The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Fox News Is Corrupt and Unethical

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 48 Comments

It was never a good idea for conservatives to put all their media eggs in Rupert Murdoch’s basket, and this story about Marco Rubio’s role in the 2013 “Gang of Eight” deal explains why:

A few weeks after Senator Marco Rubio joined a bipartisan push for an immigration overhaul in 2013, he arrived alongside Senator Chuck Schumer at the executive dining room of News Corporation’s Manhattan headquarters for dinner.
Their mission was to persuade Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the media empire, and Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of its Fox News division, to keep the network’s on-air personalities from savaging the legislation and give it a fighting chance at survival.
Mr. Murdoch, an advocate of immigration reform, and Mr. Ailes, his top lieutenant and the most powerful man in conservative television, agreed at the Jan. 17, 2013, meeting to give the senators some breathing room.
But the media executives, highly attuned to the intensifying anger in the Republican grass roots, warned that the senators also needed to make their case to Rush Limbaugh, the king of conservative talk radio, who held enormous sway with the party’s largely anti-immigrant base. . . .

Read the whole thing. (Hat-tip: Mark Krikorian on Twitter.)

 

Category: Fox News, Immigration, Marco Rubio

FMJRA 2.0: Every Picture Tells A Story

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Wow. What a week!

The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?
The DaleyGator
Vigilant Liberty Radio
Trevor Loudon
Noisy Room
Shub-Niggurath Climate
Dave Alexander & Company
Simple Justice
First Street Journal
The Pirate’s Cove
Outside In
Hey Steelman!
GayPatriot
The Political Hat
Yid With Lid
Trial Of The Century
Points And Figures
Pax Dickinson
Right Side News
California Political News And Views
The Black Sphere
Social Matter
Regular Right Guy
Viewpoints of a Sagittarian
The Federalist
Capitol Zero
Watcher of Weasels
Bookworm Room
Stately McDaniel Manor
Nice Deb
A View from the Beach

#FreeStacy: ‘A Girl’s Name’
The DaleyGator
The Right Planet
Political Hat
Regular Right Guy
Watcher of Weasels
VA Right
Noisy Room
Trevor Loudon
Stately McDaniel Manor
Nice Deb
Bookworm Room
The Razor
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

#FreeStacy: @rsmccain ‘Will Not Be Restored’; @SexTroubleBook Suspended
Instapundit
Legal Insurrection
Tree of Mamre
Granite Grok
The Camp of the Saints
Rand Koch
Victory Girls
The Federalist
The Z Blog
Male Defender
Living In Anglo-America
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

Rule 5 Sunday: Rally ‘Round The Banner, The Banner Purple And Green
The Pink Flamingo
Animal Magnetism
Regular Right Guy
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

The Hateful Lies of Feminism
Regular Right Guy
Yid With Lid
Instapundit
Living In Anglo-America
The Lonely Conservative
Batshit Crazy News

Verging On Fantasy
Batshit Crazy News

Guys: Never Talk to a College Girl
Political Hat
Regular Right Guy
GressInfo
Batshit Crazy News

What @FemFreq Didn’t Say
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: #FreeStacy Edition
The Pirate’s Cove
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 02.22.16
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

The #FreeStacy Protest Continues
The PennAvePost
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.23.16
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

#FreeStacy: Have You Mentioned @srhbutts Lately? Perhaps You Should
Adam Piggott
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

University Students Are Helpless Infants
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

Violence Against Women That @JaclynF and @JessicaValenti Will Never Mention
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

#FreeStacy: Does @Twitter @Support Child-Porn Defender @AlisonRapp?
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 02.25.16
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

#FreeStacy: Why Won’t @Jack Make @Twitter Stop Harassing @PaxDickinson?
Batshit Crazy News

Transgender: Victims of Societal Prejudice or Dangerous Criminal Perverts?
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Hates White Heterosexual Men
Dave Alexander & Company
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News

Late Night With In The Mailbox: Extra Family-Size Okra Edition
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (22)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (9)
  3.  A View from the Beach (7)
  4.  Living In Anglo-America (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Special thanks to the Watcher’s Council and Noisy Room, who drew a lot of attention to the blog with links early in the week.


Every Picture Tells A Story

Category: FMJRA Award

#FreeStacy: Email to My Samoan Lawyer: Taylor Swift Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 48 Comments

 

Regular readers know Bert the Samoan Lawyer, an old college buddy of mine who is now one of the leading Asian/Pacific-American attorneys in Alabama. Some people say Bert doesn’t look Samoan, but if Shaun King is black, Bert is Samoan, and he could sue you for saying otherwise. It might even be defamation to call a Samoan “white,” no matter how pale he may be, and Bert has keen legal skills that strike fear in the hearts of potential defendants. No one would dare insult Bert by calling him a cracker, and if America ever elects another Republican president, I’m certain Senator Sessions will suggest Bert as a Supreme Court nominee, right after I get that ambassadorship to Vanuatu. But I digress . . .

The #FreeStacy insanity led my old friend to send me an email today:

Totally anecdotal, but I’ve noticed that no matter how many times I visit wattsupwiththat.com, Google Now never puts anything from that site into my “stories to read.” Contrast that to I once clicked on a story about Taylor Swift because my daughter is a huge fan and now she is in my feed constantly. Also, Salon, Slate and Huffpo are always there in abundance even though I never click them.
Also notably absent despite multiple daily visits: theothermccain.

Fear and Loathing in the Information Age, so to speak. The whole world has gone crazy, I’m the subject of international news, and Google is conspiring to keep people from reading my blog. This makes perfect sense in 2016, you see, that someone like me would become a First Amendment cause célèbre, a 21st-century Dreyfuss. Was this my career goal when I was a long-haired rock-and-roll freak circa 1983? Of course not. Nobody could ever possibly plan anything as crazy as my life, even if they wanted to, which no sane person ever would. So while the #FreeStacy hashtag campaign continues, I have had some communications with leading legal minds who have become interested in the free-speech issues involved.  I’m not the litigious sort, you understand, but some of my lawyer friends are the type who would be happy to go to federal court to seek an emergency restraining order first thing Monday morning, if I just gave the word. But that’s not how I roll. My correspondence with Bert the Samoan Lawyer was just two old college buddies talking. Here’s what I replied:

Well, my Samoan friend, did you ever think back in the day that my gonzo methods would have such consequences as this? As I told my kids, “Congratulations, your Dad is a hashtag.” Of course, the #FreeStacy hashtag won’t autocomplete — although the bogus misspelled version does. No “e” in Stacy, as you know, and “blah blah girl’s name blah blah,” said every idiot who wanted to start a fight on the elementary school playground. When the going gets weird, the weirdos get me banned from Twitter.
Do I want to describe my experiences with Google? Not in writing. The NSA and DHS will have to monitor my phone calls if they want that information. Nixon was a piker compared to these Obama goons, and I’ll bet you $20 Sidney Blumenthal has Jack Dorsey on speed-dial.
Face it, Bert, we live in an Age of Fear and, as a concerned father myself, I have to warn you that Taylor Swift is down for The Agenda. Every feminist on Tumblr is certain that Taylor is dating lesbian supermodel Karlie Kloss. As a Neutral Objective Journalist, of course, I’d have to see video proof before I’d believe that bizarre rumor, but if Cara Delevingne can be gay, everybody is gay, and in 2016, any self-respecting feminist would be embarrassed to admit she is heterosexual. These young fellows can’t get their mojo working and, therefore, phallocentric domination is in a steep decline. Oh, what wonderful jargon! But I digress . . .
If your daughter is a Taylor Swift fan, you may need to intervene, Bert. A sort of “tough love” approach is recommended. Seize her laptop and cellphone and demand passwords for every app she’s got. And if she’s on Tumblr? Bad news, pal — no grandkids for you. Tumblr might as well be called the Crazy Cat Lady Training Academy. Every teenage girl on Tumblr has a mental illness (anxiety, depression, PTSD) and is either a pansexual genderqueer or a nonbinary lesbian. Dye your hair green, pierce your nose, get more tattoos than a sailor and tell your Mom that your pronouns are “xe” and “xer.” This is what it means to be a feminist in 2016, a dystopian nightmare meets pornographic fantasy. If Orwell were writing “1984” now, it would begin: “Dear Penthouse Forum …”

