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

THE NERVE – FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES:   Activists are discouraging Hurricane Harvey donors from giving to the American Red Cross and urging them instead to contribute to left-wing causes, some of which are advocacy groups engaged in little if any emergency relief work.  Linda Sarsour, a prominent Muslim and feminist activist, sent out a tweet encouraging donors to give to the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund, which conducts “direct action organizing, grass-roots lobbying and electoral organizing led by working families in Texas.”  “TOP is one of many organizations on this list you can choose to support,” Ms. Sarsour said in a Wednesday tweet that included the #NoRedCross hashtag. “Grassroots orgs on ground. Long term needed.”  The Texas Organizing Project, which has fought Texas voter ID laws and supported sanctuary-state status, is part of the Hurricane Harvey Community Relief Fund, a coalition that includes labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union as well as Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.  This is awful.  Sarsour is a front operator for radical Palestinian causes, and is a darling of the hard left.  She knows nothing about relief operations.  This is subversion at its worst, exploiting the misery of people on behalf of hidden political causes.

ANOTHER DISGRACE – FROM COLLEGE FIX:  Two weeks ago, the leader of a high-ranked international affairs school suggested that students who want to intern in the Trump administration shouldn’t ask for his help.  George Washington University has refused to clarify his comments or make him available for an interview since then.  Reuben Brigety, dean of GWU’s Elliott School, labeled President Donald Trump a “Nazi sympathizer” in a stinging Foreign Policy essay that called for members of Trump’s cabinet to denounce him or resign in protest.  A professor at nearby universities before serving in various State Department roles in the Obama administration, Brigety denounced Trump for having “spontaneously reiterated his support for white supremacist protesters” following the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville that left one counterprotester dead.  The president did nothing of the kind.  This is another example of the corruption of the academic left.  This man should be sent packing.

JOURNALISTIC COURAGE – GIVE CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE – FROM FOX:  Washington Post writer Fredrick Kunkle on Friday ripped the newspaper’s owner Jeff Bezos in a scathing op-ed, accusing the Amazon founder of mistreating workers within his business empire.  Kunkle, who writes for the Washington Post’s Metro desk and serves as co-chair of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, challenged Bezos for expressing a desire to increase his philanthropic efforts despite a record of "treating [his employees] poorly." In the op-ed, he writes that Bezos “should remember that his vast wealth came in part from labor.”  “As the owner of an institution that’s critical to democracy, he should go out of his way to set a tone of progressive stewardship toward employees in all his businesses,” Kunkle wrote in an op-ed published by the Huffington Post.  “Instead, Bezos has shown that he views his employees as parts in a high-tech machine, that income inequality is someone else’s problem, and that modern corporations owe little more to their employees than a paycheck.”  Even though Kunkle is somewhat shielded by his union position, he shows courage in writing what he did.  There are many forms of retaliation open to Bezos. 

September 1, 2017