Each day Bill records a MICKnugget, a one-minute take on some issue that got his attention that morning. Below are the scripts for last week’s NUGGETS.
CLICK HERE if you’d like to hear them. Here are the scripts:
08.08.22- Managing Media
For years we have talked about the legacy media and countering the apparent bias and narratives it presents.
There may be nobody better at this than Governor DeSantis’ Press Secretary Christina Pushaw.
She’s taken heat from national media outlets for her handling of issues and incidents involving the media’s take on Florida, the governor and his initiatives.
And if she is taking heat, it means the governor isn’t and that may be the key point of all this. Media relations is her job and she does it well.
By deflecting the media narrative and taking the heat herself, the governor is free to do his job and not address the nonsense that detractors would throw his way.
Pushaw counters the media with facts that are hard to refute and sets the agenda rather than let the media do so.
There’s a lesson in that for us and for other officials that face the same.
Good job, Ms. Pushaw!
08.09.22- Waking Up in America
Did you wake up in the America you always thought you knew? Or, are you waking up to what America has become?
Yesterday the Biden Administration’s Justice Department raided the home of former President Donald Trump. They claim to be looking for classified documents the president supposedly took with him when he left office.
We don’t yet know what they found; they took boxloads of documents.
It appears to be an unprecedented action by an American government against its former leader. It’s not the country we knew.
What’s the impact? Dividing the nation? No, we’re already divided. Uniting the nation? Doubtful.
But maybe, just maybe it woke enough of us up to the point that come November both houses of congress get turned over to Republicans.
The country needs change because what we have now is just unacceptable.
08.10.22- Raid IS the Word
Regardless of the claims of those in the legacy media, raid IS the word that accurately describes the search warrant served on President Donald Trump’s South Florida home.
What you had was law enforcement, authorized by the court, to enter a private residence and confiscate property presumed to be evidence in a case under investigation.
I participated in hundreds of these searches in my time as a drug cop. Some were peaceful and pleasant while others were the mayhem of door busting, gun pointing, handcuffing bad guy affairs that were chaos in motion.
Make no mistake; both were raids on the privacy of someone’s home, something government is prohibited from doing except under specific circumstances.
So, peaceful or violent, a raid is a raid. The legality and motivations for it are important and have long lasting implications.
08.11.22- The Witch Hunt
I’m left to wonder about the motives of the news side of Florida Today.
In June, Defend Florida and BREC fired off a proposed resolution to SOE Lori Scott containing allegations and demands about the elections process.
Our SOE replied and detailed how each of the allegations and demands were completely off base. Ignoring this, BREC passed the resolution anyway.
It all happened in June. My question about Florida Today’s motives is: why run this story in August, as we enter the heart of election season, as opposed to in June when the news actually happened?
This is a non-story that was debunked by the SOE. It’s more irrelevant now than it was in June. Yet here it is front and center.
BREC has undermined election confidence and Florida Today has undermined the news business.
It’s time for both to improve.
08.12.22- Outrage at Humor
We have lost our sense of humor. Well, not everybody, but a lot of folks.
A woman flew from CA to AK. She rented a car and began driving to her destination. It was a late-night flight and at 3:43am she was pulled over by a DUI patrol.
She was not impaired, but in her travels she misplaced her driver’s license and could not produce it for the officers. She jokingly produced a “white privilege” novelty card and asked if it would do. She’s of Filipino heritage and is not lily-white.
They had a laugh and the officers did not write a ticket. She had posted the exchange on social media and outrage mob went nuts.
The cops were investigated while under suspension…for 11 days…and the department went on the pseudo apology tour.
The cops did nothing wrong, yet the department was forced to public pleas for forgiveness.
We need to find our sense of humor- seriously!