On the Friday before Labor Day weekend, the New York Times broke news that might have ended the candidacy of Hillary Clinton â if it had been released at a time when people might be paying attention. As it happens, the house organ of the Hillary Clinton campaign released a classic media dump that exposed her as corrupt and wallowing in criminal behavior. If a scandal falls in the woods, does it make a sound?
Hillary Clinton is currently expecting a landslide victory over Donald Trump. Her lead so big the Democrats even have a decent chance of recapturing the Senate. But she hasn’t campaign on a single signature issue. There isn’t a single major program that she has pushed for. So what would she do with her mandate?
Clinton’s campaign is running a hard-hitting add reminiscent of the classic 1964 anti-Goldwater “Daisy” ad. Going after him based on his temperament, the ad implies that he might accidentally start a war because of his hot temper. Interestingly, the one quote that they emphasize is one that she would be very likely to agree with.
As Donald Trump’s campaign reaches out to African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities he has alienated with his nativist rhetoric, black voters are faced with a choice between two candidates, neither of whom seems to genuinely care about them or their problems.
What used to be known as the lunatic right wing fringe of the Republican Party is now called the “alt-right.” They’ve been greatly legitimized under the Donald Trump campaign, something that the Hillary Clinton campaign has been pointing out a lot lately. On the really terrible policies that they espouse, there is frighteningly little daylight between them and the Clinton campaign.
A lot of people don’t want to vote for a third-party candidate like Jill Stein or Gary Johnson because they believe their vote will be “wasted.” But they don’t apply the same logic to most other things in life, many of which involve setting yourself apart from the herd.
Ignoring the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton campaign is making moves to appeal to anti-trump Republicans. That, they believe, is where the party â or at least their candidacy â has room to grow. But if a Democrat sounds and looks and acts and boats like a Republican, is it really a Democrat?
According to a court filing by the Los Angeles Times, the secret origin of my firing last summer was a secret meeting between the chief of police of Los Angeles, Charlie Beck, and the publisher at the time, a billionaire named Austin Beutner who had political ambitions. Beck gave Beutner an audio recording full of noise and static that purported to show that I had lied about an incident that I had written about. Later on of course, I was able to have the recording analyzed and it showed that I had been telling the truth. This cartoon shows how that meeting would have gone had the publisher adhered to basic journalistic principles.
State legislatures in states like California passed “anti-SLAPP” laws to allow small individuals to defend themselves from “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation” – nuisance lawsuits filed by deep-pocketed corporations in order to punish or silence critics and whistleblowers. But now corporations are abusing anti-SLAPP laws by filing motions against individual critics like me.
When the LA Times fired me in July 2015, they claimed that the LAPD had given them official police documents showing that I had lied in an article. After I sued them, however, it turned out that that was a lie. The documents were completely unofficial. And they had been given to the Times by the police chief, Charlie Beck, as a personal vendetta to get even for cartoons that personally offended him because they were about his incompetence and tolerance of brutality.
