The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
Barack nObama, Meet King Canute
Burt Prelutsky
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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CLINTON CASH MACHINE CAUSING WOES FOR HILLY
Democrats may not be in love their presumptive nominee, but their belief in Hilly Clinton’s inevitable victory (and the absolute desert of other options) propels her forward. That sense of inevitability, though waning, is substantially rooted in her ability to raise obscene sums of money. She and her husband have perfected the art of buck-raking over the past 30 years, building and tapping a huge network of wealthy patrons, supplicants and friends. They have amassed in this way not just an eye-popping personal fortune but also funded a family foundation, two Senate runs and now, a fourth presidential campaign. But as been the case since even before the days of Charlie Trie and sketchy Chinese soft money in the 1996 campaign, the powerful suction created by the Clintons’ fundraising efforts has drawn in plenty of trouble, too. And as she tries to bunker out this phase of her campaign, the Democratic frontrunner is again suffering for her family’s deep enthusiasm for getting money from other people.
[Ron Fournier writes: “This is sleazy and stupid. Just as Hilly Clinton is getting ready to run for president again, her family's charitable foundation secretly lifted a ban on accepting money from foreign governments.”] -Fox News
Democrats may not be in love their presumptive nominee, but their belief in Hilly Clinton’s inevitable victory (and the absolute desert of other options) propels her forward. That sense of inevitability, though waning, is substantially rooted in her ability to raise obscene sums of money. She and her husband have perfected the art of buck-raking over the past 30 years, building and tapping a huge network of wealthy patrons, supplicants and friends. They have amassed in this way not just an eye-popping personal fortune but also funded a family foundation, two Senate runs and now, a fourth presidential campaign. But as been the case since even before the days of Charlie Trie and sketchy Chinese soft money in the 1996 campaign, the powerful suction created by the Clintons’ fundraising efforts has drawn in plenty of trouble, too. And as she tries to bunker out this phase of her campaign, the Democratic frontrunner is again suffering for her family’s deep enthusiasm for getting money from other people.
[Ron Fournier writes: “This is sleazy and stupid. Just as Hilly Clinton is getting ready to run for president again, her family's charitable foundation secretly lifted a ban on accepting money from foreign governments.”] -Fox News
Overlap - After the news this week from WSJ that the Clintons’ foundation has gone back to accepting donations from foreign governments, WaPo went looking to see just how much: “Since its creation in 2001, the Bill, Hilly and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has raised close to $2 billion from a vast global network that includes corporate titans, political donors, foreign governments and other wealthy interests, according to a Washington Post review of public records and newly released contribution data. The total, representing cash and pledges reported in tax filings, includes $262 million that was raised in 2013, the year Hilly Rodham Clinton stepped down as secretary of state and began to devote her energies to the foundation and to a likely second run for president…Nearly half of the major donors who are backing Ready for Hilly, a group promoting her 2016 presidential bid, as well as nearly half of the bundlers from her 2008 campaign, have given at least $10,000 to the foundation, either on their own or through foundations or companies they run.” -Fox News 
Clinton campaign seeks media help in squelching leaks - National Journal has the story of how the Clinton campaign is working to identify and silence those who are muddling the message of the presumptive nominee: “‘There are three parties to this equation: we’re one, the source is two, and the media is three. And arguably we have the least amount of influence on any of this,’ said longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines. … Asked how the campaign could get a handle on all the anonymous outside chatter, Reines placed much of the blame back on the media for being willing to grant anonymity to sources who don’t know what they’re talking about. Unless the unnamed ‘advisers’ stop talking to reporters, or reporters stop quoting them, Reines added, there’s no way to get the issue under control. ‘What gets lost is there are no consequences for [the source or the media] when they're wrong—there just aren’t,’ he said.” -Fox News
NEW POLL SHOWS SURGE IN ISIS WORRIES, SUPPORT FOR GROUND TROOPS
CBS News: “Amid more executions by the militant group ISIS, Americans increasingly see the group as a threat to the U.S. Now, 65 percent of Americans view ISIS as a major threat - up from 58 percent in October - while another 18 percent view it as a minor threat. Majorities of Republicans (86 percent), Democrats (61 percent) and independents (57 percent) view ISIS as a major threat. With concern about ISIS growing, support for the use of U.S. ground troops in the fight against ISIS has risen. For the first time, a majority of Americans (57 percent) favor the U.S. sending ground troops into Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS. In October, Americans were divided (47 percent favored and 46 percent opposed), and in September these numbers were reversed (39 percent favored and 55 percent opposed).”
