DAN GAINOR: May's 7 craziest stories
Perhaps we should stop calling the fifth month of the year May and just start calling it Maybe Like Maybe CNN anchor Jake Tapper will be honest about how much he and his arrangement covered up the Biden presidency Or Maybe things are getting better even though the press won t admit it Tariffs and arrangement deals didn t end the market despite media rhetoric That doesn t mean all is right with the world It never is But our friends on the left constantly say the sky is falling Maybe they re just nuts And that takes me into the land of crazy news Here are seven reasons why last month May be crazy Irresistible It s unfailingly a battle to see which major print outlet is the preponderance ridiculously left-wing The Washington Post where democracy used to die in darkness has a strong claim But the other major athlete is The New York Times and it s been that way pretty much my entire life That s a long darn time Cut me open and count the rings Times publisher A G Sulzberger made news this month denying all that Sulzberger claimed that Gray Lady is not the resistance That s like saying rain isn t wet and Tapper isn t egotistical You can say it but nobody should believe you Instead he didn t double down he billioned down We are nobody s opposition We re also nobody s cheerleader Our loyalty is to the truth and to a populace that deserves to know it he pretended After nearly a decade of attacks on The Donald along with years pretending Biden ran the White House Sulzberger s keyboard presumably melted just typing that NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHER SAYS 'WE'RE NOT THE RESISTANCE ' HITS TRUMP FOR ANTI-PRESS RHETORIC Bored in the USA Aging pop stars like Bruce Springsteen keep their PR teams busy with nonstop drivel Bruuuuuuce has been a lefty since before Ronald Reagan was in the White House The Boss and a parade of similarly out-of-touch stars performed No Nukes concerts back in It s no surprise that now he s trying to make news bashing President Donald Trump And trying to profit from it What s pathetic is how little effort he made Like him or not Springsteen has written chosen amazing lyrics But his anti-Trump comments read like a -year-old s Huffington Post blog T the America I ve written about and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for years is right now in the hands of a corrupt incompetent and treasonous administration Hardly up to snuff for the man who wrote Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse The best part is he s selling a six-track EP with two of the tracks bashing Trump From Born to Run to Born to Resist Mask maker mask maker The COVID pandemic reaction on left and right stems from foundational differences about how safe we expect to be Safetyism is why lefties think it s good to censor speech online and off because words make them feel unsafe Leftists worship infinite safety DAN GAINOR JOURNALISM'S ORIGINAL SPIN SOLUTIONS THE TAPPER THOMPSON BIDEN BOOK ATTEMPTS TO ABSOLVE MEDIAWhich takes me to one of my favorite former Washington Post staffers Taylor Lorenz That s because she is still obsessed with COVID To hear her talk we should all be living life like John Travolta when he played The Boy in the Plastic Bubble Her Bluesky feed is special If you re not masking right now during an ongoing pandemic you should feel shame In a just world you d be socially ostracized for cavalierly killing and disabling people she wrote That included Lorenz celebrating FREE SPEECH at the PornHub awards while wearing a mask And no those aren t old comments They re from this May CNN or minus We ve all seen movies where they note the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different product CNN come on down The lefty cable outfit is doing the Michael Keaton thing from Multiplicity and making copies of copies CNN CEO Mark Thompson communicated this month that the setup is going to provide a simple and centralized way to get all their content Naturally you have to pay According to The New York Times CNN s new operation won t look like CNN its failed million splashy foray into streaming that was stuffed with well-known news and entertainment personalities In other words they don t have any money plan to do this on the cheap and are praying like crazy somebody will rain cash Maybe they will if the structure offers a Tapper-free tier Knock knock who s there In an era of AI videos stories like this one scream tricks for clicks Turns out it s apparently legit Florida residents had unwelcome visitors door-to-door gators According to the Lee County Sheriff's Office deputies responded after an alligator kept knocking on a door The men in blue or whatever gator-wrangling deputies wear saw the suspicious alligator trying to get into a home Now I already view my neighbors to the south with caution because they let gators roam golf courses like eager caddies But when your future pair of boots knocks on the door and wants in I want out That s how Chubbs Peterson lost his hand Happy Gilmore folks Florida Man has competition Readers of this column know I love animal stories from gators to baby goats This month we ve got a raccoon with a meth pipe Shockingly this story comes from Ohio not Florida Springfield Township Police Department located Chewy the raccoon gnawing on the end of a meth pipe As Mike Gavin from NBC New York put it No the raccoon will not be charged with drug possession PET RACCOON CAUGHT WITH METH PIPE IN ITS MOUTH WHEN COPS PULLED OVER OHIO WOMAN 'EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED'Acting on the tip from Chewy police searched the motorcycle and the driver was charged with three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and cited for driving under suspension Raccoons taking a bite out of crime CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Size matters Before Antifa loons started ripping down statues leaving your mark on the world with a statue in your honor was a sign of import From the Piet to the Lincoln Memorial several of the greatest works of art honor famous people looking their best Others are iconic and stand for freedom like the Statue of Liberty Then there s Grounded in the Stars by artist Thomas J Price It s a temporary bronze statue in Times Square of a -foot-tall Black woman looking kind of plump Now as a man of selected girth I might have let this one fade into well-deserved obscurity except the official Times Square website's description of Grounded in the Stars bashed the two great men who have permanent statues there Installed at ground level on a wide low base the work invites engagement with the hundreds of thousands of people who traverse the plazas each day the woman in Grounded in the Stars cuts a stark contrast to the pedestaled permanent monuments both white both men which bookend Duffy Square while embodying a quiet gravity and grandeur Both white both men like that s somehow a bad thing The two figures are famed Army Chaplain Father Francis P Duffy the author of You re a Grand Old Flag and none other than himself George M Cohan Price was just doing his own version of tearing down statues He failed CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM DAN GAINOR
