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The MSNBC Agenda

Posted on | July 8, 2014 | 25 Comments

This morning I woke up early and switched the TV onto MSNBC — I Watch MSNBC So You Don’t Have To™ — where the Morning Joe crew then proceeded to spend 10 minutes talking about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. You probably missed the minor bit of local news that was the “hook” for this otherwise pointless discussion:

Gov. Chris Christie said [Monday] that he declined to meet with parents of first graders who were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last week because he had already decided to veto the controversial gun bill.
Christie defended his decision to recently veto the bill to reduce the permitted size of ammunition magazines from 15 rounds to 10 and said he declined to discuss the bill with parents of slain children because the conditional veto was already signed by the time they requested a meeting. . . .
The comments from the potential Republican presidential contender in 2016 came less than a week after two of the parents — Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden — visited Christie’s office in Trenton last week to present more than 55,000 petitions supporting the bill to limit the size of magazines.
The parents contended that more lives would have been saved during the mass shooting — 20 children and six adults were slain at the school in Newtown, Conn. — if the gunman had taken more time to reload his weapon.
After the parents left the New Jersey Statehouse, Christie’s office released the conditional veto, which was received with harsh criticism by the Democrat-controlled Legislature.
The parents sharply criticized Christie’s refusal to meet as “a cowardly political move.”

And that’s really all there was to it: Basically, the Newtown shooting is being exploited on a national basis to promote new laws infringing the rights of gun owners, with the parents being enlisted as celebrity spokespeople, flown around the country to show up and issue public statements denouncing Republicans who oppose this Bloomberg-funded left-wing anti-Second Amendment agenda.

Except this isn’t what Morning Joe viewers were told. Instead, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinksi treated this transparent publicity stunt by the gun-control lobby as if it were legitimate  news story of national consequence, as if this New Jersey legislation would have made any significant impact on violent crime, and as if Christie’s veto of the bill were evidence of politically motivated intransigence. Such a presentation is absurdly false.

As noted, New Jersey already has a law that limits magazine size to 15 rounds, making it one of the most restrictive states in the country, and the speculative value of further restricting magazine capacity is negligible. What percentage of homicides, attempted homicides or aggravated assault cases in New Jersey involve firearms with high-capacity magazines? Unless you can show that magazine capacity has some meaningful correlation to crime, discussion of new restrictions is just political posturing, and the people at MSNBC should be ashamed of themselves for wasting their viewers’ time on this idiocy. Here are the cable news ratings for July 1:

Fox & Friends ………….. 1,040,000 (56%)
MSNBC Morning Joe ……. 288,000 (15%)
CNN New Day …………….. 266,000 (14%)
HLN Morning Express …. 170,000 (9%)
CNBC Squawk Box …………. 99,000 (5%)

So, out of a combined cable news audience of 1.9 million for the morning shows, Fox & Friends gets more than half, while fewer than 1-in-6 watch Morning Joe, which barely outpaces CNN’s anemic ratings. Morning Joe is a failure in the ratings because its producers have made a choice: Rather than reporting and discussing actual news, their program is instead devoted to promoting the narrow partisan agenda — gun control, “climate change,” abortion, gay rights, etc. — of the Democrat Party.

But what else can we expect from a network that wastes valuable airtime on the notorious idiot Chris Matthews?





 

Category: MSNBC, Uncategorized

They’re Not Going Back

Posted on | July 8, 2014 | 31 Comments

Rush Limbaugh:

