Wow, the "intellectual" who's "read the book" doesn't understand what is really about?
Obviously Murdoch told him about the phone conversation.
Why on earth would a multi-billionaire media mogul such as Rupert Murdoch say anything to a creepy nothing such as Michael Wolff?
I went to WalMart today… and I see a box of COLORED pencils... in the section of the store that sells stuff for children!
What were they thinking? I didn't see any "WHITE" or "CRACKER" pencils.. but plain as day.. a box marked COLORED pencils! What, colored people can't manage to use regular pencils?
Then, I go to the hardware section, and I needed to buy a tube of caulk. I noticed that the tube of black caulk was considerably larger than the tube of white caulk. Why is that I asked? "That's just the way it is!"
By being "FREE", they greatly reduce their criminality in stealing your communications. Trump is PISSED at this.
Wahh! wahh! I'm soooooo offended now! (not)
Someone please explain to me why this ad is considered to be racist.
It wouldn't bother me to wear such a hoodie.
It reminds me of when Howard Cosell got in big trouble for calling a player a little monkey. Why did he get in trouble? He had previously called other players and even his own grandchildren little monkeys.
Someone needs to explain to me why someone would consider being called a little monkey to be offensive. Perhaps short people like Marco Rubio don't like to be called "little"?
Weasel pseudo journalist and author Michael Wolff SUPPOSEDLY wrote his very short, yet very slanderous and libelous book based upon hundreds of interviews he conducted.
Well, if that is the case, where are the recordings of these interviews? What reporter does not record his interviews? Why is it that there is not one person to corroborate any of his interviews? Of course he recorded his interviews.. but.. he's not producing any of them, because his recordings do NOT back up what he is saying.
Also.. quite a bit of the White House is wired to record everything. All phone calls are recorded even the President's. If any of the wild, conflicting stories that Wolff mentioned are true, Wolff could demand the recordings to prove what he said is true. He hasn't even ASKED! Wolff's claims are obviously fabrications and liberal fantasies.
I must admit, I THOUGHT this book was going to be damaging to Trump. It has turned out to be the OPPOSITE! It's shown once again that Trump has been falsely maligned by a load of malicious, liberal garbage.
One more thing.. just to make a point.. let's say that Trump DID do something impeachable. Even that would not matter now, because the liberals have screwed up so badly, and been shown to be so corrupt and biased… that NOTHING Trump did or did not do matters! The liberals have destroyed all semblances of credibility on their part. Mueller could not successfully charge Trump with jay-walking with all the investigative team corruption that has been exposed.
As is typical with Fox news "journalists", they clearly neither read nor understood the linked PDF and so completely distort what is being said to feed some political "angry white conservative" audience. In fact there is nothing new here. It is already well established that teacher's expectations of particular student's capabilities effect the student's performance. There are numerous studies on this. Just google "teacher expectations affect student results".
I wonder if there will be a fading of the rabid right's love affair with Rupert Murdoch's Fox Lies when they read:
"Murdoch suggested that taking a liberal approach to H-1B visas might be hard to square with his immigration promises. But Trump seemed unconcerned, assuring Murdoch, “We’ll figure it out.”
“What a fucking idiot,” said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone.
Wolff, Michael. Fire and Fury (Kindle Locations 699-701). Little, Brown Book Group. Kindle Edition.Oh my mistake, the rabid right are insulated inside a bubble of ignorance and either don't read anything they might disagree with or can't.
Your problem is that you have tunnel vision and don't see the truth beyond what is being fed to you.
In the passage above, you should wonder how Wolff knew what Murdoch was thinking.. and what Murdoch said on the phone. Is Wolff a mind reader? Was Wolff listening in on the phone call? Maybe Wolf was sitting on Rupert's lap when this was going on?
Yes I've certainly read the word "encomium" many times before, even in my school days, but I've looked up the word statistics and it isn't in the top 20,000 words in American English, so it must be true. I didn't realise I was in the top 1%.
But you said that there was a top 1% word in every paragraph as well as spelling errors. Let me know when you've downloaded it again.
I find it disturbing that you spent so much time analyzing that book, yet instead of realizing that it is a pile of garbage, you absorbed it like a sponge. I have made it a practice to not subject my brain to bullshit.. nor to subject my brain to drugs or alcohol.
I must mention one trick in reading a book or article. Remove all the adjectives and read it. There is software commonly available which is able to identify grammar, so there should be a way to identify all adjectives and either highlight or delete them. Adjectives are almost always "opinions", and opinions tend to be worthless.
