Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Media’s ‘Misinformation’ Obsession

Posted on | August 15, 2024 | Comments Off on Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Media’s ‘Misinformation’ Obsession

Have you forgotten? In case you don’t remember how traumatized liberals were by Donald Trump winning the 2016 election, you can click here for an ABC News video of Hillary Clinton’s supporters, gathered for a planned victory celebration at the Javits Center in New York, crying on the evening of November 8, 2016. It was a beautiful sight.

Insofar as Democrats were not already crazy — because anyone who votes Democrat cannot be entirely sane — the trauma of the 2016 election drove them completely bonkers and they’ve never recovered. It was on the night of November 8, 2016, apparently, that Team Hillary settled on their excuse for defeat: “RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!”

Hillary Clinton herself accused Russia of “interfering” in the election: “This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation.” But who was actually threatening “the integrity of our democracy”? In July 2016, while the campaign was still going, the FBI began spying on the Trump campaign in “Operation Crossfire Hurricane.” The origin, justification and legality of this project, led by the notorious Peter Strzok, have all been extensively scrutinized. The investigation began after (but was not necessarily caused by) the alleged hacking of Democratic National Committee emails. The official justification for the investigation had to do with conversations between Trump policy adviser George Papadopoulos and an obscure academic named Joseph Mifsud, which Mifsud subsequently relayed to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer. This gossip then got mixed in with spurious allegations from the infamous “Steele dossier” to create the myth of “collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign which, after Trump’s 2016 victory, became the basis of phantasmagoric delusions on the part of Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself).

All the insanity since November 2016, you must understand, can be traced to two simple facts: Trump won and Hillary lost, and these facts were never accepted by Democrats, least of all Hillary herself. To this day, we’re still dealing with the consequences of the resulting delusion — Trump Derangment Syndrome — and one symptomatic manifestation is the media’s obsession with “misinformation.”

Ed Driscoll on Wednesday called attention to this item:

During a White House press briefing [Monday], the Washington Post’s Cleve Wootson asked if the government has a “role” in tackling “misinformation” and if President Joe Biden planned to “intervene” in Trump’s X Space.

An alleged journalist demanding that the federal government “intervene” to prevent the Republican candidate from speaking publicly? You see how this connects back to the 2016 campaign, because Russian “interference” in the election was alleged to include “misinformation” spread by social media — how else to explain why Hillary Clinton lost? Democrats believed Trump could not have won the election legitimately, and from this certainty arose their vigilance against “misinformation.”

All of this is preamble to the question I found myself asking Saturday: “Why did so many people hate Susan Wojcicki?”

The text message came from a friend: “Vaccine induced turbo cancer?” It included a link to the notice that former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was dead.
What did this message mean? Quick research determined that the cause of Wojcicki’s death at age 56 was lung cancer, which her husband said was first diagnosed in 2022:

Wojcicki – who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley – had been involved with YouTube’s parent company Google from its earliest days, when its two founders worked out of her garage in California to build a search engine. …
Wojcicki had served as YouTube’s CEO for nine years before announcing last year in a blog post that she would be “stepping back” from her leadership role to focus on her family, health and personal projects that she was passionate about, CNN previously reported.
She oversaw YouTube during the web’s pivotal transition toward social media, but also as online platforms came under increasing scrutiny for spreading misinformation, hate speech and other harmful content.
“I’m so proud of everything we’ve achieved,” Wojcicki wrote when announcing she was stepping down in 2023. “It’s been exhilarating, meaningful, and all-consuming.”

The ancient Latin adage, De mortuis nil nisi bonum (“Speak no ill of the dead”) is wise advice, but anyone who searched social media for Susan Wojcicki’s name on Saturday morning could discover how widely disregarded this advice was in her case. Many thousands of people were expressing their happiness that Wojcicki was dead, as she had been identified as “Censorship Voldermort” for her suppression of dissenting viewpoints on YouTube, especially in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. . . .

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Watching CNN (So You Don’t Have To)

Posted on | August 14, 2024 | Comments Off on Watching CNN (So You Don’t Have To)

The most popular show on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360 at 8 p.m. ET, gets about 700,000 viewers. The total viewership of the two-hour interview Donald Trump did on X with Elon Musk is unknown, but it was certainly in the many millions — far bigger than the audience for Cooper or Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper, Caitlin Collins, et al. So it is rather amusing that CNN, which can’t get an interview with Kamala Harris, slams Musk for scoring an interview with Trump, an interview that is much more popular than anything on CNN. In between endless hype of Kamala (the candidate who won’t even talk to them), CNN spent Tuesday airing a lot of coverage about the alleged strategic errors of the Trump campaign. Trump should stop mocking and insulting Kamala, according to the “experts” cited by the failed third-place cable news network. Because, yeah, Republicans should take advice from S.E. Cupp.

