(The Monday Wake Up Call will be published on Tuesday.)
Plenty of Super Bowl-adjacent cartoons this week but let’s start by looking at two overlooked stories. First, the Nevada primary. It’s another case where the media decided there wasn’t anything worthwhile to cover. Except for Nevada’s own journalist, John Ralston:
Seems as if no one’s reporting that Biden got twice as many votes as Trump in the Nevada primary. Maybe they’re still covering Robert Hur’s feelings about Biden?
Second, you probably missed the Trump administration’s IG Report about the medical unit in Trump’s White House:
“The drugs dispensed included Fentanyl. Morphine, Ketamine, Hydrocodone, Provigil, Ambien, Diazepam, Versed, and Tramadol.”
Neither the pharmacy nor the WH’s clinical operations were credentialed by an outside agency. However, they saw an average of 6 to 20 of the patients seen each week who were not eligible to receive care from the pharmacy. There was little mainstream media coverage of this story. On to cartoons.
Everybody likes the commercials:
It’s hard to escape politics even at America’s biggest show:
Even the Super Bowl’s real narratives will get twisted:
The DOJ gave Biden a beating last week:
Everybody’s got memory problems:
Tucker Carlson interviews Putin:
