Instead, Mattis went to a deeper, more unsettling problem: “The lack of political unity in America. To the tiger at the zoo, Madeline just said... Madeline and there is the throng or swarm or gang of media with their microphones and cameras almost blocking the exit at the hospital doors, all yammering at the same time, “can you tell us how you feel”…..”what are you going to do now”…..”do you blame the train”…..”how are the rest of the family doing?”….”did any of the kids live long enough to make a statement?”….. and all of you know you have witnessed scenes like that because there was yet another layer of media cameras filming all that for the nightly news! In the middle of one night Their daily routine became very confused. - "Madeline," by Ludwig Bemelmans, 1939. Comments 4. : Hate to be wishy washy bigb but I find myself somewhat in agreement with you,however this may be a time when the media needs to be rabid. In that vine-covered house, all was happy and fine - till that morning the girls left in those two straight lines. Girls : One of the most disturbing things about what’s unfolded in America over the past year is the extent to which large swaths of the electorate have been mind-fucked by what, until 2015 anyway, was a largely irrelevant ideology espoused only by a handful of internet profiteers and believed only by those who exhibited a predisposition to paranoia. Trump’s budget would cut the program by nearly one-fifth — and result in the deaths of at least 1 million people, according to researchers. The network has been ideologically co-opted by what amounts to an evil version of itself. Steve Bannon — who, you’re reminded, probably doesn’t believe much of what he claims to believe and who explains his transformation from would-be Hollywood elite to “economic nationalist” using a patently absurd story about his father’s AT&T shares — has institutionalized bullshit. Stories that just three years ago would have been seen as patently absurd by all but the most gullible of Americans are now not only taken seriously, but are in some cases regurgitated by the President himself. The New York Times 2018 Op-Ed ‘Whodunnit’ Is Solved. Many of us these days find ourselves channeling our inner Miss Clavel. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. “Something,” WaPo’s Ruth Marcus writes, “is not right” and it’s showing up all over the place. Girls Madeline was in his arm, in a blanket safe and warm. That needs to be cleaned up. How about filing suit against him or another appropriate ass for denying “rights” to the media as a “free press”? Catch Phrase: Miss Clavel turning on the light and whispering "Something is not right". Outside were birds, trees, and sky, and so 10 days passed quickly by. We'll come again. Something is not right when Trump proposes a budget that would slash funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the program launched by President George W. Bush in 2003 that has saved nearly 12 million lives in Africa and elsewhere by providing antiretroviral drugs. Narrator : In the middle of one night. "We'll come again.". Narrator “We all make mistakes,” said Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who chairs the House Republicans’ campaign arm. If he was serious we have one more fascist to deal with. Narrator More below…. And those blogs don’t have to retract it because unlike Fox, they aren’t concerned with being “real” news outlets. Narrator This is a recycling act that mirrors that employed by the Kremlin last year when RT and Sputnik worked with bloggers (some of whom are US-based) to construct a propaganda echo chamber (read the Reuters story on that along with our commentary here). Cheerful Child: Madeline herself. Madeline sat up in bed. Pooh-pooh. Such good little girls in two straight lines, except the smallest, Madeline. Narrator How can this man be entrusted with the task of ensuring affordable housing when he seems to believe that the inability to pay for housing stems from lack of will and moral backbone? This was not a mistake; it was an assault on a reporter doing his constitutionally protected job.