The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” —Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

For the record: “In courts of law one has a constitutional right to face one’s accusers and to have them cross-examined. In the political court one has no such rights. Slander and innuendo are the norm.” —Cal Thomas

Observations: “No one knows what the BLM organization does or how it spends its money, but one thing we do know is that it gets a lot of money and from Fortune 500 companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Nabisco, Gatorade, Airbnb and Warner record labels, a music record company. Microsoft donated $250,000; Airbnb gave $500,000; Nabisco gave $500,000. In total, millions of dollars were given to this group. Are funds going towards salaries? Are funds going towards civic engagement or social community programs for needy families? The reality is no one knows because there’s no transparency.” —Armstrong Williams

Political futures: “The left simply cannot imagine an election in which Trump doesn’t win by cheating, hence they’ve decided they will accept only one outcome.” —John Daniel Davidson

Lack of self-awareness: “The fires across the West Coast are just the latest examples of the very real ways our changing climate is changing our communities. Protecting our planet is on the ballot. Vote like your life depends on it — because it does.” —Barack Obama tweeting pictures of wildfire smoke plaguing San Francisco, which, along with California, is under Democrat control 

Demo-gogues: “Mother Earth is angry. She’s telling us … with hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, fires in the West, whatever it is … that the climate crisis is real and has an impact.” —Nancy Pelosi

Collusion: “We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to … reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November. When we look at the timing of everything, it seems to us a more realistic approach to this would be to think that we’re going to be where we are now until we are done with the election.” —Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer

And last… “I have learned today that being anti-pedophilia is a ‘right wing’ position. Well okay then. As a right winger I will proudly take ownership of that.” —Matt Walsh regarding the Netflix film “Cuties”