An Odd Occurrence

        It's interesting, and strikes me as a bit odd,  that in The Villages, Florida, my community, with  an African American populace of less than half of one percent,  the daily newspaper  ran an entire Op-Ed page featuring two columnists of that ethnicity. Closer inspection reveals the real reason, however.  Both Michelle Malkin and Walter Williams, like the recently (and mercifully) retired Thomas Sowell, are really just apologists for all things conservative and, as such,  occasionally leap to such ludicrous conclusions that one is simply in awe of their illogic. Please don't misunderstand, there are any number of really talented Black pundits out there, (Leonard Pitts Jr. and Eugene Robinson are exemplars) but these two aren't among them.

         Recently, Malkin's column actually addressed  a real issue,  campus sexual assault, and she justifiably called out Northwestern University's  recent rush to judgment, based on anonymous phone calls vice real information, in condemning a campus group. Along the way, she (Malkin) concluded that there had never been any such "date rape" incident, even though the School's apology was issued only because no student would come forward and identify them self as a victim. It is obvious that this is rather a lack of proof vice proof of no incident. This is true "Trumpian" logic at its worst.

       But then, in true Michelle Malkin style,  in a leap that only she would make, she chooses, in the last paragraph, to harshly bitch slap and condemn Julia Louis Dreyfus as well. Why? She didn't like Seinfeld? No, nothing so concrete as all that. It's simply  because Dreyfus'  son plays basketball at Northwestern. Period. Say what?

        Usually, Ms. Malkin also shills shamelessly for her barely watched TV show, featuring the same sort of drivel. I assume she never attends reunions at her alma mater, Oberlin, which she periodically blasts as that "leftist propaganda machine."

        Like Williams and their mutual soul mate, John Stossel, in Ms. Malkin's eyes if it's private, it's good, if government is involved, it's bad.

         This actually resulted, some months ago, in her devoting an entire column to the Brooklyn Bridge, which she proudly declared to have been built by John Roebling (true) with private funds(diametrically false). She then plowed ahead with this blatant lie, ignoring the fact that NYC and Brooklyn tax dollars were actually the  money which built this landmark , with the Tweed ring  "privately" skimming millions in illegal profits for construction bribes. Sad, really. In her story lauding private enterprise, the only really "private" financial issue was graft and corruption

        And oh, yeah, Walter Williams' column of the same day was entitled "Is Profiling OK?" Yep! Really, no kidding, that's the heading.  Needless to point out, Ol' Walter concluded that it's just fine. 

        Every time I see a column by either of these two hacks, I reflect back to my memory of seeing Sammy Davis, Jr. hugging Richard Nixon at his first inaugural. It gives me the same sort of "schpilkus in tuches".