CNN Goes Wall-to-Wall over DC Algae

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Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio program. I hope you had a great weekend. Man, it was, what a weird news cycle this weekend. And a couple of stories that we're going to be following today on the program. By the way, write down our telephone number. You will need this if you plan on calling into the show today. That's 901-260-5926.
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So the two big stories, not necessarily in this order, whatever is happening with the Lincoln Reflecting Pool, there on the Washington Mall in our nation's capital, where the algae has apparently come back in full fury. It is quite something to behold, as CNN has been doing wall-to-wall coverage. It is somewhat breathtaking, the level of news coverage that CNN and all the other networks are engaging in. They have turned a blind eye to some of the biggest stories in the world, including the, if you want to go all the way back to the botched, the botched evacuation of Kabul, Afghanistan, but they didn't think that was a big story. But by golly, the return of the algae to the Reflecting Pool is apparently the number one news story of the decade. Even ABC News, Jonathan Carle, sticking his hand and pulling up some of the liner, some of the paint that has come off of the bottom of the Reflecting Pool. Now, look, I'm not a pool expert and I do not pretend to be one. But I can tell you that the algae is in fact back. They're telling us that apparently this has to do with the pipes and the drainage systems. And so we'll see if they get it all figured out. But what I find fascinating here is that we now know that there were people including, I mean, these are very bad people. Gosh, several dozen of them have been arrested for vandalizing the pool. And some of them are alleged to have torn, I think President Trump said a 300-foot gash in the lining of the pool. There was a three-time former US. Olympian who was arrested for vandalism as well. And all I can tell you is, by the way, the president's wanting to throw the book at these people. We're talking about 10 years in prison, 10 years in prison for vandalizing federal property. These people are completely insane. You actually have people literally protesting in defense of pond scum. Who does that? So look, I have a theory about all of this. And one of the things that Hollywood loves is the dystopian world. I mean, all the dystopian movies, they love the grit and the grime and the ugliness. This brutalist architecture coming from the 1950s and 60s out of the old Soviet Union. They do not love beauty. Liberals do not love what is beautiful. And you can, I'll just give you a great example of this. And I mean nothing wrong with, I mean nothing by this.
But hear me, I'll give you a great example. For the average American man, beauty standards are defined by the ladies walking their own way at the Miss America pageant, right? You want a beautiful, talented ladies who look good in a dress or a swimsuit and have some sort of a discernible talent that makes our nation great. For example, being able to twirl a baton that is on fire. I mean, that's talent. That for the average red-blooded American man would be the ideal woman. On the other side, you have these morbidly obese women with mustaches and magenta hair, and they're wearing the Birkenstocks, and they smell of patchouli oil. That would be the, they're not classically beautiful, but that would be the idea of beauty for a soy boy. And so beauty, classical beauty, it's not in their repertoire, if you will.
And that's what's going on. So when you see President Trump and his efforts to make DC beautiful again, and the president has done a remarkable job of that, I mean, cleaning up Union Station and Columbus Circle and the beautiful fountains and getting rid of all the dirt and the grime and the filth and actually restoring water and getting rid of all the graffiti. And the liberals are enraged over this. They are appalled by this. And why are they appalled? Because they prefer ugly. That's who the democ... These liberals prefer ugly. And it's a sad thing, but that's the reality of it. And that's why they would prefer that people live in squalor. You know, when you drive around and look at some of the federal housing projects across the nation and the filth, that is because the Democrats, that's what they love. That's what they aspire. They want people to live in filth and squalor. And then along comes Donald Trump and he says, no, we've got to do something about that. Another great example, the Kennedy Center. The thing is literally rotting. Parts of the Kennedy Center are literally rotting. There are gaping holes where water's pouring through. It's filthy. When you walk into, and I remember years ago, I was invited to attend something at the Kennedy Center. I was taken aback by the smell of mothballs when I walked in. I thought, wow, wow, what is that smell? Well, it was the smell of death and grime and rot. And the president comes in and says, well, we got to do something about this. The Kennedy Center is supposed to be our premier theater, and it's falling apart. And the Democrats stepped, oh, oh, you can't do that. How dare you?