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| White supremacy threat; the Fox factor; always 'too soon;' Disney's bundle; FX's impeachment series; THR's next cover; Toni Morrison's legacy Posted: 06 Aug 2019 08:49 PM PDT Scroll down for the latest on Disney's earnings, Twitter's 2020 problem, Jemele Hill's book deal, Tammy Filler's changes to "E! News," and more... EXEC SUMMARY: Scroll down for the latest on Disney's earnings, Twitter's 2020 problem, Jemele Hill's book deal, Tammy Filler's changes to "E! News," and more...
White supremacy is a problem.
"White supremacy is the ideology that has killed more Americans than any other terroristic ideology in the history of America," Wesley Lowery said on Sunday's "Reliable Sources."
On Monday John Avlon wrote about the feedback loop of "hate and extremism, cascading copy-cat violence and a pattern of white supremacists citing each other -- and the President -- in online forums like 8chan, where hate and conspiracy theories proliferate."
Jelani Cobb came out Tuesday with a new column about "how the trail of American white supremacy led to El Paso."
And the Los Angeles Times has an editorial in Wednesday's paper titled, "As the El Paso massacre showed once again, white supremacy is the poison in our well."
I'm mentioning all of this because Tucker Carlson says the country's white supremacy problem "is a hoax. Just like the Russia hoax. It's a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power." | | This nonsensical claim came after several days of scrutiny of the El Paso suspect's racist views. Somehow Carlson asserted that "the whole thing is a lie." He downplayed the threat by saying it's "actually not a real problem in America. The combined membership of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a college football stadium."
The point, of course, is that men like the suspect in El Paso aren't "members" of an "organization."
Jonah Goldberg, knowing President Trump is a fan of Carlson's show, responded by saying this on Twitter: "If Trump apes these talking points, it'll be awful for the country and devastating for Trump's presidency."
The Fox factor
At the same time, over on MSNBC, "host Chris Hayes suggested there is 'no distance' between the anti-immigration rhetoric published in the El Paso shooter's racist manifesto and commentary uttered by Fox News opinion hosts like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Brian Kilmeade," Mediaite's Caleb Ecarma wrote.
We made a similar point on "CNN Tonight" on Monday, and I said there's no evidence that the suspect watched Fox's "invasion" and "illegals" coverage, but millions of viewers DO watch it every day...
A false equivalence
Oliver Darcy emails: Since the Dayton shooter's extreme left-wing Twitter account came to light, there have been many comparisons between him and the suspected El Paso terrorist. A lot of Q's have been asked about why news organizations are highlighting the alt-right politics of the suspected El Paso gunman, while spending relatively little time talking about the left-wing views of the Dayton killer.
But it's not as cut and dried as some people are making it seem. There is a key difference between the two cases: The El Paso shooter left behind an online post explaining that he was committing his act of terror because of his racist politics. In the Dayton case, police say there's no indication so far that the shooter's politics were a factor. That is a crucial distinction...
Gilroy is now being investigated as domestic terror
"The 19-year-old gunman who used an assault-style rifle to shoot people at the Gilroy Garlic Festival last week had a 'target list' made up of religious institutions and political groups of both parties, as well as federal buildings and courthouses," authorities said Tuesday, per CNN's latest story. "Given the threats to nationwide organizations, the FBI is opening a domestic terrorist investigation into the shooting..."
"It's always going to be too soon"
Comedy Central host Arturo Castro wrote and filmed a sketch last year about gun violence. Castro plays a Central American immigrant who came to the United States and is stunned to find out about the country's mass shooting culture. "If he is not in a cartel," his character asks, "then where is he getting his guns?" His teacher tells him, "You can get guns anywhere. It's America. I can get you a gun." The character ultimately decides to return to Central America.
This sketch, titled "Welcome to America," was "originally set to air on last week's 'Alternatino' but was pushed to this week out of sensitivity for the Gilroy, Calif. mass shooting," THR's Katie Kilkenny wrote.
Then Castro and the producers thought about delaying it AGAIN due to last weekend's attacks. But "after a lot of soul-searching, I realized that it's always going to be too soon as long as we keep allowing this to happen and don't come together to make things change," Castro said. So the sketch aired on Tuesday night...
