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Democrats and George Stephanopoulos (But I Repeat Myself)

Posted on | September 19, 2015 | 32 Comments

The “revolving door” between the Democrat Party and the liberal media functions as a full-employment program for party operatives, who can collect paychecks from TV networks for doing the same work they would otherwise do for Democrats. Nearly everyone in the major media is a Democrat (e.g., 89% voted for Bill Clinton in 1992) and so it does not seem at all unusual to them that George Stephanopoulos, a lifelong Democrat Party operative who worked for the Clinton campaign, should be employed as a “journalist” hosting ABC’s Good Morning America:

Former Democratic activist turned journalist George Stephanopoulos on Thursday went after Carly Fiorina for attacking Planned Parenthood during Wednesday’s presidential debate. The Good Morning America co-host grilled, “Another powerful moment last night was when you talked about those Planned Parenthood tapes. But analysts who’ve watched all 12-plus hours say the scene you’ve described, that harrowing scene you described, actually isn’t in those tapes.”
He wondered, “did you misspeak?” Fiorina shot back at the man who secretly donated $75,000 to the Clintons: “I don’t know whether you’ve watched the tapes, George. . . . Certainly none of the Democrats who are still defending Planned Parenthood have watched those tapes.”

We have previously discussed the Planned Parenthood videos and Fiorina’s reference to them during the Wednesday debate. The facts of the matter are known. What is important here is that (a) Fiorina emerged from the debate as a much more viable candidate for the Republican nomination, and therefore (b) Stephanopoulos was obligated, as a Democrat Party operative, to attack Fiorina.

The naked partisanship of Stephanopoulos is not merely “liberal bias”; it is outright propaganda on behalf of the Democrat Party, which reflects ABC News policy of supporting Democrats. All of the producers and executives at ABC News are also partisan Democrats, so that the network has an organizational mission of advocacy on behalf of the candidates and policies of the Democrat Party. This is not only dishonest (because it presents partisan propaganda as objective “news”), but also dangerous, in that individuals like Stephanopoulos and organizations like ABC News cannot be expected to report honestly about the failures of Democrat officials and policies. The public is deliberately misled about, for example, the effectiveness of the Obama administration’s foreign policy, because many millions of citizens are spoonfed disinformation from Democrat partisans like Stephanopoulos.

Democrats will likely nominate as their 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, for whom George Stephanopoulos formerly worked and with whom he is still friends. Does anyone anticipate that Stephanopoulos will be objective in reporting on evidence of Mrs. Clinton’s incompetence, dishonesty and corruption? No, of course not. No one expects honest political coverage from ABC News. They belong to an industry whose business is manufacturing lies.

(Hat-tips: Evi L. Bloggerlady and Aleister at Legal Insurrection.)





 

Category: ABC, Abortion, Democrats, Media Bias, Planned Parenthood

Sissypuss Conducted A Brief Interview With Thurston The Presidential Lip Fly

Posted on | September 19, 2015 | 3 Comments

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty

Sissypuss: “There isn’t much love outside of Tehran for the whole nuclear ‘deal’. Many are calling it a steaming pile of crap.”
Thurston: “One sees a steaming pile, while another views a mound of fragant loam. It’s really time we just get past all of this anti-Iranian racism, don’t you think?”
S: “What about the rumor that you were trying to trade away South Texas to appease the Iranians? For crying out loud: they have as much skin in the game as Janet Yellen has interest rates.”
T: “This administration has been besieged, attacked, belittled, and underbussed for its handling of the Southern border. So we float a twofer: eliminate the Rio Grande as a border issue, and try to find a way to hold back a nuclear Iran, and what do we get? Besieged, attacked, belittled, and underbussed. It’s almost as though Hillary! were correct in positing a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, or something.”
S: “Wait, my head ‘sploded. That was a serious thought bubble, giving away half of Texas?”
T: “Oh, come on. They weren’t going to vote Democrat anyway. What difference do those nuckle-dragging revaunchist Texans make, anyway? That Governor Rick Perrier can’t even run a Presidential campaign.”
S: “Speaking of running things, what about the coalition of Middle-Eastern analysts all up in arms regarding the ISIS intelligence reporting?”
T: “ISIL have no idea what they were on about. DNI Clapper delivered the report. Obama read it. Our agent literally hammered the opposition, once she had her sexual identity sorted.”
S: “. . .”
T: “Look, the Constitution says nothing substantial about foreign policy. Americans get what they elect. Or, in Obama’s case, re-elect. Any of the clueless gits who want to complain regarding what they got either voted for him, or didn’t work dilligently enough against him. So if you want to complain that it’s all a pile of manure, I say: bring it!”

