There is Bob Knight, leader of men, throttler of boys, who took the stage to rally the Drumpfvolk in Michigan this week. Michigan? I thought they hated Knight there. In any case, Knight certainly hates Michigan fans. Still. (He conveniently didn't mention Michigan State; Tom Izzo pretty much owned him.) But Trump believed this was a sound campaign strategy in a state where he's down eight points head-to-head. And he did earn the Republican nomination, so...
Moving on, the New York Times sees no evil in giving the last word to Roger Stone, ratf**ker extraordinaire and, as you may or may not remember, a man well-qualified to head the American branch of the Stasi.
By day, Stone says, he was working as a scheduler for Nixon surrogates. "By night, I'm trafficking in the black arts. Nixon's people were obsessed with intelligence." So at one point, Stone placed a mole in the Hubert Humphrey campaign, who ended up becoming Humphrey's driver. His source reported back all kinds of information--mostly libelous--which Stone kicked up the chain.His Wikipedia page makes a convincing case that Stone is the worst person in American politics. And yet, here he is in the Times, calling accusations that he's helped the Russians and Julian Assange distribute hacked DNC material "the new McCarthyism." I get the need to be fair. But a simple "Stone couldn't be reached but has denied the accusations" with a link to the Breitbart story would have sufficed. As a bonus, it wouldn't have spread groundless charges, which is the entire point of Stone's life.
But he is given equal time, and a parting shot, to boot. All is forgiven.