Universal's "The Hunt" is bound to be controversial
"In the aftermath of mass shootings within days of one another that shocked and traumatized the nation, Universal is re-evaluating its strategy" for a "certain-to-be-controversial satire" film called "The Hunt." It is set for release on September 27, THR's Kim Masters and Tatiana Siegel report. "The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum's Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals."
Per THR, "ESPN pulled an ad for the film" over the weekend, and "an ESPN source says no spots for the film will appear on the network in the coming weeks." Details here...
FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE
-- The Washington Post's main homepage headline on Tuesday night, looking ahead to Wednesday's visits: "Trump to face skepticism, protests in El Paso, Dayton" (WaPo)
-- After "Deadline: White House" on Tuesday, host Nicolle Wallace said she misspoke "about Trump calling for an extermination of Latinos." She tweeted: "My mistake was unintentional and I'm sorry. Trump's constant assault on people of color and his use of the word 'invasion' to describe the flow of immigrants is intentional and constant." (Twitter)
-- About the NYT's Monday night headline headache: The Times admitted that "TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM" was a bad headline... (Beast)
-- Gabriel Snyder spoke with NYT exec editor Dean Baquet, who "doesn't see himself as the vanguard of the resistance," although that's what some (many?) Times readers want him to be. Very interesting quotes from Baquet here... (CJR)
Toni Morrison, 1931-2019
Film critic Gene Seymour writes: "Toni Morrison's death this week at 88 comes at a fraught moment, when the country feels trapped in a hornets' nest of racist rage and violence. America is being summoned, yet again, to atone for its original sin, white supremacy. But the horrors of recent days remind us that Morrison made art that was urgently political. Her work signifies the social and cultural transfigurations dominating the American landscape at the hinge binding two centuries."
Writing for CNN.com, Seymour says it's sad "that Morrison won't be here to guide us out of our current catastrophe. But if more and greater books from the countless authors she inspired follow in her wake -- and they have -- it will be because she lighted the way for them."
"A magician with language"
"In the beginning was the Word. Toni Morrison took the word and turned it into a Song...of Solomon, of Sula, Beloved, Mercy, Paradise Love, and more," Oprah Winfrey wrote on Tuesday.
"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller," Winfrey continued. "She was a magician with language, who understood the Power of words. She used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend them."
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Reactions from her editor and publisher
Knopf, Morrison's publisher, confirmed her death. Her longtime editor Robert Gottlieb said "she was a great woman and a great writer, and I don't know which I will miss more." And Sonny Mehta, the chairman of Knopf, said she left an indelible mark on the culture. "Her novels command and demand our attention," he said. "They are canonical works, and more importantly, they are books that remain beloved by readers."
--> The Trump White House did not release a statement. But Barack Obama did. You can read it here...
Lisa's reflections
Lisa Respers France writes: "As a little black girl who didn't always want to be black, Toni Morrison at once understood me and shamed me. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, forced me at a young age to rethink beauty standards and what it truly meant to love and be loved. Morrison, who died this week at the age of 88, not only made me confront my blackness, she made me love it. Her works spoke to a generation of us."
Read Lisa's heartfelt remembrance here...
FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO
-- The Markup is back in business, with editor in chief Julia Angwin back in charge; Nabiha Syed as president; and Evelyn Larrubia as managing editor... (NYT)
-- Google and Amazon "have been offering for sale and profiting from listings of firearm and gun accessories, an apparent violation of their own stated policies that shows the pitfalls of software-driven retail," Greg Bensinger reported Tuesday... (WaPo)
-- Brian Fung's followup story: "Both companies said they removed the listings when they were alerted to their existence..." (CNN)
Disney's earnings drama
Clare Duffy has the recap for CNN Business: "Disney's crucial direct-to-consumer business posted major growth in the three months ending in June, a sign that its acquisition of a majority stake in Hulu is paying off. Growth in that sector helped lift Disney's overall revenue 33% from the prior year, up to $20.2 billion, it announced Tuesday evening. That number was, however, lower than the $21.4 billion Wall Street had expected after the company's busy quarter. Net income was also down 51% in the quarter, a result of ongoing investments in streaming." The result: Shares fell around 3% in after hours trading...
