SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

A COMMON-SENSE IDEA – FROM BREITBART:  Former President Donald Trump is calling on the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind awards given in 2018 to the staffs of the New York Times and the Washington Post for their reporting that fueled the hoax that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.  In a letter dated September 30 but released Tuesday afternoon, Trump wrote to Pulitzer Prize interim administration Bud Kliment:  "I call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to immediately rescind the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting awarded to the staffs of the New York Times and the Washington Post, which was based on false reporting of a non-existent link between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. As has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated farce which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with Russia despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this this allegation."  Trump added, “For two years, these institutions feverishly pushed one Russia story after another and — despite lacking any credible evidence — attempted to persuade the public that my campaign had colluded with the Russian government.”  He called on the news outlets to voluntarily surrender their awards, but if not, he expected the board to act.  “For over a century, the Pulitzer Prize has been widely recognized as a significant achievement in the field of journalism. … When it becomes apparent that a Pulitzer Prize-winning work was based on shoddy, dubious and manifestly false reporting — as is the case here — the Pulitzer Prize Board must react accordingly,” he wrote.  He is correct, but I'd be surprised if the Board will do anything at all.  The once prestigious Pulitzer Prizes have fallen from their perch.  They're now part of the liberal journalistic machine.  After all, a Pulitzer Prize was given to "the 1619 Project," an absurd piece of amateurish history invented by an African-American activist at The New York Times.  The Pulitzer Board didn't seem terribly concerned about the project's accuracy.  But...I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.

November 16, 2021