Noah Wyle as RFK, Jr.

Plus the usual cartoons, Trump gets his "Noble," Dylan meets James Brown

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Our favorite I’m-not-a-doctor Noah Wyle does a PSA for Kimmel mocking the RFK’s of the world…

Colbert last night:

The Guardian:

CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’

Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom

The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened.

“There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . “It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.”

“Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.

Heather Cox Richardson:

One of the other things Trump’s statements have driven out of the news is the revelation from yesterday that the U.S. has sold $500 million worth of Venezuelan oil and is keeping the money in Qatar rather than in U.S. banks. Trump claims that he has the power to manage that money, and is trying to prevent its capture by the oil companies that have prior claims against Venezuela for property seized when it nationalized the oil fields.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told Shelby Talcott and Eleanor Mueller of Semafor. “That is precisely a move that a corrupt politician would be attracted to.”

Paul Krugman on Trump’s prize below. (My friend Bill Blum asks if next up Trump demands that he receive the Super Bowl trophy.)

It’s a Nobel medal, a symbol of the honor, not the honor itself. Only a vain, insecure fool would imagine that blackmailing someone into handing their medal over adds to his stature.

No new music, so will re-post for first time in awhile one of our all-time faves: James Brown and Bob Dylan and The Band mashup on “Like a Rolling Sex Machine.”

From Tune to Toons

Barry Blitt:

Britt:

Wuerker:

Grandlund:

Horsey:

Brodner with a “Hitch”:

Luckovich:

Bramhall:

Clay Jones: