Politico's VandeHei: 'Not Any Single Reporter At Any Media Organization Thinks Palin Should Be President'
People know that the MSM despises Sarah Palin. Still, it was shocking to hear the beans so blithely spilled . . .
Jim Vandehei of Politico, on Morning Joe today:
"If you talk to any single reporter at any media organization that we're aware of, I don't think that anyone thinks she can be president or should be president."
View video after the jump.
Vandehei was reacting to a column by Joe Scarborough in today's Politico, "The media's creepy Palin obsession." The Morning Joe host lambasted the MSM's bias against Palin, as epitomized by this week's Palin-email witch hunt by such worthies as the New York Times and the Washington Post.
JIM VANDEHEI: Palin wasn't on the stage [at last night's Republican debate] but people continue to be obsessed with her. Joe has a good column on our site today where he talks about this: this bizarre media obsession with Sarah Palin. He talks specifically about those emails. I guess I'll be curious to hear a little more from Joe, because you guys talk about her a lot, we write about her a lot, yet if you talk to any single reporter at any media organization that we're aware of, I don't think that anyone thinks she can be president or should be president," yet she gets a ton of coverage and I think that the emails really capture that moment.
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You heard it folks. Our betters have spoken.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:12am.
Now get back to your farms serfs. The uprising is over.
AND NONE OF US........................
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:08pm.
Think these commie loving, scum sucking, molesters of small forest animals, deserve to tell anyone who has more than a single digit IQ.......... what they Think!!!!!!!!
I will only speak for myself, of course
Submitted by panzerakc on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 6:47pm.
But I don't give a single rodent buttock what any media hack anywhere thinks about anything on any day, ever!
We've got their choice...
Submitted by Mhockey1505 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:15am.
We've got their choice... Hows that working out for us?
Which is why she will be
Submitted by eolon on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:22am.
Which is why she will be President.
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Reporters don't get to choose for anyone but themselves
Submitted by hobie on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:20am.
New rules:
Reporters are to observe and report
Reporters are to interview actual participants in events that unfold in life, not other reporters
If Reporters decline to stick to this formula, they should be labeled as Editorials
What an echo chamber these lib reporters live in.
Anybody around here in the 1980s?
Submitted by Texndoc on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:21am.
Oh, when the President was Carter. Reagan was going to nuke us into oblivion. "Now be serious, like we are!" said the big 3 news networks at the time.
Go back further . . .
Submitted by Gat New York on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:38am.
Was young but did recall how the media was sure that Barry Goldwater was crazy enough and would unleash a nuclear bomb on North Vietnam. How did that work out with LBJ who clearly mishandled the war for years and was forced not to run for re-election.
A bit before my time...
Submitted by ljacone on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:09pm.
...being born in 1980, but that's really funny. Especially considering that the Left has turned "serious" into a coded attack word against the Right.
Around in the 60s and 70s too.
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:21pm.
Doc - I remember the daily slime barrage against Reagan starting the day he announced his candidacy. The news pukes threw everything that they erroneously believed would stick against the man but none of it worked. His re-election campaign was even worse, and the media stuck to the "Mondale is our Messiah" mantra.
I especially remember the digs that SNL took at Gerald R. Ford, including a fake interview with Jane Curtin as Betty Ford complaining about her husband's gaffes.
Nowhere to be found is the level of desperation that the press has against Sarah Palin or any other Republican. Even in the darkest days when the press all but abandoned Jimmah due to his economic calamities did the press ever sift through the wastebaskets as they have with Palin.
To say the media are snakes is an insult to reptiles of all kinds. At least the reptiles have a purpose other than scooping each other on synthetic scandals.
That's good enough for me....
Submitted by notinstl on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:24am.
I base all of my votes on what a reporter tells me.
And how!! Why, for the last 2
Submitted by rwesley2.0 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:44am.
And how!!
Why, for the last 2 decades I have either been eating eggs or not eating eggs and drinking coffee or not drinking coffee. Even drinking booze or not drinking booze. These reporters are a solid lot, I tell you. Thank goodness they are there for me, otherwise I might not know what the heck to do when the temperatures get higher. I would probably be outside in the heat, not drinking enough fluids, and doing strenuous activity.
Question
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:29am.
