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

DOWN AND DOWN – FROM BREITBART:   Just when some industry observers were beginning to think that it couldn’t get any worse for the NFL’s primetime ratings this year, it gets much, much worse.  The NFL served up the Texans and the Ravens on the week 12 edition of Monday Night Football, and NFL viewers seem to have resoundingly said, “No thank you.”  The MNF clash between Houston and Baltimore drew only a 6.0 in metered markets. That makes it the lowest rated MNF contest of the year for the NFL and ESPN. It also makes President Trump’s Tuesday morning Twitter shot at the league, incredibly well-timed and accurate:  The Week 12 debacle represents a 17 percent decline from last week’s edition of MNF, which saw a the Seahawks edge the Falcons 34-31.  Still, no one comes up with answers.  This is a sport in trouble, with no true leadership. 

TERRIFIC – FROM DAILY CALLER:   President Trump began a media firestorm Monday after referring to Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” at a ceremony honoring Navajo code talkers....One voice that has been missing in the debate has been that of the code talkers honored in the ceremony.  Reporter and writer Joshua Green met Thomas Begay, one of the code talkers honored Monday, on his way out of Washington, D.C. Green asked him about the event. Begay said he was “puzzled” about the comment but not offended.  Then Begay dropped a very non safe-space one liner:  “The Marines made us yell ‘Geronimo’ when we jumped out of planes and that didn’t offend me either.”  A good guy, who doesn't see every comment as an insult or a crisis.  The World War II generation owes much to the code talkers, who could communicate, using their language, over field radios in the Pacific, with the Japanese having no idea what was being said.  They have faced larger challenges than a president referring to a U.S. senator as Pocahontas.

A SAD SITUATION – FROM DAILY CALLER:  After welcoming almost 12,000 refugees to their region, three-quarters of Canadians living in the province of Ontario now say that Muslim immigrants hold fundamentally different values and a majority believe mainstream Islam promotes violence, according to a new survey to be released this week.  The survey was funded by the province and the city of Toronto as part of a joint educational campaign “to address xenophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiments.”  While 60 percent of Ontarians say they initially supported the decision to import Syrian refugees, 75 percent now say Muslim immigrants hold fundamentally different values and a majority now say Islam’s mainstream doctrines promote violence. Only one-third of those in the region have a positive impression of the religion.  That is very sad, because so many Muslims just come for better lives.  But a reckless immigration policy that ignores the real problems within Muslim civilization, has led to a backlash.  The tragedy is that, instead of dealing with the cultural problems with Islam, the leftist establishment simply screams "Islamophobia!" and denounces well-meaning Canadians.  Does the left ever solve a problem?

November 28, 2017