LIVE AT FIVE: 07.24.13

Tuesday evening, BuzzFeed outed Sydney Leathers as the woman whose revelations of “sexting” have effectively destroyed Anthony Weiner’s political comeback and, by the time a Twitter friend called my attention to it, the BuzzFeed item was already a Drudge headline, so no one can blame me for outing her, and the ViralRead headline is a bit more specific:

BREAKING: Ex-Obama Campaign Worker
Identified in Weiner Scandal

Frankly, I think it was Weiner’s slime machine that tipped her identity to BuzzFeed, but who cares about such reprehensible creatures?

Wiener “lured” the young woman “via Facebook,” wrote Nik Richie of TheDirty.com, saying that the online relationship — “sending sexually explicit pictures of each other and having sexual conversations via phone” — between the married 48-year-old politician and the woman continued for six months. The damage of the revelations will likely destroy Weiner’s hope of winning the New York mayoralty, Mara Liasson of National Public Radio said Tuesday evening on Fox News: “I just don’t see how he can survive this … This has to be the end.”
The woman who told her story to Richie said, “I was 22 and in a bad place. … I really admired him. … I thought he was misunderstood. Until I got to know him. I thought I loved him. Pretty pathetic. … I was young and dumb. I just want people to really know he’s lying when he acts like he has changed.”
The woman said Weiner offered to get her a condominium in Chicago, and offered to recommend her for a job at the D.C.-based liberal news site Politico.com. “So they are looking to create a panel of bloggers … can I give him your deets?” . . .

Read the rest at ViralRead. “I thought I loved him”? Yuck.

UPDATE: Jeff Dunetz has a selection of photos of Sydney Leathers displaying her progressive cleavage and so forth. Exactly why girls engage in this kind of online behavior is something worth discussing. “The New Normal,” I guess? But we shouldn’t really be surprised when Democrat girls end up being “in a bad place” because, after all, they’re working on behalf of Satan’s Own Party.

Category: Anthony Weiner, Democrats, Scandal, Sex

E.W. Jackson Refutes Making The Zimmerman Case A ‘Racial Confrontation’

Posted on | July 23, 2013 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

E.W. Jackson isn’t having any of the Racism Industrial Complex’s noise about the George Zimmerman case. Today he was on WMAL “Mornings on the Mall” in DC. The audio is over at Fairfax Free Citizen.

This is why, among a field of great talent for Lieutenant Governor, I am pleased to have supported E.W. Amidst his other great talents, he throws the race noise right back at the foe.

E. W. Jackson for Lt. Gov.

Jackson makes the Godless Commies sweat.

Via Breitbart

Category: Racism, Virginia

Breaking News: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Is Still an Angry, Dishonest Partisan Liar

Posted on | July 23, 2013 | 97 Comments

The important background facts you should know about Ed Schultz: He was a sportscaster until he was 38 and began his talk-radio career attempting to be a conservative Rush Limbaugh imitator, failed at that and then re-invented himself as a “progressive” host, which provided the platform by which Ed got an MSNBC show in 2009.

Ed’s basic problem is that he’s not very bright, nor is he well-educated, and he is essentially phony. His father was an aeronautical engineer and his mother was an English teacher, which means that Ed grew up in middle-class comfort, and his whole “populist” blue-collar shtick is just that, a shtick. Anyone who has ever watched or listened to Ed Schultz understands that he is a very angry man — he reminds you of every angry drunk you ever knew — and this is basically the selling point of the shtick. If you are the type of person who hates Republicans and rich people and “Corporate America,” then Ed Schultz will give voice to your anger.

Did I mention that Ed Schultz failed at MSNBC, too? Yeah, he started out in the 6 p.m. time slot, then moved to 10 p.m. after Keith Olberman quit in 2011, before moving to the 8 p.m. slot, where he accomplished the remarkable feat of actually placing fourth — behind Bill O’Reilly on Fox, behind Anderson Cooper CNN and even behind Nancy Grace on HLN — and was eventually bumped to the weekend shift.

