THE TIME FOR HECTORING IS PAST.

Red State's Brad Slager is on to the con.  "Hint: anytime a Democrat wants a 'conversation,' they intend to deliver a lecture, and you need to zip up your donut vacuum and listen."  Well, yes, and it's grown tiresome.

That's where Our President having none of the usual drive-by narrative is so refreshing.

"If I was a king would I be talking to you."  Classic.

Victory Girl Deanna Fisher watched, and commented on, the entire interview.

O’Donnell, like all other journalists at the major networks, is fully aware that ABC had to settle up with Donald Trump to the tune of millions after George Stephanopolous called the president a “rapist.” Now, O’Donnell can’t be sued here, because she is reporting what the shooter wrote, so she gets to repeat this under the guise of “news.” I hope it was worth the smackdown.

No doubt the usual talking heads will go back to interviewing the usual tame politicians with their "At the end of the day, we have to have a conversation on the breakdown of bipartisanship."  It might be wise to watch the interview in full, as there are nuggets that probably couldn't survive a trimming to one segment.  "The interview did continue, but the expanded transcript shows that Trump took a much more adversarial tone, addressing the shooter’s affiliations and delving into the Southern Poverty Law Center’s indictments."

Ah, the poor, obsolete Southern Poverty Law Center.  The March of Dimes could stay in the medical research fundraising space by pivoting from polio to birth defects once polio vaccines could be offered at scale.  No such pivot was possible once de jure residential and commercial segregation failed constitutional muster and voting rights were similarly codified: thus their pivot to manufacturing racial extremism is enduring the mockery it deserves.  Eight years ago, Reason's Shikha Dalmia correctly noted that "Branding dissenters as haters undercuts its effectiveness."  The Center types are still at it, all the same: their current hate map identifies the Illinois Constitution Party and the Illinois chapter of Moms for Liberty as "anti-government: general," meaning "They believe the federal government is tyrannical, and they traffic in conspiracy theories about an illegitimate government of leftist elites seeking a 'New World Order.'"  Who knew endorsing candidates for school board that held views about what material is age-appropriate in third grade was so subversive?