And Now, the Cholesterol Race Begins

House Speaker Mike Johnson has become the Republican Party’s Glutton-For-Punishment-In-Chief, it seems.

Last Sunday, Johnson appeared on ABC News’ This Week show, the one hosted by former Bill Clinton media fixer George Stephanopoulos, who has allegedly transmogrified himself into an objective messenger of truth. How well that went was that the “objective” George Stephanopoulos had the speaker of the House of the U.S. Congress on his show for nine minutes, and the two questions the ABC News propagandist had to offer were:

• Was it inappropriate, given demands to turn down the temperature in American politics following two assassination attempts on Donald Trump, for the former president’s son Eric to say, at the just-concluded return-trip rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that Democrats were trying to kill his father (was Eric lying?); and
• Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election, which would make Trump a liar for having contested it, or was Johnson a kook and a liar along with Trump?

It was the kind of “when did you stop beating your wife?” questioning that marks the interviewer as profoundly unserious and demonstrably lacking in good faith, and it didn’t go over so well with Johnson, who nevertheless managed to politely refuse to get sucked into Stephanopoulos’ stupid questions.

At the time, I said Johnson could have been a little more rude. Certainly Stephanopoulos deserved that treatment for his obnoxious electioneering disguised as “objective” journalism.

But the speaker was back on the Sunday circuit a week later, conversing this time with NBC News’ clownish Kristen Welker, and either Johnson listened to me or he’s just sick of stupid questions from highly paid dunces in the legacy corporate media, because nice-guy Mike managed to carry a bit sharper edge to him.

And it worked out pretty well, because Johnson executed a decent pile-driver maneuver on Welker in response to questions even dumber than the ones Stephanopoulos vomited at him:

Kristen Welker tried to humiliate Speaker Johnson and she ran into an absolute buzzsaw.

All politics aside, it's glorious to see a smug journalist cut down to size like this pic.twitter.com/4eYG1rB5W0

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 14, 2024

So good for Johnson.

Watching that, I figured it wasn’t Welker’s idea to drop that stinkbomb of a question about Trump’s medical records. Not that Welker, who is positively rotten at her job for different reasons than Stephanopoulos is awful at his, isn’t capable of coming up with stupid questions on her own. It’s just that these things are never the bright idea of the talking-head host, who doesn’t get a job like that because he or she knows anything but rather for other reasons.

It’s somebody else who thinks those things up.

And all it takes is a little patience, and soon it becomes obvious where something as moronic as trying to make a federal case out of Trump’s neglecting to divulge his cholesterol levels would come from.

Where do you think it might have originated? Careful, you don’t want to get whiplash from your surprise when I show you:

Donald Trump refuses to release his medical records, and he is unwilling to meet for a second debate.

Why does his staff want him to hide away? Are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstable to lead America?

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 13, 2024

The amazing thing is Welker floats that air biscuit at Johnson, and he bats it away like a housefly, and in no time flat the clip is being shared all over social media as “Mike Johnson SCHOOLS Kristen Welker After Stupid Cholesterol Question,” and Sunday afternoon amid the laughing, Harris’ handlers decided to invest her in that controversy.

The ratio Harris took after that tweet was legendary, and for the obvious reason that attacking Donald Trump for his age and health after nearly four years of lying to the American people that Joe Biden was fit to hold the job is outrageously rich.

But everything about Harris and the $700 million-and-counting campaign attempting to drag her into the White House is outrageously rich at this point.

Some idiot who’s responsible for the embarrassingly bad jokes Jimmy Kimmel tells on his failing late-night talk show put together an ad aimed at attempting to get men to vote for Kamala, and the ad was literally the best thing that has happened to Trump so far in this campaign. It’s so cringe, so unmitigatedly out of touch, and so utterly insulting to actual men that, as Andrew Klavan said, “This ad makes me wish I supported Kamala Harris, so I could see this ad and change my mind.”

Lou Aguilar gave the ad a proper spanking in his American Spectator column Monday, so there’s no need to trouble ourselves further.

But then there is the Tim Walz cavalcade of fiascos, from his demonstrable failure to load a shotgun on a press-avail pheasant hunt, to the unanswered questions about the many trips he’s taken to China not at his own expense over the years. Walz has gone from the supposed traditional male anchor of the ticket to an anchor around Harris’ neck as the lack of vetting around his selection of VP continues to haunt her.

And then, of course, there’s Doug Emhoff.

Monday being Columbus Day, this naturally resurfaced…

Kamala Harris on Columbus Day:

“European explorers ushered in a wave of devastation, violence, stealing land, and widespread disease” pic.twitter.com/3XijDf5Ldo

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 14, 2024

I had a friend tell me a couple of weeks ago that Kamala would cut her own electoral throat on Columbus Day by reprising that message. As of this writing, she hadn’t, but does it matter? That video tells you all you need to know about what she thinks of America, and specifically about those white men her handlers are trying to con into voting for her — at this point if you’re one of them and you’ll still vote for this woman, what’s toxic about your masculinity is your lack of it.

It isn’t like she can walk that statement back. Everybody will know how insincere she is in doing so.

Oh, by the way — white guys are the least of Kamala’s problems. Barack Obama, who’s ultimately responsible for all of this gargantuan cloud of civilizational failure that Harris is coming to personify, made a stink last week when he appeared before cameras whining that “the brothers” — meaning black men that he identifies with only as a matter of politically expedient identity — aren’t enthusiastically backing The Candidate Of Joy as they should, and implying it’s sexism.

One respondent to that posted that “I have a father, I know who it is, and he ain’t you.” Which was well said, and quite true. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., is the father of no man, literally or figuratively, and his political children are becoming orphans in real time particularly as Harris’ flagging poll numbers begin delivering swing states into Trump’s camp and her staffers begin dishing dirt in preparation for a loss to Trump.

And the Stephanopouloses and Welkers of the world, with their bad-faith questions and slavish devotion to Team Obama/Biden/Harris’ manufactured, curated narratives, might end up the most lasting victims of what’s coming if this current direction persists.

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