I always miss the good stuff. I watched quite a bit of the hearing yesterday when FBI Director Kash Patel was testifying before the Senate Government Oversight Committee. But I didn’t see it all, and naturally, I missed all the fireworks when Patel was being questioned by (or was it berated by): Adam Schiff and Corey Booker. I did not get to hear Patel inform Schiff that he was “the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate”, and a “political buffoon at best.” Or to hear him tell Booker that “you are an embarrassment to the division of this country”. (No, I am not sure what that means, but I am sure it isn’t a compliment.) And, yes, I know that the two Senators were not throwing praise at Patel. So much for civil discourse.

Patel is still the same smooth talker he was at his confirmation hearing. He came loaded with some pretty impressive arrest statistics, assuming they are accurate, and if you listened just to him, there were no politics under his leadership, and morale was as high as it could get. The Republicans on the committee only asked him the softball questions he knew were coming, interspersing their questions with diatribes against radical left wing Democrats and especially the crime ridden Biden family. As to the Democrats’ questions, either Patel disagreed with the premise of the question, couldn’t answer a question because it was connected to an ongoing investigation or involved a personnel matter, decided to answer a different question altogether, or just plain couldn’t remember.

Tyler Robinson’s name was raised a couple of times, not only as the killer of Charlie Kirk, but as a bona fide radical leftist,  undoubtedly qualified to be a spokesman for the Democratic Party.

Robinson’s name was mentioned more on the snippet of the Newsmax show I watched last night. I watched it purposely because I wanted to see how he was being portrayed by the right.

It was as bad as I feared, and considering that most Newsmax viewers see no other sides to most issues, they would have no reason not to believe the description they heard:

Robinson was a nice young man, ruined like so many others by the evil leftists on the dark web. And not only was he tricked into adopting leftist thinking, he began to take the sides of the LGBT community and worse than that, the trans community. The trans community causes so many problems, destroying our societal values, and the Democrats know that and are just spreading lies when they say otherwise. I only lasted about 2 minutes on Newsmax.

Something on a more positive note? Next week may be Rosh Hashanah, but I am told that my four-year old grandson Izzy is looking forward to Hanukkah because he likes it after dinner when the children have to find the mozzarella.