Archive for 2025

OLD AND BUSTED: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

The New Hotness? If a CNN journalist announces to the public that she doesn’t watch CNN either, will anybody hear it?

RIP: Bill Moyers, Elder Statesman of PBS Journalists, Dies at 91.

Bill Moyers, who carried an unblemished air of moral conviction* throughout a 43-year career as a broadcast journalist, mostly in his later years for PBS, died Thursday in Manhattan, the New York Times reported. He was91.

Moyers was characterized by an insatiable and wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, but he was deeply concerned not only with how things are but how they should be.

He was also well known for his views that the mainstream media reflect the bias inherent in their ownership by giant corporations whose goals align with those of the right.** But despite uncovering disappointing behaviors on the part of politicians and various institutions over the years, Moyers was fundamentally an idealist.

* The moral conviction was certainly there in spades, but so were the blemishes:

● “Bill Moyers [asked] the FBI to investigate two men who were ‘suspected as having homosexual tendencies.’”

● “Whatever happened to Bill Moyers’s promise to disclose conflicts of interest?”

● “After 30 years of railing for separation of church and state, Bill Moyers comes to the aid of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.”

** Comcast, Disney, CNN, and CBS could not be reached for comment.

THEY WEREN’T EXACTLY PEACE LOVING BEFORE IT: Left-Wingers Enter New Depths of Rage Over Supreme Court’s Nationwide Injunction Ruling.

As RedState reported, the Trump administration scored a major victory on Friday after the Supreme Court ruled that district court-level nationwide injunctions exceeded judicial authority. That will throw a wrench into the left-wing strategy of seeking universal relief in a select few left-wing jurisdictions across the country and hopefully return some actual balance to the separation of powers within the U.S. government.

Of course, while the decision was a victory for common sense and for voters who would prefer judges not overstep their bounds to essentially operate as president, it was a defeat for Democrats who have relied on that abuse to remain in power even when they lose. On MSNBC, Melissa Murray melted down, claiming the Supreme Court had “dealt a death blow to the rule of law.”

Similarly, Democrat strategist Julie Roginsky is having flashbacks to Randi Weingarten’s muddled “No Kings” rally earlier this month:

Which seems strange, because at the start of Obama’s first and third term, leftists went beyond thinking of Obama as a king. In 2009, Newsweek’s Evan Thomas declared that Obama was “Sort of God,” and in 2021, anticipating who would be running the country again, far left Jacobin magazine published a similarly-themed cover:

Speaking of three terms, people once warned about that sort of thing, before Democrats rolled right past that guardrail:

WASN’T THERE AN EPISODE OF THE SOPRANOS ALONG THESE LINES?

RIP: Lalo Schifrin, Acclaimed Composer of Mission: Impossible and Mannix Themes, Dies at 93.

His résumé also included work on Coogan’s Bluff (1968) — that kicked off his long association with Eastwood and director Don Siegel — Kelly’s Heroes (1970), Charley Varrick (1973), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Telefon (1977), The Nude Bomb (1980), Black Moon Rising (1986), Money Talks (1997), Something to Believe In (1998), Tango (1998), Bringing Down the House (2003) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004).

His cool, percolating Mission: Impossible theme, set to an unusual 5/4 time signature and commissioned for the fabled CBS espionage drama that bowed in September 1966, netted Schifrin one of his four Grammy Awards and one of his four Emmy noms. It still serves as a vital link to the Tom Cruise movie franchise.

Schifrin said it took him just three minutes to put the theme together, and he composed it without seeing any footage from the show.

“Orchestration’s not the problem for me,” he told the New York Post in 2015. “It’s like writing a letter. When you write a letter, you don’t have to think what grammar or what syntaxes you’re going to use, you just write a letter. And that’s the way it came.

“Bruce Geller, who was the producer of the series, put together the pilot and came to me and said, ‘I want you to write something exciting, something that when people are in the living room and go into the kitchen to have a soft drink, and they hear it, they will know what it is. I want it to be identifiable, recognizable and a signature.’ And this is what I did.”

Brilliant and versatile composer who could work in many different styles depending upon what film or TV series required.

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