James Woods, a smart man, quickly recognized the significance of the idiotic decision by Nike to feature Colin Kaepernick. He advised his broker to immediately sell all his Nike stock. Nike stock feel 3% yesterday. Odds are it will fall more today. At first the decline may seem reasonable, but it will continue to slide. Even extreme liberals like to keep their money. While some people, like Lebron James and Tom Brady may not grasp the magnitude of this error, those people smart enough to earn money who invested it in Nike stock are likely working overtime on an exit strategy.

Ironically, one result will be enormous class action lawsuits against the board of directors of Nike. Here are the people who are about to be sued:

Mark Parker                        Chairman, President & CEO

Philip Knight                        Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus

Alan Graf, Jr.                       Fed Ex Corporation

Timothy Cook                     Apple, Inc.

John Lechleiter        Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

John Thompson, Jr.           Nike, Inc.

John Connors                       MBS Source, LLC

Johnathan Rodgers            Nike, Inc.

Elizabeth Comstock           Nike, Inc

Michelle Peluso       International Business Machines Corporation

John Donahoe II      ServiceNow, Inc.

Travis Knight                        Laika, LLC

Pater Henry PH.D   Nike, Inc.

Cathleen Benk         Nike, Inc.

This will do more than depress Nike sales. It will do more than result in people burning Nike merchandise. This will make anyone wearing Nike labeled products a target. Most of us will just see the logo and smirk. Other people will potentially respond violently. If you doubt that, check out the physical assaults on people wearing MAGA hats. Now multiply that by several thousand.

If, and that is a big if, Nike is to even survive it will probably have to rebrand itself. Nice! This is going to rank as one of the dumbest decisions in the history of corporate America. This reminds me when on July 11, 1985, Coca-Cola Chairman & CEO Roberto Goizueta and Coca-Cola president Donald Keough decided to change the recipe for Coke so that it would taste more like Pepsi. It was a complete disaster. In just a few days, the original Coke was back, now labeled Coca-Cola Classic. New Coke has been long gone.

http://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/july-11-1985-new-coke-canned-as-coca-colas-new-formula-is-deemed-a-marketing-disaster-11363991256264

Perhaps the best comment was by a Coke executive who said:

“We did not know what we were selling. We are not selling a soft drink. We are selling a tiny part of people’s lives.”  Coca-Cola Classic was completely removed from Coke cans in 2009.

Some people believe the entire “New Coke” campaign was a publicity stunt. Who knows? But what Nike has done is no publicity stunt, it is a publicity disaster. This is either a deliberate insult to every veteran and police officer or these people are beyond stupid.

The truth is that Colin Kaepernick probably sat down for the National Anthem because otherwise no one would have paid attention to him at all.  He had been reduced to a back-up quarterback all wise 49er fans prayed would never see game action. His career was already over, not because of his political views, but because of his lousy performance. But when he sat for the national anthem, the liberal left and the MSM went crazy. Suddenly everyone forgot that Kaepernick was a lousy player and they elevated him to superstar status. The owners and coaches in the NFL knew better. A polarizing player drawing massive publicity can be very destructive.If that player can’t actually play, the problem is magnified.

Now, Nike is comparing this to winning the Medal of Honor. In reality the only thing Kaepernick sacrificed was several more weeks of oblivion as a backup quarterback being paid too much to justify placing him on the practice squad. Most people not named Lebron James and Tom Brady realize that.

I can already imagine another TV ad by William Devane on behalf of Rosland Capital:

“To all of you who own or previously owned Nike Stock: I warned you to buy gold.”

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The liberal left had a grand time last week elevating Senator John McCain, who they despised, into national hero status, solely because he hated Donald Trump. The problem is that one can only have so many funerals and McCain is finally buried. While the MSM will desperate try to keep the myth alive for a couple more days, the reality is that McCain is dead and the only thing the MSM accomplished was to make Donald Trump, who wasn’t even invited, the entire focus of McCain’s funeral.

The MSM cannot resist the blatant politicization of every possible tragedy. They just can’t help themselves. If the people chosen to speak at McCain’s 14,000 memorial services had just stuck to praising him for his own accomplishments, perhaps they could have impressed. But instead, almost every speaker seized the day to launch barbs at Donald Trump. Although, to be fair, one serious problem is that John McCain has few real accomplishments. He is like the Paris Hilton of the Senate, famous for being famous.

