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Another Controversial CPAC Scandal!™

Posted on | February 17, 2013 | 18 Comments

How long have I been covering the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)? Forever, it seems, and every year the liberal media find some reason to denounce CPAC as extreme, fringe, controversial.

From my perspective, the biggest CPAC controversy this year is that they moved it from the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in northwest D.C. — near the Adams-Morgan district and a short taxi ride from downtown — to the new Gaylord National Harbor resort, eight miles south of town in Prince George’s County, Md.

I could think of a dozen arguments against this move, and have heard only one argument in favor of it: They got a great rate.

Well, so much for my CPAC controversy. The really big controversy according to liberal Sarah Reese Jones is this:

CPAC: White Supremacists and Wayne LaPierre
are Welcome, but GOProud is Banned

Students of propaganda techniques should ponder how Jones manages to suggest that Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association is somehow as controversial as “white supremacists.”

But wait a minute: Who are these “white supremacists” being welcomed at CPAC? Looking over the announced schedule, I don’t see any, unless Sarah Reese Jones is using the liberal definition of “white supremacist” as “someone who didn’t vote for Obama.”

What the headline seems to refer to is a panel at last year’s CPAC that included Peter Brimelow of VDare.com and John Derbyshire, formerly of National Review. While I didn’t attend that panel, I did run into Peter Brimelow between sessions at CPAC and he was, as always, entirely civil. To describe Brimelow as a “white supremacist” requires a distortion of the term that very nearly strips it of all useful meaning, but when a liberal propagandist wants to portray a CPAC controvery, truth is the first casualty. Readers will also note that Sarah Reese Jones labels Breitbart.com editor Ben Shapiro a “conspiracy theorist.”

So . . . yeah. Shapiro is Willis Carto, Peter Brimelow is Julius Streicher and you have yourself Another Controversial CPAC Scandal!™

The real motivating purpose of Sarah Reese Jones’s article, as far as I can tell, is to air the grievance of GOProud that they were not invited or, as I’m sure Jimmy LaSalvia would say, GOProud quite specifically un-invited, as in not welcome, persona non grata.

Could I comment on that dispute? Yes, I could.

Do I want to have that argument in public? No, I do not.

Meanwhile — since it’s apparently now the annual season for Another Controversial CPAC Scandal™ — let me point out that the CPAC agenda includes M. Stanton Evans, author of Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies. Here is a guy who did years of research to prove that Joe McCarthy was right, and liberals don’t think that’s controversial?

You commie pinko stooges dissapoint me . . .

 

Category: CPAC

FMJRA 2.0: #WARRIORS

Posted on | February 16, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Media Embargo Slowly Crumbling on Jennifer McKenna Morbelli’s Death

Stormfront for Liberals: The New Republic

CNN Anchor Deb Feyerick Apparently Thinks Global Warming Causes Asteroids

Carhart Victim Identified: N.Y. Woman Sought Abortion for ‘Fetal Abnormalities’

Corrupt Thought Studies, Holder Edition

HOOAH! Army Training Update

FMJRA 2.0: Turning Japanese

Matthew Hoffman: The Ohio Man Who Loved Trees … and Also Murder and Rape

The Brooks/Parker Cage Match

Finally: Washington Post Covers Death of Woman at Maryland Abortion Clinic

Rule 5 Sunday: “Who Gives A F*** About A G*ddamn Grammy?”

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.11.13

POPE BENEDICT XVI RESIGNS

‘And the Grammy Award for Most Implausibly Enhanced Cleavage …’

How Many More Women Will Die Before Abortionist LeRoy Carhart Is Stopped?

Despite Death in Carhart Clinic, Fanatics Want To Open Abortion Clinic In Wichita

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.12.13

ObamaPhone Boondoggle Update

Why Does @BridgetteDunlap Want to Suppress the Truth About Abortion?

