SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

BAN IT!  BAN IT! – FROM BREITBART:    Even holiday classics like "It’s a Wonderful Life" have come under vicious scrutiny in our politically correct, brave new world, with CNN openly questioning whether the beloved film is secretly sexist and should, therefore, be “retired” from American culture.  CNN writer Carol Costello says she has “cooled to classics like ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’” lamenting that in a post-Harvey Weinstein world, she can never again watch that movie “in the same way [she] did when [she] was a kid” because she keeps wondering if it is “inherently sexist.”  “And that’s a good thing,” she adds.  Seen through the revisionist prism of radical feminism, the classic Frank Capra film starring James Stewart and Donna Reed becomes part of a patriarchal plot to keep women subjected to men.  I always knew it.  How could they keep showing that example of toxic masculinity?  I don't feel safe.

THE NANNY STATE – FROM DAILYWIRE:   He warned Britain and the United States about the rise of Adolf Hitler.  He fought the Nazi war machine alone until Russia and the United States joined him.  And he is a public health menace.  Winston Churchill, it seems, is rarely pictured without a cigar in tow.  And the new Churchill biographical film, "Darkest Hour," wants you to know that “there are serious health risks associated with smoking and with secondhand smoke.”  That line is included in the film’s credits, which also say that “the depictions of tobacco smoking contained in this film are based solely on artistic consideration and are not intended to promote tobacco consumption.”  I'm so glad the filmmakers are conscious of our health, and are pure of heart.  Had that line not been in the credits, I would surely be smoking cigars by now.

December 25,  2017