Not that you asked
Sorry about last week. I think some crazed Republican put a virus in my computer. That out of the way, it's time to fire a load of buckshot in the air and see who we can bring down.
Born again sleazebag Josh Duggar was back in the news last week. Three months after being outed as a child molester as a teen, it has been revealed that he had not one but two accounts on the Ashley Madison website set up for married people who want to cheat on their spouses.
Now that there are cracks in the carefully constructed myth that patriarch Jim Bob has built about his "model family," people who know them are beginning to speak out. As the truth comes out, the rest of the country is coming to the same conclusion about this family that I came to years ago when I first heard of them. That conclusion is that this family is batcrap crazy, and needs to be locked in a rubber room. One that locks from the outside.
In Duggar World, the husband is the ultimate ruler of the family, whose wife and children are supposed to submit to meekly. It's considered "ungodly" for a wife to get angry at her husband, and if he has an affair it is partly the wife's fault for not fulfilling his needs. I'd like to see Jim Bob try to sell that load of feces to Hillary Clinton.
I never watched the Duggars' TV show, but if someone were to follow Josh around and film him secretly, that's a show I might want to watch. Of course, they couldn't run that show on TLC, but it would do great on the Playboy Channel.
In case you missed it, George W. Bush finally managed to make his way to New Orleans. The only problem is that he was ten years too late, and he's no longer President (Thank God).
When Katrina left the city underwater back then, Bush had to be persuaded by aides to cut his vacation short to deal with the crisis. Instead of going to the city to get firsthand reports about what was needed, Bush chose to fly over the area at low altitude in Air Force One. At the time, it was hard to remember that he ran for President as a Compassionate Conservative back in 2000.
As much as I hate to, I have to give him some credit for being willing to go to New Orleans at all. He can't be very popular there. If not for the Secret Service they might have tried to tar and feather him.
Finally there was some good news that I think we can all agree on. That is the decision by MSNBC to cancel Al Sharpton's weekday show. They still will give him an hour on Saturdays, but it's a start. The network announced the change as an attempt to shed some of its liberal bias and shift to hard news. Hiring Sharpton in the first place was a huge mistake, and it's way past time MSNBC corrected it.
Sharpton is little better than a con man. He's the civil rights version of an ambulance chaser. He only became a civil rights activist as a way to promote himself. He only joined the cause after it became relatively safe. He walked across the Edmund Pettis Bridge with President Obama, but he wasn't there 50 years ago with John Lewis.
MSNBC needs to stop being a left-wing news service and become just a news network. With all of the garbage on the internet that passes for news we need reliable, honest journalism more than ever.
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