i see him as a pretty balanced pick, particularly in context of this administration and what we ve seen so far. steven, you agree? well, unfortunately, i do agree that i think this was a retreat by the trump administration. i read the editorial in the wall street journal today. i used to work on the editorial board at the journal. they said the unions and there s a conservative effort by the left to take down andy puzder. i think it was unfair. i think a lot of charges were not true that were made against him. and, you know, what the journal said is come forward with somebody else like him. don t retreat. this is a little bit of a retreat. one other thing i d like to say because you had this discussion about cabinet picks and someone was saying, well, this isn t really that unusual. but i ve been in politics, wolf, for 30 years. you ve been even longer than i have. i can t remember a time when virtually every cabinet secretary nominee was so chmged by the other party.
it was one commencement speech, what about the media coverage and what about what the president had to say. jim bing ker ton is a contributing editor and wire for a conservative magazine. alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes radio show and author of thank the liberals for saving america. to hear the president everything would be better in america and especially for graduates of ohio state if the evil corporations and so potter weren weren t getting handouts. i m not sure what he was referring to. i m not sure either. the president gave a populous speech calling young people to action. but if the president really meant it when he said he wants to, you know, stop special treatment for insiders he might look to his own new cabinet secretary nominee, that would be penny pritsker who is supposed to be the next secretary of commerce which is an important job in the obama administration