Historian Jon Meacham now takes a paycheck from MSNBC so he's going to bash Donald Trump at every opportunity. Less than 24 hours after Colin Powell passed, there was Meachum using the General's death to say vile things about Mr. Trump.

How can this pass for responsible commentary? I'm asking you, NBC News. I guess it really is true that all journalistic standards have vanished.

Unfortunately, Mr. Trump himself was less than graceful in his own comments about General Powell. Speaking ill of the dead used to be scorned unless the person was a proven villain. Colin Powell, of course, was a demonstrable patriot.

We live in a vicious age driven by social media which affords malicious cowards anonymity. The invective on the net is far more contagious than Covid and today guttersnipes are actually applauded by some.

But fair-minded Americans remain uneasy about a society that celebrates personal destruction and about people who will even use the dead in that pursuit. We are a country in decline and the corrupt corporate media is leading the way.

See you beginning at six eastern for the No Spin News.