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Ditch Mitch?

Posted on | July 23, 2014 | 342 Comments

Who was ultimately responsible for the evil Mississippi primary campaign that smeared supporters of Chris McDaniel as racists?

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, that’s who.

The GOP Establishment Incumbent Protection Machine and the big-money donors who fund it have been determined to eradicate the Tea Party movement in the 2014 campaign cycle.

This is McConnell’s formula for Republican success: Destroy all primary challengers, whatever the cost, and ensure that only Establishment-approved candidates win primaries in open-seat races or against vulnerable Democrat incumbents. It’s a cautious, risk-averse strategy, and if Republicans capture the Senate majority in November, McConnell will be congratulated on his success.

On the other hand . . .

What if it all goes sideways? What if this political equivalent of the NFL “prevent defense” turns out to be a formula for GOP failure?

What if all the big money and all the shrewd consultants turn out to be less valuable to Republicans than the grassroots conservative supporters who have been alienated by McConnell’s strategy?

What if Mitch McConnell loses his own Senate seat?

Manu Raju and John Bresnahan of Politico examine that scenario at some length today, and it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.

Look at the polls: McConnell leads Democrat challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes by 5 points in the Real Clear Politics average, but the race has only been polled four times in the past two months, so we don’t know how solid that lead really is. Most importantly, McConnell is consistently polling below 50% — as low as 42% in a May poll — and that’s always a troubling sign for an incumbent.

As the Politico article says, if McConnell can’t defeat Grimes, the prospects for a GOP Senate majority are pretty remote. And if Republicans can’t take over the Senate this year — when they have every possible advantage, by ordinary calculations — it’s possible to argue that Republicans can never win a Senate majority, that the GOP is doomed to permanent minority status.

This scenario, the de facto triumph of Democrats as uncontested rulers of America as a one-party centralized state, would be a complete reversal of the “permanent Republican majority” Karl Rove promised in the wake of George W. Bush’s re-election.

After all the evil deeds perpetrated by the Republican establishment in the Mississippi primary, some of my conservative friends respond to this possibility with calm: “Let it burn,” they say.

It’s becoming harder to argue that these friends of mine are wrong.

 

Category: Election, Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, Republicans, Senate

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.23.14

Posted on | July 23, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Israel Continues Gaza Offensive; Diplomats Seek Ceasefire

Palestinians evacuate a building in Gaza after IDF warns of impending strike

Multiple sites pounded, including Gaza’s only power plant


Ukraine Separatists Use Shot Down Airliner To Promote Cause
Donetsk Holds Its Breath As Shelling Intensifies


Joko Widodo Wins Narrow Victory In Indonesian Presidential Vote
Beats former general Subianto 53-47%



POLITICS
Perdue Beats Kingston In Georgia GOP Senate Primary

The former Dollar General CEO at his election night party

Will face Michelle Nunn in November


Federal Courts Split On Obamacare Mandates

Obama Arrives In Bay Area For Fundraisers

Bob Barr Defeated In GOP Runoff For GA-11


White House Backing Down On Contraception Mandate

NAACP Worried That Low November Turnout Could Lead To Voter ID Expansion

FAA Put Temporary Ban On Flights To Israel



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Declines On Weak Trade Cues: WTI $102.05, Brent $107.23
Daimler Q2 Profit Boosted By New Models
“Death Blow” To Herbalife Falls Short Of Billing
Harley Shares Fall After Admission Foreign Parts Holding Up Bikes
Credit Suisse Exiting Commodities
Senators Whine About Hedge Fund’s Avoiding $6 Billion In Taxes
Apple Gets Smartwatch Patent
A Solid Device Beneath A Layer of Gee-Whiz Frippery
Google Facing Class Action Over In-App Purchases
EA Profit Surges 51%
One OS To Rule Them All, One OS To Bind Them



SPORTS
Tony Dungy Flayed By Media For Saying What 31 NFL Teams Were Thinking About Michael Sam

