The confirmation of RFKJ seems to me the most in doubt. He did not show the desired respect, and he is a major threat to the Pharma cash flow of many very powerful persons.
Walter Kirn on the RFKJ hearing: There were people lined up for the overflow at 4:00 AM yesterday. That’s how intense and widespread the interest is in this nomination. And so these senators realized that piggybacking on his fame and the interest in his nomination, they were going to get a chance probably to speak to more Americans than they will anytime this year. And they made sure they got to use it.
Matt Taibbi: Yeah. So for people who don’t know how officials like this raise money, the surest way they do it now is they get a little piece of video that they mass distribute usually by email, but sometimes by Facebook and social media. And typically what they want is they want a confrontational, aggressive scene where they’re yelling at somebody and then they fundraise off that. So it’s very important for them to get the finger-wagging, sort of Jim Acosta-style confrontation. And boy, were there a lot of them with RFK yesterday.
Kirn : When you’re in the room and they scream and you feel the primal Neanderthal emotional intensity of the confrontation, it’s shocking. The intensity, and as I say, the dramatic emotional valence of it surprised me. It really surprised me. I thought, in no other setting... I’ve been in courtrooms over and over through my life, I’ve covered trials. This behavior would last 10 seconds in a courtroom, but in the US Senate, whoa, it just runs riot.
The Associated Press[AP] flatly stated, "She [Gabbard] has repeatedly echoed Russian propaganda." Huh? I thought the AP-- the USA's sole central news source -- was supposed to be unbiased. Evidently not.
The confirmation of RFKJ seems to me the most in doubt. He did not show the desired respect, and he is a major threat to the Pharma cash flow of many very powerful persons.
Here you can see someone laughing at what he said, then pretending to be coughing. https://youtu.be/ayy5LFSgNO0?si=jVNcKL6GCGNziQ6R&t=159
Walter Kirn on the RFKJ hearing: There were people lined up for the overflow at 4:00 AM yesterday. That’s how intense and widespread the interest is in this nomination. And so these senators realized that piggybacking on his fame and the interest in his nomination, they were going to get a chance probably to speak to more Americans than they will anytime this year. And they made sure they got to use it.
Matt Taibbi: Yeah. So for people who don’t know how officials like this raise money, the surest way they do it now is they get a little piece of video that they mass distribute usually by email, but sometimes by Facebook and social media. And typically what they want is they want a confrontational, aggressive scene where they’re yelling at somebody and then they fundraise off that. So it’s very important for them to get the finger-wagging, sort of Jim Acosta-style confrontation. And boy, were there a lot of them with RFK yesterday.
Kirn : When you’re in the room and they scream and you feel the primal Neanderthal emotional intensity of the confrontation, it’s shocking. The intensity, and as I say, the dramatic emotional valence of it surprised me. It really surprised me. I thought, in no other setting... I’ve been in courtrooms over and over through my life, I’ve covered trials. This behavior would last 10 seconds in a courtroom, but in the US Senate, whoa, it just runs riot.
The Associated Press[AP] flatly stated, "She [Gabbard] has repeatedly echoed Russian propaganda." Huh? I thought the AP-- the USA's sole central news source -- was supposed to be unbiased. Evidently not.