Taylor Swift Is Decadent and Depraved. Seriously, Bert, keep your kids away from those degenerate showbiz freaks. You never know what kind of insanity kids will stumble into, if you let them wander around unsupervised in the Internet sewer. Just a few weeks ago, I had a long  phone conversation with a fellow whose daughter turned 18, announced she was transgender, repudiated her parents as hateful bigots, and moved to another state where she was able to get free testosterone “treatment” from a Planned Parenthood clinic. Could either of us have imagined such a thing in 1983? Hell, I never could have hallucinated anything that crazy when I was tripping out on psilocybin in ’79.
Well, I’m babysitting my 5-month-old grandson, who is crying for a bottle, so I’ll have to wrap this up for now. Remember: Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. And also elect Hillary Clinton, but I repeat myself.
— RSM

 

What a strange irony it is, that I am the Last Sane Man in America.

 

+ o + o +

BANNED BY TWITTER!

The #FreeStacy movement, a grassroots response to Twitter’s Feb. 19 decision to suspend my popular @rsmccain account, has received international attention. You can help support this movement by including the #FreeStacy hashtag on your Twitter messages, by retweeting messages in support of this movement, and by signing up at PublicStatus.org, which is dedicated to defending free speech rights on social media. Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word.

— Robert Stacy McCain




 

PREVIOUSLY:

Category: Fear. Loathing., Neutral Objective Journalism, Sex Trouble

Note To The Trumpenproletariat

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 90 Comments

by Smitty

There is a reason why the Ace of Spades is such a crucial blogger:

My problem with Trump is that he is a dealmaker trying to make a sale. Right now he’s trying to make a deal with conservatives — so this is the very most conservative we’ll ever see him.

If he gets the nomination, he now starts working on making the second part of the deal with the other party in the negotiations, the general public.

So this is the most conservative we’ll ever see Trump — this is the absolute most conservative he’ll ever be — and he’s not conservative at all, except, possibly, on immigration. He combines liberal policy impulses with frankly authoritarian or even fascist ones, which he thinks are “what conservatives want,” because, frankly, he conceives of us as ugly-minded, stupid dummies who get off on this shit.

My personal problem with DJT isn’t just that, were he somehow elected, you wouldn’t know which mercenary refugee from the country club was going to show up (except that his own wallet would be lined nicely by the outcome); rather, my problem is that, given the nomination, Her Majesty and the Codpiece Media would release Cthulhu on him.

We’d find out that Sharpton-esque tax irregularities would be the least of Trump’s sins. You think that Trump’s decades in business aren’t a mother lode of oppo research? Those Clinton Foundation donations (as a result of which, one supposes, she’d give Trump the Marc Rich treatment eventually) would be the least of the things we’d be hearing about.

But that’s after Gloria Allred and a phalanx of bimbos in stiletto pumps are done walking over him.

There are so many dogs waiting to bark at Trump, I can only assume his poll numbers (about which Trump cannot shut up) are driven by genuine nihilism on the part of people who should be thinking more clearly.

We can be thankful to Trump for driving JEB off the stage. And more thankful when Trump follows.

Category: Ace of Spades, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Late Night With In The Mailbox: Extra Family-Size Okra Edition