Category: Sissypuss the Blog Kitty

In The Mailbox: 09.18.15

Posted on | September 18, 2015 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.18.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Who Should Replace Hamilton On The $10 Bill?
American Irony: How To Tell Who’s Telling The Truth About The Planned Parenthood Videos
Michelle Malkin: Why The View Is Bombing
Twitchy: “Warrior Princess” Carly Fiorina Takes Lead In Post-Debate NH Poll; New Poll Has Fiorina Tied With Trump Nationally


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Dana Loesch – “Because Holding Up Arms And Legs For Sale To The Camera Wasn’t Enough”
American Thinker: EMP Versus AGW – Is There A National Death Wish?
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Jazz Palace
Conservatives4Palin: The Widening Racial Split In The 2016 Democrat Vote
Don Surber: We Need A Fact Check On Aisle NOAA
Jammie Wearing Fools: The Cuomo Administration’s Big Headache
Joe For America: Women On The View Hate Nurses
JustOneMinute: Taxing Our Way To Prosperity, Krugman Edition
Pamela Geller: Muslim Migrants’ Rape Epidemic – “We Are The Biggest Brothel In Munich”
Protein Wisdom: Socialist Bernie Sanders’ $18 Trillion Plan To Destroy America
Shot In The Dark: “When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife?”
The Gateway Pundit: Karl Rove Bashes Trump For Not Defending Obama At Town Hall
The Jawa Report: Attn Twitter User @Asawiirtihacker
The Lonely Conservative: Democrats Are Against Iran Freeing US Hostages
This Ain’t Hell: Iraqi Jihadi Stabs German Policewoman And He’s DRT
Weasel Zippers: Vatican Isn’t Happy With Obama’s Guest List For The Pope
Megan McArdle: Greece’s Paper Trail Leads Eventually To Reform
Mark Steyn: Winners And Losers


The Jazz Palace

Category: Linkagery

It’s Almost As Though The Whole Thing Were Orchestrated

Posted on | September 18, 2015 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

I’m not saying that it’s all deliberate, but. . .

But it was Fiorina who stole the show. Excluded from the first debate last month, she finally had an opportunity to introduce herself to potential primary voters outside of Iowa and New Hampshire. Her performance was so impressive she didn’t even bother to show up or send a surrogate to the media “spin room” after the debate.

Is there anybody beside me who’d buy a ticket to see a Carly/Hillary! catfight? Somehow I doubt Her Majesty would lay down easily, but the on-the-fly lying could be fascinating, from a purely scientific angle.

Category: Republicans

Media Deny Reality of Abortion Videos They Have Made a Point of Ignoring

Posted on | September 18, 2015 | 25 Comments

During the Republican debate Wednesday, Carly Fiorina said:

“As regards Planned Parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape — I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table,
its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says,
‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.'”

The liberal media have spent months trying to ignore the reality depicted by these videos, employing a series of dishonest evasions to excuse the atrocities committed by Planned Parenthood. The videos were edited, blah blah blah, the use of hidden cameras is unethical, blah blah blah. None of these criticisms is actually valid; however much editing was done in the 10 YouTube clips released since July, the producers have also released the unedited footage, so that anyone can judge the accuracy of the presentation; and the use of hidden cameras by investigative reporters has been a common practice for decades.

Whatever elaborate excuses Planned Parenthood’s media apologists may attempt, they cannot explain away the abominable reality of what Planned Parenthood actually does: Kill babies, and harvest their bodies as commodities in the “fetal tissue” market.

