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FEBRUARY 17,  2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

HISTORY CALLING – OVERNIGHT:  He was famous, and delightfully so, for a brief but critical moment in the Cold War.  From ABC News:  DENVER -- U.S. military pilot Gail S. Halvorsen — known as the “Candy Bomber” for his candy airdrops during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended — has died at age 101.  Halvorsen died Wednesday following a brief illness in his home state of Utah, surrounded by most of his children, James Stewart, the director of the Gail S. Halvorsen Aviation Education Foundation, said Thursday.  Halvorsen was beloved and venerated in Berlin, which he last visited in 2019 when the city celebrated the 70th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their post-World War II blockade cutting off supplies to West Berlin with a big party at the former Tempelhof airport in the German capital.  “Halvorsen’s deeply human act has never been forgotten,” Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said in a statement.  Utah Gov. Spencer Cox also praised Halvorsen, who was born in Salt Lake City but grew up on farms before getting his pilot’s license.  The  Berlin Airlift operated from June, 1948, through September,1949.  The Soviet Union cut off all Allied access to Berlin in a dispute over administration of the city.  The West, in an operation that many military experts had believed was impossible, supplied Berlin entirely by air.   Eventually, the Soviets, their blockade smashed, re-opened the city.  Shows what guts and imagination can do. 

February 17, 2022       Permalink

THE CONTINUED SLIDE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER – OVERNIGHT:  While the mainstream media try to ignore the story, the fact is that BLM is under increasing scrutiny, even from friends, about the way it is run, and who gets the benefits.  From Fox Business: 

Amazon’s charity website has suspended the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) amid questions about the group’s financial transparency.

AmazonSmile, which donates 0.5% from purchases to designated nonprofits, still lists dozens of local Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapters among its thousands of approved charities, but noticeably absent is the BLMGNF, the national arm of the BLM movement.

"We offer the AmazonSmile program to make it easy for our customers to support their favorite charitable organizations, and we work to offer a broad spectrum of organizations, including those working to end racial injustice," an Amazon spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "States have rules for nonprofits, and organizations participating in AmazonSmile need to meet those rules. Unfortunately this organization fell out of compliance with the rules in several states, so we’ve had to temporarily suspend them from the program until they come into compliance. 

"We hope that happens soon, and in the meantime, customers who have already selected them in AmazonSmile are able to continue supporting them, and we’ll hold any funds accrued until they’re back in compliance."

The suspension was first reported by the Washington Examiner.

The news comes after BLMGNF shut down all of its online fundraising earlier this month following demands by attorneys general in California and Washington state that it submit delinquent financial disclosures for 2020, the Examiner reported. 

COMMENT:  Another case where the press didn't do its job.  We knew very little about BLM when it first caught public attention during the early stages of the Covid 19 virus.  We know very little now.  The mainstream media refuses to ask many questions, and won't even publish the BLM manifesto, a mixture of fanaticism, anti-American, race baiting and anti-Semitism.

Meanwhile, it's hard to find any black life that's been saved, or even improved, by the group.  It looks more and more like a scam.  Black folks will be the ones to suffer.

February 17, 2022       Permalink

FEBRUARY 16,  2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

THEY'RE SENDING WHO? – OVERNIGHT:  PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY.  FROM THE HILL:  Vice President Harris is slated to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when she travels to the Munich Security Conference later this week, according to senior administration officials.  The meeting is one of several that Harris is expected to have with leaders at the global security conference. It will come at a pivotal time, as the Biden administration tries to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Zelensky spoke with President Biden earlier this week.  Harris will arrive at the conference in Munich on Friday and is slated to meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the leaders of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, a senior administration official said.  Her meeting with Zelensky will take place on Saturday, according to a second administration official. She is also expected to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was recently in Washington to meet with Biden at the White House.  Harris will deliver a speech at the conference addressing Russian threats to Ukraine, the official said. The vice president is expected to use the remarks to argue that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would weaken Russia and to lay out the broader implications of the crisis for European and international order, the official said.  Are you thinking what I'm thinking?  I hope she reads the notes they give her, or at least a Little Golden Book on Europe.  I'm willing to withhold judgment, but her previous excursions haven't exactly gotten rave reviews. 

February 16, 2022       Permalink

FADING OF A NETWORK – OVERNIGHT:  CNN IS IN BAD SHAPE.  CLERGY HAS BEEN CALLED.  EULOGIES ARE BEING COMMISSIONED.  FLORISTS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED.  FROM PM: 

CNN has hit yet another low last week, seeing its worst total day viewers in nearly eight years as its conservative counterpart Fox News continues to top the charts.

According to data reported by Fox News, the left-wing cable news network averaged just 444,000 total day viewers from Feb. 7 - 13, which is CNN's worst performance in the category since November of 2015.

Fox News topped the category, bringing in 1.5 average total day viewers, and was the only basic cable news network to surpass the 1 million mark. The top five was rounded out with USA, MSNBC, HGTV, and Hallmark.

In the primetime slots, CNN didn't fare much better, averaging just 491,000 primetime viewers. Meanwhile, Fox News brought in 2.4 million viewers for the same slot, topping CNN by 385 percent.

"Tucker Carlson Tonight" finished as the most-watched cable news program of the week, bringing in an average of 3.5 million viewers.

"The Five" finished in second, followed by "Jesse Watters Primetime," "Hannity," and "Special Report with Bret Baier."

Fox News had 81 of the top 100 cable telecasts for the week.

CNN's most popular show, "The Lead with Jake Tapper," brought in an average audience of 663,000 viewers, with shows like "Ancient Aliens" on the History Channel, and Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Orange County" receiving more viewers.

As for morning shows, CNN's "New Day" brought in just 363,000 viewers, and MSNBC's "Morning Joe" saw 763,000 viewers. For comparison, "FOX & Friends" averaged 1.4 million viewers, more than doubling the other two shows combined.

CNN saw another historic low with its weekend lineup, with just 57,000 viewers in the coveted marketing demographic of 25 - 54, marking the lowest viewership in the category in 25 years, according to Fox News data.

CNN has seen its viewership tank since the last two months of 2021, and into this year, have been embroiled in a number of scandals.

COMMENT:  For some reason, the top management of CNN never seemed to care that its brand was bleeding viewers.  The network went hard left, becoming the go-to place for never Trumpers.  In the process, it gave up any credibility it had. 

CNN is now under new management, but there's no guarantee that will make a difference.  There are plenty of deep-pocketed people and corporations who kind of enjoy playing with the leftist agitators.  The viewers, though, have clearly become disenchanted.  I can only wonder what the advertisers think.  How can you sell anything to an audience of six?

February 16, 2022       Permalink