--> Another big factor: A $170 million loss at another newly acquired division, Fox's film business, which made a bad bet on "Dark Phoenix." TheWrap's headline: "Disney Blindsided by Fox Box Office Struggles."
--> Sarah Whitten summing it all up for CNBC: "Fox deal to drag on earnings, but Disney says the future payoff will be worth the pain..."
"The most important product..."
During Tuesday's investor call Bob Iger announced the company's bundling plan: "A new bundle that includes ESPN+, Disney+ and Hulu for $12.99 per month will also be available to subscribers in November," at the same time Disney+ comes out, Duffy wrote.
Re: Disney+, Iger said, "It's going to be the most important product our company has launched in a long time, certainly in my tenure."
"Vice may be looking for an exit strategy with CBS-Viacom"
That's the word from VF's William D. Cohan... He reports that Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc "has made a deal with CBS-Viacom a strategic imperative, according to insiders."
He quotes a source saying she has been "cozying up" to Shari Redstone and David Nevins. "Dubuc's problem is that she may not be able to get the attention of CBS and Viacom at the moment," Cohan writes. "The biggest open secret on Wall Street these days is the soon-to-be-announced merger between CBS and Viacom; the latest speculation is that their merger will be announced on August 8 when both companies report second-quarter earnings. And that internal preoccupation has chilled whatever interest there might have been for a deal with Vice, CBS-Viacom insiders say." Read on...
Fox buys "Bob's Burgers" animators
"Fox Entertainment has agreed to buy Bento Box Entertainment, a prolific producer of animated content including several shows for Fox Corp.'s broadcast network," the WSJ's Joe Flint reports. "Bento Box is the animation house behind Fox's long-running Sunday night show 'Bob's Burgers.' It also has two new shows in the works for Fox: 'Duncanville' and 'The Great North,' which are scheduled to debut in the 2019-2020 TV season..."
FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE
-- Tencent "is negotiating to buy 10% of Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, from Vivendi" for $3.36 billion... (WSJ)
-- Snap is raising $1 billion in debt... (CNBC)
-- "Ninja hits 1 million subscribers on Mixer five days after leaving Twitch..." (The Verge)
"It is time"
 The Washington Post's Press Freedom Partnership is running a full-page ad reminding readers about Austin Tice on Wednesday. The ad will run again on August 14, the seventh anniversary of Tice's capture in Syria.
Tice has been missing for seven years. "We call on the governments of the United States and Syria to make his safe return an urgent priority," the ad says. "It is time to bring him HOME."
--> ICYMI, here's the open letter from Tice's parents that came out last Thursday, also pegged to the August 14 anniversary...
Laying off and leaning in at NPR
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik reports: "NPR's newsroom is eliminating some jobs as part of a restructuring effort that adds positions in other areas to 'more fully lean into our role as a public service organization,' NPR's chief news executive announced Tuesday."
SVP Nancy Barnes said fewer than ten people are being laid off. The changes "are not about saving money," she wrote. She intends to hire investigative reporters and devote more resources to beats like climate change and pharmaceuticals.
National security desk correspondent David Welna, who joined NPR in 1982, said in a note to colleagues that his position was eliminated. He wrote, "I hope none of you will ever be treated this way."
Jemele Hill writing a memoir
Henry Holt has acquired the rights to Jemele Hill's first book in what the publisher called a "highly competitive auction. "As 'SportsCenter' viewers realized years ago, Jemele has a lot to say. As Atlantic readers know, her journalism is as swiftly exacting as it is wise. What everyone will discover when we publish Jemele's memoir is her significant literary talent," Barbara Jones, executive editor at Holt, said...
Appeals court revives Palin's defamation lawsuit against NYT
Oliver Darcy emails: A federal appeals court resuscitated Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday, reversing the district court's previous dismissal and sending it back to the district court for further proceedings. The appeals court said the district court had "erred in relying on acts outside the pleadings to dismiss the case" and said Palin "plausibly states a claim for defamation" in her amended complaint which "may proceed to full discovery."
NYT spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha told me in a statement that the newspaper was "disappointed in the decision" and intends to "defend the action vigorously." Meanwhile, Libby Locke and Ken Turkel, lawyers for Palin, said in their own statement that they were "pleased" and looking forward "to starting discovery and ultimately proceeding to trial." Stay tuned...
