Monday's podcast: Polls don't change, students can't read, Watergate 1972 and other stories

 

Monday's video: Polls don't change, students can't read, Watergate 1972

Claudia has a

Claudia has a : As you've probably heard 10,000 times, Claudia Sheinbaum will be the first lady president south of the border. She mentions it at every opportunity and her staff tells you every time, too. Yes, they really want you to know that…

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Claudia has a "peso" problem - American Thinker https://t.co/IYfoqe0gNN

— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) June 17, 2024

Happy # 81 Barry Manilow

We say happy birthday to Barry Manilow who was born on this day in 1943. 

Manilow started his career writing music jingles for commercials.  

In 1974, he hit the charts with “Mandy” and went to sell over 80 million records worldwide.     

We remember Manilow as a great performer and songwriter.

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Happy # 76 David Concepcion

We remember David Concepcion who was born in Venezuela on this day in 1948.   He turned into one of the greatest shortstops in NL history.    

Dave broke in with the Reds in 1970 and was one of the key parts of the teams that won 4 NL titles and the World Series in 1975 & 1976.  

Dave was more than a great defensive infielder:  He hit .267 with 2,326 hits.    

In my opinion, Dave should be in the Hall of Fame, as Tyler Duma wrote in 2012:

There are 22 shortstops in the Hall of Fame as of 2012. When placed in that group of players, Concepcion ranks ninth in HR, 10th in SB, 11th in hits and RBI, 15th in SLG and 19th in AVG and OBP.

He won five Gold Gloves (four straight from 1974-77), back-to-back Silver Sluggers (1981-82) and made nine all-star teams (eight straight from 1975-82).   

Add to all of this that Concepcion was a quiet leader in a team that included Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, Joe Morgan and Pete Rose.

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June 17, 1941: Joe DiMaggio reaches # 30

 

June 17, 1941: 

Joe DiMaggio reaches # 30 and now the whole country was caught up in the streak...

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1972: We remember the Watergate break‐in

(My new American Thinker post)

The Watergate break-in happened this week in 1972. It always gets a lot of coverage from reporters every year. It's becomes a day for liberal morality rants. Nixon this and Nixon that!

To be honest, President Nixon made mistakes, from defending his staff to participating in a cover-up. He admitted many of these mistakes in his memoirs published in 1978.   

Let me add that RN is a great history book going back to Nixon's first campaign in 1946, his close relationship with fellow House member John F Kennedy, the Alger Hiss case, his run for the U.S. Senate, getting selected by President Eisenhower, the Checkers speech, the vice presidency, his loss to the aforementioned JFK, his comeback in 1968 and the almost two term presidency. It reads like a postwar history class!

Over the years, I've recommended one book for those hoping to learn about Nixon.    I am not saying that you are going to fall in love with Richard Nixon. At the same time, you will learn that he was not some kind of a monster.

The book is Tom Wicker's One of Us. This is one of the best books about Mr Nixon because Wicker was a liberal journalist. Mr. Wicker related that Nixon was a mainstream type of politician. 

His presidency was not some right-wing movement. Nixon signed the executive orders that gave us affirmative action and the EPA. It was Nixon's pen that signed Title IX, which opened up college sports for women.

Indeed, thousands of young blacks got into elite schools because of Nixon's affirmative action executive order. Robert J. Brown, Chairman and CEO of B&C Associates and former Special Assistant to President Nixon, wrote that he was very proud of President Nixon's commitment to civil rights.

Wicker also reviewed Nixon's foreign policy. He found that he had a lot in common with JFK, Humphrey and LBJ. In fact, Nixon, JFK, Humphrey and LBJ would find Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders as weird as I do.

Wicker reminded us that Nixon went to China, perhaps one of the boldest foreign policy visits in history. Only a conservative like Nixon had the domestic credibility to make that trip.

Let me repeat it. June 17th has turned into a day to hear morality rants from the liberals. However, there was a lot more to Nixon than Watergate!

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Happy # 81 Newt Gingrich

We say happy birthday to New Gingrich who was born on this day in 1943.

This is a 2018 review of Newt Gingrich's new book about President Trump by Barry Casselman:

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As a literary author and national journalist for many decades,

I have come to know many writers. Many of the books I read

and enjoy most are by these acquaintances and friends, and

this presents me with an obvious dilemma in writing about or

reviewing their books.

Book reviews are an art form in their own right, especially

those about works of fiction and poetry. Reviews of non-fiction

books can serve as a starting point or foundation for the

reviewer’s own views on a subject. And then there are those

books which are so necessary they merit a straightforward

alert to readers.

Newt Gingrich’s newest book Trump’s America is just such a 

work. 

In full disclosure, Newt Gingrich has been a friend and. on 

occasion, a collaborator, for more than three decades. I will 

let my readers decide if what I now say about his new book

is fair and useful.

The former speaker of the U.S. house, himself a serious

presidential candidate in 2012, was among the earliest figures

to see the eventual 2016 electoral success of candidate Donald

Trump. I know that is so because of conversations with him

long before I realized it.

He unambiguously predicted Trump’s nomination and

subsequently his victory over Hillary Clinton in the November 

election. Since President Trump took office, he has consistently

explained his actions and views in articles, TV appearances, 

and books. Although clearly and constantly favorable to Mr.

Trump, he has always exercised his right to be critical of the

president when he disagreed with him.

Some might characterize Gingrich as a cheerleader or advocate

for Donald Trump, and I think it would be fair to do so. But that

does not diminish the value of Gingrich’s writing on the subject

because the whole phenomenon of Donald Trump’s candidacy

and subsequent presidency is so unprecedented and so often

misunderstood that lucid analysis and explanation is vitally

important for both his partisans and his opponents.

As in his previous book Understanding Trump, Newt Gingrich 

continues to be the most incisive diagnostician of the Trump

phenomenon and the political environment which surrounds it.

Yes, his new Trump's America is a partisan account, but that

does not lessen its value, especially to the many Democrats,

and not a few Republicans, who dislike and/or disagree with

the president’s views and style.

For much of the Trump candidacy, and during all of his 

presidency, I have been urging my readers, whether they are for

or against Mr. Trump, to put aside their stereotypes of him as

well as the biased media conventional wisdom about him, and

try to understand the underlying reality of his appeal to voters,

and what the president is saying or doing. His Democratic Party

opponents especially need to do this if they are to successfully

provide n credible alternative to him.

So Trump’s America is not only a must-read for the president’s

supporters, but also for his opponents. Mr. Gingrich has become

the most articulate diagnostician of contemporary American 

politics. Unlike many of his colleagues on the right and the left,

he is open to new political and technological developments, and

bold enough to try to explain them.

You need not agree with Newt Gingrich, or with Donald Trump,

to gain much from reading Trump’s America. It is a necessary

and timely book.

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1885: The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City

On this day in 1885, The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.  It came by ship from France in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases.    A year later, President Cleveland dedicated the Statue.

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A chat with Matt Baldoni about his career and the Australian Bee Gees

A chat with Matt Baldoni about his career and the Australian Bee Gees....Listen in now at https://t.co/aV8G5WG4IM. #BlogTalkRadio

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 17, 2017

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