidants and Lawyers the others are in jail waiting for the pardons promised but will never come (ODT)


Even if you ignore the fact that he had to quickly cancel plans to appear at a Kremlin-sponsored conference on Friday, Rudy Giuliani is having an objectively terrible day.
All week, Giuliani has been frantically trying to clear himself of any accusations of wrongdoing in the unfolding Ukraine scandal. The matter exploded this week and triggered a reinvigorated push for impeachment focused on Giluani and President Donald Trump’s combined efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, as documented in a White House phone call memo. Separately, Giuliani has been quite open about his efforts on Trump’s behalf, admitting that he has been “meddling” in an investigation to promote his client’s interests.

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Trump can do more damage than Nixon. His impeachment is imperative

Over the last two and a half years, Trump has shown himself willing to trample any aspect of our democracy that gets in his way – attacking the media, using the presidency for personal profit, packing the federal courts, verbally attacking judges, blasting the head of the Federal Reserve, spending money in ways Congress did not authorize, and subverting the separation of powers.
He believes he’s invincible. He’s now daring our entire constitutional and political system to stop him.

Fox News Is Having a Nervous Breakdown

by P.M. Carpenter | September 28, 2019 - 7:07am | permalink

Speaking of the mad, mad, mad world of conservative media, and returning, for moment to Jeremy Peters' NY Times article, this bit of frenzied lunacy is noted:
"[Mr. Hannity's radio show begins each day] with an announcer declaring that he is 'Fighting the Trump-hating liberal media one day at a time.'"
But get this, from Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman: Yesterday, "Sean Hannity told friends the whistle-blower’s allegations are 'really bad,' a person briefed on Hannity’s conversations told me."

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Not uncommon for Murdoch Media

How the Herald Sun turned on its own after the George Pell scoop

Lucie Morris-Marr, the first journalist to reveal that Victoria police were investigating George Pell over allegations of child abuse, has detailed in her new book what she endured at the Herald Sun after breaking the story on the tabloid’s front page.In Fallen: the inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell, Morris-Marr says elation over her scoop quickly turned sour, and she ended up suffering from severe stress after attacks from Pell and her colleague Andrew Bolt.
“My suspicion that News Corp was doing a U-turn seemed to be confirmed by Monday morning when Andrew Bolt described my scoop as a ‘witch hunt’ and a ‘smear’,” she wrote.

Morris-Marr went on to report on the Pell trial for CNN and the New Daily and, when her book was published last week, it went to the number one spot in the true-crime bestsellers on Amazon.

NAMED AND SHAMED: 15 GLOBAL WARMISTS WHO MAKE CHILDREN CRY

PICK THE WORST No wonder children are crying in the streets, terrified that global warming will kill them. Here are 15 adults responsible for spreading warming catastrophism with their wild exaggerations and reckless attention-seeking. Read - and pick the most dangerous of all. (Plus: 11 cool facts to calm down your sobbing child.)

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 Named and shamed Andrew Bolt has changed tack. Because his attempts to smear a 16-year-old have failed abysmally and so he has started following the Head Office Fox News line. We don't attack children warmists do a complete flip on Bolt the Murdoch marionette's part.

After a right-wing tabloid author like Bolt is in Australia published some of the vilest stuff about Greta saying Thunberg is a “mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and by the international left,” which was precisely what Bolt was doing. Fox took the rare step of apologizing to viewers and saying it would no longer book these people, but they could hardly sack Andrew Bolt for his obvious "kid bashing". Instead, he was made to change his tune.

So Bolt has changed tack and fallen in line. He has absolved himself from "kid bashing" and accused warmists of doing it making out he is Greta's knight. However, her response makes Bolt look not only a fool but the jellyfish and idiot he is.. "I honestly don’t understand why adults would choose to spend their time mocking and threatening teenagers and children for promoting science, when they could do something good instead. I guess they must simply feel so threatened by us." "( Greta)

She has proven extraordinarily potent in crystallizing and focusing on what has been a somewhat diffuse activist energy. She has brought a directness and simplicity to the movement that has been lacking. Her influence is growing, even as the right ramps up its barrage, and it is driving them out of their minds. (David Roberts) Andrew Bolt flips and flops, avoiding what Greta focuses on most Science.