If you think MSNBC has a tiny audience during the week (Chris Hayes doesn’t even hit half-a-million viewers at 8 p.m. weeknights), their weekend schedule is almost viewerless. It’s not broadcasting, it’s narrowcasting. Anyone could have predicted that Schultz’s shot at the TV big time would end in failure; his exile to oblivion is not really surprising. The market for Angry Ed’s rants is quite small.

TV is like real life that way. Suppose you’re at a bar watching your favorite sports team on TV and you feel like they’re getting cheated by the refs. Ed the Angry Drunk shares your anger, and at first you welcome his bellicose outbursts: “Hell, yeah, Ed! That ref is a blind fool!”

As the night wears on, however, and Angry Ed keeps drinking, you realize his obstreperous rage is not merely a response, it’s a condition.

He’s not angry at something, he’s just angry in general.

There is no perspective, no rationality to that kind of anger. Angry Ed rants about everything, and when he’s finished with that, he starts ranting about nothing. His anger is not a reaction to any particular wrong, but is in fact the symptom of a personality disorder.

So you’re there in the bar, watching the game and after a while, you stop laughing at Ed the Angry Drunk’s outbursts — “Goddammit, he was safe! The tag missed him by a mile! That f–king umpire should be shot!” — and instead, after excusing yourself to use the restroom, when you come back you sit as far away from Angry Ed as possible. Maybe you stop paying attention to the game altogether, because your viewing experience is ruined by the constant ranting of this belligerent drunk.

People who are angry all the time are not the sort of people you enjoy hanging around a lot, and this is as true on TV as anywhere else. But those afflicted with Permanent Anger Syndrome (as we might call it) can never accept that their unpopularity is their own fault. There is a chicken-and-egg aspect to this: Which came first, the failure or the anger? Usually, by the time people get so far gone that we begin asking that question — e.g., after they’ve killed or seriously injured someone — it’s difficult to untangle the chain of causality.

However, if you ask the angry person, you can be sure that they will blame someone else. It’s never their fault they’re angry, you see, but always they have some rationalization that excuses or justifies their rage, and instead externalizes blame onto a scapegoat.

All of which is a preamble to something incredibly stupid Angry Ed said Sunday on his MSNBC show that nobody watches:

Michigan used to be a symbol of industrial strength in manufacturing in this country. But thanks to a lot of Republican policies, the city is now filing for bankruptcy. Now, it’s the largest public sector bankruptcy in U.S. history, and the consequences could be devastating if you care about people. The already small force of police, firefighters and EMTs are in danger of future layoffs, that’s only going to make it worse. Roughly 30,000 retired workers are concerned about their pensions. You know, what they’re counting on.
Make no mistake, Detroit is exactly what the Republicans want. They outsourced manufacturing jobs, attack unions, cut public services, and this is the result. Now they can wipe the slate clean because now they can start privatizing city assets.

This is so wrong, it cannot be accidentally wrong, and can only be described as a dishonest partisan lie. The decline of the U.S. industrial economy, and the related decline of urban America, is a subject that has been exhaustively studied, and neither ignorance nor partisanship can be an excuse for the kind of mendacious disinformation Ed Schultz foisted upon his handful of ignorant angry viewers. In 2006, Lynn Vincent and I co-authored Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party, and I was responsible for Chapter 8, “Scene of the Crime: Creating the Urban Nightmare,” which I briefly excerpt:

