Kerfuffle

President Trump was interviewed by Chris Wallace, one of his sniping critics, this Sunday on FoxNews for almost the entire hour. One of the high points was a kerfuffle between the two about whether Joe Biden wants to defund the police ... Trump saying he did and Wallace vehemently denying same. OK, Biden has not used the term “defund” but he did suggest that the police had become the enemy and its funds should be “redirected.” See: Townhall Article. This disagreement then was a distinction without a difference.

If FoxNews were truly “fair and balanced,” one would think that Wallace would have pointed this out.

But, to me, the real highlight of this whole back and forth was when Trump claimed that Biden could not hold his own in such an open-ended long interview. Trump said that Biden would be huddled on the floor whimpering “Mommy!”

Truer words ...

Afterward: To see the full interview go to Common Cents.

Measured Justice

Attorney General William Barr may be one of the few defenders of law and order left paddling around the DC swamp. Of course, he is now accused of being a Trump personal defender by the swamp creatures there ... but, to this observer, he seems perfectly apolitical and a measured defender of that old-fashioned concept called “justice.”

I can’t find a stand-alone YouTube video of AG Barr’s recent wide-ranging and informative interview with Pete Williams of ABC, so I have to reference it at a conservative website. So, dear reader, if you are liberal, ignore all the text therein and just watch the video ... The Interview ... and, if you still think that Barr is doing Trump’s bidding, I suppose you are forever frozen in your hatred of the Orangeman.

Eclat

I said something at the dinner table last night that I think needs to be turned into a blog post. After watching Obummer's interview with Steve Kroft wherein he broke both arms patting himself on the back, I said that he was "blinded by his own eclat." Here are  few of his eclat moments:

"I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we’ve put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in. If you can look back and say, “The economy’s better. Our security’s better. The environment’s better. Our kids’ education is better,”

"You know, I changed those things that were in direct-- my direct control. I mean, I-- look, I’m proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we’re probably the first administration in modern history that hasn’t had a major scandal in the White House. 

"Part of the job description is also shaping public opinion. And we were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns." 

"In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the ‘60s. I mean, we got a lot done." 

" Yeah, look, if you’re putting all the weight on that particular phrase [red line], then in terms of how it was interpreted in Washington, I think you make a legitimate point. I’ve got to tell you, though, I don’t regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria."

"[Next] I’m going to try to get some sleep. And do a little puttering. Because I haven’t had a lot of chance to reflect and absorb all this. I do not expect to be behind a desk a lot. I look forward to teaching the occasional class, ‘cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it."

"I am looking forward to getting out of the bubble. I am glad that I’m leaving this place at a relatively young age, at 55. So I have the opportunity for a second maybe even a third act in a way that I think would be tougher if I were, you know, the age of some presidents when they left. "

If you want to read the whole 60 minutes interview, go to CBS Recap. Wear your sunglasses ...

Twisted

Yesterday the FBI deposed Hellery Clinton for over three hours regarding her possibile criminal use of a private e-mail server while she was Secretary of State. How did Hellery characterize this consequential deposition using her predictably twisted Clintonian semantics?

She called it an "interview"!

This woman never disappoints ...

Freeman Dyson

Do me a big favor ... take twenty minutes out of your day to watch the following video of an interview with Freeman Dyson, that brilliant Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His specialty is Physics and Mathematics and in this interview he discusses carbon dioxide and global warming. (He is not a full-throated denier.) If you watch this interview with an open mind, you just might become a bit of a sceptic concerning the current climate-change hysteria  ... see: Vancouver Sun Interview.