CNN is one small part of a gigantic media cabal trying to help Kamala Harris run out the clock. The object of the game is to get the Democratic nominee to early voting season without her ever being asked a tough question or otherwise risking exposure as the unprincipled, incompetent airhead she has always been. If it’s actual news you’re looking for, don’t bother tuning into CNN. Trust me, I watch it every day.

What a joke. Feel free to share. https://t.co/hQBoMu92od

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 13, 2024

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In The Mailbox: 08.13.24

Posted on | August 14, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.13.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

drowning not waving

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How’s That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?
EBL: Kamala Harris and Tony West, Cornelia Sharpe, and Borderlands Is A Boring, Unfunny, Unwatchable Disaster (go watch something else)
Twitchy: EU Distances Itself From Thierry Breton’s Threatening Letter To X, David French Explains To MSNBC Why He’s Voting For Kamala, and Snob Democrat Says Tennessee’s Problem Is Too Many Churches & Not Enough Libraries
Louder With Crowder: How the UK’s anti-free speech authoritarianism comes to America in 3 easy tweets (and one election), also, Stephen Colbert makes laughable claim CNN is unbiased, but it’s the crowd reaction that’s hilarious
Vox Popoli: Educating the Englishman, Kiev Regime Running Out of Time, She Knows Some Bad People, The Proxy War is Over, Nanobots in the Bloodstream, Racists Running SFWA, and Build Your Own
Postcards From Barsoom: Boeing Has Become The Poster Child For Ruling Class Incompetence

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: ? Struggles to Handle Trump Return
American Greatness: Massachusetts Set for Record Number of Deportations Despite Sanctuary State Status, Kamala Doesn’t Participate in Time Magazine Puff Piece, and Columbia University Prepares for More Anti-Semitic Riots as Classes Resume
American Thinker: The Obama Effect
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily World War 3 News
Babalu Blog: While Cubans are starving, the Castro dictatorship prepares a gourmet food festival for foreign tourists, Previously secret documents reveal Cuban dictatorship’s full-blown homophobia and persecution of ‘effeminates’, and Residents of Santiago de Cuba are burning uncollected trash on their streets
BattleSwarm: MSNBC Deceptively Edits Joe Rogan – Lawsuit Coming?
Behind The Black: SpaceX announces another commerical passenger flight on a Dragon capsule, Portugal’s air traffic agency signs deal with company wishing to build spaceport in Azores, Orbital tug startup Astroscale expands partnership with European aerospace giant Airbus, More bad journalism, this time about a hypothesized “underground ocean” on Mars, Axiom’s next commercial manned mission to ISS delayed until 2025, and Let’s take a look at the college teachers and students who support Hamas and the torture and murder of little children
CDR Salamander: Doing Just Less Than The Minimum In The Red Sea
Da Tech Guy: What is the Difference Between a Musk Trump Interview and the MSM?
Don Surber: The Great Walz of China
Gates Of Vienna: Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 16, I Wanna Kill Them Jews, A Race No Longer of Heroes, and The Last KamaLaugh
The Geller Report: Tim Walz’s $250M state program to feed hungry kids fraudulently spent on luxury goods, fancy cars, overseas real estate
Hollywood In Toto: Colbert Calls CNN ‘Objective.’ Guess What Happened Next?
The Lid: Biden Hid Free Vacations from Disclosure Even as He Attacks Supreme Court for the Same Thing
Legal Insurrection: Authorities Investigating Break-In at Trump’s Virginia Campaign Office, Harris Campaign Editing Headlines in Google Search Ads to Appear Favorable to Her, Illinois School Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing $1.5 Million Worth of Chicken Wings, Walz Slams Vance for Phantom Attacks on Military Service, Doesn’t Address Stolen Valor Issue, Vulnerabilities Found in Voting Machines, But Cannot be Fixed by November, U. Colorado Journalism Prof Says Trump Uses ‘Coded Speech About Race’, and Portland State University Students Suing School Over Campus Police Breaking up Anti-Israel Protest
Nebraska Energy Observer: So much is going on right now
Outkick: Colin Kaepernick Makes Delusional Comment About Potential NFL Return, Riley Gaines Destroys Trans Golfer For Lecturing Women On Their ‘Failures’, We’re All Just Living Within The Reality Show That Deion Sanders Created At Colorado, And It’s Working, Tennessee Finds Unique Way To Sell Neyland Stadium Branding Rights Without Changing The Iconic Name, Nikola Jokic’s Homecoming In Serbia After Winning Olympic Bronze Looks Like A Scene Straight Out Of A Movie, Not Having Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese Impacted Team USA In Olympic TV Ratings, and Sydney Sweeney Puts On A Wake Surfing Clinic, The Nerf Football That Meant Everything & Buy MJ’s Letter
Power Line: Thing called journalism, Media Bias? Call It by Its True Name: Regime Propaganda, and Whom Are They Fooling?
Shark Tank: Vote No On 3 Campaign Refutes Notion That Large Numbers Of Tokers Are Imprisoned
Shot In The Dark: Honor, Misspoke, New Opportunity For Republicans!
STUMP: Tim Walz & Public Pensions – What’s The Risk?
The Political Hat: The Abolition Of Dissent In The U.K.
This Ain’t Hell: When Lori Lightfoot sez you’re crooked
Transterrestrial Musings: How To Beat Kamala, Kursk, The Harris-Walz Lies, Paw Paws, and More Of This, Please
Victory Girls: Are The Crazy Cat Ladies Of The Democrats Better On Family Policy?
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Against UCLA, Stemming from Risk of Repetition of Exclusion of Jewish or Pro-Israel Students from Parts of Campus
Watts Up With That: The Incestuous Green Blob, Another New Study Finds Rising CO2 Enhances Planetary Greening and Reduces Drought Risk, and “Green” Hydrogen Subsidies Are 1,900x Larger Than What’s Given To Nuclear
The Federalist: The Press Won’t Discuss Real Campaign Issues, Because They Don’t Want Trump To Win, The New York Times Praises Democrats’ Immigration Policies For ‘Reshaping The Electorate’, Tim Walz Didn’t ‘Misspeak’ About His Military Service — He’s Lied For Years, Tracking Kamala Harris’ Biggest And Baddest Lies: 20 And Counting, RFK Jr. Blocked From New York Ballot After Challenge From Democrat-Aligned PAC, Trump Promises To Unleash American Energy With Alaskan Oil And Gas During Musk Interview, and If Pennsylvania’s Elections Are So Secure, Why Did The DOJ Just Launch An Election Fraud Case There?
Mark Steyn: Bullet Points

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In The Mailbox: 08.12.24

Posted on | August 13, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.12.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Lot of people seem to think if Trump does these X Spaces from now until November, the election will be a lock. Lot of people don’t seem to realize not everybody’s on X.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Sure seems that way

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: London Police Commissioner Intends To Overturn The First Amendment, also, Good Guy With A Gun Stops Bad Guy
EBL: USA Women Win Gold in Soccer, Cowardly Tim Walz, JD Vance does interviews while Kamala Harris and Tim Walz flee from them, and Kamala Harris Campaign Requires IDs to Attend Her Rally
Twitchy: Drew Holden Compiles List Of Media Spinning The “Swift Boating” Of Tim Walz, Politifact Tries To Set J.D. Vance Straight On Tim Walz’ Retirement, and Woke D&D Game Sounds Absolutely AWFUL
Louder With Crowder: UK police warn AMERICANS, Elon Musk: Commit thought crimes and you could be guilty of terrorism, Not weird Kamala fan describes reason for voting: “I’m a trans man and gay and have been pregnant”, Special K claims Biden “absolutely” backs no tax on tips, forgets him sending the IRS after tipped workers, and JD Vance COOKED fake news journalismers all Sunday morning and it’s glorious to watch
Vox Popoli: Deplatformed from Life, Don’t Saw the Branch on Which You Sit, The Migration Conspiracy, A Backhanded Compliment, and Clown World Never Rests
Postcards From Barsoom: Through The Chilled Years Ahead
Born Lucky: “Censorship Voldemort”, RIP
Upstream Reviews: Dragonheart
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The Kursk Invasion
Gab: The Harris House of Cards
Bill Whittle: How To Beat Harris Part I – Equity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It is not Possible to Believe that the Sedes might have been Right
American Conservative: The Democrats’ Favorite Game: Manipulation, Ukraine’s Two Wars, and Miami’s Long Cold War
American Greatness: Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Strategic Politicians, Kamala’s Abuse of Staff Exemplifies Leftist Culture, Theater of the Absurd, Harris-Walz Edition, California Adopts Six Million Children, Our Three Silent Mice, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott Issues Executive Order Mandating Hospitals Gather Data on Immigrant Patients
American Thinker: Trump’s Proven Law and Order Strategy: The Key to America’s Safety and Economic Revival, The New Bread and Circuses, Calling Your Tongue Your Own, and We Need a Badass in the White House
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Livestock mayhem in eastern Cuba: missing calves, Illegal cow sales, slaughters, and ‘disappeances’, North Korean diplomat who defected from Cuba tells his incredible story, and Cuban dictatorship charges Catholic priest with ‘pre-criminal activity and incitement to commit a crime’
Baldilocks: Who’s In Command?, also, Lying & Unknown Unknowns
BattleSwarm: WhistlinDiesel Torture Tests A Cybertruck To Destruction, The Z-List – Harvard’s Can’t Fail Track For Moneyed Morons, and EU Tries To Suppress Trump Interview
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches an additional 21 Starlink satellites, Rocket Lab launches commercial radar satellite, SpaceX launches two broadband satellites for the Space Force and Norway, FAA red tape apparently stalling the next Starship/Superheavy orbital test launch, FAA cancels scheduled public meetings to review new Boca Chica environmental assessment, and Trump to sue Justice Department over Mar-a-Lago raid and subsequent indictments
Cafe Hayek: The Bourgeois Deal Shouldn’t Be Overlooked, also, Gramm and Boudreaux Continue to Champion Free Trade
CDR Salamander: A Constellation of Challenges with Emma Salisbury On Midrats, also, What Is 53 Years In The Life Of A Navy?
Da Tech Guy: Britain throws The Two Greatest Gifts to Mankind Away, Journalists should be forced to wear clown suits, and Five Fast Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: The Last Two Weeks In Legal – Judge Chutkan Is Back In Business
Don Surber: The media supports censorship
First Street Journal: Rubbing my hands in glee, Anti-Semitism in America isn’t about religion, and When the government tells you that inflation is down, look more closely at what has come down
Gates Of Vienna: A Culture-Enriching Day at the Movies, More on the Taylor Swift Jihad, Crook County Commissioners Request Legislative Action on Greater Idaho, Kamala Stomps Her Little Foot — ‘Don’t Call It Radical Islamic Terrorism’, and Spain is Christian, Not Muslim!
The Geller Report: ELECTION STEAL PREP: Pennsylvania Department of State Announces That State’s Election Results Won’t be Known Election Night, Canada: Watch Hamas Terror Mobs March on Parliament Hill against Israel, and President Trump to Sue DOJ for $100 Million
Glenn Reynolds: Return To The Jedi
Hollywood In Toto: Ultimate ‘80s Movie List: Best of the Best, This Made Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound So Unique, Hollywood & British Celebs Silent on Extreme UK Censorship, and Why Media Can’t Stop Attacking Joe Rogan
The Lid: Woke, Left-Wing Louisiana Judge Suspended after Judicial Misconduct, also, Kamala VP Pick Tim Walz Still Taking Blasts for His Military Service Lies
Legal Insurrection: New York City: Orthodox Jewish Man Stabbed on Street by Assailant Yelling “Free Palestine”, “Why Aren’t White Students Invited?”, Biden on Dropping Out: Many House, Senate Democrats ‘Thought I was Gonna Hurt Them in Their Races’, EU Reminds Elon Musk of Its Authoritarian Speech Rules Ahead of Trump Interview, Teacher Unions That Supported Covid Lockdowns Are Big Fans of Harris Running Mate Tim Walz, Hindus in India and Abroad Rally Against Muslim Mob Violence in Bangladesh, and New President of the American Assn. of University Professors Calls J.D. Vance a ‘Fascist’
Michele Catalano: the week in joy
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Why I Travel Alone, and The Monday Post
Outkick: Red Sox Outfielder Jarren Duran Calls Heckling Fan Anti-Gay Slur, Immediately Apologizes After Loss, NASCAR Should Be Terrified By All These Empty Seats & This Damning Audio Could Get Austin Dillon Suspended, White NFL Cornerbacks Are Back & The Internet Is Buzzing, USA Women’s Soccer Drew Biggest Olympic Audience In 20 Years Without Rapinoe, Morgan, Locker Room Picture Of Bryce Harper Perfectly Embodies The Philadelphia Phillies’ Current State Of Mind, WNBA All-Star Sues League for Discrimination After Trade From Las Vegas Aces Following Pregnancy, and Travis Kelce’s Ex Suffocates A Starfish With Her Bikini, Kay Adams In A Tub & Heidi Klum Has Broken Instagram
Power Line: Karl kramps up, Why People Don’t Like Illegal Immigration, and The Typical Leftist Fantasy Life of Tim Walz (Updated)
Shark Tank: Salazar Mocks Walz’ Socialism Comment, Says Latinos Cringe At The Word
Shot In The Dark: Republicans Pounce On Mostly Peaceful Austere Lawn Stylist, also, “We Have A Pwan!”
STUMP: The Week In Meep (and Stu!)
The Political Hat: No More Mother, No More Father
This Ain’t Hell: Nicolás Maduro challenges Elon Musk to a fight, Musk accepts, Trump Campaign hacked; information provided to Politico, Walzing Into Audit Hell, Army vet Chi Chi Rodriguez, 88 passes, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz rallies, AI generated audiences filling gaps, USSS Professionals In Action, and Mexico Gun suit largely tossed – bueno!
Transterrestrial Musings: Boeing And SLS, The Onslaught By The Media, Putin’s Embarrassment, Islam, and Lileks
Victory Girls: The Baby Parts Selling Scandal Kamala Wants You to Forget, Pelosi Sinks Her Fangs Into Biden’s Dead Presidency, and Can Kamala Skate Through Avoiding The Media Until November?
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Appellate Court Rules in Favor of Takings Lawsuit Against the CDC’s Covid-Era Eviction Moratorium, also, Supreme Court Briefs Filed By Attorney General Kamala Harris
Watts Up With That: Washington State Voters Confront Their Climate Commitment Act, The True Cost of Biden’s Bet on BEVs, and Energy should play key role in 2024 Pennsylvania (and US) elections
The Federalist: ‘Unlawful Electioneering’: Wisconsin City Clerk Accused Of Posting News Clip In Voting Booths, The European Commission Tries To Force Elon Musk To Censor Trump, Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Greenlight Arizona’s Proof Of Citizenship Requirement For Voter Registration, Police Audio Reveals Urgent Response To Biden’s Medical Event In Las Vegas, Washington Created The Doctor Shortage And Can’t Fix It, The Conservative Case For Sauron, and Don’t Let The Camo Hat Distract You From Tim Walz’s Radical Record
Mark Steyn: The Revealed Reality, The Old World and the New Colonialism, More, Peepshow: Alfred Hitchcock Shows Us Where to Look in Rear Window, and Gladja Tuned In!

