{"id":88761,"date":"2024-11-20T10:19:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88761"},"modified":"2024-11-20T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:05:38","slug":"detente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88761","title":{"rendered":"Detente"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are Brzezinsky and Scarborough trying to save their jobs?   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or are they trying to belatedly act like &#8220;journalists?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a coin toss as far as I can tell.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe and Mika went to Mar a Lago to talk with Trump over the weekend. First face-to-face meeting in seven years. &quot;We didn&#39;t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues and we told him so,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeNBC<\/a> says. &quot;What we did agree on \u2013 was to restart communications,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/morningmika?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@morningmika<\/a> says. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lyWZWK4CwX\">pic.twitter.com\/lyWZWK4CwX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1858471489906815033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But one things&#8217; for sure &#8211; while good deeds might not go unpunished, failing to &#8220;denormalize&#8221; the &#8220;Literal Hitler&#8221; certainly won&#8217;t:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To political reporters, commentators, liberals, moderates: After this fawning, humiliating, network-destroying surrender, if you go on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Morning_Joe<\/a> you have endorsed and bought into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VichyMSNBC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VichyMSNBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gyfoFInYcR\">pic.twitter.com\/gyfoFInYcR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithOlbermann\/status\/1858487800015831160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Side question:  Why is it that everyone who comes to leftist punditry after a career of yapping about grown men chasing balls around fields and courts inevitably such an idiot?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are some &#8211; what do I say &#8211; &#8220;leaks&#8221; on the left:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now, which side seems more open and inclusive? Which side seems more welcoming and which side tries really hard to drive you away if you disagree even a little with orthodoxy? Which side is asking for suggestions and which one is demanding compliance and obedience?<\/p>&mdash; Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cenkuygur\/status\/1858913766286713075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But their purity police never sleep.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am officially no longer identifying as a liberal. The way liberals are reacting to RFK Jr saying certain ingredients are bad because they don\u2019t like some of his other stances are insane. The way they are attacking me for defending this particular legislation he\u2019s pushing is\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f1k832OcDy\">pic.twitter.com\/f1k832OcDy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; taraliyah (@taraliyah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taraliyah\/status\/1859017209777188954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching today&#8217;s Left self-immolate is the perfect Christmas gift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Brzezinsky and Scarborough trying to save their jobs? Or are they trying to belatedly act like &#8220;journalists?&#8221; It&#8217;s a coin toss as far as I can tell.\u00a0 But one things&#8217; for sure &#8211; while good deeds might not go unpunished, failing to &#8220;denormalize&#8221; the &#8220;Literal Hitler&#8221; certainly won&#8217;t: (Side question: Why is it that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88775,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88761\/revisions\/88775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}