Michael Isikoff writing on 'Spy Talk' did just that as Michael busted Tulsi Gabbard's 2017 troll trip to Syria sponsored by a pro-Assad American group. Unfortunately for Tulsi, an American investigative reporter followed up back in 2017 on the subject of Assad genocide.
Jen Psaki interviewed Michael on her 1st segment this morning, "Inside with Jen Psaki".
Sorry Rick, I had to take someone to Sunday Medical Center appointment.
Did you guess who "American investigate reporter" was? Spoiler Alert: It was MICHAEL ISIKOFF himself. Whoa!
Michael had the courage to ask Assad about Syrians that Assad butchered.
When challenged Assad 'do you have any photos? You know that smarty pants Michael -- or do you?
Michael pulled the 'Ceasar photos' out his jacket for the butcher to see the dead bodies and body parts for a look see. Oh darn, you guessed it, the lights suddenly went OFF in Assad's super secure meeting room.
No worries Rick; Michael is not in the dark. I would like to see Michael testify about his trailing Tulsi to Assad's doorstep. If you want to see Gabbard's 3 minute Agit-Prop piece for Putin & Assad -- it's on line. No dead bodies I promise.
We all know about Assad and now he’s gone. We all know about Qaddafi and now he’s gone. We all know about the Muslim terrorist organizations that Trump killed and now they’re gone. But Trump will now finish the job completely given the chance. There are billboards all over Israel, and the Israelis have never been happier to get Trump back in the White House.
Tulsi can be disqualified under a number Federal laws.
The issue is not that Assad is a genocidal maniac. The issues (plural) is what did Tulsi Gabbard do for who unknowing or knowingly.
The Department t of Treasury just nailed 6 Americans paid by a Putin front based in Tennessee. 2 of the players were ... "What? I did not know." but, the 5K per month to produce digital product sure was cool. 4 of the 6 were silent to my knowledge & remain silent.
Let's hear from Gabbard herself.
At a Senate Hearing Gabbard's 3 minute propaganda piece could be on first. Plat the tape she will not appear. I am certain Michael could help us identify the actors that are still working
I’m not worried about dead bodies. I’m worried about misleading information which is so prominent today in legacy media. Said in my earlier post, the thing I hate most is to watch somebody get kavanaughed
Trump met with Kim Jong Un. Biden met with President shih. Does that make them traitors?
And I would love to hear you answer my questions about what that makes Kelsey and Donald
And your point is? You do realize that Kelsey was apparently a democrat back then. So let me ask you this why did it take seven years for this thing to pop up especially when Tulsi was running for president? I have a few other questions for you. What’s the most important one is do you think that Kelsey works for Putin or has any affiliation with Russia?
Yes, good piece to listen to if you can get past his talking over her, insisting that we “aren’t getting what we want/need from our government”. He’s totally bought the lies she’s trying to school him about. And not just the lies, she’s trying to help him understand the mechanisms and purposes of the lies. (Really can’t take the smug, arrogance …) However, HCR is awesome here, as always.
Gunnar, I recently (sort of) read a newsletter in my inbox, from Nathan Tankus. He did a (very) deep dive into our economy, and while I admit I did not read the whole letter, his detailed research revealed where there are a lot of people hurting economically, and therefore voted for what they (wrongly) believe is a solution. They do not feel they are getting what they need from our government.
I’ve been thinking of what it must be like to be HCR - so engrossed and engaged with current events in such a distressing time. If it were my job to stay on top of it all I think I’d crack, mentally. And then she shares a photo from Buddy and I’m reminded of how (for those of us lucky to be married to someone perfect for us), important and wonderful and balancing our spouses can be. For me, it was my spouses uncanny ability to know just when I was about to lose it with our teenage son (decades ago) and he’d step in and just take over. No words needed to be spoken.
So these respites from the events of the day that include a lovely photo from Buddy are a wonderful warm blanket to my soul, and many others too I think.
I do wosh she would tell us the story of her and Buddy. How did they stumble onto one another and fall in love? Buddy certainly is a good photographer as well as a Maine Lobsterman
Nothing stays ordinary when one stops to really see. The light and landscape this time of year (here in Maine) stops me short throughout the day— it is a gift to be on this precious and endlessly magnificent planet.