Twitter's 2020 problem
Donie O'Sullivan emails: Twitter is telling some new congressional 2020 candidates that they won't get verified on the platform until they win their primary. Why is that a potential problem? Well, Russian and pro-Iranian accounts have created fake American political accounts in the past, including some that have posed as candidates. The head of the New Hampshire Democrats is voicing concern.
Here's the full story from O'Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez...
"Indescribable:"
How a harassment campaign affected the lives of Seth Rich's family & friends
Oliver Darcy emails: The final part of Michael Isikoff's special series into the Seth Rich conspiracy theory was published on Tuesday, and it focused on how a campaign of harassment has impacted the slain DNC staffer's friends and family. Aaron Rich, the brother of Seth Rich, told Isikoff that it's "infuriating" to watch conspiracy theorists "profit off lies about you and your family." Aaron Rich added, "It is indescribable. You want to punch a wall."
A neighbor of Seth Rich, Mark Mueller, said that he also became a target of conspiracy theorists who started contacting him via email, calling him on his cell phone, and more. Mueller told Isikoff that things became so "intense" that he had to move out of his house on the weekends to avoid conspiracy theorists badgering him at his residence...
| | FX orders "Impeachment" edition of "American Crime Story"
Monica Lewinsky will be a producer of "Impeachment: American Crime Story," the third season of the FX anthology series. It is "set to debut September 27, 2020, a little more than one month before the next presidential election," Sandra Gonzalez noted.
--> Casting: "Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp will be main characters in the story. Annaleigh Ashford has been cast as Jones, while Beanie Feldstein and "American Crime Story" vet Sarah Paulson will play Lewinsky and Tripp, respectively..."
--> Per FX, "the limited series is based on Jeffrey Toobin's bestselling book 'A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President.'" The first "American Crime Story," about OJ Simpson, also relied on a Toobin book...
FX's annual tally of scripted TV series
Brian Lowry writes: FX chief John Landgraf remains one of those rare executives who actually seems to relish making news out of his TCA Press Tour visits -- or at least exploring the bigger TV picture -- and the new ownership of Disney apparently hasn't dampened that impulse. On Tuesday Landgraf said FX's annual tally places the number of scripted series so far this year currently at 335 -- up 5% from the same point last year -- and that the curatorial filter of something like the FX brand becomes increasingly important in helping viewers find shows.
"How are you guys feeling about trying to keep up with the volume of scripted television these days?" Landgraf said to the TV critics and other media types in the room, comparing the branding that top networks provide to the way he seeks out stories from premiere news organizations that he knows diligently report and fact-check stories.
--> As for the Disney deal closing, Landgraf said "our future is finally here," saying it was reassuring to be part of "the best and largest story-driven company." The network announced a number of docu-series as part of a ramped-up slate of programming...
FIRST LOOK
"The State of Netflix" special report by THR
Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Platt are on the cover of this week's THR... The magazine has a sneak peek at Ryan Murphy's first Netflix show, "The Politician," which comes out next month... The cover calls it a "scathing takedown of Trump-era entitlement." | | The features will be up on THR.com on Wednesday morning...
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez on David Geffen's yacht
On Tuesday Bloomberg wrote about some of David Geffen's recent guests... Karlie Kloss, Josh Kushner and Lloyd Blankfein were pictured on board along with Bezos and Sanchez...
"Oprah Winfrey was also on board last week," and "last month's crew" included Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry... 👀 | | "E! News" moving from L.A. to N.Y., from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
The E! channel's flagship news program, "which has aired at 7 p.m. ET/PT from Los Angeles for most of its life, will transition to a morning show in 2020. It also will switch coasts and originate from NBC's 30 Rockefeller Center studios in New York," THR's Rick Porter wrote Tuesday.
"Today" show producer turned E! News EVP and EIC Tammy Filler is leading the changes. "Nightly Pop" is expanding to four nights a week. And E! is going to try an NY-based show called "Pop of the Morning" as well. Details here...
E! layoffs in L.A.
