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calimary's JournalI LOVE LOVE LOVE seeing the use of the word "conceding".
Sweet sweet word. The verb "concede" carries such a lovely undertone of giving up on something. It's even better just knowing that the word is being used in the press - in this context (GOP giving up on something).
It used to infuriate me when that dingdong Paula Zahn was on Pox Noise and also CNN and used that wording all the damn time - mainly when interviewing the rare opponent of bush/cheney or the Iraq War or both - and without fail she would pose some question with "...but can't you at least concede that..."
Over and over she did that. She seemed to relish saying that to any Democrat or Iraq War opponent of any stripe or sort. Just left me completely OUTRAGED!!!! The context and flavor of "concede" is deliciously applicable here. She never questioned any GOPer or bush/cheney apologist using that phrase or anything close to it.
When you Google it - you don't even have to click on any of the links to get a whiff of its fragrance!
con·cede
kənˈsēd/Submit
verb
past tense: conceded; past participle: conceded
1.
admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it.
"I had to concede that I'd overreacted"
synonyms: admit, acknowledge, accept, allow, grant, recognize, own, confess; agree
"I had to concede that I'd overreacted"
antonyms: deny
admit (defeat) in a contest.
"he conceded defeat"
synonyms: capitulate, give in, give, surrender, yield, give up, submit, raise the white flag; More
admit defeat in (a contest).
"ready to concede the gold medal"
2.
surrender or yield (something that one possesses).
"to concede all the territory he'd won"
synonyms: surrender, yield, give up, relinquish, cede, hand over
"he conceded the Auvergne to the king"
Savor the flavor! Especially the kind of word that tends to be followed immediately by another very dear and excellent word in this particular context:
"defeat"!
DEEELISH!!!!!! (rhymes with Gefilte FISH!) 
Yep. I remember Colin Powell quoting cheney, during the arm-twisting to get him to go to the UN,
cheney saying to him - "you can afford to lose a few points (in the popularity polls)." Because Colin Powell was the most popular and well-respected member of the bush/cheney entourage. He had the highest public opinion polls of the whole lot. So they sent him out as sacrificial lamb, since he had this pretty much unimpeachable reputation. And they ruined him, too. Cost him whatever credibility he still had.
At one time, Colin Powell was almost literally GOLDEN. He was the guy everybody predicted would be the first African American President. bush/cheney sure took care of that.
Actually, the AP is what's called a collective.
Owned by its member stations and newspapers. They all pay a fee as members. Internally that's what they're referred to: "members." Nobody ever described or referred to them as "affiliates" the way stations affiliated with the NBC or the ABC network, for example, were called "affiliates." (I used to work at NBC - AND at an ABC O&O, too, btw.)
I used to work at the AP - for nine years. It's not a corporation. Never has been. Just wasn't set up that way. If any RWs are part of the ownership, it's because they're that way at the station level.
After I left, however, I noticed they'd hired ron fournier to head the Washington DC bureau. He set out to change things, issuing an "all-hands" memo dictating that reporters and writers could and should start putting point of view into their political coverage. When I was still there, everybody tried pretty damn hard to be objective, and NOT to betray any personal points of view or attitudes or political slants. He fucked that up. Not there anymore, but at that point, as far as I'm concerned, they were tainted.
But they don't have a big corporate owner or a 1%er at the top, as the other conventional networks do. Hell, with what little they paid ANYBODY, no one at the AP would EVER qualify as a 1%er.
And don't forget the Andrea Doria!!!!!
She also was part of a deeply vicious scheme to destroy the Hindenburg, too, dontchaknow!!!!!!!!!!
AND, she also helped plot the disappearance and MURDER of Jimmy Hoffa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next up - the "smoking gun" emails about to come out that PROVE she was part of a plot to short-sheet the beds at all the hotels catering to delegates at the 2012 GOP CONvention!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And pour saltpeter into the soup, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh NOES!!!!1111!!!1!!!!
I'll NEVER be able to forget that statement from a quivering contradicta.
"I don't think anyone could -- have -- predicted -- " And she threw in a few "indeed's" very eloquently enunciated, to continue the impression that she's this world-class "brilliant" smart person. And all the time her head was bobbing in the affirmative. She was clearly a nervous wreck, or at least her body language betrayed that to anyone who might be watching.
Good point!
They're still beating her email business to death. And this strange phrase keeps coming up among on-camera reporters so far: "there's no smoking gun."
Think THAT will be the end of it? PATHETIC! They tried this never-ending persecution shit with her husband when he was President and the most they ever got was a stained blue dress.
And btw, Sancho, MOST interesting reading! 
I kept getting these Bernie Sanders emails...
Don't know why. I never signed up. So I just kinda let it go - not feeling one way or another about it. He's running for the Dem nomination, I'm a Dem, might as well hang onto 'em for reference. But yesterday I finally decided - hey, I'm a Hillary supporter. And I'm almost strangling under all the emails I get (from EVERYBODY AND EVERYWHERE and on loads of subjects from the bead world to the band world to politics to green living etc etc etc). I probably should thin things out a little. So I decided to unsubscribe.
And here's what I got:
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"We’re sad to see you’re endorsing the Koch Brothers’ agenda in 2016!"
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Yeah, wasn't it just a "coinky-dink" - they were yearning for "a new Pearl Harbor" as the kind of
tipping point they thought they needed to get a good ol' war started.
There used to be these two acronyms that came up all the time during bush/cheney: "LIHOP" and "MIHOP" = "Let It Happen On Purpose" and "Make It Happen On Purpose." I'm of the "LIHOP" crowd. They were warned. In dozens of different ways. From the Russians, the Europeans, even Mossad. Even their own FBI ("Gee, we're getting tips about these Arab types taking flying lessons in Florida and all they want to do is learn how to fly the plane, NOT to take off or land..."
and when one young CIA dude went to the pig farm in Crawford Texas to warn the dry-drunk a few weeks ahead of time, bush reportedly told him "okay, you've covered yer ass now."
It's enough to make a body SICK. Certainly our body politick has become dreadfully ill.
And very few of these PNACers ever suited up and actually went to war for their country
that they supposedly are more patriotic about than either you or I are.
These are part of the "YOU First!" crowd. If they want more war so badly, let them sign up, suit up, and ship out - FIRST. Let them really BE the "leaders" they so loudly claim they are.
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