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The news continues to serve up nothing interesting. And when it's interesting, it's stuff I don't talk about too much. So I don't talk too much about the mass killings. There's not much to say about them. Unfortunately they're just tragedies. But the fun political stuff has sort of slowed down. Have you noticed?

So I'll just hit some of the nuggets that fell out from today's news. Apparently President Trump criticized Chris Cuomo and his show in a tweet, and Chris Cuomo replied. He first of all accepted the criticism. I think the criticism might have been about ratings or something. So he accepted it, and then Chris Cuomo went on to criticize the president the following way.

Chris Cuomo noted all the things that are going really, really well under this president. Now of course he had to throw in that it was probably Obama that got things going and maybe it's just all luck. But he did note that this president has one of the most successful first two and a half years of any president. Those are my words I guess. But he noted that the economy was screaming and unemployment is good and terrorism is down. So he noted all the intensely good stuff happening.

And then he said the president must be incompetent — here again I'm paraphrasing — because his approval is below 50%. And Cuomo said how could you have a president with so many things going right, all the big stuff, the economy and terrorism, etc., and he can't get his approval level over 50%? The implication being that that's the president's fault.

Do you see what's wrong with that? The president's approval rating is not being driven entirely by the president's actions. It's being driven by how CNN covers him. If they simply covered the actual events instead of acting like he was some kind of demon who had come to the world to destroy all mankind or humankind, if CNN and the other news covered him in even the least objective fashion, his approval rate would be 75%.

And by the way, I'll stand by that. I'm gonna say that again. If the news covered this president objectively and just said the facts — and they could include saying that he doesn't pass the fact-checking, so they could certainly criticize him for mean tweets, those are facts — but if you just covered what actually happened and you didn't make up stuff like the Charlottesville hoax, you didn't make up stuff like mocking the guy with a bad arm that didn't happen, if they didn't actually make up news, he probably would have an approval of 75%. And I'm not exaggerating. I think that's how high it would be.

Now of course we've never had a president w