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

It’s Not Your Help to Give

Posted on | October 12, 2013 | 67 Comments

Nothing so infuriates me as when a person, entrusted with authority by an institution, becomes so arrogant as to imagine that the authority they wield — the perks of their office, their power to reward or punish others — is their own personal possession.

Anyone who has ever worked in a large organization knows the type: They play favorites, rewarding their pets, surrounding themselves with sycophants, claiming credit for work they did not do, backstabbing rivals and generally fostering a cliqueish mentality that sabotages morale and undermines overall effectiveness.

This is a common problem of organizational dynamics. The selfish attitudes of the Bad Boss tend to create a toxic environment where people spend more time playing “office politics” than actually doing the kind of work that advances the organizational mission.

It is unfortunate to read Rosie Gray’s account of the sorry state of affairs at FreedomWorks these days, which gives liberals a chance to gloat over the ruin of a once formidable institution, and to mock the Tea Party for having its leadership thus corrupted. Selah.

Yet I would turn your eye away from that squalid scene to something that should enrage you even more. Lee Stranahan has lately been unleashing a steady stream of stories about the Pigford scandal.

In the latest, “The Paranoid Racism Of Shirley Sherrod,” Lee cites the former U.S. Department of Agriculture official on her encounter with a white farmer who sought assistance:

During his first visit with me, Roger talked nervously about his service to his country. I didn’t perceive it as nervous talk because I didn’t know him at the time. I perceived it as a white man showing that he was asking me for help but at the same time showing me he was superior. He talked about having been on a submarine and his service to his country. Referring to the foreclosure, he said, “I don’t believe my country will do this to me.”

Did you catch that? The farmer “was asking me for help.”

No, ma’am. He was asking the U.S. government for help.

My libertarian soul abhors this, by the way. If it were up to me, the whole system of federal farm subsidies would be eliminated. If a farmer can’t make a living on the farm, let him find some other line of work.

Uncle Sam shouldn’t be picking winners and losers.

The story of the Pigford scandal is a perfect example of how such a system of government largesse can be wrongfully exploited, and the fact that race was the basis of apparent favoritism is in some ways incidental to the fundamental problem. Our universities, for example, have been corrupted by the provision of federal aid, including research grants that are often used to fund redundant or useless studies in the social sciences. The entire Higher Education Bubble which Professor Glenn Reynolds has described is a direct consequence of federal meddling, including the student-loan racket.

And it is the selfish arrogance of Shirley Sherrod, even more than any accusation of racism, that should enrage us most. Here she is, a public servant entrusted as a steward of taxpayer resources, permitting her resentment of a farmer’s perceived attitude of “superiority” to influence her decision to provide him whatever assistance to which the law may entitle him. Sherrod evidently regarded her government job as a personal possession, so that her exercise of official authority conferred upon her some special dignity, so that even a U.S. Navy veteran was required to approach her with an attitude of deference and supplication.

Was the white farmer racist? Was Shirley Sherrod racist? I don’t give a damn, but government officials are not a privileged caste, and we should not be required to kiss their ridiculously overpaid asses in order for them to do their taxpayer-funded jobs.

Now, go hit Lee Stranahan’s tip jar. He’s doing the Lord’s work.

 

 


Category: Racism

Ron Paul Endorses @KenCuccinelli, @DMataconis Hardest Hit

Posted on | October 12, 2013 | 31 Comments

by Smitty

Via email from the Cuccinelli campaign comes word of Ron Paul’s endorsement:

Ken Cuccinelli has always stood for smaller government and limited government, he has consistently and unapologetically worked with the Liberty movement in Virginia. His stand against ObamaCare shows he is willing to stand up toWashington’s continued abuses on our individual liberties. I am proud to endorse to Ken for Governor of Virginia.

Libertarian and Sarvis supporter Doug Mataconis seems resigned to the current trajectory of the polls:

At the moment, then, this is clearly Terry McAuliffe’s race and, absent some kind of major story that turns things around for Cuccinelli soon, it’s going to be difficult for him to keep the Governor’s mansion in Republican hands in November.

