Lordy, Conrad Black opines

[d0nb]

At least someone out there is still thinking.

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/0421-ed-black

Truly is America, the greatest nation in history, with all its complexities and shortcomings, mocked by the shallow bias of its free press and the absurdity of public discourse.

Locally, Doug Ford, who will be premier of Ontario in less than two months unless the province has really been forsaken by God and man, is being demonized as a local Trump. (He performed a public service in not allowing the octogenarian “moonbeam” governor of California, Jerry Brown, to address the provincial legislature last week on the bunk about global warming, as we shivered without electricity in an April winter storm). We could do worse than Doug Ford, and recently have.

You’re a voice in the wilderness, Conrad; most of us have lost the ability to comprehend anything with more gravitas than The Daily Show. Nice try, though.

[normaM]

Guess he's still pizzed we removed him from the Order of Canada

[Boda]

You’re a voice in the wilderness, Conrad; most of us have lost the ability to comprehend anything with more gravitas than The Daily Show. Nice try, though.

I don't think comprehension of the article is the problem for "most of us".
I believe Conrad's assessment of Trump's accomplishments to be disingenuous.

Not to mention that to assess anything Trump has accomplished during his Presidency requires ignoring a culture of lying, cheating, misogyny, and general deceptiveness at a completely unacceptable level.

Really, partisan politics aside, if I agreed with every policy Trump ever floated I just could not support the leadership of such an immoral thug.

Don't know much about Doug Ford, hope his moral compass is trained in a more positive direction than that of Trump or his deceased brother?

[The Green Barbarian]

You’re a voice in the wilderness, Conrad; most of us have lost the ability to comprehend anything with more gravitas than The Daily Show. Nice try, though.

or even worse, that transplanted Canadian embarrassment, Samantha Bee, who in her desperate effort to find anything and everything to attack the Republicans for the benefit of the left, even disgustingly used a cancer survivor's hair cut for "comedy", mistaking him for a Neo-Nazi. It was just awful, but a prime example of how far these people are willing to go to sell a narrative for their hungry echo-chamber dwellers.

[d0nb]

I don't think comprehension of the article is the problem for "most of us".
I believe Conrad's assessment of Trump's accomplishments to be disingenuous.

Declining reading comprehension skills are a fact and the popularity of trash TV as a primary source of news is just pathetic.

Not to mention that to assess anything Trump has accomplished during his Presidency requires ignoring a culture of lying, cheating, misogyny, and general deceptiveness at a completely unacceptable level.

A fair assessment requires nothing more than being objective in the face of the childish media smear campaign so many have been duped by. Trump has been an exceptionally effective leader for his country.

Really, partisan politics aside, if I agreed with every policy Trump ever floated I just could not support the leadership of such an immoral thug.

Hillary’s sick ‘Dirty Dossier’ and the gratuitously lascivious media narratives aside, Trump’s moral standards exceed those of many, if not most of his predecessors. JFK and some other members of the Kennedy clan make trump look like a boy scout.

Don't know much about Doug Ford, hope his moral compass is trained in a more positive direction than that of Trump or his deceased brother?

We don’t need any more deluded self-styled philosopher kings in office. We need results-oriented disruptors to mitigate the damage wrought by feckless, self-righteous twits like Trudeau, Obama, Wynne and their administrations. Fire up the Ford.

[d0nb]

On the subject of deceased brothers and morality, I wonder if Donald now wishes that he and his father had been gentler with Fred, or even more insistent that he change his ways.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/us/p ... ering.html