Ratt Mhule Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 @knapplc some of the same stuff you brought up yesterday with the apartment. 2 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Who actually pays the staff? Where does the money come from? Link to comment
Ratt Mhule Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: Who actually pays the staff? Where does the money come from? Every congress person is allocated the same amount of money to pay their staffers. My guess is from tax money, but not 100% Link to comment
schriznoeder Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 4 minutes ago, Frott Scost said: Every congress person is allocated the same amount of money to pay their staffers. My guess is from tax money, but not 100% It comes from the Members’ Representational Allowance (MRA). This is a pretty helpful overview... Congressional Salaries and Allowances: In Brief 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 So.....if every congressperson gets the same amount of money to divide up amongst their staff, who gives a flying rip how they do it as long as it works within their staff? She is the one that has to go find a chief of staff that will work for $80,000 while his/her counterparts are making twice that. If she can.....what business is it of anyone else? The only part of this that is of interest to me is.....I am interested in knowing if she finds a COS that will work for that amount. 2 Link to comment
RedDenver Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 18 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: So.....if every congressperson gets the same amount of money to divide up amongst their staff, who gives a flying rip how they do it as long as it works within their staff? She is the one that has to go find a chief of staff that will work for $80,000 while his/her counterparts are making twice that. If she can.....what business is it of anyone else? The only part of this that is of interest to me is.....I am interested in knowing if she finds a COS that will work for that amount. This doesn't quite answer your question, but here's a story on her COS: https://www.politico.com/interactives/2018/politico-power-list-2019/saikat-chakrabarti/ Link to comment
TGHusker Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Frott Scost said: @knapplc some of the same stuff you brought up yesterday with the apartment. Good reason I no longer watch Fox. Some brilliant analysis by those Fox anchors. And of course they always have the eye candy in the middle that adds little to the conversation. Link to comment
FrankWheeler Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 So interesting to see how the mainstream media is covering the Cohen testimony. Fox News: "Former Trump lawyer now disbarred in New York" Washington Examiner: "Michael Cohen's testimony can't be taken seriously because he's always been a sad joke." National Review: "How to Evaluate a Known Liar's Testimony" 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 Trump punishing the press members who ask the questions that need to be asked. 2 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 5 hours ago, BigRedBuster said: I just saw this and about choked on my soup at lunch. Pretty much the final nail in the coffin of any shred of editorial integrity Fox News had left. Officially state-run TV. 4 Link to comment
VectorVictor Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 2 hours ago, Danny Bateman said: I just saw this and about choked on my soup at lunch. Pretty much the final nail in the coffin of any shred of editorial integrity Fox News had left. Officially state-run TV. Oh you think that's bad...what if I told you that right-wing PACs are putting money behind websites intended to look like local news sites, but then spam stories from other right-wing sites in a bid to legitimize their derp and make it look like something local and presentable? Quote On 6 February 2017, a website of uncertain origin named “The Tennessee Star” was born. At the time, it was unclear who funded or operated this “local newspaper,” which was largely filled with freely licensed content from organizations tied to conservative mega-donors. After some prodding by Politico in early 2018, the Tennessee Star revealed its primary architects to be three Tea Party-connected conservative activists: Michael Patrick Leahy, Steve Gill, and Christina Botteri. Now, a Snopes investigation reveals in detail how these activists used the appearance of local newspapers to promote messages paid for or supported by outside or undisclosed interests. Gill, for example, is the political editor of the Tennessee Star, but he also owns a media consulting company that at least one candidate and one Political Action Committee (PAC) paid before receiving positive coverage in the Tennessee Star. But hey, that's just Tennessee, where ignorance is just a way of life. No way that kind of derp could spread elsewhere and be mistaken as factual news, right? Quote But this story is about more than just the Tennessee Star. Leahy, Botteri, and Gill have been expanding their version of journalism to other battleground states in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. They are, they say, co-founders of a new, Delaware-registered company, Star News Digital Media, Inc., whose explicit strategy is to target battleground states with conservative news. So far, Leahy, Gill, and Botteri have added The Ohio Star and The Minnesota Sun to their network of purportedly local newspapers. These papers are effective carbon copies of the Tennessee Star. But hey, who is funding these fake news sites purporting to be legitimate news? Well, you follow the money and you have... Quote Leahy, in an email to us, said, “We are in business to make a profit, and have a number of advertisers to prove it.” Despite this claim, only the Tennessee Star runs any commercial ads, and (outside of links to political groups such as the Koch-founded Americans for Prosperity or local GOP fundraisers that are clearly political in nature), we found ads for only three companies at the time of this report: car dealer Beaman Automotive Group, local furniture store chain D.T. McCall and Sons, and financial services company Advance Financial 24/7. All three are owned by prominent Tennessee conservatives who have donated significantly to conservative candidates, causes, and PACs in the past. Anyway, it's a really good piece on how right wing PACs and zealots are now having to create news sources, because factual reporting and reality are anathema to their platform, and they're creating them under the guise of local news outlets, because people are trusting of local news over national or international news. P.S. This piece, which supposedly was investigated for some time, is why we've seen these right-wing sites go especially out of their way to smear Snopes.com--because Snopes.com was on to what these vermin are doing. 2 2 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 6 hours ago, VectorVictor said: Oh you think that's bad...what if I told you that right-wing PACs are putting money behind websites intended to look like local news sites, but then spam stories from other right-wing sites in a bid to legitimize their derp and make it look like something local and presentable? But hey, that's just Tennessee, where ignorance is just a way of life. No way that kind of derp could spread elsewhere and be mistaken as factual news, right? But hey, who is funding these fake news sites purporting to be legitimate news? Well, you follow the money and you have... Anyway, it's a really good piece on how right wing PACs and zealots are now having to create news sources, because factual reporting and reality are anathema to their platform, and they're creating them under the guise of local news outlets, because people are trusting of local news over national or international news. P.S. This piece, which supposedly was investigated for some time, is why we've seen these right-wing sites go especially out of their way to smear Snopes.com--because Snopes.com was on to what these vermin are doing. This is pretty reminiscent of the strategy by Sinclair media, who explicitly cut a deal with the Trump campaign for "fair coverage" prior to the 2016 election, of pushing must-run opinion segments featuring Trump burnout Boris Epshteyn fluffing Trump with this same type of crap. The problem is they run these segments in the middle of local news. Implying it's fact-based and not opinion. People sure love to complain about the liberal media bias but the conservative/Republican media powers that be sure have some pretty dark aspirations, too, iMO. 4 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 32 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said: This is pretty reminiscent of the strategy by Sinclair media, who explicitly cut a deal with the Trump campaign for "fair coverage" prior to the 2016 election, of pushing must-run opinion segments featuring Trump burnout Boris Epshteyn fluffing Trump with this same type of crap. The problem is they run these segments in the middle of local news. Implying it's fact-based and not opinion. People sure love to complain about the liberal media bias but the conservative/Republican media powers that be sure have some pretty dark aspirations, too, iMO. Yep....interestingly now they have a liberal woman who gives her opinion too. Ive wondered what precipitated that change. Link to comment
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