bluntness on the part of reporters saying the word lie or this week saying the word racist a ad, the racist ad published by the trump campaign. i think frankly it was shown too much this week. but it is notable when the campaign tried to buy air time from cnn to buy this ad cnn said no. this is a racist ad it is not going to be sold we are not going to sell you the air time. describing it as racist, that s significant. it is huge. it is a bigger story, honestly i saw it today. and i thought wow i wish i had a piece of that. this is huge, that cnn said this is racist, said we are not going to take your money and don jr. tweeted whatever he tweeted. he was complaining about. complaining. yeah, no. that was a really great stand to take on it. we have to call him a racist and a misogynist when he says this things he says about women.
going to win. we can t tell them that because it hasn t happened and he with need to be transparent about that fact all the time. but we also should be conveying to them the state of ow knowledge, whether it is based on professional forecasters, based on special elections and tea leaves that we have seen already, based on early voting and pollsters and so on. we are trying to communicate with readers we don t know what is going to happen but here is the information we have. i think we can signal there are going to be surprises we don t toe what they are going to be. they are going to be surprises a la cortez and her victory in new york. it is crazy to make predictions if we don t know because it is hurts our credibility and we have all of these people pondering our credibility. in maryland we have a race where the incumbent governor in maryland is up by 20 points in the polls, almost all the polls. nobody at the baltimore sun is saying this is a done deal, this
outlets that don t toe the democratic party line that has existed for about 15 minutes. the left also used to worry about the unchecked power about the most powerful sectors of our government, the cia, fbi and a whole constellated constellation. he worried they might violate civil liberties at will and they might spy on americans. they might hide all of that beneath a black cloak of the world classified. now those agencies have used their powers to spy on trump associates and lick damaging information about the administration to the press. suddenly, the left considers them these unaccountable members of the deep state heroes. how about this one come up for decades the left accuse the risk of not paying their fair share of taxes. okay, last year s tax reform bill rolled back the state and local taxes that rich people can deduct. now that the wealthy formed with the core of the democratic party s constituency, liberals are outraged by this. new york and new jersey are suing the trump adm
journalism or working for ngos. and provide them the tools, the training, the networks, the relationships, the funding so that they can be even more effective. laura: i thought we were supposed to be training like cold writers to work in the 21st century economy, but we are training the activists. i would say about what the president said there, they ve already been pretty effective, policing speech codes on college campuses, ejecting administrators who don t toe their political line and now pushing for daca and gun control laws. but there s something insidious afoot here. a few years ago the head of a yale college was forced to resign after his wife, also a professor, dared to send out a mass email objecting to yale s halloween costume rules. she suggested merely that yale
journalism or working for ngos. and provide them the tools, the training, the networks, the relationships, the funding so that they can be even more effective. laura: i thought we were supposed to be training like cold writers to work in the 21st century economy, but we are training the activists. i would say about what the president said there, they ve already been pretty effective, policing speech codes on college campuses, ejecting administrators who don t toe their political line and now pushing for daca and gun control laws. but there s something insidious afoot here. a few years ago the head of a yale college was forced to resign after his wife, also a professor, dared to send out a mass email objecting to yale s halloween costume rules. she suggested merely that yale