SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET: 

FOX GETS HILLARY – Smart move on Hillary's part.  From deadline.com:  "Fox News Channel said today that Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren will conduct a joint half-hour interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on June 17, spanning the two anchors’ respective programs. It will begin on Special Report at about 6:45 PM ET and continue during On The Record until 7:15 PM. The interview will cover an array of topics, including the 2016 presidential election, the 2012 attacks in Benghazi and Clinton’s new book, Hard Choices. Van Susteren most recently interviewed Clinton in January 2013."  Showing she's 1) not afraid of Fox and 2) that she won't kowtow to leftist demands that Fox be boycotted, Clinton is making a shrewd move and reaching cable's largest news audience.

OH, NOW WE KNOW – Publicity hound lawyer Gloria Allred has announced her verdict in the Santa Barbara murders.  From Mediaite:  "The jealous and chauvinistic Rodger wrote in his marathon, rambling manifesto that he was moved to kill his six victims, two of whom were women, because he felt rejected by the many women he had approached over the years. Oddly, some feminist activists are adopting Rodger’s own rationale for mass murder and have begun to label even the killer a victim of sorts.  In The Washington Post on Monday, columnist Ann Hornaday blamed misogynistic culture in television and movies (specifically, Judd Apatow comedies) for setting Rodger on a murderous path. The famous feminist attorney Gloria Allred echoed this theme on Tuesday in an appearance on MSNBC. She agreed that male chauvinism is clinically defined 'mental illness,' and that those who suffer from it are themselves victims as much as are those upon whom they inflict abuse."  Well, I guess that settles that.  No more discussion needed.  Gloria has spoken.  I wonder if she ever met the killer.  I am appalled at this pseudo-psychiatry, done from a distance.  Maybe Al Gore will blame the killings on global warming.

OH, THIS IS JUICY – It's been noted that President Obama got a chilly reception at West Point yesterday.  IJReview.com dug up a video of President George W. Bush's last appearance as president at West Point so reader/viewers can compare them.  It's here.  The difference is stark.  You gotta see it.

BAD TASTE AWARD – The new 9/11 museum at Ground Zero in New York is getting decidely mixed reviews.  There are, reportedly, some pretty good exhibits, but a combination of exorbitant entry fees, inflated salaries for executives, and some examples of  truly bad taste, have marred the image.  From ABC:  "The National September 11 Memorial Museum has pulled its controversial commemorative cheese platter from its shelves after an outcry at the museum’s opening.  The USA-shaped platter featured hearts over New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, where the planes crashed on 9/11. The item was first reported by Gothamist a week ago and was met with resounding criticism.  The museum opened last week to mixed reactions from the public, many of whom praised the actual museum while criticizing the gift shop and restaurant that were built on the land once known as 'Ground Zero.'  Many likened it to having a gift shop at a cemetery, noting the many individuals who perished there."  New York, which has lost much of the style it used to have, does it again.

May 29, 2014