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Remember that crazy Fox News segment earlier this year on so-called Muslim “no-go zones”? A UK regulator has now ruled that it was “materially misleading” and that Fox is in violation of the country’s broadcast standards. That might explain why Fox scrambled at the time to apologize repeatedly for the segment. But the UK regulator said the apologies were basically too little too late.
I’m not sure how much play this will get. But this poll tells you a lot about the candidacies of Donald Trump and Jeb Bush. A new PPP polls shows Trump, not surprisingly, at the head of the GOP pack. But when PPP created head to head match ups with the other contenders, Carson, Fiorina, Rubio and Walker all beat Trump and in most cases handily. Except Jeb. Trump beat Jeb. So Trump really isn’t that strong. He’s just got a committed following that holds the ground in a crowded field. Another way of putting it is that as big a plurality as Trump has, the bigger deal is the majority that is clearly against him.
Meanwhile, Jeb is weak and nobody likes him.
McConnell puts in motion a plan to prevent the latest government shutdown.
Good luck.
Donald Trump has sent a ‘cease and desist’ letter to the perennially corrupt and tendentious “Club for Growth” demanding they stop running ads against him. They’re defamatory, mean, false, bad, etc. There’s no direct connection to Citizens United. But I would say it’s all of a piece. “Speech” in the form of unlimited spending by billionaires becomes entirely unfettered. But we also import the moguls’ habit of unbridled litigiousness to clamp down on actual speech. Welcome to the future.
A new Insight poll I wanted to share with you. We asked our center-left reader set the following question: Which statement most closely matches your view of government regulation?
The choices were …
“Government should regulate as little as possible.”
“Every case and industry is different. Each should be addressed on its own merits.”
“A strong regulatory state is necessary to protect the public interest.”
results after the jump …
As we observe the political passing of former next President of the United States Scott Walker, let’s take a moment to watch his 1992 debate with David Duke. Yes, there’s video!
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