Yes, he did survive several years captivity in North Vietnam. So, did a bunch of other guys. Some of them, real heroes, were awarded the Medal of Honor. McCain got the medals that were the standard issue to every POW. The rumors about McCain breaking under pressure and making propaganda tapes for the enemy happen to be true. The source for these rumors, among other things, is McCain’s own book.

John McCain was mostly famous for being John McCain. In many cases this came from him snatching defeat from the jaws of victory when conservative Republicans were on the verge of success. The latest, and most telling example was when he voted against the repeal of ObamaCare, even though he supported the repeal of ObamaCare, because he wanted to thumb his nose at Donald Trump.

Donald Trump primarily ignored the death of McCain. He didn’t say anything nice about McCain, because anything he said would have been turned against him. Also, because Trump is far more honest that the traditional politician. He despised McCain and that didn’t change with McCain’s death.

Others, like George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, who all hated McCain, developed instant amnesia in their rush to the microphone for the opportunity to bash Donald Trump. It was not love of country or admiration for a great American hero that united these political rivals, it was their mutual hatred of Donald Trump.

Perhaps the most appalling performance was by George W. Bush. Obama’s treatment of Bush was horrible throughout his presidency. In many cases policy decisions were based primarily on reversing anything done by Bush. Yet, Bush refused to speak out against Obama, saying that he owed his silence out of respect for the office of President of the United States. That all ended the day Donald Trump was elected. Bush is obviously seething with hatred toward Donald Trump and he takes cheap shots at him at every opportunity.

What all of them, and I do mean all of them, are missing is a simple fact. If Donald Trump is the focus of every conversation, then Donald Trump is the one dominating the agenda. If Donald Trump was not considered a serious threat to the political establishment, they would have ignored him. But the opposite of love is not hated, it is apathy. The liberal left has a love/hate relationship toward Donald Trump that makes it impossible for them to ignore him. Recently they have foolishly tried to demonize his supporters because they cannot comprehend the fact that some serious and intelligent people like the way Trump is performing his duties as commander in chief. These are not delusional idiots, those are the ones marching along side antifa. These are your neighbors, your friends your relatives, who judge Trump, not on the obviously flaws with his character but rather on his raw talent for getting things done.

John McCain is finally buried, and he isn’t coming back. Donald Trump is alive and well and still President of the United States. No amount of shameless posturing by the liberal left nor fawning over this embarrassing sacrilege by the main stream media changes anything. There is an old saying, if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there, does it still make a sound. The answer is applicable both to the liberal left and the MSM: yes, it still makes a sound, but no one listens, and it doesn’t change anything, it is just another dead tree.

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Chuck Todd wanted to come to work today. He was certain that Mueller would issue some bombshell announcement regarding the Trump campaign colluding with Russia. He believes that because he desperately wants that to be true. He also realizes that if Mueller doesn’t do that today, odds are very high he will not do that prior to the November 6, 2018 election. The liberal left needs Mueller to deliver a bombshell before the midterm elections.

Well it is now 6:30 pm on the East Coast and still no sign of a Mueller announcement. We can be pretty sure that Mueller is not going to make an announcement regarding Russian collusion for one very simple reason. If there was any hint of this, it would have already been leaked to the press long ago.

The MSM coverage of this borders on lunacy. Bob Bauer, former counsel to Barack Obama said the following:

“Investigators have the skills and resources to turn up evidence, including witness testimony, that goes beyond what anyone on the outside can imagine in the daily speculation about the Mueller probe,”

MSNBC was too excited to notice that what this really says is that Mr. Bauer can’t even imagine what evidence Mueller may have. Obviously, he is unaware of any existing evidence.

We are very close to the point where the MSM literally starts howling at the moon. The Trump’s legal team says they haven’t heard from Mueller in weeks. They sent Mueller a letter outlining the conditions under which Trump would consider answering questions. There was no response to that letter, which probably means that Mueller doesn’t want or need to interview the president. If Mueller really wanted to talk to Trump he would have at least responded.

The real bombshell is that there is no bombshell, there never was a bombshell and there never will be a bombshell. No bombshell is remotely possible because the Trump campaign didn’t collude with Russia. The liberal left cannot accept the reality of this because it means Trump is President of the United States, he is going to continue being President of the United States and there is absolutely nothing they can do about it.

