In the final days leading up to the Iowa caucuses, things were looking good for Donald Trump.
So good, in fact, that he was openly musing about maybe trading in some of his "New York values" for a nice farm in "Corn Country."
But a funny thing happened on the way to Trump's corn-o-nation; Republican caucus-goers decided not to make America great again, opting instead to make America Canadian.
And so it came to pass that, at approximately 9:30 PM (local time) Monday night—just as Ben Carson was (reportedly) preparing to depart the race state to pick up some clean clothes—Ted Cruz was crowned "King Corn" (a title that Marco Rubio would try to claim for himself).
Shortly thereafter, Trump took the stage to concede—and, oh, what a concession it was!
Well, not really.
Truth be told, he looked like a beaten man—a loser (dot-com).
The self-described "Ernest Hemingway of Twitter" then took a brief respite from hurling insults, before moving on to bigger (yuger!) and better things—like the beautiful lawsuit(s) he might file against Cruz.
Morning lineup:
Meet The Press: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Roundtable: Andrea Mitchell (NBC News), Radio Host Hugh Hewitt, Chris Matthews (MSNBC) and Hallie Jackson (NBC News).
Face The Nation: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); James Brown (CBS Sports); DeMaurice Smith (NFL Players' Association).
This Week: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D); Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Roundtable: Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile, "Independent" Strategist Matthew Dowd, Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard) and Cokie Roberts (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: Jeb! (R); New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R); Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R); Roundtable: Bret Baier (Fox News), Julie Pace (Associated Press), Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu (R) and James Pindell (Boston Globe).
State of the Union: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R); Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R).
Evening lineup:
Super Bowl 50, between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos, will kickoff at 6:35 on CBS. The halftime show will feature performances by Coldplay, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars.
The game will be followed by a special edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, featuring: Actress/Comedian Tina Fey; Actress Margot Robbie; Actor/Comedian Will Ferrell; Megyn Kelly (Fox News); Actors/Comedians Key & Peele.
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert:
Monday: Bill O'Reilly (Fox News); Actor Eddie George; Hip Hop Duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
Tuesday: Actress Olivia Wilde; Christiane Amanpour (CNN).
Wednesday: Actor Ben Stiller; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Japanese Drumming Ensemble Tao: Seventeen Samurai.
Thursday: Actress Katie Holmes; Actor Fred Armisen; Multi-Instrumentalist Ty Segall and the Muggers.
Friday: Rerun.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah:
Monday: Actress Gillian Jacobs; Tuesday: Band The Suffers; Wednesday: Actress Olivia Wilde; Thursday: Actor Ben Stiller.
Elsewhere...
A Georgia state Rep. reluctantly withdrew several pieces of controversial legislation because of the "negative perception."
In a brief statement, Rep. Tommy Benton, R-Jefferson, said he has pulled his name from three pieces of controversial legislation after his comments about slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and the Civil War drew national attention. [...]
Benton introduced the bills last week. House Bill 855 would force the state to formally recognize Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee's birthday as public holidays. House Resolution 1179 calls for a constitutional amendment protecting Stone Mountain as a Confederate memorial. [...]
House Bill 854 would require street names changed since 1968 to revert back to their former names if their prior name had honored a veteran. Although the bill does not mention Martin Luther King, the civil right leader was assassinated in 1968 and the bill would rename a portion of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Atlanta Gordon Road, in honor of Confederate Gen. John B. Gordon, an early leader of the Georgia Klan. [...]
In speaking to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week about the bills, Benton called attempts to bring down or alter Confederate memorials "cultural terrorism" and said the Ku Klux Klan "made a lot of people straighten up."
The Klan "was not so much a racist thing but a vigilante thing to keep law and order," he said. "I'm not saying what they did was right. It's just the way things were."
Meanwhile...
Conservative commentator Crystal Wright criticized black voters for their "slavish support" of Democrats.
"Blacks have shown a slavish support for the Democrat Party (sic) for over 50 years," said Crystal Wright, editor of the Conservative Black Chick blog. "Part of me wonders if the Republican Party should even bother asking for the black vote because black Americans seem to like being political dummies. There's—you know, we're the only race that has voted lock, stock, and barrel for the same party for over 50 years."
Wright kept up the slavery analogy when describing the 2016 race, saying that Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton "is already owning the black vote."
In Wright's estimation, there is only one Republican candidate who identifies with black voters: Donald Trump. Citing his reluctance to "pander to Black Lives Matter" and his spokesperson Katrina Pierson, who is half black, Wright called Trump the only person "bothering to talk to black people about the vote."
And, in other news...
Jeb! opened up about his (physically) tough upbringing.
Former first lady Barbara Bush is "not as great as everybody thinks she is," Jeb Bush said during a lighter moment at a campaign event in Derry accompanied by his mother, in which he joked about her proclivity to discipline.
Recounting how many times people in New Hampshire have come up to him praising his mother, Bush made sure to emphasize just who was the disciplinarian in the Bush clan when he was growing up in Texas.
"I jokingly say that when we were growing up in Midland, in Houston, that mom was fortunate not to have a child-abuse hotline available," he said, as attendees laughed, explaining that "the discipline of learning right and wrong was her doing."
Please clap.
- Trix