Former Bucs, Colts coach Tony Dungy

Regrets becoming part of media circus surrounding the openly gay Rams rookie

Donald Sterling Sues Wife, NBA, And Commissioner

Rangers Use 9 Pitchers In 2-1 Loss To Yankees

Rays Win Sixth Straight, Beat Cardinals 7-2

Red Sox Fall To Jays 7-3

Giants Top Phillies 9-6 In Extras

A’s Agree To Ten-Year Lease To Stay In Oakland

Beckett Rusty As Dodgers Lose To Pirates, 12-7

Hoes Homer In 12th Lifts Astros Over A’s

Fish Hang On To Beat Braves Again

Mets’ DeGrom Tames Mariners For 3-1 Win

Trout’s Two-Run Dinger Too Late To Save Angels

Lucroy Hits Sayonara Homer, Brewers Edge Reds 4-3

Royals Rout Pale Hose 7-1

Cubs Blank Padres 6-0

Santana Homers To Lead Tribe Over Twins

LaRoche Slams Three-Run Dinger, Nats Beat Rockies 7-4



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jessica Alba Reveals Secret To Happy Family Life

For certain values of happy

Apparently, it’s using girls’ night out to whine about your husband


CBS Films’ Topside Shakeup

“Real Housewives” Daughter Busted For DUI

WGA’s “Call To Arms” Against Murdoch-Time Warner Merger

“Manimal” To Roar With Will Ferrell, Adam McKay And Jimmy Miller


Nikki Finke: Thank You, Readers

After Stepping Off “Ant-Man” Hill, Edgar Wright Sets Sights On “Baby Driver”

President Mysteriously Cancels Hollywood Leg Of LA Visit

Lucy Lawless Heading To “Agents Of SHIELD”

“Sons Of Anarchy” Star Charlie Hunnam: “I Don’t Give A Sh!t About Emmys”

Chuck Pahlaniuk Reconvenes His “Fight Club”

“Meet The Press” Host David Gregory To Be Replaced After Elections

Nick Jonas’ Post-Brothers Life: “Done Giving A Sh!t”

Irina Shayk Courted By Designers After Movie Role



FOREIGNERS
Singapore Inflation Slows From 14-Month High
Israel Opening Second Airport At Eilat In Response To Flight Cancellations
Britain Does U-Turn On Litvinenko Murder Investigation
Costa Concordia Finally Headed For Scrapyard After Massive Salvage Investigation
Parents Of Kidnapped Nigerian Girls Meet With President Johnathan
UK Government Report Finds Islamic Plot To Control Schools
Central African Republic Peace Talks On Hold; Rebels Absent
End Comes For Venezuela’s “World’s Tallest Slum”



BLOGS & STUFF
Proof Positive: “Made” Of Orleans
The Quinton Report: Beretta Moving All Manufacturing Out Of Maryland Due To Anti-Gun Laws
First Street Journal: The Left Keep Telling Us All The Things About Which We Are Not Supposed To Judge Them
Doug Powers: The “It’s The Law” Crowd Blames “Typo” For Big Blow To Obamacare
Twitchy: Sally Kohn Asks “Moronic” Question About Hamas, Israel
American Power: Anti-Israel Nutjob Max Blumenthal – Netanyahu’s “Extreme Right-Wing” Coalition Conducting “Revenge Campaign” In Gaza
American Thinker: Is Anything Obama’s Fault?
BLACKFIVE: Israel Says Kerry Not Invited To Gaza Talks
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Stupid Liberal Facebook Meme #548215
Conservatives4Palin: Bobby Jindal – Obama’s Broken $18,000 Obamacare Promise
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, July 22
Jammie Wearing Fools: IRS Puts Out Word It Needs Help Destroying 3200 Hard Drives
Joe For America: Illegal Immigration – Destroying Schools One District At A Time
JustOneMinute: Proximate And Fundamental Causes Of The Border Crisis
Protein Wisdom: “Check Your Facts, Not Your Privilege”
Shot In The Dark: When The Obamacare Story Is Finally Written…
The Gateway Pundit: Mark Levin Blasts Jon Stewart – “Read Up, Ivy League Boy, Figure Out What’s Going On before You Cut Your Stupid Jokes”
The Jawa Report: Hamas Missiles Found In Another UN School
The Lonely Conservative: After Four Years, What Has Dodd-Frank Done For The Economy?
This Ain’t Hell: Hegseth – Sanders’ Socialist Agenda Holding Up Help For America’s Veterans
Weasel Zippers: Ex-Planned Parenthood Director – PP Makes $313.29 Profit For Every Baby Killed By Abortion
Megan McArdle: Obamacare Takes A Body Blow


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Category: Live at Five

Trannies Keep Harassing Feminists

Posted on | July 22, 2014 | 37 Comments

Sophia Banks (@sophiaphotos) is a Canadian transsexual who decided to “expose” some radical feminists who stubbornly cling to the notion that being a woman is a condition involving XX chromosomes.