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Why Do Republicans Hate ‘Joy’?

Posted on | August 12, 2024 | Comments Off on Why Do Republicans Hate ‘Joy’?

One of the most familiar (and most annoying) games played by what Andrew Breitbart dubbed the Democrat-Media Complex is to engage in some kind of deliberate provocation, then to react with feigned shock and outrage when Republicans react to the aforesaid provocation. Republicans “pounce” or “seize” or “attack,” the headlines tell us, intending to shift our gaze away from whatever it is that Democrats have said or done, and toward the (allegedly unjustified) Republican reaction.

Consider, for example, the way the media purposefully repeat verbatim the talking points handed to them by Democrats. They know that we see what they’re doing, and they don’t care, because if we dare complain about the (allegedly objective) news media engaging in blatant partisan propaganda, then our complaints become the story.

At Harris Rally in Philadelphia,
the Return of “Joy”
— Mother Jones, August 6

‘Bringing back the joy’:
Walz’s first day keeps
Democrats’ buzz going
— Washington Post, August 6

Harris, Walz and Democrats’ Joyful Campaign
— New York Times, August 7

Harris and Walz seize on joyful message
in contrast to darker Trump themes
— Washington Post, August 8

Harris Used to Worry About Laughing.
Now Joy Is Fueling Her Campaign.
— New York Times, August 9

Harris and Walz reintroduce joy
to Democrats their first week
on the campaign trail
— NPR, August 11

Et cetera, et cetera. You see what they’re doing, right? And you know why they’re doing it — it’s all about hyping up this bizarre and unprecedented candidate-switch by Democrats as something to celebrate. Never before in modern American history has a major party forced its own incumbent president to quit his re-election campaign after he’s been nominated as the candidate in his own party primary and then, by a “virtual roll call,” appoint the vice president as the candidate instead. Barely six weeks ago — up until Joe Biden’s June 27 debate performance — the media were unanimously assuring us that Biden was sharp as a tack, full of vigorous youthful energy, and anyone who suggested otherwise was denounced as some kind of far-right conspiracy theorist. Quite suddenly, however, the same media were declaring that Biden must quit the race, and when he finally did, they praised his “selfless” courage in doing so.

