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Let’s Slut-Shame @WendyDavisTexas!

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 62 Comments

“Over time, the Davises’ marriage was strained. In November 2003, Wendy Davis moved out. Jeff Davis said that was right around the time the final payment on their Harvard Law School loan was due. ‘It was ironic,’ he said. ‘I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.’ . . . In his initial divorce filing, Jeff Davis said the marriage had failed, citing adultery on her part . . .”
— Dallas Morning News

Smitty already took a whack at the Wendy Davis piñata today, and that’s probably enough Wendy Davis bashing for the week.

She’s so far down in the polls as to be hopelessly doomed. She will lose to Greg Abbott in November without any further help from us.

However, the point of mocking progressive celebrity women is not because such mockery will contribute to their electoral defeat. No, the purpose of deriding Democrat women is to inspire feminists to frothing rage over the alleged sexism of conservatives.

Of course, Republican women are routinely disparaged in the most foul misogynist ways by left-wingers, and feminists never say a word about that, but let Rush Limbaugh make a wisecrack about Sandra Fluke and suddenly it’s a right-wing #WarOnWomen.

Conservatives are going to be slammed as misogynists no matter what we say or do, so we might as well have some fun and try to do something that will provoke a wildly unhinged Amanda Marcotte rant.

Most of the resentment over Wendy Davis’s fudging of her biography — “My language should be tighter,” she admitted to the Dallas Morning News — is focused on her depiction of herself as a struggling “single mom,” despite the way she hooked up with an older sugar daddy when she was 21, married him when she was 24, moved into a posh neighborhood, and got him to pay her way through Harvard Law. Then Wendy left him with custody not only of the daughter they’d had together, but also with her daughter from her first marriage.

Not to be judgmental or anything, but that’s scarcely the tale of hardship and woe that wins much sympathy from actual single moms, many of whom are conservative women, and disinclined to RSVP to the Wendy Davis Feminist Victimhood Pity Party.


You get the general idea: We want to force feminists to defend the real Wendy Davis — a liar, a cheater, a selfish gold-digger — and to make them explain how her actual biography (and her dishonesty about her biography) is consistent with progressive ideals. And if they refuse to fight Wendy’s fights for her, we’ll then have a wonderful headline: “Feminists Abandon Democrat Wendy Davis.”

Heads we win, tails they lose.

 


Category: Abortion, Election, Feminism, Texas

Take Paul Krugman’s Money

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 44 Comments

Paul Krugman tediously rehashes his “economic inequality” gripes:

The reality of rising American inequality is stark. Since the late 1970s real wages for the bottom half of the work force have stagnated or fallen, while the incomes of the top 1 percent have nearly quadrupled (and the incomes of the top 0.1 percent have risen even more). While we can and should have a serious debate about what to do about this situation, the simple fact — American capitalism as currently constituted is undermining the foundations of middle-class society — shouldn’t be up for argument.

Why the generalization, Dr. Krugman?

Why do you pin the blame so vaguely on “American capitalism,” when clearly the cause of economic inequality is you?

As the Smartest Economist in the Whole World™  it was your job to fix this  problem. Obviously you’ve been goofing off — phoning it in, going through the motions — and here you are again, recycling the same arguments you’ve been making for decades.

So we’re coming to take it back, Dr. Krugman. The middle class will be showing up to collect The People’s Refund. That three-bedroom $1.7-million Riverside Drive apartment you bought in 2009? It’s got enough square footage to house a dozen struggling grad students from Columbia and NYU. They’ll be moving in next week.

What’s your salary at Princeton University, professor? Last time I checked, the average Princeton professor made $190,000 a year and you’re clearly above average, so let’s say $250,000. We’re going to let you keep $60,000 of that — “incomes of the top 1 percent have nearly quadrupled” — and redistribute the other $190,000 to the janitorial staff at Princeton, because . . . fairness.

Now, how to redistribute your New York Times income? If they’re paying you $300,000 a year (which is Tom Friedman’s reported salary, and certainly they wouldn’t pay a Nobel Prize winner less) then I figure we’ll cut you back to $75,000, re-distributing $225,000 in $25,000 increments to nine struggling young writers to be chosen annually for what will be known as The Krugman Fellowships.