First came the announcement about the move to NYC, then came this: "The entertainment news outlet is laying off around 20-25 staff who worked on the nightly broadcast in Los Angeles," Variety's Elaine Low and Audrey Cleo Yap reported. E! is "offering affected employees the opportunity to apply for positions" with new shows in both L.A. and NYC. It sounds like E! can save some $$ by sharing "studio space and production services" with "Access Hollywood" in NYC...
"Authoritarianism disguised as fandom"
Brian Lowry writes: Critic Matt Zoller Seitz issued a Twitter thread lamenting what he described as "authoritarianism disguised as fandom," where people who love a certain movie or TV show demand absolute fealty to it. Whether this is a growing phenomenon (as he suggests), it's hardly a new one, and has only been exacerbated by online communities that allow fans to virtually assemble in a way that creates a kind of shared delusion about how popular certain properties are...
FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE
By Lisa Respers France:
-- As she undergoes battling cancer for a third time, beloved singer and actress Olivia Newton-John says she doesn't want to know how much time she might have left to live.
-- Gigi Hadid may be killing Tyler Cameron's "Bachelor" chances because some folks believe the latest "Bachelorette" runner up may not be free to do the show.
Garfield has a new owner: Nickelodeon
"Viacom is purr-chasing Garfield," CNN's Jordan Valinsky wrote Tuesday. It's "buying Paws Inc., the company that owns the rights to Garfield. Viacom has big plans for the lasagna-loving cat, including new merchandise and an animated television show for its children's cable network Nickelodeon."
So I've gotta sign off here with a Garfield GIF! | | Thank you for reading. Send me your feedback anytime...
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| The toll of mass shootings on 2020 Posted: 06 Aug 2019 05:09 PM PDT TicToc Tonight | Greetings, TicToc readers! Step into tomorrow smarter with your Tuesday debrief: But first...  How mass shootings will affect 2020 In the aftermath of two mass shootings that killed 31 people, some in the GOP fear opposition to stronger gun control risks a mass exodus of key voters in 2020. Republican donor Dan Eberhart told Bloomberg News the party needs to address universal background checks, eliminate loopholes and ban military-style assault weapons to maintain enough backing. Recent polls say support for such bans was 62% among suburbanites and 74% among women in the suburbs and small cities. Otherwise, Eberhart said, "Republicans will lose suburban voters just like they did in the midterms on health care." More: - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine proposed the state adopt a "red flag law" that lets authorities seize firearms from those who threaten safety.
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| When to buy the dip Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:22 PM PDT Evening Briefing "Volatility" is the word of the day. It's spreading everywhere as the U.S.-China trade war transforms into a currency war. U.S. stocks clawed back some of their losses from Monday's bloody session after China moved to stabilize the yuan, fueling hopes that cooler heads will prevail. —Josh Petri Here are today's top storiesWall Street optimists have one question on their minds amid the trade-war induced stock slump: when to buy the dip. National Rifle Association lobbyists have traditionally had their way with the Trump administration when it comes to stymieing gun control legislation in the wake of mass shootings. This time may be different. Some Republicans are worried their reflexive opposition to new firearm laws is making the party toxic to voters who will decide the 2020 election. Remember the electric truck maker championed by President Donald Trump that took over a shuttered GM plant in Ohio? Last quarter, it made just $70 a day. There's no good argument against using a private email server. Except for the fact that Google makes it hard. Jeffrey Epstein never stopped trying to build his fortune even after his 2008 arrest. Those who did business with him are now worried about their own reputations. What's Joe Weisenthal thinking about? The Bloomberg news director believes markets don't really want to see the Fed make modest rate cuts, as it did last week. Investors really want to see a change in the central bank's overall posture. They'll have another chance in September. What you'll need to know tomorrow What you'll want to read in BusinessweekSteve Jobs once tried to sue Android—the free Google software that manufacturers were using to make all kinds of look-alike iPhones—out of existence. "I'm going to destroy Android," Jobs proclaimed. He failed, and as a result, the smartphone has become a new branch of technological evolution—the driving force that's bringing the rest of the world online.  Like Bloomberg's Evening Briefing? Subscribe to Bloomberg.com. You'll get our unmatched global news coverage and two premium daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close, and much, much more. See our limited-time introductory offer. Submit a tip to Bloomberg. Do you have a confidential news tip? Here are the ways you can get in touch with our reporters. Download the Bloomberg app: It's available for iOS and Android. | |   |