It’s Friday afternoon and the only sound you can hear is from the crickets. It’s a beautiful thing. TGIF

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Is Trump really disgusted with Jeff Sessions? Is Jeff Sessions really a pathetic excuse for an Attorney General too weak to deal with Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein? Is he oblivious to corruption and collusion between top officials at the FBI and the DOJ regarding the Clinton campaign? He would have to be really stupid to miss this and he would have to be totally unprincipled to ignore it.

Is Trump afraid to fire an Attorney General he despises? Is he willing to tolerate the never-ending Mueller Investigation while no one, including his own Attorney General, is even glancing at Hillary Clinton? This is inconsistent with everything we know about Donald Trump. He is, after all, famous for firing people.

For quite some time I have wondered if we weren’t watching a show. This just seemed a little too public and a little too choreographed. What if Jeff Sessions is doing exactly what Trump wants him to do? What if this is all an act to give Sessions cover to do the real investigations and to elevate his credibility?  It turns out I am not the only one who thinks this is possible.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/the_sessionstrump_feud_just_a_show.html

As President Trump and A.G. Sessions go back and forth, the DOJ is in fact investigating the Clinton Foundation.  Furthermore, the DOJ is also looking into the FBI and the Clinton emails case.  And there are further reports from Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

So what happens if the new candidate for Time person of the year, the new darling of the left, drops a huge nuclear bomb down the road about the Clinton Foundation?  What if there are indictments?  Or what if A.G. Sessions concludes that the FBI investigation of the Clinton emails was a farce and takes corrective action.

We do know this. Jeff Sessions has been extremely strong regarding using the DOJ to effectuate the Trump Agenda. We know that there are secret investigations by both the IG and a secret unit headed by John Huber.  There are hints that big things are happening. There was a strange visit of an FBI plane to Little Rock Arkansas.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/mystery_doj_757_spotted_at_little_rock_airport_sparking_hopes_that_doj_hq_finally_is_moving_against_clinton_foundation.html

Witnesses describe loading evidence boxes. A 757 is a huge plane and this apparently made two trips.  Some speculated that this involved evidence collected from the Clinton Foundation.  The FBI responded by saying this was in connection with a drug task force raid.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-responds-to-speculation-about-its-jet-in-clinton-town_2621628.html

Note that the FBI did not deny that the plane was carrying evidence regarding the Clinton Foundation. It just said that there were tactical teams present to assist in the arrest of multiple defendants because of a drug-trafficking organization. It is a classic non-denial, denial.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edar/pr/central-arkansas-drug-organization-dismantled-eleven-defendants-face-federal-drug-and

This was a joint operation with state authorities, so it seems unlikely that an FBI 757 would be required to relocate evidence boxes. It seems even less likely that it would need to make two trips. We really don’t know, and that is the point. We know something is going on, we just don’t know any of the details.

Donald Trump once said that the sad truth was that we needed someone like him, who had lived in the swamp and knew how the swamp worked to fix things. Almost all of the negative stories about Donald Trump’s personal life are true and none of it matters. What does matter is that he IS President of the United States and, so far, he seems to take his duties seriously.

There are no perfect people on this earth and sometimes we desperately need highly flawed people uniquely capable of handling impossible situations.  This is why, when history is written, Donald Trump is likely to be compared to people like Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. Abraham Lincoln was considered to be the worst possible choice for President, including by his own party. His own cabinet literally plotted to ignore him and run the government themselves in spite of his accidental presidency. We now know that Lincoln was perhaps the greatest President we ever had. The civil war was horrible beyond imagination, yet ultimately it was the civil war that made us the country we are today.

Winston Churchill was the worst possible choice for Prime Minister of Great Britain until circumstances made him the only choice. Today it is hard to imagine Britain even surviving without him.

In both cases these were highly flawed people, but they were also people uniquely equipped to deal with the impossible. Both faced severe opposition, including from the main stream media of the day. Both found a way to by-pass the media and go directly to the people. Both men were consistently underestimated by their opponents. Today, no one even knows the names of the men who were so dedicated to opposing Abraham Lincoln. No one knows the names of the men who so despised Winston Churchill. The people opposed to Donald Trump are destined for the same fate. History always rewards those who actually do things and it always ignores those whose only role is to get in the way.