Didn't Palin, before being thrown into the media spotlight:
Have an 80%, bi-partisan approval rating as Governor
Clear out corrupt elements in her own party
Swing a deal with the oil companies that helped her state
She must have been doing something right.
She May Never Be President;
Submitted by scottyusmc on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:29am.
but she's a dam site better than what's in the oval office at the moment. She actually LOVES America!!!
politico
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:47am.
That's enough reason for me to vote for her. Politico just never learns.No matter how many stories they make up about her, nobody cares what they have to say.
Sometimes the best
Submitted by Edhenry on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:54am.
Sometimes the best endorsments come from the incapable and ignorant people that oppose.
What Vandehei describes is journalism's group-think
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:01am.
I'm reminded of an anecdote that Bernard Goldberg recounts in his best-selling book "Bias."
It was the night of the 1972 Election (Nixon vs. McGovern) and he was attending a posh election-night party on New York's Upper West Side, attended by MSM elites and their friends. As results came in and Nixon's landslide victory became evident (McGovern won only 1 state), one of the women -- who earlier had been confident of a McGovern win -- was in shock. "How can that be? I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon."
MSMers reinforce each others worldviews and opinions. What they tout as rigorous analysis of is little more than incestuous group think.
Exactly!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:37am.
.
Galvanic it's worse
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:36am.
It's worse than "group think" it's also "one upsmanship gone wild." They actually give each other style points.
That's a great observation, okie
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:09pm.
And they routinely cite each other's work, and worship their Hall of Famers. A Pulitzer Prize is a badge of wisdom. Guys like Woodward & Bernstein, and Thomas Friedman are elevated to journalism's Mt. Olympus, from where whatever they issue insights of wisdom and truth.
Who are these people?
Submitted by CSM on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:59am.
Does these twits really think that we are going to base our vote on what they say!! Of course they do.
The last time I looked though she wasn't running.
PDS is alive an well at Politico.
She actually LOVES America!!! Right on Scotty. That is why she is hated by these people and why we would vote for her given the chance..
The entire Morning Joe crew
Submitted by Marsh on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:04am.
is as obsessed about Palin as any entity in the MSM.. And Joe leads his troops, making his Politico piece a joke.
Media
Submitted by driguana on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:08am.
Yes, and every single one of them thought that Obama was qualified to be president....wow, that speaks volumes about our vaunted press!!!! I haven't voted for a president for a long time but I'll vote for Palin on a dime.....and I believe there are millions more like me....what a shock to the MSM that will be!
Good Enough for ME
Submitted by Calypso Jones on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:15am.
PALIN 2012 GO GIRL!!
I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon
Submitted by Chris Of Rights on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:16am.
n/t
I did
Submitted by Joe W. on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:10am.
I voted for Richard Nixon. He was the better choice over Hubert Humphrey and then George McGovern. Given the same choices again, I would not change my votes.
Pursuing the truth further...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:16am.
Not a single MSM reporter thinks any Republican should be president.
But they're all unbiased, right?
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:18am.
But of course, all those reporters are still completely capable of writing about her without a hint of bias....
good enough for me
Submitted by scarletandgold on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:21am.
we have who they picked and have protected for the last 2 plus yrs..i would vote for sarah any day...and she will win...
Nobody gives a sh!t
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:22am.
what reporters think, Jim. Their job is to report.
The Best Argument I've Seen So Far
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:37am.
To support Sarah Palin.
I know, I exaggerated. The best reason to support Palin is that she believes in restoring our Constitutional Republic.
Good enough for me.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:31am.
I have found a surefire way to pick candidates and issues in any election.
I go to my local fish wrapper and see who they recommend, and what issues they are for, and I vote the exact opposite!
Works out every time, and with a 100% vote against Palin in the MSM, that makes her a lock for my vote.
This is a two'fer Talk down a
Submitted by jdhawk on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:35am.
This is a two'fer
Talk down a possible viable Republican candidate with an imaginary "talk" among socialist reporters.
Deflect, at the same time, any mention of duhbama making a speech in a half empty hall or being heckled. Or the ridiculous pronouncement by duhbama's wife that he works "tirelessly - doesn't take a day off!" Yet, he has had more golf rounds at this point in his presidency than President Bush had in eight years in the White House.
The best news is duhbama stating that he would be fine with one term.
Let's give it to him!
Oh fun
Submitted by Hunter S. on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:38am.
