SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 8:41 A.M. ET: 

GREAT MOMENTS IN BAD TASTE – From the Washington Times: The Washington Post pulled a political cartoon Tuesday night that portrayed the daughters of Ted Cruz — ages 7 and 4 — as monkeys.  The cartoon by Ann Telnaes showed the two girls as dancing like small simians before Mr. Cruz, who is Hispanic, dressed as an organ-grinder.  Ms. Telnaes captioned the cartoon as “Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props” and defended her portrayal of the girls on Twitter, saying that because the Texas senator showed them in a humorous political ad “they are fair game.”  Praise to the Washington Post for pulling the cartoon.  Children are off limits. 

GREAT MOMENTS IN FIGHTING RACISM – From the College Fix:  MRCTV’s Dan Joseph recently presented college students with a “petition” calling on radio stations to ban the song “White Christmas” because, according to the petition, it’s “insulting to people of color and perpetuates the idea that being white is automatically a positive attribute in our society.”  Here’s some of the comments Joseph made to students as he talked to them about the song.  “It perpetuates the idea that white is naturally good, and that other colors are bad, and we feel that that’s a micro-aggression,” he told one student.  “And we think that the song ‘White Christmas’ is insulting to people of color because it says snow is white and therefore it is good – but we know there are other kinds of snow,” Joseph told another student. “It’s dirty on the ground, sometimes it turns brown, sometimes it turns black.”...He got 18 signatures from students in about an hour.  See the video of these geniuses here. 

TRUMP GETTING BACKLASH – From ABC:   Fifty percent of American voters say they would be “embarrassed” if Donald Trump were president, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning.  The current Republican frontrunner, whose 28 percent support in this poll tops his competition for the GOP nomination, would make 23 percent of voters “proud,” the poll found. Other recent national polls have found Trump’s lead for the GOP nomination at more than 20 percentage points.  I'm afraid Trump's vulgarity is catching up with him.  He makes some excellent observations, but Americans want a certain stature in a president, and Trump isn't supplying it.  He needs a finishing school.

December 22, 2015