Chicago’s Morning Answer Show Notes: Monday 8/21/2017

Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office on Monday in danger of becoming increasingly isolated from the Republican establishment he needs to enact his agenda and the grassroots activists inspired by just-departed chief strategist Stephen Bannon. Noah Rothman the Associate Editor for Commentary Magazine joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the quick end of the Bannon era and President Trump’s reaction to the violence in Charlottesville.

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Supporters of a small, conservative “free speech rally” held Saturday in Boston said that despite being outnumbered by tens of thousands of counterprotesters, their event was a success. They said they were simply supporting free speech, but ended up getting lumped in with the violent Nazi rally in Charlottesville. Dilbert Cartoonist Scott Adams joined Dan and Amy to talk about the hysteria that has resulted from the violence in Charlottesville, and what you can do to avoid it:

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Thousands of people protested against an alleged “white supremacist” rally in Boston on Saturday. Multiple outlets, journalists, politicians and other public figures declared that the event that drew an estimated 40,000 people to protest against was racist in nature.

 

Colin Kaepernick may not be employed by an NFL team, but he continues to be a fixture in the NFL’s 24-hour news cycle. The free-agent quarterback will have his own exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

 

John Kass: This is what happens with amoral men.

 

Joshua Witt, 26, escaped a brush with hairdo-doom with a defensive slice to the hand and three stitches. A“Apparently, my haircut is considered a neo-Nazi statement,” he told The Post Saturday, as his account on Facebook garnered 20,000 shares.

 

Comic legend Jerry Lewis died over the weekend at the age of 91.

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