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Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire (cnbc.com)
CNBC reports: White House press secretary Sean Spicer abruptly resigned Friday after opposing President Donald Trump's appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. The president asked Spicer to stay in his role, but Spicer said appointing Scaramucci was a major mistake, The New York Times, citing a person with direct knowledge of the conversation. NBC News confirmed the resignation with two people familiar with the matter. Spicer tweeted later that he will continue to serve through August. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus was said to have advocated naming Spicer as press secretary. The two worked at the Republican National Committee before joining the administration. Following Spicer's resignation, Priebus said he supports Scaramucci "100 percent," according to news reports.
I think it's a little silly to think that Rather knew the Killian documents were fakes-- believing that the documents were real killed all respect for him in his chosen profession. and made the capstone to his long career in television the fact that he was a dupe. The exposure of fake documents very plausibly led to George W. Bush's election, so if he ran with the story because he "hated George W. Bush", he did exactly the opposite of what was intended.
A more real interpretation, however, is that since the faked documents confirmed the worst of exactly what he already believed, he failed to use his journalistic skepticism and just ran with it.
The take-away lesson is to continue to be skeptical even when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe-- in fact, to be particularly skeptical when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe.
Or, in the words of scam-busters: "if it's too good to be true... it probably isn't."
All right, what were you trying to write and why are you too stupid to use the Preview button?
Exactly what I wrote: Nazgûl. If there's an issue with special characters displaying fine in my browser but getting munged across browsers/platforms, that's hardly my fault, yeah?
Also, Slashdot doesn't let people post without previewing, but I suspect you knew that.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
You would think it would be fake with what Scaramucci has said about Trump in the past. Someone must not have shown Trump videos of what he's said about him. Trump isn't usually one to let go of past insults.
Scaramucci has called Trump a "big mouth", "anti-American", and a "hack." "You’re an inherited money dude from Queens County." That Trump should be "president of" "the Queens County Bullies Association." He said Trump should "cut it out now and stop all this crazy rhetoric spinning everybody’s heads around.”
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There have been political stories on /. since I was started posting here (circa 2003). In other words, if you don't like the story in question, then don't open it up. It's really simple, and doesn't make you sound like an arse.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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No thanks, creimer.
What's the mechanism for voting the President out of office, exactly? There is no mechanism for that in the Constitution.
he has to commit a crime. ping!
Whether he has committed a crime is irrelevant to the quote I replied to, which claimed that the was no mechanism for voting him out of office in the constitution, when the simple fact is that the constitution specifies that a simple majority vote of the house and a 2/3 majority vote in the senate is exactly that mechanism the poster said doesn't exist.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
And, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" includes "conduct unbecoming the office." 30 Republican Representatives & 20 Republican Senators are what it would take (assuming all non-Republicans favored impeachment).
But the constitution doesn't go into detail on what those impeachable offenses are, just "treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors". High crimes are crimes against the state by a person in a position of power, like bribery or corruption. If 1/2 House decides that firing Comey was obstruction of justice (another "high crime") and 2/3 of the Senate agrees, then what he did is an impeachable offense whether or not it rises to the level of a criminal offense.
Enigma
But the fact is the majority of Americans _want_ the government to take a larger role in improving their lives. Trump played to that and the media played along and let him talk out of both sides of his mouth. Make no mistake, the Dems lost because they tried to have their cake (big money donations) and eat it to (populist left)
Those are good points, but I'd say you're missing the glue that holds it together is that the voters were stupid. Hillary came up with concrete, detailed plans that would help the populace. The voters ignored such boring things and voted for vague unrealistic one-line promises, first in the form of Obama, then almost in the form of Sanders, finally in the form of Trump.
I didn't hear much about big money donations, though maybe that was just because of the sheer volume of Trump related nonsense.