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Republican Debate Night In Texas
Da Tech Guy: CNN’s Racist Gift Basket For Maria Celeste Arrasa
Proof Positive: Trump’s Baloney – It’s YUUUGE!
The First Street Journal: Not only do the ‘transgender’ want to live a lie, but they want to compel everyone else to go along with their delusions
Michelle Malkin: Sharia In Our Schools – UK, US Parents Say No To Islam Conversion Homework
Twitchy: Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Says Trump “Reminds Me Of Hitler”
Shark Tank: Corcoran Sides With AFP, Calls $250 Million Job Fund “Corporate Welfare”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: California Voters Want More Water and Less Bullet Train
American Thinker: Three Simple Questions For Trump Supporters
BLACKFIVE: Marine Raiders Film At Indiegogo
Conservatives4Palin: Pastor Robert Jeffress Rallies For #PPact Supporter Trump In Texas
Don Surber: The Time To Stop Trump Was After The 2014 Election
Jammie Wearing Fools: Rubio – Trump’s A Con Artist Sticking It To The Working People
Joe For America: President Of Mexico – “We’re Not Paying For That F**king Wall”
JustOneMinute: More Static From The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Pamela Geller: Serious New Charges Of CENTCOM Deleting Files Amid ISIS Intel Coverup Probe
Protein Wisdom: Gonna Need A Bigger Milk Carton – Germany “Loses” 130,000 “Asylum Seekers”
Shot In The Dark: Why Choose?
STUMP: Illinois Pension Watch – This Is Why Your Pensions Are In Trouble
The Gateway Pundit: Democrats Fear Trump Juggernaut Puts Massachusetts In Play
The Jawa Report: Syrian Cease Fire Update
The Lonely Conservative: Slimy Lindsey Graham Jokes About Ted Cruz Getting Murdered On Senate Floor
This Ain’t Hell: Ending 20-Year Military Retirement – Buyers’ Remorse?
Weasel Zippers: Trump Says He’d Modify Nation’s Libel Laws, Make It Easier To Sue Newspapers
Megan McArdle: Republicans’ High School Cafeteria Debate
Mark Steyn: Nitwits Of The Round Table


Shop Amazon Fashion – 30% Off Contemporary Jewelry

Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | February 26, 2016 | 4 Comments

“Remember the time Stevie Ray Vaughan was here?”

“Whaddaya mean ‘the time’? I was his favorite car. He was here as a little boy, and always came back here after his tours to blow off some steam. Of course, after Family Style, his time, like ours, came to a halt.”

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Feminist Hates White Heterosexual Men

Posted on | February 26, 2016 | 93 Comments

Melissa Fabello (@fyeahmfabello on Twitter) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality Studies at Widener University. Fabello is managing editor of an anti-male/anti-heterosexual website called Everyday Feminism dedicated to promoting an “LGBTQIA+” agenda, and she is also a close personal friend of Twitter commissar Anita Sarkeesian.

Melissa Fabello‘s feminism is about inciting women to hate males generally, but she particularly delights in expressing contempt for heterosexual white men, constantly mocking them as ignorant bigots.

Deliberate insults are a form of hate propaganda. Melissa Fabello is promoting hatred of men. Melissa Fabello is encouraging hatred of heterosexuals. And it would seem that Melissa Fabello, who is white, especially despises men of her own ancestry and ethnicity.

Is it surprising that the people she constantly derogates, categorically impugning them without any concern for their human dignity or individual merit, sometimes wish to call attention to the fact that she is a vicious hatemonger? And why should anyone expect that the people Melissa Fabello so blatantly insults would respond to her spiteful messages courteously? Exactly why should anyone be polite to a fanatical anti-male/anti-white/anti-heterosexual ideologue?

Yes, of course! Whatever rude and demeaning things a feminist says about men, we are always expected to silently accept her putdowns. No man is allowed to answer Melissa Fabello’s insults. It would be “hate” for a heterosexual to remark that Ms. Fabello’s website Everyday Feminism might more accurately be called Everyday Queerness.

 

“Right now, today, as of writing this, I identify as queer.
But I didn’t always. And no, I’m not referring to that
awkward, uncomfortable time in my life where I knew
that something felt ‘off,’ but I couldn’t quite place it,
and so I paraded around in the charade of ‘straight.’
I mean that a few years ago, I identified as homoflexible.
And before that, a lesbian. And even before that, bisexual.”

Melissa Fabello is sexually dysfunctional, and cannot obtain psychological or emotional satisfaction through normal sexual behavior. Because she is so profoundly abnormal, Melissa Fabello hates (or perhaps envies) anyone who is not as confused and unhappy as she is. “Sexuality” is not confusing to normal women who actually like men, but feminists . . .

 

Well, why should I bother to finish that sentence? Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and Melissa Fabello never wants to hear a word any heterosexual white man has to say. Mellisa Fabello doesn’t believe heterosexual white men have anything to say that anyone else should ever hear. Melissa Fabello is a feminist, and the First Rule of Feminism is “SHUT UP!”

