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It Helps Everybody When Someone Points Out the Truth

Recently a federal judge has pointed out that the Kennnedy Center for the Arts was created as a memorial to JFK, our slain president, and that by law it could not be used to honor any other individual. For most of my lifetime that seemed pretty straight-forward.

But our petulant child-who-would-be-king was offended by a building that honored anyone but himself; fired the board governing the Kennedy Center and installed his own minions, who promptly renamed it putting his name in front. Artists performing there joined the chorus of complaints, bookings fell apart, and eventually our child molestor-in-chief ordered the thing closed for two years ("renovations") out of embarassment.

John Thune and Mike Johnson, the Republican leaders of the Senate and House, refused to intervene for reasons that honorable people have trouble fathoming but seem to be consequences of their invertebrate nature.

So: Joyce Beatty, a House democrat who had been on the fired board, brought suit in federal court basically pointing out that there was this law on the books that everybody knew about and that our felon-in-chief had broken, and a federal judge said, yeah, that's against the law, and ordered it to be made right.

I've been to the Kennedy Center twice for really good shows. Will it ever get back to what it had been before our traitor-in-chief smeared his feces over it? Time will tell.

But:  I have seen this in other contexts, and it really does go back to the Emperor's New Clothes. We need people who are brave enough to point out the obvious when too many people are willing to pretend otherwise for venal reasons. My respects to Rep. Beatty and Judge Christopher Cooper.

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