2016 USA Presidential election thread II: And. Here. We. Go!

[Mertron]

why is david wolfe even on that chart

is he even news

am confus

[Gredival]

Politico should probably be where the Hill is, and the Hill should be about where WSJ is on the left vs. right scale.

[archibaldcrane]

and though they be outnumbered WaPo at least carries the two leading conservative columnists in the country in Krauthammer and Will, tellingly there is no such counterbalance at the NYT.

Isn't that what David Brooks is for?

and fully agree with K that MSNBC and HuffPo being placed as high quality and only marginally liberal betrays the biases of the illustrator.

I think you're misreading the chart a bit - MSNBC is on the border between "Skews Liberal" and "Hyper-partisan Liberal" (which IMO nails it), and HuffPo is basically fully into "Hyper-Partisan Liberal" (yep), and they're both on the border between "great in-depth sources of news" and "good for confirming your existing biases but bad for convincing others, be careful how much time you spend here", with HuffPo more in the latter category.

I guess I'm looking more at the labeled ovals on the chart than the Y-axis though, I agree that you could slide (especially Huffpo) further down on the Y-axis a bit, although like Fox News it kinda depends on the reporter/show/article in question.

[archibaldcrane]

House Dems are really pissed after leaving their confidential assessment of Comey's actions before the election.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...house-briefing

Reading the tea leaves I'd have to guess they're most pissed off that Comey didn't have the FBI sign on to the intelligence assessment that Russia was specifically trying to boost Trump via hacking and whatnot because he didn't want to politicize intelligence right before the election, but then he released the ultra vague statement about "Hillary's emails" a week before the election (basically contradicting his own rationale).

[Fiye]

Did they actually watch the video?

Edit: Amused they're punctuating the end of this stacked news week with this information.

[archibaldcrane]

Lulz, Trump's inauguration acts on a Coachella poster.



Shouldn't Lee Greenwood be the Sunday headliner though?

[kuronosan]

Toby Keith isn't even relevant post-9/11 anymore.

Matter of fact, I don't think I've ever liked his music.

[Andalusian girls]

he's terrible, but for anyone with even a little bit of good old boy in them I Love This Bar is a goat drinking song

[BaneTheBrawler]

but did the goat fetch soup?

[Xantavia]

Any non-americans wondering how people could vote for Trump? Here are some interesting thought processes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/14/u...rump.html?_r=0
One of my favorite excerpts. But it makes sense, Trump is a giant man-child himself.

I made up my mind for Trump at the last minute. Since my husband is in the military, I was concerned about having someone who didn’t have military experience, didn’t have the knowledge of dealing with world leaders. And I kind of thought he had a big mouth.

But I had an 8-year-old who was totally on the Trump train. He talked me into taking him to a Trump rally.

[Mertron]

...wut

edit: lol, i read the rest of her quote, and it just gets worse

[kuronosan]

One of my family members literally said the only reason they voted for Trump was because they were going to vote Hillary until the last minute and realized Hillary was a criminal.

[Gredival]

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- Sir Winston Churchill

[Alistaire]

Saw this on imgur today which claims this is in a Scottish newspaper "from the Sunday Herald TV section":

[myreality]

CBS news trying to breath new life into Pizza Gate, Illuminati style.

https://www.google.com/amp/gizmodo.c...hms-tmobile-us

[Krandor]

What a lovely headline

[myreality]

I thought it was appropriate.

[Ragnus]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...0ab2d2b17dbd3?

Looks like the pro-Hillary children's books are starting to roll out. Here we have the endearing tale of "The Pumpkin and the Pantsuit"

[6souls]

At least 60 17 year olds voted in Wisconsin Primaries because the Sanders Campaign advertised on social media 17 yr olds could
None of the teenagers will be charged
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/0...onsin-primary/

[6souls]

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/05...or-many-voters

Wisconsin voter ID law prevented 300k votes from being counted.

Edit: should note that Wisconsin was decided by 22k votes.