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GARCETTI’S MYSTERY DUDE
All of America now knows L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is a serial inflicter of unscientific mandates and a poseur who lectures about them but doesn't live by them. So did you notice the gaunt, maskless older man chatting in his Bud Light klatsch at the Super Bowl?
He appears to be Garcetti’s at-high-risk 80-year old dad, the former District Attorney Gil Garcetti, whose heretofore NFL connection was botching the O.J. Simpson murder trial. If an octogenarian could safely be maskless, indoors and among tens of thousands of people, you should have been able to do the same.
ACCORDINGLY, *THIS* WILL BE GARCETTI’S LASTING IMPACT ON KIDS
NOODLE ON THIS, COVERED CALIFORNIA
We live in an era when we rightly recognize the scourge of stereotypes. So why, then, does Covered California, the outlet hawking government-subsidized insurance, make commercials showing -- in one instance -- an Asian family eating noodles?
Oddly, it is from Covered California's English-language version, while another cut in Cantonese doesn't play on the stereotype at all.
What if it made commercials showing Blacks, Latinos, Jews, Italians, Irish and others masticating on their stereotypical dishes?
Food for thought, because if you think this is overblown, look at Brett Netzer, the minor league baseball player who the Boston Red Sox just released for racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic stereotype Tweets.
GONE GUY
If Major League Baseball and the players’ union don’t resolve their billion-dollar dilemma today, spring training games will be cut and what we get whenever the season starts is likely to be substandard due to the shorter spring training.
Whenever things do get going, the Dodgers’ star of 2021, future first-ballot Hall of Famer Max Scherzer, will be in a New York Mets uniform. But it’s not as big a loss as some might think.
As phenomenal a career as he has had, with just one year in L.A., keep this in mind from the funny guys @Super70sSports on The Twitters:
Speaking of the Dodgers, if anyone has editing skills, please apply at the L.A. Times.
SPEAKING OF THE LA TIMES… Part 2
Sports guru Bill Plaschke says that LeBron James will eventually retire as the greatest player in NBA history.
Puh-lease, Bill. LeBron isn’t even the greatest Laker in history.
SPEAKING OF THE LA TIMES… Part 3
For much of the early part of Joe Biden’s presidency, the LA Times kept hawking the false narrative that passing the Build Back Better bill would help reduce inflation.
Inflation in its simplest terms means too much money (e.g. the federal government printing more phantom money) chasing too few goods (e.g. the supply chain problem.).
But when applied to Vladimir Putin and Russia’s economy, the Times this weekend changed that narrative by now correctly saying that Russia printing more rubles “could quickly spiral into hyperinflation.”
Funny how the narrative changes with the LA Times when the players’ names change.
SPEAKING OF CHILDREN AS PAWNS… LET’S DO IT AGAIN
The Biden Administration’s comprehensive hypocrisy on most if not all things COVID is self-evident in this meme showing masked little girls with virtually zero chance of getting COVID, being breathed upon by maskless Vice President Kamala Harris.
Just imagine if, instead of Kamala Harris, that was Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Ron DeSantis, Marsha Blackburn, Candace Owens, Leo Terrell, Larry Elder, Tucker Carlson, et al, using these children as pawns, much like Harris’s staged “chat” with school-age kids who were actually professional actors.
And finally…..
WHEN ARNOLD WAS THE SMALLEST GUY IN THE ROOM
Wilt, Arnold and André René Roussimoff aka André the Giant.
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(Daniel Guss, MBA, was runner-up for the 2020 Los Angeles Press Club journalism award for Best Online Political Commentary and was a runner-up in 2021 in the Activist Journalism category. He has contributed to Mayor Sam, CityWatchLA, KFI AM-640, iHeartMedia, 790-KABC, Cumulus Media, KCRW, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Magazine, Movieline Magazine, Emmy Magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Pasadena Star News, Los Angeles Downtown News, and The Los Angeles Times in its Sports, Opinion and Entertainment Sections and Sunday Magazine among other publishers.)