Meanwhile, the cost of government was further increased by public employee unions. The very existence of such unions turns the logic of the labor movement on its head. The purpose of unions is to represent the interests of workers against the interests of the owners of businesses. But government workers are ultimately employees of the taxpayers, so that government worker unions are fundamentally opposed to the public interest — in the words of one New York liberal activist, “not extracting a share of the profits but rather a share of the taxes.”
This inexorable logic has had a devastating impact on America’s cities. Under Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr., New York became the first U.S. city to grant collective bargaining rights to city employees. The public employee unions relentlessly negotiated for higher wages, shorter hours,and more benefits, including health insurance that did not require co-payments from the workers (a policy unheard of in the private sector). Contract negotiations were a farce, since unions used membership dues to fund political campaigns to elect pro-union candidates. “During labor negotiations, the unions would be on both sides of the table.” This translated into forcing governments (which is to say, taxpayers) to pay above-market labor rates. By 2005, journalist Steve Malanga observed, “Wages average a hefty 37 percent higher in the public sector, but the differences in benefits are even more dramatic. Local governments pay 128 percent more, on average, than private employers to finance workers’ health-care benefits, and 162 percent more on retirement benefits.”
Fewer private-sector jobs, more welfare recipients, more public employees, higher government costs, higher taxes — by the mid-1960s, Democratic policies had sent the nation’s biggest cities into a downward spiral that could only end in bankruptcy. For Detroit, already devastated by deadly riots, the worst days were ahead. . . .

See, there is a pattern here. It’s not just Detroit, it’s New York or New Orleans or any other place where the power of Democrats and their union allies is so unchecked by any opposition that they can basically dictate policy. This has failed everywhere it’s been tried.

The underlying problem of industrial decline is more complex, because what happened was that for the first 25 years after World War II, the United States enjoyed advantages that could not possibly be sustained. The industrial capacity of our major competitors — especially Germany and Japan — had been devastated by the war and the task of rebuilding the postwar world created a massive demand for goods and services that the United States, relatively unscathed by the war, was uniquely prepared to fill. Once that advantage began to fade, and especially after the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973 made Detroit’s high-powered low-mileage cars less desirable than little Volkswagens and Toyotas, the easy profits and high wages of U.S. industrial workers faded pretty quickly, too.

Nobody has yet figured out how to reverse that decline — or, if some ideal policy prescription could be imagined, it has not been implemented — but to blame this on “a lot of Republican policies” is so demonstrably false as to be absurdly implausible.

The Democrats controlled Congress for 40 consecutive years, from 1955 to 1994. The industrial decline occurred after Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson implemented the most sweeping set of liberal policies (“The Great Society”) since the New Deal. During the 48 years from 1933 to 1981 — from FDR to Jimmy Carter — Democrat presidents occupied the White House 32 years, compared to 16 years for Republicans, and by the time Ronald Reagan took office, the American economy was in its worst crisis since the Depression. Anyone who studies this history and says “a lot of Republican policies” caused the problems is just plain lying.

No intelligent or well-informed person could believe Ed Schultz’s lie, but then again, his audience is made up entirely of Democrats, eh?

It ought to be pointed out, also that this latter-day liberal nostalgia for the “Good Old Days” is hypocritical bullshit. All during the “Good Old Days” of the 1950s and ’60s, liberal intellectuals constantly excoriated the capitalist greed that they blamed for the plight of the poor. Democrats always demanded more concessions to labor unions, and the unions themselves kept going on strike to demand more concessions from the companies that (little did anyone suspect) were then just decades away from going bankrupt.

You don’t have to take my word for any of this. You could go back and read the newspapers and magazines of the 1950s and ’60s and see for yourself the scathing indictments of the U.S. free-market system that liberals published during the Good Old Days that this bullshit phony “populist” Ed Schultz now uses as a club to beat Republicans, claiming that their policies were to blame for the decline.

Democrats do this all the time: Find a problem and then conjure up some way to blame the problem on Republicans, and invite all their liberal buddies in the media and academia to climb aboard the Big Bandwagon of Blame that will help elect more Democrats.

Hint: Whatever your problem is, “vote Democrat” is never the solution.

Democrats never seem to learn the lesson Margaret Thatcher so eloquently summarized: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later, you run out of other people’s money.” Problems caused by the “success” of Democrat policies are always worse than whatever problems are caused by the “failure” of Republican policies.

Having expended 1,800 words explaining to you why Ed Schultz is completely full of shit — yeah, you knew he was full of shit, but maybe you didn’t really know why — it is now perhaps safe to embed the video, without risk that anyone will be deceived by his lies:

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Shut up, Ed. Nobody really likes you, and that’s not their fault.

