IT’S ALL HAPPENING!

by John Walters
https://mediumhappi.org/?p=7276

by John Walters

Starting Five

The worst American of my lifetime

1. All White Now, Baby, It’s All White Now

Remember last month, when the President of the United States as well as the Vice President declared that NFL players who knelt during the national anthem were disrespecting the military?

Now remember yesterday when the president doubled down on his lie (“two solariums!”) about calling Frederica Wilson a liar by disputing the corroboration of Sgt. La David Johnson’s widow, Myeisha Johnson? The president of the United States called a Gold Star widow a liar just a few weeks after her husband was killed while serving his country. Why aren’t the same people who were fuming at NFL players now fuming at the president for directly disrespecting the widow of a U.S. serviceman, especially when the evidence appears heavily tilted in her favor?

 

Why would she lie, Donald?

Could it be that it’s because both Wilson and Johnson are black? “Oh, now, JW, it’s not that simple.” You know what? Maybe it is. Trump’s “base,” as they are euphemistically known, have a short but consistent history of supporting anything the president says or does as long as it is contrary to minorities, particularly blacks. This really isn’t so difficult to comprehend.

2. Oh, Really, O’Reilly?

Lis Wiehl, who allegedly got a $32 million settlement from O’Reilly. No wonder he sounds so angry all the time.

Coming in a close second to Donald Trump in the World’s Worst White Man (he gets silver; Donald gets both gold and, due to skin color, bronze) Olympics is Bill O’Reilly, who yesterday blamed everyone but himself for the sexual harassment fiasco that led to his exodus from Fox. Yesterday Blah Blah O’Reilly blamed “weasel reporter” Michael Schmidt of the New York Times, the New York Times itself, and even God for the predicament in which he finds himself.

Meanwhile, former Fox News Megyn Kelly struck back at O’Reilly’s contention that no one complained about him by saying that she was one of the Fox femmes who complained about him. Deny that, Bill.

3. Peak Mansplaining

 

Love this. Twitter Dude attempts to explain to Twitter Lass what she fails to understand about a story he read in The Atlantic. The woman, Loren Schulman, gets the last word when she informs the dude, “I’m the writer.”

 

 

4. “Watson, Come Here…I Need You…To Clear Out Of Your Office”

After just three games, two 40-plus point defeats and one highly disenchanted starter, Eric Bledsoe, the Phoenix Suns bid adieu to head coach Earl Watson. This marks the sixth coach to come and go in the 13 years that Robert Sarver has owned the franchise. At some point, Robert, you need to look in the mirror and recognize that you are the problem.

5. Last Call for Barstool

They lasted less than a happy hour.

After all of one show, ESPN skipper John Skipper pulled the plug on Barstool Van Talk, “starring” Big Cat and PFT Commenter. Fortunately you won’t have to wait for the “30 for 30” on this saga, as the entire series history of this project is contained within this link. We hardly knew ya. We’ll hardly miss ya.

Reserves

The University of Virginia names Carla Williams as its new athletic director, making her the first African-American female A.D. in a Power 5 conference. So suck on it, Charlottesville Nazis.

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In case you have not seen this terrific Burger King ad already…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnKPEsbTo9s

Hate to be THAT GUY, but cows get bullied all the time. That’s how they make more cows…

Music 101

After The Fire

This 1985 song appeared on a Roger Daltrey solo album and was written by his bandmate in The Who, Pete Townshend. The band was supposed to play the song as one by The Who earlier that summer at Live Aid, but they didn’t have time to rehearse it, so Townshend gave it to his lead singer for his solo album Under The Raging Moon.

Remote Patrol

World Series, Game 1

Astros at Dodgers

Fox 8 p.m.

We will all miss the Yankees. Okay, some of us will.

Keuchel, Kershaw. Altuve, Turner. Bellinger, Springer. Correa, Puig. Should be fun.

2 thoughts on “IT’S ALL HAPPENING!”

  1. Piggybacking on Wally’s comment yesterday, as great as Barkley, Love and Adams have been, Arizona’s Khalil Tate has the five best highlights of the year (and all in the last three weeks!) This kid is like if Lamar Jackson was actually built like a football player.

    Ok great, but shouldn’t this be in yesterday’s comments?

    Well, Tate is not to be confused with Arizona teammate and fellow quarterback Donovan Tate, who’s the son of former Georgia great Lars Tate. Still belongs in yesterday’s comments, right?

    Well, Donovan, while only a freshman, is actually 27 years years old. He’s back to football after giving pro baseball a crack for eight years. He was the third overall pick in the 2009 MLB draft, which means he was selected 218 spots ahead of a middling lefty out of the University of Arkansas named Dallas Keuchel, pictured above.

    Poor Donovan, he was the most highly acclaimed high school outfielder in the class of 2009 (at least to every scout who was too dumb to venture to New Jersey to see a kid named Mike Trout), and then, when he finally give up on baseball, he enrolls at the U of A, who then unearths this video-game character, who not only shares his last name, but his position as well.

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  2. Moreover, and you can be sure that BH is aware of this, Donovan Tate is no relation to Tate Donovan, who played Rachel’s least attractive boyfriend in the history of “Friends,” with the possible exception of her ex, the dentist.

    Certainly we can find a way to make this an item tomorrow while we pray for BH to volunteer to take the reins of MH one day per week….

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