Maryland Attorney General Investigates Abortionist Linked in Woman’s Death

UPDATE: Crazed Ex-Cop Chris Dorner Believed Dead After Cabin Catches Fire

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.13.13

‘Charred Human Remains’

They Buried Jennifer Morbelli Today

Obama’s Amazing Bullshit Factory

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.14.13

Liberals Outraged Like It Was a Bad Thing for Hillary to Have Sex With Animals

Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt Charged With Deranged Cyberstalking

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.15.13

It’s Time to Play ‘Name That Party!’

Meet @BridgetteDunlap, Fordham’s Campus Commissar of ‘Human Rights’

‘Corrupt Democrat,’ ‘Obnoxious Feminist’ and other Phrases To Avoid as Redundant

Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Rants (15, the hard way)
  2. The Camp of the Saints (8)
  3. That Mr. G Guy (6)
  4. The Lonely Conservative (5)

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery! Deadline to submit links to next week’s FMJRA is Friday, February 22.


Category: FMJRA Award

Equality Update: Plessy and Ferguson Could Not Be Reached for Comment

Posted on | February 16, 2013 | 17 Comments

In Aurora, Colorado, an elementary school set up an after-school tutoring program from which white students were deliberately excluded. When the mother of a 10-year-old white girl complained, she got a phone call from Mission Viejo Elementary principal Andre Pearson explaining that the program is “focused for and designed for children of color.”

This revival of public-school segregation — unexpectedly! — caused Pete Da Tech Guy to notice that Aurora school policy sounded oddly familiar:

We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it.

Of course, that’s from the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which upheld the “separate but equal” rationale of segregation Read more

Category: Colorado, Education, Liberals, Racism

Sources Tell Washington Post FBI Can’t Find Menendez’s Dominican Hookers

Posted on | February 16, 2013 | 58 Comments

There’s a good news/bad news factor here. The good news is, the Washington Post can’t keep ignoring or downplaying the allegations:

A team of FBI agents has been conducting interviews in recent weeks in the Dominican Republic and the United States, looking into allegations that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) patronized prostitutes in the Caribbean nation, but has found no evidence to support the claim, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
One person said agents have asked about whether a Florida eye doctor — a close friend and major campaign donor to Menendez — provided the senator with prostitutes on vacations there. Another person said investigators are looking into allegations involving underage prostitutes and sex parties.
The two, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an active investigation, said FBI agents are following leads provided by an unknown tipster. In a series of e-mails with the FBI, the tipster alleged that the doctor, Salomon Melgen, had made prostitutes available to Menendez while he was staying at his friend’s resort home in the Dominican Republic. The tipster, in particular, mentioned young prostitutes and prostitution parties.

As I say, the mere fact that the Washington Post decided to report this aspect of the Menendez investigation is good news, and we have to be grateful for that, having previously whacked them over the head for trying to downplay the sex-scandal angle.

The bad news is that the Post’s sources are saying that the feds haven’t been able to verify these allegations, which raises a couple of questions:

  1. Who are the Post‘s sources? Are these career law-enforcement personnel at the FBI or — as I am tempted to think — are these Obama’s political appointees at the Department of Justice, who certainly have an obvious motive for wanting to throw cold water on any suspicions that a top Democrat has been banging hookers in a Caribbean island resort?
  2. Why can’t the Post be bothered to do any investigating of its own? Forget partisan bias and just think what a huge story this could be: Top senator on the Foreign Relations Committee partying down with jailbait prostitutes in the seaside resort mansion owned by his shady Florida contributor? There’s got to be at least a book contract, and maybe a major motion picture deal, for the journalist who can get the scoop on a juicy scandal like that. And if you’re a reporter for the Washington Post, would you rather be stuck inside a fluorescent-lit office in D.C., or flying off at company expense to the Dominican Republic to interview prostitutes? Did I mention prostitution is legal in the Dominican Republic?

If I were a young reporter, I’d be begging for an assignment like that. Hell, if I thought The American Spectator would foot the bill for such an expedition, I’d already be relaxing in the warm tropical sunshine, headquartered at the poolside bar of the Renaissance Hotel . . .