Thanks to the New York Times, of all places, we now know (get ready) that 300,000 illegal aliens have come into our country just since April. Now, I want to put that number in perspective. It’s not the 65,000 we originally were told about in January in the onslaught of unaccompanied children. It’s them plus everybody else. . . .
All of them are poorly educated, all of them are low skilled, and all of them are poor. Obama, on July 4th, celebrating the ethnic diversity of America, said, “Don’t make it harder for the best and the brightest to come here.”
In other words, this invasion of 300,000 since April represents the best and the brightest — and if you oppose it, then you are, what? Well, racist and bigoted. Of course, we’re not supposed to call this an invasion. Maybe that’s right. I mean, maybe it isn’t an official invasion when the country’s leaders invite the invaders in. That’s what’s happening here. These people are being invited in.
These people are being transferred by us, in many cases. The New York Times also let another detail slip out in this story over the weekend. “More than 85% of the so-called accompanied alien children from Central America,” that’d be Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, “have already been released to relatives in America.” More than 85% matches the 90% that we’ve been told by other sources.
So we got the New York Times saying 85% (other news agencies have used the figure of 90%) that have been released by ICE and Border Patrol to “relatives” in this country. So virtually none of these children have been sent back to their home countries, and they won’t be sent back.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Immigration

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 07.08.14

Posted on | July 8, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Israel Steps Up Anti-Terrorist Ops Against Hamas In Gaza

Palestinians salvage belongings from a house destroyed by IDF air strikes in Gaza

Another ground invasion in the works?



Pope Francis Meets Abuse Victims, Vows Zero Tolerance
Bishops will be held accountable



Japan PM Shinzo Abe Addresses Australian Parliament In English
Apologizes for WWII, welcomes new era of free trade, security cooperation



POLITICS
McDaniel Vows Challenge As Mississippi GOP Certifies Cochran Victory

Chris McDaniel speaks to a town meeting in Ocean Springs

Questions remain on improper absentee and crossover votes



Why Nukes Keep Finding Trouble: They’re Really Old



Seattle Business Group Clears Hurdle In Push To Repeal $15 Minimum Wage

Chicago’s Weekend Body Count: 82 Shot, 14 Killed

White House Disputes Report That Obama’s Backing Off Border Policy Changes

Administration Wants $2 Billion From Congress For Border Crisis First, Then It’ll Decide On Policy

New York Becomes 23rd State To Legalize Medicinal Weed



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Eases As Iraq Crisis Fades, Libya Expected To Resume Shipments: WTI $103.42, Brent $110.05
US Begins Settlement Talks With Commerzbank Over Iran Dealings
ROK Stocks Finish Flat After Samsung’s Grim Q2 Guidance
Dollar Falls Against Yen Most In A Week On Fed Rate View
How The Massive Crumbs Cupcake Empire Finally Fell
Corn Prices Near Lowest Since 2010 As Record US Crop Spurs Slump
Microsoft Windows To Aid PC Revival In 2015
Red China’s Hackers Switch Targets To US Experts On Iraq
Home Depot Expands Stock Of Smart Home Gadgets
Samsung, Broadcom, Intel Form Open Interconnect Consortium For Internet Of Things
The Most Expensive Video Games Ever Made



SPORTS
A’s Blank Punchless Giants, 5-0

Vogelsong sharp for Giants, but not sharp enough to overcome lack of offense

San Francisco can’t hit anybody


Angels Lose Weaver, Still Beat Jays

Mets Edge Braves In Extras, 4-3

Singleton Powers Astros Past Rangers In 12-7 Slugfest

Snakes Whip Fish 9-1

Iwakuma, Mariners Blank Twins; John Buck DFA’d

Phillies Scrape Up Just Enough Runs To Edge Brewers


Headley, Kennedy Carry Padres Past Rockies

Pirates Waste Chances, Fall To Cards 2-0

Red Sox Fall To Pale Hose In Series Opener

Reds Lose Votto To DL, Crush Cubs 9-3 Anyway

As Clippers Trial Begins, Neurologist Says Sterling May Have Alzheimer’s

Could LeBron James Be Heading Back To Cleveland?

Yanks Top Tribe 5-3

NASCAR’s Top Teams Form Race Team Alliance

Fletcher Strikes Half-Century As Windies Even Series With Black Caps

Chris Davis Leads 11th-Inning Uprising As O’s Crush Nats 8-2



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Mila Kunis On Her Wedding To Ashton Kutcher, Being A Full-Time Mom

“We all get movie star crushes. I’m marrying mine.”

