A “Nation of Assholes” nurtured by boorish conduct emanating from the White House is certainly bad, but a Nation of Censors is infinitely worse. Woke World, now in charge of one and a half of the three branches of government, is increasingly enthusiastic about the concept of stifling the communication of inconvenient or unwelcome facts. And, as the top goes, so rots what lies beneath.
The Baltimore Orioles management didn’t like the fact that play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown told a TV audience before a televised game with the Tampa Bay Rays how badly the team had done in its games against the Rays in their home stadium over the years. Indeed, the O’s, now the surprise leaders in the American League East after many seasons of abject failure, had fared exactly as Brown described. But Facts Don’t Matter, so he was mysteriously pulled off Orioles broadcasts as punishment, even though the statistics Brown cited came from the team own PR department’s pregame notes, and were accompanied by screen graphic prepared in advance.