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Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton’s e-mails were hacked by China. NBC published a report today saying that this was inaccurate. This is evidence that NBC realizes it is a really big deal if it is true.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-rebuts-trump-claim-about-china-hacking-clintons-email/ar-BBMCDaR?ocid=spartandhp

The facts are this. An FBI official said the FBI had not found any evidence that the (Clinton) servers were compromised. That is true, the FBI didn’t find squat. However, it is important to read exactly what James Comey previously said about this:

“Given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account … She also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.”

In other words the FBI admitted the FBI could not find evidence that her servers were hacked. It ignored the inconvenient fact that the ICIG had told the FBI, long ago, that they found exactly such evidence.

There is an e-mail to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, sent by FBI Deputy Director Mark F. Giuliano on July 21, 2015:

https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/27/china-hacked-clinton-server/

On 13 July 2015 and 20 July 2015, I verbally advised you of a Section 811(c) referral from the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community received by the FBI on 06 July 2015. The referral addressed the mishandling of classified information on the personal e-mail account and electronic media of a former high-level U.S. Government official.”

An 811 referral is used to inform the FBI that classified information was potentially released to a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power.

No action was taken by the FBI.

The fact that NBC ran this story, with little or no attempt to obtain the actual facts is not just another example of fake news. It is evidence of a continued desperation to cover-up the increasingly documented misdeeds of Hillary Clinton. And, in this case, it is an admission that if these allegations are in fact true, Hillary did serious damage to our national security.

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The impeach Trump crowd has been cheered on by the dog whistle blown on a daily basis by Carl Bernstein. Bernstein is famous for taking out Richard Nixon. To liberals he is a hero who destroyed the worst President in U.S. history. Honest historian would call that an illegal coup removing a President from office primarily because you didn’t like his personality. Nixon’s biggest crime was winning re-election by a landslide. The liberal left literally hounded him from office without regard to the consequences. Among other things, those consequences led to us throwing away our victory in the Vietnam War.

But the liberal left never bothers to research the truth about things like this, so Carl Bernstein was elevated to Patron Saint level. When Bernstein said he had the goods on Trump, well nothing else mattered. Except that Bernstein didn’t have the goods, he doesn’t have the goods and he was embarrassingly wrong.  A really good reporter would have known better, but Bernstein foolishly went all in on the nonsense being spewed by Lanny Davis, without realizing that Michael Cohen had testified, under oath, saying the exact opposite of what was now being reported.

It appears as though Davis went off half-cocked before he had an opportunity to thoroughly interview his own client. Thus, Davis reported what he wanted to believe, only to discover that almost everything he was saying was wrong. At least Davis had the moxie to publicly admit he was wrong. He also admitted that he, and he alone, was the source for Carl Bernstein.

Everyone, other than the clowns at CNN who went all in on Bernstein, realizes that the story reported by Carl the magnificent was total BS. It is not unusual for CNN to run stories that end up being false. What is different here is that Bernstein went with a story he KNEW was false and he is insanely pretending he is still right.

Bernstein is done. His credibility has been shattered. His last chance at redemption would have been to admit he got it wrong and apologize. But Bernstein, like a lot of liberals, is incapable of admitting or even recognizing error. As a result, the only thing certain is that Bernstein can never be trusted to report the truth about anything. Virtually everyone in the MSM has figured this out. CNN may figure it out too, eventually, the questions is whether any viewers will be left to notice.

If you read the New York Times or you listen to Governor Brown, this is the hottest summer in the last 10,000 years. The earth’s temperature is soaring because of CO2 levels and we must all abandon straws and drive electric cars to save the planet. Obviously most people don’t buy this, because if they did there would be a run on those silly hats that have tiny umbrellas attached.

It is hotter, because we surround ourselves with man made things that absorb heat. This is easy to understand. Is it hotter sitting on the grass or in the middle of a road paved with asphalt? This may be obvious to you, but to the global warming alarmist crowd, not so much. Which is making it hotter, CO2 or paving over football fields?