See, Dr. Krugman, this is why your “economic inequality” arguments haven’t been fixing the problem. By dwelling on general categories — “the top 1 percent” and the “middle class” — you have failed to make it personal. If you break it down to individual cases, people can relate a lot more directly to the issue, deciding on how they’ll divvy up the wealth of specific rich people, like you.

Even after we re-distribute three-quarters of your income, Professor, you’ll still be making more than $100,000 a year.

That money will come in handy when you’re buying pizza for all those grad students sleeping on the floor of your apartment.

Social justice, eh?

 

Category: Economics, New York Times

Wendy Davis Used The Roman Alphabet. Isn’t That “Honesty” For A Democrat?

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 27 Comments

by Smitty


I can’t see any level of prevarication in Wendy Davis’s history that has not been normalized by #OccupyResoluteDesk:

[Wendy Davis] has admitted to the Dallas Morning News that she lied about key events in her life, including her first divorce. Davis may even have lied under oath, testifying in a federal lawsuit over redistricting that “I got divorced by the time I was 19 years old,” when in fact she was divorced at age 21.
Other missing details have included: her second husband paid her way through law school and she divorced him the day after the last payment was made; her ex-husband accused her in initial court filings of adultery, and was awarded custody of their two daughters; and she first ran for city council in Fort Worth as a Republican.
“My language should be tighter,” she said, admitting her campaign biography has been less than truthful.

She really should have tarted up that bio some more. A mother who was an expat from Bulungi, where that branch of the family had run a coffee plantation, to give her a more exotic feel. She could write some fanciful book with a title like “Dreams from Gaia by Way of My Mother”, or something.

We’re looking at a young version of Hillary Clinton here. If you can’t understand one woman’s epic struggle to free herself from the cruel rows of shark-like teeth arrayed against her by the ravenous, insatiable Male Patriarchy, you’re clearly sexist.

If a bit of creative writing becomes necessary to overcome centuries of Masculine Oppression, then we must look past our own peevish adherence to facts and help a sista out.

Category: Feminism, Texas

Ode To Global Warming Wankery

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

When you say Global Warming,
The critics are a-swarming,
For scientists, they too need a vig.
And if you are a-doubting,
There will follow some loud shouting,
Delivered by some cat called ManBearPig.

But if we’re not a-fooling,
And we truly need some schooling,
They could use a little polish on the thesis.
If those busy ‘crisis’ hatching
Could but show some action matching
Their results might not have the waft of feces.

Category: Global Warming

Rule 5 Sunday: Under The Wire

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We come once again to that portion of the blog devoted to a break from demented shemales, liberals, and the other madness of the world, and turn to a healthful contemplation of God’s creation. As usual, be discreet when clicking the links, as not all of them are safe for work.

Blogfodder kicks off this week’s festivities early with a touch of Yellow Fever. Laughing Conservative follows with Dania Ramirez, Randy’s Roundtable submits Theresa Longo, and Fishersville Mike goes back to the island – Gilligan’s Island. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and Saturday Is Legs Day, while Goodstuff alerts us to Big Bang Theory‘s Melissa Rauch getting into the raunch. Ninety Miles From Tyranny has the Morning Mistress, Girls With Guns, and Hot Pick of the Late Night; Zion’s Trumpet is back with the still-hot Christie Brinkley, and Blackmailers Don’t Shoot contributes Rule 5 With Alana Blanchard.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week starts with Resa Cooper Morning, some 49ers & Seahawks cheerleaders, Professional Victim @papierhache, Broncos & Patriots cheerleaders, and last but not least, Feminism and Topiary.

Wine Women and Politics brings us the TGIF Babe of the Day, more TGIF Babes, Beautiful Blondes, Honey Honey, Tera Patrick, Red-Hot Redheads, Hottie of the Day, Women of Wednesday, and closes with some T&A.

