I follow someone on Twitter who follows someone on Twitter who works at Media Matters, "a web-based not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." In her position, she--name is Madeline Peltz--watches a lot of Fox News, and yesterday she tweeted that she's walking out the door at work and never coming back if they make her watch Tucker Carlson talking about Aretha Franklin.
I think Peltz was partly being funny, but, as if to justify her snark, Fox last night ran the graphic I'm copying above. The woman pictured is Patti LaBelle. Perhaps an instance where a diverse work force could have saved the company from an embarrassing mistake? To everyone at Fox News, they really do all look alike!
If, as many believe, John Brennan lost his security clearance in order to get Omarosa off page 1, I'd like to suggest that a better diversionary tactic might be for Trump to tweet out links to news articles about the grand-jury investigation into the Catholic Church's standard operating procedure in Pennsylvania. One headline announces, "Vatican 'condemns unequivocally' Pennsylvania Priest Abuse Scandal." Yes, after the grand jury investigates and the media reports the sickening conclusions, you know it must be time for the Church's spokesmen--and they are all men--to roll out statements of "unequivocal condemnation." The space in my soul cordoned off for hatred and contempt is the size of six outdoor amphitheaters, but I swear on a catechism, Trump has to assume the fetal position in a corner when I force myself to contemplate the maneuverings of the robed bureaucrats who oversee and abet the psychological wrecks responsible for preaching and pastoral care. When the frequently promoted aren't shuffling predator priests from parish to parish, they're warning normal people about the horrors of contraception.
As a liberal, would just like to point out that, but for an activist government and a free press, we'd likely know nothing of this and there would be no need for the Church to promulgate its unequivocal condemnation.
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