I just thought of something else to do.. run that book through a language TRANSLATOR.. and then back to English again. That should be fascinating.
One other point.. a very common characteristic of writers who studied language in college is to imbue their prose with such words as "imbue" to make it seem like they are intelligent and credible. The reason George W. Bush got elected is because that man doesn't know any words longer than 3 syllables - and therefore was able to be understood by the masses.
In a physical sense, the flowery bullshit written by literary snobs is like a Rube Goldberg machine.
I must add one more thing. Legal statues / laws are typically written in a way in which no average person could understand them. That is intentional. I have found that most lawyers and judges don't understand the laws that are the "tools" of their trade. They want to obfuscate their meanings.. so that they can interpret them however they want. This is quite convenient for crooked judges. I have one excellent personal example of that. Many years ago, I worked as an engineer for a company which was paying all it's employees as "contract labor" instead of as "employees". Paying employees as contractors instead of as employees allows the employer to get away without paying taxes, not giving benefits, and not giving protections. There is a list of conditions which determine whether a worker is an employee or a contractor. In the case of this company, every condition was that of an employee. There is a federal law which states that if a worker is wrongfully paid as being a contractor instead of as an employee, then not only is that worker not liable for paying the taxes, but that worker gets a 15% reward of all the taxes that were recovered from the employer as a result of an investigation. Well.. I should have been given an award of $25,000. I acquired the payroll records totaling over $1 million from that company to it's workers. I did all the work for them. However, that crooked judge screwed me. The company I worked for did not even bother to show up for the trial. They ADMITTED that their workers were being paid as contractors when they were in fact employees.. and they have continued to do so to this DAY (except that the office that used to be 15 workers is now just 2 people - the owner and the office manager). The judge not only did not give me any reward, he also forced me to pay the taxes that my employer did not! There is no interpretation of the law to allow that. It was the federal judge who handles all federal tax disputes of that type.. and he was a complete FRAUD. What that judge did to me is like being charged with running a red light, when you have 10 witnesses and video showing that the light was green when you passed it, and yet the judge still charges you with running a red light because the cop said so!
My point being.. bullshit artists purposefully use obfuscation to avoid the truth and get whatever fraudulent conclusions they desire. My oldest brother is a grand master bullshit artist, so I know all the tricks these people use.
This is another idiot teacher, but basically the same message.
It kinda reminds me of that South African girl who said that science is racist because we don't teach magic, which all black people know magic is real.
"Magic" is anything that people don't understand. In other words.. people who think magic is real… are ignorant.
Educated people are racist.
This might be the same story as #1 posted months ago.. or one very similar to it.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/09/professor-claims-meritocracy-in-math-class-is-tool-whiteness-report.html
"meritocracy'.. there's another $10 word.
BTW, I didn't come across a single word that I had to look up and English is my thirdish language (post Kannada and Tamil). You say each paragraph has a word 99% of the population has never seen before? That's sad but unsurprising. Do you have an example? "Encomium"?
I deleted the book.. but I'll download it again for free.
Encomium is certainly one of those words that 99% of the population has never seen before. Neither you nor I have either.
They are both nut jobs, but if you ask the question, "who has a history of telling lies?", the answer is obvious. I don't agree with Bannon's political views, but at least he tells the truth.
You moonbats are always on the attack.. anarchists if you will.
Why don't you tell us someone prominent who DOES tell the truth? I can't wait.
If the book was lying about what Bannon said then why did Bannon need to apologise?
Trump said the book was a work of fiction. So what did he start attacking Bannon for?
He was apologizing for ever talking to that whacko author Wolff.. and also explained how Wolff distorted his comments.
I've read it. Some parts clearly unreliable but paints a great picture of the mental instability of the "President" and the disfunction in the white house. I wonder if members of the cabinet are allowed to carry firearms in the white house. I hope so.
You didn't read squat. You don't make any sense either. Must be the effect of eating too much curry. You've curried your noodle.
And when RWNJ conservatives say "Freedom of Speech" and "Freedom of Religion" they always mean "Freedom of MY speech" and "Freedom of MY Religion" but not anyone else's.
Typically you see RWNJs scream freedom of religion when the are asked to supply flowers to a gay wedding, but the very same people want to rip the religious clothes off a Muslim woman or want to ban Halal.
The same people who cry and wet their beds over "political correctness" and their hate speech being pulled down off social media are the people trying to shut down media organisations critical of the Trumpanzee.
The very same people who think that Catholic Canon law should allow Catholic priest to disobey civil law and protect pedophiles from the police go blue in their faces with rage if Muslims suggest that they be allowed to abide by some elements of Islamic religious law.