A View From The Beach submits Magdalena Frackowiak, High Life, Powerful Men and Pretty Women, Last Word On the “Lena Dunham Nude” Kerfluffle, Cat People v. Dog People (has cave girl content), The Bird Eating Fish, Washed-Up Actress Shocks Hollywood With “S” Word, Se Habla Obamacare Schadenfreude?, The Great Body Image Wars, and “Keep Yer Hands Off My PBR”.

Soylent Siberia opens with your Sunday Coffee Creamer, followed by Set The Snoochinator To 1982! Monday Motivationer Rocio follows, along with  I Got Snooch, Tuesday Titillation Catalina, Vintage Humpday Hawtness Leisa, Ouch My Eye, Toe De Camel, Falconsword Fursday Classic Patricia, Afternooner Business Casual, Corset Caliente, TGIF Friday, TGIF Friday Too, and Weekender Bullseye.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Margot Robbie, his Vintage Babe is Evelyn Ankers, Sex In Advertising is covered by Megan Fox, and of course there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Alexandra Robertson and Christie Brinkley.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week were Lynsey Dyer, Rasheeda, Saemi Yazawa, Rebecca Herbst, Olivia Ortiz, Annabella Bottali, Silje Norendal, Nicole Zaloumis, Chandella Powell, and Ali Sonoma. Also, nurses!

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Roundup is Saturday, January 25.


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Category: Rule 5

The #JusticeForDrV Madness: ESPN Offers Belated ‘Condolences’? Really?

Posted on | January 19, 2014 | 37 Comments

Does this ESPN statement make any damned sense at all?

“We understand and appreciate the wide range of thoughtful reaction this story has generated and to the family and friends of Essay Anne Vanderbilt, we express our deepest condolences. We will use the constructive feedback to continue our ongoing dialogue on these important and sensitive topics. Ours is a company that values the LGBT community internally and in our storytelling, and we will all learn from this.”

The person known as Essay Anne Vanderbilt was, by all evidence, a sociopathic con artist who got caught. Period. End of sentence.

“Dr. Vanderbilt” was neither a doctor nor a Vanderbilt, and the bogus pretense to scientific superiority was inextricably connected to the phony persona who perpetrated that hoax.

Because “Dr. Vanderbilt” was born a male named Stephen Krol, the transgender aspect of the story was impossible to ignore and — I would argue, although the reporter Caleb Hannan has not — Krol/Vanderbilt’s gender dysphoria may have been one non-trivial symptom of what was clearly a disordered, dishonest and dysfunctional personality.

At the core of the #JusticeForDrV crusade seems to be the idea that Caleb Hannan’s reporting drove “Dr. Vanderbilt” to suicide, by threatening to “out” her as a transgender, even though there is no evidence that anyone who actually knew “Dr. Vanderbilt” in Arizona ever mistook her for a genetic woman.

For crying out loud: When a 6-foot-3 middle-aged man gets a sex change, the resul is unlikely to be particularly . . . persuasive.

Beyond that, how was Caleb Hannan supposed to report that “Dr. Vanderbilt” was a phony — not an MIT-trained aeronautical physicist, as the hype for the Yar putter had claimed — without reporting that, during the years that “Dr. Vanderbilt” was supposedly working as a Pentagon contractor helping design stealth aircraft, “Dr. Vanderbilt” was working as an auto mechanic named Stephen Krol?

A well-known CBS golf announcer promoted the Yar Oracle putter as superior because of its designer’s scientific expertise, but as soon as Caleb Hannan checked into that claim, he discovered what at first seemed a mystery — no record of any MIT graduate named “Essay Anne Vanderbilt” — and was eventually revealed to be an enormous lie. Some might say at that point Hannan should have dropped the story, but if golfers were being scammed, isn’t such a scam newsworthy?