Betsy, So perfectly said: I will be sharing this. I often share Heather’s thoughts, but also share much from this community. And, Maine, left it for most of my adulthood and so grateful for this beautiful place in my senior years.
Thanks for this! If ever I return to the US there are a very few regions that I would consider living, to wit, San Francisco, Oregon, Washington, or Maine. This reminds me of the summers I spent in Maine in my 20s camping with my young newlywed wife when we were relatively poor students in Boston. Thanks so much for this - it takes me back 40 years.
I realize after decades upon this planet that I was raised to be a mindless consumer. It seems possible now that because we let ourselves by led by decadent, irresponsible, dangerous, madmen that we sadly get what we were too busy to grasp, what we temporarily allowed ourselves to be mesmerized by (pretty things, flashy things, etc.) and what we took for granted; that it is probably so late in the game now, we will have to suffer many many more consequences before we wake up. I see a new generation of entitlement - young people given credit cards and Iphones etc. without ever having to earn these things. Then there are the true heros of our time, Jimmy Carter who was mocked, Romeo Delaire, who was abandoned by the "powers that be" when he tried to save lives in Rwanda, truly selfless amazing men and women of our times who if we had been paying more attention and while we are being seduced by the entertainment industry (not art in my opinion at all), robbed us of a real meaningful life, and mostly while we were just trying to survive, could have led us down a better path. It's time to start an austerity movement. I'd like to see Ocasio Cortez lead that movement. She won by standing on street corners where she was rebuffed by 9 out of 10 voters at first! Her response to power was, if not quite as hilarious as it seemed to me to be, fitting and pretty expressive (her dress or coat that mocked Melania's poor taste). I would follow her, help her, cheer her on, donate, and march with her, and I'm an old doll! Keep up your fearless writing Heather, I cheer you on as well. If you ever need my help let me know.
"...young people given credit cards and Iphones etc. without ever having to earn these things."
Old guy here who is appalled by this. Kids of affluent parents are hovered over, sheltered, and showered with material wealth. Almost every moment of their lives is planned, programmed or they are parked with a "device". We used to worry about the amount of TV time a kid experienced. Now screen time is life itself.
Old guy here who is grateful that my parents did two things. They led and taught by example. And...they left me alone - a lot. I followed MY interests. I created, I grew, I was empowered to feel independent.
And to your point, aside from the basics of love, food, clothing and shelter - if I wanted something like a "stereo" or a radio or a record album, I mowed lawns to earn it. I went to work in a formal way as soon as I was "legal". Many jobs, many lessons and a lot of empowerment.
Working in all its forms is the vehicle for confidence and independence. So is a parent saying: "Go outside and play...come back when the street lights turn on." (It is statistically safer now than it was then. The internet and cable shows will say differently.)
Want has replaced need as the force or reason to work, to be productive. Basic needs (food, shelter, avoiding poverty) and the ocassional treat (remember getting dots of candy on long strip of paper from a candy store or getting to go to a matinee on a Saturday?) was the lives of our parents and what they gave to us. Now, IMHO, we are generations compelled to acquire, to consume, and the wants (my dream as a kid was to earn enough so I could buy candy from Hillmans as I went to work and dreamed of owning a car by the time I was 20) are right up there: carry out and packaged food stuff (not meals), latest smart phone, monthly services for media and technology, a car for everyone, food, shelter, money for hanging out. Wants now are for that lavish vacation, wages that keep ahead of needs and a growing economy that ensures the new needs don't cut into the potential for getting the new wants, even among those left behind by an ungrateful economy. All of this erosion happened in our lifetime, Bill, and we leave behind a form of universal prosperity or at least the perception that the standard we gained is now the baseline for tomorrow's wants. Truly, I observe, a shift in the fudamentals of what compels effort, meaning, and expectations. No wonder, for me, why marrage and having a family or home ownership or choice of careers that serve others are now viewed as artifacts of a time long gone.