W magazine’s cover girl for August


Joe Manganiello, Sofia Vergara Dating


For Taylor Swift, The Future Of Music Is A Love Story


Michelle Rodriguez: Goodbye Ladies, Hello Zac Efron’s Tongue

Jessica Simpson’s First Official Wedding Photo

Rebel, Rebel: Getting To Know The Real Solange

First Look At Don Cheadle As Miles Davis In Biopic “Miles Ahead”

Amal Alamuddin’s Mom On George Clooney: “She Can Do Better”

Disgusted Fans Boo Kanye West For Whining About How Photography Is Rape Or Something

Maksim Chmerkovskiy: Do I Look Like J-Lo’s Boyfriend?

Broke Tori Spelling Banking On Kids

Pregnancy Rumors Swirl Around Zoe Saldana

Peter Cook Ditched By Wife Over Skirt-Chasing Ways

Monaco Royals: “No Regrets” On Banning Businessman Over Brawl



FOREIGNERS
German Imports And Exports Fall In May
Powerful Typhoon Sweeps Across Okinawa
Kerry Warns About Power Grab In Afghanistan
Asylum Seekers Win Sri Lanka Reprieve
Indonesia Energized For Election
Pushed Out Of Slavyansk, Rebels Barricade Donetsk
Suicide Attack Kills 16 At Afghan Clinic
Bahrain Declares US Diplomat Persona Non Grata
India’s Supreme Court Declares Sharia Courts Have No Legal Authority



BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Ancient Rock Band To Record Another Dreadful Album
First Street Journal: Sacrificing Rational Concern To Political Correctness
Doug Powers: Hillary Clinton’s “Altruism” Sure Does Seem To Benefit The Clintons Quite A Bit
Twitchy: “Absolute Self-Parody” – Sally Kohn Likens Term “Illegals” To Racial, Anti-Gay Slurs
American Power: Murrieta Patriots Repulse Aztlan Open-Borders Brownshirts; Third Busful Of Illegals Rerouted To San Isidro
American Thinker: Hey! Doesn’t Barack Obama Care About Brown People?
BLACKFIVE: Free Kurdistan!
Conservatives4Palin: “Amazing America With Sarah Palin” Picks Up Second Season
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, July 7
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama’s America – DREAMer Charged With Rape In Sanctuary City
Joe For America: Costco Removing Dinesh D’Souza’s “America” From Shelves
JustOneMinute: Cutting Through The Smokescreen In Obama’s War On Coal
Pat Dollard: Mexican-Flag-Waving La Raza Terrorists Arrive In Murrieta “To Protect The Children”
Protein Wisdom: A Citizen Journalist Takes Stock Of Obama’s America, This Time From His Front Porch
Shot In The Dark: Today’s News, Seven Years Ago
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – Illinois Law Vs. Reality
The Jawa Report: Boko Haram #Winning
The Lonely Conservative: Democrats Go All In For Corporate Welfare
This Ain’t Hell: American Legion Steps Into The Breach
Weasel Zippers: Vulnerable Democrat Senator Mark Udall Refuses To Be Seen In Public With Obama During His Fundraiser
Megan McArdle: Die, Ex-Im Bank! Faster! Faster!


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Have A Koch And A. . .Hint Of Queasiness

Posted on | July 7, 2014 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

I can hear the Lefties arguing “If ObamaCare helps at least ONE person. . .”. Which is garbage. The rebuttal: “Cure worse than the disease” comes to mind.

Via Instapundit

Update: Via the YouTube comments, check out Right Wing Extremist Kurt Schlichter, bogarting all the jobs:

Category: Health Care

The Silence Is Settled!

