The friend of a man who was critically injured during a string of shootings and carjackings that spanned from D.C. to Prince George’s County, Maryland, says he can’t make sense of the attack.

So he probably can’t make sense of the new style of reportage:

“Something like this …

— i.e., something like really bad editing —

…can happen anywhere, at any time, to anybody,” Bennett told WTOP. “It makes you feel really vulnerable and frightened about almost being anywhere, the senselessness of this” —

— media in America, yeah. And here’s one example of really bad writing and editing:

Police also believe the same suspect shot at least once after being spotted by a Maryland State Police trooper helping stranded motorists on I-95 near Maryland Route 198 and Laurel around 3:30 a.m. The trooper’s windshield was struck, Maryland State Police Superintendent Col. Roland Butler said.

Early Tuesday morning, the two New Carrollton officers noticed an occupied vehicle on Annapolis Road near the intersection with Veterans Parkway in Lanham. Officers identified the SUV as stolen and approached the man nearby.

Attorney General spokesman Thomas Lester said at a news conference Tuesday that the suspect went toward the officers and “produced two hand guns.” That’s when the officers shot the suspect.

— “Friends, family speak out after former DC BOE member shot during carjacking spree,” January 30, 2024, Scott Gelman

WTOP’s Jessica Kronzer and Luke Lukert contributed to this report.

… So, they’re proud enough of that to let it be known?

Mika gets a glimpse of Oppo leaving the IMAO saunas:

She kids about It with her girlfriends:

Yet — later that night — Oppo opens his bedroom door, and sitting on the edge of his bed:

Which is why I may not be posting tomorrow. In the cyber sense.

What exposes Willis’ true motives-—which she didn’t share with church members or taxpayers-—is that Willis hired a PR type firm for $10,000 to monitor her media coverage just days before announcing the probe into former President Donald Trump (according to invoices and emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation).

Willis announced in a letter sent to four state officials, including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, on Feb. 11, 2021 that she had opened a criminal probe into Trump over his alleged attempts to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. This move also might earn her tangible rewards since it endeared her to Joe Biden.

However, just days earlier, her office contracted with Critical Mention, a New York-based media monitoring service designed for tracking mentions and metrics such as the publicity value that would showcase her burgeoning political potential to a person like Joe Biden.

Atlanta-based criminal defense attorney and legal analyst Philip Holloway told the DCNF that prosecutors are required “to be objective and to wield their great power without bias and certainly not to use the criminal justice system as a ladder to political success.”

The documents show Willis’ deep interest in tracking media coverage of herself, and her office, as she launched an investigation into the former president, knowing full well, that in charging Trump, she had struck political gold.

The first invoice charging $10,000 for the annual contract is dated Feb. 8, 2021. Emails show DA Willis was in discussion with the company as early as Feb. 1.

“We are getting more coverage via your name than by title,” said what appears to be a Fulton County employee in a Feb. 2021 email, referencing Willis. “This graph has the coverage value for the last week at over $150 million.”

“I ran a report for mentions of ‘Fulton County District Attorney’ worldwide for the last seven days. Critical Mention (the PR monitoring platform I told you guys about that we contract for last week) gives a ‘publicity value’ to the coverage, which is meant to reflect what it would cost to buy paid advertising equivalent to the penetration of the media coverage,” the email continues.

“While it can be a bit exaggerated, it says in the last week we’ve gotten media coverage equivalent to $67 million in advertising. Even half of that value would be staggering.”

Biden blunders again — says he discussed Capitol riot with ex-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017
NY Post | 2/08/24 | Victor Nava

Same story, same result.

For the third time this week, President Biden told an audience that he discussed the Jan, 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol with European leaders who were actually dead at the time.

On Wednesday, Biden told Democratic donors in New York that he spoke about the riot with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose death pre-dates the event by nearly half a decade.

The shocking gaffe comes just days after the 81-year-old president confused French President Emmanuel Macron with the country’s ex-leader Francois Mitterrand — who died in 1996.

Biden made the blunder Wednesday in front of audiences at two separate fundraisers as he regaled donors with an anecdote about his first international trip as president – to the 2021 G-7 summit in Great Britain – after his 2020 election win over former President Donald Trump.

“I showed up … and I sat down and said, ‘America’s back,’ and [French President Emmanuel] [Macron] looked at me and said, ‘For how long?’ How long? Not a joke,” Biden recalled, according to a pool report of the president’s stop at the home of Maureen White, whose husband Steven Rattner manages billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s fortune.

“Helmut Kohl said, ‘Joe, what would you think if you picked up the phone and picked up the paper tomorrow and learned in the London Times, on the front page, that 1,000 people stormed the Parliament, broke down the doors of the House of Commons and killed 2 bobbies in the process … trying to stop the election of a prime minister?’” he added.

Kohl, who served as the chancellor of Germany from 1982 to1998, died in 2017 – nearly four years before the 2021 G7 summit.

Interns are not our only pleasures.