Bill, we are also appalled. Our great nephews have hoards of stuff. We gave up and now just send our nephew a check at Christmas. We do help out if they are fundraising. They are in Burbank and they are very lucky that their grandmother in Norway is rich. In the midwest I have many younger relatives and while the adults have scut jobs, (if they work), they too have piles of stuff. As for jobs such as lawn mowing and newspaper delivery, those jobs are now done by adults, mostly Hispanic. Lots of teens around here had cannery jobs, but the canneries are mostly gone. I do think that kids who grow up on farms do a lot of summer work like moving irrigation pipe. If death star manages to deport most of the ag workforce and others who do scut work, maybe we will see kids mowing lawns. I doubt it however.
Ours has long been a Gannet rag. It is delivered by someone who drives a car, but no Saturday delivery. We get the NYT and subscribe to an online version of the rag, basically for obits.
The import value of ownership & responsibility is the hard work u put into it to achieve it & thru that process u develope a sense of ownership & responsibility & pride of accomplishment!..
Not all but most children r missing that development - some no matter what hold nothing important enough to give a care!
Amplify your every syllable. Entertainment industry, hijacked by Mark Burnett and Andy Cohen. I watched as the slime oozed, sort of like the molasses flood of 1919.
It’s all cyclical. My parents grew up in the depression and WWII. As first generation Americans, they saved, married, bought a house and worked hard and prospered. The boomers then came along and I being one, rebelled against materialism. We dropped out protested war but slowly came around to realizing we too had to work hard, buy that house and live happily ever after. I must admit I don’t understand society anymore. I don’t understand how a young parent can put instead of putting a rubber pacifier in their child’s mouth, put a cell pacifier in its hand and then wonder why the growing child is unsociable or moody, or the boy wants to be a girl and visa versa. I have a better interaction with animals. I never met an animal I didn’t like but I’ve met mountains of men I haven’t liked. I’ll hang with the animals.
Awake again at 3 a.m. in California… my unfortunate pattern since the election. Distressed to once again realize the nightmare is real. I consider sources of comfort available to me (that don’t involve imagined and completely ineffectual conversations with duped DJT voters). Two sources of comfort are mainstays: 1) Stroking my dog”s silky head. 2) Reaching for reason and perspective from HCR. I thank you. My dog thanks you. She would like to sleep through the night as well.
Upon waking, does it feel like being hit by a sledge hammer. Every time, the nightmare extends through waking hours. The normal vagaries of life now have to be dealt with in the context of a hellish new reality. Even a trip to the store may become an ordeal, for some more than others. We will now experience what some marginalized people have dealt with for their whole lives…
Beautiful, as always.
Rest up, and thank you for all you do. The 11/22 column was particularly poignant and powerful.
And as Heather said in her interview with Jon Stewart, we need to keep doing the next right thing.
Michael Isikoff writing on 'Spy Talk' did just that as Michael busted Tulsi Gabbard's 2017 troll trip to Syria sponsored by a pro-Assad American group. Unfortunately for Tulsi, an American investigative reporter followed up back in 2017 on the subject of Assad genocide.
Jen Psaki interviewed Michael on her 1st segment this morning, "Inside with Jen Psaki".
Definitely "inside" today❗️
Ask her to interview Tucker.
Sorry Rick, I had to take someone to Sunday Medical Center appointment.
Did you guess who "American investigate reporter" was? Spoiler Alert: It was MICHAEL ISIKOFF himself. Whoa!
Michael had the courage to ask Assad about Syrians that Assad butchered.
When challenged Assad 'do you have any photos? You know that smarty pants Michael -- or do you?
Michael pulled the 'Ceasar photos' out his jacket for the butcher to see the dead bodies and body parts for a look see. Oh darn, you guessed it, the lights suddenly went OFF in Assad's super secure meeting room.
No worries Rick; Michael is not in the dark. I would like to see Michael testify about his trailing Tulsi to Assad's doorstep. If you want to see Gabbard's 3 minute Agit-Prop piece for Putin & Assad -- it's on line. No dead bodies I promise.
We all know about Assad and now he’s gone. We all know about Qaddafi and now he’s gone. We all know about the Muslim terrorist organizations that Trump killed and now they’re gone. But Trump will now finish the job completely given the chance. There are billboards all over Israel, and the Israelis have never been happier to get Trump back in the White House.