So-called “fact-checkers” in the media are now engaged in more pro-abortion spin, nitpicking Carly Fiorina’s debate quote:

In the video, the Center for Medical Progress [CMP] interviews a woman identified as Holly O’Donnell, a former procurement technician for StemExpress. . . .
O’Donnell talks about a time when she saw a fully-formed aborted fetus, with its heart still beating, in a pathology lab at a California Planned Parenthood clinic while she was on a job.
“I’m sitting here looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think,” O’Donnell said. According to O’Donnell, her supervisor then told her they would procure the brain because the fetus was well-preserved.
The Center for Medical Progress video does not show actually show footage of O’Donnell’s experience, and there’s nothing else in the video to corroborate O’Donnell’s story. Additionally, the supervisor in O’Donnell’s story does not say anything about keeping the fetus alive specifically for the purpose of harvesting the brain.
To dramatize O’Donnell’s interview, the video cuts to a fetus outside the womb, placed on what appears to be some sort of examination surface, and the fetus’ legs are moving.

In other words, the CMP video does not actually show the specific scene that O’Donnell describes — the video images of the fetus, CMP says, were obtained from the Grantham Collection — but everyone who watches the video understands this, and if Carly Fiorina’s description confused anyone, this does not change the reality of what is involved in chopping up babies to sell them as “fetal tissue.”

The Democrat Party and its media accomplices share a fanatical commitment to abortion — the “sacrament of the Church of Liberalism,” as Ann Coulter famously said — and we see that they will use any excuse to justify abortion. Democrats clearly believe taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood is essential, as a sort of official government seal of approval, and thus are willing to do whatever is necessary to sustain this. Mollie Hemingway notes that, after Wednesday’s debate, “Planned Parenthood and its public relations firm SKDKnickerbocker lobbied journalists to claim that Carly had made up her claims,”  and many in the media have been happy to do Planned Parenthood’s bidding.

Watch the whole 10-minute video and make up your own mind:

The liberal media should be ashamed of themselves, but if they had any sense of shame, they wouldn’t be the liberal media.





 

Category: Abortion, Media Bias, Planned Parenthood

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | September 18, 2015 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Dawn broke, and he had to admit the spires of the city were lovely. Flying cars shuttled the rich to their jobs, where they would unplug from the car and jack into the grid that ran the economy across the solar system.

The weekend loomed, and they would show up at his farm, nerves wracked by the information firehose applying pressure across their augmented senses. He’d grind beans, crack eggs, grate cheese, slice ham, spread butter, and serve a simple breakfast to them before their stress overcame their superior health care.
He breathed deeply of the new day, pitying them.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

The Desert, The Aliens, and Unanswered Questions

Posted on | September 18, 2015 | 12 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


Most of you are probably unfamiliar with the National Fantasy Fan Federation, which has been around literally since the dawn of SF fandom. I myself thought it had died off, but evidently it is very much alive, and hard up enough for members and volunteer staff that they made me head of their Membership and Recruitment Bureau, which is why I drafted this blog post on why you ought to join the N3F. On a related topic, apparently Sasquan is still refusing to release to the public the Hugo nomination ballots – not the Hugo ballots themselves, just the nomination ballots. What could they be trying to hide?
Also, for those of you who missed the announcement a week or so ago, the Kindly Ones are collecting nominations for the 2016 Hugo Awards here.

But enough of fannish politics. I’ve been spending most of last week reading S.M. Stirling’s The Desert and the Blade, wherein Crown Princess Orlaith and Empress Reiko head into the Mojave in pursuit of the legendary Grass-Cutting Sword, one of the Three Sacred Treasures of the Imperial throne. Meanwhile, Orlaith’s mother, Lady Protector and High Queen Matilda, fears her daughter’s impetuous questing has endangered Montival, since there are factions within the High Kingdom whose loyalty died with her husband, Rudi. If you don’t like the Change series, that’s fine (but spare me the reminders in the comments) but if you do, be reassured that this is worth the $14 Penguin is extorting for the Kindle edition.