Two much CO2 is dangerous. Many studies show that if CO2 levels approach 4% that is a problem. People start to show symptoms like becoming dizzy or get headaches. 4% seems pretty low, until one realizes that the current level of CO2 is .04% or 400PPM. 4% would be 40,000PPM or 100 times the current levels. No one is predicting anything close to that. Right now there is concern that CO2 levels may skyrocket to 410PPM.

It turns out that there are people studying the effect of increased CO2 levels in a closed environment. They grow pot for a living.

https://www.growweedeasy.com/co2

People who grow weed in greenhouses know all about increasing CO2 levels. They sometimes increase them to 1200 or even, gasp 1500 ppm, which is 3 to 4 times the naturally occurring level. It actually costs a lot of money to generate the additional CO2, but the marijuana plants love it. It makes them grow faster, bigger, stronger and it even reduces the odor.

This does not raise the temperature in the greenhouse, because adding CO2 to a closed environment does not raise temperature.  If anything, supplemental heat is required. What it does do is allow the pot growers to increase heat because plants love CO2 and adding CO2 only makes plants tolerate higher temperatures.

In other words, the “greenhouse effect” promoted by global warming alarmists, doesn’t actually work in real greenhouses.

Do these Pot heads wear moon suits while working in these greenhouses? Don’t be silly. They are far more likely to suffer from the effects of smoking the stuff than from increased CO2 levels in the greenhouse.

So, while the world does appear to be going to pot, there just may be the side benefit of exposing global warming alarmists as being more delusional than potheads.

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History has a way of repeating itself. During the late 1990s it was increasingly clear that Bill Clinton was an awful President and an awful person. When he looked into the camera and flat out lied about having sex with Monica Lewinsky, it was the final straw for a lot of people. When it became clear he had lied about this, under oath, Republicans felt compelled to move for impeachment. At first, Bill Clinton had very little support even among Democrats in the Senate. They all thought that he had disgraced the office of President of the United States. They were right about that.

Everything changed when the trial in the Senate began.  Dale Bumpers, former Governor of Arkansas and former Senator from Arkansas led the defense. He had just retired from the Senate. Following is a link to the text of his opening remarks.  This is absolutely brilliant, and it is just as applicable today as it was in 1999:

https://australianpolitics.com/1999/01/21/comments-by-dale-bumpers.html

“How did we come to be here?” We are here because of a five-year relentless, unending investigation of the president. Fifty million dollars, hundreds of FBI agents fanning across the nation examining in detail the microscopic lives of people, maybe the most intense investigation not only of a president but of anybody, ever.

…that investigation has also shown that the judicial system in this country can and does get out of kilter unless it’s controlled. Because there are innocent people – innocent people who have been financially and mentally bankrupted.

One woman told me two years ago that her legal fees were $95,000. She said, “I don’t have $95,000 and the only asset I have is the equity in my home, which just happens to correspond to my legal fees of $95,000.” And she says, “The only thing I can think of to do is to deed my home.” This woman was innocent; never charged; testified before the grand jury a number of times. And since that time, she has accumulated an additional $200,000 in attorney fees. Javert’s pursuit of Jean Valjean in “Les Miserables” pales by comparison.

I doubt that there are few people, maybe nobody in this body, who could withstand such scrutiny. And in this case those summoned were terrified not because of their guilt, but because they felt guilt or innocence was not really relevant.

….You’re here today because the president suffered a terrible moral lapse, a marital infidelity. Not a breach of the public trust, not a crime against society, the two things Hamilton talked about in Federalist Paper No. 65 – I recommend it to you before you vote – but it was a breach of his marriage vows.

It was a breach of his family trust. It is a sex scandal. H.L. Mencken said one time, “When you hear somebody say, ‘This is not about money,’ it’s about money.”

And when you hear somebody say, “This is not about sex,” it’s about sex.

You pick your own adjective to describe the president’s conduct. Here are some that I would use: indefensible, outrageous, unforgivable, shameless. I promise you the president would not contest any of those or any others.

Mr. Chairman, we’ve also learned that the rule of law includes presidential elections. That’s a part of the rule of law in this country. We have an event, a quadrennial event in this country, which we call “presidential elections.” And that’s the day when we reach across this aisle and hold hands, Democrats and Republicans. And we say, “Win or lose, we will abide by the decision.”

