WOW....CNN guy at close of rally:

[dixiegrrrrl]

Just heard a clip, CNN guy, at close of rally..
"What we just witnessed was a total eclipse of the facts.
Someone who came out on stage and lied directly to the american people".

.............

The whole country is turning against him. He lost the LA Times, the NY Time, WaPo, tv news.....

Been here before.........I remember...


There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

[leftstreet]

1. Was it from Don Lemon?

Link to tweet

[rufus dog]

2. yes n/t

[Alice11111]

12. Thank you, Don Lemon & James Clapper. Courage!

I got home and turned on the TV just as Don was starting his comments. Then Clapper, former Obama intelligence, always very reserved, was interviewed. He said he was worried about DT having the nuclear codes.

[flamingdem]

13. Gulp

They do not forget about that one..

[RussBLib]

3. 45 is still creating his own reality

it's going to take the GOP to bring this malevolent asshole down

[WhiteTara]

36. And they won't because they are using him

as cover to destroy the social net and steal as much money as they can while they can.

[hibbing]

4. Scary

If a mainstream media person is saying something that brutal, imagine just how bad it has to be. I encourage everyone to watch this.

Peace

[Egnever]

5. Well that was brutally honest

If we see a whole lot more of that Trump is done.

[CottonBear]

6. Well, dang. I've never seen or heard Don Lemon before. Brutal.

Goddamn. Just wow.

Edit: I don't have cable news TV channels.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. We don't have tv either.

I can find news vids on Twitter, when I want to.
Didn't watch/listen to Trump, but followed some live blogging and news comments.

Really surprised to hear something that brutal, live, from CNN.
Says a whole lot.
Trump is on a downhill slide, for sure. And he knows it, is acting out his fear and frustration.

[CottonBear]

11. It's all so very frightening.

Just when you think the whole situation can't get worse, it does.

[lpbk2713]

7. The walls are closing in on Trumpolini.

He can't last much longer.

[rpannier]

16. Gonna get every dime he can out of it

Pardon his grifting relatives
Get pardon from Pence and dance off into the night

[Hieronymus]

18. Funny .. thanks.

[Wednesdays]

21. Interesting how the winds of fate blow

If Il Duce had made it only ten more miles northwest, he would have been safely in Switzerland, where a plane was waiting to take him to Spain. Once there, Franco would have hosted and protected him until he was in his 90's.

I wonder if there's a similar plane waiting to take tRump to Russia.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. I did not know that, about Duce.....

Il duce and el douche.....so many similarities.

[Ligyron]

28. Yes, just like in Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy.

Only this time, Mc Connell will take him to a small military facility outside DC where he'll be tied to a missile and launched safely home to Mother Russia.

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. That is the best idea I have heard since he stole the WH. n/t

[calimary]

9. Wow indeed.

That's some indictment right there.

Gone are the days when the mainstream media goes cutesy, no farther than the wussy, utterly flaccid "Prevaricating President?" Now they just come straight out and call it lying.

Finally. With this jackal, no flinching, no soft-selling, no euphemisms, no beating around the bush. They are finally declaring the truth, out loud and in writing.

Finally.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Trump "is clearly trying to ignite a civil war in this country"

"If he was on my team in this newsroom and said those things, he would be escorted out of the building by security"

Don Lemon

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/23/cnns-don-lemon-trump-clearly-trying-ignite-civil-war-country/217735

[LittleGirl]

14. That was a thing of beauty eom

[Alice11111]

17. I've been saying that. A Civil War is what he wants. Problem, the RWers have the guns & are chopping

at the bits to try all of their automatic weapons on real people. Trump wants his name repeated in the history books, if any are left. Families are divided. People are breaking ties with friends and families. Gun sales are rising again. Plus, DT might see the dump Whitehouse burned again. He will thrive on the chaos so much it will be his most orgasmic experience. Like the housing crisis, he can brag about being "smart" to make money on it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. You might want to check out the LA Times/NY times editorials.

Both of them were stern and not hiding behind euphemisms in describing what Trump is doing.

[countryjake]

31. Bakari Sellers laid it out real clear last night on CNN Tonight

in a response to Mike Shields on the CNN panel:

SELLERS: "But can we just be relatively blunt?

If the President of the United States comes out and misquotes himself intentionally, to take pressure off of what we all know to be an inartful, insensitive and lack of cultured statement after Charlottesville, then I call that a lie.

If the president has made omissions and lies repeatedly, therefore I call him a liar. I don't think anything's wrong with that.

And then if you think someone's lying intentionally to you repeatedly and does it time after time after time after time again, knowing that we can roll back the tape, then I think it's also fair to say that that exhibits examples of being pathological.

So I don't think that there's anything wrong with those criticisms. I don't think that those are out of bounds or out of line. I mean, but I do think that we have to call it as we see it."

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/23/cnnt.01.html

[rpannier]

15. Trump lying is not news

Trump telling the truth is news
Trump accepting criticism without lashing out is LBN

[Bradical79]

25. That's pretty much the problem the media has had

They normalized the lying and rants to the point subdued Trump became the new standard for him acting "presidential". Glad they're finally waking up to just how big of a problem this guy is.

[WinkyDink]

19. Where are the truth-to-power singers today? Worthless corporate schlock.

[Achilleaze]

20. republicans are making War on Truth

and their freaking ignoble Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is the point of the evil, anti-American bullshit spear.

[malaise]

24. Lawrence didn't wait for the end of the rally

He called him out early

[chillfactor]

26. that he did..

I really love both Rachel and Lawrence.

[malaise]

27. Same here

[Ligyron]

29. Never, in my lifetime (or that of others older than I that I've spoken with)

have we seen a President so criticized, so disparaged and so under siege. Nixon, at the height of Watergate, wasn't in this much hot water.

Whether anything comes of it, we'll just have to wait and see, but I believe he'll be forced out of office somehow. He's doing too much damage to the GOP for them to allow this to go on for another 3 years.

[countryjake]

30. dixiegrrrrl, since you don't have tv, hear Clapper, too...

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. That's thoughtful, Jake. Thank you.

Every hour of today I find news blurbs of who all is backing away from Trump.
AND from the alt-right groups.

Big ships take some time to turn course, but we are seeing a turn happening.

[countryjake]

35. The hours of Lemon we watched last night were uproarious

and almost got out of hand several times. Granted, they were mostly all pissed-off cause CNN had been specifically attacked, but it was one of the first times that we didn't feel like throwing things at a cable tv whitewash of the asshat in our White House, especially since we'd both almost broken the damn thing watching that obnoxious rally. I didn't like the way Lemon kept cutting Symone Sanders off to allow that rethug Mike Shields to spew his kerap; Shields certainly isn't backing away yet, but that's probably why CNN hired him.

You're welcome, dixiegrrrrl, and thanks for the kind words.

[riversedge]

33. k for visibility