“Unfortunately, the president and this administration dogmatically refuse to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ You cannot defeat an enemy if you refuse to acknowledge what it is.” – Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on “The Kelly File” Watch here. -Fox News
CBS News: “Amid more executions by the militant group ISIS, Americans increasingly see the group as a threat to the U.S. Now, 65 percent of Americans view ISIS as a major threat - up from 58 percent in October - while another 18 percent view it as a minor threat. Majorities of Republicans (86 percent), Democrats (61 percent) and independents (57 percent) view ISIS as a major threat. With concern about ISIS growing, support for the use of U.S. ground troops in the fight against ISIS has risen. For the first time, a majority of Americans (57 percent) favor the U.S. sending ground troops into Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS. In October, Americans were divided (47 percent favored and 46 percent opposed), and in September these numbers were reversed (39 percent favored and 55 percent opposed).”
“Unfortunately, the president and this administration dogmatically refuse to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ You cannot defeat an enemy if you refuse to acknowledge what it is.” – Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on “The Kelly File” Watch here. -Fox News
Blaster master - Daily Beast: “While Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government presses the West for more and newer weapons to advance its war against the so-called Islamic State, one Kurdish craftsman is taking matters into his own hands. Bakhtiar Sadradin Aziz's weapons are cobbled together from bits and pieces of old rifles and pistols into Franken-guns that look like something out of Mad Max. But they have proved a hit for Peshmerga soldiers unsatisfied with their standard-issue Kalashnikovs and aging American surplus M16s.” -Fox News
1.
nObama Can’t Fight A War, But His War On Coal Will Destroy
(Rick Wells) - One thing the EPA was not created to do is regulate the amount of Co2 in the air. Co2 is not a pollutant any more than oxygen or water vapor are. They have assumed these powers outside of their jurisdiction and mission...as tools in the pursuit of global government in accordance with the objectives outlined in UN Agenda 21. Towards that end, and under the presumed license of fighting the non-existent boogey man of global warming, they are about to inflict some serious and potentially devastating damage upon our nation. They are attempting to destroy our present energy production capabilities and overwhelm us with the expense of creating virtually an entirely new replacement infrastructure. http://www.rickwells.us/obama-cant-fight-a-war-on-terror-but-his-war-on-coal-will-degrade-and-imminently-destroy-american-energy-economy/
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CNN’s Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery Premieres March 1
(nicedeb) - With the onset of Lent, a new CNN series on Christ called, Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery, premieres on March 1 at 9 p.m. ET. With the objective of discovering new insights about the historical Jesus, the series utilizes the latest state-of-the-art scientific techniques and archaeological research...Each episode of the six-part series investigates the value and authenticity of a historical object which is connected to Jesus: the Shroud of Turin, relics venerated as part of the True Cross, the gospel of Judas, relics believed to be of John the Baptist, the burial box of Jesus’ brother James and the gospel of Mary Magdalene. Part documentary – part emotional drama, the series not only examines some mysterious artifacts from the world of the Bible, but also the Gospel characters and stories related to the artifacts. In the episode about the Shroud of Turin, their dramatized reenactment of the Passion of Christ packs a powerful punch. As the narrator says, “the Shroud of Turin appears to be a silent witness to all the final sufferings of Jesus.” https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/cnns-finding-jesus-faith-fact-forgery-premieres-march-1/
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US announces future offensive in Iraq
