Podcast Saturday, Plus the Week in Headlines

The media, deep in a hole, decides to keep digging

I’m back with the usual twin-bill podcast weekend, first with Ricochet, where we get Henry Olsen to bring us up to date on dramatic political trends in Europe right now that our media isn’t covering very well, in between his non-stop pop culture references that run from Dirty Harry to Lord of the Rings. (This is what happens when we give Rob Long another week off. . .)

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Next up—the Three Whisky Happy Hour, where Lucretia hosts this week, and puts us through our paces on Trump’s winning streak, as well as the mixed record at the Supreme Court (they were 2 - 1 this week by our reckoning), but eventually we get to the main event: John Yoo's Top Five Legal Rules that everyone should know. I am threatening next week to give his Top Five reasons why a Certain Statute That Cannot Be Uttered Here is the key to everything! Bonus: John managed to survive another turn on “Outnumbered” on Fox News this week, and he shares with us the three sentences he managed to wedge in during the hour:

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And now, on to our silly media. Can you believe it—they really are going with the line, gosh, I wish someone had told us about Joe Biden’s senility! Let’s start with the Washington Post:

I suggest a new motto for the Post: Democracy Dies in the Darkness of the Post’s Newsroom. But what can we expect from a newspaper that actually tweets this out:

Maybe USA Today did better? Nope:

Gosh, who might have asked questions about any of this? Maybe the NY Times?

ABC News?

CNN?

Otherwise, it was a stellar week!

That’s because we like to grill a lot of steaks.

Pass my tiny violin. . .

A new way to avoid the commie metric system.

Looks like the LA Times is trying to figure out basic economics. . .