I would truly like to know your point.
Tulsi can be disqualified under a number Federal laws.
The issue is not that Assad is a genocidal maniac. The issues (plural) is what did Tulsi Gabbard do for who unknowing or knowingly.
The Department t of Treasury just nailed 6 Americans paid by a Putin front based in Tennessee. 2 of the players were ... "What? I did not know." but, the 5K per month to produce digital product sure was cool. 4 of the 6 were silent to my knowledge & remain silent.
Let's hear from Gabbard herself.
At a Senate Hearing Gabbard's 3 minute propaganda piece could be on first. Plat the tape she will not appear. I am certain Michael could help us identify the actors that are still working
You did not answer my question. Actually you didn’t answer any of them . Why is she beingKavanaughed now?
Where was all this information when she was in Congress?
As usual, this will probably go nowhere, but I have an open mind so let’s see
Conspiracy theories that usually take this long to surface are usually just that. Or maybe Alvin Bragg could work on this or maybe Jack Smith 😀
I’m not worried about dead bodies. I’m worried about misleading information which is so prominent today in legacy media. Said in my earlier post, the thing I hate most is to watch somebody get kavanaughed
Trump met with Kim Jong Un. Biden met with President shih. Does that make them traitors?
And I would love to hear you answer my questions about what that makes Kelsey and Donald
I don't speak MAGA so what is "kavanaughed" ... is it something like escaping sexual misconduct like Gaetz?
Meeting with adversaries is no problem. I see you like straw man arguments but, Jong Un is not a straw man. Did wreck give him more than Love Letters?
GAETZ did not make it nor should Tulsi Gabbard.
And your point is? You do realize that Kelsey was apparently a democrat back then. So let me ask you this why did it take seven years for this thing to pop up especially when Tulsi was running for president? I have a few other questions for you. What’s the most important one is do you think that Kelsey works for Putin or has any affiliation with Russia?
Lots of auto correct spelling going on my bad, but I figured you’re smart enough to figure it out
No worries ... you can edit using 1 of 3 little dots ....
Yes, good piece to listen to if you can get past his talking over her, insisting that we “aren’t getting what we want/need from our government”. He’s totally bought the lies she’s trying to school him about. And not just the lies, she’s trying to help him understand the mechanisms and purposes of the lies. (Really can’t take the smug, arrogance …) However, HCR is awesome here, as always.
Gunnar, I recently (sort of) read a newsletter in my inbox, from Nathan Tankus. He did a (very) deep dive into our economy, and while I admit I did not read the whole letter, his detailed research revealed where there are a lot of people hurting economically, and therefore voted for what they (wrongly) believe is a solution. They do not feel they are getting what they need from our government.
https://www.crisesnotes.com/one-election-takeaway-voters-hate-temporary-safety-nets/
I would say 11/21 is actually more poingant..... red hot and raw poignant.
Soothing and spectacular photo! Thank you. Rest well.
PS You were simply FANTASTIC in your interview with Jon Stewart! Thank you for being you!
HCR: “Heroes are just people who keep doing the right thing…and that’s what we can do.”
Loved that interview too -- send the link to everyone I know!
Pls share the link. ThNks
Is this the interview you are referring to from two weeks ago? I shared it with several friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cKOaBdFWo&t=174s
Yes, it was a fascinating conversation , and I need to listen again, with my husband.
The ordinary becomes spectacular through Buddy's lens. Enjoy the night/day off, Professor!
I’ve been thinking of what it must be like to be HCR - so engrossed and engaged with current events in such a distressing time. If it were my job to stay on top of it all I think I’d crack, mentally. And then she shares a photo from Buddy and I’m reminded of how (for those of us lucky to be married to someone perfect for us), important and wonderful and balancing our spouses can be. For me, it was my spouses uncanny ability to know just when I was about to lose it with our teenage son (decades ago) and he’d step in and just take over. No words needed to be spoken.
So these respites from the events of the day that include a lovely photo from Buddy are a wonderful warm blanket to my soul, and many others too I think.