(streiff) - At one time, back in the primordial mists of the pre-internet era, military operations were expected to comport with a generally accepted set of principles of war...They vary from nation to nation but the set used by the US military includes “security” and “surprise.” So imagine my shock when I read this in Reuters: From this, because this news story… which was not leaked but from a briefing provided by USCENTCOM… we have disclosed our objective, our strength, our order of battle, the fact that we will be relying on tribal auxiliaries, and the timing of the attack. This. like nObama’s holding forth on Islamic theology, underscores the dangerous and lethally un-serious nature of the nObama regime. One has to assume that this offensive… which we can safely bet will never materialize outside some midnight masturbatory pizza party in the National Security Council’s offices… is being advertised as a way of showing Congress, “look, we can really kick ass with no US ground troops.” http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/19/us-announces-future-offensive-iraq/
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nObama is not Interested in Fighting Radical Islam in Africa
(Jake) - In case you need any more evidence of how unserious the nObama administration is about fighting radical Islam, look no further than what’s happening in Africa...First of all, after the martyrdom of those 21 Coptic Christians, Egypt decided Jordan was onto something and began their own airstrikes against the Islamic State. Unsurprisingly, nObama has declined to support them, even though these strikes would make progress toward degrading and destroying ISIS. As CNS News reports: http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/19/obama-interested-fighting-radical-islam-africa/
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COULTER: GOP Double-Crossing Traitors
(Ann Coulter) - Now that a federal judge has held nObama's illegal executive amnesty unconstitutional, perhaps U.S. senators will remember that they swore to uphold the Constitution, too...Back when they needed our votes before the last election, Republicans were hairy-chested warriors, vowing to block nObama's unconstitutional "executive amnesty" -- if only voters gave them a Senate majority. The resulting Republican landslide suggested some opposition to amnesty. http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/coulter-gop-double-crossing-traitors
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Our Islamic Government and Israel
(John C. Velisek USN (Ret.)) - Our country is on the brink of Islamization as it is pushed on us by the nObama Administration and the enablers who support it...Left wing activists in our high schools and universities are working hard to undermine the foundations of individual liberty, responsibility and Christian ethics upon which this country is based. How can the United States trust a President who stood before the United Nations and said that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam?” Slander of the prophet will not be tolerated? And what of the followers of that prophet who kill innocent people in a deli in Paris, bury five year old boys alive and immolate those accused of apostasy in public displays of barbarism! When will you demand that such monstrous acts as these must not be tolerated, Mr. President? http://www.coachisright.com/islamic-government-israel/
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Muslim Terror Front Group Makes Insane Demand of nObama
(conservativetribune.com) - American Muslims have demanded that the nObama administration guarantee them immunity from prosecution for crimes related to supporting terrorism...Led by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization long suspected of having ties to radical Muslim terror groups in the Middle East, a group of Muslim leaders claimed that the laws prohibit them from associating with known extremists and thus prevent them from dissuading them from possible violence. Sure. And while we’re at it, lets see if we can persuade a bunch of suspected felons to hang out with known felons in hopes of lowering their rate of recidivism. That oughta work. http://conservativetribune.com/muslim-group-insane-demand/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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nObamacare’s co-ops: A bigger scandal than Solyndra?
