Ken Berwitz I have a Honda Accord. I bought it from a Honda dealership not far from my house. It\’s a Honda dealership. They sell Honda cars. With me so far? Good. Now I will tell you that only a tiny fraction of that Honda Dealership\’s business is selling cars. How can this be? Well, they also service Hondas. I\’ll bet there...
Ken Berwitz Donald Trump is coming back on Fox News Channel. And not because he had some kind of sit-down with Fox News President Roger Ailes – that meeting has not even taken place yet. The reason, if your\’e asking me, is that there was no boycott of Fox News Channel in the first place. Fox is far and away the most-watched cable news network, and Trump...
Ken Berwitz If things look like they are changing on this blog, that is because I\’m experimenting with different fonts and different ways of indicating when something has been taken from another source. I have been using Verdana 10 for a while, but I think Times New Roman 12 might be better. And instead of putting quotes in rust, then in a sort of light mauve, I have, in the...
Ken Berwitz My congratulations to NBC Political Director and Meet The Press host Chuck Todd, for the following comments, made yesterday before President Obama spoke at the UN, about Mr. Obama\’s overall foreign policy record, and his performance, specifically, regarding Syria: Well, it\’s, this hasbeen, if you look at his foreign policy report card — it\’s a tough...
Ken Berwitz I just read New York Times Op-Ed columnist Joe Nocera\’s latest piece, in which he analyzes, and largely skewers, the Donald Trump tax plan. Here is how Mr. Nocera ends: There\’s one other thing. All his life, Trump has had a deepneed to be perceived as a “winner.” He always has to be perceived coming out ontop. That\’s why, ultimately, I don\’t...
Ken Berwitz Hillary Clinton would love crossover votes. But, somehow, I doubt she likes the “crossover” lines in this chart, which tracks her positive and negative ratings from the NBC/Wall St. Journal poll since February, 2013, when she resigned as Secretary Of State: To put this in perspective, I\’ll put it in Rhyme: When the red goes up and the blue goes...
Ken Berwitz Somewhere down the line, I don\’t know how, I wound up with something called “Driver Restore” on my computer. Every night about this time it puts up a message telling me my drivers are ok and asking me to register my computer – a message which takes several clicks to remove, a procedure my wife has yet to master (which means I\’m called in to do it for...
Ken Berwitz Quick: name the go-to country for international affairs. In my lifetime, it has always been the USA. But now? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that “Iraq joined Russia, Iran and Syria in a new agreement tostrengthen cooperation against extremist group Islamic State, extending theKremlin\’s reach in the Middle East as it rivals Washington for...
Ken Berwitz With a major hat tip to P. J. Gladnick of newsbusters.org… …here are the first two paragraphs of Julie Eilperin and Michelle Boorstein\’s article in the August 25th Washington Post: Several environmentalgroups are planning a major climate rally that will draw hundreds ofthousands to the National Mall on Sept. 24, the day Pope Francis speaks toCongress...
Ken Berwitz For two weeks now, the Dallas Morning Newshas championed ahmed mohamed\’s case – sympathizing with his plight, talkingabout islamophobia and, in general, pretending that this hoax – let me say itagain louder: THIS HOAX – is real. It is a measure of the power of the press- or just how selectively responses are cherry-picked, that when the...
Ken Berwitz The title is also the blog. It happens periodically, and I don\’t know why. But we\’re back now. Hmmm, maybe this time it was that red moon thingie. If so, we\’re good for the next 18 years…….
Ken Berwitz How could a chief political correspondent, and host of animportant Sunday morning show, get things so wrong? On this morning\’s Today Show, a new NBC/Wall St. Journalpoll was released, which showed that preference for Hillary Clinton amongDemocrat voters had fallen to 42%, while Bernie Sanders – whom, just monthsago, relatively few even heard of, let alone would vote for...
Ken Berwitz Yesterday I talked about the resurrection (some might say exhumation) of John Podesta, James Carville and Lanny Davis, all older, all tireder and staler appearing, and all working hard to get Hillary Clinton into the White House. Well, guess what: the king of them all – looking just as much older, tireder and staler as the others – has been trotted...
Ken Berwitz You\’re not going to believe this one. Not even knowing that it\’s Hillary Clinton we\’re talking about. Excerpted from Steve Guest\’s blog at dailycaller.com: Hillary Clinton,appearing on “Meet the Press” Sunday, could not guarantee that the FBI is notgoing to find more emails that should have been turned over earlierbecause during...
Ken Berwitz Let\’s start with the fact that ahmed mohamed\’s home-built clock was a hoax. He didn\’t build a thing, he took the casing off a Radio Shack Micronta unit and put it in a case…which – not coincidentally, it seems clear – made it look like a bomb. Little wonder that when he brought it to school the folks there were alarmed. Fearing it...