You are so full of fertilizer.. it would be fascinating to see an MRI done of your brain. Have you had bad LSD trips?
Now that the two have split, which side are you on, if any?
Actually, they have not split. Bannon has been apologizing and praising and kissing Trump's ass for the past 3 days.
Bannon also said yesterday that he wasn't calling Don Jr. treasonous and unpatriotic, but that comment was meant to be about Paul Manafort. The author of the book considers himself to be a mind reader, and insists it was about Don Jr. even though Don Jr's name wasn't mentioned. Regardless.. Bannon is clearly stating now that he was referring to Paul Manafort.
What Bannon claims is obviously true.. because Don Jr. isn't even being accused of doing anything treasonous and unpatriotic. Manafort IS being accused of money laundering.. at the time Manafort was working with lobbyists including the democrat Pedosta brothers in support of Obama. When Trump became aware of the reasons Manafort parted ways with the democrats, he fired Manafort.
That "Fire and Fury" book turned out to be much ado about nothing. The author was just making crazy bold statements to drum up sales.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/08/politics/steve-bannon-apology-trump/index.html
The author admitted that most of the stuff is unprovable and he wrote the narrative that suited his opinion of what happened.
There's plenty of videos on YouTube about this, many even show him admitting it.
That's also true!
But… that author has also said that his book will get Trump removed from office.. which is ridiculous. Now that this book has been published, it is this BOOK that is the proverbial "Emporer has no clothes".
If this book had been prevented from being published, people would have gone crazy with speculation over what the book contained.
The suckers are the people that paid money for that crap.
The book is so absurd, that I almost wonder if the author wrote it as a parody... ridiculing the "fake news".
One thing that bothers me is that the author claims to still have contacts within the White House and says Trump is boiling angry about the book. I doubt that is the case at all. Trump is probably relieved that the book carries no punch. However, it's quite disturbing that there may be "spies" inside the White House spreading crazy gossip.
I got ahold of two formats of "Fire and Fury". I was going to post it here, but it is so boring I would feel guilty for robbing people out of a few hours of their lives reading it. If someone suffers from insomnia.. I will post it for you.
It's a good thing that book was published. If it had been banned, people would thing there were fascinating bombshells in that book. By publishing it, we now know that it is a very short book.. and quite boring.
The author can't seem to complete a paragraph without including at least one word that over 99% of the population never saw before and would need a dictionary to look up. The author didn't even use the words appropriately. The use of such esoteric words is a method often employed by bullshit artists to disguise themselves as intellectuals. Being an intellectual myself.. let me tell you, the author is no intellectual.. he's a bullshit artist. A true intellectual knows that to communicate effectively and clearly, one must make their prose understandable to their audience - which in this case would be the American public. One rule of thumb is never use a word that you don't know how to spell or don't know the meaning of.
Let me give you an idea about how this book was written. Think back to when you were in school, and the teacher assigned you to write an essay of 5000 words on how to brush your teeth. I always had problems with assignments like that, because I try to get to communicate with as few words as possible, and as clearly as possible. One reason for doing that is when giving instructions or rules, every word you use is one more chance for someone to get confused, misinterpret, or intentionally twist your meaning. Anyway.. when given such as assignment, the student is forced to use 10 times as many words as necessary to convey their information. That "Fire and Fury" book is much like that.
Here is an example of what I mean:
Instead of writing: "Bannon said Jared Kushner met with the Russians". This book would have something like:
"On a particularly humid day in May 2016 at 1:22 PM in the atrium of the Waldorf Hotel on the corner of 48th avenue and St. James Boulevard, Steve Bannon sipped upon a steaming mug of coffee with 2 lumps of sugar and a tablespoon of Cremora non-dairy creamer. The mug was emblazoned with a portrait of Scarlett O'Hara from the 1942 film "Gone With The Wind" which won best picture and was directed by Oscar Demille 3 years before he died of food poisining in his estate that was built during the civil war in the lower east side of Charlotte North Carolina. As Bannon sat contemplating the events of the day, and after ingesting a large bran muffin top from Starbucks, he excused himself to partake of the porcelain amenities in the nearby restroom. As Steve stood up to make his way to the depository for his fecal waste, he let loose a burst of flatuence which permeated the air with the scent of sauerkraut mixed with a hint of lavender and burnt Michelin tires. When Steve returned from the "chamber of secrets", he blurted out with aplomb, "Jared Kushner met with the Russians". "
Yes, I made that up.. but then again, that moron Michael Wolff made up his nonsense also. That is the style and method employed in that book.
