Ken Berwitz Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive: Sir Walter Scott From the Associated Press – via Scott Johnson\’s latest piece at powerlineblog.com: The Obama administration has discovered a chain of emailsthat Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to turn over when she provided what she saidwas the full record of work-related correspondence as...
Ken Berwitz I don\’t have a “silliest supposition of the week” series. But if I did, this would be the current winner. According to Gabriel Sherman, of the (leftward, Fox News-hating) New York Magazine, Fox News President Roger Ailes is meeting with Donald Trump to get him to lift his boycott of Fox News shows….the boycott having been started because Trump did not...
Ken Berwitz Did you know that the University of Missouri\’s Columbia campus is a seething hotbed of racism? Neither did I. But, based on two articles in the school\’s newspaper, apparently some students have convinced themselves that it is. Let me start by enumerating the entire range of racism described in the first article, published a week and a half ago, and the...
Ken Berwitz This whine – and it is a sad, lame one – comes from John Podesta, the old leftist Hillary Clinton resurrected to run her “Hillary For America” group: “If anyone else faced the constant barrage of insults andattacks that Hillary endures everyday, they would quickly and happily squirrelaway in a cabin hidden somewhere in the Rockies. Not Hillary. Her...
Ken Berwitz This made me smile. Ruefully. Your call.
Ken Berwitz Why don\’t people trust Hillary Clinton. This could be an ongoing series, couldn\’t it? Maybe I\’ll make it one. From politico.com\’s “playbook” for September 25th: CLINTON CAMPAIGN “Friends& Allies Talking Points” sent yesterday – “Guidance on BloombergReport that FBI Has Restored Clinton\’s...
Ken Berwitz Maybe I\’m old fashioned. But I always thought that the news section was supposed to be for neutral news stories, and the editorial and op-ed pages was supposed to be where opinions were expressed. Well, evidently I was mistaken. Either that or the New York Times is no longer a newspaper. Here is the headline, and first paragraph, of Jennifer Steinhauer\’s...
Ken Berwitz As regular readers know, I have, for year, put up a series titled “Real Racism”, which exposes instances where people are treated differently in some way – usually in a very negative way – based on their race. Well, here is an instance of what, for lack of a better description, I will call “Unreal Racism” – i.e. an instance where a racial...
Ken Berwitz Today\’s quote comes to us from the execrable debbie wasserman schultz (she gets no capitalization in this blog entry – you\’ll understand why in a moment). schultz wins Quote Of The Day “honors” for what I hope will be the single most tasteless political attack of the 2016 campaign. It seems that Republican presidential hopeful, and fellow...
Ken Berwitz Does the Democratic National Committee actually want there to be debates? Or does the DNC – headed by former Hillary Clinton campaign co-chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz – still want a coronation for the fast-sinking, anything-but-inevitable, Ms. Clinton? The following excerpts are from an editorial in a small newspaper – the Attleboro – North Attleboro...
Ken Berwitz Did you see that heart-warming scene, this morning, when a five year old little girl wandered out into the road near where the Pope was was riding in his caravan, and the Pope waved her over and gave her a kiss? What a beautiful spontaneous moment. Except it was no such thing. If you read Brandon Pool\’s article for Reuters, via CBS News, you will find that the little...
Ken Berwitz Today\’s quote comes to us from Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has had his fill of the churlish, childish, schoolyard-recess quality insults being hurled at him by Donald Trump, the world\’s richest barrooom loudmouth. In recent days, Trump has called Rubio, among other things, “a kid”, “sweaty”, and accused him of...
Ken Berwitz Can anyone in his or her right mind take anything Hillary Clinton says at face value? Here is the latest example of why I ask that question, excerpted from Rachel Bade\’s article at politico.com: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greenlighted paperwork thatchanged her top aide Huma Abedin\’s job status to “special government employee” – a...
Ken Berwitz A slow news day it ain\’t. As they count the dead in Saudi Arabia, resulting from a “stampede” – for no clear reason – of Muslims making their hadj (well over 700…with more to come as the almost 1,000 injured either make it or don\’t), As President Obama meets with the President of China, and as the Pope gets ready to speak...
Ken Berwitz Did you know that Berkeley, California is considering raising the minimum wage there to $19 an hour over the next five or so years? That\’s not a typo either. $19 an hour. Personally I hope they do it. I\’ll tell you why just a bit further on. But first, the story – via excerpts from Aimee Picchi\’s article for CBS News: Even in...
