In a previous post, I shared The Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s observation you can both support Black Lives Matter AND be pro-police. I still believe that. In fact, my pro-police side was affirmed several times over the weekend following the largely unsuccessful terrorist bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. (NOTE: Though this … Read more
Imagined transcript for “Weekend Update”: September 17, 2016. All of the material in italics in this post are documented quotes about President Barack Obama’s country of birth. ANCHOR: Like all of you, we miss Gilda Radner. In hopes of recapturing just a smidgen of her comic magic, Saturday Night Live has invited Republican President candidate … Read more
I am trying to figure out the moment in time news programs became game shows. I’m not sure exactly when this transformation took place. Maybe it was May 11, 2001. That was the date of Lynn Russell’s last broadcast as the anchor of CNN Headline News. Russell’s program consisted of a recap of current events … Read more
Last February, Donald Trump and his surrogates began making a comparison between Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and the break-in at Democratic Headquarters and the subsequent cover-up by the committee to re-elect Richard Nixon president. Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano suggested the unavailability of every email “was far worse than an 18-and-a-half-minute … Read more
In baseball, the “dog days of summer” refers to the period from mid-July to the end of August when temperatures and humidity reach their peak. It is also the time when a team’s outcome is pretty much determined. You are either a contender or already declaring “wait ’til next year.” For politicians running for … Read more