RobDownSouth
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At yesterday's White House Press Conference, Mr. Trump's DEI Press Secretary K-K-Karoline Leavitt had one of her increasingly common screechfest meltdowns. (Kinda disheartening how we have rationalized her behavior to the point where this is no longer considered 'newsworthy'). It was her third meltdown in the past four pressers.
Yesterday's victim was a pool reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He asked for a minor clarification about a Signalgate principal (was so-and-so in Russia or in the United States? There had been conflicting accounts...) K-K-Karoline erupted into a red-faced spasm of indignant Mean Grrl fury, accusing the Wall Street Journal...the freakin' WALL STREET JOURNAL....of promoting "FAKE NEWS blah blah blah LIES blah blah blah ERRONEOUS".
The poobahs of the WSJ had heard enough, and two editorials in the Wall Street Journal ripped the Trump Administration a new asshole.
First, they
And then dropped the Thundering Hammer of Murdoch
In no reality that I've ever heard of would the feckin' Wall Street Journal be leading the charge against Trumpian incompetency!
Yesterday's victim was a pool reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He asked for a minor clarification about a Signalgate principal (was so-and-so in Russia or in the United States? There had been conflicting accounts...) K-K-Karoline erupted into a red-faced spasm of indignant Mean Grrl fury, accusing the Wall Street Journal...the freakin' WALL STREET JOURNAL....of promoting "FAKE NEWS blah blah blah LIES blah blah blah ERRONEOUS".
The poobahs of the WSJ had heard enough, and two editorials in the Wall Street Journal ripped the Trump Administration a new asshole.
First, they
criticized “JD Vance’s contempt for allies” and the vice president’s apparent willingness “to let the Houthis shut down shipping to spite the Europeans.” The editorial suggested Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been “cavalier about the details of incoming military strikes” and was “silly” to try to “shift the blame for the fiasco on the journalist who was put on the chat.” It suggested Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff “is out of his depth in dealing with world crises,” and it warned that “America’s allies may conclude they can no longer trust the U.S. in a crisis.”
And then dropped the Thundering Hammer of Murdoch
LINK (Washington Post editorial about Wall Street Journal's resistance to King Trump)“The White House won’t let bad enough alone when it comes to the Signal app fiasco,” it thundered. While conceding the White House’s point about the adviser’s phone, it blasted the administration’s “defensive insistence that the chat didn’t disclose any ‘war plans,’ which is a weak attempt at obfuscation.” Criticizing Hegseth for trying to dismiss the flap as a hoax, it concluded that the administration “seems to think it can bully its way through anything by shouting Fake News and attacking the press” but should instead “take the loss.”
In no reality that I've ever heard of would the feckin' Wall Street Journal be leading the charge against Trumpian incompetency!