Pravda Foxnewskaya has made it clear that Donald Trump is not favored by The Party for the nomination. Official Party Organ mouthpiece Bill O’Reilly last night made clear that War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Barack Obama “does have a legitimate birth certificate.”
These guys are really quite efficient. Just a couple of days after Trump shoots up in the GOP nomination polls, the Party kneecaps him with the masses. Pravda Foxnewskaya has tried to get rid of Michele Bachmann and Glenn Beck, too. Pretty impressive.
Author: Jonathan Zasloff
Jonathan Zasloff teaches Torts, Land Use, Environmental Law, Comparative Urban Planning Law, Legal History, and Public Policy Clinic - Land Use, the Environment and Local Government. He grew up and still lives in the San Fernando Valley, about which he remains immensely proud (to the mystification of his friends and colleagues). After graduating from Yale Law School, and while clerking for a federal appeals court judge in Boston, he decided to return to Los Angeles shortly after the January 1994 Northridge earthquake, reasoning that he would gladly risk tremors in order to avoid the average New England wind chill temperature of negative 55 degrees.
Professor Zasloff has a keen interest in world politics; he holds a PhD in the history of American foreign policy from Harvard and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Cambridge University. Much of his recent work concerns the influence of lawyers and legalism in US external relations, and has published articles on these subjects in the New York University Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. More generally, his recent interests focus on the response of public institutions to social problems, and the role of ideology in framing policy responses.
Professor Zasloff has long been active in state and local politics and policy. He recently co-authored an article discussing the relationship of Proposition 13 (California's landmark tax limitation initiative) and school finance reform, and served for several years as a senior policy advisor to the Speaker of California Assembly. His practice background reflects these interests: for two years, he represented welfare recipients attempting to obtain child care benefits and microbusinesses in low income areas. He then practiced for two more years at one of Los Angeles' leading public interest environmental and land use firms, challenging poorly planned development and working to expand the network of the city's urban park system. He currently serves as a member of the boards of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (a state agency charged with purchasing and protecting open space), the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (the leading legal service firm for low-income clients in east Los Angeles), and Friends of Israel's Environment. Professor Zasloff's other major activity consists in explaining the Triangle Offense to his very patient wife, Kathy.
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There’s no trumping The Donald though…
The egg on his face is Fabergé…
But never mind that…
Anybody have any idea who the Kremlin is favoring? Pawlentzkiov?
If I was a betting man, I would bet on the success of The Combover Party.
Koreyel: I believe the Kremlin has given up up the presidency and now only wishes to hold the Gosduma and perhaps gain the Sovet Federatsii. Without a figurehead, it makes the opposition’s job more difficult, making them unable to rally against a specific enemy and unite their disparate factions.
(Zasloff): “Pravda Foxnewskaya…”
This silly name-calling does you no credit. Why would any parent pay tuition to a school which employs faculty who argue in this style? If this is an act, and you wear a neutral, professional face in the classroom, you establish something worse about yourself than reflexive partisanship, seems to me. “PhD” means you can do better.
Do you contend that CNN, MSNBC, or CBS are less partisan than Fox? One could compose neutral measures of partisanship and compare news coverage. This has been done. If I recall, one study used citations to think tanks by congressmen (establishing the partisanship of the think tank) and citations of think tanks by networks. Fox was the least partisan, iirc.
Donald Trump said he’d run as an independent if he does not get the Republican nomination. Why would Republicans support him?
“Do you contend that CNN, MSNBC, or CBS are less partisan than Fox? One could compose neutral measures of partisanship and compare news coverage. This has been done. If I recall, one study used citations to think tanks by congressmen (establishing the partisanship of the think tank) and citations of think tanks by networks. Fox was the least partisan, iirc.”
I won’t speak for our host, but I contend that they are less partisan than Fox. How many presidential hopefuls does CNN employ?
Please name that study- I would be very interested in reading it.
Now, there is a serious issue with media in this country, based on ownership, convention, and the professionalization of communications leading to a very riggable system. However, Fox is still distinguishable for being an all-but-explicit party organ. Just listen to the words of Roger Ailes. It is clear.