This week, the 16—oops, make that 15— remaining GOP presidential candidates (with verified Twitter accounts) took a pilgrimage to modern conservatism's holiest ground—the St. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. #NeverForget
The reason for their visit (as if one is even needed) was to participate in the second, highly anticipated Republican primary debate(s)—brought to you by CNN, home of "the best political team on television."
The network's marathon coverage began with an undercard bout between Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki and Rick Santorum, before proceeding to the main event—a schoolyard brawl between front-runner Donald "Humble" Trump and the top ten haters and losers.
Had he been called up to the big (yuge!) battle—instead of being sent to the little, girlier one—no doubt, Sen. Graham would've agreed with Trump that Carly Fiorina is a beautiful woman; Lindsey sure does love the ladies—not that there's anything wrong with that (certainly nothing that bombing Iran wouldn't solve).
But alas, 'twas not to be.
The field was already overcrowded; for one thing, Rand Paul shouldn't have been there ... and don't even get me started on those fucking J**s.
Suffice it to say that, in the end, when all was said and done, very little (if anything) had changed—America was (still) not a planet, man!
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R); "Brain Surgeon" Dr. Ben Carson (R); CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon; Roundtable: Radio Host Hugh Hewitt, Molly Ball (The Atlantic), Author David Maraniss and Maria Shriver (NBC News).
Face the Nation: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D); Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Roundtable: Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal), Jamelle Bouie (Slate), Ron Brownstein (National Journal) and Michael Gerson (Washington Post).
This Week: Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio (D); Roundtable: "Independent" Strategist Matthew Dowd, Republican Strategist Ana Navarro, Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile and Cokie Roberts (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: "Successful" Businesswoman Carly Fiorina (R); Archbishop of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl; Televangelist Father Thomas Rosica; Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Kirsten Powers (USA Today), Republican Strategist Karl Rove and Charles Lane (Washington Post).
State of the Union: Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R); New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (preview); a report on Pope Francis' security (preview); and, a report on Chaser, a dog who can identify over a thousand toys, and the scientists who are studying his brain (preview).
On the late night shows...
Bernie Sanders appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Monday: NBA Player Stephen Curry; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX); Musician Don Henley.
Tuesday: Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Muniz; R&B Artist Raury.
Wednesday: Actor Hugh Jackman; Humanitarian Hugh Evans; Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Rock Band Pearl Jam.
Thursday: Retired Blogger Andrew Sullivan; Actor/Comedian Jim Gaffigan; Maria Shriver (NBC News); Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski; the YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus; the Choir of St. Jean Baptiste.
Friday: Nobel Peace Prizer Winner Malala Yousafzai; Actress Kerry Washington; Rock Band The Arcs.
And Hillary Clinton appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Elsewhere...
Anti-Islam crusader Pamela Geller argued that the whole Ahmed Mohamed situation is part of one of President Obama's Muslim plots.
Pamela Geller — who organized an anti-Islam art contest earlier this year in Garland, near the teen's home in Irving — also claimed the ninth-grader's arrest was part of a plot by Obama to undermine national security.
"This story is pure agitprop most fatal," Geller warned. "'If you see something, say something' is now racism."
She complained that Mohamed, who has been invited to meet the president, NASA officials and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, had become a "media star."
"The whole thing has clearly been a setup, and its effect will be to make Americans less safe," Geller said. "If you ever see a Muslim with a suspicious object, remember the lesson of Ahmed Mohamed: to say something would be 'racism.' That could end up being the epitaph of America and the free world."
Meanwhile...
Bristol Palin demanded that President Obama abstain from talking about Ahmed Mohamed.
Bristol Palin wrote on her blog Thursday that President Obama "needs to STAY out of" the case of a 14-year-old Muslim student in Texas who was wrongly arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school.
Obama invited the teen, Ahmed Mohamed, to the White House on Wednesday after news of his arrest went viral. [...]
But Palin, the daughter of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, said the invitation was a mistake:
This is the kind of stuff Obama needs to STAY out of. This encourages more racial strife that is already going on with the "Black Lives Matter" crowd and encourages victimhood.
The police made a mistake, clearly.
But why put more people against them? Why egg it on? Childish games like this from our president have divided our country… even more today than when he was elected.
And, proving that the rotten apple didn't fall far from the tree...
Mama grizzly Sarah Palin proclaimed that if Ahmed Mohamed isn't really a bomb-making terrorist, then she's the Queen of England.
In a winding Friday night post, Palin aired her suspicions that the "obstinate-answering" boy was really up to no good and Irving police and school officials have been wrongly maligned in the "reactionary-slash-biased media!" The case has generated outrage amid the belief that Mohamed was arrested due to anti-Muslim bias and not any genuine threat posed.
"Yep, believing that's a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history. Right. That's a clock, and I'm the Queen of England," Palin opined. Throughout the post, she spelled Mohamed's name "Muhammad," which is the spelling commonly used in the English-speaking world for the prophet of Islam.
"Friends, consider the kids disciplined and/or kicked out of school for bringing squirt guns to school or taking bites out of a pop tart until it resembled (to some politically correct yahoo) a gun," Palin rambled. "Or the student out deer hunting with his dad early one morning who forgot he had a box of ammo in his truck when he parked in the school's lot later that day. Kids humiliated and intimidated for innocent actions like those real examples are often marked the rest of their lives and made to feel really rotten. Whereas Ahmed Muhammad, an evidently obstinate-answering student bringing in a homemade "clock" that obviously could be seen by conscientious teachers as a dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption (teachers who are told "if you see something, say something!") gets invited to the White House."
Kill me now.
- Trix