Is Bill Cassidy finally growing a spine or is this just another smokescreen

 Bill Cassidy M.D. is chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP).  He voted to confirm RFKjr as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  He should have known better but couldn't find his spine.

Headline: Reuters, 4/1/2025

"We write to invite you to testify on April 10, 2025, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions at a hearing," Cassidy and committee ranking member Senator Bernie Sanders wrote to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a letter.

Dr. Bill chose to preserve his political future over saving lives.  Unconscionable!  America deserve an explanation and an apology!

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Chapter 1.  (3/10/2025)   Censored

Chapter 2.  (3/10/2025)

Chapter 3.  (3/10/2025)

Chapter 4.  (3/11/2025)

Chapter 5.  (3/12/2025)

Chapter 6.  (3/12/2025)

Chapter 7.  (3/13/2025)

Chapter 8.  (3/14/2025)

Chapter 9.  (3/14/2025)

Chapter 10.  (3/14/2025)

Chapter 11.  (3/14/2025)
Chapter 12.  (3/14/2025)

Chapter 13.  (3/15/2025)

Chapter 14.  (3/18/2025)

Chapter 15.  (3/19/2025)

Chapter 16.  (3/19/2025)

Chapter 17.  (3/21/2025)

Chapter 18.  (3/22/2025)

Chapter 19.  (3/26/2025)

Chapter 20.  (3/28/2025)

Chapter 21.  (3/29/2025)

Chapter 22.  (3/30/2025)

Chapter 23.  (4/1/2025)

Chapter 24.  (4/2/2025)

Tesla: How to ruin a brand in one easy lesson

National Memo, 4/3/2025

Walter Einenkel reports:

Musk’s latest setback comes just a week after reports that Tesla’s sales in Europe had dropped 40 percent in February, even as Europe’s EV market was enjoying an upswing in sales. Tesla’s losses in Europe can be partly attributed to Musk’s full-throated support of Germany’s far-right, neo-Nazi-affiliated Alternative for Germany party.

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April 2025

No lift from Musk's millions.  He couldn't get it up last night.  (4/2)

Pretzel logic of Wisconsin embarrassment Glenn Grothman is OK with Elon Musk's outside influence.  (4/1)

March 2025

Elon Musk shows off his "what-was-I-thinking" haircut.  (3/29)

More problems for Elon Musk: Apparently, his Cybertruck can't hold it together.  (3/16)

February 2025

Elon Musk becomes a toxic salesman for Tesla.  (2/8)

What’s wrong @nytimes: Normalizing and sanewashing Trump as if he has a coherent plan

 

Headline:  New York Times, 4/3/2025

When it comes to political reporting, there's plenty that's wrong with the New York Times.

March 2025

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The Right is riding high with Trump because US corporate media is not doing its job. They’re paving the road to authoritarianism.  (3/25)

Welcome to fill-in-the-blanks journalism:  How a _______ conspiracy theory about _________ went viral!  (3/24)

Headline writer provides Trump political cover.  (3/10)

What happens when legacy media normalize and sanewash First Felon Donald Trump for 10 years.  (3/9)

"Man on the Street interview: Chance for New York Times reporter Kellen Browning to brush up on his transcription skills".  (3/6)

January-February 2025

Normalizing and sanewashing First Felon Donald Trump continues unabated.  (2/26)

PBS gives cowering New York Times a lesson in headline writing. (2/25)

Trump and Musk take a wrecking ball to democracy while the New York Times revives silly 1960s-era "man on the street" interviews.  (2/18)

Mistaking energy for incompetence that leads to chaos and confusion.  (2/6)

New York Times goes all in to normalize latest round of Trump chaos and confusion.  (2/5)

The GOP is coming for your birth control and Louisiana is leading the way.  (2/1)

Trump administration unleashes first volley in Project 2025 attack on public broadcasting and the New York Times is asleep at the wheel. (1/31)

November 2024

The election is over and they're still searching out and cataloging disengaged (NOT undecided) voters.  (11/13)

Getting back to the business of normalizing the Trump Cult.  (11/7)

October 2024

Jess Bidgood struggles to find her mojo as contributor to "On Politics" newsletter.  (10/21)

Trump goes bonkers in campaign's final stretch.  (10/19)

Headline sanewashes Trump's Nazi rhetoric.  (10/10)

Framing its political coverage with stale, silly sports metaphors.  (10/10)

Sanewashing Demented Donald Trump rallies.  (10/9)

New York Times headlines mash-up of VP debate:  Vance 'made Trumpism sound polite, calm and coherent' with a cascade of false and misleading statements. (10/6/2024) 

Majority of 13 writers charmed by the smarm of JD Vance.  (10/2)

September 2024

Mindblowing, sanewashing dissonance of headline and lede.  (9/26)

David Leonhardt goes on the defensive.  (9/17)

Reporters drowning in false equivalencies.  (9/5)

July-August 2024

British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan sums up the sins of The New York Times.  (8/31)

Political reporters continue to amaze with their transcription skills.  (8/7)

Just when you thought the New York Times political reporting couldn't get any worse.  (7/24)

Welcome to the Club!  New York Times Shawn McCreesh is Trump's latest victim of The Art of the Con.  (7/18)

Peter Baker conducts a master class in false equivalency.  (7/16)

June 2024

But it's OK for a serial liar, unregenerate fraud, wannabe authoritarian, and convicted felon to run for president.  (6/28)

New York Times might as well be on Trump's payroll. (YOU'RE HIRED!).  (6/28)

New York Times works overtime to normalize the 2024 presidential election.  (6/26)

Are the pollsters and political reporters making the same rush to judgment they did in 2022?  (6/10)

May 2024

Apparently, the New York Times is still focused on Donald Trump's "family man" defense.  (5/16)

Four New York Times reporters promote "family man" defense for Donald Trump in hush-money trial. (5/4)

New York Times courtroom reporters party like it's a black-and-white Raymond Burr Perry Mason festival.  (5/3)

When it comes to framing the 2024 presidential election, Peter Baker and the New York

April 2024

The New York Times perfects the technique of bending over backwards for Donald Trump.  (4/18)

10 -- count 'em -- 10 New York Times reporters help Trump pan for campaign gold.  (4/15)

New York Times, 4/12/2024, page A10:  Doomsday double bill.  (4/12)

Once again, a New York Times headline writer misses the mark. (4/1)

March 2024

Leave it to the New York Times to come up with an incorrect and exceedingly lame headline.  (3/8)

February 2024

Meet Natalie Brumfield, New York Times go-to for positives about Alabama Supreme Court decision on embryos.  (2/23)

January 2024

 Times get it terribly wrong.  (1/25)

2023

New York Times reporter Peter Baker ignores Jennifer Rubin's admonition to mainstream media.  (10/3)

2019

Like many others, New York Times reporter Peter Baker got snookered by William Barr's 4-page summary.  (4/19)

2018

Dear Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, Next time please interview someone who doesn't have an ax to grind. (10/31)