Tuesday's No Spin News began with Bill's analysis of the crucial tax reform situation.  "The president has to get this legislation passed," he declared, "because it will benefit the working Americans who put him in the White House.  So today he went up to Capitol Hill for a lunch with Senate Republicans.  The problem is that he's having a feud with Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee.  They were once close but now they don't like each other and it's kind of infantile."  Bill urged both Senator Corker and President Trump to put their petty differences aside and focus on the greater good. 

Bill then moved to the somewhat complicated Uranium One story, which is being covered by The Hill and FNC's Sean Hannity.  "Vladimir Putin wanted to get uranium that was based in the USA and Canada," Bill explained, "and in order to do that he had to get approval from nine government entities, including the State Department, then run by Hillary Clinton.  Apparently, millions of dollars went to the Clinton Foundation at about the same time and Bill Clinton got some big speaking fees from Russians.  The FBI was then headed by Robert Mueller, who is now running the Russia investigation, and the Justice Department was run by Eric Holder.  There are two congressional committees looking into this and their first two subpoenas should go to Mueller and Holder.  Are they hiding something?  The House committees have the power to bring them in and have them testify under oath.  This is mind-boggling and it should be the lead story on every newscast and every newspaper!" 

In other news, nearly 1.5 million fewer Americans are receiving food stamps since President Trump's inauguration, even though 41-million are still getting assistance.  "It is going down," Bill surmised, "because the economy is better.  This is good for the president because you don't want people on the government dole, it's much better if they are working." 

Bill then welcomed media analyst Bernie Goldberg and asked him whether most people believe that the national media are corrupt.  "Most Americans have lost confidence in the news media," Goldberg replied, "and for good reason.  But there's a problem when the American people don't trust the mainstream media, which is very important in a free country.  46% of voters believe the media puts out made-up stories, but it doesn't happen that way.  They have biases, they get things wrong, they hate Donald Trump, but they don't make things up." 

Goldberg placed blame for the current state of affairs on both the president and the media.  "The press has brought a lot of this on themselves," he asserted, "by going after Donald Trump relentlessly, but Donald Trump has also demagogued the issue.  Both sides benefit.  President Trump gets to rile up his base and the media get to make money by bashing Donald Trump.  That is not a good place to be."  Bill added that the media too often rely on anonymous sources that have not been checked or verified.  "If I'm President Trump," Bill said, "and I know that every day a vast portion of the national media gets up and tries to hurt me, I'm going to take the gloves off."  Goldberg concluded by urging Americans to obtain their news from more than just one source.

On a related subject, Bill reported on a new Pew study that proves what most observers have long suspected – namely that American voters have become far more polarized.  "Pew found that 32% of Americans take an equal number of conservative and liberal positions," Bill reported, "which is down from 49% in 2004.  Why?  Because of the hatred, because people are now attacked for their political beliefs.  When you get attacked by a certain segment, you start to despise that segment and move to the segment that is not attacking you." 

Bill then elaborated on three unbelievable stories that illustrate the ongoing campus craziness.  First, at the University of Southern California an administrator named Charles H.F. Davis argues that rowdy students should not be penalized for shouting down speakers on campus.  "The punishment contributes to white supremacy," Davis wrote, "especially because their actions are in the service of social justice." 

Then there is the University of Illinois, where a math professor named Rochelle Gutiérrez contends that math skills provide an "unearned privilege" to students who are proficient.  Bill summarized her bizarre contention:  "Because most math teachers are white, whites benefit from math but not minorities." 

Finally, at Georgetown University in Washington, founded as a Catholic institution, a student group has endorsed traditional marriage as the ideal way to form a family and the best way to raise children.  "That is the Catholic Church's doctrine," Bill pointed out, "that marriage is between a man and a woman for the benefit of children."  But some Georgetown students are actually demanding that the pro-traditional marriage group be defunded by the university.  "Georgetown has gone radical in the past few years," Bill groused, "but is anyone in charge there?" 

In their emails and messages, many Premium Members urged Bill to continue fighting against media malefactors.  Other PMs lauded Bill's continued pursuit of justice for Kate Steinle, whose alleged murderer is now on trial in San Francisco.

Finally, a witty and observant Premium Member wondered whether Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who is fond of wearing cowboy hats, might be guilty of cultural appropriation.  "She has to understand the cowboy culture," Bill replied, "in order to wear the hat.  Those are the rules of our politically correct world.  So she should watch a lot of John Wayne movies!"