11 Comments
User's avatar
Susan K's avatar

Murphy Aces Art of Writing Headlines, Wins Today’s Courage and Insight Award

Expand full comment
Henrietta de Veer's avatar

I couldn't agree with you more. And, mainstream media is doing this with headline after headline, recasting events as benign or normal. After decades of being a pretty in-depth reader of commentary across the political spectrum, it is driving me nuts how this has happened so systematically.

Expand full comment
marcia schulz's avatar

I agree with you 100% but shouldn't the headline be AN unqualified moron?

Expand full comment
Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭's avatar

Yes it should! Fixed and thanks. That's unfortunate irony. But remember this post isn't about accidental typos (I hope you forgive mine); it's about very deliberate word choices. -AM

Expand full comment
Joseph Bulterman's avatar

Noem gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror and starts to hum, "I'm a loser".

Expand full comment
Jen Baron's avatar

I’d have to say that most (except the Daily Beast) do not properly present the magnitude of the incompetence, destruction and cruelty that is happening right now. ICE Barbie didn’t “fumble” the question, she has never read the Constitution, nor cares what it states.

I think putting these “cabinet” members on a reality TV show and winning their Jobs would be GREAT! Can you see Pete Buttigieg against Sean Duffy?? LMAO I don’t know if that show would fall under Comedy or Horror!!! I also think they should be forced to live for a month as an “average” American and deal with Day Care, that old fashioned word “groceries”, aging parents, disabilities etc and navigating that system on a fixed amount of money. We’ll call it “Lost”.

Expand full comment
Steve Singer's avatar

I didn’t. She came off as a nudnick. An ignoramus. Someone who understands nothing and is a danger to herself and everyone else around her; exactly the type whom Trump attracts to his immediate circle.

Expand full comment
Victory Renfrew's avatar

She knows. She's lying. Maga like ro act stupid. It's their way of denying shit.

Expand full comment
Brian Wroten's avatar

I’m not convinced (based on the track record of this administration) she isn’t deliberately lying to distort the meaning of words.

Expand full comment
Stephanie Hobbs's avatar

Incorrectly defines still isn't strong enough. "Noem DOESN'T KNOW what habeas corpus means."

Expand full comment
Mary Ann's avatar

Love it! Makes me miss my J- school days.

Many news organizations soft pedaled with great pillowy cushions to land on so you barely knew what happened.

Expand full comment