Over at the National Review, David French has a piece, Media, Tell the Truth: The Women’s March and Black Lives Matter Embrace Terrorists, rightfully pointing out that officials within Women’s March have repeatedly praised “revolutionary” murderer Assata Shakur, while Black Lives Matter officials have praised Fidel Castro for nobly protecting Shakur and other noble black…
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For the Right, All Roads Lead Through Russia. Unfortunately.
For the “Respectable Right,” I mean—the Wall Street Journal Right, the National Review Right—the “Thoughtful Right”—I guess you could call them, Big Donnie’s recent speech in Poland, which I, uh, didn’t like, made their little hearts beat faster than Max Roach’s Night in Tunisia drum solo from the Jazz at Massey Hall album (which you…
Cass Sunstein, talking truth to no one in particular
Cass Sunstein doesn’t always get it wrong, so I’ve been told, but over at Bloomberg he can be observed lecturing Donald Trump on his manners—“A Graceless President, a National Betrayal”—which is rather like faulting a vulture on its breath.1 In the course of his peroration, Cass contrasts Trump unfavorably—as how could he not?—with Ronald Reagan….
Mote and Beam Dept: WashPost does CNN
“CNN’s Russia story debacle came at the worst possible time for the network”, Paul Farhi reports for the Washington Post, describing the embarrassing collapse of CNN’s “exclusive” on a supposed Senate investigation of Wall Street bigshot/Trump insider Anthony Scaramucci’s supposed suspicious links with Russia: “When challenged on the particulars of the story, CNN acknowledged that…
Shorter Krauthammer: Comey, Schmomey! Let’s talk about Israel!
I think I’ve gotten into the habit of saying nice things about Charles Krauthammer. In my most recent post relating to Charlie, I went so far as to exclaim “Thank God for Charles Krauthammer! Pretty much.”. Well, that was then. Time to get nasty. In his post that prompted my exclamation of “Thank God for…
Doubtin’ on Downton
Back in the day, when Downton Abbey first reared its ugly head, I vowed that Literature R Us would not print one word on this misbegotten progeny of a thousand (rough count) previous Merchant-Ivory monstrosities. Well, I kept my word throughout the show’s six-season run, never viewing a single episode. Then Donald Trump became president….
H.R. McMaster, a shande far di civilians
Yes, all of us lucky folks who don’t have to salute Donald Trump1 can have a chuckle at the fate of H.R. “Herbie” McMaster, and particularly have a chuckle at his defenders, like Michael Crowley at Politico and Fred Kaplan at Slate, who join in the cry “Say it ain’t so, H.R.!”, reacting to McMaster’s…
Thank God for Charles Krauthammer! Pretty much.
Yes, Charles Krauthammer, whom I’ve often harangued and harassed, “sometimes … displays a sense of honor” (to quote myself), and one of those times is right now, as he weighs on Trump v. Comey with a well-titled commentary, “A political ax murder”. True, Charlie clings to the now-standard right-wing meme that FBI Director James Comer…
Dear New York Times: Rod Rosenstein will not save us
The New York Times writes a dreadfully earnest “open” letter1 to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein beseeching him, “[a]t this fraught moment”, in light of his “sterling reputation”—“including a 27-year career in the Justice Department under five administrations, and the distinction of being the longest-serving United States attorney in history”—yada, yada, yada to basically “save…
All that stands between the United States and moral disaster is a Republican Congress. That’s a comforting thought.
Well, the first shoe has dropped. Donald Trump’s vast capacity for unreason has moved from potential to kinesis, from words to deeds. The president who bellowed about American “carnage” in his inaugural address is now inflicting said carnage on our already sullied body politic, by firing our infamously bungling FBI director James Comey, who incidentally…