World News: Lord of the wokeness?

Wednesday, September 7

Rex wonders why everything has to be filled with wokeness

Today we get a note from Rex Huppke on his latest column.

There's plenty of news out there these days, but clearly nothing is more important in the white-man-o-sphere than the WOKENESS that Amazon Studios has injected into its new "Lord of the Rings" series, "The Rings of Power."

I nearly fell off my fainting couch when I first heard the show would feature both a strong female lead character - the elven warrior Galadriel - and diverse actors, including an elf played by Ismael Cruz Córdova, who in July proudly described himself on Instagram as "Black, Latino, Puerto Rican, proud, and Elven AF."

Morfydd Clark plays elf Galadriel, who was portrayed in the "Rings" films by Cate Blanchett. Galadriel is thousands of years old and on a mission to wipe our evil from Middle Earth.

Amazon

So I decided it's both important and in no way embarrassing that me and my adult-male friends (who are also single by choice and have time to worry about crucial matters like this) express our outrage at any attempts to make imaginary worlds reflect the real people who inhabit the actual world.

It's a slippery slope from there to other forms of entertainment people who don't look exactly like us can relate to. Read my column to share in my despair.

- Rex Huppke

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If Republicans don't regain the Senate, there's one person to blame: Trump

By Ross K. Baker

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, in a speech before a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Kentucky last month, observed that in races for seats in the U.S. Senate, "candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome."

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022.

Mary Altaffer, AP

Political professionals read the comment as a poke in the eye to former President Donald Trump and his endorsement of Senate candidates based solely on their loyalty to him.

In normal times, there is a procedure for recruiting and vetting GOP candidates for the Senate. Its purpose is to identify promising candidates and provide them with the resources to run a successful general election campaign. Read more...

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