CARLSON GOES FULL CANDACE OWENS: Appealing to low-IQ credulous conspiracy theorists is a sure way to destroy a political movement, and Tucker seems to be giving it the old college try. Here the background: The communist anti-American government in Venezuela naturally hates Israel, while the opposition leadership is friendly. This is hardly a secret. The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom has a story about this. A nutty anti-Israel leftist posted an excerpt from the story, with the caption, “Israeli publication, Israel Hayom, says it was ISRAEL that pushed Trump to bring about regime change in Venezuela.” Except that the story does not say anything remotely like that. Which didn’t stop Tucker from going into his “just asking questions mode,” to provide more oxygen for this non-story.

YEP.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK AND HOW: There are gotcha questions, silly questions, rhetorical questions and pointed questions. That’s just for starters. Michael Foster, an Ohio pastor handed a Sunday bullhorn by Rod Martin, uses that momentous question posed by Satan to Eve to launch an incisive analysis of the modern weaponization of the question.

I MISS SOME THINGS ABOUT 1995, BUT NOT THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT:

THE LEFT WOULD DO THIS HERE IF IT COULD:

UPDATE:

LOTS OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ON THE BROWN SHOOTINGS:

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: Animal Farm review: Director Andy Serkis softens George Orwell classic for family animation. “Originally conceived by George Orwell as a satirical allegory for the Russian Revolution and the subsequent struggles of the USSR under the rule of Joseph Stalin, Animal Farm’s political ire is redirected in this lively CG-animated adaptation directed by Andy Serkis. Rather than Stalinism, Serkis takes aim at greed, rapacious consumerism and corporate corruption and malfeasance. There’s also a timely dig at populist political movements.”

This isn’t the first attempt at a mirror universe Animal Farm; Roger Waters did the same thing nearly 50 years ago on Pink Floyd’s Animals: “Whereas the novella focuses on Stalinism, the album is a critique of capitalism and differs again in that the sheep eventually rise up to overpower the dogs.”

(Via, appropriately enough, Small Dead Animals.)

UPDATE:

Has anyone considered the possibility that the real issue why theaters are shutting down nationally is that no one in Hollywood outside of Tom Cruise has made an entertaining movie in like oh… I don’t know… ten years at least?” Speaking of movies ten years ago, that’s when it all started to go wrong, but few knew it at the time: 

 

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

HEH:

UPDATE (From Ed): Personally, I think a man of Biden’s stature deserves a much more permanent structure:

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Heh. Indeed.

GOOD AND HARD, FUN CITY: