Friday, September 27, 2019

Left & Right September 25, 2019



Mark Guerringue sits in the left chair for this show. We immediately address the producer's first question: "If President Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine as a means of pressuring them to dig up dirt on Joe Biden's son, should he be impeached?"

Mark says Trump and Giuliani have already admitted it, that's an impeachable offense, and Pelosi had no choice. (I should mention that the transcript of the call hadn't been released at this point in the show).

We compare Trump's possible impeachment with Clinton's impeachment, the process as it was begun under Nixon, and could have been under Reagan after the Iran-Contra scandal. We agree that's it's both a political process and a legal one, but mostly a political one.

We discuss how the Clinton impeachment backfired on the Republicans and speculated about how it could backfire against Democrats if they should proceed against Trump.

While we're talking, the producer brings us print-outs of the whistleblower's transcript just being released. Mark reads it and there's some damning stuff, but no smoking gun. Then again, it's only a few pages of a larger transcript.

Mark pivots to the Democrat primaries saying Elizabeth Warren is catching fire, while Bernie is sinking. I refer to that morning's proposal of a "wealth registry" by Bernie to one-up Warren's proposed "Wealth Tax" of taking 2% of the total assets of wealthy people annually. Bernie now wants to freeze their assets and take even more.

I bring up a transcript of a staff meeting in the New York Times last month in which its editor acknowledges how his paper geared up to cover the "Russian Collusion" story which went bust and how disappointed NYT readers were that Trump was still standing. Then the editor said he was gearing up to cover Trump and racism until the 2020 election. I said it was an example of the NYT and other leftist mainstream media orchestrating stories and narratives.

Mark said it was all okay and that's the way newspapers should operate. I said, "Okaaaay..."

Lastly, he brought up the continuing, extensive coverage of a duck killing by some football players at Kennett High School. I said I was amazed that it got so much attention. "I mean, it's a duck," I said. Mark said it was more the reaction of the community that the coach and other school officials should have handed down worse penalties than a three or four-game suspension. He asked me if I agreed. I said I agreed with the coach.

3 comments:

Brian said...

It is now clearly evident that Trump has done impeachable actions, but I am hoping that he isn't removed from office by this method. It is going to be much more satisfying and good for the country when he gets demolished in the election.

You go off a tangent (your old lame mainstream media spiel) which has nothing to do with the impeachment inquiry. What is the misinformation that the NYT or Post are saying about this matter? The bullying bozo leaned on a foreign leader to dig up dirt on an American citizen, a rival of his, and was withholding funds that concerned our military and security. Then he tried to coverup and hide the tapes on a secret server...seems weird to do that for a "perfect, nice call". And then comes the ultimate dumbass bullying move of saying that the people who bravely revealed this crap to the world should be killed!!!!!! The man is not sane.

And it is no surprise that your thought on the local brutal killing is that "it's just a duck". That reveals just why you care nothing for the protection of our environment..."it's just some trees....it's just some polar bears....it's just some clean water....it's just some breathable air...etc"

It also reveals how you can stand behind the world's biggest bully. Luring in and brutally beating a living thing while chuckling about it is, to anyone with any empathy and thoughts beyond their own little agenda, a heartless and despicable act, and worthy of the murdering bullies being kicked off the football team for good. It is fantastic seeing just how your point of view is by far the minority, and the majority is speaking up in masses. As it will be in the political world....the heartless, unempathetic, bullying party will be washed away in a true cleaning of the swamp.

Brian said...

How hilarious that in the labels listed at the bottom of your column, one of them says "Joe Biden Corruption", and mysteriously there is no label for "Donald Trump Corruption"!! This despite all the evidence talked about within on Trump corruption, and no evidence cited at all for Biden corruption! You certainly are one typical "head in the sand" Trump supporter. Thanks for being so entertaining while making the far right look so dopey!

CaptDMO said...

The producer stared us with....
The producer handed us a "latest news...."
Hmmmmm...