Yes it is.
Just to poke a finger at the
Submitted by bassndude on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:42am.
Just to poke a finger at the MSM, I am taking orders for bumper stickers....they will have a character sketch of Obama, and then the words, "ANYONE ELSE!"
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
PDS - why I stopped reading Politico
Submitted by mom_rox on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:53am.
Vandehei: "... we write about her a lot..."
Jim, it's HOW you write about her. I stopped reading Politico when you plastered a large picture of Palin after the Giffords shooting massacre in Tuscon and then ran several headline stories implying that she had some culpability.
double post
Submitted by mom_rox on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:10am.
sorry, my computer is having "issues".
VandeHei`s Stupidity
Submitted by NVRAT on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:55am.
Well most of us know that Palin is smarter and much more intelligent than the MSM after all, she has them running around the country chasing her... is that not funny or what. I thought that it was humorous that she proved them stupid when making her comment about Paul Revere`s ride and then the MSM tried to make her out as an idiot and not knowing our history when in fact Revere wrote in his1789 letter describing his ride did make the exact statement telling the British they will not disarm the American people.
No Greater Endorsement...
Submitted by packman on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:56am.
So..."if you talk to any single reporter at any media organization that we're aware of, I don't think that anyone thinks she can be president or should be president..."
I can think of no greater endorsement of Sarah Palin then to know that these self-focused liberal clowns don't like her. Hell, its not that they simply don't like her, they seem obsessed with her, driven for some unknown reason to destroy this private citizen who stands for nearly everything that most Americans believe in. Oh...well, maybe that's it. Sarah gets much more face time on the national media than any of these idiots do. Maybe they're just jealous? Waahhh...
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
91% of Reporters Voted for Barack Obama
Submitted by joinamerica on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:08am.
So much for their judgement and common sense. Maybe Sarah Palin should run.
If that's true, then I'm
Submitted by ThatDude on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:12pm.
If that's true, then I'm curious to see the breakdown of the 9% and what network they came from. Sadly, I also believe it necessary to see who they voted for because I don't immediately assume that the rest voted McLame. I would suspect that many of them voted Green or Socialist party as well.
Bigotry from the anti-feminine PC folks?
Submitted by Don L on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:34am.
The cowardly bigots get one vote -I get one vote, cancelling out theirs.
Was any reporter from....
Submitted by tvhall on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:38am.
FOX news included?
The main steam media is made up of old socialist hippies and young minds of mush trained (brainwashed) by old socialist hippies who just couldn't hack the dead-line cycle any more and chose the no accountability life of academia.
So many bodies operating with the same half brain!
Just think....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:39am.
how all of those geniuses are going to feel when their messiah is replaced by a culturally backwards, gun and Bible toting, dull, weak, rube.
Almost a Cowboy
Submitted by tvhall on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:41am.
Is that you assesment or theirs?
I should have thanked the originators -
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:53am.
culturally backwards, dull, & rube - Chris "Tingles" Matthews
gun and Bible - Obamugabe himself
weak - MSM
PS
Submitted by tvhall on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:36am.
Flaming Ass Holes!
Palin
Submitted by east tennessee john on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:55am.
What better endorsement for Palin than the totally in the BO tank lamestream lying media doesn't support her?
I totally agree
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:08am.
Such condescension is exactly why most of the so-called MSM is considered irrelevant and losing viewers daily. They are totally clueless as to what is important to the middle class. The same as Obama and his cohorts and the republican elite.
Hey, I love Sarah but come on....
Submitted by BBallleaper on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:57am.
She's NOT an avowed Marxist; She's Constitutionally legal to become President; She's NEVER fraudulently claimed to have written two books; She's NEVER committed treason; She LOVES Israel; She DOESN'T lie; She HAS a LEGAL birth certificate; She's NEVER destroyed the American economy; She's NOT a homosexual; She's an American, NOT a MUSLIM! How the hell could she ever be elected with a record like that?
Why?
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:59am.
Why do you think most of these reporters ('er jourNOlists) went into that profession rather than engineering, chemistry, or physics? I think they just read other folks reporting (and most of that today is quite liberal) and try to add their own lickspittle to it and then take a nap or have another beer believing they have done great service to civilization. I doubt many of them even make the effort to vote and some even brag about that as a sign of some sort of neutrality of thought or some such nonsense.