Posted on | July 7, 2014 | 42 Comments

No more criticizing the Climate Change Consensus™! The BBC has muzzled anyone who does not agree with Official Global Warming Science™ and Salon’s Lindsay Abrams is orgasmic with pleasure:

Good news for viewers of BBC News: You’ll no longer be subjected to the unhinged ravings of climate deniers and other members of the anti-science fringe. In a report published Thursday by the BBC Trust, the network’s journalists were criticized for devoting too much airtime (as in, any airtime) to unqualified people with “marginal views” about non-contentious issues in a misguided attempt to provide editorial balance.

We haven’t seen this kind of mindless liberal enthusiasm since the days when Monica Lewinsky was wearing her Presidential Knee Pads.

(Hat-tip: Powerline.)

 

Category: Global Warming

Presidential Imperialism

Posted on | July 7, 2014 | 21 Comments

Jonathan Turley has a column by President Obama’s high-handed, irresponsible and unconstitutional exercise of unilateral power:

In our system, there is no license to go it alone. Rather, the Republic’s democratic architecture requires compromise. The process is designed to moderate legislation and create a broader consensus in support of these laws.
Nor is congressional refusal to act on a particular prescription of how to fix the economy or repair immigration laws an excuse. Sometimes the country (and by extension Congress) is divided.
When that happens, less gets done. The Framers understood such times. They lived in such a time.
While Obama did not create the uber-presidency, he has pushed it to a new level of autonomy and authority. It is a model that Democrats may soon regret. Just as Obama has unilaterally rewritten federal laws and ordered the nonenforcement of others, the next President could use the same authority to gut environmental or employment discrimination laws.

Read the whole thing.

 

Category: Barack Obama

‘Internalized Misogyny’

Posted on | July 7, 2014 | 49 Comments

That interesting phrase occurs in a long essay by a woman who “spent three years living as male, a year and a half on testosterone” as part of female-to-male “transgender” therapy before deciding to stop the hormones and “de-transition”:

When I was nineteen, I discovered the word “dysphoria” in a trans activist group on campus. Dysphoria explained my humiliation of being a female. It explained why I felt that I should be treated as my older brother had been. I wasn’t free to live the way I wanted to — unless I was a boy.

Imagine this desperately unhappy woman, at age 19, whose experience of being female was a source of “humiliation,” thinking she had found the solution to her unhappiness in “a trans activist group on campus.” Now, imagine this woman discovering that “trans” therapy didn’t solve her problem, and trying to get her head around that:

I am a product of my society, a response to your criticism and encouragement, I am a hall of mirrors reflecting your uncertainties and insecurities. I see eyes that look back with questions for answers. I see the shame of being a dyke and the elation of being a boy. My transition wasn’t a a careless decision, or a mistake — it was a reaction to my society and my experience that resulted in a better quality of life and provided me with the comfort of having answers and options. Eventually awakening to the ill-fit of living as male allowed me to examine my sex from a more holistic perspective.
What is my gender? I identify with my sex after being repulsed by it my entire life. My gender is that having a cunt has affected every facet of my existence, even when I turned the tables on others’ perception of my body. My gender is having discovered that I don’t enjoy fitting in with the guys: passing as male, becoming fluent in bro-talk, and being assumed to have a penis. By making my sex invisible, I internalized misogyny.

Well, you can read the rest of that. I’ve often said that feminism has replaced psychotherapy in the lives of mentally ill women, which is not to say that these unfortunate misfits are entirely unsympathetic. One gets the impression in this particular case that “23xx” comes from a severely dysfunctional family background, but without any access to healthy family life for purposes of comparison, she can’t analyze her own situation with any clarity. Her attitudes toward men are a weird mix of envy and hate:

Around a year on [testosterone], an alarm started going off in my head. . . . I was becoming what I hated. . . .
At this point, I would rather be able to simply acknowledge that I hate most men, with good reason, than to delude myself into thinking that I was mistaken about misogyny and that I really am lesser somehow.

