Nine Observations

 1.  Just for the hell of it....what is the Biden family business that brings in millions?  Ask your friend or co-worker....do they produce air conditioners, sell ice cream, or haul lumber.  

2.  First question for Trump out of this townhall/CNN thing.....'will you stop talking about election fraud?'

Trump responds: 'yes, unless I see election fraud'.  

Five star moment leading off the episode.

3.  Oddly, summer of 2022, Anheuser-Busch stock was lower than today (near $45 a share).  Presently at 61.81 because of the Bud-Lite business.

4.  Guatemala's President has attempted to call the WH and warn that 80k folks have left and headed to the US border.  He says...virtually no one within the administration will answer the phone.  

5.  This guy on CNN's 'panel' last night after Trump....Rep Byron Donalds....slammed 'hit' after 'hit' against the CNN panel folks.  

6.  Some weird attempt by White House press spokesperson....trying to compare car loans to student-college loans.  Pretty bizarre. 

7.  FBI says (could be fictional....could be true) that they in some way got a hacker tool out into the public that the Russians have created....but the FBI sabotaged.  Odds that the FBI is convinced of this....while the Russians had double-sabotaged it already?  You just wonder.   

8.  Some suggestion that car-makers will stop producing/installing AM capability in cars.  

To be honest, the trend is toward wi-fi or internet capable cars (with your chip), and FM.  AM across the nation?  I would suggest within a decade it's mostly dead.

Podcasts are the future of people communication. 

9.  What is a 'rube'?

It's a term out of the 1920s/1930s, and basically was an insult....suggesting you were unsophisticated and pretty inexperienced (at life, women, business, etc).  

What Was CNN Thinking (Bringing Trump to a Townhall)?

After viewing the hour....I came to ponder....why the hell would CNN go and do something like this.  I came to three conclusions:

1.  They probably thought....right after the court episode, that Trump would be highly embarrassed and they could slam him in some way.

Note: from what I saw....he wasn't embarrassed, and the brief interaction with the CNN moderator on this topic....well, it went south for the lady.  

2.  They figured at his age (76), that he would be dull-witted like Joe Biden.  

On that, they guessed wrong in a pretty serious way.  Trying to offer the same townhall deal to President Biden?  I think he's pushed into a corner now....having to show up and do some promotion.

3.  In their mind, using New Hampshire would surely bring up mostly left-of-center independent voters, and fairly tough questions. 

On this matter....I would agree that the questions were realistic, blunt, and weren't filled with opinion-chatter.  Trump answered every single one of them, without much of a stumble.  

On this left-of-center independent voter thing...it's really not helping President Biden because of the far-left chatter he's offered for the past two years.  

So I'll just say this....CNN probably had the highest level of a audience of the past five years, and rather shocked how viewers accepted the townhall chatter. 

'Land of the Giants'?

 Someone brought up the late 1960s Sci-Fi show....Land of the Giants yesterday.

This was one of the few shows as a kid (in rural Alabama) that I was addicted to.  There were only two seasons (51 episodes). 

Story value?  Well....today, I'd give it a marginal two-stars.  If you tried to produce it....it'd be gone after eight episodes.