Larry O’Connor’s Daily Radar Report 01.29.18

Curious about today’s topics on The Larry O’Connor Show? Below are a few stories on the radar. Be sure to listen to The Larry O’Connor Show Monday – Friday 3pm – 6pm on WMAL.

Frederica Wilson on not attending Trump’s State of the Union: He doesn’t deserve to be honored (Washington Examiner)

Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson won’t be attending President Trump’s first State of the Union address Tuesday because she doesn’t think he deserves to be honored.

“To go would be to honor the president and I don’t think he deserves to be honored at this time, after being so hateful towards black people and then black countries,” she told CNN on Monday. [Read More]

TV Ratings: 2018 Grammys Tumble From Recent Years (Hollywood Reporter)

Sunday’s Bruno Mars-loving Grammy Awards took a steep ratings spill by the first-available metrics.

The show, which ran a bloated three-and-a-half hours, was off an unfortunate 21 percent from 2017 in early numbers. Overnight returns from Nielsen Media give it a 12.7 rating among households — marking its biggest drop since the 2013, the year after the show swelled following the death of Whitney Houston.

Such a steep drop, however, could very well mean an all-time low for the calendar’s biggest music awards show once updated numbers arrive. [Read More]

Trump offers ‘wonderful deal’ for Dreamers in part to expose Democrats’ political games (Washington Times)

President Trump said this weekend that he offered a “wonderful deal” to protect illegal immigrant Dreamers and that resistance among Democrats suggests the party would rather have a political issue than a solution.

Democrats have largely rejected the outlines of Mr. Trump’s proposal, saying that while the legalization of 1.8 million Dreamers was an important step, they would not agree to his plans for a border wall or to limiting the long chain of family migration.

The president is poised to deliver his plan to Capitol Hill this week and make his case directly to the public in his State of the Union address. [Read More]

California teacher slams military members as ‘lowest of the low’ in classroom rant caught on video (Fox News)

A video in which a Southern California high school teacher is heard slamming members of the military as “the frickin’ lowest of the low” in a classroom rant to students has gone viral.

El Rancho High history teacher Gregory Salcido — who also serves as an elected Pico Rivera city councilman and was once mayor — even goes so far as to refer to those who are in the military overseas as failed students who had no choice but to serve, “Fox & Friends” reported Sunday. [Read More]

Nude Photos Of MCPS Students Posted On Snapchat By Unknown User (Patch)

 In a recent letter to parents, Montgomery County Public Schools officials warned of an anonymous individual who asks middle school students for nude photos and then posts them for others to see.

The school “received multiple reports from community members” that “one or more individuals is posting inappropriate content on a private social media platform, including nude images of MCPS students,” Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman Derek Turner wrote in the letter. [Read More]

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