Here’s the weird thing: After scanning her blog a while, I kept finding angry references to her mother, but never any mention of her father. One hesitates to engage in long-distance analysis of someone on the basis of a partial and superficial reading like this, but this seems to me highly suggestive. One might expect hatred of males from a woman who expressed resentment toward her father, but in this case, there is not even any mention of a father. And so, Herr Doktor?

The single mother dotes on the elder child, a boy, and fails to establish a healthy relationship with her younger child, a girl. The daughter experiences rejection, envies her older brother — who is loved and accepted by their mother in a way that she, the girl, is not — and as a result, the daughter grows up with a sense of alienation so profound that it overwhelms her identity as a woman.

Like I said, this kind of “remote analysis” is something we should hesitate to engage in, but you have to think that this extreme case of “internalized misogyny” must be explicable by some peculiar circumstance of her childhood. You also have to think that warning signs of her maladjustment were ignored or misinterpreted by her parents and teachers: “Oh, she’s just going through a phase.”

Uh, no.

Parents need to recognize that misfits (of whatever kind, including Creepy Little Weirdos like Elliot Rodger) don’t just “get over” their problems, and early manifestations of psychological abnormality can’t be dismissed as “going through a phase.” Most misfits eventually find some way to cope with their problems, at least well enough that they don’t commit murder or suicide (or both). But they tend to arrive at the coping point only after years of struggle, loneliness, misery and harmful “acting out” of their inner problems.

And now that I’ve invoked the misogynistic killer Elliot Rodger, let me point out something else from the “23xx” blog: One reason she quit testosterone treatment was in the hope of “getting my anger under control,” having discovered that her “intense urges to self-harm . . . had become much more extreme and violent towards myself” as a result of being on testosterone. Doesn’t this testimony about the effects of androgenic hormones — their association with anger and violence — tell us something about the fundamental root of the problem for anti-social male misfits like Elliot Rodger? And isn’t this something feminist theory tends to ignore?

Having myself long since become accustomed to the effects of testosterone — which all males experience naturally —  I think feminists could learn something useful from “23xx,” something their quasi-Marxist cultural theories are inadequate to explain.

 

Category: Feminism, Gays

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.07.14

Posted on | July 7, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Ukraine Retakes Two More Rebel-Held Cities

Troops remove boxes of ammo, weapons from a recaptured building

Sieges of Luhansk, Donetsk to follow – does Kyiv have the momentum now?


Morsi Trial Postponed
Not enough evidence or witnesses?



Netanyahu Pledges Justice In Murder Of Palestinian Teen
Jewish extremists arrested in revenge killing



POLITICS
Homeland Security Secretary Dodges Questions About Deporting Illegals

Angry citizens confront Border Patrol officers outside Murrieta, CA

Johnson suggested that America’s first duty is to incoming illegal children


Boehner Accuses Obama Of “Flippant Disregard For The Constitution”


States Look To Gun Seizure Law After Mass Killings

More Than Fifty Shot In Chicago Over Independence Day Weekend

Report Claims Most Accounts Probed By NSA Belong To Ordinary Internet Users

Texas Democrat Says President “One Step Behind” On Border Crisis



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Falls To Near Three-Week Low On Libyan Supply, WTI Flat: WTI $104.00, Brent $110.80
IMF’s Lagarde Calls For More Public Investment
Bank Stocks Nudge Aussie Markets Lower In Quiet Trade
Maine’s Shrimp Fishery May Face New Restrictions
Soy Prices Plummet, Gas Prices Fall
Thousands Attend LA’s First Marijuana Farmers Market
OMG, Sorry About “Poor Comms” On Facebook’s Secret Emoto-Meddle Tests. Laters!
BlackBerry CEO Takes Swing At Android Security
How Free Will The Internet Be In 2025?
Mom Fights Facebook Over Edited Photo
Google Dumps Porn From Its Ads



