Here are my observations on the news of the day.
FUHGEDDABOUTIT – Remember when (it was just 10 days ago) Anthony Scaramucci told us why he was the right pick to be the president’s communications director? “I’m a New Yorker, you’re a New Yorker, the president is a New Yorker,“ he told CNN’s Chris Cuomo during an interview about their mutual New York upbringings and its corresponding loyalties and attitudes.
Ironically, while reading a piece in The Federalist by still another New Yorker, David Marcus, “Why Anthony Scaramucci is the Man Trump and American Need,” one of the talking heads on television was breathlessly announcing Scaramucci’s firing.
Wrongly stating that Scaramucci was “in a better position than a communications professional to be the president’s spokesman,” writes Marcus, “Scaramucci is not just the Mooch, he’s the mouth, and it sounds very much like Trump’s.” And that’s probably why incoming chief of staff John Kelly decided Scaramucci had to go. Scaramucci’s vulgarity-laden interview in New Yorker magazine still has the Washington swamp up in arms.
Scaramucci made a critical error in allowing himself to become the news, unheard of among communications professionals. But then, he wasn’t a communications professional, was he.
“SHERIFF JOE” Arpaio, who gained national prominence as the nation’s toughest sheriff for his stance on illegal immigration, was found guilty of criminal contempt for violating the terms of a 2011 court order in a racial profiling case.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (ross d. franklin/AP)
Arpaio admitted to having inadvertently disobeying the 2011 injunction, but said his behavior did not meet a criminal standard. He claimed that the contempt prosecution was a politically motivated attempt by former President Obama’s administration to undermine his reelection bid.
The sheriff, who served Maricopa County and the State of Arizona for 24 years, faces a maximum penalty of six months in jail and an undetermined fine when he is sentenced for the misdemeanor offense on Oct. 5. Stating that he plans to appeal, Arpaio added that he believes that “a jury would have found in his favor, and that it will.”
WACKO JILL STEIN, apparently starving for the spotlight since her 15-minutes of fame run for the presidency as the Green Party candidate, made an impassioned defense for the rogue dictatorship of North Korea and Russia in a MSNBC interview Sunday. Stein referred to the negative characterizations of the brutal Communist regime in North Korea as a way to “demonize’ them so the U. S. can implement a regime change. She claims “They have been basically cornered into feeling like they have to develop nuclear weapon,” because possible U.S. aggression is “very frightening to them.” These thoughts ought to go a long way to get her back on the ballot in 2020. Shish.
FROM THE ACADEMIC LEFT – The Washington Times reports that Kevin Allred, a women’s study professor, recently tweeted, “Trump is a f – – king joke. This is all a sham. I wish someone would just shoot him outright.” He also tweeted the picture of Kathy Griffin holding a decapitated model of the president’s bloody head. After a backlash, he quickly deleted the tweet. His mother must be proud.
