Dumbest News Story of the Day

Powerline ^ | August 19,2017 | John Hinderaker

[Hojczyk]

At the University of Southern California, activists have pointed out that the horse that the school’s Trojan mascot rides around the football stadium on has almost the same name as Robert E. Lee’s horse! The Los Angeles Times reports:

When Richard Saukko galloped his chalk-white Arabian horse named Traveler around the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum almost 56 years ago, it was supposed to be a one-time stunt.

Instead, the brief performance before USC kicked off its season against Georgia Tech turned into one of college football’s iconic traditions. A succession of white horses named Traveler have followed — Traveler IX debuts this fall — trotting out of the tunnel as “Conquest” plays and the costumed Trojan warrior atop the horse waves a sword. But during a rally earlier this week to show solidarity in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., a USC campus group linked the name to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose favorite horse was Traveller.

But the intrepid Times reporter investigated and found that Traveler is not a very common name among horses:

But the name isn’t that common. According to Equibase, a leading source of horse racing statistics, there have been only three registered thoroughbreds named Traveler in the U.S. since 1945. Only two quarter horses have been registered

There is more, but you get the drift. Mr. Saukko’s widow brings a voice of sanity:

“The problem is this: maybe three weeks ago it was fine,” Pat Saukko DeBernardi said. “So now the flavor of the day is . . . we all have to be in hysteria. . . . It’s more of a political issue. The horse isn’t political and neither am I.”

Do you have to be crazy to be a liberal? I am starting to wonder.

[HangThemHigh]

"has almost the same name as Robert E. Lee’s horse!"

Lee spelled Traveller with 2 l's?

[A strike]

I suppose all animals with the same or similar names as the horses, livestock, pets or fruit trees of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington should be euthanized.

Maybe even all the people in racist Washington state too.
(I could go for all in Washington, D.C.)

[Grampa Dave]

If the insane left and their mediots get their way, you may have presented their goals:

I suppose all animals with the same or similar names as the horses, livestock, pets or fruit trees of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington should be euthanized.

Maybe even all the people in racist Washington state too.

(I could go for all in Washington, D.C.)