(Scott Gottlieb) - The decline and bankruptcy of insurance co-ops conceived by nObamacare is being trumpeted as another emblem of the law’s many failures. But the fiasco speaks to a much more parochial flaw that animates progressive views on healthcare...The co-ops aren’t dying only because they were hastily constructed, or poorly managed. Their disaster is far more willful and deliberate. They meant to lose money. Last year, the co-ops made a big bet. While private plans were raising their premiums for the second year of nObamacare, the co-ops proposed sharp cuts. Liberal policy makers affirmed the invention of co-ops as a success of egalitarianism, arguing that the not-for-profit plans were able to slash their rates because they didn’t have to turn a profit, and therefore were able to pass more savings onto consumers. I wrote at the time for the financial web site RealClearMarkets.com: “If the co-ops can successfully lower premiums, and still offer comparable benefits, liberal policy makers will hail the scheme as a triumph of government over markets. If they can’t pull off these rate cuts, then the co-op plans could end up bankrupted.” Bankruptcy turned out to be the better prediction. http://www.aei.org/publication/obamacares-co-ops-bigger-scandal-solyndra/
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Countering violent extremism the right way
(Michael Rubin) - In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the offices of French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo and the subsequent attack by Islamist extremists on a kosher market, President Barack nObama invited political and religious leaders to a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism...The whole summit is a bit amorphous and unfortunately seems to be the latest example of foreign policy by photo-op rather than substance. Crippling the U.S. effort is an unwillingness to address the theological component: violent interpretations of Islam. I have spent the last several days in Morocco, witness to the academic and diplomatic effort to counter extremism which was a major subject of discussion at the Marrakech Security Forum, and then in Rabat, where I was able to sit in on workshops in which Moroccan graduates of religious studies programs and peer leaders addressed strategies to identify and counter radicalism among their peers. http://www.aei.org/publication/countering-violent-extremism-right-way/
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Aiding Islamic Terrorists Is Our Foreign Policy
(Daniel Greenfield) - nObama says that we are not fighting a war on Islam. What he leaves out is that under his administration the United States is fighting in a civil war that is taking place within Islam...It’s not a conflict between the proverbial moderate Muslim and the raging fanatic. That was an outdated Bush era notion. Instead Obama has brought us into a fight between Muslim governments and Muslim terrorists, not on the side of the governments we were allied with, but on the side of the terrorists. Iran and Qatar are the regional powers nObama is closest to. What these two countries have in common, is that despite their mutual hostility, they are both international state sponsors of Islamic terrorism. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/aiding-islamic-terrorists-is-our-foreign-policy/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e76e43acfd-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-e76e43acfd-156509103
Barack nObama, Meet King Canute
Burt Prelutsky
(burtprelutsky.com) - Over the past six years, nObama has left us with a slew of memorable moments. There was that occasion when he called together a group of Democrats and Republicans, and took the opportunity to tell John McCain to sit down and shut up because one of them had won a presidential election, and that someone wasn’t Sen. McCain.
Then there were the many times that nObama swore that we could all keep our doctors and our health insurance, hoping nobody would notice he had his fingers crossed.
Then there was the speech at the U.N. when nObama claimed that the Benghazi massacre was the direct result of a video nobody had seen or the debate with Mitt Romney when he denied that he had shut down oil production on federal land and got moderator Candy Crowley to back him up.
But perhaps the most telling of all his unforgettable moments took place on the White House basketball court at the annual egg roll in 2013, an Easter that coincided with April Fool’s Day and will live on in infamy. It was the day he missed 20 of the 22 shots he took.
If you recall, nobody was playing defense. There were no hands waving in his face. He took 22 shots, including lay-ups, and only got the ball through the hoop twice.
What bewildered everyone was that he never changed his approach. He didn’t alter his grip or the arc on the ball. He just kept throwing up clunkers.
The reason I mentioned Canute, the 11th century king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden, is because his major claim to fame is that he once sat in a chair at the beach and commanded the tide to stop rolling in. Although there are those who believe he did it because he regarded himself as all-powerful. I don’t buy it. Nothing I’ve read about Canute suggests he was an idiot. Instead, I believe he did it because he wanted to remind his most ardent followers that he was merely a king; he was not God. And that is the difference between that king and our own.
When nObama continued missing shot after shot, it was because he believes he is God, and that eventually the planets would re-align themselves and his shots would all start swishing through the net without his having to make even the slightest adjustment.
There has been a furor in recent weeks swirling around vaccinations. Frankly, I am astonished and after suffering through six years of nObama, there is hardly anything that still has the ability to shock me. But I hadn’t counted on the ability of a moron like Jenny McCarthy to persuade thousands, if not millions, of people that vaccinations cause autism among children.
