Greetings! Want the inside story on the Trump assassination attempt in Pennsylvania eleven months ago? Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland, by conservative journalist Selena Zito, purports to reveal what really happened.  Not sure how the incident can be stretched into a 256-page book.  Trump is already promoting it since the attempt shows him in a heroic light...Speaking of books, the president also is also endorsing conservative playwright David Mamet’s new tome “The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment.” Our book-loving president called it “incredible.” Worth noting: Trump screwed up the punctuation in the book’s title, dropping the colon after disenlightenment and inserting a comma, which made it an incomprehensible word salad. Here’s the Truth Social post...In other book news, a weighty biography of William F. Buckley, Jr., the father of modern conservatism and the founding editor of the National Review, drops today.  Buckley: The Life and Revolution That Changed America, by Sam Tanehaus, comes in at a whopping 1020 pages...Trump is also promoting The Detroit Cowboy (tagline: “Go where you’re celebrated, not tolerated), the new Nashville restaurant owned by his buddy Kid Rock.  In a Truth Social post, POTUS wrote, “I hear it is a very friendly MAGA establishment and look forward to going there soon.” I wonder if Trump would have written those words if his musician buddy opened a TACO stand...I learn something new about right-wing media every day. Longtime conservative dirty trickster and gadfly Roger Stone has a news and opinion website called the StoneZone....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! And welcome to Pride Month.  Here’s an original take on the January 6 insurrection that seems especially appropriate for the start of the rainbow month.  One of the hosts of the comedic  “Subway Takes” YouTube channel proclaims J6 was the gayest thing he ever saw.  In the latest segment, he says, “You’ve got all these men standing around the Capitol.  A lot of them shirtless in costumes and face paint.  That’s a gay pride parade.”  Hahahahahaha! Well said.  He also believes that Pride Month should only last a week, which is probably seven days too long for a certain Village People-fan demonically dancing in the Oval Office. Worth noting: The Victory Girls blog also has issues with the 30 days of celebration.  “The birth of this nation gets one day of celebration, LGBTQ+ gets a whole month,” wrote Darlene Click...Public broadcasting needs to do a better job proving its value in the court of public opinion.  So says long-time media thought-leader Stuart Brotman in this essay for Current.  Brotman lists four excellent messaging points that should be amplified on social media to make the pro-public broadcasting case.  His top suggestion: “Public broadcasting has set new standards in children’s news programs, drama, music, science and educational services”...Dept. of Good News: Netflix announced that the final season of the hit supernatural series Stranger Things begins November 26.  And the last episode drops December 31.  I know what I’ll be watching this New Year’s Eve...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard