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[Michael Scally MD]

Woody Guthrie, ‘Old Man Trump’ and a real estate empire’s racist foundations
https://theconversation.com/woody-g...-real-estate-empires-racist-foundations-53026

In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take.

Below all the legal jargon is the signature of the man who had composed “This Land Is Your Land,” the most resounding appeal to an equal share for all in America. Below that is the signature of Donald Trump’s father, Fred. No pairing could appear more unlikely.

Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings and his relationship with the real estate mogul of New York’s outer boroughs produced some of Guthrie’s most bitter writings, which I discovered on a recent trip to the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa. These writings have never before been published; they should be, for they clearly pit America’s national balladeer against the racist foundations of the Trump real estate empire.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Donald Trump bragged that he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose a voter. Yeah, but if he shot someone in a trailer park, he would.

Trump says he could shoot people and still wouldn't lose voters
Trump says he could shoot people and still wouldn't lose voters - CNNPolitics.com

Sioux Center, Iowa (CNN)Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street.

"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump said at a campaign rally here.

Trump has repeatedly pointed to the loyalty of his supporters, many of whom tell reporters and pollsters that almost nothing could make them change their mind about voting for Trump in the presidential race.

 

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"... She's crazy, isn't she?"
"... She's crazy, isn't she?" #SNL


Tina Fey Was Sarah Palin, Again, And It Was Amazing, Again
Tina Fey Was Sarah Palin, Again, And It Was Amazing, Again

 

[Michael Scally MD]

With Trump and Palin, Republicans get what they deserve
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/with-trump-and-palin-republicans-get-what-they-deserve/2016/01/22/9890658e-c153-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html (With Trump and Palin, Republicans get what they deserve)

At first it seemed too weirdly awful to be true, but there she was: Sarah Palin standing next to Donald Trump on Tuesday and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/19/sarah-palin-endorses-donald-trumps-presidential-bid/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory (endorsing him) for president.

Like previously conjoined twins who had shared a brain before Ben Carson separated them, these two anti-everything, post-lamestream media instigators presented themselves as political doppelgangers, a he/she, yin-yang, sis-boom-bah political marriage of the carnival barker and the bearded lady.

Step right up! Get your tickets! Bring the whole family! Bring your anger, bring your spleen, don’t let logic intervene!

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Sarah Palin Saves Feminism
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/sarah-palin-saves-feminism.html?

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But when Palin turned out to be utterly unqualified and unintelligible, spouting her own special Yoda-like language, it did not reflect poorly on women as a whole — only on her and John McCain. What the hell were you thinking, Senator?

Ordinarily, it’s considered sexist to call a woman shrill. But Palin liberated us on that score. She really is shrill.

Ordinarily, it’s dicey to focus on what a woman in politics is wearing. But again, Palin has freed us up. She https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/01/20/did-you-notice-sarah-palins-sweater-good-you-were-supposed-to/ (sported a cardigan) so gaudy and rogue at her Iowa endorsement of Donald Trump (the man who viciously mocked her former running mate’s war record) that we would be remiss not to mention that it was the sartorial reflection of Palin and Trump themselves.

Ordinarily, you have to tread gingerly in critiquing a working woman on her mothering skills. But Palin’s brawling brood runs so wild around the state she once governed, in a way that is so contrary to her evangelistic, sanctimonious homilies on family values, that it seems only Christian to advise her to study the Obamas to see what exceptional parenting looks like.

With Palin and Trump, a failed reality star and a successful one, gall is divided into two parts. There has been a lot of talk this campaign season about how women pols bring superior qualities to the table: collegiality and listening skills. But Sarahcuda shows that we are truly the equals of men, capable of narcissistic explosions, brazen hypocrisy and unapologetic greed. She had barely finished the endorsement Tuesday when she began using it to raise money for SarahPAC, so she can take her show on the road.

Her oldest son, Track, was a kid with a temper before he served in Iraq for a year, conveniently shipping off in the fall of 2008 as his mother began her hockey-mom spiel. The 26-year-old was https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/20/sarah-palins-son-track-arrested-at-her-home-girlfriend-concerned-he-would-shoot-himself/ (arrested Monday)on an assault charge, accused of punching his girlfriend in the face and kicking her during an alcohol-fueled argument at the Palins’ home in Wasilla, Alaska. His girlfriend told the police that he was also waving around an AR-15 assault rifle.

Instead of just admitting that her family is a mess, Palin exhibited Trump-like swagger, conjuring a story in an attempt to gin up the crowd and occlude her son’s behavior.

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The worst-case scenario for a Trump presidency is that he will do the very things these horrified ex-presidents did.