Yes, apparently, it’s come to this: Science is now HATE.

I’ve been covering this conflict intermittently for six months now (e.g., the situation that caused radical lesbians to protest against last month’s London Dyke March) and, despite my profound disagreement with radical feminism, there is no doubt at all that it is the feminists who are the ones being targeted for hateful (but politically correct) harassment by the “transgender community.”

Cathy Brennan writes: “Also, can I just point out that comparing women who know that trans-women are male to Hitler is a very offensive analogy?” Brennan calls these freaks “Men’s Rights Activists who identify as women,” which is grossly unfair to MRAs. I wish Brennan and her radical feminist allies could be strategic enough to realize that there is a huge majority of people who would be willing to support them on this one point — that “woman” is a biological category, not a “gender identity” — if only they realized how important this issue is. The fact that the people being targeted now are my ideological antagonists is not irrelevant to my concern. If hardcore feminists can be targeted this way, what do you think is going to happen when the Tranny Totalitarians target conservatives?

People need to wake the hell up.

 

Category: Feminism, Gays

Schools of Privilege

Posted on | July 22, 2014 | 44 Comments

My hostility to elite institutions of higher education is not entirely a matter of vulgar populism. It is also based on knowledge of what sort of childhood and adolescence is necessary to compete in the admissions sweepstakes at elite private schools.

It’s not just about being “smart.” Unless your Daddy’s a millionaire alumnus, mere intelligence doesn’t matter much in terms of getting admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and other such schools which annually receive many applications from kids with perfect SAT scores (before the test was changed in 2005, more than 900 students each year were “dialing toll-free,” as it’s called, referring to a perfect 800 score on each section of the SAT). No, to get into an elite school, a high SAT score is just the beginning; you’ll also need a near-perfect high-school grade-point average (GPA) and a thick stack of extracurricular activities and awards — captain of the tennis team, student-body president, first prize in the state science fair, etc.

Basically, in order to get into an elite school — unless your family is rich and your Daddy’s a senator, like Columbia alumna Megan McCain — you’re going to have to devote the first 16 or 17 years of your life to compiling the kind of credentials necessary to gain admission. You’re going to have to be a grind, an apple-polishing teacher’s pet, and your life outside the classroom is going to be so crammed full of activities (violin lessons, dance classes, and so forth) that you will have no time for anything resembling a normal childhood. And then what? Well, your folks are going to have to shell out $50,000+ a year for tuition, room and board, so that you can have the privilege of spending four years being indoctrinated by Marxists, atheists and sexual perverts, while acquiring the snobbish certainty that you are morally and intellectually superior to everyone who didn’t graduate from an elite school.

Why anyone would want that for their children, I don’t know. And neither does former Yale instructor William Deresiewicz:

“Super People,” the writer James Atlas has called them—the stereotypical ultra-high-achieving elite college students of today. A double major, a sport, a musical instrument, a couple of foreign languages, service work in distant corners of the globe, a few hobbies thrown in for good measure: They have mastered them all, and with a serene self-assurance that leaves adults and peers alike in awe. A friend who teaches at a top university once asked her class to memorize 30 lines of the eighteenth-century poet Alexander Pope. Nearly every single kid got every single line correct. It was a thing of wonder, she said, like watching thoroughbreds circle a track.
These enviable youngsters appear to be the winners in the race we have made of childhood. But the reality is very different, as I have witnessed in many of my own students and heard from the hundreds of young people whom I have spoken with on campuses or who have written to me over the last few years. Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.
When I speak of elite education, I mean prestigious institutions like Harvard or Stanford or Williams as well as the larger universe of second-tier selective schools, but I also mean everything that leads up to and away from them—the private and affluent public high schools; the ever-growing industry of tutors and consultants and test-prep courses; the admissions process itself, squatting like a dragon at the entrance to adulthood; the brand-name graduate schools and employment opportunities that come after the B.A.; and the parents and communities, largely upper-middle class, who push their children into the maw of this machine. In short, our entire system of elite education. . . .