Doug, as far as I can tell, is content with anyone other than Cuccinelli winning next month.
This blogger couldn’t oppose McAuliffe much more without exceeding the bounds of good taste:


It’s baffling, given Cuccineeli’s grasp of actual policy issues and support of real Virginians, why anybody would support McAuliffe at all:

You know I have been hearing from folks about their interest in my position on freedom to farm, something I’m quite familiar with, and of course I’m a strong property rights person. I just wanted to let you all know, that I believe traditional pasture-based farms and the local economies they can help are part of a brighter future for Virginia—both for our people and the environment. I support local farmers being freed to process and sell their farm products locally – marked appropriately so consumers know what they are buying.

More at Breitbart.

Cuccinelli for Governor

McAuliffe brings the buffoonery of a Chris Farley flick,

but none of the guffaws.

Category: Election, Virginia

WHY BRETT KIMBERLIN MATTERS

Posted on | October 11, 2013 | 70 Comments

‘Speedway Bomber’ Brett Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in 1981

“Kimberlin seemed to be the only one with a possible motive — to distract police attention from the Scyphers murder and delay or halt their quiet investigation of him.”
— R. Joseph Gelarden, Indianapolis Star, “Kimberlin case a maze of murder, deceit,” Oct. 18, 1981

“It is very easy to decide ‘this isn’t any of my trouble’ and permit vicious behavior.
“Who wants to get involved? Easier, and surely safer, just to duck one’s head and hide, and hope the danger visits someone else. . . .
“And why should you stick your neck out?
“Hey, it’s not like the Conservative Media is supposed to cast a spotlight on injustice, stick up for the common man abused by bullies, or fight leftist outrages.
“It’s not as if we’re supposed to fight the fights that others shy away from, right?”
— Ace of Spades, May 22, 2012

Most people don’t understand this story.

Most people don’t follow all the links and read every story. Sure, I’ve sold a couple dozen copies of Mark Singer’s 1996 book, Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, and so that’s a couple dozen readers who know the background of Brett Kimberlin’s vicious lifelong career of dishonest criminality. He has never apologized for his crimes and has falsely blamed others — including the victims, the witnesses and the prosecutors — because he is a monster who delights in evil, who hates justice and truth. And he likes to believe that he can intimidate people who speak the truth about him.

Guess what? Brett Kimberlin got caught.

Guess what? Brett Kimberlin lied.

Guess what? We refuse to be intimidated by a lying criminal.

Did you know that Brett Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser has expended tremendous effort trying to “dox” Ace of Spades?

I’ve only mentioned that a couple of times along in the past 17 months, because Ace doesn’t like to make a big deal about it. Nor have I mentioned certain other targets on the “Team Kimberlin” list who have sought my assistance, and whom I helped by the simple expedient of slamming “Team Kimberlin” as hard as I could.

The innocent shall not suffer, if good people have courage.

Not that I am brave. Yet the greatest source of courage is God, the knowledge that God answers prayer, and that the Lord of Hosts can command ten thousand angels to do His will. Whom God would save, no man can destroy. Whom God would destroy, no man can save.

Brett Kimberlin is an atheist who has hated God since childhood.

Why does Brett Kimberlin matter? We’ll try to explain. Tonight, bloggers are invited to join @Ali Akbar and I on Blog Talk Radio:

 





 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

The Lee Harvey Oswald Democrats

Posted on | October 11, 2013 | 118 Comments

Lee Harvey Oswald, arrested after an August 1963 pro-Castro protest

“The alienated radical suffers from feelings of helplessness and insignificance and, unable to find satisfaction in ordinary life, seeks to vindicate himself — to prove that he is a person of historical importance — by grandiose gestures on behalf of fringe ideologies, savagely lashing out against ‘the system’ he rejects in a sort of sour-grapes rationalization: Feeling rejected by society, he rejects society in revenge.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, “Squeaky Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Radical Impulse,” Aug. 27

What happened to the Democrat Party? When and how did the psychological impulses of radical alienation seize control of a large segment of our society, infusing them with the anti-religious, anti-family, anti-capitalist, anti-American spirit that dominates the souls of Democrats today? George F. Will describes the pivotal turn:

The transformation of a murder by a marginal man into a killing by a sick culture began instantly — before Kennedy was buried. The afternoon of the assassination, Chief Justice Earl Warren ascribed Kennedy’s “martyrdom” to “the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots.” The next day, James Reston, the New York Times luminary, wrote in a front-page story that Kennedy was a victim of a “streak of violence in the American character,” noting especially “the violence of the extremists on the right.” . . .
A Soviet spokesman, too, assigned “moral responsibility” for Kennedy’s death to “Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right.”
Three days after the assassination, a Times editorial, “Spiral of Hate,” identified Kennedy’s killer as a “spirit”: The Times deplored “the shame all America must bear for the spirit of madness and hate that struck down” Kennedy. The editorialists were, presumably, immune to this spirit. The new liberalism-as-paternalism would be about correcting other people’s defects.
Hitherto a doctrine of American celebration and optimism, liberalism would now become a scowling indictment: Kennedy was killed by America’s social climate, whose sickness required “punitive liberalism.” . . .

