Новости за 25.07.2016

I'm not surprised by the anti-Hillary response since many Sanders delegates are die-hard supporters and the Democratic primary was a hard-fought affair.

We're hoping to embed the DNC livestream here. If you can't see it, there's livestreaming at the DNC website.

In spite of the fact that it's really hot here in Philadelphia, we took to the streets today to see what might be happening that you won't see on MSNBC or Fox News. Sunday's events were unofficial in advance of the official opening of the convention today, and what we found surprised us.

We were driving to Austin yesterday and right outside of east Austin is a place where folks set up shop to sell their peaches, watermelons, pecans, yard art, and flags to passing motorists.

The head of the RNC, Reince Priebus was discussing the hacked DNC emails that have had a big impact on the beginning of the Democratic Convention in Philly today and was ask by MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell if he was worried that the Russians might very well have been the hackers and are trying to influence the election?

C&L is on Snapchat! Join us at CrooksAndLiars.

Karoli wrote earlier today:

So. I am here with my daughter who is serving as our videographer for this convention. One of us will be in the hall and will definitely try and capture some moments there, but we will also be out and about, looking for events that may not be captured by cable news.

There are already videos of street protests (with really clever signs) and some street scenes and shops featuring Convention gear. Читать дальше...

After Russia helped Comrade Trump by submitting thousands of hacked DNC emails to Wikileaks days before the DNC Convention in the city of Brotherly Love, Donald Trump spiraled into a twitter tornado yesterday and today, with many directed at DWS, but many more of them targeting Bernie Sanders and his most ardent supporters.

Well, well, well.

It may not be just Roger Ailes who is a little bit inappropriate, just a little.

Fox and Friends deleted this off their twitter account very quickly. Hey, I'm not accusing Bil Hemmer of anything, but this is not a good look for the network.

As Travis says, maybe this pic is not doing Fox News any favors after the abrupt exit of their commander and chief, Roger Ailes?

maybe not the best look for a company besieged by rampant sexual harassment allegation... Читать дальше...

Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz was booed off the stage this morning at the Florida Delegation Breakfast in the wake of the Wikileaks email dump over the weekend.

Since it came up on Twitter last night, I did some research into whether that Republican convention totally inappropriate touching that Donald Trump exhibited on the stage with his daughter Ivanka had any historical context.

Many people are celebrating that Wasserman Schultz was finally given the heave-ho as DNC chair yesterday, but that doesn't mean the job is done. She was causing great harm to Democratic Party values long before she was elevated to that post and unless she's thrown out of Congress by Broward and Miami-Dade Democratic voters on August 30, she will continue doing exactly that into the foreseeable future.

I'm not someone who watches 60 Minutes every week. I find their heartwarming stories about sick children (ending with the announcement that the child died six months ago) to be cheap and manipulative. But Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine were on last night and it wasn't a half-bad interview. Above is a clip but if you want to watch the whole thing it's at CBS.com, as is the transcript from which the below is taken:

Thank goodness John Oliver was on last night.

His review of the Republican Convention could have come sooner, but still, it was just what we all needed. The RNC was "the most apocalyptic thing ever to happen to [Cleveland], and keep in mind, their river has repeatedly caught fire."

John's staff did an awesome job finding clips where various Republican speakers and pundits talked about how people "feel" that America has failed, when in fact those "feelings" are not backed up with facts. Читать дальше...

Driving our day: Monday is the first night of the Democratic National Convention, which means that the timing of the DNC email leaks story couldn't be worse. We'll begin in Russia and work our way to Florida:

As I wrote in my last post, the real question about Fox News without Roger Ailes is not how many more women will come forward but how far the contagion spreads. New York Magazin'es Gabriel Sherman has alleged a cover up by the same top executives serving as Fox’s interim leaders and are now being considered as replacements for Ailes.

Open Thread below...

Ended up doing a bit of Sunday driving today. The 70's soul mix I made got quite a workout. This song was one of the many highlights.

It's certainly not hyperbolic to say that Donald Trump and his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort have a complex and rather sordid history of collusion with Russian autocrats. It is also not far-fetched to mention some less than kosher affiliations with mob types, for both men.