Friday, October 04, 2024

Friday's video: The 2024 Rangers and the future with Dave Michaels

Looking for moderators who want to moderate

Looking for moderators who want to moderate: Two debates and one conclusion. We have too many moderators who want to save the world from Trump. Furthermore, too many moderators obsessed with climate change, January 6th, and abortion. By now, it should be clear to the GOP that too many of the...
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Two debates and one conclusion. We have too many moderators who want to save the world from Trump. Furthermore, too many moderators obsessed with climate change, January 6th, and abortion.

By now, it should be clear to the GOP that too many of the current crop of debate moderators spend too much talking to each other rather than listening to the people who live in the U.S. Or they people who keep turning off their programs.

I love this advice from Ed Morrissey:

In fact, with one exception this cycle, media “moderators” turn out to be partisan advocates itching to debate rather than moderate. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash deserve credit for managing to restrain themselves from the “fact checking” exercise in the first presidential debate, but David Muir, Linsey Davis, Norah O’Donnell, and Margaret Brennan thought they belonged on the stage more than the two nominees. Their preening, partisan, and perjurious interventions all ran in the same direction — to derail your candidate and protect your opponents. 

The most recent debate had rules set against that as a condition of the agreement, which CBS News ignored. And then when your candidate called them out for their perfidy and attempted to correct the record, CBS cut their mics and Brennan smirked about it on camera. When they didn’t bald-facedly call your candidates liars while ignoring falsehoods from your opponents, they framed the follow-ups to push Republican candidates away from a direct response during their rebuttal time, while simply allowing the Democrats to directly rebut what your candidates had argued. Brennan and O’Donnell did that all night long on Tuesday.

We don’t call this industry the Protection Racket Media for nothing, after all.

Unlike major league sports where referees and umpires are analyzed for accuracy every year, the media operates in their world without accountability. I guarantee you that no one at CBS will remind Margaret Brennan that she was violating the rules fact checking Vance.

So why play ball with umpires who are in the tank for the other team? Why have moderators who write questions to give the Democrats the edge? It makes no sense and the time has arrived to pull the plug.

First, stop letting one network do presidential debates.
Second, invite reporters, print and electronic, without a partisan reputation. For example, Major Garrett of CBS, Bret Beier of FOX, et al.

From now on, the GOP should dictate the rules and let the chip fall where they may.

The days of partisan moderators is over.

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We remember Charlton Heston (1923-2008)



The great Charlton Heston was born in Illinois on this day in 1923.    He died in 2008.    He was in so many movies that it's hard to count.   However, my guess is that most people remember him for "The Ten Commandments”.

After Hollywood, he worked with the NRA and was a political activist.   He was also a great human being.

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We remember Loretta Lynn (1932-2022)





Like the song goes, Loretta Lynn was born a coal miner's daughter in 1932.     She died in October 2022 at age 90.

She married very young and was a grandmother by age 29!

By the 1960s, Lynn was one of the most successful female performers in the world of country music.    

Great singer, great style.   Loretta was indeed one of the greats of country.

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October 1966: "Good vibrations" was released by The Beach Boys

Today, we remember The Beach Boys, my favorite group after The Beatles, The Bee Gees and The Rolling Stones.

"Good vibrations" was so ahead of its time that it still sounds innovative today.   It was released in October 1966 and moved to # 1 by December!


It is rare for a "pop song" to get better with age.....this one does everyday!


It was the first single after the "Pet Sounds", or the greatest Beach Boys LP ever released in the early summer of 1966.   Over time, it became the 6th best song ever, according to Rolling Stone's Top 500 songs!  It also came in as # 24 in Songs of the Century.

"Good Vibrations" was followed by "Heroes and Villains", another one of my all time favorites.


Aren't those harmonies amazing?  Cheers for Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson and Al Jardine!   

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1957: Sputnik and Homer Hickam

On this day in 1957, the USSR put Sputnik in orbit and things were never the same. The Sputnik incident inspired Homer Hickam, a teenager in West Virginia who went on to become a NASA engineer.   I remember watching "October sky" a few years ago.  It was a great movie about how Sputnik changed a life down here.  He wrote a series of books about it.

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1957: Sputnik and the space race was on!


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On this day in 1957, the USSR put Sputnik in orbit and things were never the same. The Sputnik incident inspired Homer Hickam, a teenager in West Virginia who went on to become a NASA engineer.   I remember watching "October sky" a few years ago.  It was a great movie about how Sputnik changed a life down here.  He wrote a series of books about it.

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World War II: The Battle of Britain 1940 with Barry Jacobsen

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