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FEBRUARY 26,  2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

HOW PHILOSOPHICAL, HOW DEEP – FROM GATEWAY PUNDIT:   Joe Biden sat down for a face-to-face interview with social media influencer Brian Tyler Cohen on Friday to discuss Putin, Covid and challenges Americans are facing due to his horrible policies.  Biden claimed that he has made the economy better but people are still “psychologically” unable to “feel happy.”  “There’s a phenomenal negative psychological impact that Covid has had on the public psyche and so you have an awful lot of people who are not withstanding the fact that things have gotten so much better for them economically that they are thinking, but how do you get up in the morning and feel happy and happy that everything’s alright,” Joey said in the interview that was released Saturday.   Yeah, well like, sure, I mean it all makes sense when Joe says it.  I sleep more soundly knowing he's in the White House.  Choke.

February 26, 2022       Permalink

CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN – OVERNIGHT:  Time out for a moment from war coverage.  CNN has a new chief, and we cautiously note that he seems to be having a positive impact.  From Newsbusters: 

In an interesting “scoop” published Saturday, Axios reported that CBS’s executive vice president of Special Programming Chris Licht, who was tapped to replace ousted CNN boss Jeff Zucker to lead the third-place cable network, wants to get back to CNN being a straight news outlet and cut back on the liberal screeds that dominate prime time and their newscasts in general.

The Axios headline said it all: “CNN to dull its liberal edge.” “Under new chief Chris Licht, CNN will dial down the prime-time partisanship and double down on the network's news-gathering muscle,” reported Mike Allen and Sara Fischer.

According to Axios, Licht was picked by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav because “[r]atings are secondary to credibility[.]”

Both of which are foreign concepts to CNN currently.

“Axios is told that Licht and Zaslav share a view that CNN was chasing prime-time ratings at the expense of the brand,” the writers said in their “between the lines” section. “Zaslav wants to move CNN back to the middle.”

They also noted Licht’s history of making some popular programming, seeing as he’s the “showrunner of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’” and “succeeded with three very different programs.” Those programs included Colbert, the “ratings jolt” for CBS Evening News, and “co-creator” of Morning Joe on MSNBC.

COMMENT:  We've commented that CNN's coverage of Ukraine has been very solid.  If this reflects the influence of Mr. Licht, more power to him.  But it will be a long struggle to win back the battalions of viewers that CNN has lost.  And there will still be pressure from some parts of the journalistic establishment to continue the liberal slant that has weakened the network.  We'll watch Licht's journey carefully.

February 26, 2022       Permalink 

FEBRUARY 25,  2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

AWKWARD – OVERNIGHT:  The circumstances and atmosphere could have been better, but President Biden revealed his nominee for the US Supreme Court.  From FOX:   The selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court was widely expected. From the start of his administration, Joe Biden has made it clear that his top priority is paying back the liberal Arabella Advisors dark money network that spent over one billion dollars to help elect him and Senate Democrats.  These Arabella-advised groups seek nothing less than the appointment of politicians in robes who will rubber stamp their left-wing political agendas from the bench.  That is what we can expect from a future Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. President Biden’s announcement, like much of the messaging already coming from her promoters, zips quickly through resume items like her clerkship for Justice Breyer and work in private practice and as a public defender.  Missing are details like her work drafting an amicus brief on behalf of pro-abortion organizations in a buffer zone case in which she repeatedly disparaged the peaceful and often prayerful clinic protesters as engaging in "in-your-face" and "chaotic" activity that somehow fell short of "pure speech." She also represented several Guantanamo Bay detainees as a public defender and continued that representation on a pro bono basis after moving back to private practice.  We'll learn more as the confirmation process proceeds, but so far it appears we'll be getting a justice who is to the left of the liberal justice Breyer, whom she would replace.  Not a happy prospect, but expected.

February 25, 2022       Permalink

UKRAINE – OVERNIGHT:  The Russian enemy is in the capital of Kyiv.  There is fighting in the streets.  And all through this, the president of the nation shows us what Ernest Hemingway meant when he wrote that courage is grace under pressure.  From Fox: 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video to social media Friday showing him standing alongside other government officials who vowed to defend the country from Russian aggression.

"Good evening, everyone," he said on a video posted to the Armed Forces of Ukraine Facebook page. " (The) Leader of the faction (party) is here, head of the president’s administration is here, Prime Minister (Denys) Shmyhal is here, (adviser to the head of the President’s Office Mykhailo) Podoliak is here. The president is here."

"We're all here. Our military is here. Citizens in society are here. We're all here defending our independence, our country, and it will stay this way," Zelenskyy added. "Glory to our defenders! Glory to our women defenders! Glory to Ukraine!"

Zelenskyy has refused to be evacuated from the country as his military continues to engage with Russian forces. Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria praised the president's leadership in a Tweet on Friday. 

"President of Ukraine refused America’s offer to be evacuated," Olexander Scherba wrote. "In a situation where (an) American president would have been evacuated a long time ago. Ukrainians are tough cookies - with a badass president."

The actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion have been widely condemned, prompting President Biden to impose sanctions in an effort to force him to change his behavior. 

As of Saturday morning, large explosions were happening around the capital city of Kyiv and gunfire erupted in the streets. 

COMMENT:  We fear the worst for Ukraine.  And we fear the worst for its truly brave president.  Our own president, Field Marshal Joseph Biden, and vice president, Grand Admiral Kamala Harris, have been unspeakably slow in getting military aid to the Ukranians, and nations that depend on the United States for their security will remember that.

I suspect we'll see real heroism in Ukraine in the coming days, and much dying.

Field Marshal Biden went to Delaware for the weekend.

February 25, 2022       Permalink