Thursday, August 18, 2016
Mort Zuckerman pays his respects to John McLaughlin
Here.
Mort puts his time on The McLaughlin Group at about 24 of the 34 years, but has been notably absent in the last year and otherwise has been more quiet than usual.
The last time I remember him writing much of anything was early in 2013 when he reiterated that America was in actuality experiencing another economic depression.
The last time I remember him writing much of anything was early in 2013 when he reiterated that America was in actuality experiencing another economic depression.
Toronto Canada is the new crucible for molten salt reactors
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports here:
Canada is now the crucible for molten salt reactors. Terrestrial Energy in Toronto is the most advanced such project in the world with an integral molten salt reactor, and is already pre-licensed. "We can bring our reactor to the commercial market in the 2020s," said the chief executive Simon Irish.
"Once we put a shovel to the ground we can build it in three to four years. The parts can be manufactured on a mass scale. We believe we can produce power for 40-50 US dollars per megawatt hour," he said.
Vlogger Louis Cole aspires to become the new Walter Duranty, not for The New York Times but for YouTube
Here:
In the description section of one of his North Korea videos, Cole writes, “I’m trying to focus on positive things in the country and combat the purely negative image we see in the Media.” Which, O.K., sure. But as another vlogger shows us in his own video from the DPRK (vloggers seem to be going there en masse), these videos are meant to capture a very carefully curated vision of a country whose human rights abuses are “without parallel in the contemporary world,” according to Human Rights Watch. Cole has, so far, not really made mention of any of that, choosing instead to go for a light tone, oohing and ahhing over abundant food in a country ravaged by hunger.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Real Clear Politics classifies the LA Times/USC poll as a "likely voter" poll, but it isn't
And it is evident to me that none of the other "LV" polls are either. The pollsters ASK if they are likely voters or registered voters, which is different from talking to someone who actually voted in 2014 and 2012. None of these polls appear to be representing the views of exclusively likely voters.
What's even more disturbing, only the Bloomberg and ABC News polls are conducted by telephone, either landline or cell. The other four are conducted online in some way.
The more you look into it, the less confident you become, which would explain why the candidates continue to campaign for your attention and fight like hell. They don't trust the polls either.
From the FAQ, here:
What's even more disturbing, only the Bloomberg and ABC News polls are conducted by telephone, either landline or cell. The other four are conducted online in some way.
The more you look into it, the less confident you become, which would explain why the candidates continue to campaign for your attention and fight like hell. They don't trust the polls either.
From the FAQ, here:
Q: Do you use a likely voter model?
A: No, the respondents provide us with their own subjective probability of voting and we use that to weight their responses.
Eleanor Clift says goodbye to John McLaughlin, the way it should be done
You should read it, here:
Every issue was deeply researched, and John relished weightier issues like NATO enlargement, making us eat our vegetables before we would get to the easy headlines. ... We will miss his signature phrases, beginning with Issue One, and ending with Bye-Bye. And we will miss the man, who was always a blast to be around. John was an original, and while there are many imitators, he will never be overtaken. He got there first, and he created something that in its own way is as iconic as The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason, a comparison I know John would love.
Why Real Clear Politics shouldn't include the NBC/SM poll in its presidential average
The poll shows Clinton +9 currently.
The poll is conducted online, but if you're a smart person, you've installed an ad-blocker, which means you won't be polled. Hence the poll skews stupid right out of the gate.
The poll is of registered voters, including lots of motor-voters, not of likely voters, and the most likely to vote are 60 years of age and over. In 2012 70% of them turned out, but this poll this week of 15,179 includes just 657 people over 65, or 4.3% of the total. The poll therefore can't be said to reflect the opinion of those most likely to vote.
Here's what it does reflect. In 2012 turnout of people 18-44 averaged about 47%, yet this poll is 46% of that demographic, or 6,920 people, only 3,252 of which are likely to show up in November 2016.
You can make a poll say anything you want by playing games like this.
The NBC/SM poll is trying to shape opinion, not measure it.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Offensive WaPo "obituary" for John McLaughlin lumps him in with his intellectual inferiors to dismiss him
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| Liberalism prefers processed news |
Nixon loyalists remain unforgivable at WaPo.
Erik Wemple, here, a liberal fundamentalist if there ever was one, whom McLaughlin wouldn't have needed five minutes to wither, let alone thirty:
"pugnacious style as a host of a political chat show helped usher in the era of impolite punditry"
"goaded journalists and pundits into moving beyond fact into the argumentative terrain of ideological talking points and rhetorical hyperbole"
"Mr. McLaughlin’s impact can be glimpsed almost any night on cable news channels, for better or worse. ... his show’s staccato approach to wringing opinions from guests previewed the Internet’s addiction to fast and unprocessed news bites."
Obamacare is only attractive to the poorest and sickest, but is "an utter disaster for the working and middle class"
So says Robert Laszewski for CNBC, here:
Obamacare has insured millions of people—particularly in the states that have expanded Medicaid (albeit a currently unsustainable program in its own right) and it has been attractive to the poorest that get bigger subsidies and lower deductibles in the exchanges. But Obamacare has been an utter disaster for the working and middle class that seem willing to buy the unattractive plans only if they are sick and can come out ahead on the deal.
Obama interrupted his vacation yesterday to fundraise for Hillary, but to oversee Louisiana flooding not so much
The Boston Globe didn't even bat an eye.
Tens of thousands of homes are flooded out in Louisiana, but your president has to be a Republican before the news media give a shit
Rod Dreher can only wonder here.
Hey Rod! The media only care when the poor blacks get flooded out. You working and middle class people don't count. And you don't have an advocate in the White House. Brownie is only for the rich (and for the poor only on paper).
The McLaughlin Group is history: John McLaughlin dead at 89
Reported here.
The show was a singular venue for decades to hear weekly the "old right" point of view as understood by Patrick J. Buchanan, long-time friend and associate of John McLaughlin going back to the days of Richard M. Nixon.
Some of those ideas now find expression in the candidacy of Donald John Trump.
Hillary Clinton deleted "you have the right to be believed" from website last February, six months later The Hill notices that BuzzFeed has finally noticed
Feminists haven't focused like a laser beam on Hillary's hypocrisy because . . . ?
From The Hill story here:
From The Hill story here:
Clinton tweeted in September [2015] that every sexual assault survivor had "the right to be believed." ... Broaddrick, who claimed Bill Clinton raped her in 1978 when he was serving as Arkansas' attorney general, decided to tweet after hearing Clinton's statements on sexual assault. ... The line from Clinton's website was [reportedly] deleted in February after Broaddrick's [tweet] made headlines [in January 2016].
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