Friday, January 25, 2019
Headlines for Jan. 25, 2019
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Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted time slot.
Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines for Jan. 25, 2019
*Outraged Maduro Cuts Ties with U.S. After Opposition Leader Declares Himself Venezuela’s President
What a dishonest headline. The reason Maduro cut ties wasn't Guaidó, it was Trump's *recognition* of Guaidó as the "President" of Venezuela. Once again, the NYT evidently heard criticism (and likely not from just me), because the current headline now reads “After U.S. Backs Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s Leader, Maduro Cuts Ties”.
*Cuba Out of Venezuela
Friends of democracy need to target Havana’s control in Caracas.
Friends of democracy need to target Havana’s control in Caracas.
With flagrant U.S. intervention ongoing in Venezuela, the WSJ thinks *Cuban* intervention is the problem. “Cuba is the imperial power in Caracas” says the WSJ. Also “Russia certainly wouldn’t mind a Syrian-style civil war in Venezuela that spread more chaos in the Americas and more opportunity to undermine democratic governments.” Absolutely delusional.
*D.N.C. Says It Was Targeted Again by Russian Hackers After ’18 Election
11th paragraph: “FireEye said that although Cozy Bear was the likeliest culprit, the firm could not firmly establish who was responsible for the 2018 campaign against the D.N.C. and other targets. CrowdStrike, another cybersecurity firm, also noted an uptick in hacking activity in November, but it could not say definitively that Cozy Bear was to blame.”
*Israel strikes Iranian targets in Damascus after missile fired at Golan Heights
*Israel Confirms Attacks on Iranian Targets in Syria
*Israel makes rare admission of striking Iranian forces in Syria
You can only "confirm" something or "admit" something if it's true. Both of these headlines should read "Israel CLAIMS to have struck Iranian forces in Syria"
"The strikes, which hit targets including a training camp, munitions storage depots and a site at the Damascus International Airport and were reported by Russia to have killed at least four Syrian servicemen, came after a day of escalation in Syria on Sunday." Strange that they hit "Iranian" targets and the only people reported killed were Syrians. Also note how the "Reported by Russia" is implicitly linked to the previous statements, as if it were Russia, and not Israel, which claimed the targets included a training camp, a munitions storage depot, and "a site" (whatever that means) at Damascus Airport.
A series of headlines from just the WaPo about the “Trump ordered Cohen to lie” story:
Trump instructed Cohen to lie to Congress about Moscow project, report says
Trump reportedly told Michael Cohen to lie. His own attorney general pick testified that's a crime.
Why the BuzzFeed Trump-Cohen story could be the most damning to date
Five big takeaways from the stunning report that Trump told Cohen to lie
The BuzzFeed story about Trump telling Cohen to lie was front page material in the print NYT yesterday. Mueller’s denial is on p. 11.
Reports of damning Mueller findings prompt people to consider possibility of 'President Pelosi'
Huh? The "damning Mueller findings" (which, by the way, were denied by Mueller) about Trump ordering Cohen to lie have nothing to do with Vice-President Pence. So how exactly are they supposed to result in the impeachment not just of Trump but of Pence as well? The “people” in the headline, by the way, refers to random people on Twitter.
*FBI in shutdown: 'We can't pay informants’
At last, something to like about the shutdown: “FBI agents complained Monday that the month-old US government shutdown is preventing them from paying informants, buying drugs undercover in narcotics busts, and even renewing their own security clearances.”
Three hard-left women is a recipe for Democratic disaster in 2020
Hard-left, LOL. By the way the three are Harris, Gillibrand, and Warren; they don’t even mention Gabbard.
U.S. military leaders 'embarrassed' by Trump's Syria plan, Kurdish commander says
Wouldn't you want to talk to the actual alleged U.S. military leaders who are allegedly embarrassed, rather than taking the word of someone with an obvious vested interest in keeping U.S. troops there? Who should be embarrassed is NBC News.
Why Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba
There’s no “may be” about it. From the article: “The infant mortality rate in Cuba is only 4.0 deaths per 1,000 live births. In the United States, it’s 5.9. In other words, an American infant is, by official statistics, almost 50 percent more likely to die than a Cuban infant. That means that 7,500 American kids die each year because we don’t have as good an infant mortality rate as Cuba.”
