No, because Rather was an anchor and correspondent and Mary Mapes was a news producer, and I was talking about who makes hiring decisions for the organization.

The Left’s long march happened because people who made hiring decisions thought their leftism wouldn’t get in the way of their professionalism. But leftists always put politics first.

Bari Weiss is not a liberal, but a leftist; but the liberals are the ones who hired the leftists. Doing more of the same is not going to make things better; as I said, half a step up the slippery slope, but the slippery slope is still in place. Every leftist she hires is going to make things worse and not better, and she will hire leftists, especially if trying to be “fair”.

1) Atlas’s closest approach to Mars was on 03 October. It takes time to download data across interplanetary distances and process it.

2) The federal government has been shutdown since 01 October. So while the American Mars orbiters could have been and likely were programmed ahead of time to collect data on Atlas, no-one paid with federal funds could perform such downloading and processing or use equipment paid with federal funds to do so.

3) Atlas’s closest approach distance to Mars was 29 million km. The best camera orbiting Mars is the HiRISE camera on the American Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. At that distance HiRISE images have a resolution of 30 km per pixel. Since Atlas is only 5.6 km long, its image will be only about 1/6 of a single pixel (i.e. nonexistent).

Does this lack of current and better data seem rather odd to you?

So were the ones in place twenty years ago that hired the ones in place today….

Then, he rents it out for occasions–weddings, etc.–plus travels around the UK, filming the native’s reaction to a big American cop car, drivers in the correct uniforms, exactly like the ones they’ve seen on TV.*

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr_9a8wYzkQ