I hadn’t planned to pick up Robert Frezza’s Cain’s Land for a while, since in a lot of ways I think it’s the weakest of his Suid-Afrika trilogy, but there it was…anyhow, aliens have been discovered, and canny Imperial Commissioner Mutaro decides that the best man to contact them – and, if necessary, defeat them – is renegade Colonel Anton Vereshchagin. From there, the action matches the description one of Vereshchagin’s men gives of wars: “A little humor, a little horror, and a lot of sweeping up.” Well worth picking up, if not quite as good as the first two books. Not available in Kindle, sadly.


Some years ago, I met James Daniel Ross at Balticon, where he was flogging his new book, The Chimerium Gambit to various fans of combat SF, and indeed, he had some interesting changes to ring on the hoary old trope of futuristic mercenary troops. I haven’t read its sequel, The Key to Damocles, but I have read two of the shorter “Mission Files” stories, Restavek and Not One Word; they are every bit as good as The Chimerium Gambit albeit shorter and cheaper. Recommended.


I’ve been waiting a while for Brian McClellan’s The Autumn Republic to come out on Kindle, and so far it’s been worth the wait. This is the cap to the Powder Mage trilogy that began with Promise of Blood, and a damn fine trilogy it’s been. There may be other authors out there who can combine magic and Napoleonic warfare, but McClellan does it while juggling half a dozen POV characters and half again as many subplots. Cannot recommend highly enough.
So what are y’all reading?


Category: Books

Social Justice, Matt Damon and the Hollywood Fantasy of Prostitution

Posted on | September 17, 2015 | 51 Comments

Am I the only one who remembers what Hollywood did to Tom Clancy’s The Sum of All Fears? Clancy wrote a 1991 Cold War thriller that portrayed a terrorist collaboration between an East German nuclear physicist and Palestinian radicals. However, by the time it emerged as a movie in 2002, the cinematic arbiters of political correctness had changed the bad guys into “a South African arms dealer” and “a secretive far-right cabal seeking to impose a white supremacist world order, led by Austrian billionaire and neo-Nazi Richard Dressler” whose plan is “to transform Europe into a united fascist superstate.” Yeah, because there’s no way anyone would buy tickets to a movie in which Palestinian radicals engaged in a terrorist plot. Too much like real life.

That P.C. Hollywood reversal came to mind when I read this at AOSHQ:

In a new Project Greenlight, Damon argued with a black woman about the need of a Director of Color (is that a thing?) for their movie, based upon the fact that in one scene a black prostitute is slapped by a white pimp. Given that single incident, she called for a black director, or a team of a female director and black one, to make sure the nameless prostitute was invested with dignity and something something Oprah Winfrey’s book club.
Well, Matt Damon, who is a goonish, thuggish leftist when it comes to imposing SJW crap on other people, actually began lecturing her that she was wrong.
This is, as you know, a crime; a white person can never contradict a black person in Obama’s America.

You can read the whole thing. Damon was forced to apologize, and this is just another controversy over “representation” (which is to say, tokenism and quotas) in Hollywood, but perhaps I’m not the only one who noticed this:

“. . . a black prostitute is slapped by a white pimp . . .”

Uhhh, how do I say this? Without sounding like a racist, I mean.

Maybe I’m not an expert on the demographics of the prostitution industry, but do a lot of black prostitutes have white pimps?

