Brian Tyler Cohen shows Ted Cruz trying to corner Transportation Secretary Nominee Pete Buttigieg over the Biden’s Administration’s decision to abandon the Keystone XL Pipeline (and when it comes to Cruz’s claim about Biden allegedly killing Keystone XL jobs, I give you this...to be fair, I know Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pissed about it, but I also know he and Biden talked about it, for what it’s worth...and by the way, I know the pic is a little edgy, but Cruz and the even-more-odious Josh Hawley deserve that level of ridicule and more for their role in the insurrection of 1/6/21 to try and keep the Gropenfuhrer in power)...
...and speaking of the recently-departed regime, this Lincoln Project video gives us “The Trump Administration By the Numbers” (to be honest, though, the COVID fatalities should have been first on the list – and thankfully, the last number is really about -5 or so at this point)...
...and I shouldn’t be giving Bill Maher the time of day, but I have to admit that this was a funny segment, though those he quite rightly ridicules here will no doubt wear such shaming as a badge of honor, as will their equally crazed supporters (NSFW/H)...
...and John and Cenk of The Damage Repoirt tells us about the “Fourth estate” and their hangup over Biden’s Peloton exercise bike (seriously?) – GREAT commentary by John on the “lather, rinse, repeat” news cycle of what he rightfully calls the “media/political/industrial” complex (more or less) that eventually leads us back, more often than not, to another Repug presidency which blows up our economy all over again...
...and like a lot of other people I realize, I was sorry to hear about the passing of talk TV/radio legend Larry King, but I really didn’t have any particular “take” on it until I read comments from other media people who actually knew him. The common thread, if you will, of what they said about King was that he was a pro when it came to letting his guests tell their stories (of course, with his questions to direct them) with King taking sort of a secondary role in the encounter, as opposed to saying or doing something to try and make headlines himself. And when I thought some more about it, I realized just how many stories or events he covered, and it was a ton... I KNOW I watched him on CNN during the infamous “low speed chase” with O.J. Simpson and Al Cowlings, for example, and I definitely respect people in media who get put into positions like that where they have to fill up air time with a story in progress, if you will, and think on their feet (or seats) and coordinate all over the place while live coverage is going on (another legendary example from this area is the TV coverage of Larry Kane and Harvey Clark during the MOVE bombing in May 1985).
This clip includes excerpts from King’s remembrance on the death of Frank Sinatra in ’98 with Don Rickles, Steve Lawrence, Vic Damone and Quincy Jones – another example of the rich entertainment legacy King left for us (Maher was one of many who communicated rather touching tributes to King...and again, I wouldn’t wish a COVID death on anybody)...
...and happy 80th birthday to the one and only Neil Diamond.
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