CNN promotes.

CNN’s KFile has uncovered two more Playboy videos in which Donald Trump makes an appearance, including one in which he is depicted photographing fully clothed models and conducting an interview with a potential Playmate.

Trump’s tame appearance in a 2000 Playboy video came to light late last week after he attacked a former beauty queen for her alleged “sex tape” past.

Wait. CNN doesn’t know he ran beauty contests? He photos fully clothed models, has a tame appearance in a video, and it’s something to connect with the Ms. Universe lady?

Slow news day, maybe? But we haven’t had one of those for quite a while, I’d say.

. . . as in this page of state-rep endorsements

Read the rest of it here, if you have a Wall St. Journal read-for-pay arrangement.

This year’s presidential campaign has caused journalists to lose all perspective, we keep thinking, and they keep proving us wrong by losing even more perspective. The latest example is a breathless Wednesday-afternoon tweet from Dylan Byers, who covers the media for CNN: “just got off the phone with @JeffreyGoldberg, who draf ted The Atlantic’s historic endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Full story TK…”

“TK” is journalese for “to come,” and the story kame as promised a few minutes later, with “Historic” in the headline:

Driven by its staunch opposition to Donald Trump, The Atlantic has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President of the United States, marking just the third time in the magazine’s 160-year history that it has made a presidential endorsement.

Labeling the Republican presidential nominee “a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar,” The Atlantic’s editors encouraged their readers to “act in defense of American democracy and elect his opponent.”

So the editorial is “historic” only in the sense that the magazine has been around for a long time. (A headline last year from Scientific American read “Atlantic Circulation Weakens Compared with Last Thousand Years.”)

Etc. etc. etc. from witty, head-screwed-on-straight fellow . . .

She second-thoughted herself.

CHICAGO — As her face was being smashed into the pavement by a suspect Wednesday, a Chicago Police officer thought about using her gun to stop the man. Instead she was knocked out. She had been too worried about what people would think if she had used her weapon, she said.

The attack happened Wednesday. Officers on patrol were responding to a car crash in Austin when a man who had been in the crash attacked them, police said. Three officers were injured, one of them seriously, and they were taken to area hospitals for treatment.

Think of the young men in crime-filled ‘hoods, said Hillary in the debate.

Source: Officer Didn’t Shoot Attacker Because She Feared Backlash, Top Cop Says – Austin – DNAinfo Chicago

. . . as described by Episcopal priest-poet-essayist Chad Walsh, whom we — loving wife and baby Angela — visited in the early ‘seventies at Beloit (Wis.) College, where he taught.

Nice man, good man. I still have his God at Large (Seabury), then newly published, which opens with a very contemporary, “Brother, can you spare a joint?”

He had solid notions about our national origins, as in this from the excellent Liberty Tree quotation site.

“From the utopian viewpoint, the United States constitution is a singularly hard-bitten and cautious document, for it breathes the spirit of skepticism about human altruism and incorporates a complex system of checks, balances and restrictions, so that everybody is holding the reins on everybody else.”

Source: Chad Walsh Quote – Liberty Quotes Blog