Kevin Federline and Bari Weiss “It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” -Thomas Jefferson The media misleads about Kayleigh McEnany's comments. If engineers were as bad at their jobs as journalists are, you'd never cross a bridge again. Bari Weiss is called a Nazi and a curator at a Seattle museum is called a white supremacist. Actually being a racist is quite incidental to being called one in 2020: The important thing is only how much contact you have with leftists. Daniel Henninger of the WSJ writes a mocking column about the left's fetish for name-changes. It is a tendency identified by the late Australian political philosopher Kenneth Minogue as ‘St George in retirement’ syndrome. After slaying the dragon the brave warrior finds himself stalking the land looking for still more glorious fights. He needs his dragons. Eventually, after tiring himself out in pursuit of ever-smaller dragons he may eventually even be found swinging his sword at thin air, imagining it to contain dragons. If that is a temptation for an actual St George, imagine what a person might do who is no saint, owns no horse or lance and is being noticed by nobody. How might they try to persuade people that, given the historic chance, they too would without question have slain that dragon? –Douglas Murray /episode/index/show/malacast/id/15245414