Here’s What You Missed 4/1/19

If you’ve had the pleasure of enjoying a game of baseball in your lifetime then you know exactly how incredible the experience is. If you haven’t, assume that I’m going to talk all about it for the next several sentences. When you first walk through the tunnel at a stadium and the field opens up in front of you, it’s almost too beautiful for words. Before you sits a beautifully crafted diamond with green fields as far as the eye can see.

If the sights aren’t enough, the smells of hot dogs grilling, peanuts and crackerjacks hot and ready to enjoy. Grab a polish sausage if that’s your vibe, it doesn’t matter. Once you’ve taken your seat, you soon realize that the people around you instantly become family for the next nine innings. That is, unless you’re rooting for the visiting team, then you’re dead as a doornail. 

Let’s play ball, here’s what you missed in the news over the weekend. 

Leave Biden Alone 

There are certain people the media covers quite often because of their inclinations to say racist things or make women feel uncomfortable, but there stands to be a select few that have managed to stay out of the negative spotlight. Former Vice President Joe Biden is one such person who has given off the never-hurt-a-fly vibe. Biden may or may not announce his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election, but on Friday, Lucy Flores, Nevada’s Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2014, came forward and said that Biden made her feel uncomfortable when he was weirdly physical at a campaign event. 

“Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable nor do they recall what she describes.”

–Bill Russo, spokesperson for Joe Biden 

Melania Trump, Everyone 

I don’t know what you’ve heard about First Lady Melania Trump but I’m here to tell you that she’s a stand-up individual. Actually, to be fair other than her debacle with decorating the White House with red Christmas trees during the holiday season I’m not really sure what she’s been up to. According to recent reports, First Lady Trump’s “Be Best” program, a program designed to focus on major issues facing children today, encouraging them to be best, is doing quite well. My only issue that how can someone “be best,” wouldn’t it make sense to “be the best” or “be one’s best?” 

I digress, Melania announced over the weekend that she’s now working the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs, an organization founded under President George W. Bush. 

“When Mrs. Trump was made aware that there is an existing mechanism in government that convenes 20 agencies that focus on youth-specific programs, she saw that as a real opportunity to bring their good work to the forefront and ensure that those programs aligned with Be Best get the attention and focus they deserve.”

–Stephanie Grisham, First Lady Trump spokesperson