L.A. Olympic Fever - Have You Caught It?

<![CDATA[I know it seems like a long way away, but in just 25 months, the final Olympic torch runner will be a block from their final destination to open up the Los Angeles 2028 Games, but will never make it as they're slammed to the ground by a thrown cinder block. And by the time a first responder feels the zone is safe enough to enter, the perimeter of the stadium will have been tagged with "F*** ICE." This is Karen Bass' Los Angeles. This is Gavin Newsom's California.Welcome to #NewsomRiotsI have been in this business of media for 30 years. I believed that at least professionally, I was about as jaded as I could get. Then I watched as thousands of people who hate this city, hate the state, definitely hate law enforcement, and hate the country, were provoked to violence by the mayor of the city, the governor of the state, their representatives in Congress, and the media. The last time I was this disgusted watching a societal breakdown in real time was the January 6th riot. What I saw over the course of the last six hours as I sat down to write this column Sunday night was far worse than what took place at the Capitol. We're now on Day 3 of this nonsense, whereas on January 6th, both chambers were back in session later that same night. For three days, the wishcasting by local media has been to parrot the line of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom that it's a mostly peaceful protest, and it's really not affecting that many people. ]]>