You can read the whole thing at the New Republic. Deresiewicz’s critique of the elite schools is essentially liberal, whereas my viewpoint is conservative. I have no problem with rich people sending their overprivileged kids to elite schools. My problem is with middle-class parents who think they’re doing their kids a favor by spending money they can’t afford to send their kids to schools that teach them to emulate the fashionable attitudes of the decadent rich.

Ted Kaczynski was a Harvard graduate, you know.

UPDATE: The blogger at Booman Tribune is a wretched leftist scumbag whom I would normally never link. However (a) he is a longtime resident of Princeton, N.J., who has had the opportunity to observe young Ivy Leaguers at close range, and (b) he basically agrees with me about this:

Most of them are well-rounded, but I don’t think we should expect most of them to be well-adjusted. Mostly, they’re basket cases who are terrified of failure. They’re also so goal-oriented that they can become unglued if no one is pointing them to the next goal. And maybe there aren’t enough different goals. Med School, Law School, a job in finance. Beyond that, what? . . .
I am very aware of what I’d have to do if I want my four year old son to go to an Ivy League school, and I would consider it a form of torture to inflict that kind of regimen on him.

Exactly so. My oldest daughter is highly intelligent, has excellent study habits and graduated summa cum laude from a state university. (She worked her way through school as a Pizza Hut waitress). If I were a millionaire, I might have encouraged her to think of attending an elite school, but it simply makes no sense to put your kid through that kind of grind if you’re not rich.

What kind of parent would want their kid to be the poorest student at Yale? You want your kid to have the opportunity to be snubbed by a bunch of overprivileged brats? Are you crazy?

And here’s the worst of possibility: You put your kid through the wringer — total grindathon in high school, extra-curriculars out the wazoo, etc. — encouraging her to dream of that Ivy League acceptance letter that she’s not quite good enough to get. The psychic trauma of that rejection will haunt her forever and, having gotten her hopes up, of course, she’ll want to attend the “second-tier” private liberal arts school that does accept her, taking on outrageous student loan debt just to have that semi-elite credential.

She’ll probably major in Women’s Studies and hate you forever and, honestly, I can’t say I would blame her: You are a bad parent.

It’s better, you see, to avoid the high-pressure elitist ambitions. If your kid is truly superior, they will excel naturally, wherever they go to school. If my well-adjusted kids get rich, I hope they’ll send my grandchildren to the best university in the world.

Roll, Tide!

 

Category: Education

Did ObamaCare Just Die?

Posted on | July 22, 2014 | 21 Comments

This seems to be the consensus interpretation of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision this morning:

Court Rules That Subsidies in Obamacare’s
Federal Exchange are Illegal, Dealing
Huge Legal Blow to Health Law
— Reason

In Blow to Health Law, Appeals Court Limits Subsidies
— New York Times

BREAKING: Two Republican Judges
Order Obamacare Defunded
— Think Progress

Court’s Decision Strikes Huge
Blow to Pro-Abortion Obamacare
— LifeNews

So, whether they are liberals or conservatives, for or against ObamaCare, everybody seems to agree that this decision bodes ill for the program’s continuation. That’s good news for America.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care

Canadian Candidate Drops Out After Masturbation Video Surfaces

Posted on | July 22, 2014 | 82 Comments

 

Trish Kelly was a candidate for local office on the ticket of the liberal “Vision Vancouver” party. On July 14, local political blogger Raymond Tomlin published a 2006 video Ms. Kelly produced for a website called WayOutWest. In the two-minute video, Ms. Kelly talks about her masturbation habits: “Pretty much I do it every night, after brushing my teeth, but before putting on my jammies.” Ms. Kelly is entirely clothed in the video, during which she describes “the single lifestyle” and an occasion “giving myself the f–k of my life.”

