Campaign Families
Politicians love to drag their families into campaign ads. They also love to complain if anyone comments on the wife and kids. Ted Cruz did it last week.
This campaign ad showed the cute Cruz kids sarcastically reading about the Grinch who stole Hillary’s emails.
A candidate’s kids can be used against his/her enemies but not the other way around. It can be aggravating but the general rule is lay to off the kids.
The aggravation was too much for Ann Telnase so she blasted Cruz with this cartoon depicting him as an organ grinder with his daughters as monkeys. Cruz went ballistic. Ann’s editor, Fred Hyat, pulled the cartoon from the Washington Post’s website.
Enter Hillary, complaining that Donald Trump is sexist while announcing that she is launching husband Bill into the campaign to take him on.
By the way, a 1983 cartoon, portraying Jerry Falwells’s mother in a somewhat worse light than organ grinder monkey, became a Supreme Court precedent for press freedom.
We’re All Getting Schlonged
Last week Hillary accused The Donald of inspiring recruiting videos for terrorists. Strange she would go the video sponsored terrorism route again. Anyway, no such evidence was produced.
Schlonged
Later in the week Trump said Hillary was schlonged by Obama in the 2008 election.
Hillary was outraged.
Trump insisted schlonged is not a sexual insult. It merely means defeated. And Trump, being Trump, demanded an apology.
The BBC clears things up in this piece titled The Schlong and Short of it.
Not Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas
We’re in for a record warm Christmas in the East. If you want to ski, go west.
The Real Winner
Host Steve Harvey misread his cue card and named Miss Columbia Miss Universe but the real winner was Miss Philippines.
Real Winner
President Obama thinks he was the real winner of Paris Climate Accord. But only the United States is on the hook for real carbon cuts in the deal.
Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Forum calls Obama the unilateral Climate Warrior. He says, in the WSJ, that Obama made “an unconditional pledge to cut carbon emissions 26-28% by 2025 no matter what China, India, and the rest of the world do.”.
