Reading at the Crossroads

Reading at the Crossroads is an archive for columns and letters which appeared in the Terre Haute Tribune Star. I also blog here when my patience is exhausted by what I feel is irritating, irrational and/or ironic in life. --gary daily

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Tapes! Tapes! Tapes!

GOP just won’t believe their ears


Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana says he is not interested in any “gotcha” books, including Bob Woodward’s latest, which revealed President Donald Trump consistently claimed the coronavirus was no worse than the flu when he knew otherwise.


Here’s what dead-end defenders of Trump’s every lie, every incompetent action and non-action will say: Ah, you see how smart and clever our leader is. I feel perfectly calm about COVID-19 and the economy thanks to this very rich man.


And thinking Republicans: Tapes! That’s it. I’m done. The guy allowed Woodward to tape this stuff!?! I’ve seen this before. Nixon’s response was: I am not a crook. Trump is left telling me: Don’t panic. I am not your lying nanny. I just sound that way on the Woodward tapes.


— Gary Daily, Terre Haute 

Terre Haute Tribune Star, September 23, 2020


Saturday, September 12, 2020

Trump's Suckers and Losers -- You choose

 To the Editor:

Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin confirmed reporting published by The Atlantic on Thursday that Trump had said soldiers who died in war were “suckers” and “losers.”. . . According to Griffin’s sources, one of whom she said was a former Trump administration official, “The president would say about American veterans, ‘What’s in it for them? They don’t make any money.'”

As deep in denial Trump supporters will say: "Ah, so what,  that's just the way he talks and tweets."

As thinking Republicans say: "Uh huh, that does it for me."

Gary Daily

published in TH Trib Star, 9/12/2020