Category Archives: Politics
Fourth of July Nothing Burger
Republicans still haven’t repealed or replaced ObamaCare. And the Democrats’ Trump/Russian collusion narrative so far is a big nothing burger.
Here’s a Cleveland Plain Dealer hot dog ranking. No word on the best nothing burgers.
Check it Out
A New York Post headline called CNN The Most Busted Name in News.
As they say, “check it out.”
The Daily Caller published a litany of woe, calling it the network’s “month long nightmare.”
Project Veritas’s undercover sting reporter James O’Keefe managed to catch a CNN health and medical beat producer calling the network’s coverage of Trump “bullshit.” He still has his job. But three other CNN Journalists lost theirs. They were fired when a story about a Trump connection to a Russian investment fund was retracted.
Check it Out
The discredited “dossier” in the cartoon refers to a former British spy’s opposition research against candidate Trump. One of his more lurid claims was that Trump hired Russian prostitutes to perform a golden shower on a Moscow hotel bed previously occupied by Barack and Michelle Obama. BuzzFeed published the dossier and CNN was one of the first mainstream media outlets to report on the story.
Reality Show
Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic says this isn’t so much about fake news. It’s about a reality TV show starring Donald Trump. And it will lead to violence. Really.
Georgia 6th District Question: Who ya gonna vote for?
My favorite debate question ever was asked in the Georgia 6th District Congressional race. Republican Karen Handel asked her opponent John Ossoff – So, who ya gonna vote for?
Ossoff, who lives outside the district, is ineligible to vote there.
Who Ya Gonna Vote For?
The campaign was viewed by Democrats as a referendum on President Trump. At least it was until Ossoff, the Democrat, lost.
The Daily Caller reports that, for April and May, Ossoff had 9 times as many donors and twice as much money from California as Georgia. He raised a total of $29 million. Money in politics was one of his campaign issues
The NYT has a good breakdown of spending on the campaign here.
Fake News Real News
Fake news sometimes leads to real news.
Victor Davis Hanson recommends that anyone who makes a “a direct threat or clear allusion” to killing the president be put on the terrorist No Fly List.
Slow Freighter to London
If revving up a crowd in Washington by yelling out a personal wish to blow up the White House and its occupants, or holding up a facsimile of the decapitated head of the president to galvanize a video audience does not constitute enough suspicion to take a breather from flying, then nothing much else does. If Madonna had to take a slow freighter back to London, then she might curb her macabre enthusiasm at her next rally.
Fake News Editorial
Congressman Steve Scalise was shot by a guy named James Hodgkinson. He was a wingnut of the left variety. A hit list of Republicans was found in his pocket after he was shot dead.
A New York Times editorial tried to make moral equivalence of this by pinning the Gabby Giffords shooting on Sarah Palin. Congresswomen Giffords was shot by a madman named Jared Loughner six years ago. He had no political motive – just crazy. But the Times Editorial perpetuated the myth. Kind of like Hands up, Don’t Shoot.
The Times corrected the editorial the next day.
Hail Trump Shakespeare in the Park
Shakespeare in the Park tried to improve on the Bard’s work by making Julius Caesar look like Donald Trump in a business suit. He is then assassinated by pc women and minorities.
Rather than go for the unhinged Trump Derangement Syndrome angle, I thought I’d have a little fun with The Donald’s famous ego. Besides, the Ide’s of March is a popular theme with politicians. Well it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Or a life.
This was published the day before an assassination attempt on Republicans at a baseball practice in Alexandra, Va.
