Sunday Serendipity

just watch the drumpf make use of the above in another anti-immigrant anti-muslim tirade

from article linked above:

When delegates, visitors and media came streaming through her studio last month, she told them she would sell her Trump to the highest bidder by the end of the week, with all the proceeds going to the Cleveland’s Center for Arts-Inspired Learning, which uses the arts to teach children problem-solving and creative thinking skills.

In the end, with the highest bid at $1,100, she decided to hold out a bit longer. [….]

Buffie has since created a dryer lint bust of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to keep The Donald company in her store, and is asking for donations from anybody who wants to come take pictures with them. Her highest bid for Clinton is $500, although she hasn’t been around as long. [….]

Trump’s head was built around a gallon milk jug, Clinton’s around a plastic bottle of cranberry juice. His shoulders were shaped around a frame of chicken wire; hers around two tissue boxes. Buffie then wrapped painter’s tape around their necks to attach the heads to their shoulders, before covering each bust in layers of dryer lint.

there’s another sculptor in this same medium you’ll find interesting: slater barron also known as “the lint lady”

part of transcript of kaine on abc’s “this week” this a.m. with

RADDATZ; OK, let’s talk about relationships with the press and you talk about Donald Trump. Secretary Clinton has not held a press conference in 274 days. You argue that she’s talked to press on the campaign trail, but our campaign reporters and others say she doesn’t really answer that many questions. Is this going to change?

KAINE: Martha, she’s had hundreds interviews in the last year. And I got to push back on the notion that she hasn’t done a press conference. She gave a speech to the National Association of Black Journalists within the last month where there were also journalists, Hispanic journalists, there. And she did a press conference there. And members of mainstream media outlets, television networks, asked her questions during that press conference.

We’re about to switch into a phase of the campaign where we will be on planes and the press will be on the planes with us, which is something that Donald Trump does not allow. We are not banning press outlets from covering public events.

And so, look, all the time as Hillary is out on the trail, she’s talking to the press, hundreds of interviews. I’m doing the same. The Labor Day to Election Day stretch, it’s going to ramp up even more.

But we’re not a campaign that is acting like Putin and other dictators and banning press outlets from even attending public events. That’s not American but that’s what Donald Trump is doing.

RADDATZ; So we can expect a press conference, yes or no?

KAINE: There’s been one in the last month and you’re going to see Hillary very, very accessible to the press as I will be between now and November 8.

https://youtu.be/_YxkrXo8D8Q

in their article on the debate moderators it was noted by wapo:

….moderators selected by the Commission on Presidential Debates — a notable roster that includes:

The first African American moderator (Holt) since Carole Simpson in 1992 (Gwen Ifill moderated vice-presidential debates in 2004 and 2008, and Bernard Shaw moderated the VP debate in 2000)
The first openly gay moderator (Cooper)
And the first moderator from Fox News (Wallace)

Vice-presidential debate moderator Elaine Quijano also represents a couple of milestones. She is the first Asian American moderator of a general-election debate and the first to work primarily for a digital network (CBSN).

speaking of… here’s krugman in ny times: Hillary Clinton Gets Gored
Americans of a certain age who follow politics and policy closely still have vivid memories of the 2000 election — bad memories, and not just because the man who lost the popular vote somehow ended up in office. For the campaign leading up to that end game was nightmarish too.
You see, one candidate, George W. Bush, was dishonest in a way that was unprecedented in U.S. politics. Most notably, he proposed big tax cuts for the rich while insisting, in raw denial of arithmetic, that they were targeted for the middle class. These campaign lies presaged what would happen during his administration — an administration that, let us not forget, took America to war on false pretenses.
Yet throughout the campaign most media coverage gave the impression that Mr. Bush was a bluff, straightforward guy, while portraying Al Gore — whose policy proposals added up, and whose critiques of the Bush plan were completely accurate — as slippery and dishonest. Mr. Gore’s mendacity was supposedly demonstrated by trivial anecdotes, none significant, some of them simply false. No, he never claimed to have invented the internet. But the image stuck.
And right now I and many others have the sick, sinking feeling that it’s happening again.

and in conclusion, he writes:
So I would urge journalists to ask whether they are reporting facts or simply engaging in innuendo, and urge the public to read with a critical eye. If reports about a candidate talk about how something “raises questions,” creates “shadows,” or anything similar, be aware that these are all too often weasel words used to create the impression of wrongdoing out of thin air.
And here’s a pro tip: the best ways to judge a candidate’s character are to look at what he or she has actually done, and what policies he or she is proposing. Mr. Trump’s record of bilking students, stiffing contractors and more is a good indicator of how he’d act as president; Mrs. Clinton’s speaking style and body language aren’t. George W. Bush’s policy lies gave me a much better handle on who he was than all the up-close-and-personal reporting of 2000, and the contrast between Mr. Trump’s policy incoherence and Mrs. Clinton’s carefulness speaks volumes today.
In other words, focus on the facts. America and the world can’t afford another election tipped by innuendo.