Read the whole thing. Hat-tip: My smart-ass friend Ali Akbar on Twitter.

 

 

Category: Culture, Democrats, History, Liberals

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.11.13

Posted on | October 11, 2013 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Obama, GOP In Debt Talks On Two Fronts

Boehner explains debt limit extension offer

#PresidentStompyFoot insists he’s still not negotiating

Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies, 88
Passed from stroke complications in a Denver hospice

EU Awards Sakharov Human Rights Prize To Yousafzai
Pakistani teen heavily favored to win Nobel Peace Prize as well



POLITICS
Truckers Plan To Clog Capital Beltway, Protest Government Corruption

Truckers Ride For The Constitution FB page icon

Rolling rally to begin at 7 AM, organizers hope for 10,000 trucks to participate

NJ Judge Denies Christie’s Request To Delay Gay Marriage

Utah’s National Parks To Reopen Despite Shutdown

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Sentenced To 28 Years For Corruption

Canadian Pleads Guilty To Eco-Terrorist Arson

Rep,. Mike Coffman Rips Pentagon Comptroller For Political Theater On Shutdown

DC Officials Lose Cool With Democrat Leaders Over Shutdown

Obama Signs Bill Restoring Death Benefits To Fallen Servicemen



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Supply Glut Blunts Oil Rise In Asian Market Due To US Budget Breakthrough Optimism: NYMEX $102.73, Brent $111.53
BlackBerry Co-Founders Considering Bid For Company
Stocks Soar On Hint Of Debt Breakthrough
Starbucks CEO Starts Petition Against Government Shutdown
Royal Mail Shares Up 36% On Market Debut
South Dakota Officials Assessing Damage To Cattle Herds From Blizzard
Now Anyone Can Find You On Facebook
Broadcasters Taking Aereo Fight To Supreme Court
Your PS4 May Be Built By PRC Students In Worst Internship Ever
Chromebooks: Unlikely Battlefield For Intel Vs. ARM
SMartphone Security Gets Simpler With New Pantech Vega Secret Note



SPORTS
Star Power: Verlander, Miggy Lead Tigers Back To ALCS

Victor Martinez, Prince Fielder, and Jose Iglesias celebrate

Tigers blank A’s 3-0, will face Red Sox for the pennant


Lynx Beat Dream 86-77 For Sweep, Repeat As WNBA Champs

Giants Fall To 0-6 After 27-21 Loss To Bears

Giguere Stops 39 Shots As Avs Blank Bruins 2-0

Magic Johnson Quits ESPN

Ducks Rout Rangers 6-0 As Nash Sits Out Again


University Of Minnesota’s Coach Kill Takes Leave For Epilepsy Treatment

Travis Kvapil Out Of Jail, Back In Driver’s Seat

Thunder’s Perkins Charged With Assault In July Incident

Bad Sign For Toronto? Raptor Out For Season

Lou Pinella Rejects M’s Overture, Won’t Manage Mariners

Blue Jackets Keep Sabres Winless With 4-1 Victory

Bernier Stops 36, Leafs Blank Predators 4-0

Habs Upset Oilers 4-1

Wild Gets First Win Against Jets

Ryan Zimmerman Favors Knorr For Nats’ Skipper



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Quentin Tarantino: “Batman Is Not A Very Interesting Character”

Pretty much defines “outspoken filmmaker”.

