Labor Day 2016 News: Soledad O’Brien Rips Media for “Normalizing White Supremacy”; “Hillary Clinton Gets Gored” by Media

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Labor Day 2016.

• Fox News’ Chris Wallace has no intention of fact checking Trump’s lies during the debates (Wallace needs to be replaced as moderator with someone who WILL fact check Trump’s lies.)
• GOP senior statesmen continue to hold their fire on Trump (They should never be forgiven for this.)
• CBS’ John Dickerson Is Only Sunday Host To Cover Trump Foundation’s Proven Lawbreaking (Your supposedly “liberal media” at work yet again. What a joke.)
• Soledad O’Brien eviscerates CNN: ‘You have normalized’ white supremacy with shoddy Trump reporting
• About As Clear Cut as They Get (“The Trump-Bondi case looks like money in exchange for killing an investigation and possible lawsuit against Trump. It would be like Hillary Clinton making a cash payment to Loretta Lynch or James Comey during the email probe.”)
• Donald Trump Does Detroit (“Everything about this spectacle was offensive: that a black pastor had invited this money changer into the temple to defile it; that Trump was once again using the objects of his aggression for a last-ditch photo-op; that news media continue to call this an ‘outreach to black voters,’ when it’s clearly not.”)
• Donald Trump’s bet: We are all chumps (“He’s wagering that voters simply don’t care that he has released no meaningful health, tax or policy information.”)
• Hillary Clinton Gets Gored (“Mr. Trump’s record of bilking students, stiffing contractors and more is a good indicator of how he’d act as president; Mrs. Clinton’s speaking style and body language aren’t. George W. Bush’s policy lies gave me a much better handle on who he was than all the up-close-and-personal reporting of 2000, and the contrast between Mr. Trump’s policy incoherence and Mrs. Clinton’s carefulness speaks volumes today.”)
• Tim Kaine says Trump encouraged Watergate-like hack of DNC by Russians
• Tim Kaine: classified information in Clinton emails ‘improperly labeled’
• The Big Lie About Donald Trump’s Tax Returns (“…there is a bigger problem with the Trump campaign’s argument that all his returns are under audit: It’s not true.”)
• Is Rudy Giuliani Losing His Mind? (“Even in New York, ‘America’s Mayor’ was always a lot more like Trump than people realized. Now we’re seeing it on a national stage.”)
• Exploiting a broken system: Trump’s within striking distance of Hillary — and that’s mind-boggling (“Within our present system, a reality-show demagogue can make a legit run for president — that has to change”)
• Democrats’ chances of retaking the Senate keep getting better (“August saw Senate GOP poll numbers fall and Senate Democrats’ battleground map expand as they seek to retake the majority.”)
• Crouse-Mays: Kaine understands workers
• Trump Is Closing the Gap in National Polls, but Clinton Holds Key Battleground Leads (Scary.)
• ‘Right to Work’ constitutional amendment on November ballots in Virginia (Redundant and wrong – vote no.)
• Va. education officials moving forward with plans that could transform how schools work
• Grocery shopping with Secret Service: Anne Holton tries to keep it real
• Airport jet noise could be in Redskins’ future if new stadium goes to Virginia
• 9th District Democrats gear up for elections (“With a rare appearance from former U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher on Sunday, local Democrats kicked off the home stretch for local and national political campaigns by rallying behind Derek Kitts, who is fighting to take back Boucher’s former 9th District seat.”)
• Tourists hit the beach, locals clean up after Hermine
• A pleasant Labor Day, then a big September heat wave starts