WHAT?
Submitted by B.Soetoro on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:16am.
If you talk to any American in any state that we're aware of, I don't think that anyone thinks that reporters are un-bias.
This from the liberal media that gave us Obama. That didn't do its job!
I don't trust this media to get anything right.
I now look for the bias as I read.
The All Knowing Media?
Submitted by telecaster on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:26am.
Of course the idea that no one in the vaunted media thinks Palin could or should be president is the absolute best case for her to occupy the White house. As far as I'm concerned this amounts to a ringing endorsement of Sarah, given the fact that the media wet themselves in adulation of Obama and he has been an abject failure. So voting for whoever the media turds hate is the best political advice I could offer.
WHAT A COINCIDENCE!!!!
Submitted by gus on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:32am.
Not a single CONSERVATIVE gives a F**K what the MSM thinks.
"If you talk to any single
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:32am.
"If you talk to any single reporter at any media organization that we're aware of, I don't think that anyone thinks she can be president or should be president."
Translation? Their smear campaign has worked - no "single reporter at any media organization" will DARE say it, no matter what the voters think. Disgusting!
Ronald Reagan
Not qualified
Submitted by nkviking75 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:54am.
I've asked all the people I know, and not one thinks a bunch of reporters is smart enough to pick a good president.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
President?!
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 12:40pm.
They couldn't pick a winner in a one-man race for dogcatcher.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Joe later goes on to say
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 12:11pm.
Joe later goes on to say nobody has any *new* ideas. This drives me nuts - tell me when we actually had a chance to implement any ideas where the other side didn't try to spike it in some way?
Ronald Reagan
Nobody has any *new* ideas?
Submitted by needle on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 2:31pm.
I think Joe meant to say nobody has any *new* ideas that he is going to pay attention to.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Right - instead of trying
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:38pm.
Right - instead of trying these ideas out, they just bad mouth them and ensure they *can't* be implemented, so when a new crop tries to get them passed, they dismiss them!
That's what blows me away - I watched and learned more history during the financial meltdown than I did in 40+ years, and knew we were headed for a lost decade ala Japan. This was predicated on not only their experience in the 90's, but our own during the depression, yet they implemented these tired old ideas anyway?
But we must shout down/destroy the only ideas that ever DID work???
Ronald Reagan
P!ss on you and what you
Submitted by rbosque on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 12:14pm.
P!ss on you and what you think VandeHei.
You people in the media are arrogant bastards who have no trouble shoving a Marxist bed-wetter down our throat, Now hopefully sanity will take hold of people and elect an American next time.
Absolute Abject Fear
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 12:15pm.
Can't you just see the MSM hiding in a dark room, sucking their collective thumbs while rocking back and forth mumbling, "Please don't let it be Palin...Please don't let it be Palin!!!"
Their fear is absolutely palpable.
"not any single reporter at
Submitted by okie-pastor on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 12:23pm.
"not any single reporter at any media organization thinks she should be president"
In their minds that's what makes them "good" reporters. LOL!
How can they (MSM) not realize they are the ones becoming the spectacle.
Their Palin obsession is more entertaining than their "reporting" is interesting
After this article no one be in doubt that the MSM is biased.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 12:34pm.
Q: Is the MSM biased? A: Does a skunk stink?
Who cares...
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 2:27pm.
Who exactly cares what these fools think?
Is this the best you can do?
Submitted by ladeflippinda on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:24pm.
I am a journalist, right of center, and believe Sarah Palin would be terrible for the nation.
Why?
She is a quitter. If she can't handle the heat in Alaska, how will she do it in Washington, D.C.?
She is divisive, vindictive and thin-skinned. She ran a state that reaps billions in oil revenue.
Let here take a crack at the House or Senate first.
ladeflip*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:31pm.
You must be one of those modern day journalists. You know the kind, the ones who fail to recognize the hypocrisy in their own comments.
Except for the comment about billions in revenue instead of spending, you just described Obama.
ladeflippinda, a "journalist" who---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:11pm.
fails to scan the product for typos before submission.
Lame.
MD
Some web site wanted me to sign, me up N make me a card carrion
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 12:28am.
Person of the press core.
I hear one can shell out allegedly 3 bucks and a ah wanna be ...ta-da shazam an ordained minister.