3 plead guilty in New Orleans to running
violent interstate prostitution ring
Three Memphis, Tennessee, men accused of enslaving and beating prostitutes in New Orleans pleaded guilty to federal charges [April 20], bringing to five the number of pimps convicted here in an interstate sex trafficking ring.
Christopher “Gutter” Williams, Duane “P-Nut” Phillips and Anthony “Animal” Ellis admitted to conspiring to commit sex trafficking. . . .
The self-styled pimps routinely beat their prostitutes and joked about it, prosecutors said.
They required the women to adhere to a strict code of behavior and took drastic measures to keep them from escaping. In at least one instance, Phillips required one of his women to get a tattoo that identified her as belonging to him.
“The women that he prostituted were not allowed to speak to or look at any other pimps,” court documents say. “On multiple occasions, Phillips ordered one of the women whom he had forced and coerced to prostitute to physically assault other women who had broken his rules.”
Williams demanded that his prostitutes refer to him as “Daddy” and show him respect at all times. He required them to earn at least $500 on a typical weekday and $800 on the weekend, taking all of their earnings.
Court documents say he sought to impregnate the women “because he thought that it would be harder for the women to leave him if they had a child with him.”
The documents say he would punch and kick women who disobeyed him, generally striking them on parts of their body that would not be visible in public. Once, however, he broke a woman’s nose. . . .
During a trip to Houston, Ellis ordered a prostitute who he said had disrespected him in front of other pimps to stand in the corner of a room, depriving her of food for eight or nine hours.
The men watched one another’s backs, bailing each other out of jail and keeping an eye on prostitutes belonging to a fellow pimp if he faced an extended period of incarceration. . . .
Ellis is the nephew of Granville Robinson, another alleged pimp charged in the case. Court documents say Robinson once struck a prostitute with a glass coffee pot and severely beat another woman with a piece of wood.
Two other Memphis men — Zacchaeus Taylor, described in court records as Phillips’ protégé, and LaQuentin “Nino” Brown — previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

Now, I was not able to find mug shots of all these pimps, but click here to see a photo of LaQuentin “Nino” Brown, and it seems safe to assume that his associates in this Memphis/New Orleans pimping operation were of a similar ethnic persuasion. Consider this recent news article:

A Memphis man convicted last month of attempting to kill a Gentilly man, and who was also accused of pimping teenaged girls for sex in New Orleans, has been sentenced to 100 years in prison under Louisiana’s habitual offender law.
Timothy T. Jones, 25, received the punishment Friday (Sept. 4) from Criminal District Court Judge Karen Herman. She said Jones showed depraved indifference when he left the victim partially paralyzed following the Feb. 17, 2014, shooting. . . .
A New Orleans jury Aug. 26 found Jones guilty of attempted second-degree murder and three counts of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. He also awaits trial in U.S. District Court in New Orleans, where he’s accused of trafficking juvenile girls for prostitution.
He was convicted in state court of trying to kill a man in February 2014, shooting him twice in his home in the 2500 block of Gladiolus Street. That man, who refused to testify against Jones during last month’s trial, was an alleged pimp as well, authorities said.
Police and federal marshals arrested Jones on Feb. 11, 2014, in a hotel room in the 300 block of St. Joseph Street in the Warehouse District. Authorities went there seeking Christopher Williams, another alleged pimp.
During his arrest, police found a pistol and an AK-47 rifle in a room tied to Jones, whose previous robbery conviction in Tennessee meant he was barred from having guns. Police booked him with the gun offenses.
Days later, after posting bond, Jones shot the Gentilly man.

So while the feds were looking for the pimp Christopher “Gutter” Williams in this motel, they just accidentally found another pimp, Timothy Jones. After he posted bond, Jones then shot another pimp.

A similar ethnic persuasion, you see. The same demographic as Alvin Houston, 27, and Shawna Calhoun, 24, who were charged with pimping a 13-year-old runaway in Maine. The same demographic as South Carolina interstate sex trafficker “Pimpstick Quezzy.”

Far be it from me to generalize unfairly from such examples, and I really don’t want to contribute to any prejudicial stereotypes, but it does seem to me that we may discern a pattern here. And the pattern we may discern doesn’t fit the cinematic scenario that provoked a high-profile argument between Matt Damon and Effie Brown.

That is to say, white pimps slapping black prostitutes is probably about as rare in 21st-century America as South African arms dealers and billionaire neo-Nazis plotting to transform Europe into a fascist superstate. In other words, it’s the kind of inverted through-the-looking-glass social-justice fantasy Hollywood loves.

Ask yourself a few questions: If feminists want to save young girls from the violent misogyny of sex traffickers, why do we never read any columns from Amanda Marcotte or Jessica Valenti about LaQuentin “Nino” Brown, Timothy “King Lucci” Jones, or “George “Pimpstick Quezzy” McLeod? Is there a truce between feminists and pimps? Is this about “intersectionality”? Do feminists only care about crimes against women when they involve white frat boys at elite universities?

“Haven Monahan” could not be reached for comment.





 

Category: Crime, Hollywood, Sex Trouble
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