The #JusticeForDrV crusaders grabbed hold of the idea that “Dr. Vanderbilt” was driven to suicide by Caleb Hannan’s “transmisogynistic journalism” — a claim for which they offer no real evidence — while ignoring all evidence that (a) “Dr. Vanderbilt” was not a victim, but rather a person who victimized others, and (b) it was the failure of the pseudo-scientific putter scam, not fear of being “outed” as transgender, which motivated “Dr. Vanderbilt” to commit suicide. Of course, “Dr. Vanderbilt” had attempted suicide in 2008, before Hannan ever heard of her, but why let facts get in your way when you’re ghoulishly exploiting a corpse as “LGBT Victim of the Week”?

When I read the hysterical ranting from the #JusticeForDrV crowd, I have to wonder: Are they even reading the same story?

[Krol/Vanderbill] ended up in Bonney Lake, Washington, a short time later [in the late 1990s]. . . . She worked as general manager at Trax Bar and Grill, an LGBT bar in Kent, Washington. She was the subject of three separate harassment claims from her time there, including one from a male coworker who said she made “inappropriate comments about her breasts and genitalia.”

Yes, there’s your martyred victim: Someone who was accused of making weird comments to co-workers at a gay bar. And here is some more decidedly non-victim behavior from Vanderbilt:

[Leland] Frische is the risk manager for Gilbert [Arizona], and he had been there when Vanderbilt first came to work for the town. He said she was hired in April 2006 and there were problems almost immediately. Vanderbilt had applied to be the manager of the fleet services division, but she lost out on that job to someone else. She believed she was more qualified, however, and others complained that she did not try to hide that. “She would confront her boss in open meetings,” Frische told me. “She would talk down to people. She really didn’t give us many options.” The town eventually fired Vanderbilt. Not long after, she filed her lawsuit.

Hmmm. Harassing co-workers at a gay bar in Kent, Washington, a disgruntled employee in Gilbert, Arizona — am I the only one who sees “Dr. Vanderbilt” as a familiar type of troublemaker? And look at how Vanderbilt and her partner dealt with Hannan:

Now, [Yar Golf president Gerri] Jordan’s message said she was calling to propose a deal. When I phoned her back, Jordan explained the offer. I could fly to Arizona and meet with Dr. V at her attorney’s office, where she would show me proof of her degrees from both MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. V then got on the phone and added another detail. Once I saw the documents I would have to sign a nondisclosure agreement barring me from revealing any of the details I’d learned about Dr. V’s past.
The “deal” was one I could not accept, and when I explained this Dr. V got upset. “What is your intention?” she asked. “Are you being paid by someone to destroy Yar?”

Paranoia? Baseless accusations of bad motives? But what sort of “proof” did Jordan and Vanderbilt plan to show Hannan of educational credentials that Vanderbilt clearly did not have? Never mind that, the  #JusticeForDrV crusaders say, what matters is that Vanderbilt was transgender and Hannan practically murdered her:

A transgender woman known as Dr. V invented a new type of golf club and lied about her academic qualifications. A journalist called Caleb Hannan threated [sic] to publish details about these professional lies and also out her as transgender against her will. A few days later she killed herself.

That’s a goddamned lie. Journalists don’t “threaten” to publish stories, and in point of fact, Hannan never published anything about “Dr. Vanderbilt” prior to her suicide in October 2013.

Facts are stubborn things, as John Adams said. And the simple fact is that Essay Anne Vanderbilt’s entire life was a huge lie.

 

Category: Gays, Media Bias

FMJRA 2.0: Rock Show

Posted on | January 19, 2014 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


It’s Come to This: Plus-Size Models Just Aren’t ‘Plus’ Enough for Some People

Rule 5 Sunday: Take It Off

Up Through the Ranks, Under the Bus

Lena Dunham: ‘If You’re Not Into Me, That’s Your Problem’

32 GOP Presidential Choices? Nuts!

Florida Atrocity: Girls Beat Teen, Held Her Down as She Was Raped on Video

Diversity, Ethnic Studies and Phone Sex

New York Times Plays the Koch Card, Reporting Democrat ObamaCare Panic

Transgender Feminist @papierhache Volunteers for Twitter Victimhood

Macho @EdShow Gets Called Out on Twitter by @AnnCoulter: ‘Lying Pussy’

