Matt Continetti on the Trump admin’s Iran divide. How the media botched a police shooting story. Suzy Weiss on Trump’s portrait and vain men. And more.
“Harming U.S. Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers and scholars does not protect Jewish people.” Oh, yes it does. How dare these faculty speak for the rest of us. Columbia did not protect their Jewish students and these "scholars" were/are a huge part of the problem. I'm guessing 99% of them couldn't say The Shema if there was a gun to their head. "Jewish" faculty indeed.
I have never been added to a text group with the VP and others on it in error, but I have been added to a text group in error. I immediately replied all "I believe I was added in error" and removed myself.
If I was added to a high level government chat, where I got to participate in chats about how they are going to bomb things - I'd keep my goddamn mouth shut and enjoy the insider access. i'd start participating in subtle ways that don't identify me. "I concur. When do we think we should brief POTUS?" Maybe make a little money on Polymarket. This guy wasted it.
The Atlantic Journalist knew it was a mistake. But then he participated and reported on the ‘chat’. Two wrongs don’t make a right. I stopped reading the Atlantic years ago, this confirms my decision.
Not quite. He SAID he thought it might be a set-up. No reason to take him seriously, given his lack of credibility on matters great and small over decades. His claim that the person who put him on the thread was an undercover op, when in fact it was a woman on Waltz's staff, confirms the point.
But please remember, Goldberg has all the other info he claims he COULD have published but didn’t. Odds on how long before he does disclose anything and everything he has? For his benefit of course. I’m not commenting one way or the other on this group chat fiasco, I am however pointing out that despite his comments of his noble behavior, Goldberg is no angel.
Jeffrey Goldberg is of such renown to those who read--Editor of The Atlantic who led it to 3 Pulitzers AND host of one of the most-watched PBS political shows weekly AND publisher of several books AND former IDF officer.
Publishing any of this was not to Goldberg's benefit. He did so to bring a MAJOR security problem to light -- what good investigative journalists do.
Today, he's published more to prove the Trump people all LIED to the Congress & Senate that they didn't send classified materials over an unsecured media.
Again, what a good journalist does -- reveal enough of the source material when needed to prove the veracity of the story.
Goldberg didn’t win a Pulitzer himself. Since becoming Editor of The Atlantic he has fostered an environment that led to 3 of his writers winning Pulitzers. Takes a special talent to see a writer who can write, and excellent editing to bring it across the finish line.
The ludicrous incompetence of Trump and his hacks gets worse every day. Lucky for him neither Fox nor MAGA would see anything wrong if Trump shot a trans teen dead in front of Trump Tower.
Actually, if someone from MAGA saw him pull the trigger he would face murder charges. MAGA knows right from wrong. And you've exposed what appears to be a serious case of TDS. Please go see a doctor about this.
The role of the New York Times in the Journalism Jumps the Turnstile article in framing public opinion has, I believe, parallels to the AP coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. The vast number of AP articles have bylines of reporters with Arab names who, obviously from their reporting, have access to Hamas sources. In nearly every article, they report casualties and events from Hamas sources without question. Yet if they report something from the Israeli side it almost always includes the statement that "this cannot be independently confirmed." Over weeks and weeks of repetition, readers begin to believe that information from Israel is not as reliable as that of Hamas, thus framing public opinion.
Unsurprisingly, complete silence from the usual blowhards on the huge blunder of the top administration officials, who made themselves look like clowns. More surprising is that there’s nothing serious in the FP reporting on the use of a commercial app to discuss key defense issues hours before action begun. Note that an editor from the Atlantic was included in the chat specifically because a commercial app was used, in breach of all existing security protocols. And the clowns dare to say that it’s OK, Signal is encrypted, but the titles apparently are not.
Matt Continetti talks about Witkoff, the NYC real estate guy miraculously turned key international negotiator, but only in the context of Iran. No mention of his stunning remarks about Ukraine in his interview with the great Tucker Carlson. “The negotiator” speaks straight from Putin’s propaganda; apparently Ukraine’s east is Russian because they decided so in a referendum held under Russian occupation, after Russia gobbled up the area and millions of Ukrainians from the east had to flee. Witkoff also said that Russia has no intention to take all of Ukraine; apparently he’s not aware that Russia has ruled not only Ukraine but also a good chunk of Poland for centuries. This guy is clueless not just about history but also geography - somebody should remind him that the initial push by Russia in 2022 was to take Kiev, Kharkov and all the Ukrainian Black Sea coast, including Odessa. Put it on the map and that’s pretty much all Ukraine. This is not a negotiation, it’s a surrender from the onset.