Also has kind words for box office bomb “Lone Ranger”


Miley Cyrus Offered $1 Million To Direct Porn Flick


Gloria Allred Slams Kanye West: “You Disgrace Your Profession”

Joe Scarborough Quietly Divorces Wife After 12 Years

Angelina Jolie With “Unbroken” Hero Louis Zamperini

DreamWorks, Jamie Foxx, Oliver Stone Ready To Move Forward With MLK Biopic

“American Horror Story” Scares Up Record Ratings On FX

Michele Bachmann Dismisses Miley’s SNL Skit: “I’ve Never Done Twerking In My Life”



FOREIGNERS
Kidnapped Libyan PM Pays The Price For Obama’s Leaking
Syrian Civilians Bore Brunt Of Jihadi Rebels’ Fury, Report Says
Bay Of Bengal Cyclone Gains Strength, 40K Evacuated From Coastal Areas
Musharraf Arrested Over Red Mosque Case
No Longer Content With Nukes, Great Successor Wants Norks To Become World Leaders In Mushrooms
Lapid: Jews Safer In New York Than In Israel
Belgian Statesman Wilfried Martens Dies, 77
Kenya Denies Urging African Nations To Quit ICC
OSCE Calls Azerbaijan Election “Seriously Flawed”



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Debbie Wassermann-Schultz Says It’s “Unfair” To Ask How Many Have Signed Up For Obamacare
Twitchy: “Freudian Slip?” Kathleen Sebelius Deletes Unintentionally Honest Obamacare Tweet
American Power: Obamacare Winners And Losers
American Thinker: The Blood Flows In Rochester
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – We Paid HOW MUCH For This Piece Of Sh!t?
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, October 10
Jammie Wearing Fools: Awesome! Hawaii Signs Up ZERO People For ObamaCare
JustOneMinute: Calling BS On The Whole Death Benefit Shutdown Theater
Pat Dollard: Pat Buchanan – Nobody Realizes It, But Red State America Is In The Process Of Seceding
Protein Wisdom: Truck Drivers For The Constitution
Shot In The Dark: The Seams Are Coming Unravelled
The Jawa Report: My New Favorite Tweeter And Celebrity
The Lonely Conservative: John McCain Is Really Sorry For His “Wacko Birds” Comment
Megan McArdle: Sears Eats Its Seed Corn


Deadline to submit links for this weekend’s FMJRA is midnight tonight.
DO IT.


Category: Live at Five

The Sex Charge Against Brett Kimberlin @NealRauhauser Wanted You to See

Posted on | October 10, 2013 | 118 Comments

Click here or click the image to see the complete document:

Brett Kimberlin’s estranged wife filed those charges on July 29, and I reported the charges she filed. The charges were subsequently dropped, for reasons unclear to me, but Brett Kimberlin has sued me and four others, claiming he is a victim of “malicious prosecution, conspiracy to abuse process, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and stalking.”

Then, predictably, the online entities of “Team Kimberlin” began boasting online about how everything alleged by convicted perjurer and pro se litigant Brett Kimberlin is certainly true and the defendants are undeniably guilty. Team Kimberlin (including Bill Schmalfeldt, Neal Rauhauser, @BreitbartUnmask and @x3n0ph0n) claimed to possess knowledge of proceedings in the case, alleging that I had been “served” in Maryland (false) and asserting that Ali Akbar was “dodging” service in the case (he is not). All of this pro-Kimberlin activity, you understand, undermines a key allegation in the Kimberlin v. Walker et al. lawsuit, namely that the defendants have defamed him by describing the activities of “Team Kimberlin.”

Kimberlin’s association with Bill Schmalfeldt and Neal Rauhauser is an easily demonstrated fact, and the coordinated actions of @BreitbartUnmask and @x3n0ph0n are similarly provable.

Neal Rauhauser at Netroots Nation conference, 2010.

It should not be forgotten that Rauhauser’s connection to Kimberlin was what originally inspired my interest in this story. But Neal can’t help bragging, and so he went online to claim that the sex charge Kimberlin’s estranged wife filed on July 29 was a “smear,” a “fake rape charge,” for which the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. lawsuit was deserved punishment:


This is not the first time that Rauhauser’s habitual bragging has hurt Kimberlin (see my Sept. 17 post, “BOOM: Neal Rauhauser Admits Playing Key Role in Brett Kimberlin Lawsuit“), but Rauhauser evidently shares Kimberlin’s belief that a $1 million lawsuit will shut me up while his various associates help Kimberlin create yet another phony “Accuse the Accusers” narrative. This has been the pattern going back more than two years — ask Patterico about the frivolous lawsuit Neal Rauhauser incited Nadia Naffe to file — and it would seem to be Neal and Brett’s belief they can keep running this game forever.

