SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET

SHOCKING, PAINFUL, UNACCEPTABLE – FROM HEATSTREET:  It used to be that high-profile Hollywood World War II movies got called out for taking liberties with the facts.  These days, they’re getting in trouble for being too historically accurate.  Take The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan’s new movie Dunkirk, which recreates the defense and evacuation of British and Allied forces from Northern France in May-June 1940 during the early stages of the World War II.  The blockbuster stars Jack Lowden, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy and, er, Harry Styles. It is set to be released July 21.  Plenty of people have taken to social media to express why they won’t be seeing it, and it’s all to do with the movie being “too white.” (Not sure if they’re aware, but the vast majority of British and Allied forces were white.)  I'm not shocked by the reaction.  Diversity has become an end in itself, and a new religion.  But please observe that diversity always means only those groups championed by the political left.  And it never includes ideological diversity.

I'M SURE IT WAS JUST AN INNOCENT MISTAKE – FROM CBS LOCAL:   HARRISONBURG, Va. — A man paid to register Virginia voters prior to the 2016 Presidential Election will spend at least 100 days in prison for submitting the names of deceased individuals to the Registrar’s Office.  James Madison University student Andrew J. Spieles, 21, of Harrisonburg, pled guilty Monday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. As part of the plea agreement, Spieles agreed to a prison sentence of 100 to 120 days.  Spieles worked for Harrisonburg Votes when he committed the crime, according to acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle.  Harrisonburg Votes is a political organization affiliated with the Democratic Party.  “In July 2016 Spieles’ job was to register as many voters as possible and reported to Democratic Campaign headquarters in Harrisonburg,” a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson said.  I'm deeply disturbed that one of our great political parties would be involved in voter corruption.  There must be a mistake here.  I see the hand of TRUMP!  Or FOX! 

GREAT IDEA - FROM BREITBART:   Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said on Tuesday that CNN should consider bringing in an independent counsel to investigate the company as a whole amid a fake news scandal in which they retracted a hit piece pertaining to President Donald Trump.  “They should appoint an outside analyst, somebody of impeccable authority like Michael Mukasey, who used to be Attorney General of the United States, to view everything of CNN and basically reset it,” he told Fox and Friends in an interview. Gingrich continued:  "You cannot get to a believable network while Zucker is there. He clearly made a gamble last year to be the leading anti-Trump network, he’s clearly done things that are absurdly wrong. I like lots of the people at CNN, I worked with them for a while. There are some very very good people at CNN, they have a very long tradition of being good journalists. But the culture of the overall system right now is very toxic. "  Rolling Stone magazine brought in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia to investigate the role of the magazine in a false-rape-report scandal at the University of Virginia.  An outside investigator would be appropriate for CNN, which is now in serious trouble.

June 28, 2017