What does the US lose ? Nothing deleterious to our interest happened other than a stupid mistake that embarrasses Hegseth and Waltz . No price to the USA . The law is ALL ABOUT WHATABOUTISM !! It’s called precedence . And until the people who covered up a dementia laden President for 4 years are punished I don’t want to hear a FUCKING THING . No harm , no foul with the Houthis
Where were you when Biden Adm blundered Afghanistan withdrawal to the tune of 13 soldiers killed and 7 Afghan kids shot erroneously by a drone ? Crickets . No harm here , just an error that needs correcting . A nothing burger
Where was I? I thought that was the most idiotic and revolting withdrawal ever, one that opened the way to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
And you? Are you able to formulate any other thought besides cheap whataboutism, as if a huge mistake by the senile Biden justifies stupid mistakes by the Trump administration? Did it ever go through your mind that in both cases it’s the US who loses big time? Do you even care about that?
It’s notable that the front pages of both the Times and the WSJ today had stories on the thuggish assault of Israeli Jews on the director of the superb, Oscar-winning documentary on the brutal oppression of the Palestinians on the West Bank, No Other Land. Yet somehow TFP’s daily front page “Window on the World” didn’t notice this internationally front page news. TFP’s “window” seems a bit selective about what it opens onto.
Did TFP ever cover this excellent film and what it shows about Jews brutalizing Palestinians at all, even after its Oscar? At the time of its Oscar, I could find nowhere to watch it in a theater, stream it, or even buy it. I finally had to order it from Australia. But when the DVD finally arrived today, it was not No Other Land, but The Beatles 1964, with no explanation for the swicheroo. How odd.
Now, however, someone is distributing it nationwide to art houses. It needs to be shown on PBS, on Frontline or something. Or covered by 60 Minutes. Certainly, there is no more pressing international issue than this, outside Sudan or Ukraine.
Ezra Klein spent a month in the West Bank recently and told David Remnick after his return that the plight and misery of the Palestinians reminded him of that of blacks in Bama and MS in the Forties and Fifties. I grew up in Georgia then, and the standard of living of blacks was much higher than that of Palestinians in caves or concrete shacks today. And blacks did not constantly have their hovels bulldozed by the state. Nor were they killed by state armies or police, or by whites at large, in anything like the numbers killed by official Israeli forces and settlers. Let’s hope No Other Land causes the kind of outrage among what King called “people of goodwill,” Jews and Gentiles alike, that was caused in the Fifties and Sixties by TV coverage of black suffering under segregation. What happened to John Lewis and the other marchers at Selma was nothing compared to what happens to Palestinians regularly.
Let’s hope the Jewish settlers who beat this internationally celebrated Palestinian director don’t eventually succeed in giving him the settler version of a Southern Leo Frank-style lynching. At least now, as at Selma, “The whole world is watching.” Just as it is watching this superb film.
This excellent film has been revealed to be a deliberate propaganda piece by Hamas. You may want to check out who the relatives of the film’s hero are.
I’m very sorry the Palestinians have chosen only violence since The League of Nations partition. Think what a thriving nation the Palestinians might have if their efforts and energy had gone into building instead of the centuries-old tribal warfare route.
Hey, nothing about the NPR/PBS hearings tomorrow? I did notice that tonight PBS makes sure the public knows which side of the table is bad news: "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram", all about the insidious terror perpetrated on us all by Islamic...oh wait, no, of course it's White supremacy, yeah, THAT'S who'll be questioning our fearless, civic-minded media leaders tomorrow, yessirree...
Israel has hitched its star to a gaggle of stupidly vain, blustering idiots. Admittedly, smart politicians would not sign up to be the total puppets of Bibi and AIPAC, so when Israel needed puppets Trumpian ones were the only ones on offer. I thought Israel’s Axis of Evil used to run from Moscow to Teheran to Beijing. Is it really so great for that Trump and his associates are such obvious puppets of Moscow?
“Harming U.S. Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers and scholars does not protect Jewish people.” Oh, yes it does. How dare these faculty speak for the rest of us. Columbia did not protect their Jewish students and these "scholars" were/are a huge part of the problem. I'm guessing 99% of them couldn't say The Shema if there was a gun to their head. "Jewish" faculty indeed.
I have never been added to a text group with the VP and others on it in error, but I have been added to a text group in error. I immediately replied all "I believe I was added in error" and removed myself.
If I was added to a high level government chat, where I got to participate in chats about how they are going to bomb things - I'd keep my goddamn mouth shut and enjoy the insider access. i'd start participating in subtle ways that don't identify me. "I concur. When do we think we should brief POTUS?" Maybe make a little money on Polymarket. This guy wasted it.
(you have been kicked from Yemen Small Group)
Missing: letter from Pennsylvanian regarding Governor Shapiro.
