SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

AND NOW THE BAD SIDE – Donald Trump is riding high, but the bad stuff is starting to come out.  He flopped badly on foreign policy on a radio show hosted by conservative host Hugh Hewitt.  And some of Trump's liberal past is becoming known.  From Mediaite:  Long before the Republican presidential candidate became a presidential candidate or a Republican, Donald Trump had a working relationship with Al Sharpton, including doing favors for the racial activist and giving him thousands in donations.  National Review reports that Sharpton and Trump first became partners in the 1980’s when Trump wanted to sell Atlantic City’s casinos as a tourist destination. He reached out to Sharpton to help bring famed boxing announcer Don King into his corner, and the pair became regular boxing buddies and occasional business associates.  Trump went on to donate “anywhere between $20,000 and $150,000″ to Sharpton’s charity the National Youth Movement. News reports during Sharpton’s 2004 presidential run listed Trump as one of Sharpton’s “mentors.”  Trump also stumbled while trying to criticize Dr. Ben Carson.  He charged that Carson never created any jobs, beyond a few nurses.  Not good, not good.  Carson is a beloved figure who saved many lives.  Can't compare it to big business, Donald.

ANOTHER CLOWN HEARD FROM – Why, Hillary Clinton has a new supporter.  From the Washington Free Beacon:   The latest endorsement for Hillary Clinton comes from a New York City politician who has refused to stand during or recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States.  New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who was born and raised in Puerto Rico and endorsed Clinton on Wednesday, is known for her decision not to stand up during the Pledge of Allegiance as a protest of her home territory’s current status.  Though Mark-Viverito has refused to explicitly state her opposition to pledging allegiance to the United States, her colleagues say it is a symbolic “protest” of the United States.  This woman is known here as a complete jerk.  But in the strange, leftist world of New York politics, she's risen to one of the highest posts in New York City.  Among other things, she claimed that the Puerto Rican terrorist group, FALN, was non-violent.  She said this to a man who'd lost his father in an FALN bombing.  And she's vowed to get the group's leader out of prison.

IFILL TAKES THE HEAT – Vastly overrated "journalist" Gwen Ifill, an Obama groupie, is taking heat for her latest act of stupidity, which even the ombudsman at PBS calls a self-inflicted wound.  From the Spectator:   Gwen Ifill is one of the President Obama’s most prominent cheerleaders in the media. You might remember that she wrote about Obama and despite this was permitted to moderate the 2008 VP debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.  Ifill’s cheerleading skills were put on full display as she, in response to the impending ratification of the Iran nuclear deal by the Senate, retweeted the Obama Administration’s spin on the deal (#IranDeal) while adding her own comment, “Take that, Bibi.” (H/T to Cortney O’Brien of Townhall.com).  She is now getting a pretty big backlash on Twitter. She subsequently tweeted, “But this graphic, created by administration deal supporters and tweeted out by the @StateDept ...is.”  First of all, why does any self-respecting journalist re-tweet White House talking points as if they were the gospel truth? A self-respecting journalist would not have accepted their spin at face value. But most journalists in this country are not self-respecting. As such, most of them have taken a 6½ year holiday from scrutinizing the White House.  No one should be surprised by Ifill.  She's done stuff like this before.  She is a prime example of "journalists" who are in their profession, not to report the news, but to "make a difference." 

September 3, 2015