Highlights of the week

Oliver Anthony was annoyed by Fox kicking off its RINO show with a question about his song, Rich Men North of Richmond.

He said, “It was funny seeing it at the presidential debate because it, like, I wrote that song about those people. So for them to sit there and have to listen to that, that cracks me up.”

He also said, “That song has nothing to do with Joe Biden. It’s a lot bigger than Joe Biden. That song is written about the people on that stage. And a lot more, too—not just them, but definitely them.”

Sudden acclaim can be a penalty for having talent.

ITEM 1: The Hill reported, “Fox News is the debate’s biggest loser.”

Fox won because the debate helped do what Rupert Murdoch wants to do — re-elect Biden.

After the debate, Rupert patted Bret Baier on the head and called him a good boy.

ITEM 2: Rudy Giuliani went to Atlanta to be booked on the high and hideous crime of questioning an election.

He told reporters, “They’re destroying my right to counsel — my right to be a lawyer. They’re destroying [Trump’s] right to counsel. It’s not accidental that they’ve indicted all his lawyers. I’ve never heard of that before in America — all the lawyers indicted.

“Now, whether you dislike or like Donald Trump, let me give you a warning. They’re gonna come for you. When the political winds shift, as they always do, let us pray that Republicans are more honest, more trustworthy, and more American than these people in charge of this government. Because if our government is conducted this way and the system of justice is politicized and criminalized for politics, your rights are in jeopardy and your children’s.”

CNN reported, “Fox News debate moderators didn’t mention Trump for nearly an hour. It wasn’t an accident.”

Yep.

ITEM 3: While RINOs debated and pretended the nomination is not sewn up, Tucker Carlson posted an interview with Donald Trump that drew 75 million clicks (according to Elon Musk) while the Fox show was on.

I can see why Rupert ordered silence by his lambs.

ITEM 4: Radar Online reported, “Desperate Democrats Begging Michelle to Run in 2024: Party Insiders Secretly Testing Support for Former First Lady.”

The story said, “Despite Trump’s ongoing legal woes, top Democrats fear the bumbling and mumbling president — the subject of recent dementia rumors — losing to Trump especially if a third-party candidate enters the contest, prompting the draft Michelle campaign.”

Despite? Because of. We either stop the persecution of the political opposition or we stop pretending we are free.

ITEM 5: Bounding Into Comics reported, “Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Company Working To Improve The Quality Of Their Films By Reducing Both ‘The Number Of Titles We Release’ And ‘The Cost Per Title.’”

Going woke is boring.

Costs matter. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny had twice the box office receipts ($379 million) that Sound of Freedom had ($179 million) but making Indiana Jones cost 20 times what it cost to make Freedom.

But hey, Disney, should keep turning classics into garbage. Next year’s live-action woke Snow White with a 6-foot tall dwarfs and no Prince Charming surely will attract dozens to the theater.

ITEM 6: The Connecticut Centinal (their spelling, not mine) reported, “DEI Consultant Accidentally Reveals Gay Porn URL In A Slideshow Delivered To Fairfield Public Schools.”

Gay porn? Well, the man’s name is Derrick Gay.

He said, “I have used this slide more than a hundred times and have never seen this content before.”

Sure.

ITEM 7: Press TV reported, “Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has insisted in an interview that the Ukraine conflict has crushed the European economy.”

Vucic told Tucker Carlson, “One of the points he made is that the war in Ukraine, the war against Russia led by NATO, has crushed the European economy.

“The destruction of Nord Stream by the Biden administration, either directly or through proxies, is killing the German economy.”

The politicians and the military industrial complex are making out like bandits as the USA printing presses create billions more to spend unaudited.

ITEM 8: Insider reported, “Biden told Maui wildfire survivors that he can relate, citing a small fire he had in his kitchen in 2004.”

He was better off saying no comment.

He’s the Nelson Muntz of presidents.

ITEM 9: The Daily Mail reported, “The FBI received a tip about the cop-killing, Syrian gunman plotting a mass casualty attack in Fargo in 2021, DailyMail.com can reveal.

“The gunman, Mohamad Barakat, 37, was shot dead by Fargo police officer Zach Robinson on July 14.

“Before finally being brought down, Barakat shot and killed rookie cop and Afghanistan veteran Jake Wallin, 23.”

They knew. They let him. FBI director Chris Wray is an accomplice. Prosecute.

ITEM 10: Patriot Fetch reported, “Those who call the island of Maui home who were attempting to escape from the wildfires decimating their homes and killing their families and friends faced a barricade that blocked the only paved road out of town, according to new reports coming from the Associated Press. This, of course, forced those fleeing to evade the obstacles erected by local authorities. Why in the world were barricades put up and who is responsible for making that decision? This is deplorable.”

The government did not sound sirens.

The government withheld water.

The government blocked the road.

But go ahead. Blame climate change. The climate that needs to be changed is voting Democrat.

ITEM 11: Vice reported, “This City Made Developers Build Affordable Housing or Pay Up. They All Paid.

“Every developer in the city of Montreal has paid cash or land into a fund rather than build affordable housing themselves after a recent bylaw passed.”

It’s all about the Benjamins, I mean loonies. It’s Canada, you know.

ITEM 12: Breitbart reported, “The concealed carry permit holder who shot an alleged robber while holding a six-pack of beer in Cassopolis, Michigan, will face no charges.”

He wasn’t holding Bud Light.

ITEM 13: NBC said three years ago, “Racist police practices like mug shots normalize the criminalization of black Americans.”

That is why I am not posting any mugshots of President Trump.

ITEM 14: Columbia Journalism Review noticed the Cowboy State Daily, a Wyoming online paper that Citizen Free Press made popular.

