SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

THIS, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – FROM FOX, OVERNIGHT:   Conservative author and commentator Candace Owens was denied medical care in the form of a coronavirus test by a Colorado laboratory because of her political beliefs, Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson reported Thursday.  Owens was sent a letter by Aspen Laboratories co-founder Suzanna Lee informing her that her "booking" was being cancelled and that she would be "denied service" because of both her aversion to governmental facemask mandates and her analysis of the effectiveness of vaccination shots.  "We cannot support anyone who has pro-actively worked to make this pandemic worse by spreading misinformation, politicizing, and discouraging the wearing of masks and actively dissuading people from receiving life-saving vaccinations," Lee wrote in the letter obtained by "Tucker Carlson Tonight."  Carlson noted it has not been unusual for Americans of certain political affiliations to be "singled out, punished and denied services" – but that it is likely one of the first such cases of an American citizen being denied medical treatment on that basis.  "This doesn't sound like America," he said, introducing Owens to the program.  No it doesn't, and I think the Republican Party can turn this case, and others like it, into a major, symbolic issue.   

September 3,   2021