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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Sep. 6, 2024

Greetings! With Tuesday’s high stakes presidential debate on the horizon, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan suggests that if Donald Trump wants to win over undecided centrists voters, he must demonstrate he’s “sane enough” for a second spin in the Oval Office.  Noonan sets a low bar which The Donald lately trips on with frightening frequency…Kudos to PJ Media’s Stephen Green who wondered in yesterday’s column, “What the hell is wrong with Tucker Carlson?” He wrote the article after Tucker’s sit down with  Hitler apologist Daryl Cooper.  Green calls out Cooper as either a “loon or a fraud.”  Carlson described him as the “best and most honest popular historian in the United States”…Lost in the weeds: Conservative commentator Ben Kew blames marijuana consumption for at least half of the mass shootings in this country, according to his Wednesday tweet…Right wing influencers for outlets such as Blaze Media were duped into working for a Russian psych-ops operation aimed at increasing political upheaval in the U.S. (Associated Press)…How will folks on all sides of the aisle react to the new Abraham Lincoln documentary Lover of Men? The documentary, which opens today, claims Honest Abe, who fathered four sons with Mary Todd Lincoln, swung both ways…Weekend Watch: Apple+’s Slow Horses.  Season 4 just dropped and I’m happy to report it’s still as engrossing as ever.  Gary Oldham as the seedy, flatulent master English spy Jackson Lamb steals every scene. I particularly like that it’s available less than a year after the conclusion of Season 3 making it easier to remember all the well-wrought characters and narrative threads…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard