May the 4th Be With You: OT from A Certain Point of View

 

I feel like the question always has to be 

"After Empire, what's your next favorite?"   instead of just "What's your favorite?"

because otherwise at least w/the folks I hang out with, we'd never be able to do the poll again   😊

Even Luke Skywalker's doppelgänger seems conscious of the necessity to get the information right these days 

Mark Hamill Joins White House Press Briefing - CSPAN

Longer clip - CNN

 

 

If nothing untoward happens (which these days I try not to rule out), I have a chance to see Rachel (Maddow) talk with Professor Anthea Butler this evening live & in person, so hopefully the place won’t be burned down when I come back & visit later (the neighborhood they’re “revitalizing” where the theater is might be – which is another whole story – so please think good thoughts for me should I have to park municipally & then do the six-lane LA Freeway Sprint back across the street to the venue).

 

As the Merrick Garland-led DOJ prosecutes Henry Cuellar let's all PLEASE not forget that Rachel broke the news on Donald's Azerbaijan money-laundering ties to Iranian terrorists SEVEN YEARS AGO

 

In light of the times’ tenor, what I anticipate will be tonight’s themes, & the day we’re celebrating, I want to ask anybody who hasn’t seen it to please take a peek at John Oliver’s segment (from 5 months ago) on the current global conflict

 

 

so we can all think with the clarity we’re going to need for the next 185 days (that’s all that’s left) about what the MSM is both saying and not saying, including and not including for context, repeating/pushing in our faces and not bothering to mention at all

 

I will try to refrain from my regular rant about having to get my news about what’s going on practically right up the street, figuratively speaking, from all the way across the pond in a different country  -- I don’t think the U.S. MSM has yet to report on this, and I don’t expect to see it

 Columbia Students Say US DOE Will Investigate Anti-Palestinian Discrimination

Even the headline leading has already been changed ^^

Authoritarianism Scholar & Professor Ruth Ben Ghiat will be on with Ayman Moyhedin tonight according to the current schedule (unless her appearance is bumped)

Also, here’s Lawrence with his take on theatrical demonstrative rhetoric (though he didn’t call it that, the common parlance I’ve been using for the demonstration we saw which literally paused the trial as well as caused both sets of attorneys to redirect their questioning, as a testament to its power, is WWT) *and* textbook enabling, using Hope Hicks’ appearance & testimony as the lens through which he focused his message

 

Lawrence:  "You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks"

and now, back to our regularly scheduled programming