1/ Frank Rich with some calming words for us all......I hope, I really hope he's right.....
The Comey Firing May Be the Beginning of the End of the
Trump Administration
Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today: Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey last night has met criticism from both sides of the aisle, but the lawmakers calling for the investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia to be moved to an independent prosecutor are overwhelmingly Democrats. Is this, as some experts fear, the end of the Russia investigation?
The axing of James Comey will not be the end of the Russia investigation. But it may be the beginning of the end of the Trump administration.
2/ Stephen Colbert on the Comey firing......incredibly funny, some delicious moments and zingers......11 excellent minutes....
Stephen Colbert said that President Trump’s firing of James Comey as F.B.I. director seemed so blatantly political that it showed that the president did not care about keeping up appearances.
“We have apparently elected a president who truly does not care what anything looks like. Which is surprising for a guy whose actual face we’ve never seen.” — STEPHEN COLBERT“The word is, Trump has been planning to fire Comey for at least a week, right? And he evidently asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to come up with reasons to fire him. So that’s why the Department of Justice is now the Department of Justification.”
3/ Samantha Bee on the media frenzy around Comey's firing....six passionate and funny minutes....
"As of (Tuesday afternoon), the only FBI drama most Americans expected to unfold were the upcoming seasons of The X-Files and Twin Peaks," Bee explained in a NSFW segment during Wednesday's episode. "But at 6 p.m. with our show written and the staff on their second whiskey, our dumb democracy ran into a wall with a bucket on its head again."
After recapping all the cable news Saturday Night Massacre comparisons and bizarre tidbits, Bee got to the most unlikely detail of all.
"By 7:30 — and I am not making this up," she noted, "the staff of Nixon's official library was trying to wash the Donald Trump taint off Richard Nixon." (They pointed out that Tricky Dick didn't even fire his FBI director, just the special prosecutor leading the Watergate investigation. #NotNixonian!)
4/ Seth Meyers on the Comey firing.....more of a comedic reporting lookout the scandal, but still very amusing....13 excellent minutes.....
Seth Meyers is outraged about President Donald Trump’s actions on a near-nightly basis. Wednesday night, he was the most outraged.
“Today, the political world has been reeling from President Trump’s shocking decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, a surreal and chaotic development that has felt like something out of a dictatorship,” Meyers said at the top of a nearly 15-minute “closer look” into the bombshell story.
About 110 days into this new presidency, Meyers said Trump has “degraded so many political norms and flouted so many conventions that, to some degree, we’ve become desensitized to his behavior.” Yet somehow, he added, Americans believed there was “one thing he would not do,” and that was “fire the man that was investigating him” and his campaign’s connections to Russia. But for Trump, Meyers said, “even that line was not too sacred to cross.”
5/ Needless to say Jimmy Kimmel got a lot of hate from the conservative media about his wonderful, emotional and sincere show where he explained his new born son's heart operations, and here he responds to it in stellar fashion.....a very good 8 minutes.
Jimmy Kimmel could not have predicted the firestorm he caused last week when he told the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” audience that his newborn son had heart surgery.
One of the most genuine, honest moments in late-night comedy history, some Republicans and conservatives thought it was a manufactured attempt to promote universal health care and decided to condemn the late-night host as an out-of-touch liberal.
Right-wing media, never afraid to start a controversy, eviscerated Kimmel for using his monologue to emphasize the importance of quality health care access for kids.
“This is from the New York Post,” Kimmel said Monday, before showing the headline: “Jimmy Kimmel’s obscene lies about kids and medical care.”
“This is from something called the Washington Times. I’m not sure it’s a real newspaper,” he joked, before showing the headline: “Shut up, Jimmy Kimmel, you elitist creep.”
6/ Tom Tomorrow.....so true.....
7/ If you recall the Seth Meyers piece on the weasel Paul Ryan, you will appreciate this follow up by Meyers.....
(Credit: YouTube/Late Night with Seth Meyers
On the “Late Show” on Monday night, host Seth Meyers revealed that he had received an email from the office of House Speaker Paul Ryan promoting the GOP’s spin on the American Health Care Act. As Meyers was quick to point out, unlike how Republicans approached their Obamacare repeal bill, Meyers and his team actually read the whole email.
