The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Re: The Left

“When it comes to the press’s many bad habits, there’s one that is often overlooked: its belittling savior complex. … Indeed, for all its efforts to correct the wrongs of the world by way of advocacy, the press still takes an extraordinarily patronizing, Rudyard Kipling-esque ‘white man’s burden’ approach to its coverage of minority and marginalized communities. Corporate media don’t treat these groups as equals, fully capable of speaking for themselves. Rather, they treat them as delicate orchids to be meticulously maintained and coddled for fear of the slightest bruising.” —Becket Adams

“How about we have a [media] blackout on the shooters and what they did? … Now, in baseball, when somebody runs on the field, the camera doesn’t show it. They don’t give that person any publicity. Why can’t we at least do that in this country? I don’t want to hear anything about it. … I don’t want to know what orientation this person is, how old they are, what their manifesto said. I don’t give a s**t about any of it, because it’s just going to inspire the next one because they all feed on each other. That’s the least the media could do.” —comedian and talk-show host Bill Maher

For the Record

“There is no such thing as the ‘trans community.’ … It’s manifestly absurd to consider a disparate group of people constituting less than one half of 1 percent of the population spread out across the entirety of the country — from diverse walks of life and in different situations regarding their trans status — as a community.” —Rich Lowry

“I think that everything that could be said about this has been said. I don’t want to repeat what everybody has said." —journalist Brit Hume when asked if he wanted to add to the Trump indictment churn

"If you want to talk about hush money for sexual indiscretions by politicians, consider this: in the past 25 years, the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights has paid a staggering $18.2 million of taxpayer dollars to settle 291 cases of sexual harassment & other misconduct committed by members of Congress. The public shouldn’t be paying for this nonsense.” —Vivek Ramaswamy

“TikTok and other companies that share data with the CCP should be treated differently than companies in the U.S. TikTok has been used to spy on journalists, monitor the movements of American citizens, collect all sorts of data including keystrokes from people who don’t even have the app active, and influence the minds of those who use the app. It is an espionage tool for the CCP. It should be banned along with any other foreign apps that are being used to collect data and spy on the American people. There are other apps through which Americans can exercise their First Amendment rights without the significant threat that all their data, rights, and brain cells are going to be taken away by foreign adversaries.” —Emmy Griffin

The BIG Lie

“When I took office, the economy was reeling. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses had closed — and millions of Americans had lost their jobs. We got relief to small businesses fast to jumpstart the strongest recovery of any major economy in the world.” —Joe Biden