I do wosh she would tell us the story of her and Buddy. How did they stumble onto one another and fall in love? Buddy certainly is a good photographer as well as a Maine Lobsterman
Nothing stays ordinary when one stops to really see. The light and landscape this time of year (here in Maine) stops me short throughout the day— it is a gift to be on this precious and endlessly magnificent planet.
Evening, Lynell. Agreed!
Ditto
I think I would like to buy one of those house up yonder on the hill and live there.
Hey, D4N! Hope you are doing better these days.
Thanks Lynell. Sorry for the late response.
Ditto here
Morning, Ally! Hope "they" are treating you good!
So far...
What a lovely, peaceful photo.
In contrast, let me share some ironic thoughts from a friend: If civil war breaks out, meet me at the library. They don't know where it is.
Betsy, So perfectly said: I will be sharing this. I often share Heather’s thoughts, but also share much from this community. And, Maine, left it for most of my adulthood and so grateful for this beautiful place in my senior years.
Love it Betsy!
🙈lololololol👍🏻
"...autumn's odd juxtaposition of extravagance and simplicity." What a marvelous wordsmith you are, Heather!! Day in and day out, throughout the year.
Thank you for your active mind, your engagement in things of merit. Thank you too for the gentle gift of pause. Rest well.
Thanks for this! If ever I return to the US there are a very few regions that I would consider living, to wit, San Francisco, Oregon, Washington, or Maine. This reminds me of the summers I spent in Maine in my 20s camping with my young newlywed wife when we were relatively poor students in Boston. Thanks so much for this - it takes me back 40 years.
Boy, the skies have been breathtaking, even in CA! Thank Buddy for me. Sleep tight.
I realize after decades upon this planet that I was raised to be a mindless consumer. It seems possible now that because we let ourselves by led by decadent, irresponsible, dangerous, madmen that we sadly get what we were too busy to grasp, what we temporarily allowed ourselves to be mesmerized by (pretty things, flashy things, etc.) and what we took for granted; that it is probably so late in the game now, we will have to suffer many many more consequences before we wake up. I see a new generation of entitlement - young people given credit cards and Iphones etc. without ever having to earn these things. Then there are the true heros of our time, Jimmy Carter who was mocked, Romeo Delaire, who was abandoned by the "powers that be" when he tried to save lives in Rwanda, truly selfless amazing men and women of our times who if we had been paying more attention and while we are being seduced by the entertainment industry (not art in my opinion at all), robbed us of a real meaningful life, and mostly while we were just trying to survive, could have led us down a better path. It's time to start an austerity movement. I'd like to see Ocasio Cortez lead that movement. She won by standing on street corners where she was rebuffed by 9 out of 10 voters at first! Her response to power was, if not quite as hilarious as it seemed to me to be, fitting and pretty expressive (her dress or coat that mocked Melania's poor taste). I would follow her, help her, cheer her on, donate, and march with her, and I'm an old doll! Keep up your fearless writing Heather, I cheer you on as well. If you ever need my help let me know.
"...young people given credit cards and Iphones etc. without ever having to earn these things."
Old guy here who is appalled by this. Kids of affluent parents are hovered over, sheltered, and showered with material wealth. Almost every moment of their lives is planned, programmed or they are parked with a "device". We used to worry about the amount of TV time a kid experienced. Now screen time is life itself.
Old guy here who is grateful that my parents did two things. They led and taught by example. And...they left me alone - a lot. I followed MY interests. I created, I grew, I was empowered to feel independent.
And to your point, aside from the basics of love, food, clothing and shelter - if I wanted something like a "stereo" or a radio or a record album, I mowed lawns to earn it. I went to work in a formal way as soon as I was "legal". Many jobs, many lessons and a lot of empowerment.
Working in all its forms is the vehicle for confidence and independence. So is a parent saying: "Go outside and play...come back when the street lights turn on." (It is statistically safer now than it was then. The internet and cable shows will say differently.)
