The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.” —Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Re: The Leftmedia

“The oldest, and lowest-rated, of the Big 3 cable news networks is in an apparent meltdown these days. Much of the staff of CNN is upset about the sudden, unexpected firing of network president Jeff Zucker, who was dismissed for not reporting an affair with a subordinate. But here is the weird thing few seem to be talking about. All the angst, all the uproar, all the tumult, is over a man who was running the network into the ground. … Zucker has presided over the losses for the last nine years. If a network measures its success by attracting viewers — and while that is not the only measure of success, it is extremely important — CNN, under Zucker, failed and failed and failed. … CNN has been in the cellar so long that perhaps some have become unable to imagine that another leader might actually do a better job.” —Byron York

For the Record

“If Whoopi Goldberg had ever expressed sympathy with a conservative cause in her entire life, she’d be out of a job today. But Leftism confers immunity from anti-Semitism concerns, as we already know from Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.” —Ben Shapiro

“A two week suspension? That’s it? Would a conservative get a mere slap on the wrist for such a horrific statement? I think we all know the answer.” —Brent Bozell

“A black woman with a Jewish stage name got suspended during black history month for talking about the Holocaust.” —Dave Rubin

Credit Where It’s Due

“I encourage everybody to be safe and take care of your family. I do, but there’s still some people who don’t want to take [the COVID vaccine]. And you shouldn’t be forced to take something that you don’t want.” —Shaquille O'Neal

“Don’t leave. Don’t abandon. Don’t censor. Engage. I’m not saying … it’s always going to work out fruitfully, but I am always of the mindset that engagement [is good], and especially with someone like a Joe Rogan who is not, in my mind, an ideologue in any way. … This overreaction to Rogan I think is a mistake.” —Jon Stewart

Missing Context

“We created 467,000 jobs in January. That’s more than 6.6 million jobs since I took office. 2021 was the greatest year of job creation under any president in history.” —Joe Biden

“Excellent jobs report! The hilarious part of the job gains we saw in January is that they are largely reliant on Americans completely ignoring all the omicron panic talk from both the White House and the media now celebrating the jobs report the hardest. Also, remember how we definitely needed Build Back Better in order to spur the economy? And then the economy picked up a crapload of jobs when BBB completely collapsed?” —Ben Shapiro

Verbal Gymnastics

“I don’t want to get going because I’d keep you here too long because you know all what I’m about to, what I’ve said, and you know what I’ve done, and you know what we’re doing, and I know what you’re doing.” —Joe Biden

Thanks, Captain Obvious

“ISIS has nevertheless reconstituted as an asymmetric threat. … Their desire to harm us is as intense as ever.” —General Kenneth McKenzie, the USMC commander of CENTCOM