Maximum Security Instant Replay Interference
Maximum Security doesn’t know he finished 17th in the Kentucky Derby. He still thinks he won. But, after reviewing the instant replay for 22 minutes, track officials ruled interference and disqualified the winner for the first time in the 145 year history of the Run for the Roses.
The instant replay showed Mad Max drifted out of his lane and hip checked War of Will. That caused a chain reaction slowing other horses. Thus the 17th place finish for Maximum Security. He also kicked mud on the horses behind him. Country House, a 65-1 shot, was named the winner.
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President Trump tweeted that the ruling was “politically incorrect.”
Owner Gary West appealed but was denied. Now he says he’ll sue. But Max doesn’t know anything about that either.
On-Line Cartoon Auction
Speaking of free speech, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is hosting an auction of original cartoon art from 20 cartoonists. These are equal opportunity offenders including Rob Rogers, the guy who was fired for his Trump cartoons at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and Steve Kelley, the guy who replaced him. There are even a couple by me – and I don’t want to have to buy ’em.
The money goes to the support of one of the few things I hope we can all agree on – free speech. Please take a look at http://bit.ly/Cartoons2019.
Banned on Facebook
Various bad actors were banned on Facebook last week. The list includes conspiracy theorist nut jobs like Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan.
Fired FBI chief Andrew McCabe thinks President Trump is a Russian asset. But he didn’t make the bad actor cut.
Jack Shafer in Politico says, “free speech took a whacking Thursday.” He says there are better ways to deal with the likes of Alex Jones.
Grumpy Old Woke Guys
Matt Lewis in the Daily Beast said the Democrats are too woke for their own good. Maybe, but how come the front runners are two old white guys with a combined age of 153? “Joe Biden has hair plugs older than the average Democrat primary voter,” says Kevin Williamson. And he wants to know, “What, exactly, does Joe Biden (or Bernie Sanders) bring to the party’s particular game of intersectionality roulette?”
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Border Purge
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Trump canned Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen via Twitter on Sunday night.
Howard Kurtz says “in the end, she got the worst of both worlds.”
She will forever be defined as the Cabinet member who presided over the forced separation of migrant children from their families, leading to such devastating worldwide reaction that Trump was forced to abandon the policy. And yet the president did not deem her tough enough on illegal immigration.
Border Purge
Jonathan Bernstein in Bloomberg calls it a “purge.” And and he thinks White House aide Stephen Miller is behind it.
