SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:20 P.M. ET: 

MADNESS – From CNN:   Phoenix (CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley apologized on Saturday for saying "All lives matter" while discussing police violence against African-Americans with liberal demonstrators.  Several dozen demonstrators interrupted the former Maryland governor while he was speaking here at the Netroots Nation conference, a gathering of liberal activists, demanding that he address criminal justice and police brutality. When they shouted, "Black lives matter!" a rallying cry of protests that broke out after several black Americans were killed at the hands of police in recent months, O'Malley responded: "Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter."  Invoking the familiar names of blacks who died at the hands of police, including Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice, thousands have taken part in protests across the country calling for a more aggressive federal response to recent slayings by police.   The demonstrators, who were mostly black, responded by booing him and shouting him down.  Incredible.  A candidate for president has to apologize for saying that all lives matter.  This is what we've come to in Barack Obama's "progressive" America.

STILL A JERK – Incredibly, Donald Trump still refuses to apologize to John McCain, who, he said, wasn't a real war hero.  Trump is committing political suicide.  From Fox:  Donald Trump on Sunday declined to apologize for his comments about war veteran and Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain, suggesting the backlash is being fueled by fellow Republican presidential candidates trailing him in the polls.  “Republican candidates, some of whom are registering one percent and zero, they're very upset that I'm leading the polls by actually a nice margin,” Trump, a self-funded, billionaire real estate mogul, told ABC’s “This Week.” “They started attacking me.”  Trump is an amateur, and is certainly not a president.  He should stick to real-estate.  Of course he should apologize.  He should also get spiritual counseling. 

ROYAL MESS – From AFP:   Buckingham Palace is reportedly considering legal action over how a 17-second clip showing a young Queen Elizabeth II giving the Nazi salute was obtained and published by The Sun, while bracing for a new documentary set to reveal the close ties between the family of her future husband and Adolf Hitler.  A Channel 4 documentary, due to be aired July 30, is expected to look into how Prince Philip’s sister met and came to admire Hitler, according to the Daily Mail. The documentary will include passages from a private, unpublished memoir kept by Philip’s older sister Sophie who reportedly wrote of entertaining the Nazi leader and his men before their rise to power.  Three of Prince Philip’s sisters were married to senior Nazi officers, including Sophie who wed Prince Christoph von Hessen, head of the SS in the Air Ministry.  Is it poor taste to ask that our media show a similar interest in the background of Barack Hussein Obama Jr., and stop avoiding the subject?

July 19,  2015     Permalink