* The Onion bought Infowars—with plans to turn it into a parody of itself. Quite the challenge: Making a parody out of a parody.
* NBC News exit polls showed Trump won 55% support from Hispanic men. Whatever the cherry-picking, economic rationale and “anti-socialist” bumper stickers, how ironico that this president-elect is a belittling, nativist, anti-immigrant faux populist.
* “From my point of view, (X) has become basically unusable, overrun by bots, trolls, cranks and extremists.”–Paul Krugman, NYT.
* “Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.”–David Brinkley.
* Turkey-pardoning at the White House: beyond silly. SNL has enough Cold Opening material.