 

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Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. endorses Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/26/evangelical-leader-jerry-falwell-jr-endorses-trump/ (Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. endorses Trump)

 

[Michael Scally MD]

A particularly committed Donald Trump fan in Iowa has placed an 8 foot by 4 foot (2.4m x 1.2m) photo of Trump on a billboard protected by security cameras outside his home. He says he supports Trump's opposition to political correctness, and claims his next door neighbor doesn't mind.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

My portrait of @realDonaldTrump made using only the racist, sexist, ignorant and bigoted things he has said Conor Collins on Twitter



"I painted him because it matters. He had gone beyond a joke," Collins told The Huffington Post. "He is giving justification to millions of people for racism, sexism, bigotry and it has to end. It's 2016 not 1916 [...] I only paint real people made out of real comments. The style may be a bit surreal, but the words on canvas are all things that are being said today." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ing-conor-collins_us_56a7ca4be4b0b87beec63630

 

[Michael Scally MD]

This Venn Diagram Is Proof That Donald Trump Is Evil, Imaginary Or Both
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...imaginary-or-both_us_56a7c49ae4b0b87beec62bb4

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Trump says he won’t participate in GOP debate on Fox News
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-wont-participate-in-gop-debate-on-fox-news/2016/01/26/58fa0b2e-c490-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html (Trump says he won’t participate in GOP debate on Fox News)

 

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Fox can kiss its debate ratings good bye. Or as Chris Mathews says, "Who's going to watch a debate between the two Cuban guys?".

 

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Donald Trump’s Fox News Feud May Be Another Sign The GOP Is Failing
Donald Trump’s Fox News Feud May Be Another Sign The GOP Is Failing

 

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CNN’s Ryan Lizza: Trump ‘At War’ With Fox News, ‘Conservative Intelligentsia from National Review’ and ‘He Is Winning’


"I will also say, just to step back a second, this guy is basically at war with every power center in the Republican Party. There was a rule in politics that you don’t go to war with Fox News and Roger Ailes, because that network is too powerful and too influential in Republican politics, and Trump has been at war with them all season and he is winning. He is at war with the conservative intelligentsia from National Review, to every conservative columnist in the opinion pages, and he’s winning. This is a essentially a hostile takeover by Trump and his fans of the Republican Party that we’re watching in real time.”

 

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Looks like Rupert Murdoch is throwing Roger Ailes under the bus.

Fox News Statement Taunting Trump Was ‘100 Percent’ Roger Ailes
By Gabriel Sherman
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/fox-statement-taunting-trump-was-all-roger-ailes.html#

The fun never ends. Photo: Getty Images


As the war between Fox News and Donald Trump ratchets up, Roger Ailes is fighting off criticism from his senior executives over his handling of the crisis. According to one highly placed source, last night, Ailes sent out the now-famous statement mocking Trump as being scared to meet with the “Ayatollah” and “Putin” if he became president. “That was Roger 100 percent,” the source explained. “A lot of people on the second floor” — where top Fox executives work — “didn’t think it was a good idea.”

Fox executives are also troubled that Ailes’s principal adviser right now is his longtime personal lawyer and Fox & Friends contributor Peter Johnson Jr. “He wrote the statement with Peter,” the source explained. “Peter is running the war room,” another Ailes friend told me. Fox executives are worried that Ailes is relying on an attorney with scant communications experience as the network is reeling from the biggest PR crisis in recent memory. Historically, during a crisis like this Ailes would have huddled with his veteran communications guru Brian Lewis. But Ailes fired Lewis in 2013 over his concerns that Lewis had been a source for my 2014 Ailes biography. Since Lewis’s ouster, Johnson has taken on the role of media counselor.

Fox spokesperson Irena Briganti did not return a call. When asked about his role advising Ailes, Johnson responded to me with an ad hominem statement. "If you were ever actually fair, any semblance of integrity was swamped by your reaction to the failure of your critically panned hit job on Fox and Ailes," he said. "Just like your latest tweets and articles, your questions today are based on your own malicious fabrication."

New signs emerged today at just how frantic Ailes has become to get Trump back to the table. The two men have not spoken since yesterday, sources told me. This morning, Joe Scarborough reported that Ailes called Trump's daughter Ivanka and wife, Melania, to get through to the GOP front-runner. But Trump is saying he'll only talk to Rupert Murdoch directly. In a further challenge to Ailes's power, Bill O'Reilly is scheduled to host Trump. Last night, Ailes directed Sean Hannity to cancel Trump's interview. O'Reilly's refusal to abide by a ban adds a new dynamic to the clash of egos. For O'Reilly, this is an opportunity to take back star power from Kelly. Sources say O'Reilly feels he made Kelly's career by promoting her on his show, and he's been furious that Kelly surpassed him in the ratings.

Meanwhile, Fox producers are scrambling with the practical matter of how to program the debate without Trump. "Right now, it is about how the moderators handle Trump," one producer said. "They do not want to be seen either directly criticizing him since he's not there, and they don't want to seem like they are drumming up criticism by letting the candidates attack Trump rather than stake out their own positions and debate one another. For all the talk of the optics right now, the bigger issue is how to program a debate without the front-runner. Remember, Fox may be a political machine, but it is still a damn good television programmer."

For Ailes, the internal dissent over his handling of the crisis would seem to only weaken his grasp on the helm of Fox News. Rupert Murdoch has become more hands-on at Fox since questions about Ailes’s faltering health have been raised. Now Murdoch has to wonder why Ailes, who runs the most valuable asset at parent company 21st Century Fox, is getting PR advice from a lawyer Ailes personally pays.

A spokesperson for Murdoch did not return a call.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

And this is the bimbo that's asking presidential questions? " Donald J. Trump on Twitter

 

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