Category: cancel culture
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Brave voices are stirring
But courage is needed. It is only a small generalization to say that elected government in Madison and surrounding Dane County wallows in guilt, apologizes for success, cultivates grievance, and celebrates victimhood. Now Mayor Satya wants to fly the Ho Chunk flag at city hall at equal height with the U.S. flag. The stolen land…
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Is Madison ready to quit the crazy?
We hear things! Ran into Mike Verveer at Bob Keller’s funeral a week ago at Bethel Lutheran Church. Mike is by far Madison’s longest-serving alder — 30 years! We asked if the Council would finally pull the plug on the do-nothing Independent Police Monitor and its anti-cop Police Civilian Oversight Board. He thought maybe one…
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Who’s sorry now?
Was that an apology, Jimmy? Jimmy Kimmel apologized, sort of. It’s the kind of apology cynical politicians issue after an open microphone catches them saying the quiet part out loud. Sorry if anyone was offended. Sure as heckfire wasn’t Brenda Lee. “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.”…
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New breed of speech police are braying
Watch what you post! A case could be made that canceling Jimmy Kimmel was a network TV business decision. By taunting conservatives night after night, “Jimmy Kimmel was canceling himself,” columnist Kimberley Strassel observes, “until [Trump’s FCC chairman] crashed into the scene.” Thus emboldened, newly triggered Republicans are forming ad hoc ministries of truth. Like…
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No one is laughing, Jimmy Kimmel
Charlie Kirk’s Great Sorting Out. Aside from part-time jobs at the porcelain factory in Sun Prairie and an iron foundry in Oshkosh, Blaska made his living (such as it was) on the back of the First Amendment. So it was disheartening to hear this morning my old friend Mizz Vicki barking over the AM airwaves…