Excuse me, Ms. Fabello, if I’m “hard to talk to,” but it was probably just a coincidence that on Feb. 19, while you were meeting with Twitter commissar Anita Sarkeesian to “talk media and feminism over dinner,” Comrade Sarkeesian’s close personal friend Del Harvey was shutting down my Twitter account.

The #FreeStacy movement, a grassroots response to Twitter’s Feb. 19 decision to suspend my popular @rsmccain account, has received international attention. You can help support this movement by including the #FreeStacy hashtag on your Twitter messages, by retweeting messages in support of this movement, and by signing up at PublicStatus.org, which is dedicated to defending free speech rights on social media. Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word.

— Robert Stacy McCain




 

PREVIOUSLY:

Category: Sex Trouble

The #BlackLivesMatter Shakedown

Posted on | February 26, 2016 | 37 Comments

 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has yielded to thug-mob tactics, issuing a statement in support of the dangerous anti-police terrorist movement, #BlackLivesMatter:

There have been several recent instances of people crossing out “black lives matter” and writing “all lives matter” on the walls at [Facebook headquarters].
Despite my clear communication at Q&A last week that this was unacceptable . . . this has happened again. I was already very disappointed by this disrespectful behavior before, but after my communication I now consider this malicious as well.
There are specific issues affecting the black community in the United States, coming from a history of oppression and racism. ‘Black lives matter’ doesn’t mean other lives don’t — it’s simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve. . . .

 

In reporting this at Gizmodo, Michael Nunez smears “Facebook’s notoriously white, bro-centric” environment at its offices in Menlo Park, California, but let us ask: Why would Facebook’s headquarters be dominated by white males? Is it “a history of oppression and racism” that explains why only 2% of Facebook’s staff is black? Or, more logically, is it the case that Facebook — a company that now generates more than $12 billion in annual revenue, but didn’t even exist until 2003, when Zuckerberg created it in his Harvard University dorm room — hired the people who had the skills necessary for the company’s success? Was it merely a coincidence that these people are mostly white (or Asian) and male? Is there anything other than “racism” that can explain this? Can anything other than “oppression” explain why #BlackLivesMatter, an organization created to publicize a false narrative about the death of a criminal in a St. Louis suburb, has been associated with violent riots and blamed for inspiring the assassination of police officers?

Why are white people working at Facebook? Why are black people killing each other and blaming “racism” for their problems?

Isn’t it the case that half a century of misguided Democrat Party policies, ostensibly imposed to provide “the black community . . . the justice they deserve,” have made the lives of black people worse? Isn’t it a fact that the U.S. public school system, controlled by teachers unions loyal to the Democrat Party, have declined disastrously, impeding the education of young black people? Is it not obvious that the policies of the Democrat Party, creating and defending welfare giveaway programs that function as disincentives to work and marriage, have undermined the economic and social fabric of “the black community”? And is it not equally obvious that the only solution the Democrat Party proposes for the problems of “the black community” is to do more of the same? Isn’t #BlackLivesMatter really just another way of saying, “Vote Democrat”?

Well, maybe Zuckerberg’s Harvard education didn’t teach him to ask such questions. Skepticism toward the dogmas of liberalism is not an attitude one is likely to encounter in the Ivy League, and no matter what the percentage of Harvard-educated white guys at Facebook’s offices, probably none of them have ever read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed or Friedrich Hayek’s The Mirage of Social Justice, nor any other book that might inspire them to question the liberal worldview that American higher education systematically inculcates in young people.

 

+ o + o +

BANNED BY TWITTER!

The #FreeStacy movement, a grassroots response to Twitter’s Feb. 19 decision to suspend my popular @rsmccain account, has received international attention. You can help support this movement by including the #FreeStacy hashtag on your Twitter messages, by retweeting messages in support of this movement, and by signing up at PublicStatus.org, which is dedicated to defending free speech rights on social media. Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word.

— Robert Stacy McCain




 

Category: Crime, Racism
« go back — keep looking »