As I say, all this is without historical precedent, which doesn’t necessarily mean it’s illegal or even wrong, but shouldn’t Democratic primary voters feel they’ve been cheated in this transaction? If Biden would have had the decency to announce a year ago that he would not seek reelection, there could have been an open primary, giving Democats a chance to choose their own chandidate. Instead, they got Kamala Harris dumped in their lap, and told they had no choice in the matter, and their reaction to this crude swindle? JOY! JOY! JOY! Or so the media wish us to believe.

Evidently, Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) believe that Kamala can surf her way to the White House on a tidal wave of bullshit. As previously noted (“Issues? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Issues!” July 29), the media coverage is all about the “energy” and “momentum” of the Harris campaign, and as to her position on issues — well, who needs “positions” or “issues,” when they’ve got so much joy?

Journalists are actively defending Harris from any consideration of issues. Ed Morrissey smacks around a writer for The Atlantic:

What does Harris have? She’s been vice president for almost four years. Her party anointed her as the nominee three weeks ago. Kamala Harris ran on a progressive platform in California for the Senate and in 2019 for the presidential nomination, so she’s had years to develop her positions on all of the issues in play. Is she such an empty suit that she couldn’t put together a platform within the first couple of days of the campaign? If so, why did Democrats rush to anoint her?
Why aren’t reporters asking these questions, rather than just observing the “seizing”? Because the answer to why Harris is hard to pin down isn’t Republicans who pounce — it’s reporters and media outlets who refuse to do their jobs.
That’s why mainstream media never tires of reporting the “seizing” and the “pouncing” when it comes to Republican criticism of Democrats. Republicans are doing the job the media refuses to do, and the media is embarrassed by it. There isn’t a single word in [David] Graham’s essay that pins the issue of “ambiguity” on the media that has cooperated in her strategy of silence. We know, for instance, that the pool reporters on her campaign have agreed to off-the-record bull sessions with Harris in order for them to report on the campaign messaging without fingerprints, thanks to a Politico newsletter item last week.
Want to know why no one knows Kamala’s politics of the moment? Maybe it’s because the people whose job it is to report it aren’t asking. The American establishment media have allowed Harris to run as the anointed presidential nominee of a major party for three weeks now without a platform, without a press conference, and without even an interview in which she could be pressed to answer this question.
And the biggest criticism Graham can muster for this sorry state of affairs is … to smirk at Republicans for pointing it out and slough it off as “seizing,” the hoariest cliché in political reporting.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) No policies. No issues. Just nothing but “joy.” And, the media will surely ask, why do you hate joy?

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Rule 5 Sunday: Biker Babe In Bikini

Posted on | August 11, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Biker Babe In Bikini

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Enjoy them while you can. Thanks to kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM:Rule 5 What If It Missed Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon, and Animal Magnetism Live – The Kamala Harris Weight Loss Program

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Ekaterina Novikova, Fish Pic Friday – Audrey Delligatti, Highway to Hell, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Umm, No Thanks!, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday and Shark Spotted at Bay Beach

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for August 9

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: A Sight Not Seen For Quite Some Time

Posted on | August 11, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: A Sight Not Seen For Quite Some Time

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Kinda nice to post the Curly W flag again after so many weeks of getting beaten like a rented mule. We had a good week, taking two of three from the Tribe at the Mistake by the Lake before coming home to RFK and taking two more from the Royals. Jim Kaat and Joe Coleman picked up two wins each, which means they’re 10-8 and 14-14 now. We would have swept KC but Tom Burgmeier robbed Rick Reichardt and Frank Howard of what would have been game-winning homers in game 2, and then Ed Farmer couldn’t hold on. I guess Burgmeier’s card has some BS no-homer mojo on it. Anyway, we’re still a game behind the A’s at 52-72, and next week doesn’t look good: we’re facing Pete’s Brewers on Tuesday and then we get the 64-60 Angels on Friday. We’re still looking for someone to take over Atlanta in this league, and I think Pete has a vacancy in one of this other leagues as well.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.