Saturday News: President Obama Honors Our Veterans; U.S. Media Massively Failed During Election, Will It Massively Fail Now?

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, November 12. Also check out President Obama’s weekly address, “recogniz[ing] the service and sacrifice of our Nation’s military members and veterans.”

• Climate Contrarian Will Set the E.P.A.’s Direction (This is absolutely unacceptable. Also, stop using bulls*** words like “contrarian,” when people like Ebell are fossil-fuel-industry shills and climate DENIERS.)
• Op-Ed: What Trump Exposed About the G.O.P. (“The party’s appeal has been based on identity over ideology.”)
• The World Waits and Wonders About Trump (“The president-elect would do well to recognize the profound concern of Western democracies.”)
• The Democratic Party is facing a leadership vacuum (“Who will speak for the majority of voters who didn’t back Trump?”)
• DREAMers fear nightmare scenario in Trump’s America
• Trump and advisers hedge on major pledges, including Obamacare and the wall (Wishful thinking by the corporate media.)
• Will Donald Trump be Herbert Hoover all over again? (“He will either be a populist protectionist or break his promises.”)
• Pence replaces Christie as leader of Trump transition effort
• Series of strategic mistakes likely sealed Clinton’s fate
• On foreign policy, Donald Trump is no realist (“Realists embrace truth. His statements reveal a basic disregard of facts.”)
• Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here (“We must open the doors of the party to welcome in the idealism and energy of young people and all Americans who are fighting for economic, social, racial and environmental justice. We must have the courage to take on the greed and power of Wall Street, the drug companies, the insurance companies and the fossil fuel industry.”)
• Spare me the euphemisms. White people made Trump president. (“This election teaches lessons about voting that we should have already known”)
• Trump shakes up his power structure (Not sure it’s any less bad, though.)
• Fight erupts among Democrats for control of party in crisis (“Even proponents of Ellison — a Sanders backer during the primary who then went out of his way to support Clinton after ringing the anti-Donald Trump alarms early — acknowledge that an ugly fight is likely, despite the backing from Schumer, suddenly the de facto highest-ranking Democrat in Washington in the post-Clinton, post-Obama era.”)
• Trump victory puts the chill on international climate talks (“At a U.N. conference, concerns over the future of the Paris Agreement.”)
• David Plouffe: What I Got Wrong About the Election (“…the nagging worry about a lack of broad-based enthusiasm for Mrs. Clinton, which I noted often as someone familiar with the Obama coalition, proved to be justified. She had passionate supporters and volunteers, for sure. But for sporadic and potential first-time voters, the spark was not there.” Good for Plouffe for owning up to his wildly incorrect prediction, by the way.)
• The U.S. Media Is Completely Unprepared to Cover a Trump Presidency (“Donald Trump and his surrogates have shown an uncanny ability to lie in the face of objective facts. They will now have the power of the federal government to help them.”)
• Journalists ‘have to take a stand’: Jorge Ramos calls out media’s late reaction to Donald Trump (“Ramos also places a lot of blame on the media itself. He explained that the press is normalizing Trump’s behavior so that it becomes more acceptable when it isn’t”)
• Michigan Democrat slams Hillary Clinton’s terrible campaign strategy: “How would any sane person not predict how this one would go?” (“‘I was the crazy one,’ wrote Dingell, who watched Clinton twice take the Rust Belt for granted and pay the price”)
• Paul Ryan wants Donald Trump to let him privatize Medicare, gut Obamacare
• Donald Trump Is a Racist (“Here’s why many Americans don’t see him that way.”)
• Why Did Some White Obama Voters Go for Trump? (“Trump gave them a choice between multiracial democracy and white primacy.”)
• Now That The Election Is Over, Megyn Kelly Reveals The Pro-Trump Conspiracy At Fox
• MSNBC’s All In Highlights Facebook’s Role In Spreading Misinformation And Fake News Stories (“If Fox News Is Like A Super Soaker, Facebook Is Like A Fire Hose”)
• David Axelrod warns the Republicans: ‘We’re going to lean in and fight and win’ (We’d better.)
• Gov. McAuliffe to travel to Pacific Rim for trade mission
• Virginia public schools becoming more separate, less equal, report says (Lovely.)
• Muslims gather with elected officials at Virginia mosque to voice concerns, seek support after the election (“Delegate Alfonso Lopez of Fairfax County told the worshipers, many of whom are also immigrants, of his father’s arrival to the U.S. from Central America at age 19 ‘for a better life.’ After the election, ‘he questioned to me for the first time what America is, and I tell you, that made me more upset than I’ve been for many years.'”)
• Election’s aftermath brings anxieties to campuses and communities
• Forbes a candidate for Trump’s Navy secretary, Wittman considers his options
• After voters reject meals tax, Fairfax schools brace for belt-tightening (“The tax was projected to deliver $67 million to the school system to support teacher salary increases.”)
• U-Va. board is discussing ways to decrease tuition (“One possibility is dipping into the previously secret strategic investment fund.”)
• Three UVa officers placed on leave for taunting Clinton supporters
• Levar Stoney’s Richmond: How the city’s next mayor has promised to govern (“At the beginning of their first transition meeting Thursday, outgoing Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones shook mayor-elect Levar Stoney’s hand with exaggerated enthusiasm.”)
• Chilled today and a solid freeze for many tonight, but milder Sunday into next week