The Schloss-Blog has a lot to discuss today, but must start with a journalistic failure: every newspaper, every news telecast in America should have a front-page headline story or a lead broadcast story, every day, that America is losing its democracy and Trump did not win the election.
The Republicans are hammering home just the opposite and acting swiftly and cruelly on it.
American media? Silent. Maybe, maybe, in the fourth or fifth paragraph of stories I read about the 2022 elections do newspapers mention that the GOP candidate or candidates profess that Trump won the election and the result was stolen in Biden's favor.
This is not just a wake-up call for Democrats. This is a wake-up call to American media. Before the GOP takes power in this country and your First Amendment privileges are suddenly restricted by the conservative Supreme Court, every day should start with a headline that SCREAMS that not only did Trump lose but that there is no proof whatsoever that there was fraud in the election.
When media wakes up and finds new laws and court rulings restricting its privileges, it will be too late. An an industry, we must shout to the heavens every day that Trump lost and there was no fraud.
Because he and his acolytes are doing just the opposite now and by the time you wake up and counter it, it'll be too late.
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As a quick aside, when it comes to reporting on the latter, some people, some reporters spin the news the way they want to. Some are better Spinners than others, and some aren't.
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Have you been watching the Showtime special on First Ladies?
Michelle Pfeiffer is playing Betty Ford.
Betty Freakin' Ford.
Pfeiffer played a sexy woman on the run in 1985's Into the Night, and she was glorious playing opposite Jeff Goldblum's accidently drawn-into-her-dilemma hero. That was the first time I remember seeing her on screen.
And she was sexy.
Had a crush on her for the longest time.
Now she's 62 and I still do. Except when she's playing Betty Ford.
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Arizona's new law banning abortion makes no exception for rape or incest.
No exception.
It's bad enough the law exists at all, or any of them in so many states. In Oklahoma, they are proud to have passed a law that bans abortion without exception.
This is all part of America losing its rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, especially women in this case. No control over their own bodies.
The majority of Americans are in favor of keeping abortion legal. Republicans are not. The Supreme Court apparently is not.
We're in trouble,
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If you haven't seen it or heard about it, a Weatherford College pitcher, Owen Woodward, charged off the mound and tackled Josh Phillips of North Central Texas as Phillips rounded 3rd after homering off him.
Really.
Benches cleared, players were suspended and Woodward was thrown off the team, which means when he signs a minor-league contract, he'll become a hotspot for media attention.
This is like when the Cubs signed Ben Christensen of Wichita State after he beaned and was almost charged with criminal activity for hitting Evansville's Anthony Molina, who was in the on-deck circle at the time.
Christensen allegedly thought Molina was timing his pitches and threw at him to retaliate. Hit him in the eye.
In the freaking on-deck circle!
That was in 1999. Twenty years later, Woodward tackled Phillips in Texas.
Christensen was chastised, as were the Cubs for drafting him.
Now though, in the age of Trump, some of us feel privileged to retaliate any way, any time we want to.
Unfortunately.
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Real quick:
- Will Elon Musk ruin or improve Twitter? I say ruin.
- Three out of four kids in America probably had COVID. So did half of all of us adults.
- The next time Kevin McCarthy tells the truth will be the first time.
- Russia is cutting off natural gas shipments to Poland and Bulgaria, allegedly for their help to Ukrainian refugees and support of the Ukrainian military. Russia says it wants to get paid for the natural gas in rubles and Poland and Bulgaria refuse.
- Because rubles are worthless thanks to all the sanctions we've put on Russia.
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