“Everything that Paul Ryan claimed to hate about the Obamacare process in 2009, he’s doing now,” Meyers told his viewers, before playing a series of clips from years ago on with Ryan denouncing the Affordable Care Act on the grounds that the crafting of the bill was being rushed and that many in Congress had not yet read it
8/ Garrison Keillor as Trump on his first 100 days.....amusing.....
President Donald Trump poses for a portrait in the Oval Office on Friday, April 21. This Saturday, April 29, will mark his 100th day in office.
My first 100 days as Numero Uno have been fantastically tremendous as we begin to make progress to clean up the mess that I inherited. Terrorism, crumbling infrastructure, public television (so boring), China, the war on coal, political correctness, people we have no idea who they are coming into this country, the whole deal. You'd never know this if you watch MSNBC or CNN, which -- and we have proof of this -- are owned by the man who owns The New York Times, Famous Ray's Pizza, some check-cashing establishments, and that bunch of losers, the New York Knicks. Sad!
9/ Great Times story on how the Trump family is corrupting our state.....
The Chinese know that one of the best ways to curry favor with any ruler is to shower riches on his family members. There are so many millionaires among the children of its leaders that they have a moniker: the Princelings.
This uniquely Chinese brand of influence peddling is now being lavished on President Trump’s Princelings and Princesslings. Suddenly, all kinds of business opportunities have opened up for Trump family members in the notoriously closed Chinese market.
Over the weekend, there was the unseemly spectacle of Jared Kushner’s sister, Nicole Meyer, hawking golden visas to connected Chinese investors if they would put $500,000 into one of the Kushners’ real estate projects in Jersey City. Ms. Meyer made her pitch just hours after Mr. Trump signed a measure renewing the visa program.
Todays hotel joke
A Hotel guest calls the front desk and the clerk answers, "May I help you?"
The man says, "Yes, I'm in room 858. You need to send someone to my room immediately. I'm having an argument with my wife and she says she's going to jump out the window."
The desk clerk says, "I'm sorry sir, but that's a personal matter."
The man replies, "Listen you idiot. The window won't open... and that's a maintenance matter."
Todays sports jokes
"Last year we couldn't win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure as a coach was that I couldn't think of anyplace else to play."- Harry Neale, professional hockey coach"Blind people come to the ballpark just to listen to him pitch."- Reggie Jackson commenting on Tom Seaver"I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything willbe perfect."- Doug Sanders, professional golfer"All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'"- Mickey Lolich, Detroit Tigers Pitcher"I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twentypercent are glad you're having them."- Tommy LaSorda, LA Dodgers manager"My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget."- E.J. Holub, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker regarding his 12 knee operations"My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good."- Vic Braden, tennis instructor"I don't know. I only played there for nine years."- Walt Garrison, Dallas Cowboys fullback when asked if Tom Landry ever smiles"We were tipping off our plays. Whenever we broke from the huddle, three backs were laughing and one was pale as a ghost."- John Breen, Houston Oilers"The film looks suspiciously like the game itself."- Bum Phillips, New Orleans Saints, after viewing a lopsided loss to the Atlanta Falcons"When I'm on the road, my greatest ambition is to get a standing boo."- Al Hrabosky, major league relief pitcher"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around the ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats."- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox owner"Because if it didn't work out, I didn't want to blow the whole day."- Paul Horning, Green Bay Packers running back on why his marriage ceremony was before noon."I have a lifetime contract. That means I can't be fired during the third quarter if we're ahead and moving the ball."- Lou Holtz ,Arkansas/Minnesota/Notre Dame/South Carolina football coach"I won't know until my barber tells me on Monday."- Knute Rockne, when asked why Notre Dame had lost a game"I tell him 'Attaway to hit, George.'"- Jim Frey, K.C. Royals manager when asked what advice he gives GeorgeBrett on hitting"I learned a long time ago that 'minor surgery' is when they do the operation on someone else, not you."- Bill Walton, Portland Trail Blazers"The only difference between me and General Custer is that I have to watch the films on Sunday."- Rick Venturi, Northwestern football coach
Todays flight attendant joke
A businessman in the first class cabin decided to chat up the
drop dead gorgeous flight attendant:“What is your name?”
Flight Attendant: “Angela Benz, sir”
Businessman: “Lovely name ... any relation to Mercedes Benz?”
Flight Attendant: “Yes sir, very close”
Businessman: “How close?”
Flight Attendant: “Same price".
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