Want has replaced need as the force or reason to work, to be productive. Basic needs (food, shelter, avoiding poverty) and the ocassional treat (remember getting dots of candy on long strip of paper from a candy store or getting to go to a matinee on a Saturday?) was the lives of our parents and what they gave to us. Now, IMHO, we are generations compelled to acquire, to consume, and the wants (my dream as a kid was to earn enough so I could buy candy from Hillmans as I went to work and dreamed of owning a car by the time I was 20) are right up there: carry out and packaged food stuff (not meals), latest smart phone, monthly services for media and technology, a car for everyone, food, shelter, money for hanging out. Wants now are for that lavish vacation, wages that keep ahead of needs and a growing economy that ensures the new needs don't cut into the potential for getting the new wants, even among those left behind by an ungrateful economy. All of this erosion happened in our lifetime, Bill, and we leave behind a form of universal prosperity or at least the perception that the standard we gained is now the baseline for tomorrow's wants. Truly, I observe, a shift in the fudamentals of what compels effort, meaning, and expectations. No wonder, for me, why marrage and having a family or home ownership or choice of careers that serve others are now viewed as artifacts of a time long gone.
Bill, we are also appalled. Our great nephews have hoards of stuff. We gave up and now just send our nephew a check at Christmas. We do help out if they are fundraising. They are in Burbank and they are very lucky that their grandmother in Norway is rich. In the midwest I have many younger relatives and while the adults have scut jobs, (if they work), they too have piles of stuff. As for jobs such as lawn mowing and newspaper delivery, those jobs are now done by adults, mostly Hispanic. Lots of teens around here had cannery jobs, but the canneries are mostly gone. I do think that kids who grow up on farms do a lot of summer work like moving irrigation pipe. If death star manages to deport most of the ag workforce and others who do scut work, maybe we will see kids mowing lawns. I doubt it however.
Our local newspaper scuttled delivery boys/girls last month. Deliveries are done by USPS now.
Ours has long been a Gannet rag. It is delivered by someone who drives a car, but no Saturday delivery. We get the NYT and subscribe to an online version of the rag, basically for obits.
Extremely important point!
The import value of ownership & responsibility is the hard work u put into it to achieve it & thru that process u develope a sense of ownership & responsibility & pride of accomplishment!..
Not all but most children r missing that development - some no matter what hold nothing important enough to give a care!
50 odd years ago our pediatrician had a sign posted in his waiting room: Prepare the child not the path.
Amplify your every syllable. Entertainment industry, hijacked by Mark Burnett and Andy Cohen. I watched as the slime oozed, sort of like the molasses flood of 1919.
It’s all cyclical. My parents grew up in the depression and WWII. As first generation Americans, they saved, married, bought a house and worked hard and prospered. The boomers then came along and I being one, rebelled against materialism. We dropped out protested war but slowly came around to realizing we too had to work hard, buy that house and live happily ever after. I must admit I don’t understand society anymore. I don’t understand how a young parent can put instead of putting a rubber pacifier in their child’s mouth, put a cell pacifier in its hand and then wonder why the growing child is unsociable or moody, or the boy wants to be a girl and visa versa. I have a better interaction with animals. I never met an animal I didn’t like but I’ve met mountains of men I haven’t liked. I’ll hang with the animals.
The sky is such a drama queen! I love this 🥰
Yes, let us soak in the fading light only to be refreshed and ready for the dawn. We shall overcome.
Gorgeous! Thank you. I needed that ❤️
Awake again at 3 a.m. in California… my unfortunate pattern since the election. Distressed to once again realize the nightmare is real. I consider sources of comfort available to me (that don’t involve imagined and completely ineffectual conversations with duped DJT voters). Two sources of comfort are mainstays: 1) Stroking my dog”s silky head. 2) Reaching for reason and perspective from HCR. I thank you. My dog thanks you. She would like to sleep through the night as well.
Upon waking, does it feel like being hit by a sledge hammer. Every time, the nightmare extends through waking hours. The normal vagaries of life now have to be dealt with in the context of a hellish new reality. Even a trip to the store may become an ordeal, for some more than others. We will now experience what some marginalized people have dealt with for their whole lives…
Beautiful sunset
Buddy’s lovely photo and Heathers reassuring reminder of the cycle of seasons. (Not withstanding climate change.)
Very reassuring to me.
Thank you Heather - rest well