Morning Jolt: ‘You’re Fired!’

Making the click-through worthwhile: Kevin Hart is defenestrated, a shakeup in the White House, and the special counsel sits on two documents that people are eager to read. Jim Geraghty will be back next week.

#OscarsSoWhite

Kevin Hart is the latest casualty of old tweets. The comedian was set to host the Academy Awards until tweets surfaced from 2009 in which he made a series of homophobic jokes. For a time, Hart was silent, before posting an Instagram video in which he did not apologize, but instead said this: "If you don't believe that people change, grow, evolve as they get older, I don't know what to tell you. If you want to hold people in a position where they always have to justify or explain their past, then do you. I'm the wrong guy, man."

They did them, all right, by which I mean the masses acted like the masses by continuing to demand Hart's head on a pike while culture-industry decision-makers acted like culture-industry decision-makers by (likely, I'm no entertainment insider) informing Hart that he was to apologize and withdraw from the Oscars gig. Which he did, twelve hours ago, via Twitter. There's a perhaps impolitic ...

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'You're Fired!' Theodore Kupfer Making the click-through worthwhile: Kevin Hart is defenestrated, a shakeup in the White House, and the special counsel sits on two documents that people are eager to read. Jim Geraghty will be back next week. #OscarsSoWhite Kevin Hart is the latest casualty of old tweets. The comedian was set to host the Academy Awards until tweets surfaced from 2009 in which he made a series of homophobic jokes. For a time, Hart was silent, before posting an Instagram video in which he did not apologize, but instead said this: "If you don't believe that people change, grow, evolve as they get older, I don't know what to tell you. If you want to hold people in a position where they always have to justify or explain their past, then do you. I'm the wrong guy, man." They did them, all right, by which I mean the masses acted like the masses by continuing to demand Hart's head on a pike while culture-industry decision-makers acted like culture-industry decision-makers by (likely, I'm no entertainment insider) informing Hart that he was to apologize and withdraw from the Oscars gig. Which he did, twelve hours ago, via Twitter. There's a perhaps impolitic ... Read More ADVERTISEMENT Top Stories Say No to Defense Cuts Jim Talent For both the GOP & Democrats, cutting defense is easier than raising taxes or reducing the growth rate of the entitlement programs. But it has devastated the armed forces. There's No Easy Fix for Climate Problem Mona Charen The climate-change problem should be addressed, but debates about the issue are complicated, multi-faceted, and suffer from limited knowledge. REPORT: Special Counsel Investigators Questioned Kelly About Trump's Attempt to Fire... Jack Crowe John Kelly was questioned in recent months about Trump's alleged attempt to preemptively conclude the special counsel's investigation by firing Mueller. ADVERTISEMENT The Human Rights Declaration Turns 70 Sean Nelson To bring back its international credibility, the U.N. needs to refocus on the the basic rights of mankind outlined in the declaration. Nézet-Séguin Impresses in His Met Debut, with La Traviata Daniel Gelernter The genial maestro Nézet-Séguin is sensitive to his duty as a custodian of great things. The Met can look forward to wonderful years under his baton. The American Film Institute's Terrible Top Ten of 2018 Armond White The AFI Top 10 List of 2018 assumes the same values that are promoted in politically biased mainstream media; the list resembles an index for Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. How the Founders Protected the Natural Right of Religious Liberty Vincent Phillip Muñoz Does the Constitution have built-in protections against violating the right to free exercise of religion? Or must exemptions be specifically spelled out? Trump to Nominate William Barr as Attorney General Mairead McArdle Barr, a long-time Washington lawyer, previously served as attorney general for two years under President George H.W. Bush. ADVERTISEMENT JOIN NRPLUS All Our Content. Fewer Ads. Members-Only Privileges. NRPLUS is everything you would associate with a digital magazine subscription, and a whole lot more ─ including up to 90% fewer on-site ads, access to our private Facebook group, full commenting privileges, and invites to our writer/editor conference calls. SAVE 30% TODAY Photo Essays Cartoons of the Day: December 7, 2018 Cartoons of the Day: December 6, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.