{"id":24288,"date":"2016-10-20T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24288"},"modified":"2016-10-20T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T20:38:11","slug":"open-thread-10202016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/20\/open-thread-10202016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/20\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m trying to catch up on a bit of rest today, because tomorrow, I go for my appointment with Courtney, my Physical Terrorist.&#160; As a result, please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:15 (average 6:40).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-10-20-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N3aC4cjA-_k\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>How Democrats Take Back the Senate<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/N3aC4cjA-_k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right about the absolute need to wrest control of the Senate from the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich. I&#8217;m particularly proud that he listed Jeff Merkley third in his list of progressive Senators, behind only Liz and Bernie.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/tv-academy-offers-trump-emmy-if-he-will-quit-race\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>After learning that Donald J. Trump was still stinging from having lost an Emmy for \u201cThe Celebrity Apprentice,\u201d the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences offered to give the former reality-show host a belated Emmy if he will drop out of the 2016 race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never imagined that if we had simply given you an Emmy back in the day our current national nightmare might have been avoided,\u201d a Television Academy spokesman said in an online video.<\/p>\n<p>Displaying an Emmy statuette, the spokesman said, \u201cHere\u2019s your Emmy, Mr. Trump, all gold and shiny, just the way you like things to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, what a wonderful idea!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/chris-wallaces-fair-and-balanced-questions-7d1b1be9fbe7#.12bo1kk0t\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Chris Wallace, a veteran Fox News journalist, was <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/unseemly-and-illegitimate-the-egregious-conflict-at-the-center-of-the-final-presidential-debate-d664e80b2eef\" target=\"_blank\">already a controversial choice<\/a> to host Wednesday night\u2019s final presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Wallace is noted for his close relationship with Roger Ailes, who is currently advising Trump on the debates, prompting media experts to raise ethical questions about his involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Wallace did win praise for holding Trump accountable on several issues and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2016\/10\/19\/debate-moderator-chris-wallace\/92437542\/\" target=\"_blank\">keeping both candidates on task<\/a> throughout the debate. Yet as much as he tried to play things equally, <strong>several of his questions showed a clear bias towards conservative ideals<\/strong>, policy positions, and talking points.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abortion<\/strong>     <br \/><em>Wallace frames his question using the term \u201cpartial-birth.\u201d      <br \/><\/em>\u201cI\u2019m going to give you a chance respond but I want to ask you Secretary Clinton I want to explore how far you believe the right to abortion goes. You have been quoted as saying that the fetus has no constitutional rights. You also voted against a ban on late-term partial-birth abortions. Why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOpen borders\u201d<\/strong>     <br \/><em>This quote mentioned below, often cited in conservative media, has been <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/what-hillary-clinton-really-said-about-open-borders-9c005c2b6d16#.pbb9xga7o\" target=\"_blank\"><em>taken out of context<\/em><\/a><em>.      <br \/><\/em>\u201cMr. Trump you want to build a wall. Secretary Clinton you have offered no specific plan or how you want to secure our southern border. \u2026 We\u2019ve learned from the Wikileaks that you said this, and I want to quote \u2018My dream is a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders,\u2019 so that is the question\u2026Is that your dream, open borders?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared two of five examples of Wallace&#8217;s clear Republican bias. Click through for the other three.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1020Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1020Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1020Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to catch up on a bit of rest today, because tomorrow, I go for my appointment with Courtney, my Physical Terrorist.&#160; As a result, please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:15 (average 6:40).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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