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| Netanyahu’s Tougher Election Math (Makovsky | PolicyWatch 3160) Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:05 PM PDT NETANYAHU'S TOUGHER ELECTION MATH AND THE SPECTER OF SUCCESSION by David Makovsky PolicyWatch 3160
August 6, 2019 A key rival could affect Netanyahu's ability to form a coalition or even retain control over his party, but his track record of winning elections and playing wild cards cannot be discounted. READ THIS ITEM ON OUR WEBSITE
When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was unable to configure a new coalition government following Israel’s April elections, the country was forced to schedule an unprecedented do-over vote for September. On August 1, all parties seeking to appear on the next ballot submitted their parliamentary lists. According to a plethora of early polls, Netanyahu and his right-wing allies may face even tougher political math for winning the September 17 vote and forming a coalition than they did in April. (The prospects for Israel’s center and center-left parties will be discussed in a subsequent PolicyWatch.) LIBERMAN—KINGMAKER OR KINGSLAYER? The biggest shift in the do-over election is Netanyahu’s angry split with a long-term aide turned rival, former defense minister Avigdor Liberman. Before the April vote, Liberman declared that his Yisrael Beitenu Party would back Netanyahu as the next premier. After Liberman won five seats, however, he stated that he would not join Netanyahu’s proposed coalition, in large part because it would include parties bent on blocking legislative efforts to make more ultraorthodox Jews join Israel’s military draft, which is compulsory for all other Jewish citizens. As a result, Netanyahu fell one seat short of the 61-seat majority needed to govern the 120-member Knesset. By standing up to unpopular legal exceptions granted to the ultraorthodox community, Liberman is rebranding his party. Previously, Yisrael Beitenu focused on issues of importance to its core constituency: Russian immigrants who arrived in the 1990s. Yet the party needed a new focus given the generational shifts that have occurred in the two decades since its founding. Discerning public fatigue with holding two elections so close to each other, Liberman shrewdly pledged to press for a national unity government between the two biggest vote winners in the April elections, the Likud Party and the Blue and White Party, thus limiting the disproportionate power of small parties—except his own. In addition, Liberman’s leverage has been boosted by the recent dissolution of the Netanyahu-allied Kulanu Party. Although the soft-right party’s leader, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, has rejoined the Likud, the decision removes Kulanu’s four seats from a potential Netanyahu coalition (not to mention the fact that Kahlon is positioning himself for the post-Netanyahu succession race, discussed below). Amid these developments, the latest polls project that Likud and Blue-White will win approximately thirty seats each, bringing them to the edge of the sixty-one seats required to form a government if they were to unite. At the same time, Liberman has apparently doubled his projected tally, while the smaller parties splintered on either side of the aisle seemingly lack enough seats to give Likud or Blue-White a majority on their own. In short, the numbers may be lining up to make Liberman the kingmaker, determining whether the next Knesset is controlled by a national unity government, a right-wing bloc, or a centrist bloc. For a number of reasons, Netanyahu believes that Liberman’s moves are aimed at hurting him. First, he has lost trust in his former ally ever since Yisrael Beitenu refused to join his coalition in June. The enmity between the two only deepened when Netanyahu recruited figures from Liberman’s party in order to woo immigrant voters to Likud. Second, Liberman’s actions make it more difficult to form a pure right-wing government, which Netanyahu sees as more reliable than a unity government in terms of insulating himself from the corruption indictments that could emerge from his October legal hearing. Among other factors, polls indicate that two right-wing parties, Zehut and Otzma Yehudit, are well short of the four seats they need to cross the electoral threshold and enter parliament, leaving analysts to wonder if votes for their candidates will be “wasted” in terms of helping Netanyahu form a coalition. Third, Liberman has said that he will join a unity government only if it excludes Netanyahu’s religious allies—namely, the ultraorthodox parties