There’s this old saying about not worrying about the mote in another’s eye before seeing to the plank in one’s own. It’s a warning that all too often applies to politicians and, frankly, to many people who make their living working with and writing/talking about politicians. Partisan politics just seems to bring that out in people, and that’s probably inevitable.
That applies to some in the legacy media’s reaction to President-elect Donald Trump’s once more receiving classified briefings. He’s receiving those briefings, of course, because he’s the President-elect, like it or not, and on Day One he will be once more the American head of state, Commander-in-Chief of the military, and oh, by the way, the guy with nuclear weapons release authority – so it seems a good idea that he has a firm grasp of the state of the planet before he resumes his seat at the…