CJR said, “When a GOP megadonor didn’t like the coverage he was getting from Wyoming’s newsrooms, he funded a new one. Now it’s pushing anti-trans talking points and climate misinformation.”

CJR was silent when NYT and WaPo — underwritten by billionaires Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos, respectively — lied and spread Russian hoax disinformation, promoted Hunter laptop denial, and pushed pro trans-mutilation talking points.

Libs hate it when conservatives play by their rules and win.

ITEM 15: Gateway Pundit reported, “India Lands Chandraayan-3 on Lunar South Pole in Major Achievement, Becomes New Space Superpower.”

When America landed the first 12 men on the moon, it had a 60-year lead in space technology.

The communists in this country campaigned to fix the problems on Earth instead of wasting billions on space exploration.

$30 trillion later, every problem in the United States has been fixed. There are no homeless, no neglected children and no drug abuse. Our schools are so good that our sixth-graders are learning quantum physics and building fusion power stations that generate more energy than they use.

What am I smoking? I am glad you asked. It is Poca Dot Pot — soon to be available at your friendly neighborhood cannabist dispensary.

ITEM 16: NBC reported, “Some emperor penguin sites experienced ‘total breeding failure’ because of sea ice loss.”

I thought it was because all the penguins went gay.

Maybe global boiling makes you gay.

ITEM 17: The LA Times reported, “Air Force unveils football uniform honoring WWII raid on Japan. Not everyone is happy.”

Good. Ignorant people should be unhappy. The uniform honors the 80 men in Doolittle’s raid on Japan, which was the beginning of the payback for that sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

Next year, I want mushroom cloud helmets.

ITEM 18: Alice Cooper said, “I find it wrong when you’ve got a 6-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be’ I mean, if you identify as a tree . . . I’m going, ‘Come on! What are we in, a Kurt Vonnegut novel?’ It’s so absurd, that it’s gone now to the point of absurdity.”

Hey, thousands of Ohio State fans identify as a buckeye tree. If you could be one, wooden you?

The New York Post reported, “Alice Cooper canceled by cosmetics firm after opposing trans surgeries for kids.”

I doubt he will go hungry.

ITEM 19: Zero Hedge reported, “Catholic School System Asks Students To Use Biological Pronouns And Names.”

XYs will be boys and XXs will be girls, it’s not a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola of course.

ITEM 20: The Daily Loud tweeted, “Donald Trump has hired the defense attorney who represented rapper Gunna in the YSL RICO case hours before he turns himself in at Fulton County Jail.”

This was confirmed by Variety and other mainstream sources.

Trump is now the whitest rapper since Rappin’ Rodney.

ITEM 21: Liberals bet on how much Coolio Trump would weigh in at his arraignment. Their over and under was 273.

He weighs 215, making him slightly overweight.

ITEM 22: AP reported, “Sandwich chain Subway will be sold to Arby’s owner Roark Capital.”

Maybe the meat will improve. At least this time, its spokesman won’t get busted for child porn.

ITEM 23: Washington Free Beacon reported, “Biden Labor Department Under Investigation After Mass Exploitation of Child Migrants Revealed.”

In response, Biden sued Elon Musk for not hiring legal aliens — instead of cracking down on companies that actually break the law and hire illegal aliens.

The Audacity of Power should be the title of Obama’s next autobiography.

ITEM 24: The Independent Sentinel reported, “Ukraine Is Running Out of Soldiers.”

No problem. Generalissimo Joe will just send our soldiers to Ukraine Nam.

ITEM 25: The Daily Mail reported a NASA scientist believes in alien spacemen.

Has Giorgio A. Tsoukalos taken over our government?

If only DC cared about the real illegal aliens as it does this UFO nonsense.

ITEM 26: The Moscow Times reported, “A plane carrying Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has crashed northwest of Moscow, Russia's emergencies ministry said Wednesday.

“The apparent death of the Kremlin-linked businessman, whose mercenary forces had taken on a leading role in the war on Ukraine, comes nearly two months after his aborted revolt against Russia's military leadership.”

Hillary sniggers at wasting two missiles when one bullet could have done the job.

ITEM 27: Jim Hoft reported, “GOP Begs for Donations after President Trump’s 4th Arrest After They Said Nothing to Defend Him.”

Republicans may not have your back, but they want your wallet.

ITEM 28: The New York Post reported, “Ad firm behind Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney fiasco fires 13 staffers after lavish French trip: sources.”

I trust they took Mister Mulvaney along with him because he still has a oui-oui.

ITEM 29: NYT reported, “Elections Are Bad for Democracy.”

Then it changed the headline to “The Worst People Run for Office. It’s Time for a Better Way.”

NYT said we should have a lottery to pick leaders. It said, “A lottery would give a fair shot to people who aren’t tall enough or male enough to win.”

Lottery? Why not Russian Roulette? This would save the expense of prosecuting the opposition upon taking office.

FINALLY, I recently watched Elf for the first time and it was funnier than advertised. The film ends with New Yorkers saving Christmas by singing Santa Claus Is Coming To Town in Central Park.

Ghostbusters II ended with New Yorkers singing Auld Lang Syne to save the day. (Not Your Love Is Lifting Me Higher and Higher, which was the song used to make the Statue of Liberty animated.)

What song would save NYC today?

I Fought the Law (And the Law Won)?

Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart (and Skull and Stomach and Legs)?

That’s the Sound of the Men Working on the Chain Gang?

Whatever song it is, New York needs something to save it. The last two guys to save the city were Mayor Rudy Giuliani and developer Donald Trump. They were arraigned in Atlanta this week as liberals finally exacted their revenge for making NYC safe and livable. Democrats are no-good-niks.