Colleagues, this is easily the most important vote you will ever cast. If you have difficulty because of an intense dislike of the president – and that’s understandable – rise above it. He is not the issue.

He will be gone. You won’t. So don’t leave a precedent from which we may never recover and almost surely will regret.

Bumper could give that same opening statement today, and he would be equally right. What Bill Clinton did was inexcusable, but his actions did not justify the removal of a President of the United States from office. It was, as he said, all about sex. He was also right in pointing out that few people, including those people serving in the Senate in 1999, could survive such scrutiny.

History will repeat itself, but this time there will be no impeachment and there will be no trial in the Senate. It is time for both sides to reflect on the most important thing Dale Bumpers said in 1999.

We have an event, a quadrennial event in this country, which we call “presidential elections.” And that’s the day when we reach across this aisle and hold hands, Democrats and Republicans. And we say, “Win or lose, we will abide by the decision.”

“WIN OR LOSE, WE WILL ABIDE BY THE DECISION”

Republicans failed to appreciate that in 1999. Democrats are repeating the mistake in 2018. The only question is how much more damage needs to be done before people wake up and stop the nonsense.

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Michael Cohen plead guilty to tax evasion, false statement financial institution, willful cause of unlawful corporate contribtuion and excessive campaign contribution. He plead guilty to making hush money payments to influence an election. Here is what Cohen actually said:“I participated in the conduct for the purposes of influencing the election.” Everyone assumes he is talking about Donald Trump.

When you listen to the hyperventilating on CNN, remember one thing. The Federal Prosecutors in New York does not have the authority to investigate Donald Trump. They report to Donald Trump. That is why a Special Counsel, Mueller was appointed to investigate alleged Russian collusion. Mueller handed the case off to local Federal Prosecutors. While CNN is day dreaming of the legal noose closing in on Trump, Federal prosecutors aren’t even investigating Trump and they aren’t going to be investigating Trump. That is why they never mentioned his name.

Paul Manafort was found guilty on 8 counts. He was found guilty of filing a false tax return. He was found guilty of not filing a form to report a foreign bank account. He was convicted of two instances of bank fraud. None of this even mentioned Donald Trump. My prediction is that this case will be appealed and probably won’t be resolved until after Trump’s re-election. I wouldn’t even be surprised to see this eventually overturned on appeal because it is not clear that Mueller was authorized to investigate this. It is not even clear that the second trial will take place.

Manafort was in custody, to avoid him tampering with a jury. Once the trials are over, he will likely be released on bail. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Manafort to start serving time in a federal prison.

Trump won’t consider a pardon or anythng else for Manafort until all legal proceedings are over and that is likely to take years.

At some point the reality of this will sink in on the usual suspects, reminding us all of the last verse to Casey at the Bat:

“Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, and somewhere men are laughing, and somewwhere children shout, but there is no joy in Mudville – mighty Mueller has struck out.”

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I remember watching the Harlem Globetrotters play when I was very young. They always played the Washington Nationals. The Washington Nationals were extremely skilled; at losing to the Harlem Globetrotters. In retrospect, these were some very talented people. In every game there was a period where they started shooting lights out and gave the illusion of this being a real game instead of an exhibition. But, in reality, their sole mission was to make the Globetrotters look great and they were very good at their job.

I now realize that CNN has taken over the role of the Washington Nationals. They have become Trump’s foil. Whenever Trump needs to rile up the base, he just lobs a shot at CNN. They never fail to respond. It reminds me of the standard Globetrotter stunt they use in every game. One guy chases another guy with a bucket of water and throws it at him. At the last minute the Globetrotter being chased ducks and the water goes into the crowd. Except the bucket was never filled with water, it was always filled with confetti. They still use the same trick, but the water is aimed at a referee and they now use real water. They have been getting laughs with some version of this stunt for close to 100 years.

CNN falls for the water bucket trick on a daily basis. The primary difference is that CNN doesn’t realize this is all a big joke. This is now so bad that when FOX News needs to add amusement to a show it just shows clips from CNN broadcasts. It is almost like the CNN actors are performing a parody of themselves.

I think Trump would be devastated if CNN just started reporting the news. He would be just as frustrated as the Globetrotters if the Washington Nationals weren’t available. Every good comedian needs a good foil and CNN has become master of the craft. I wonder if they will ever figure this out for themselves.

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