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The ‘Progressive Liberal’ a Wrestling Heel for the Trump Era

In the early 1980s, professional wresting relied on an Iranian sheikh and various large men with Russian accents to draw the ire of fans. In the late 1990s, an arrogant, millionaire boss served as the magnet for boos. Today, in a sign of the times, a wrestler calling himself the “Progressive Liberal” now feels the heat.

The Progressive Liberal

FLYNN: Press That Gave Obama Pass on ‘The Ukraine’ Gives Trump Grief

“It’s a great honor to be with President Poroshenko of the Ukraine,” President Donald Trump explained on Tuesday, “a place that we’ve all been very much involved in.” Twittericans, a people equally offended by insults to their online nationality, immediately pounced on the faux pas.

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FLYNN: When You Leave Your Pint at the Bar, the Terrorists Win

The photograph of a Saturday night reveler calmly fleeing the London attacks armed with a half-full pint glass of beer he refused to leave at the pub shows that though the attackers and their victims lived in the same city they inhabited different planets. Englishmen are from bars, terrorists are from Kandahar.

Guy with Pint Fleeing London Terror Attacks

FLYNN: Kathy Griffin Hopefully Decapitates Partisan Comedy, a Joyless Oxymoron

Kathy Griffin transformed from jokester to punchline this week by holding the image of the president’s severed head. Offending comes with the territory, but some comics mistake this as their raison d’etre. They miss that the essential aspect of comedy, even (especially?) in hyper-politicized times, remains to provoke laughter.

Kathy Griffin speaks during a press conference at The Bloom Firm on June 2, 2017 in Woodl

FLYNN: Hillary Clinton, Big Woman on Campus

Hillary Clinton remains the big woman on campus in leafy, liberal Wellesley, Massachusetts. Everywhere else votes her most likely to don her inauguration dress for the remainder of her days the way Miss Havisham forever wore her wedding dress.

Hillary Clinton 1969 Wellesley Commencement

FLYNN: Morrissey Is Hated for Loving England

Spin headlined its take on Morrissey’s reaction to a Muslim killing 22 in his hometown: “Morrissey Says Something Predictably Dumb About the Manchester Bombing.”

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FLYNN: ‘Inclusive’ ND Students Walking Out on Pence Commencement Address Miss Own Irony

No Notre Dame students walked out before walking on graduation day when Bill Cosby delivered the commencement address 27 years ago. Vice President Mike Pence, who does not socialize with women at venues serving alcohol let alone replace olives with roofies in the drinks of the gentler sex, received no such warm welcome in South Bend this weekend.

ND 2017 Commencement

FLYNN: A Tale of Three Bills

“Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is,” informed Bill W. The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous offers a lesson to three other Bills periodically in the news for the wrong reasons.

Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby photographed backstage of 'Stand Up for New York,' a