Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Trump in, Jorge and Jim out
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) January 29, 2025
Who would have believed this a few years ago? First, President Trump is back in the White House and more popular than ever. Jim Acosta and Jorge Ramos, a couple of his most severe critics, are looking for work.
A bit ago, we learned that Jorge Ramos left Univision:
Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos, best known as a longtime co-host of "Noticiero Univision," is leaving the network after a 40-year tenure.
Ramos and Univision’s parent company TelevisaUnivision announced the newscaster’s exit, set for after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, in a press release Monday.
"This is not a farewell. I will continue anchoring 'Noticiero Univision' until December, and afterwards I will share my professional plan," Ramos, 66, said in a statement. "I am deeply grateful for these four decades at Univision and very proud to be part of a team that has established strong leadership over the years."
While Ramos did not disclose the reason for his exit, the TV journalist and Univision "mutually agreed" to not renew his contract.
Okay. Good luck to Jorge. I hear that it was about money. Could it also be that Univision wants a different face reading the news after changing voting patterns among Hispanics?
And now Jim Acosta is looking for work too. This is the story:
CNN anchor Jim Acosta is reportedly leaving the network after he was officially pulled from its programming schedule The Status newsletter reported Monday that Acosta was expected to leave CNN after it was announced last week that his 10 a.m. ET program was being replaced with "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown" in the network’s latest reshuffling. The newsletter previously reported that Acosta was pitched by CNN CEO Mark Thompson to move him from his one-hour slot at 10 a.m. ET to a two-hour slot beginning at midnight, a far less distinguished place in the lineup.
No midnight special for Jim? Doesn't he know that the midnight shift is prime time in Hawaii and the islands in the middle of the Pacific?
Honestly, I wish these two men well and I hope that they can find whatever they are looking for. At the same time, they are examples of how the media got so wrapped up with attacking Trump that they destroyed themselves.
The public saw through the media bias and eventually clicked off. In the case of Ramos, it was being an immigration activist dressed up a journalist. In the case of Acosta, it was thinking that people hated Trump as much as he does.
So goodbye, caballeros!
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1861: Kansas entered the Union as the 28th state
Today, Kansas is a prosperous state and reliably Republican vote. It has a population of 3 million people and a strong economy.
1962: Peter Paul & Mary signed their first contract
Did you love Peter, Paul & Mary's voices and their many wonderful songs?
We remember today that Peter Paul & Mary signed their first contract with Warner Bros.
Well....and the rest is musical history.
I love the music of Peter, Paul & Mary. I've collected their songs for years and a part of my personal soundtrack. They remind me of so many moments in my life.
Mary Travers died in 2009. We posted a couple of times about her death.
Peter & Paul rarely perform anymore. However, they left us a musical legacy of beautiful tunes.
P.S. Their music is now available in a digital format. And there is this wonderful songbook of guitar chords and lyrics!
1958: Campanella and the accident that ended his career
On this day in 1958, Roy Campanella was involved in a career ending car accident. And so ended Campy's career. He never played again.
The injury happened a few months after the Dodgers had played their last game in Brooklyn.
Campy was selected to The Hall of Fame in 1969. He died in 1993. Campanella was the catcher & 3-time NL MVP on the 1955 Brooklyn team that won the World Series.
1936: The first selections to the Baseball Hall of Fame
It started on this day in 1936. The first class selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame included Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson. Quite a class to say the least!
Cobb retired as the all time hits leaders (4,189) and a .366 lifetime batting average. Pete Rose broke his record in 1985.
Ruth hit 714 HRs, set the single season record with 60 HR in 1927 and retired with a .342 career BA. Henry Aaron and Barry Bonds passed him in 1974 and 2007 respectively. Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961. Barry Bonds hit 71 in 2001!
Wagner had 3,420 hits and a .328 career BA.
Mattewson won 373 games.
Johnson won 424 games, pitched 110 shutouts and had a lifetime 2.17 ERA. How did he lose 279 games with an ERA like that? He also had 3,509 Ks!
Great selections!
Let’s talk with Max Glauben
Max Glauben was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928 and grew up surrounded by a proud Jewish community before the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. By the time he was 15 years old, Glauben had lost most of his immediate family, witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and lived in multiple concentration camps. In 1945, American forces liberated Glauben and countless others from the Nazi death camps. (Dallas Morning News)
We recorded this with Max in 2010.
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