Here are my observations and opinions on the news.

LEAVE IT TO MEDIA to find a way to criticize President Trump. Over at the Clinton News Network – CNN – the Media Research Center reports that Alisyn Camerota tried to blame the president for the horrific death of Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver, who were killed by a drunken illegal immigrant on February 4, 2018. She complained that that the president was not doing enough to deport the right types of illegals.

MEANWHILE, NBC completely ignored the story and MSNBC gave it just 11 seconds of coverage. But let’s not forget that MSNBC’s Joe Reid declared on air that the president was making too much of the killing of teens by MS-13 illegals. “Nobody that doesn’t watch Fox has ever heard of MS-13,” she said after the president’s state of the union address.

COMPARE THESE HEADLINES following the president’s state of the union address. “Trump to Parents of Teens Killed by Illegals in MS-13 at State of the Union: ‘American is Grieving for You.’” Real Clear Politics went on to report the presidents call for Congress to close loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminals into the country, and proposed legislation to fix immigration laws and support ICE and Border Patrol agents.

THEN THERE’S THIS from one of Camerota’s fellow journalism hacks at The Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin, who complained about the president’s “long harangue against immigrants,” under the headline: Trump’s State of the Union: A diatribe against immigrants.” She went on to tell of his “demonizing immigrants,” and wrote of the amount of time he devoted to “scare tactics” that she claims confirms that immigration restriction and xenophobia remain a centerpiece of the GOP agenda. Rubin charges that Trump “paint(s) immigrants as a danger and a drag on America.”

I WOULD SUGGEST that if CNN’s Camerota is confused, she might want to ask California’s Governor Brown and Attorney General Bracera or Oakland Mayor Schaff if they agree with her that the president isn’t doing enough to rid the country of bad actors.

SANDRA BERNHARD came out of oblivion to support Hillary Clinton’s comment about women who voted for Donald Trump because their husbands, their boss or their sons told them a vote for Clinton would be a mistake.

“A lot of women have compromised, given in, raised their kids and not had the luxury of being able to think for themselves.” Bernhard told MSNBC’s Ari Melber.

Unbelievably, Bernard suggested that white women who voted for Trump actually feared the “educated” Hillary Clinton. “Feeling inadequate, feeling like how can somebody be so educated? How can somebody who brought themselves up from their experience and gone to the top? Educated herself, fought for rights, civil rights, and equality. And I think that is threatening to a lot of women,” she went on before alluding to women who have a “sort of feeling you have of inadequacy.”

Balderdash!   If anyone should have a feeling about being inadequate, it’s Hillary Clinton.

ANALYSIS/OPINION from Larry O’Conner at The Washington Times – “Jeb Bush, the man who was supposed to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016 until his birth-right was stolen from him by the crass, vulgar and despicable Donald Trump, has taken his psychological obsession with his own failure to a new low … he has attacked Trump’s 12-year old son.”

Speaking at Yale University, Bush reportedly, said that after the South Carolina primary he returned home to children who “actually loved me.” It drew a raucous laughter.

“But what, exactly, are these snobs laughing at?” wrote O’Conner, “Donald Trump’s children not loving him? That’s funny, right? I mean is anything funnier than Donald Trump coming home to his 12-year old son’s loathing?”

A number of audience members interviewed after the event said they interpreted his comment as a jab at Trump.

Classy, Jeb.

THE TIMING, I’m sure, is coincidental, but I couldn’t help but think about the media craze over Stormy Daniels and other women in Donald Trump’s pre-presidential years at the same time the film, “Chappaquiddick” hits the nation’s theaters.

Notice I referred to President Trump’s pre-presidential years. Those who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 surely knew of his playboy image, his dalliances, and his three marriages. Even the Access Hollywood tape, notoriously released the month before Election Day, didn’t change voters’ minds.

The difference in the case of Teddy Kennedy, his bother and President, Jack Kennedy and other modern era presidents, had affairs while in office and, for some, in my house, The White House.

I don’t intend to see the movie. I continue to be troubled by the high level of respect in which he was held; not just because he left Mary Jo Kopechne to die in his partially submerged car, but his career filled with unseemly events, covered in detail by Michael Kelly in his 1990 GQ profile. I am offended whenever I hear him referred to as the “lion of the Senate.”

INCIDENTALLY, a Rasmussen Poll taken after Daniels’ appearance on 60 Minutes, released today reveals that just 39 percent of likely voters attach importance to the interview when it comes to their perceptions of the president and the job he is doing. Fifty-six percent don’t.

Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll shows that 45 percent of likely voters approve of President Trump’s performance.