But no, Wlady Pleszczynski would never approve such a project, and who can blame him? I got into enough trouble just covering the presidential campaign stateside. The prospect of me running amok on some bizarre gonzo trip to Santo Domingo would be a nightmare.

So I’m going to have to take a pass on this story, but what’s stopping the Washington Post from flying a couple of would-be Woodward and Bernstein types down to the Dominican Republic?

If Bob Menendez was a Republican senator, you can damn well bet the Post would spare no expense to uncover the truth. They’d interview every call girl, street-walker and “escort” on the island before they quit. Instead, they’re willing to accept the word of a couple of Justice Department sources that there’s nothing to those allegations of Menendez cavorting with teenage hookers at Casa de Campo? Would Ben Bradlee have been satisfied with John Mitchell telling him that all this talk about Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt was mere innocent hijinks?

Times change. Back in the day, the Washington Post exposed corrupt cover-ups. Nowadays, they’re active participants in the cover-up. Meanwhile, the guy who originally broke the story, Matthew Boyle continues covering the Menendez scandal at Breitbart.com:

Well, the truth will come out eventually, and when it does, I strongly suspect some of these mainstream journalists who are still sneering at the prostitution angle in the Menendez story will owe Matthew Boyle a huge apology for doubting his reporting.

UPDATE: Suppose that you were an embattled senator trying to survive a scandal involving an FBI investigation. Wouldn’t you think it a clever move to hire Matt Miller, former spokesman for Attorney General Eric Holder to help you navigate the controversy? And if such an aforesaid embattled senator hired a guy so closely connected to the head of the Justice Department, wouldn’t a skeptical reporter be rather suspicious of being contacted by Justice Department sources eager to confide — on the basis of anonymity — that the FBI investigation of the embattled senator hadn’t turned up any real evidence?

Is the Washington Post being disingenuous here? Do they really think we’re too stupid to figure out that their “reporting” is actually part of the Menendez/Miller narrative-management strategy?

Well, the Post is probably too busy covering other scandals . . .

(Hat-tip: Roger W. King on Twitter.)

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Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Dominican Republic, Media Bias, New Jersey

Politically Incorrect Questions You Can’t Ask Without Being Called a ‘Hater’

Posted on | February 16, 2013 | 16 Comments

Matthew Continetti of the Washington Free Beacon describes the attempts to intimidate any reporter asking questions about Chuck Hagel and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee:

Apparently, though, and without our knowing it, you and I have passed through an inter-dimensional portal and have entered a black-is-white, up-is-down twilight zone in which asking for information pertaining to a public figure constitutes participation not only in a McCarthyite “smear machine,” but also in a “campaign, orchestrated by controversial anti-Arab figures,” with the goal of “smearing and intimidating the Arab-American community.” . . . The line separating inquiry and bigotry is, it would seem, rather thin.

Yesterday, I saw Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball rant for 10 minutes about Sen. Ted Cruz as a latter-day Joe McCarthy for having dared to ask questions about possible ties between Hagel and foreign governments. Chuck Hagel isn’t just some random citizen who has been grabbed off the street for interrogation about his loyalties.

No, Chuck Hagel is under consideration as Secretary of Defense, and the Senate therefore has every right — indeed, it has a solemn duty — to investigate his associations with groups that seem rather secretive about their funding.

The accusation that journalists or senators asking relevant questions are engaged in fomenting “hate” particularly angers Jeff Goldstein:

[W]hen “news” becomes intertwined with activism, it is no longer news.  It becomes perforce a narrative aimed at advancing a story in a particular ideological direction, and — in many cases — it uses rhetorical tricks, bias by omission and commission, and “talking point memos” or press-releases, already slanted by nature of their provenance, to stand in as supposedly reporter-produced interaction or reportage.
The disturbing fact that we continue to allow interest groups to hide behind phony and baseless charges of racism or harassment — which, when law-enforcement is introduced, is meant to create the conditions whereby reporters will hesitate to pursue a certain line of inquiry — is a national tragedy, and a direct result of the corruption of language through the twin pillars of the leftist’s structural attack on individualism and classical liberalism as born out of the (steadily deconstructed) Enlightenment: political correctness and identity politics.