‘A portrait is a painting of a person with potatoes in their mouth.’ To completely mangle a John Singer Sargent quote.
The Atlantic Journalist knew it was a mistake. But then he participated and reported on the ‘chat’. Two wrongs don’t make a right. I stopped reading the Atlantic years ago, this confirms my decision.
He thought it was an attempt to give him misinformation or entrap him. He didn’t think it was real until the bombs fell as the plan directed.
And he deliberately refused to disclose anything that might put service personnel in harm’s way—more than Hesgeth did.
Maybe, maybe not…..still think he made poor choices
Not quite. He SAID he thought it might be a set-up. No reason to take him seriously, given his lack of credibility on matters great and small over decades. His claim that the person who put him on the thread was an undercover op, when in fact it was a woman on Waltz's staff, confirms the point.
Only someone who knows nothing of Jeffrey Goldberg’s career would parrot Trump & Company trashing him.
The man’s unflinchingly honest, and has cojones Trump & Company dream about from his years fighting in the IDF
But please remember, Goldberg has all the other info he claims he COULD have published but didn’t. Odds on how long before he does disclose anything and everything he has? For his benefit of course. I’m not commenting one way or the other on this group chat fiasco, I am however pointing out that despite his comments of his noble behavior, Goldberg is no angel.
Jeffrey Goldberg is of such renown to those who read--Editor of The Atlantic who led it to 3 Pulitzers AND host of one of the most-watched PBS political shows weekly AND publisher of several books AND former IDF officer.
Publishing any of this was not to Goldberg's benefit. He did so to bring a MAJOR security problem to light -- what good investigative journalists do.
Today, he's published more to prove the Trump people all LIED to the Congress & Senate that they didn't send classified materials over an unsecured media.
Again, what a good journalist does -- reveal enough of the source material when needed to prove the veracity of the story.
Even Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer.
Goldberg didn’t win a Pulitzer himself. Since becoming Editor of The Atlantic he has fostered an environment that led to 3 of his writers winning Pulitzers. Takes a special talent to see a writer who can write, and excellent editing to bring it across the finish line.
Okay. Really? This is small potatoes but Tiger paid dearly for his ‘adultery’. That’s not who he is anymore.
But does a 'Tiger' EVER change his stripes?
Yes. It’s called growing up, learning lessons, growing in general. No one should die none-the-wiser.
Imagine how very smart you have to be to be a Jewish professor supporting antisemitism.
The ludicrous incompetence of Trump and his hacks gets worse every day. Lucky for him neither Fox nor MAGA would see anything wrong if Trump shot a trans teen dead in front of Trump Tower.
Seek therapy, Fred
or anyone who disagrees with him and the maga culture, is my guess. such a role model for American democracy.
I know, right?!
A text chat with some reporter added in error in year one of the second Trump admin
vs
the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle in year one of the Biden admin which only got 13 of our troops killed and cost us billions
I bet everyone is missing Biden now! That will show them!
Actually, if someone from MAGA saw him pull the trigger he would face murder charges. MAGA knows right from wrong. And you've exposed what appears to be a serious case of TDS. Please go see a doctor about this.
The role of the New York Times in the Journalism Jumps the Turnstile article in framing public opinion has, I believe, parallels to the AP coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. The vast number of AP articles have bylines of reporters with Arab names who, obviously from their reporting, have access to Hamas sources. In nearly every article, they report casualties and events from Hamas sources without question. Yet if they report something from the Israeli side it almost always includes the statement that "this cannot be independently confirmed." Over weeks and weeks of repetition, readers begin to believe that information from Israel is not as reliable as that of Hamas, thus framing public opinion.
I don't think the Colorado painting is that bad. I mean...it's not great but it isn't terrible either.
The Obama one next to it was the same level of good/bad as Trump’s.
Nice to know the President of the U.S. has the time and energy for this action that will definitely force egg prices down.
Checked out Obama’s. You’re right, they’re about the same. Still better thank anything I could ever draw. 😜
Unsurprisingly, complete silence from the usual blowhards on the huge blunder of the top administration officials, who made themselves look like clowns. More surprising is that there’s nothing serious in the FP reporting on the use of a commercial app to discuss key defense issues hours before action begun. Note that an editor from the Atlantic was included in the chat specifically because a commercial app was used, in breach of all existing security protocols. And the clowns dare to say that it’s OK, Signal is encrypted, but the titles apparently are not.
