Don Lemon
Trump gives Don Lemon what he craves
The Founding Fathers recognized the importance of a free press as a check on authority. The press is not, as Donald J. Trump believes, an enemy of the state. It is the enemy of a corrupt state.
Entertainment
Massacre Day on cable news
It’s Massacre Day on cable news. Fox News thanked Tucker Carlson for his lies service as they escorted him to the door. Why? No one is saying yet, but the leaks will start soon. Was his head demanded in the Dominion Voting settlement? I doubt it, but Carlson seemed
Politics
America pushes back against the woke
Election Night, generally speaking, was good for traditional Americans, not so good for the woke. In a huge upset, Republican Glenn Youngkin, riding a wave of parental opposition to Critical Race Theory, beat former governor Terry McAullife, a former Democratic National Committee chair, and a real smarmy piece of work.
Racism
Why I reject “systemic racism”
The moment of my real race awakening came in 1955 with the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi for supposedly flirting with a white woman. He was a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago. I was a 14-year-old white boy from The Bronx. Maybe I felt some kind of teenage, Big
Uncategorized
First Lady seeks to calm racial unrest
“He’s not a traditional politician,” said First Lady Melania Trump in her capstone address during the second night of the Republican National Convention. We will count the ways that he is not, but first let’s admire our First Lady, with her regal bearing, light accent, and nervousness as
Coronavirus
Virus: Why Fox gives airtime to Gov. Cuomo
Anyone know why the three cable networks are carrying live and complete New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daily fireside chats? They are part information, part homily, part sanctimony, part family history. Yes, I know New York is the center of the media universe, but that is the City, not