"President Trump will appoint actor Jon Voight, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and eight others to the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees, the White House announced Wednesday. . .
The appointees will replace [among others] . . . Rose Kennedy Schlossberg."
From the WaPoo, which has a paywall.
All the Lefty pork items in the Stimulus bill are maddening, but this is a small revenge on them. I hope that Trump holds up spending on the others or the 2021 GOP majority Congress repeals what they can.
Typical over optimistic opinion... Trump has to win so big this fall just to balance out the massive fraud as Democrats no doubt prepare millions of preprinted mail in ballots. You know, the kind they keep in the trunk of their car for election day.
The current gotcha for Trump is about firing the State Dept Inspector General. Obama couldn't have done that until 2013, since he didn't have one. How convenient for Hillary and one Arkancide victim saved.
In the news tonight, they were aghast that Trump was taking that quinine drug that has been declared pure poison by our betters. Several “experts “ announced the bad side effects for this drug in use since the 40’s. The genius presstitutes had no questions about how the bad side effects compared to the drugs in the commercials we see every night on tv. I swear that the sheep like behavior and lack of thinking of the Trump haters is laughable.
My sneaking suspicion. . . as a construction worker who rarely prescribes medications. . . Is that President Trump will neither expire nor benefit.
Showmanship is his stock in trade and frankly I am loving having the MSM so distracted they don’t dither in more impactful areas of my life.
I stopped watching the news 3 weeks ago and started adding the allotted time to exercise.
Sometime this will be over ... I’ve tested negative and have no need to go anywhere, save back to work I. September. . . and am confident that homeostasis will prevail.
Many of those reporters. . . . Let’s be frank. . . .are graduates of the modern day equivalent of “Basket Weaving” curriculum called “Broadcast Journalism”.
Columbia has a fine School of Journalism and many of the names you are familiar are graduates.
They enter as folks of keen mind and somehow manage to be dulled like an unloved knife in a drawer of intellectuals.
It becomes a race to the bottom. . . To devolve to the lowest level of not just professionalism, but basic manners. In all candor, had I spoken to my Mother or Father at a dinner table the way some journalists speak to The President of The United States of America’s I’d have had my young ass knocked from the chair.
Dad wasn’t mean. But, we had rules and we’re taught manners and respect.
I think President Trump is a bit of a buffoon, largely based on experience in NYC and my general demeanor toward real estate developers. But. . . I have tremendous respect for the office he holds. In addition, I think he truly is a Patriot trying to undo a host of wrongs foisted upon the hard working people of America.
I thought Obama, best known for not attending class and smoking dope ( his claim, not mine) was pretty much a criminal. But, while he and his accomplice Eric Holder ( who I finally figured out after talking to him for an hour in Low Library) were up to lying, cheating and treating the American public as idiots. . . I respected the Offices they held.
It’s a shame about journalism. I have fond memories of Walter Cronkite being the first person to tell me so many things. I trusted him and, to this day, I think with good reason.
I used to watch news to learn.
Now I read books to learn and watch the news to see how gullible so many people are as long as they “heard it on the news”
The same Cronkite who declared the war in Vietnam lost after the Tet offensive? I’m sure you know how the Tet offensive turned out. He was not an impartial observer.
Hey, Walter perfectly reported the Space Program, edutainment at it's finest. He was my hero. The 21st Century tv show shaped my view on technology & what the future should look like.
He was a idealist who favored a one world, we all get along, end to nationalism and war. I believe he got seduced by the promises of the Marxist cults.
And the Vietnam war was a disaster of unrealistic expectations and insane rules of engagement. The politics and French history behind the war are complex, but the lack of desire to Win, and the failure to Define winning, explain the long stupid slaughter without excusing it. Factors like LBJ's fear that actually attacking N. Vietnam would get a million Chinese Soldiers flooding in, as happened in Korea, are important. The ROE madness might best illustrate Vietnam.
U.S. fighters and bombers were forbidden from attacking SAM sites unless they had been fired upon. Haifong harbor was mostly off limits, because we didn't want to annoy the Soviets if one of their ships got damaged while delivering weapons. & even dumber...
So I can see a seduced, disillusioned guy going off the rails and abandoning his ethics. More sad than angry about it, nowadays.
"As Rhodes admits, it's not that hard to shape the narrative. "All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus," Rhodes said. "Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing.""
One of the better memes I've seen exemplifying the utter corruption of our press shows Trump at the podium and with questions from the press corps labeled "then" and "now":
Then: "Isn't a lockdown something that a dictator would do?"
Now: "Don't you have blood on your hands for failing to impose a lockdown?"