Archive for July 5th, 2019
Fab 4th forecast…
ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC all announced their refusal -and broadcast boycott- of any July 4th celebrations. CNN was especially horrified. However, RSBN, Fox10 and OANN carried it all, as did Newsmax TV and some others. I taped it to watch today because I was not at home most of the day,
Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe thought it looked like the beginnings of Tiananmen Square, the commentator herd at MSNBC thought the military display was aimed at American citizens to intimidate them. Having all branches of the military represented will only add to the intimidation, the pundits claimed. NPR came up with some truly ridiculous lies about trump’s Salute to America. Tanks seem to be objects of terror, not interest. Even the President didn’t realize how little damage the heavy tanks and other equipment would actually cause to D.C. streets.
Geraldo Rivera for once gets it right — Democrats hate the celebration because it’s done by Trump. Former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill makes the perfect observation,
The campus social justice warrior, not to be confused with the real warrior cited above who shot bin Laden, should just not celebrate Independence Day. Or they could at least quote that noted scholar Colin Kaepernick while he quotes those long dead to justify his position and actions, except he apparently the speech was after the Civil War and that Douglass was anti-slavery, not anti-American. Or you could join up with Code Pink and its charmless displays of juvenile behavior. Perhaps you could read the New York Times which had an op-ed tantrum on the event because America was never great, and is actually barely OK.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews oddly claimed Trump had violated the Declaration of Independence with the celebration. I’m not sure how that works, but it’s on par with Hollywood claiming this is what dictators do. Suffering from a temporary dearth of vitriol, the WaPo must bemoan the awfulness of fireworks. No one mentions that politicians like them as much as they do the tanks the D.C. City Council so loathes.
Pete Buttigieg declared the event would make America look smaller, which was rather ironic considering the presidential candidate’s own diminutive stature, and his very overweight dog.