But I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that liberals who allow a former Vice President to pass himself off as a professional climatologist should readily accept a former Playboy centerfold posing as a medical authority.
I suppose we can only sit and wait for the announcement that, like Al Gore, Jenny has won a Nobel Prize, although in both their cases a more fitting award would have been the Chicken Little Prize for false alarms.
I realize that Joy Behar, who, like Bill Maher, indulges in false advertising by calling herself a comedian, has already announced that only stupid, religious, conservatives believe vaccinations are dangerous to our children’s health. However, those who actually did the research have concluded that, aside from the Amish, those who are the most reluctant to have their children vaccinated are those brie-noshing twits living in such left-wing enclaves as Marin County, West L.A. and Santa Monica.
The truth is that getting vaccinations makes sense, both for those getting them and for those who would otherwise be placed in danger. Grown-ups do have the option of living as hermits, limiting their contact with other living things to befriending squirrels and hugging trees. Otherwise, they have a social contract to abide by reasonable rules of health and hygiene. As John Donne pointed out, no man is an island, at least not unless he buys one and moves there.
A reader sent me a note that points out that there are 1,500 newspapers, 1,100 magazines, 9,000 radio stations, 1,500 TV stations and 2,400 publishers, in the U.S. and that the majority of them are owned by a half dozen corporations; namely GE, NewsCorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS. Making it all even more claustrophobic, not to mention incestuous, is that most of the people running these outfits are married to members of the nObama administration.
Perhaps now you understand why I get so annoyed with the likes of Sheldon Adelson, Donald Trump and the Koch brothers, conservatives who seem to think it’s beneath them to sink some of their billions into buying up or starting up media outlets.
At least Adelson does own a newspaper. Unfortunately it’s in Israel.
If I had even half their money, I would start up a network in competition with Fox. Simply by promising conservative viewers that they would no longer be forced to put up with Bob Beckel, Juan Williams, Kirsten Powers, Bill O’Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and Alan Colmes, they’d draw off millions of Fox viewers.
And as a motto, I would offer “Honest and Conservative,” which would make for a welcome change from the banal “Fair and Balanced.”
Not only is the motto hackneyed, but it’s a lie. After all, you wouldn’t put a flyweight in the ring with Joe Louis. So how is it fair or balanced to put Juan Williams in the ring with Charles Krauthammer, Steve Hayes, George Will, Jonah Goldberg or Bret Baier? Fish being shot at in the proverbial barrel have a better chance of success than poor Juan.
In the movies of the 30s and 40s, we had the cartoony likes of Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best, Mantan Moreland and Butterfly McQueen, serving as comical counterpoint to Charlie Chan and all the smart white guys.
Today, Mr. Williams plays the same role, although he is better dressed and nobody rubs his head for good luck. On occasion, Juan even gets to roll his eyes like Willie Best when one of the other Fox panelists is voicing an intelligent opinion.
I suppose a fat paycheck is compensation enough for some people to serve themselves up for a daily dose of ridicule. But, speaking for myself, I long for the day when I can watch a news show without having to fast-forward, not only through a score of commercials, but through an endless parade of liberal lunkheads.
Then there were the many times that nObama swore that we could all keep our doctors and our health insurance, hoping nobody would notice he had his fingers crossed.
Then there was the speech at the U.N. when nObama claimed that the Benghazi massacre was the direct result of a video nobody had seen or the debate with Mitt Romney when he denied that he had shut down oil production on federal land and got moderator Candy Crowley to back him up.
But perhaps the most telling of all his unforgettable moments took place on the White House basketball court at the annual egg roll in 2013, an Easter that coincided with April Fool’s Day and will live on in infamy. It was the day he missed 20 of the 22 shots he took.
If you recall, nobody was playing defense. There were no hands waving in his face. He took 22 shots, including lay-ups, and only got the ball through the hoop twice.
What bewildered everyone was that he never changed his approach. He didn’t alter his grip or the arc on the ball. He just kept throwing up clunkers.