Three days after Tomlin called attention to the video, Kelly dropped out of the race for Vancouver’s Park Board:

“After 25 years of serving my community, I put my name forward as a Park Board nominee to move my life as a community activist fighting for social justice issues, to claiming a seat at the decision-making table,” Kelly stated. “Unfortunately, my work in theatre and as a sex-positive activist is being sensationalized — and will clearly continue to be — distracting from my efforts in the community and in the election campaign.”
Kelly, a popular member of Vancouver’s LGBT community, made a humorous video about masturbation, which was posted on YouTube by political activist Raymond Tomlin. . . .
“I have never hidden from this work,” Kelly said in the news release. “I hold no shame nor regret for the work I have produced. I have dedicated, and will continue to dedicate, much of my life to contributing to my community, to having difficult conversations, and to making myself vulnerable in order to make space for others.”

Wait a minute: Ms. Kelly is a “sex-positive activist,” widely recognized as a “member of Vancouver’s LGBT community,” and yet her solitary habits were the problem? Do people not understand the meaning of “LGBT”? It’s not about marching in parades, y’know.

If her video confession of lonely pleasure — “pretty much . . . every night” — was potentially embarrassing for the Vision Vancouver party, the reaction to her resignation has been memorable.

Feminists are blaming the patriarchy for Ms. Kelly’s misfortune.

Yes, that’s right. The only reason Ms. Kelly’s masturbation video was a potential political liability was that she is a woman, according to feminist blogger Jarrah Hodge: “For some reason young women candidates keep finding themselves attacked for expressing their sexuality, even though it’s not at all relevant to the office they’re seeking.” Really? Did I miss all those occasions when male candidates recorded videos “expressing their sexuality” and nobody cared? Joe Biden has made a lot of gaffes over the years, but I’m pretty sure he never uploaded a YouTube video discussing how often he wanks (and I’m certain nobody wants to know).

Contrary to Ms. Hodge’s claim, it isn’t just “young women candidates” who are “attacked for expressing their sexuality” in politics. Or has she forgotten the self-destruction of Anthony Weiner?

But never mind that. Why do you think that Ms. Kelly — who is very much “out” sexually — would have suddenly dropped off the ticket of this progressive party in a Canadian city that is as liberal as Seattle or San Francisco? It’s mysterious. A profile of her last month focused on blue-eyed Ms. Kelly’s claim that she has some unquantified percentage of “aboriginal” ancestry:

“I think visibly I represent the other minority aspects of my identity, like being a woman,” Kelly said by phone from Burnaby. “But it’s more an opportunity for me to advocate and be an ally to First Nations and aboriginal people in Vancouver, which is something that I feel strongly about because every time I do that I’m honouring my mother and she passed away five years ago. It was very important to her when she got her Métis status card.”
A member of the Vancouver food policy council since 2007, Kelly noted that it’s possible that Vancouver had aboriginal municipal politicians before Ken Clement — who was first elected to the school board in 2008 — but they just didn’t publicly identify themselves as such. According to Kelly, it’s important for her to be “transparent” about her Métis background as well as the fact she identifies as bisexual, queer, and femme.
“I feel that I’m a bridge between two groups,” Kelly said. “I’m Métis and the word Métis means a ‘blend’ or a ‘mix’ in French, and I’m also queer or bisexual. I have to claim those identities, because being femme in everyday society I can be read as just a straight woman, and being Métis I can be read as just white. So I politicize myself by owning these identities, which is part of how I politicize my identity but also part of how I act as another ally to people who are more targeted because of their visible appearance or how they’re read.”

Hmmm. So she politicizes her identity. This is very interesting.

Her position on transsexual “issues” is also interesting:

Kelly maintained that, after years of being a “strong ally” to the trans community, she’d like the chance to be more than a “good listener”. If she gains a seat on the park board in the November election, Kelly said, she would see to it that the April report of the city’s trans and gender-variant inclusion working group is implemented.
“The reason that I feel that is so important is because it addresses inclusivity for not just folks that are gender-variant or trans but also just looking at making community centres inclusive for people with disabilities or people who just don’t feel like they fit into social norms of what a person is supposed to look like,” Kelly said. “The work that’s been done is really strong, and I want to support it and make sure that it gets embedded within the park board.”

What were the recommendations of the “inclusion working group”?