and the right-wing factions sympathetic to the settler movement, whom Liberman has taken to calling “messianists.” Netanyahu has always based his political strategy on these “natural partners,” so he will be loath to part with them. Fourth, Blue-White insists that it will not join a unity government with Likud so long as Netanyahu is under a legal cloud. Far from criticizing Blue-White for this demand, Liberman has used it to raise the sensitive issue of Likud succession, urging the party to consider another candidate and mentioning Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein by name. SUCCESSION AS A CAMPAIGN TOOL Liberman’s mention of Edelstein during an August 3 television appearance set off a frenzy within Likud. Within hours of his comments, every member of the party’s election list—including Edelstein himself—signed a letter disavowing the idea and affirming that Netanyahu is their only candidate for prime minister. This type of loyalty pledge is unprecedented in the history of Israeli politics. Netanyahu reportedly encouraged the pledge, but was it a sign of strength or panic? Earlier this year, he sought to advance a law forbidding President Reuven Rivlin—another rival of his, and the official who formally selects the prime minister after an election—from choosing any candidate who does not head a parliamentary list. The idea was withdrawn, potentially leaving Netanyahu vulnerable to internal challenges (especially since the public will not stomach a third round of elections if he fails to prevail in the second). It is therefore important to consider what electoral results might trigger Likud to consider joining a unity government without Netanyahu. For now, though, his control over the party seems total. He has not faced a primary opponent since 2012, and even then the challenge was token. During recent conversations with the author, senior party officials were respectful or fearful of him, not mutinous. In many cases they did not even know the names of the professional advisors and pollsters Netanyahu has hired, trusting his track record of electoral success as sufficient reason to make peace with his hyper-centralized control over the Likud campaign. Some party members also seem to fear Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, and her “take no prisoners” attitude. For example, former justice minister Ayelet Shaked was fired in June despite still being an electoral asset for Likud, leading many to believe that Sara was responsible given her accusations that Shaked had been disloyal to her husband. Even apart from the election’s highly personal stakes for Netanyahu, unconditional loyalty is in his party’s DNA; after all, Likud and its precursor have had just four leaders since 1949. Indeed, the specter of succession may wind up working in Netanyahu’s favor next month. He has worked hard to make himself politically indispensable to Likud, and without an obvious successor, party members seemingly prefer to keep him in office for the next cycle. Several senior party officials even suspect that Liberman may try to integrate Yisrael Beitenu with the Likud post-election, perhaps even angling for a rotating premiership that would position him for succession despite his disavowals of that strategy. Accordingly, some officials speculate that Likud may be better off trying to split Blue-White’s leadership after the elections in the hope of preventing Liberman from triggering internal succession. Notably, Netanyahu already tried to pry Benny Gantz from his fellow Blue-White leaders after the April vote, to no avail. CONCLUSION Much of Netanyahu’s past success lay in his ability to maintain loyalty among his right-wing base and allied parties during election campaigns, then reach over the aisle to centrist factions afterward in order to configure viable coalitions. The circumstances seem different this year, however. In April, he was hemmed in by his legal challenges. Today, Liberman’s seemingly growing mathematical leverage will make it harder to form a purely right-wing coalition, as Netanyahu did in 2015. As for the prospect of entering a national unity government with him, both Liberman and Blue-White have said they will not do so under the current circumstances. Yet Netanyahu thrives when he believes his back is against the wall, and Likud officials seem receptive to the idea of rallying their base as their leader’s room for maneuver shrinks. Alternatively, some observers have speculated that he may try to cross the aisle and team up with new Labor Party chief Amir Peretz, who has been trying to woo the Mizrachi voters who normally support Likud. Peretz denies this speculation, but such rumors hint that Netanyahu could play any number of wild cards before and after the election. David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations at The Washington Institute, and coauthor with Dennis Ross of the soon-to-be-published book Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny(PublicAffairs/Hachette).