The reason I mentioned Canute, the 11th century king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden, is because his major claim to fame is that he once sat in a chair at the beach and commanded the tide to stop rolling in. Although there are those who believe he did it because he regarded himself as all-powerful. I don’t buy it. Nothing I’ve read about Canute suggests he was an idiot. Instead, I believe he did it because he wanted to remind his most ardent followers that he was merely a king; he was not God. And that is the difference between that king and our own.
When nObama continued missing shot after shot, it was because he believes he is God, and that eventually the planets would re-align themselves and his shots would all start swishing through the net without his having to make even the slightest adjustment.
There has been a furor in recent weeks swirling around vaccinations. Frankly, I am astonished and after suffering through six years of nObama, there is hardly anything that still has the ability to shock me. But I hadn’t counted on the ability of a moron like Jenny McCarthy to persuade thousands, if not millions, of people that vaccinations cause autism among children.
But I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that liberals who allow a former Vice President to pass himself off as a professional climatologist should readily accept a former Playboy centerfold posing as a medical authority.
I suppose we can only sit and wait for the announcement that, like Al Gore, Jenny has won a Nobel Prize, although in both their cases a more fitting award would have been the Chicken Little Prize for false alarms.
I realize that Joy Behar, who, like Bill Maher, indulges in false advertising by calling herself a comedian, has already announced that only stupid, religious, conservatives believe vaccinations are dangerous to our children’s health. However, those who actually did the research have concluded that, aside from the Amish, those who are the most reluctant to have their children vaccinated are those brie-noshing twits living in such left-wing enclaves as Marin County, West L.A. and Santa Monica.
The truth is that getting vaccinations makes sense, both for those getting them and for those who would otherwise be placed in danger. Grown-ups do have the option of living as hermits, limiting their contact with other living things to befriending squirrels and hugging trees. Otherwise, they have a social contract to abide by reasonable rules of health and hygiene. As John Donne pointed out, no man is an island, at least not unless he buys one and moves there.
A reader sent me a note that points out that there are 1,500 newspapers, 1,100 magazines, 9,000 radio stations, 1,500 TV stations and 2,400 publishers, in the U.S. and that the majority of them are owned by a half dozen corporations; namely GE, NewsCorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS. Making it all even more claustrophobic, not to mention incestuous, is that most of the people running these outfits are married to members of the nObama administration.
Perhaps now you understand why I get so annoyed with the likes of Sheldon Adelson, Donald Trump and the Koch brothers, conservatives who seem to think it’s beneath them to sink some of their billions into buying up or starting up media outlets.
At least Adelson does own a newspaper. Unfortunately it’s in Israel.
If I had even half their money, I would start up a network in competition with Fox. Simply by promising conservative viewers that they would no longer be forced to put up with Bob Beckel, Juan Williams, Kirsten Powers, Bill O’Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and Alan Colmes, they’d draw off millions of Fox viewers.
And as a motto, I would offer “Honest and Conservative,” which would make for a welcome change from the banal “Fair and Balanced.”
Not only is the motto hackneyed, but it’s a lie. After all, you wouldn’t put a flyweight in the ring with Joe Louis. So how is it fair or balanced to put Juan Williams in the ring with Charles Krauthammer, Steve Hayes, George Will, Jonah Goldberg or Bret Baier? Fish being shot at in the proverbial barrel have a better chance of success than poor Juan.
In the movies of the 30s and 40s, we had the cartoony likes of Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best, Mantan Moreland and Butterfly McQueen, serving as comical counterpoint to Charlie Chan and all the smart white guys.
Today, Mr. Williams plays the same role, although he is better dressed and nobody rubs his head for good luck. On occasion, Juan even gets to roll his eyes like Willie Best when one of the other Fox panelists is voicing an intelligent opinion.
I suppose a fat paycheck is compensation enough for some people to serve themselves up for a daily dose of ridicule. But, speaking for myself, I long for the day when I can watch a news show without having to fast-forward, not only through a score of commercials, but through an endless parade of liberal lunkheads.
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