By Dr. Zaher Sahloul, MedGlobal President and Co-Founder
Three years ago, I was in Yemen with three other medical volunteers, providing internal medicine and pediatrics services to people suffering from the effects of war and famine. MedGlobal had just been formed. In between medical consultations, we talked about the goals for the future of our organization, dedicated to providing innovative healthcare to crisis-affected and low-resource areas.
I don’t know anything about him - I copy and pasted that for context.
I was listening to in the background so I don’t know how long the interview was. I think ~7 minutes at least. I noticed something very unusual. Almost zero questions. Stephanie Ruhle was interviewing him. Ruhle isn’t rude but it’s her habit to pepper guests with questions. She always does that. I’ve never seen her be so quiet. Also - MSNBC’s PR shtick is that they ask questions and it makes you smarter. I forget an recent tagline - it was something like “Never stop asking questions”.
It’s the norm that anchors/reporters ask a lot of questions. In one way - the lack of questions was really great. He was highly knowledgeable and informed the audience in stark terms about how awful things are. That’s the first time I’ve seen that on CNN or MSNBC. But the producers must have had him on because even though he didn’t pull punches about the medical situation - they knew he was very politic and he’d avoid “politics”.
The end result was that the agent of the chaos, Israel, hardly came up at all. It was like these horrible unfolding health problems were happening all by themselves due to unknown or poorly understood causes.
I predict this exchange between a reporter and McCarthy…
“What evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors do you have to go forward with impeachment?”
“In two words - Hunter Biden.”
The right-wing doesn’t need a real reason or even a reason that makes sense. They just need something that can fit on bumper sticker. Plus - there’s the added benefit that mocking norms and not even pretending about the way things should work drives libs insane.
The Palestinian news agency reported that Israeli tanks had fired at thousands waiting for aid. Israeli officials said Gazans were trampled and run over by aid trucks.
I think they really didn’t want to delete the post and to save face they did their version of a walkback. It doesn’t have to make sense to us or the public in general. The walkback only has to make sense to them.
You are literally the president. You can just simply do something about it instead of yapping.
Promoting, blaming, and then yapping-yapping-yapping is how things get done in Washington, jack. When I was a boy in Scranton, PA I told my sister Shamus that— Wait a minute. I had a Sister Shamus? Maybe I mean Sister Shamus. A nun." He makes a Sign of the Cross. "Maybe that’s right. Wait a minute. Sister Shamus? That can’t be right. I think… Where was I? I think… Do I have a sister?.. As I was saying before I was interrupted - we all know Trump would deport Mexican-Americans to Mexico so it’s a good thing - a real good thing - I’m president…