An Award to celebrate Michael Goodwin Journalistic Excellence. With style and grace (and a hearty sense of humor) Michael Goodwin brings sanity and realism to the public. Michael brings the best turn of phrase we’ve seen in a while, too, when he referred to the Scott Pelley commencement speech as “more of the same warped, distorted nonsense that puts the BS in CBS.”
Goodwin took Pelley, of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” to task, and with good reason. Pelley is among those who wield the shovel to complete the job of digging the hole so deep there’s no prospect of CBS ever emerging from it.
To the casual eye of the naked observer, it’s hard to believe that such a deep excavation could be done in, much less by, 60 minutes. Pelley and his crew of diggers apparently engage in some form of magical thinking, where if they just believe something long enough and strong enough, it will be true.
Like all magic, the Pelley – 60 Minutes – CBS crowd is finding that there’s no magical incantation to change the world — it’s just sleight of hand. It wasn’t long ago that 60 minutes did reveal their behind-the-scenes footage interview with Kamala Harris, allowing audiences to openly see the amount of editing completed for the TV version that was originally aired. Worth perusing if you might have forgotten about it: https://molierecitations.com/cbs-news-60-minutes-receives-moliere-citation-for-digging-a-deepening-hole/
Michael Goodwin Journalistic Excellence
Michael Goodwin Journalistic Excellence, he has correctly observed that Pelley represents the antithesis of the “fool me once” admonition, in which it’s never his fault, only the fault of someone else. Someone needs to tell him that doubling down is not always the winning strategy — especially when you’re just flat-out wrong.
Just yesterday, one of our loyal colleagues in jest extrapolated on a famous George-the-43rd malapropism. Shrub said he had “misunderestmated” the seriousness of a political situation. The newly coined term might be applied to Pelley, who has “misTrumprehended” the political dynamics in play today.
FWIW, Pelley’s not the only anti-Trumper under a cloud of unpopularity and finding the wrong tree up which to bark. Poor Beto O’Rourke (it’s no surprise if nobody knows who he is/was) had the crowd yawning deeply at his commencement speech at SoCal Law School the other day.
The irony here is that our celebrant, Michael Goodwin, has given sound advice along with jeering Pelley’s tin ear.
All the minority has to do is quit whining about Trump and take some rational steps to attract mainstream voters.
In awarding the coveted Molière Celebration to Michael Goodwin of the NY Post, we encourage our readers to tune in to Michael’s news feed and enjoy his perspicacious musings (and the discomfort of the BSers at CBS).
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