Cats and Dogs Living Together: Today's News for August 18th

Mass hysteria? Scott Adams nails it today with his blog post, "How To Know You’re In a Mass Hysteria Bubble". 

And for a more rational discussion of why this hysteria is wrong, try David Harsanyi's "If The Left Won’t Acknowledge Leftist Violence, It’s No Better Than Trump".

But you know the hysteria is bad when even terrorists can barely get onto the front page of Fox News or CNN. But this website's policy is to ignore all but the most heinous of terrorist attacks (think 9/11), so if you really need to see the latest news on it, and give terrorists a voice, here it is.

But back to the mass hysteria...

CNBC:

Market concerned Trump will scare away best advisors with Gary Cohn at the top of the list

After corporate CEOs abandoned President Donald Trump, markets are worried Trump's key advisors and Cabinet members will be the next to leave him, threatening his economic agenda.

But political strategists doubt the key financial advisors like Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council or Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are close to resigning. The two former Wall Street executives have high credibility in the markets and are viewed as key drivers of the Trump economic agenda, particularly tax reform.

...Stocks slumped Thursday morning as rumors circulated that Cohn was leaving the White House. They recovered slightly after it was denied by the White House, but selling again accelerated and the Dow closed off 274 points at 21,750, its worst day in three months.

If that isn't enough, CNN's lede story has become political commentator Stephen Collinson's personal anti-Trump screed:

CNN:

Trump drives his few political friends away

Donald Trump was never part of the Washington in-crowd.

Yet the President is fast losing the few friends he did have in the capital, following a wild period in which he offered cover to white supremacists and ignited a war of words with North Korea, leaving GOP allies in the crossfire.

Translation: Things haven't changed much for Trump. This is what CNN calls "news", or even "news analysis". This could be part of why Trump calls them "fake news".

On the Fox side...

Fox News:

Jason Kessler, Charlottesville rally organizer, says he's in hiding

Jason Kessler, who organized the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., told Fox News late Thursday he's in hiding after getting a string of death threats.

Last Saturday, a car rammed into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, killing one woman and injuring some 19 other people. The next day, protesters chased Kessler from a press conference he was trying to hold.

The nationalist blogger maintains his group is not a collection of white supremacists, but rather a “civil rights group.” He said he graduated from the University of Virginia, voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and once attended an Occupy Wall Street rally in Charlottesville.

His grievances are rooted in what he calls the identity politics of today. “Some are the discriminatory policies of affirmative action, college admissions, history books being rewritten, blaming American whites for slavery,” when it was a worldwide institution.

“Every culture had slavery,” he said.

While Kessler himself might be a reasonable person, he loses sympathy by associating himself with the white supremacist groups. Admittedly, he cannot stop white supremacists from showing up at his public demonstration, but he needs to take a stronger stand against them.

Then again, Kessler did vote for Obama. The guy is clearly a nut case.