by John Walters
Defense Calls Kyrie Irving
This is the opening pleading of the $2.7 BILLION lawsuit that Smartmatic has filed against Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Fox News, and Fox hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro. I’m not sure why they won’t or can’t name a certain former U.S. president. I am sure that those named will whine that their free speech is being impinged upon. It’s clearly not. Say what you want. But your speech, if knowingly false and harmful, has consequences.
Related, here’s Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin (D) making a succinct argument (which we made here last week, perhaps not as eloquently or succinctly) as to why the Republican “let’s just move on” argument is either disingenuous or bone-headed (or both):
And here’s the latest in the ugliness that is Marjorie Taylor Greene:
Lou Bega Has Not Released Any Mambos*
*We stole this from a tweeter, @AKHockeyBear
If the Nittany Lion football program was looking for attention this morning, mission accomplished. There’s no such thing as bad publicity, no?
Fox News, not to be outdone, is chiding the 46th president for flying on a private jet from D.C. to Delaware (where it never blasted the 45th for flying from D.C. to south Florida almost every weekend of the past year).
5,078
The odd thing to us is not that the U.S. yesterday posted the highest number of deaths related to COVID-19 in one day, eclipsing the 5,000-mark for the first time. The odd thing is that this news was nowhere to be seen on the front page of The New York Times or on CNN’s home page. Have we reached herd apathy on the severity and deadliness of this virus?
Pooches Are The Best
Your lost kid would not be that excited to see you. Your missing-for-three-days-in-the-jungle girlfriend would not be that excited to see you. Patty Hearst would definitely not be that excited to see you. But doggies? Woof woof!
Blank Lives Matter
I’m not involved enough in the current happenings of online advertising to expand upon what the Toronto Star is saying here, but essentially, believe them. In my final days at Newsweek, I was pulled into an hour-long meeting that was about nothing more than learning to write an SEO-friendly headline so that it would appear higher up on the Google search page. As our speaker (think of a female version of the Jimmy Fallon character from Almost Famous: “I didn’t create the rain, I just have the best umbrellas”), “Google controls the world.”