I’M BAAAACK! – It’s good to be back on the keyboard after taking a week off. Here are some observations I gathered over the week, including my opinions, of course.

THERE’S AN UNWRITTEN RULE that it’s the job of a journalist to objectively report the news; not to become the news, however, in recent years that has been ignored. “Journalism has reached a new low in the history of our country,” writes blogger Ann Althouse. I agree.

YOU KNOW who I’m talking about – CNN’s Jim Acosta, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow on cable news. Newspaper writers are not readily known by their bylines to average readers, but when they write, The New York Times or The Washington Post become the news, because they are regularly quoted by wire services and picked up by radio and television outlets and other newspapers across the county.

THE NEW YORK TIMES again became the news this week when comments by its executive editor Dean Baquet during a newsroom session were leaked.

“Our readers cheer us when we take on Donald Trump,” Baquet said, adding that “Trump voters don’t read the Times.”

He talked of addressing the president’s character, collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice, but “now we have to regroup, and shift resources to take on a different story. Race in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story” … hesitating to boast of winning two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on collusion and obstruction.

What kind of person would brag about winning a prize for a fabricated story?

Now, in his meeting with staffers, he asks, “How do we write about race in a thoughtful way … you all are going to have to help us shape that vision.”

The Times has launched its “Project 1619,” observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.  The paper says it’s aim is to “reframe (rewrite) the country’s history.”

FROM RACISM TO RECESSION – Yes, for The New York Times now, it’s going to be racism, racism and racism, but the paper couldn’t resist to jump on the recession band wagon when unfounded rumors began to circulate.

On page one of it’s Sunday edition, the Times headline read, “Is a New Recession Imminent? Here’s How One Could Happen.” The story is filled with editorial comment, something that has become common on the news side of the Times and The Washington Post.

Turning to the Times editorial page, anti-Trumper Ross Douthat bylined a column, “What Happens in A Recession,” in which he admitted that “this column is not in the business of forecasting recessions … but when enough credentialed auguries (he didn’t name any) suddenly think one might be possible … it seems prudent to speculate about the consequences if they turn out to be correct,”

Douthat takes joy in speculating, “First, the easy part: Donald Trump loses re-election. In a recession, the Democrats can nominate any of their candidates and expect to evict the president with ease.”

That’s journalism New York Times style. But its leftist leaning is not new. The Times has never shied away from its role. On July 25, 2004, the Times public editor Daniel Okrent authored a column, “Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.”

DEMOCRAT BETO O’ROURKE and the other twenty-some candidates have all used the terms “racist” and “racism,” hoping to use them to prevent the reelection of Donald Trump.

Interestingly, I noted that a staffer in the New York Times meeting asked, “I’m wondering to what extent you think that the fact of racism and white supremacy, being sort of the foundation of this country, should play into our reporting.”

What!  I thought that to be a ridiculous statement when O’Rourke said, “This country was founded on racism, has persisted through racism and is racist today.”

EVEN THE LOWLY, LEFT-LEANING ARIZONA REPUBLIC is pushing the racist/racism agenda. Columnist E. J. Montini, who practically kissed the ring of former Arizona Senator Jeff “The” Flake, when he took on President Trump on the Senate floor before leaving, scolded Flake for his reluctance to call Trump a racist.

To his credit, Flake said, “I never have and never will call the president a racist.”

IN ANOTHER STRETCH to push the racist/racism agenda, the Republic embarrassingly published an op-ed on racism by one of its sports writers, Greg Moore. A mistake. We saw what happened at ESPN when they went political.

Moore cited the racism of the past that blacks have faced, writing that he has “been pulled over, been pulled over, been pulled over, been pulled over,” before appropriately noting, “I’m here. I’m writing this. You’re reading it. Proof that racism can’t win.” Obviously, he has made it, despite racism.

When he concluded his op-ed saying, “Now, go get registered to vote,” it isn’t hard to imagine him wanting voters to defeat President Trump so they can continue to be pandered to by the Democrat Party.

AND FINALLY, another great truth: “Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.” – Anonymous

                  May God continue to bless the Unites States of America.