No, you can’t. It’s going to stop. Kimberlin will lose his lawsuit, and Neal Rauhauser’s dishonest harassment is part of the reason why.

 Everybody go read the details in the document Brett Kimberlin’s estranged wife filed July 29, and then compare my coverage:

Was my reporting and commentary justified by the descriptions in the document? And, in light of previous reporting about Kimberlin, was this implausible? Furthermore, did it not seem likely that Kimberlin might seek to harm or intimidate his estranged wife in retaliation for her having made these accusations against him? So if these charges were subsequently withdrawn, is it not possible that his estranged wife was coerced or intimidated into dropping the charges?

Go read the the petition for a domestic protection order that Kimberlin’s estranged wife filed on July 7, a development in this strange story that I did not report until July 9. Kimberlin’s wife says she left him in December — seven months before I knew anything about her — and I never saw her in person until the day of the July 29 hearing.

So exactly how Brett Kimberlin, a convicted perjurer, imagines he will prove that my coverage of this story constitutes “malicious prosecution, conspiracy to abuse process, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, harassment, intentonal infliction of emotional distress, and stalking” is certainly mysterious.

Maybe he thinks he can lie his way through it.

But if that lying creep Brett Kimberlin thinks he can make me shut up because I’m afraid of him or Neal Rauhauser or Bill Schmaleldt or any other idiots who have signed up for Team Kimberlin, he is sadly mistaken, because that is a game that Homey does not play.

I had no plans to publish that document, and if Brett Kimberlin wants to blame anyone beside himself, he can blame Neal Rauhauser.

 


Category: The Kimberlin Files

Hope and Change and Expensive Failure

Posted on | October 10, 2013 | 63 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
— Barack Obama, June 3, 2008

This was the moment when our ObamaCare began not working:

Major insurers, state health-care officials and Democratic allies repeatedly warned the Obama administration in recent months that the new federal health-insurance exchange had significant problems, according to people familiar with the conversations.

Did somebody say, “not working”?

WE PAID $634 MILLION FOR THE OBAMACARE
SITES AND ALL WE GOT WAS THIS LOUSY 404

As if no one possibly could have foreseen this:

When experts told the Obama Administration it was a fact the website was not ready, did they take seriously this advisement?
Nope! They simply said there was no cause for alarm; the strange gods of the left would just sort everything out.
Oddly enough, they didn’t.

Democrats insisted on shutting down the government in order to implement this expensive failure, while Republicans were willing to become less popular than chlamydia in order to spare Americans from the pain of re-learning that Democrat policies don’t work.

Democrats haven’t turned the whole country into Detroit yet.

We must be patient . . .

 

 

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care

The Weapon of Unlimited Victimhood: Pigford and Shirley Sherrod’s Vengeance

Posted on | October 10, 2013 | 121 Comments

Heads are still shaking about the unspeakable cruelty of Shirley Sherrod suing Susie Breitbart, a widow with four kids, as a substitute defendant for her late husband, because Sherrod blames Andrew Breitbart for her ouster from the Department of Agriculture.

Tom Vilsack demanded Sherrod’s resignation in July 2010 because Democrat political operatives at the White House panicked after Breitbart released the video of an NAACP audience’s enthusiastic approval of Sherrod’s story about how she denied assistance to a white farmer. The political panic occurred after that video got played in edited form on a Fox News broadcast, but Breitbart was not responsible for how Fox News depicted the story, nor was he responsible for Tom Vilsack acting as a political hatchet-man:

White House officials were in close contact with the Agriculture Department in the hours leading up to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s decision to fire USDA employee Shirley Sherrod in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal emails released by the administration.
[T]he White House and Agriculture Department officials were sharing information and advice from the first minutes after the scandal began to emerge until Sherrod submitted a resignation hours later at the request of a senior USDA official.

And here’s the key fact:

Vilsack apologized and asked her to return to the department — an offer she declined. President Barack Obama also offered an apology after her ouster created a racial firestorm.

In other words, Vilsack and Obama admitted they wronged Sherrod.

It wasn’t Andrew Breitbart who did her wrong, it was two Democrats, and she would still be employed at the Department of Agriculture if she wanted a job. Instead, she’s suing Susie Breitbart.

