TINGLES IS RIPE FOR THE MADHOUSE.

I watch him, dear reader, so you don't have to.  Sometimes he's all spittle-flecked fury, sometimes it's just ... goofy.  Here's how he signed off last week Monday, his first day on air after the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings.

I have been struck in recent days, long before the horror of this weekend in Pittsburgh, by how Jewish people have been affected by the negative attitudes towards immigration. One man confronted me in an airport last week and demanded that I think about the St. Louis, that ship carrying over 900 Jewish refugees that was refused admission here in the United States in 1939 on the even of World War II.

That man who stopped me didn`t say there was a connection between the Holocaust and the migrants coming north from Honduras. But President Trump warns of so vociferously and so obsessively. He didn`t have to make a connection. It was clear. It`s about turning away people in need, treating strangers as if they`re enemies, not welcoming them, but repelling them.

So much of life is about a simple choice between two words: yes or no. That man who shot the 11 people on Saturday in Pittsburgh was say no to their very existence. No to the very people being instructed by their faith to say yes.

No one can safely assert a connection between the preaching of an American president against migrants of Central America and Saturday`s killings by a man who spoke maniacally of how Jewish people were aiding invaders. That was his word. But then who can say there was no connection?

Anything, even an excursion into illogic, to slime a president he doesn't like and actively agitated against during the primary and convention seasons.

I suspect the web managers at MSNBC did not set out a separate "Let Me Finish" clip for October 29 out of charity.  The full episode is available, should you have 41 minutes to spare.