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Christopher Orr

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Christopher Orr

@OrrChris

Editor, writer, film/TV critic. Atlantic, NYT, TNR, WaPo, etc. If you are anonymous, I'll likely ignore you. Experimenting with @orrchris.bsky.social

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Joined January 2011

Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Mar 16, 2020
Joe Biden: I want to run against Donald Trump Bernie Sanders: I want to run against 1990s Joe Biden
Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Jan 10, 2021
It's a little bizarre how pretty much every conservative plea for leniency in the wake of the insurrection is accompanied by an explicit threat of further violence.
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
Jan 10, 2021
Replying to @benshapiro
This action to punish all Trump supporters -- and any outlet that hosts them -- for the actions of fringe criminals won’t calm the waters. It will unleash all the worst forces in American life on all sides.
Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
May 13, 2023
The fact that Elon Musk thinks it’s *obvious* that it’s better to publish only what dictators want than not to publish at all tells you everything you need to know about Elon Musk.
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Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Oct 11, 2020
"Will Biden pack the courts" is the new "Hillary's emails"--a way for journos and others to demonstrate a false "balance" by wildly overweighting a small qualm on one side so that it appears as significant as huge scandals on the other.
Michelle Cottle
@mcottle
Oct 11, 2020
210k Americans are dead, god knows how many will suffer long-term health problems, kids are out of school, people can't visit family, people are out of work & losing their homes, food lines stretch for miles...yeah, let's definitely spend more time on court packing hypotheticals
Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Jun 6, 2024
A Pentagon OIG report found that Ronny Jackson was drunk on the job and harassed women. His nomination for Vet Affairs Sec was pulled and he was busted down from Admiral to Captain. But sure, give this drunk, out of control harasser the nation's most sensitive intelligence.
Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
Jun 5, 2024
NEWS -- @SpeakerJohnson has named Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) to the House Intelligence Committee. The Intel Committee oversees the entire intelligence community and gets some of the most sensitive intelligence about the U.S. and its allies.
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Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
May 6, 2023
If Joe Biden had two ex-wives, and failed to recognize EITHER ONE correctly in a photo, it would lead the news for a week.
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Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Mar 3, 2016
This photo of Trump Jr holding a bloody piece of dismembered elephant may be the best accidental metaphor ever.
Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Aug 24, 2018
Unbelievable. Duncan Hunter says of his wife: "Whatever she did, that'll be looked at.... But I didn't do it."
Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar
Aug 24, 2018
Incredible interview with @RepDuncanHunter on Fox News. 1. He throws his wife under the bus 2. Sweaty 3. Defensive 4. Without question, he lies many times 5. Calls his opponent a "socialist Democrat" after his opponent says that Hunter lost his way in Washington.
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Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Dec 13, 2019
Obvious point, but during the YEARS Trump slandered Steele as a malicious evildoer specifically aiming to harm him, he clearly knew that he was actually a family friend who’d visited his house and bought Ivanka presents.
Ivanka Trump met Steele to discuss Russian business expansion: report
From salon.com
Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Oct 22, 2020
"Pete Buttigieg any time he is on Fox News" is my favorite new show of the fall.
Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
May 17, 2020
Actual verbatim exchange. Navarro: "We all know about the billion dollars that [Hunter Biden] took from the Chinese." Stepahanopoulos: "That's not factual, sir. That's not a fact." Navarro, literally shrugging: "Be that as it may..."
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
May 17, 2020
George Stephanopoulos was not having Peter Navarro's lies about the Biden family
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Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Jun 6, 2020
Bill Barr: "My attitude was get it done, but I didn't say 'Go do it.'" I'm not sure it's possible to sound any more like a mob boss.
Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
Jun 6, 2020
“I’m not involved in giving tactical commands like that,” Attorney General Barr tells AP. “I was frustrated& I was also worried that as the crowd grew, it was going to be harder & harder to do. So my attitude was get it done, but I didn’t say, ‘Go do it.’” apnews.com/1a993a6e99b4ec…
Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Mar 23, 2022
Notable also that this is the party whose longest-ever-serving Speaker, Denny Hastert, went to prison *less than 5 years ago* for molesting boys. It supported Roy Moore, continues to support Matt Gaetz, and gave Jim Jordan the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Sep 28, 2020
This may be the most shocking detail in the whole piece.