SPORTS
Almirola Wins Rain-Shortened, Wreck-Filled Coke Zero 400

Celebrating after winning another race for #43

30th anniversary of Richard Petty’s 200th win



O’s Blow Big Lead, Edge Red Sox In Extras Anyway

Rosters Announced For All-Star Game


Samardzija Traded To A’s, Named To All-Star Game

Beckett Continues Comeback As Dodgers Pound Rockies

Pirates Scupper Phillies 6-2

Mets Hold Off Rangers, 8-4

Astros Fall To Angels 6-1

Bombers Boot Game To Twins In 11th

Cubs’ Arrieta Good, But Not Good Enough: Nats 2, Cubs 1



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jessica Simpson Got Married

“Overwhelmed with complete happiness”

Lucky guy is former NFL player Eric Johnson


Even In A Better Economy, Hollywood’s Poor Get Poorer


Joan Rivers Cuts CNN Interview Short, Walks Out


Criminal Indictments In Sarah Jones’ Death Could Be Safety Wakeup Call For Showbiz


Former “Scandal” Star Columbus Short Busted For Public Drunkenness

“Star Wars VII” Sets Short Hiatus As Two New Actors Join

Sherri Shepherd – It’s Not My Kid And I’m Not Paying Child Support

Katy Perry Talks Turning 30 And Finding Her Voice

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie To Film New Movie In Malta

Anthony Cumia Of “Opie & Anthony” Fired By Sirius XM

Liam On Miley: “We’ll Always Be Best Friends”

Martha Stewart Celebrates “Cooking School” Wrapup

Taxi Mogul Throws Independence Day Bash In South Of France

Univision Host Snags Elvis Costume For World Cup

Fans Hoping For Labelle Reunion At Nona Hendryx Concert



FOREIGNERS
Indonesia Presidential Candidates Trade Barbs On Graft During Debate
Al-Shabaab Raids Kill 29 On Kenya Coast
Chancellor Merkel, PM Li Meet Before Official Talks
Western Powers Seek Audit Of Afghan Presidential Election
Soviet Defector’s Trove Of KGB Secrets Revealed
Iran Strongly Opposed To Iraq’s Disintegration
Australian PM Abbott Confirms Australia & Japan To Sign Free Trade Agreement
Death Sentences For 10 MoBros Upheld In Egypt; 38 More Get Life In Prison
Asylum Seekers Being Returned To Sri Lanka After Interception At Sea
Shahnawaz: Upcoming Budget To Focus On Getting India’s Economy Back On Track



BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: Feds To Deploy Riot Police Against Patriots Protesting Obama’s Illegal Alien Invasion
American Thinker: It’s Happening – Border Patrol Officers Infected By Diseased Illegals
BLACKFIVE: Congressman Asks – What’s Wrong With The Military?
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Demi Lovato Unfollows Selena Gomez On Twitter
Conservatives4Palin: Vox, Derp, And The Intellectual Stagnation Of The Left
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, July 3
Jammie Wearing Fools: Failed President Now Offering GOP Advice
Joe For America: Sheriff Joe Accuses Obama Of “Calculated Border Crisis” To Justify Executive Orders
JustOneMinute: Revising (Or Correcting!) The Declaration Of Independence
Pat Dollard: Obama Propagandist Scum Candy Crowley Slams Murrieta Mayor For Allowing Protests Against Illegals
Protein Wisdom: “If Only Thomas Jefferson Could Settle The Issue”
Shot In The Dark: Bring On The Bursting Of The Bubble
STUMP: Chicago Watch – Daley, Rahm, And A Restaurant
The Jawa Report: DOJ Documents Show Benghazi Was Planned Terrorist Attack, Not Spontaneous, And Not About Video
The Lonely Conservative: HHS Released Almost 1300 Pages Of New Regulations On The Eve Of Independence Day
This Ain’t Hell: Third Brigade, 10th Mountain Division Goes Into That Great Good Night
Weasel Zippers: Taxpayers Shelling Out $252/Day On Each Illegal Child In Custody
Megan McArdle: Jobs Report Is Happy Economic Whiplash


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