Matt Continetti talks about Witkoff, the NYC real estate guy miraculously turned key international negotiator, but only in the context of Iran. No mention of his stunning remarks about Ukraine in his interview with the great Tucker Carlson. “The negotiator” speaks straight from Putin’s propaganda; apparently Ukraine’s east is Russian because they decided so in a referendum held under Russian occupation, after Russia gobbled up the area and millions of Ukrainians from the east had to flee. Witkoff also said that Russia has no intention to take all of Ukraine; apparently he’s not aware that Russia has ruled not only Ukraine but also a good chunk of Poland for centuries. This guy is clueless not just about history but also geography - somebody should remind him that the initial push by Russia in 2022 was to take Kiev, Kharkov and all the Ukrainian Black Sea coast, including Odessa. Put it on the map and that’s pretty much all Ukraine. This is not a negotiation, it’s a surrender from the onset.
What does the US lose ? Nothing deleterious to our interest happened other than a stupid mistake that embarrasses Hegseth and Waltz . No price to the USA . The law is ALL ABOUT WHATABOUTISM !! It’s called precedence . And until the people who covered up a dementia laden President for 4 years are punished I don’t want to hear a FUCKING THING . No harm , no foul with the Houthis
Where were you when Biden Adm blundered Afghanistan withdrawal to the tune of 13 soldiers killed and 7 Afghan kids shot erroneously by a drone ? Crickets . No harm here , just an error that needs correcting . A nothing burger
Where was I? I thought that was the most idiotic and revolting withdrawal ever, one that opened the way to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
And you? Are you able to formulate any other thought besides cheap whataboutism, as if a huge mistake by the senile Biden justifies stupid mistakes by the Trump administration? Did it ever go through your mind that in both cases it’s the US who loses big time? Do you even care about that?
Reading Trump supporters twist into a pretzel to deflect and engage in whataboutism re the Signal chat is almost entertaining. Almost.
It’s notable that the front pages of both the Times and the WSJ today had stories on the thuggish assault of Israeli Jews on the director of the superb, Oscar-winning documentary on the brutal oppression of the Palestinians on the West Bank, No Other Land. Yet somehow TFP’s daily front page “Window on the World” didn’t notice this internationally front page news. TFP’s “window” seems a bit selective about what it opens onto.
Did TFP ever cover this excellent film and what it shows about Jews brutalizing Palestinians at all, even after its Oscar? At the time of its Oscar, I could find nowhere to watch it in a theater, stream it, or even buy it. I finally had to order it from Australia. But when the DVD finally arrived today, it was not No Other Land, but The Beatles 1964, with no explanation for the swicheroo. How odd.
Now, however, someone is distributing it nationwide to art houses. It needs to be shown on PBS, on Frontline or something. Or covered by 60 Minutes. Certainly, there is no more pressing international issue than this, outside Sudan or Ukraine.
Ezra Klein spent a month in the West Bank recently and told David Remnick after his return that the plight and misery of the Palestinians reminded him of that of blacks in Bama and MS in the Forties and Fifties. I grew up in Georgia then, and the standard of living of blacks was much higher than that of Palestinians in caves or concrete shacks today. And blacks did not constantly have their hovels bulldozed by the state. Nor were they killed by state armies or police, or by whites at large, in anything like the numbers killed by official Israeli forces and settlers. Let’s hope No Other Land causes the kind of outrage among what King called “people of goodwill,” Jews and Gentiles alike, that was caused in the Fifties and Sixties by TV coverage of black suffering under segregation. What happened to John Lewis and the other marchers at Selma was nothing compared to what happens to Palestinians regularly.
Let’s hope the Jewish settlers who beat this internationally celebrated Palestinian director don’t eventually succeed in giving him the settler version of a Southern Leo Frank-style lynching. At least now, as at Selma, “The whole world is watching.” Just as it is watching this superb film.
You failed to capitalize the B in blacks. Get your story straight.
This excellent film has been revealed to be a deliberate propaganda piece by Hamas. You may want to check out who the relatives of the film’s hero are.
I’m very sorry the Palestinians have chosen only violence since The League of Nations partition. Think what a thriving nation the Palestinians might have if their efforts and energy had gone into building instead of the centuries-old tribal warfare route.
Hey, nothing about the NPR/PBS hearings tomorrow? I did notice that tonight PBS makes sure the public knows which side of the table is bad news: "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram", all about the insidious terror perpetrated on us all by Islamic...oh wait, no, of course it's White supremacy, yeah, THAT'S who'll be questioning our fearless, civic-minded media leaders tomorrow, yessirree...
Israel has hitched its star to a gaggle of stupidly vain, blustering idiots. Admittedly, smart politicians would not sign up to be the total puppets of Bibi and AIPAC, so when Israel needed puppets Trumpian ones were the only ones on offer. I thought Israel’s Axis of Evil used to run from Moscow to Teheran to Beijing. Is it really so great for that Trump and his associates are such obvious puppets of Moscow?