“What we’re talking about is — 10, 20, 30 years from now — trans kids of the future won’t confined by the gender limitations and constraints of today,” [co-chairman Drew] Dennis, who’s also a member of the city’s LGBTQ advisory committee, said by phone. “That’s particularly exciting for me.” . . .
“Gender-segregated services and facilities can exclude trans* and gender variant community members if an inclusive approach is not taken,” the report states. “In these instances, trans* and gender variant individuals commonly face gender-policing in the form of verbal harassment, public-shaming and physical violence by others who feel they do not belong there.”

So, you go to a park in Vancouver, and if a man in a dress wants to use the women’s restroom, it’s “verbal harassment” for a woman to tell him he doesn’t belong there. I’m going to take a wild guess that the recommended “inclusive approach” to “gender-variant community members” might be somewhat controversial even in liberal Vancouver. And I’m going to take another wild guess that Ms. Kelly’s masturbation video — which highlighted her bisexual queer femme “sex-positive activism” — might have caused some voters to wonder, “What kind of long-term agenda is Vision Vancouver pursuing, if they’re willing to put this kinky weirdo on the Park Board, to eradicate ‘the gender limitations and constraints of today’?”

How much do I know about Canadian politics? Almost nothing. The last time I paid attention to Canada was when a lesbian hockey coach went to jail for having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Because I don’t know enough about politics in Vancouver to know if there is a conservative alternative on the ballot, I can’t predict the consequences of Vision Vancouver’s embarrassment. However, I do know that politicians with radical agendas don’t usually like it when people start noticing exactly how radical their agendas are. Maybe common-sense folks in Canada are paying attention now.

 

Category: Canada, Feminism, Gays, Sex

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.22.14

Posted on | July 22, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Kerry, Ban Ki Moon Seek Gaza Ceasefire

Obama looking for another truce like November 2012

Ban wants negotiations without preconditions
IDF death toll reaches 27
Erdogan’s Gaza rants not just aimed at Israel




Ukraine Rebels Hand Over Black Boxes To Malaysians
Bodies also released

Texas Gov. Perry Deploying National Guardsmen To Mexico Border
State has a responsibility to act after “lip service” from Feds



POLITICS
Obama: Biden Would Be “Superb” President

Well, there you are, then.

Claim made in New Yorker profile

Retaliation By Supervisors Reportedly Common At VA

Newly Elected GOP Rep Comes Out For Gay Marriage


Judge Tosses Senator’s Obamacare Lawsuit

Dakotas Best In US For Kids

Detroit City Workers, Retirees Approve Bankruptcy Plan’s Pension Cuts

MI Inmates To Get Black & White Stripes Since “Orange Is The New Black”



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Steady Above $107; Focus On Ukraine, US Stockpile: WTI $104.84, Brent $107.80
Starbucks, Burger King Dragged Into Spreading Chinese Food Scandal
Chipotle Stock, Sales On Fire
Asian Shares Shrug Off Global Tension, Push Higher
Market Basket Dispute Resonates Beyond Supermarket Aisles
Credit Suisse Posts Q2 Loss
Facebook’s Save Button Bookmarks Content For Later
Red China Now Has More Internet Users On Mobile Devices Than PCs
Black Hat Presentation On TOR Suddenly Cancelled
Sony’s Resurrected Walkman Making Waves
New Fire Phone Games Highlight “Dynamic Perspective”



SPORTS
Big 12 Commish Bowlsby Rips NCAA

“Cheating pays.”

“NCAA enforcement is broken”

Sterling, Ballmer Meet To Discuss Clippers Sale

Jones’ Double 2-Run Dingers Lift O’s Over Angels, 4-2


Lee Struggles In Return As Giants Beat Phillies 7-4

Snakes Blow It On The Bases, Fall To Tigers 4-3

Big Papi Homers Twice To Pass Yaz On All-time List As Red Sox Rout Jays 14-1

Fish Beat Braves 3-1 In Extras

Willingham Homer Powers Twins Past Tribe 4-3

Nationals Pound Rockies 7-2; Colorado Skid Reaches Six



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“Weird Al” Yankovic Wraps Eight Days Of Videos With “Mission Statement”

Mandatory Fun!

