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1. Former CIA Director: Wikileaks Dump Could Be ‘Very Damaging’ | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC (2017-03-07) 190,879 views MSNBC – “Wikileaks claims their latest document release reveals important CIA hacking secrets. Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden joins to discuss.” |
1. WikiLeaks claims to have details on CIA ‘s hacking capabilities (2017-03-07) 8,620 views Fox Business – “Peter Brookes, former assistant secretary of defense, and The Daily Caller News Foundation editor-in-chief Christopher Bedford weigh in on WikiLeaks ‘ claim that it has details on the hacking capabilities of the CIA.” |
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2. Madeleine Albright: Rex Tillerson Is At Disadvantage Due To Lack Of Staff | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC (2017-03-08) 63,969 views MSNBC – “Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says she thinks Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is at a disadvantage by not having a full staff and that the proposed cuts to the State Department make her nervous.” |
2. Dobbs: Trump must purge the State Department (2017-02-15) 3,303 views Fox Business – “FBN ‘s Lou Dobbs on the left-wing media ‘s attacks on President Trump.” |
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3. How House GOP Health Care Bill Would Change Obamacare | Morning Joe | MSNBC (2017-03-08) 42,376 views MSNBC – “The GOP replacement plan would have a dramatic change on the health care system created by Obamacare, and Steve Rattner joins Morning Joe to discuss..” |
3. GOP Congressman to introduce alternate Obamacare repeal bill (2017-03-08) 3,596 views Fox Business – “House Freedom Caucus Member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) weighs in on why a group of conservative law makers oppose the GOP plan to repeal and replace the Obamacare.” |
* Erik’s Editorial: Donald Trump bans migrants from 6 countries (too Muslim), Erik Heels bans Fox News (too conservative) and The Young Turks (too liberal), Why Trump needs pets (2017-03-08)
Day 48 of Donald Trump, the 45th and worst President of the United States.
By Erik J. Heels
First published 3/8/2017; FailedPols.com; publisher: GiantPeople.
Muslim Ban 2.0
On 03/06/17, Donald Trump issued (minus the photo op and speech) his Muslim ban 2.0 as Executive Order 13780 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_actions_by_Donald_Trump). What puzzles me about most of Trump’s executive orders is that it is easy to figure out who is HARMED by the order (those from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen), but it is very difficult to figure out who BENEFITS from the order. Racists? White supremacists? The alt-right? All of the above? You tell me.
In any event, Hawaii has already sued, seeing a temporary restraining order (TRO) before the executive order goes into effect on 03/16/17 (http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/hawaii-travel-ban-lawsuit/).
Erik Heels seeks to moderate the Failed Pols project
It is extraordinarily difficult to get principled content on political issues. Since I started the Failed Pols project (https://www.failblog.com/), I have been consuming a lot of news from many sources in a multitude of formats.
But one day after Trump’s latest “travel ban,” I felt compelled to block (i.e. unsubscribe from) both Fox News (https://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel) and The Young Turks (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks) for being too far right and left, respectively. Fox News and The Young Turks are guilty of the same sin (albeit on different ends of the political spectrum), namely sensationalizing and trivializing the news for ratings.
It should come as no surprise that Fox News focuses on entertainment instead of substance, since it is part of the Fox Entertainment Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News). But the real problem with Fox is that is has no real competition on the right. So Fox News focuses on short pithy segments designed for the short-attention-span market. Notably, there are no hour-long news programs on Fox. (NB both the BBC Newshour and the PBS NewsHour on the left.)
And The Young Turks does the same thing from the left.
So in an attempt to keep the coverage – shall we say – fair and balanced, I’ll be cutting out two of the most extreme viewpoints.
Why Trump Needs Pets
Trump strikes me as a mean-spirited individual. One who appears to have lied, cheated, and stolen his way to the top (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump).
So when I was thinking about the caring people that I know, it occurred to me that most (if not all) of them have pets. And it turns out that the former Presidents of the United States in the top quartile had, on average, 10 pets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pets). In fact, all but one former POTUS (Polk) have owned pets.
So maybe that’s why Trump lacks compassion for human beings.
