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WEEK 301 / 337 Someone Else's Channel
Vol. 5 ·  Chapter 31 The Office of the Former President · Mar 16 – Mar 22, 2021
Manga panel 1 of 4, Week 301 “Someone Else's Channel”: March on the southern border: a fence, a floodlight, and a line of small figures walking single file in the dark.
THROUGH MARCH THE CROSSINGS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER RUN AT THE HIGHEST RATE IN TWENTY YEARS.
Manga panel 2 of 4, Week 301 “Someone Else's Channel”: A Sunday programme is discussing the border out of frame; its light falls across four paragraphs of reply, already typed.
We proudly handed the Biden Administration the most secure border in history. All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot. Instead, in the span of a just few weeks, the Biden Administration has turned a national triumph into a national disaster.…
Manga panel 3 of 4, Week 301 “Someone Else's Channel”: He comes back as a picture on somebody else's monitor — scan lines, screen glare, and a technician's headphones in the way.
Lisa Boothe, who has been doing an outstanding job at Fox News, is starting her own podcast, which begins this morning.…
Manga panel 4 of 4, Week 301 “Someone Else's Channel”: Three times in six days the office announces that he will appear — each time on somebody else's programme.
THREE TIMES IN SIX DAYS THE OFFICE ANNOUNCES THAT HE WILL APPEAR SOMEWHERE.
EVERY ONE OF THE THREE IS SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROGRAMME.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

Six statements this week and three of them are advisories: he will be on this network tonight, he has recorded an interview for that new podcast this morning, he will be on another network at seven. Between them the crossings on the southern border run at their highest in twenty years and he answers with four paragraphs on a homeland secretary's Sunday performance, and a congressman announces a run for secretary of state in Georgia and is endorsed the same afternoon.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 301. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…