Greetings! The right has leaped to the defense of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker. In a commencement speech at conservative Benedictine College last week, Butker urged women to embrace the role of homemaker and wife.  The NY Post’s Kirsten Fleming wins the award for the most offensive justification of Butker’s remarks: “I’m a big believer in knowing and speaking to your audience. And his audience was not the University of Chicks with Hairy Armpits”…Whoever is composing The Donald’s Truth Social posts needs a punctuation lesson. Check out one of the latest error-splattered posts that wouldn’t get a passing grade in 7th grade English…New in bookstores: George Stephanopoulos's The Situation Room.  Subtitle says it all: “The inside story of presidents in crisis.” The “Good Morning America” anchor examines dozens of White House denizens in their darkest hours including John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and most notably Donald Trump during the Jan. 6 insurrection…Cliff Sims, ex-Trump White House Director of Message Strategy, just came out with his second tome and I hope it’s better than its snooze-inducing title: The Darkness Has Not Overcome.  Inside, Sims promises to reveal  lessons he learned about  faith and politics while cruising through the halls of right wing power.  His first book, “Nest of Vipers,” published in 2019, received a positive review from yours truly for its fast-paced insider account of the first two years of the Trump administration including a well-deserved devastating portrait of Sean Spicer…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings!  Too early.  That was my reaction to yesterday’s news about the first Biden-Trump debate slated for June 27.  Voters must be fatigued by this never-ending contest.  Couldn’t this verbal slug-fest wait until September?…Right wing knuckle-dragger of the week: The aptly named Kansas City Chief placekicker Harrison Butker.   Giving the commencement address at conservative Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, Butker urged young women to embrace the role of homemaker and wife.  He dissed Pride Month too and whined that women are told “diabolical lies” about their careers.  The Associated Press has the best recap of his remarks.  Don’t think Butker and his spouse will be double-dating with teammate Travis Kelce and his gal pal Taylor Swift anytime soon…Did not remember this: CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who’s just been tapped to be one of the moderators for the June 27 debate, had a dinner date with Monica Lewinsky in the winter of 1998, just  weeks prior to revelations about her affair with Bill Clinton.  Back then, Tapper wrote a story about that date for the alt-weekly Washington City Paper: I Dated Monica Lewinsky (a masterpiece of minimalistic headline writing).  Even in 1998, the then unknown Tapper showed he could make words dance.  The author of two bestselling novels, Tapper is much more than a talking head with a good head of hair.…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard