SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:50 P.M. ET: 

MEXICANS LIKE USA – From Breitbart:  "As Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto travels across California and declares America to be 'the other Mexico,' a Pew Research survey has found that 60% of Mexicans disapprove of Peña Nieto on the economy. Perhaps as a result, a plurality of Mexicans think that life is better across the border, and a third want to move to America."   Only a third?  What did we do wrong?

FAMILY VALUES – From the New York Post:  "A sister of the Boston Marathon bombers was busted in New York City Wednesday for allegedly threatening to blow up her live-in lover’s baby mama, The Post has learned.  Ailina Tsarnaeva, who lives in North Bergen, NJ, allegedly phoned the woman at her Harlem home on Monday and warned her to keep her distance or face explosive consequences.  'Leave us alone. I know people who can put a bomb on you,' Tsarnaeva, 23, allegedly said.  Law-enforcement sources said Tsarnaeva’s boyfriend, George Briones, is currently embroiled in a bitter custody dispute with his ex over their three kids."  Aw, come on.  Maybe she just wants to practice the family profession

BRUISED FEELINGS AT NBC – And how concerned we are.  From the New York Post:  "NBC News president Deborah Turness had to apologize after infuriating top execs and talent by announcing the network news organization had been asleep for 15 years.  Turness, who came to the job from Britain’s ITV News one year ago, dropped the tactless clanger in a New York Times interview on Sunday, saying, 'NBC News hadn’t kept up with the times in all sorts of ways, for maybe 15 years . . . I think the organization had gone to sleep.'  Sources tell us Tom Brokaw, managing editor and anchor of NBC’s 'Nightly News' from 1982 until 2004, Turness’ predecessor Steve Capus (NBC News president from 2005 to 2013 and now executive producer of “CBS Evening News”) and CNN chief Jeff Zucker 'are apoplectic' over Turness’ remark."  Actually, I prefer them asleep to awake.  Less damage.

I'M AFRAID IT'S TRUE – From Newsmax:  "CNN has been transformed from a sober and respected news network into a shrill and biased mouthpiece for liberals, according to actor, author and economist Ben Stein.  Stein, a speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, said the dramatic change is particularly noticeable in CNN's coverage of the racial strife in Ferguson, Mo., following the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer.  'They've flipped out. I don't know what happened to CNN because CNN used to really be great and I can remember when it was great,' Stein said Tuesday on 'The Steve Malzberg Show' on Newsmax TV."  Well, I'm not sure it was ever great.  They've had, and still have, some fine people, but the tilt to the left, especially over Ferguson and Gaza, is unmistakable  They're doomed.

August 27, 2014