Happy Birthday to My Sexy Wife

‘Mister, You Are a Two-Bit Hoodlum’

R.I.P. Ariel Sharon, a Tough Jew

The Christie GWB Scandal Bubble

Lauren Harrington-Cooper and Other Teachers Arrested for Sex Crimes

In Which @NYTimeskrugman Exposes His Own Structural Stupidity

‘Idiocy Is Not a Zero-Sum Game’

FMJRA 2.0: Frisby

She Craved the Taste of Boy Flesh

Egalitarianism Triumphant

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.13.14

Kimberlin Lawsuit Hearing Today

As Though CNN Knows Christianity

Brett Kimberlin Allegedly Alleges

#UniteBlue In Which @7serf7 Denies Being Convicted Felon Bill Talley

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.14.14

The IRS Scandal Cover-Up

The Rocky Horror Dating Game: Translesbians Encounter Queer Hate

Another Community Organizer Non-Victory In New York

The ‘Emerging Awareness’ Continues

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.15.14

Had The Man Brains, He’d Be Dangerous

#NV04 Gets Interesting

World’s Youngest Blogger, App Reviewer

Pervert Teacher Alicia Gray: ‘Hey, I’m Totally Sorry for Boinking a 14-Year-Old’

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.16.14

‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran’s “Occupy NOVA” Reign Of Error Staggering To A Halt

‘I Didn’t Want to Seem Crazy’

NBC’s Maria Shriver Raves About How Abortion Barbie ‘Became a Star’

Word of the Day: ‘Transmisogyny’

Ed Gillespie? A Button Marked ‘Crap’ Would Be An Improvement Over Warner

‘Blood Bath’ at O.C. Register

Their Propaganda, and Ours

Mister Popularity, Edward Snowden

Earth Heals, Oceans Recede, So Now It’s Time to Trust President Obama, Right?

In The Mailbox, 01.17.14

Psychiatrist Arrested With Crack Cocaine and a Dead Man Buried in His Backyard

Scientists Decide Americans Are Too Stupid to Understand Global Warming

Top linkers this week:

  1. Dead Republican Party (62, includes 18 from Dead Citizens Rights Society)
  2. Rick’s Rants (48)
  3. Regular Right Guy (14)
  4. A View From The Beach (6)
  5. Batshit Crazy News (6, including 2 from EBL)
  6. DaleyGator (5)


Category: FMJRA Award

MSNBC: Trolls Under a Bridge

Posted on | January 19, 2014 | 5 Comments

Let’s start with this: I don’t give a damn about Chris Christie. Didn’t give a damn about him before “BridgeGate,” and don’t give a damn about him now. Nevertheless, influential people in the Acela Corridor feel otherwise, and the attempt by the liberal media to take down a Republican is always newsworthy, whether or not the Republican is anybody I give a damn about. And Jennifer Rubin — who predictably has a fangirl crush on her Acela Republican pinup idol — devastates the media’s takedown effort on Governor Fat Boy:

The bridge scandal started out as a test for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R). Now it has become a test for the media. MSNBC, which long ago stopped being a news outlet in the sense of going out to find facts and is largely indistinguishable from Democratic Party talking points, has been going 24/7 since the bridge story broke. No surprise. But then Saturday MSNBC decided to throw even the pretense of journalism overboard.

Read the whole thing, which is interesting even if you wouldn’t vote for Chris Christie under any imaginable circumstance. As bad as he is, at least he’s not a liar from Hoboken.

Ali Akbar makes the case that bloggers have had an impact here:

While big media is busy obsessing over the supposed bridge scandal with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a moderate Republican, they’re getting backlash from their viewers. So instead of 100 articles about “bridgegate,” there are now 50 articles about “bridgegate” and 51 articles of the media examining its own coverage of “bridgegate.” It’s definitional insanity! In every single poll, the public is telling the media to move on from this story. The public is so disinterested in the story,that even in this hyper-partisan climate, no one’s opinion of the Governor has changed. But the Sunday shows couldn’t get away from it all. . . .

Read the whole thing.

 

Category: Chris Christie, MSNBC
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