It’s odd that so many liberals nowadays seem to be willing to suppress First Amendment freedoms in the name of “progress.”

Category: Media Bias

SWM, No Fatties, No Guns

Posted on | February 16, 2013 | 15 Comments

Do I know why Harvard Law student Robert M. Cross (right) posted that as a profile picture on Facebook? No, I do not. And his Facebook page doesn’t list a “relationship” status, so it would be wrong to jump to any conclusions as to what the photo signifies. Two friends posing after a healthy hike in the woods? Perfectly innocent. Maybe.

What we do know about Harvard Law student Robert M. Cross — I mean, besides his impressive six-pack abs — is that he hates guns. Hates, hates, hates guns. He interned at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and took part Friday in a panel discussion chaired by Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, “Gun Violence After the Newtown Tragedy: What Can Legal, Public Health and Other Efforts Do?”

 

Thanks to Badger Pundit, who never jumps to conclusions, and also provides the full 18-minute segment featuring Robert M. Cross:

5:03: “It is so easy to save lives, and the NRA doesn’t want us to do it.”

6:28: “There’s a big problem: Brady background checks apply only to federally licensed firearms dealers. They do not apply to private sellers. . . . It is estimated that over 40 percent of gun acquistions occur in the secondary market.”

10:17: “People like Wayne LaPierre, that you see on TV, are not representing Americans. They’re not representing the NRA. They’re not representing gun owners. They’re representing the gun industry, an industry that makes money off of the blood of children.”

 Wow. So that’s something else we know about Robert M. Cross: He really hates the NRA. Hates, hates, hates ’em. Uh . . . NTTAWWT.

 


Category: Constitution, Education

A Bit Of Doggerel For Governor McDonnell On ObamaCare

Posted on | February 16, 2013 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

It sounds like Governor McDonnell is going wobbly on us here in Virginia. Send him a note, Virginians, as I just did:

Rumors abound they got to you; that somehow you have flipped.
Gonna go ‘Full Arlen Specter’, or some some wag had quipped.
Let us pray the report was false, and into hyperbole dipped,
Lest roar be heard from old Mount Vernon, as, coming from his crypt,

George Washington himself surveys the mess Progressives made,
Drowning unborn generations in debt, and cold Commie kool-aid.
ObamaCare, itself, ‘twould seem were better now delayed,
Until the godless rot collapses to naught, having finally decayed.

Following Kasich’s lead in any way is a sad thing. Governor McDonnell, please just let the gubernatorial race this Fall be a referendum on ObamaCare. Let McAuliffe run as a sad little statist tool, promising Free Stuff for everyone, and let Cuccinelli run as an American, born in liberty, and intent on defending such.

How strange it is to have to plead with elected officials to do the sane thing.

Category: Virginia

‘Corrupt Democrat,’ ‘Obnoxious Feminist’ and Other Phrases to Avoid as Redundant

Posted on | February 15, 2013 | 13 Comments

In all honesty, when you hear the word “feminist,” does anyone think of adjectives like pleasant, cheerful, successful and attractive?

No, of course not. You think of adjectives like strident, angry, bitter and ugly. Also, quite often, ridiculous — as illustrated by the deranged mob of strident, angry, bitter, ugly women who showed up for a “One Billion Rising” Valentine’s Day demonstration in San Francisco.

By the same token, anyone who thinks that “honest” and “Democrat” ever belong together in the same sentence is probably suffering from some form of mental illness, and speaking of the mentally ill: Jesse Jackson Jr. will reportedly plead guilty to federal corruption charges.

 

Category: Uncategorized
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