She blames pandemic, not lockdowns.

She doesn’t say that outright [that the pandemic
torpedoed the economy, not the lockdown] but, like many articles in the mainstream press over this year, she very carefully crafts her words to avoid the crucial subject of lockdowns as the primary cause of economic disaster. It’s possible that she actually believes this virus is what tanked the world economy on its own but that is a completely unsustainable proposition.

Yes. She has journalistic company with that stupidity.

Is it unkind to call her and her husband dingbats?

It’s a maddening statement, to be sure, as if “economics” is somehow a peripheral concern to the rest of human life and public health. The larger context of the interview reveals the statement to be even more confused. She is somehow under the impression that it is the pandemic and not the lockdowns that are the cause of the economic devastation that includes perhaps 30% of restaurants going under, among many other terrible effects.

Better (as ever) to go with Jesus on the cross: They know not what they do.

Jesuit publication “reflecting the mind of the Vatican since 1850” currently reflects the mind of leftist commentators the nation if not the world over, even to shooting down the U.S. Constitution.

No surprise here.

Hope is springing.

King is dead, long live the king?

Or one night stand by upstart?

Before Nov. 3, neither OAN nor Newsmax could come anywhere close to matching, or surpassing, the ratings from America’s reigning king of cable: Fox News, the conservative-leaning news and opinion network that helped cultivate the base of GOP voters which Trump rallied to victory in 2016, has finally lost its crown.

According to media reports, Newsmax beat Fox News among the coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic for the first time ever on Monday evening. The ratings win comes amid a breakthrough in the Trump Administration’s push to challenge the election results in the court of public opinion to try and “delegitimize” Biden’s presidency (just like how many on the left refused to accept Donald Trump as their president 4 yeas ago).

The battle has at times impacted Fox’s shares.

CNN’s Brian Stelter, who clearly likes to think of himself on the de facto “reporter of record” when it comes to covering the American media industry (the eptiome of naval gazing, as far as we can tell), broke the news late Tuesday.

“Before the election, Newsmax was not regarded as a formidable competitor to Fox; it was mostly dismissed as one of a handful of wannabe challengers,” CNN’s Brian Stelter reports. “But President Trump’s loss on Nov. 3 changed the cable TV calculus. Viewers who were frustrated when Fox admitted the truth of Trump’s loss sought other options,” and “Newsmax — and Kelly in particular — offered a safe space in which Biden was not called president-elect and Trump was not yet defeated.”

Of course, many on the left are blaming Fox’s “Fall From Grace” on the fact that it “stood up to Trump” by calling the vote for Biden, even as supreme court challenges and other questions remian unresolved. Trump’s most loyal followers are likewise repudiating Fox, and embracing Sinclair-owned Newsmax and OAN.

While this is only the first time any Newsmax programming blocks has topped Fox, we imagine it won’t be the last, particularly as Newsmax copies more and more of what worked at Fox, while filtering out everything that didn’t.

All from Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge, where the elite meet to catch up on things.

How’s this for a lead?

It was in the musical Camelot (the movie) when King Pellinore (Lionel Jefferies) advises Arthur (Richard Harris) that the “uglier the truth, the truer the friend who tells you.”

Now, with mere weeks to go before the year changes, we have to confront an ugly truth. 2020 is just prelude to crises and conflicts to come. When they end, we cannot say. The 2020s may prove a troubled decade. I don’t pretend to have a crystal ball. But there are matters we can be sure of. One need only survey the scene — the wreckage, really — of 2020 to understand that America faces the gravest risks to its existence as a free and united country in 160 years.

So dig in.