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| Trump sets trap for China, steps in it Posted: 06 Aug 2019 01:46 PM PDT Bloomberg Opinion Today Today's Agenda  Trump Traps Self in Trade War Sun Tzu, who wrote a famous book about war, said, "To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape." President Donald Trump, who didn't quite write a famous book about deals, could have followed that advice. Trump, with a stronger economy and more tariff targets, has always seemed to have the upper hand in his trade war with China. But he keeps underestimating not only China's capacity for economic pain but also the extent of Xi Jinping's need to escape this conflict without looking like a loser, writes Bloomberg's editorial board. So he keeps making such mistakes as last week's unprovoked threat of more tariffs, to which China retaliated by, among other things, warning it was ready to launch a currency war. That threat hammered stocks and raised the risk of a recession. Despite starting off with a cornered opponent, Trump has blundered into his own trap, reducing the chances of an economy-saving deal. China's move to let the yuan weaken yesterday also exposed the lie of Trump's claim that China has borne the full brunt of his tariffs, writes Karl Smith. China quickly re-boosted the yuan today, inspiring a market rebound on Charlie Brown-like hopes a deal can still be reached. And both sides have good reasons to settle, notes John Authers. But they have also burned through an awful lot of goodwill. If talks continue to be fruitless, pushing China to follow through on its currency threat, then the shift could be nothing less than the end of a global currency order akin to the gold standard and Bretton Woods system, warns George Magnus. As Sun Tzu also said, "There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare." Trump Traps the Fed, Too It's entirely possible Trump's latest trade-war threat was merely designed to get the Federal Reserve to act, as Shuli Ren notes. And Trump has certainly put the Fed in its own bind, Karl Smith writes: The central bank's job is to stabilize the economy, so it must cut rates whenever Trump destabilizes the economy. But in so doing, it enables Trump and makes itself seem politically compromised. Then again, before last week, Trump could still blame a recalcitrant Fed for an economic slowdown or recession. Now he has made himself the far more obvious scapegoat, writes Brian Chappatta. Not a great look going into 2020. In any event, Trump is apparently operating on fundamental misconceptions about monetary policy, writes Ramesh Ponnuru. Among those is the idea that slashing rates will boost the economy by loosening financial conditions and weakening the dollar. But if the rest of the world is doing the same thing, then those benefits fade quickly. In fact, rates are already slipping into black holes everywhere, with $14.5 trillion of the global debt market yielding less than zero, notes Mark Gilbert. We'll likely soon see policy makers turning to ever-more-exotic tricks to boost economies, from helicopter money to Modern Monetary Theory. Who knows what will result. Further central-bank reading: The ECB shouldn't punish German savers with negative interest rates. – Tyler Cowen Confronting America's Massacre Culture The mass shooting in El Paso makes clear America has a far-right terror problem, which lately has been far deadlier than the radical Islamic terrorist problem that once dominated our fears. Eli Lake writes we must fight white-nationalist terror differently than we fought Islamic terror, including learning from that campaign's mistakes. We know what motivated the El Paso shooter because he posted a manifesto on the sewer-like website 8chan. Hackers have driven that site from the mainstream internet after security firms stopped protecting it. And those private companies have a First Amendment right not to protect speech on par with the rights of the speakers, notes Noah Feldman. Still, Noah feels there must be a place where even the most abhorrent opinions can be expressed. Of course, if you're looking for abhorrent opinions, just try reviews of the horrifically lethal ammunition the El Paso shooter and other killers use in their assault rifles, writes Frank Wilkinson. These promise "deep wound cavities" that can easily penetrate clothing and liquefy bones and organs. Telltale Charts One highly effective way to fight inequality is to bolster worker power, starting with restoring long-lost strength to labor unions, writes Noah Smith.  The Barneys New York bankruptcy shows not even luxury is immune to retail's pressures, writes Sarah Halzack.  Further Reading Drugmakers on the hook for the opioid crisis are just learning the costs will be enormous. – Max Nisen Gannett Co. selling itself to New Media Investment Group Inc. is just one of the least bad of several possible grim fates in the newspaper business. – Brooke Sutherland Boris Johnson wants to turn the Tories into an amalgam of the Brexit and Labour parties. What could go wrong? – Therese Raphael Like Brexit, India's anti-federalist power play in Kashmir is reckless and self-destructive nationalism. – Pankaj Mishra Some assistance programs actually make the government money in the long run. – Scott Duke Kominers A new Koch-Soros-funded think tank uniting isolationists from both ends of the political spectrum will struggle for influence. – Hal Brands ICYMI Republicans fear their embrace of guns will cause their "extinction in the suburbs." How Jeffrey Epstein tried to stay in Wall Street's favor. R.I.P., Toni Morrison. Kickers Alaska's sea ice has completely melted. 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