“That’s Gotta Hurt”

Steve Bannon to Media – “Just Shut Up”

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From the NYTimes, “Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’“.  Now that’s an idea worth considering.

Just days after President Trump spoke of a “running war’’ with the media, his chief White House strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, ratcheted up the attacks, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by the election outcome and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration.

“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while,” Mr. Bannon said in an interview on Wednesday.

 

Daily Darwin – Pole Vaulting Bulls

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Darwin notes that ‘pole vaulting’ bulls can be a daunting challenge, especially since it’s an angry moving target.  Yet some fools do risk their genomes trying it, much to Darwin’s satisfaction.

Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors

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Inaugural Bawl

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From the Daily Mail, “The latest tally has 65 Democratic representatives saying they would participate in a boycott of Donald trump’s inaugural – more than one-third of their caucus“.

A former speaker of the House said Thursday that the roughly 60 Democratic members of Congress who plan to boycott President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration should hang their heads in shame.

‘If you’re a member of Congress, if you work that hard to get to be a part of the system … all they’re doing is make themselves look small and silly,’ Newt Gingrich told ‘Fox & Friends’ hosts.

And the onetime conservative revolutionary, who led the Republican Party to a House majority in 1994 after four decades of back-benching, warned Democrats that their partisan stand could backfire.