“I wanted to do a song about all the ridiculous double-speak and meaningless buzzwords that I’ve been hearing in office environments my entire life,” Yankovic says about CSN parody


Comic-Con’s Most Buzzed TV


Robert Downey Jr. Tops Forbes’ List Of Top-Earning Actors

Ian Somerhalder Dating Nikki Reed

Farrah Franklin – I Just Wanted To Sleep In The Woods


Justin Bieber – Loud Partying Could Trigger Probation Violation

At Home With Paris Hilton

Tim McGraw Speaks Out

“Patriot” Actress Skye Cole Bartusiak Dead At 21

Katie Cleary – Dead Husband’s Will Leaves Her Zilch

Ray J Charged With Ten Crimes

Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye

Leah Remini On J-Lo: “A Jerk-Off”

Pregnant Ex-Escort Claims Ben Stein Begged For Nude Pictures



FOREIGNERS
Body Of Fugitive ROK Tycoon Found
Suicide Bomber Kills Four In Kabul
Police Ready For Trouble As Widodo Set To Be Declared Winner
Impeachment Complaint Filed Against Philippine President Aquino
UN Accuses ISIS Of Executions, Rape, Drafting Child Soldiers
Gunmen Kill Three As Insecurity Escalates On Kenya Coast
South Sudanese Rebels In Uganda To Mend Ties, Seek Troop Withdrawal
Ed Miliband Goes For His “Job Interview” At The White House
Eighteen Killed In Philippine Clash



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Getting Lectured By Your Shopping Cart In The Era Of Hope & Change
Twitchy: Roger Simon Claims Gov. Perry Sending National Guard To “Shoot Small Children”
American Power: LA Gaza Protesters Demand Extermination Of Israel, Death To Jews
American Thinker: The Brutal Obama Policy That’s Really Driving The Border Crisis
BLACKFIVE: Fake SF SGM Called Out By ANGLICO Marines At Funeral For Fallen Marine
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Comedic Social Justice Media
Conservatives4Palin: Palin On Hannity – Obama “Is In Over His Head”
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, July 21
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama Was Warned About VA Scheduling Issues After 2008 Election
Joe For America: Fireworks At NAACP Meeting – Watch Deneen Borelli Get Verbally Attacked
JustOneMinute: Dumbest Stat I Will See Today
Protein Wisdom: Everything Old Is New Again
Shot In The Dark: Death Cult
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – UC Borrows Money Long-Term to Cover Operational Expenses
The Gateway Pundit: Austin-Based Company Received $120 Million So Far This Year To Shelter Illegals
The Jawa Report: Chicago Or France? Leaflets Threaten Jews Over Gaza
The Lonely Conservative: Obama To Keep On Campaigning So As Not To Alarm The American People
This Ain’t Hell: About That “Influx Of Children” On The Border
Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep Joe Garcia – “We Don’t Have A Border Security Problem”
Megan McArdle: Don’t Blame Obama for Washington’s Gentrification


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Category: Live at Five

Is MSNBC Too Pro-Israel?

Posted on | July 21, 2014 | 15 Comments

Rula Jebreal (@RulaJebreal) is part of the unhinged anti-Israel fringe on the Left — I call them “the Sirhan Sirhan wing of the Democrat Party” — that has finally spilled over into public view on MSNBC:

An MSNBC contributor used her appearance on the cable news channel Monday to sharply criticize its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
During an interview on “Ronan Farrow Daily,” Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal unloaded on Western media outlets, including MSNBC, arguing that influence from pro-Israel forces makes the news coverage more favorable to the likes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Because of AIPAC, and because of the money behind it, and because of Sheldon Adelson, and because of all of us in the media. We are ridiculous. We are disgustingly biased when it comes to this issue,” Jebreal said.
“Look at how many airtime Netanyahu and his folks have on air on a daily basis. Andrea Mitchell and others,” she continued, referring to the MSNBC stalwart whose show airs right before Farrow’s afternoon program. “I never see one Palestinian being interviewed on theses same issues.”
When Farrow pushed back gently and pointed out that Palestinian guests have been interviewed, Jebreal continued her criticism.
“Maybe 30 seconds! And then you have 25 minutes for Bibi Netanyahu, and then half an hour for Naftali Bennett and many others,” Jebreal said.

There is a phrase for this kind of conspiratorial jabbering about AIPAC and Sheldon Adleson: The Paranoid Style.

 

Category: Israel, MSNBC
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