Tim King

Radio lifer with a hockey soul. Still chasing the puck.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Since the @WhiteHouse and @POTUS is mad about this, please don’t retweet or share

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

KIDS: Logan Stankoven is 5'8". I get asked a lot how a smaller player can advance to the higher levels of hockey. This clip is a perfect example.

To be a smaller player, you have to have what I call "Little Man Syndrome". An off the charts compete and belief in yourself that it doesn't matter how big the player you go into a battle with, you're coming out with that damn puck.

Check out this effort from Stankoven that completely changed the game for the Canes last night. It's a lost faceoff but he single-handedly, through pure will, won the puck back and scored. Amazing determination.

Stankoven also played four years of junior hockey. Three of those years he was a captain on the team.

To be a smaller player - your IQ, compete, and intangible leadership and life skills have to be off the charts to achieve this level of hockey. Logan Stankoven is a great example for all smaller young players with a dream.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

In Denmark, McDonalds workers make $25 an hour and, if they are over twenty, the company starts paying into a pension plan for them, and in addition they have a full 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Now how much do you think this costs customers? The Economist looked into this and found out that the Big Mac costs 76 cents less than it does here.

Don't believe the lies that raising the minimum wage would force prices to go up.

[Tim King @29TimKing]

@JonGarthwaite @brianstelter In this case, the sales/marketing people would have been better hires.

[Tim King @29TimKing]

@nascarman_rr Today, they would have crashed.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business. We can’t have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We can’t have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We can’t have peace because it threatens the weapons industry.

[Tim King @29TimKing]

@NickBelsky He has to be more consistent at the NHL level. No more taking nights off.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

@BulwarkOnline Professionally disagreeable. No cursing. No threats. Factually accurate.

Fired.

You championed free speech until someone used it against you. That was always the plan. JVL called it cancel culture at CBS News. He's not wrong.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"Pelley was not uncivil. He didn’t threaten anyone. He didn’t curse or scream. He was professionally disagreeable. Which is basically the job description for journalists. It’s the job description that Weiss herself wrote. She just didn’t mean it."
https://t.co/Xc4ha2iVx3

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

You built a career on the proposition that cancel culture was silencing brave voices who said forbidden things.

Scott Pelley said true things, professionally, without cursing or threatening anyone. You fired him for it.

JVL has it right: you never wanted to end cancel culture. You wanted to control it. The forbidden ideas were always just your ideas. Everyone else's were always going to be the problem.

The mask came off in the 60 Minutes newsroom. The staff saw it. Now everyone has.

[Tim King @29TimKing]

@DJSnM @blueorigin Try, Try Again
This Time for Sure
Stand Back Before Ignition
No Earth Shattering Kaboom

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Nick Bilton walked into the 60 Minutes newsroom four days after Bari Weiss fired the people who built the show. He tried to pretend he didn't know about the firings. Scott Pelley, in front of the remaining staff, would not let that stand.

"She loves 60 Minutes," Bilton said. "She's murdering 60 Minutes," Pelley said back. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it - and she's doing exactly that."

One of Weiss's lieutenants kept interrupting to say Pelley was being rude. Pelley kept going.

JVL's framing is the right one. The corrupter depends on the existing institution being too polite to say the obvious thing out loud. Christopher Wray resigned quietly to "preserve the integrity of the FBI." John Kelly gave print interviews after he left. Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell, Jim Mattis, Bill Barr - all of them saw it. All of them objected privately. None of them said it in the room where it was happening, to the person doing it, while the cameras were still running.

Pelley said it in the room. To the person's face. In front of witnesses. While he still worked there.

That is a different thing entirely. Not a memoir. Not an anonymous source in a tell-all. Not a carefully worded statement issued after the resignation letter was already filed. The true thing, said out loud, to the people who needed to hear it, at the moment it could still matter.

Authoritarianism counts on politesse. It counts on people deciding the fight isn't worth the awkwardness, the career risk, the label of being difficult. Scott Pelley decided it was worth it. The republic needs more of that calculation to come out the same way.

[Tim King @29TimKing]

Free hockey

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

A message for CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and new owner David Ellison.

[Tim King @29TimKing]

@MCCCANM I drove one of those large hotel vans for a while and in those you had no choice but to always pull forward. Backing up was out of the question. In my everyday ride I still try and pull through but in tight places like hospital parking lots backing in disrupts flow too much.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Libraries: free.
AI: subscription.

Libraries: written by humans with expertise.
AI: trained on whatever was on the internet.

Libraries: staffed by professionals.
AI: confidently wrong.

Go to the library.

[Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem]

I wrote about how DOGE was destroying our capacity to prevent harms. Efficiency isn’t always the best metric for government responsibility. Prevention is immeasurable until it’s needed and then you’ll be really glad you had it. This is bad and blaming DOGE is correct. Totally. ⬇️

[Tim King @29TimKing]

@LaughlinSXM Yeah, Pat needs to calm down.

[Tim King @29TimKing]

@Buccigross He's radioactive to the viewership already there. The trouble with people like Joe is their damage is catastrophic. If you hire him and he's not an instant, MASSIVE hit, you kill the show forever.

[Tim King @29TimKing]

@marshallpruett Hope today is a better day for both of you.