[Magdalen] The Media.

[Jay Weigel]

Who are you going to get to verify them? The hookers? The Russian
government? Not bloody likely. But I'm inclined to believe them.

Incidentally, someone pointed out yesterday that Trump is no longer wearing
his wedding ring. Melania has been mysteriously absent and silent since the
announcement that she would stay in New York. Frankly, if I were her, I'd
scoop up the kid and the jewelry and hightail it for Europe while I still
could.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Grace:  Buzzfeed published the document here:
>
> https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-
> Intelligence-Allegations.html
>
> As Buzzfeed says, these are allegations, and not verified.
>
> Eleanor
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Ginga, I didn't know the document had been released to the public. Where
> > did you find it?
> >
> > > On Jan 12, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I believe a great deal of the US future and credibility rests on the
> > > shoulders of truth tellingm-media in all forms.  My prayer for those
> who
> > > set out to do truthful reporting is that their bosses and they,
> > themselves,
> > > will be able to choose truth over sensationalism and ratings.  I also
> > pray
> > > that some of the more centrist media can avoid 'reframing' Trump's
> plans
> > > going forward with good intentions.
> > >
> > > I do not trust Trump at all.  He only knows how to serve himself.  That
> > is
> > > narcissism in action.  And, what in God's name is the Russian, Putin
> > thing.
> > >
> > > I am presently reading the 35 page document.  I believe much of it.
> > >
> > > God have mercy on the USA.
> > > Ginga
> > >
> > >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:48 AM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Not to mention the hugely ironic spectacle of the King of Fake News,
> Mr
> > >> One-Lie-Every-50-seconds, being apoplectic as he becomes a victim of
> > same.
> > >>
> > >> News is changing so fast now and is so globalized that it's hard to
> see
> > how
> > >> anyone can do more damage to traditional or so-called "legacy" news
> > >> outlets, than current market forces and the social media are already
> > doing.
> > >>
> > >> I think that these days we're just so used to instant everything that
> we
> > >> can't tolerate the wait for verification. By the time the standard
> "two
> > >> independent sources of verification" are established, someone else has
> > run
> > >> with the story.
> > >>
> > >> I would have loved to hear what Jim G might have said about this lot!!
> > >>
> > >> Sally D - fascinated and horrified in equal measure
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 at 9:27 AM James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > >> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> These folk seem very vicious.  Always angry.  When they're in the
> > >> minority,
> > >>>
> > >>> nasty comThen they got a majority and a president on their side --
> > still
> > >>>
> > >>> angry. Still vicious.  I get nervous when I think what it would take
> to
> > >>>
> > >>> make them happy.  I wonder how many of them are so devoted to their
> > cause
> > >>>
> > >>> that they would cheer as all the liberals were packed into boxcars.
> I
> > >> know
> > >>>
> > >>> some are not that bad, of course, but the real question is, how many
> > >> would
> > >>>
> > >>> brush the Constitution aside if they thought they could, and how
> > quickly
> > >>>
> > >>> would they start shooting those who were in their way. But then, I
> had
> > >>>
> > >>> similar feelings with Bush ("Whoever is not for us is against us!!!")
> > At
> > >>>
> > >>> one point, Hitler just shot a list of anybody who was not on his
> side,
> > >> and
> > >>>
> > >>> afterwards, there was nobody to tell him he could not do that. So,
> I'm
> > >>>
> > >>> nervous.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Scaring the sh*t out of the media is an essential part of this. If we
> > >>>
> > >>> assume the man's not quite as dumb as we wanted to think, maybe this
> is
> > >> all
> > >>>
> > >>> a thought out strategy to hijack the country.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> And I thought I would just live out my days in quiet retirement. Who
> > knew
> > >>>
> > >>> we all would be pulled back into the fray just to keep the country
> from
> > >>>
> > >>> going plumb to hell in a handbasket.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > >>>
> > >>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not
> > preserved,
> > >>>
> > >>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > >>>
> > >>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> Meryl Streep alluded in her Gold Globes speech to something
> > >>>
> > >>>> I thought apropos the Trump News Conference today.  Trump was  so
> > >>>
> > >>>> hostile to the news media in general and CNN in particular
> > >>>
> > >>>> when he suggested the media were behaving as though they were
> > >>>
> > >>>> in Nazi Germany.  I was stunned. at how vicious he was.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> I pray the media can stand firm over the next four years to get us
> > >>>
> > >>>> through the Trump administration.  The media may be our last  great
> > >> hope.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> David S.
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
>