As the candidates each claim victory, a man who's been there steps in

Participation trophies for all

Buttcheeks says he won Iowa, so does Bernie, and Betsy says it’s all just another historical injustice inflicted on her race. Our chief Iranian negotiator has the solution.

Oh, goodie, they'll get another photo-op, just as effective. No word when, though

impeachment managers, Pelosi’s “best of the best”, deliver caucus results to the Senate

All the Democrat candidates time and money devoted to the ethanol state appears to have been … not well spent

Note that by noon yesterday, before the polls had even opened, Biden/DNC mouthpiece Jennifer Rubin was already discounting the significance of a Bernie win:

Iowa’s caucuses only exist because presidential candidates can use them to create a phony sense of “momentum” going into the next meaningless state, New Hampshire. No results, no momentum, why bother?

But at least the rulers of the party were prepared. And proud:

Is running the entire country’s healthcare harder or easier than managing the Iowa caucus? Asking for a friend.

Not The Babylon Bee

We gotta do something

DNC mulls asking Trump to run as a Democrat in effort to stop Sanders

“He’s obviously not our first choice, but Trump has a track record of winning elections, not to mention he does well with the conservative voters we’ll need to swing some red states blue—if that’s who we need to ask to ensure Bernie doesn’t win, we’ll do it,” said DNC chairman Tom Perez, who had circled Trump’s name on a white board lising dozens of potential candidates the party could try to convince to jump into the Democratic Party primaries in order to obstruct a Sanders nomination. 

I don't watch TV news, so I missed this

Tyler O’Neil: Networks bury 2020 candidates under avalanche of impeachment coverage

In the month before the Iowa caucuses, the big three television news networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — effectively buried news about the Democrats running for president in 2020 by giving nearly three times as much coverage to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

A Media Research Center study found that the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts spent 236 minutes on impeachment in January. By contrast, the networks spent 88 minutes on the Democratic race, with 22 minutes of that time actually focused on impeachment! Those 22 minutes involved recounting how former Vice President Joe Biden was targeted for investigation in Ukraine or how the impeachment trial would affect the Democratic senators running for president.

That left 66 minutes of airtime dedicated to the Democratic presidential candidates, with impeachment receiving 3.6 times the amount of coverage.

In the 130 days since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry on September 24, the networks' evening shows have spent a combined 1,082 minutes on impeachment, compared to 302 minutes on the Democratic race (112 minutes of which also concerned impeachment). The networks effectively dedicated five times as much coverage to impeachment as to the 2020 Democratic race.

The imbalance seems particularly noteworthy, given that the Senate is almost certain to acquit Trump while the 2020 Democratic primary is extremely competitive and hard to predict.

The networks spent the most time on Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-USSR), for 32 minutes. The Media Research Center faulted the networks for spending only two minutes of that time covering Sanders' extreme socialist policies.[emphasis added]

Biden came second with 27 minutes, but the networks spent 11 of those minutes discussing Biden as a potential target of investigations in Ukraine. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-1/1024th of a Plan) received 10 minutes of airtime, most of it focused on her claim that Sanders told her privately that a woman could not win the 2020 election.

What would we do without the "layers and layers of fact checkers" toiling at the dying MSM?

Trump’s lying again, and the “real” press is on it

CNN reacted angrily to President Trump’s joke that Michael Bloomberg was looking for a box to stand on in the Democratic debates (to which, by the way, he apparently is being admitted via a rule change as part of the DNC’s “stop Bernie” hysteria). Brit Hume comments:

CNN just didn’t want the Washington Post to scoop it again

Talk about little to lose

He’s mad, I tell you, mad! Whaahaaahaeeeee!

Adam Schiff claims that Trump could sell Alaska to Russia in return for their support this election.

The man has lost his mind.

Last of the real estate icons passes on

Word is out that David Ogilvy has died. He was a gracious man, and knew how to sell real estate, and Greenwich, better than anyone I knew.

Good buy on Round Hill

Or I think so, anyway. 483 Round Hill Road has sold for $3.650 million. Its last asking price was $3.995, but it’s been priced as high as $6.750 during its nine-year (with time off for rentals) search for a buyer. Great property, view of Lond Island Sound far away and below, and the house is in very good condition.

The owners paid $2.475 for this house in 1990 which, if you’re keeping track of back country values, would have been roughly $5 million in current dollars. And that was before an addition and major improvements.

50-year-old in butt chaps, stripper pole, crotch shots, twerking — super

#Metoo!

Until last night I had an unbroken string of never watching the Super Bowl halftime show, so I can’t say that yesterday’s marked a new low in our descent into hell, but surely it was a signpost along the way.

Positively shrieked female empowerment and taste with a capital K..