I don't really see how they stop it at this point, when advance copies are already in the hands of media. It's just odd that they left it until this late. Even a week earlier and they could have stopped it from going out, but now? I just don't see it.
I don't really see how they stop it at this point, when advance copies are already in the hands of media. It's just odd that they left it until this late. Even a week earlier and they could have stopped it from going out, but now? I just don't see it.
IS that a foul-up on their part, do you think, or an opportunity they took for another big media fracas to distract people from <gestures at everything>?
I thought the same thing. It's like in Star Wars when Leia says, "They LET US go. It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape." Trump has always maintained that there's no such thing as bad publicity, and there have been damning books come out before with no consequences to his approval rating.
I'm with you, Heather. If a court stops it from going forward, SCOTUS would have to rely on New York Times Co. v. United States, in the Pentagon Papers case. As a former journalist, I can't see a stronger precedent than this. It would really turn the world upside down if SCOTUS overruled this precedent.
I don't really see how they stop it at this point, when advance copies are already in the hands of media. It's just odd that they left it until this late. Even a week earlier and they could have stopped it from going out, but now? I just don't see it.
IS that a foul-up on their part, do you think, or an opportunity they took for another big media fracas to distract people from <gestures at everything>?
I thought the same thing. It's like in Star Wars when Leia says, "They LET US go. It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape." Trump has always maintained that there's no such thing as bad publicity, and there have been damning books come out before with no consequences to his approval rating.
Sometimes their overall ineptitude actually WORKS for America.
I'm with you, Heather. If a court stops it from going forward, SCOTUS would have to rely on New York Times Co. v. United States, in the Pentagon Papers case. As a former journalist, I can't see a stronger precedent than this. It would really turn the world upside down if SCOTUS overruled this precedent.