Because getting $13 million in Pigford lawsuit cash isn’t enough:

Georgia Farmer Eddie Slaughter . . . says he knows Mrs. Sherrod well and that she knew all about the Pigford fraud and that the people behind Pigford actually view it as reparations. . . .
The biggest claimant by far in the Pigford Settlement was the $13,000,000 that went to Shirley & Charles Sherrod and their former New Communities farm and land development project in Georgia.
It bears repeating: Shirley and Charles Sherrod and New Communities got thirteen million dollars from the Pigford settlement. That’s about double what the second largest winning Pigford claim was.
And then just days after New Communities won that huge claim, Mrs. Sherrod was offered a job with the USDA.

Yeah, you hit the Federal Tax Money Giveaway Powerball, but becoming an overnight millionaire isn’t enough to satisfy your infinite greed, and once you learn that victimhood can be lucrative, it is your natural instinct to continue playing the victim, even if it means pushing a self-evidently bogus lawsuit against a widow and her orphaned children.

(Unnecessary Legal Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and my estimate of Shirley Sherrod’s tort claim as “bogus” is no more defamatory than my estimate of her character as selfish, cruel and dishonest.)

The Culture of Victimhood encourages people to turn every grievance into a license to inflict harm on others. Flimsy accusations rooted in dishonesty or self-pity (or both) are applauded as “courageous,” and exploitation of the system is hailed as “social justice.” A sex offender turns her crime into a fable about homophobia, a notorious convicted felon claims to be a victim of “malicious prosecution, conspiracy to abuse process, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and stalking,” and we have become so accustomed to this evidence of pervasive moral decadence that we are not even outraged by it.

I’m past the point of being angry at the people who do this stuff.

I’m angry at everybody who is not as angry about it as I am.

Forget about the endless budget kabuki theater in D.C., you idiots.

Stop letting cable TV producers tell you what news is really important.

Shirley Sherrod is suing Andrew Breitbart’s widow.

Let that sink in. Think about what Andrew Breitbart meant. Think about what Andrew Breitbart did. Ask yourself, what Andrew Breitbart would ask his friends to do for his widow and children now?

Is there any story more urgent — is there any story that better illustrates how the leftist worldview has warped our nation’s culture in the Obama Age — than this story? Wake the hell up, people.

Shirley Sherrod’s Malicious Pro-Bono Suit
Against Andrew Breitbart’s Widow

That’s Aaron Walker’s headline on the incredible news that Kirkland & Ellis, the big-money law firm that has now made Susie Breitbart the defendant in Sherrod’s bogus lawsuit, is actually representing her for free — pro bono, as the lawyers say. Aaron is a lawyer, not a reporter, and so he “buries the lead,” as editors say. He also buries the news of a connection between Kirkland & Ellis and George Soros:

You will have to pay to read this entire article, but here is the relevant passage:

“We almost converted the debt into an acquisition finance structure,” says Erik Dahl, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, legal advisers to Soros Capital Partners.

That could be a coincidence. Or perhaps not.

Please read Aaron’s entire article carefully and remind me (once we’re finished “conspiring” to put the sociopathic creep Brett Kimberlin back in prison where he belongs) to talk with Aaron Walker about the “inverted pyramid” lead. Once he’s mastered that, perhaps, Walker will be ready to attempt The Total Gonzo Trip.

“In the context of journalism, here, we are dealing with a new kind of ‘lead’ — the Symbiotic Trapezoid Quote. The Columbia Journalism Review will never sanction it; at least not until the current editor dies of brain syphilis, and probably not even then.
“What?
“Do we have a libel suit on our hands?
“Probably not, I think, because nobody in his right mind would take a thing like that seriously — and especially not that gang of senile hags who run the Columbia Journalism Review, who have gone to great lengths in every issue during the past year or so to stress, very heavily, that nothing I say should be taken seriously.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in Washington: The Boys in the Bag,” Rolling Stone, July 4, 1974 (collected in The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time)

What the hell? Why did I quote Hunter Thompson’s bitter sarcasm, nearly 900 words into a rant about Shirley Sherrod and the vicious gang of serial killers bad lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis?

Two of the people in that lineup are immoral monsters whose infamous names are forever synonymous with cruelty and evil.

And two of them are serial killers.

 

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Fear. Loathing.
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