Here have a bite it's fresh, raw and organic, just pressed inside out by that 75 mph Mack..Hurry shew the birds.
You Didn't Build That.
I am a journalist, right of center
Submitted by Injest on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 7:19pm.
"I am a journalist,"
Who cares? If you have a valid point, why state your a journalist?
This is a huge RED flag that what follows is pure bull. Let me guess, your a Republican?
"right of center,"
D'Oh! How did I know that!
If you have a valid point why state your “right of center”
Any more red flag BS accolades you would like to try?
"and believe Sarah Palin would be terrible for the nation.
Why?
"She is a quitter."
Who went from local Alaska politics to effecting legislation from a post on facebook.
Please name someone, anyone who has written a post on facebook or like site and affect legislation, any legislation?
"If she can't handle the heat in Alaska, how will she do it in Washington, D.C.?"
Just fine. The president of the USA wouldn't be backing all these bogus ethics complaints if she was President.
"She is divisive, vindictive and thin-skinned."
Yawn, examples please.
"She ran a state that reaps billions in oil revenue."
Are you claiming she is responsible for oil in Alaska? News flash, the oil in Alaska was there longggggggggggg before Palin was born, before Reagan too!
Considering Oil is huge in Alaska it kinda sorta makes sense that Alaska would reap billions in oil revenue.
"Let here take a crack at the House or Senate first."
She can take a crack at whatever she wants. She doesn't need my permission, or yours.
From JurNOlist moments of shame.
The day after Palin was picked as VP.
"Daniel Levy of the Century Foundation noted that Obama’s “non-official campaign” would need to work hard to discredit Palin. “This seems to me like an occasion when the non-official campaign has a big role to play in defining Palin, shaping the terms of the conversation and saying things that the official [Obama] campaign shouldn’t say – very hard-hitting stuff, including some of the things that people have been noting here – scare people about having this woefully inexperienced, no foreign policy/national security/right-wing christia wing-nut a heartbeat away …… bang away at McCain’s age making this unusually significant …. I think people should be replicating some of the not-so-pleasant viral email campaigns that were used against [Obama].”"
I am a journalist, right of center
Got it!
Where did you go to J School?
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:21pm.
Because you can't spell for shiite.
Or didn't they teach that at Liberal U?
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Are We Supposed to Care about Old Media Opinion?
Submitted by Pharmer on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:47pm.
These people think that Obama should be president and serve as his stenographers. Why do they think their opinion of Palin is significant?
When are they gonna go through Obama's e-mails?
Good
Submitted by vote24 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:48pm.
It is time to try a conservative administration. Palin 2012. Thank God I don't agree with communist reporters.
Did they change the headline?
Submitted by JustRight on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 2:04pm.
Did Politico change the headline for the article? Clicking on the article's link takes you to the story with the tamer and less-descriptive headline: "The Palin obsession"
If true, this just means
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:15pm.
If true, this just means those reporters are more perceptive than their work suggests.
another classic*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:32pm.
Being "more perceptive than their work suggests" implies you have never actually had a job. Perceptive is irrelevant as a result only important as a skill, performance results is the proper measure. If those reporters cannot produce a truthful or objective factual assessment then they failed in their performance of their assigned tasks. Hence, the reason NB exists.
ringing endorsement!
Submitted by Injest on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 6:47pm.
"Politico's VandeHei: 'Not Any Single Reporter At Any Media Organization Thinks Palin Should Be President'"
Now that's a ringing endorsement!
Let's go through this mental giants thought process and qualifiers.
Jim Vandehei of Politico, on Morning Joe today:
"If you talk to any single reporter at any media organization that we're aware of, I don't think that anyone thinks she can be president or should be president."
“If you talk to any single reporter”
So, only Single reporters, not married reporters or reporters involved in a relationship.
Only Single reporters, groveling at the end of the bar, drunk at noon time.
Hey is he talking about AA Randi Roads?
“at any media organization that we're aware of”
How the he11 would someone know what "media organization" you or someone else is aware of?
Your at MSNBC! The vast majority of the world has no idea MSNBC exists!
“I don't think”
Agreed, you don't think.
“that anyone thinks she can be president”
So your a mind reader? That is what your claiming, that you can read minds.
Opps, sorry, just found out your part of “JurNOlist”
“or should be president."
And?