suckered by all of those republican polls. all got suckered. like, i ll be honest with you, i expect some sites to follow it because they played the right wingers, and right wingers believe mitt romney was going to beat obama by eleven points. if they want to bathe in stupidity and ignorance, they can. i was surprised, though, when i look at 538, which i now go to pause they re the best, they d say there s a republican. wait, this is propaganda. why are you putting this and i really think it threw off a lot of people in the media. they followed those right wing garbage polls. no, you re right. look, i mean, there s a lot of confirmation bias, a lot of wish casting there, but there are a lot of media bubbles as well, and i think the republicans got themselves caught in all of this. i was thinking about, you know, the conventional wisdom had
apolitical. they are not supposed to be calling the white house. they take orders from the commander and chief. military orders but they don t take political orders. obama can t call the army and say everybody vote for me. this looks very political to me. it does look it. but, you know, my who knows. i mean, they made a bad deal. they released five terrorists. five guys right back to afghanistan. they are out of there. exactly right. maybe some guys got killed trying to look for this guy. it s embarrassing. however this particular time, national security did dealing with iran, trying to get a nuclear deal. you ask why not wait why not now instead of two months you ask that question. well now reaching the pinnacle of these negotiations with iran. what does that have to do with iran. credibility trying to sell this deal to the american people. i don t see the linkage there. got suckered by the taliban. can t get a deal with the the taliban without getting suckered how are
apolitical. they are not supposed to be calling the white house. they take orders from the commander and chief. military orders but they don t take political orders. obama can t call the army and say every me. this looks very political to me. it does look it. but, you know, my who knows. i mean, they made a bad deal. they released five terrorists. five guys right back to afghanistan. they are out of there. exactly right. maybe some guys got killed trying to look for this guy. it s embarrassing. however this particular time, national security did dealing with iran, trying to get a nuclear deal. you ask why not wait why not now instead of two months you ask that question. well now reaching the pinnacle of these negotiations with iran. what does that have to do with iran. credibility trying to sell this deal to the american people. i don t see the linkage there. got suckered by the taliban. can t get a deal with the the taliban without getting suckered how are they going t
another arrest. this one was even covered on television. can you tell us why you did this? i told you in court. can you tell us again? just to get a place to stay and food to eat. for the same reason. how d you get away with it? well, i look young, and a lot of people tend to believe that i am young. what about all those hard-bitten reporters who with tears in their eyes breathlessly told the story in salt lake. everybody got suckered, up and down the line. reporter: chip got a front-page byline for breaking the story in the deseret news. looking back on it we probably all said to ourselves, we should have known. it was too good to be true. all those letters, all those lies. birdie jo had done more than bruised some egos. birdie jo had done real damage. judge oddone, angry now, got ready for an already cynical public to turn its back on needy, itinerant children. people were calling from all
and tell them, once again, america, we ve been suckered. and how they were suckered. the police reports that alerted detective jenks now poured in, one state followed another and another and another. birdie jo hoaks had pulled off her scam in at least 17 other states since 1988. in south dakota, she said she was nathan devine, a 13-year-old boy abandoned by his mother. he carried this letter. i recently found out i have a very short time left to live and don t want nathan around to watch. hoaks spent seven months in jail for welfare fraud there. in montana, she was known as 13-year-old michael and carried this letter. i don t want to see michael again. as far as i m concerned, he s no longer my son. when officials became suspicious, hoaks fled. in wichita, kansas, a court-ordered medical exam revealed that birdie jo had a c-section scar and had bound her breasts with tape. in new york, another scam,