Metaphor series continued, maybe concluded

Craig Melvin:

Two more from my deaktop

O’Donnell 4/4/2019:

Kristan Peters-Hamlin:

There was a pass that was thrown to Congress by the Mueller team with adequate evidence for Congress to make the decision on obstruction, and there was an intercept by Bill Barr and he ran in the exact opposite direction ..

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And just a few from 4/5/2019:

Ari Melber:

If the agents did thoroughly go through those like 14 million files and Michael Cohen now finds a smoking gun or a gatling gun***** and those documents corroborate what Michael Cohen says, this could add rocket fuel to the investigations in DC, EDVA< & Southern District of New York. Possibly. Or it could be a nothingburger.

All In Chris Hayes:

The thing that may be biting the most is the thing that brought us to the metaphor***** portion of the news .. and not the subtle kind ..

There’s this thing they do with him where he’s just a private citizen, he’s a taxpayer. It’s not like some metaphysical question about the private Trump and the public. He’s the President of the United States, and hoe doesn’t get to get out of that.

[ cf Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies ]

Jesse Eisinger:

Or as you said, Schrodinger’s Cat type of existence

The tax returns are not the Rosetta Stone that will let us know everything about every source of funding that he’s ever had. He’ll have overlapping LLCs and a Russian doll of corporate structures, no pun intended..

Barbara Boxer [re Joe Biden]:

Do we want the Mike Pence response where he’ll never go to lunch with a woman alone, and he won’t have a woman in his office without keeping a door open, I mean, is that where we’re headed?

Rachel Maddow:

This is a hill [Trump’s tax returns] and people will be willing to die on it ..

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I may have done enough of this metaphor chasing.. maybe do a “best of”.. maybe just taper off..

But this from someone on AM Joy, Sunday 4/7/2019 is too good***** to miss:

This is where politics becomes a blood sport ..

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  1. Sally Benzon:

    No hole in one — an eagle — in any of this sporting?

  2. Charles Cameron:

    Well, Sally, reality is too good to miss, even though the political metaphor is implicit:

    There was nothing fake in US President Donald Trump’s hole-in-one
    February 8, 2018
    .
    Real witnesses. Witnesses who had actually paid to see it. Because Trump holed in one at a fully fledged PGA Tour event. And this week happens to be the 25th anniversary.
    .
    It was 1993, the year before North Korea’s official KCNA news agency put out its notorious release stating that in his first attempt at the ancient game, Kim Jong-il had shot a 38-under-par 34, including no fewer than 11 holes-in-one.

    Or, sorry about this:

    Donald Trump Stiffed Winner of $1M Hole-in-One Contest, Report Says
    September 21, 2016
    .
    According to The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold, the Republican presidential nominee refused to pay the winner of a hole-in-one contest at a charity golf tournament held at one of his courses and later used money from his charitable foundation to settle the resulting lawsuit, actions that might have violated laws

  3. Sally Benzon:

    Oh, Charles, I am laughing laughing laughing! Reality is too good to miss!

  4. Charles Cameron:

    Kim Jong-il must have been a formidable talent: too bad he went into politics..