Category: Economics, History, MSNBC

LIVE AT FIVETEN: 07.23.13

Posted on | July 23, 2013 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Royal Baby Preoccupies World Media

Formal birth notice posted outside Buckingham Palace

“Moscow in flames, missiles headed toward New York, film at 11”

Pope Francis Gets Warm Welcome To Brazil
Tens of thousands of cheering Brazilians mob papal motorcade

Pressure Mounts For Morsi Release As Egypt Rioters Kill 10
International diplomatic pressure joins MuBros in demanding ex-President’s release form military detention

POLITICS
Young Illegals Whine To House “That’s Not Our DREAM!”

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor speaks during a news conference

GOP moves to separate issue of underage illegals brought here by parents from other immigration issues

Pew: Big Racial Divide Over Zimmerman Verdict

Federal Court Strikes Down Dallas Suburb’s Bar To Illegals’ Housing

Thousands Rally On Facebook In Support Of Mass. State Trooper Who Leaked Bomber’s Pix

Harassment Claim Latest Blow To San Diego Mayor Of Unknown Party

NSA Growth Fueled By War On Terror

AAA Calls For NTSB Review Of Chesapeake Bay Bridge

CJCS Dempsey Says Syrian Intervention Would Cost $12 Billion/Year With Significant Risk Of Deeper Involvement

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
WTI Drops Slightly On Profit-Taking, Brent Rises: NYMEX $106.94, Brent $108.15
Netflix Adds Subscribers, But Fewer Than Expected
UPS Profit Falls As Global Customers Turn To Cheaper Shipping
Wall Street Eyes S&P 500 At 1700
Taco Bell Dropping Kids’ Meals, Toys
Wendy’s Posts Profit, Will Sell 425 Restaurants
SAC Fires Back At SEC, Refutes Allegations Against Cohen
Nokia Unveils Lumia With Larger Screen
Apple Portal Attack Not Malicious, But Developers Still A Target
Touch: Where Microsoft Went Wrong
Apple Tests Larger Screens For Phones And Tablets
UK To Block All Online Pr0n by Default

SPORTS
Brewers’ Braun Booted Over Biogenesis Brouhaha

Suspended without pay for the rest of the season

For violations of the Basic Agreement regarding drug testing
Meanwhile, the NFL gets a free pass on PEDs

Coach K Begins Quest For Third Straight Gold Medal

NHL Stars Invited To Olympic Camps

Racer Nathan Wood Gets 100th Career Win

In Desperate Need Of Power, Yankees Turn To Soriano

Cubs Trade Garza To Rangers

Lincecum Hammered In First Game After No-Hitter

M’s Manager Wedge Goes To Hospital After Dizzy Spell

Feldman Shuts Down Royals, O’s Whole Lineup Produces: Birds Win 9-2

Nats Bats Wake Late, Can’t Overcome Massive Suckage Of Dan Haren

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“”Law & Order” Star Dennis Farina Dies, 69

Dennis Farina, 1944-2013, RIP

Blood clot in lung proximate cause of death

Sacha Baron Cohen Leaves Freddie Mercury Biopic Over Creative Differences With Queen

Spike Lee Resorts To Kickstarter To Fund Newest Film

Miley Cyrus: Of Course I’m Singing About Ecstasy, You Idiots

Penelope Cruz Gives Birth To Baby Girl

Billy Ray, Tish Cyrus Call Off Divorce After Couples Therapy

“12 Monkeys” Adaptation Near Series Order At Syfy

Billy Magnussen Ventures “Into The Woods” To Replace Jake Gyllenhaal

Lindsay Lohan: Mom Drunk Dialed Therapy Session

FOREIGNERS
Pro-Assad Hackers Claim Hack Of Tango Chat App
Hezbollah Rattled As EU Unanimously Blacklists Military Wing
Al Qaeda Jihadis Fee Abu Ghraib In Mass Breakout
Burma Frees 73 Political Prisoners
French Pol Sparks Outrage After Suggesting Hitler Didn’t Kill Enough Gypsies
Japan Commuters Push 32-Ton Rail Car Off Trapped Woman
Biden On Maiden Visit To India To Bolster Ties
Congress, Obama At Odds Over New Iran Sanctions
PRC Imposes Five-Year Ban On Construction Of Government Buildings

BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: @NCRehabAddict, You Have A Lot More Work To Do!
Twitchy:: Dana Loesch Points Out Staggering Pro-Abort Royal Baby Hypocrisy With One Hashtag
Shot In The Dark: What The Hell Do We Do With Our Society?
Weekly Standard Blog: Soft Focus
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama And His Boss Jarrett Line Up Celebrity Morons To Pimp ObamaCare
American Thinker: The GOP Nuclear Option On Obamacare
Power Line: Can ObamaCare Fail?
Andy Puzder: A CEO’s-Eye View Of ObamaCare
Jim Galloway: Sam Nunn’s Daughter Michelle Declares Candidacy For US Senate
ESPN: Nate Silver Moves To ESPN, Will Fill “Multifaceted Role”
Althouse: Public Editor Admits Nate Silver Never Really Fit In At The NYT
Via Meadia: Detroit Turns The Screws On Pensioners
Allahpundit: Congress Caves – Intel Committees Approve Funding For Syrian Rebels
Sense Of Events: HUD’s New Ghetto Formation Program
James Pethokoukis: A Different Kind Of People Mover – Let’s Flood Detroit With Immigrants

Category: Live at Five

Subway, the Anti-Rush Limbaugh Boycott and the Sad Debacle That Is #UniteBlue

Posted on | July 22, 2013 | 171 Comments

A late lunch with 10-year-old daughter Reagan at Subway today.

The entirely negative and destructive agenda of the Left — they hate America, and if you love America, they hate you — has turned its focus to attempting to destroy Rush Limbaugh by boycotting his advertisers. The so-called “Stop Rush” campaign was recently commercialized by Democrat Party consultant Zack Green, who on Friday put up a post called “Boycott @Subway until they dump Rush Limbaugh” at his 140Elect.com firm’s site. Zack Green is also the founder of “Unite Blue” (@UniteBlue or #UniteBlue), about which he had this to say in February:

In August of 2012 we launched UniteBlue.com to connect the Left on Twitter. I wasn’t interested in another top-down organization. UniteBlue is a bottom-up attempt to empower activists to push their agendas. . . .
We are growing rapidly, would love to bring others on board. . . . We are also in the process of becoming a 501c4 non-profit.

The anti-Subway/anti-Limbaugh campaign would seem to be a demonstration project by Green intended to showcase the effectiveness of (a) his online prowess as a Twitter consultant, and (b) his group, Unite Blue. If he can take out this one advertiser, Green wins — he’s the Big Dog and, presumably, he gets more consulting clients.

Well . . . Hello, massive fail: Rush Limbaugh has millions of radio listeners, while Green’s supposedly influential online organization @UniteBlue has only about 18,000 followers on Twitter (fewer followers than I have as an individual) and Rush’s listeners quickly put together their own “Rush to Subway” campaign that led to crowded dining rooms and lines out the door today at lunch time.

There is a problem that the anti-Limbaugh crowd can’t seem to understand: Bad causes attract bad people. Trying to shut down the most successful talk-radio program in America — to silence dissent against the Democrat-Media Complex — is a very bad cause indeed.

Is it therefore surprising to know that one of the key activists in #UniteBlue — indeed, a board member — turned out to be a drug dealer who was fighting child pornography charges? William “Bill” Talley was exposed in May after Zack Green and #UniteBlue tried to quietly dump him from the board and hush up the scandal. On May 29, Talley was sentenced to prison at a hearing in Nashville:

Detective Chad Gish testified to THOUSANDS of images and videos William Talley had in his possession, including children as young as THREE . . .
Detective Gish also testified to credit card receipts found on Talley’s PC as proof he had been buying access to child pornography . . .
Detective Gish: “These videos were so reprehensible. A three year old girl screaming while she was being raped”

Are we really surprised that a drug dealer who buys child pornography of 3-year-old girls getting raped is a progressive activist?

And are we surprised that people like that hate Rush Limbaugh?

Sure, Rush sometimes says things that are controversial. But given a choice between America’s Truth Detector and scum like “Unite Blue,” I think decent people know what side they’re on.

Also, those Subway sandwiches were delicious.

Category: Crime, Rush Limbaugh

The World’s Youngest Blogger Salutes The New Brit: “Ask For An Aircraft Carrier.”

Posted on | July 22, 2013 | 12 Comments

Also: “You showed up four days shy of ‘Just so!’, on my birthday. Oh well, stiff upper lip, and all that.”

The Worlds Youngest Blogger salutes the new Brit: "Standing by to bail you out in a pinch, Limey." pic.twitter.com/LsY70AXumu

— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 22, 2013

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

Baby-Hater @AmandaMarcotte Rather Laments the Survival of the Royal Baby

Posted on | July 22, 2013 | 45 Comments

Question: How much do you hate @AmandaMarcotte? Answer: Not as much as @AmandaMarcotte hates babies.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 22, 2013

The World’s Most Wretched Woman™ has further disgraced herself by making grossly inappropriate Twitter comments about the birth of Kate Middleton’s baby. When informed by sane people that her comments were, at the very least, in poor taste, @AmandaMarcotte immediately doubled down, then tripled down, accusing conservatives of caring about babies only before they are born.

This is one of the Left’s stale and familiar attacks on pro-lifers, an attack would have no validity even if any of these leftists ever did anything for children except vote Democrat. (This counts as “charity” to them: Vote for Democrats who will create bureaucratic programs spending other people’s tax money, and you are thereby virtuous.)

As a father of six children, of course, I have done many things to help them. Just today, I took my youngest two kids to Subway — #RushToSubway! — for a meal that cost $21, which is $21 more than @AmandaMarcotte has ever spared from her own bitter selfish life to do anything for a child. Her hatred of babies is so notorious that some have begun to suspect that Amanda Marcotte volunteers at abortion clinics on weekends so that she can personally stab their brains out and feast on their quivering warm flesh.

Are you #BlockedByAmandaMarcotte yet? If not, maybe somebody could RT this for me? https://t.co/104zfNdfy4 || @AmandaMarcotte < HATES BABIES

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 22, 2013

She is an evil heartless bitch, and I’d love to tell her so, but @AmandaMarcotte blocked me long ago. Maybe if you will Tweet her to tell her what a hateful person she is, she’ll block you, too.

@Moira1987 All the GOOD people are blocked by @AmandaMarcotte. Kind of a pattern, really. @ExJon @jtLOL

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 22, 2013

UPDATE: It was Ace of Spades who remarked a couple of years ago that no public controversy is complete until Amanda Marcotte makes a complete fool of herself about it, and today Ace is grateful for Amanda’s early contribution:

Thank you, Amanda, for providing your typical unhinged goofball stupidity. I’ve been looking at this stupid story for 40 minutes figuring “How the hell do I even cover this?” Well, you provided the answer.

Exactly. What should a blogger say on such an occasion? But now we have the appropriate response: “Shut up, Amanda Marcotte!”

Of course, that response is good for any occasion . . .

Category: Abortion

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LIVE AT FIVE: 07.24.13

‘Carlos Danger’ Is a Democrat’s Fake Name, But Sydney Leathers Is Real

E.W. Jackson Refutes Making The Zimmerman Case A ‘Racial Confrontation’

E. W. Jackson for Lt. Gov.

Breaking News: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Is Still an Angry, Dishonest Partisan Liar

LIVE AT FIVETEN: 07.23.13

Subway, the Anti-Rush Limbaugh Boycott and the Sad Debacle That Is #UniteBlue

The World’s Youngest Blogger Salutes The New Brit: “Ask For An Aircraft Carrier.”

Baby-Hater @AmandaMarcotte Rather Laments the Survival of the Royal Baby

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