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‘He Had a 48-Page Rap Sheet’

Posted on | February 19, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘He Had a 48-Page Rap Sheet’

Say hello to Alexander Kade Lanier, 26, and while you’re at it, you can also say good-bye to him, because his lengthy criminal career recently came to a permanent end, thanks to Alabama law enforcement.

Lanier was from South Carolina, where last year, he escaped custody:

A man escaped police custody Wednesday afternoon [Oct. 27] while being treated at a Greenwood hospital, according to police.
Alexander Kade Lanier was being treated Wednesday at Self Regional Medical Center after he was arrested by Greenwood police in connection with a burglary and domestic violence investigation from Tuesday night, Greenwood Police Department Public Information Officer Jonathan Link said.
At about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, Lanier eluded police, who minutes later discovered he was no longer in his hospital room, Link said. He did not have enough details to say how Lanier escaped police custody or surveillance, but officers have been searching near Self since then to find him.
“I can’t think of the last time we had somebody escape our custody like this, but it’s very unfortunate,” Police Chief T.J. Chaudoin said. “There’s a lot of questions to be asked like why he wasn’t in handcuffs, why he wasn’t in leg irons. There’s several questions that have to be asked to figure out why he wasn’t restrained.”
Chaudoin said Lanier was being treated at the hospital after telling officers he had consumed an illegal substance. Hospital staff members were monitoring him after treatment, and Chaudoin said one sworn officer was assigned to watch Lanier when he escaped. He said an investigation is underway into how Lanier escaped and whether department policy was followed.
Lanier was last seen wearing a red hoodie and gray shorts. Chaudoin said after Lanier’s escape, he stole a vehicle from someone he knew who lived on Woodrow Avenue.

More details of the arrest in that case:

Lanier was arrested Tuesday night in connection with a burglary case. Police went at about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday to a Stanley Avenue apartment, where a woman said a man had forced his way into the apartment.
The woman told officers she used to be in a relationship with the man, but he recently tried to contact her after she blocked him on social media and on her phone, a report said. He came to the apartment she was staying at and began to beat on the door. When she told him to leave, he broke the door down and started to argue with her.
The woman tried to calm him down so he would not flee before police arrived, and when officers came he had locked himself in the bathroom, the report said. He came out when police commanded him to, and told police he had consumed a bag with a dozen pills in it.

Was Lanier able to escape because he was a criminal mastermind, or did this have more to do with a particularly dumb cop? Readers can decide for themselves, but a few days later, he was caught in Alabama:

The Pell City Police Department arrested a man Thursday who was wanted as a fugitive from justice out of South Carolina.
Pell City Police Chief Paul Irwin said Alexander Lanier, 26, of Greenwood, S.C., after a chase that spanned several miles of Interstate 20 and ended in Leeds.
The chief said Lanier had previously escaped from a correctional facility in South Carolina after he had been convicted of burglary while armed.
He said at 4:54 p.m. Thursday, St. Clair County advised the Pell City Police Department of a 2006 Honda Pilot driven by Lanier headed westbound on I-20 that was suspected of leaving the scene of an accident in Coldwater.
Irwin said officer Manuel Diaz spotted the vehicle near I-20 exit 158 and began pursuit. Diaz was later joined by other officers and deputies from St. Clair County. The chief said the pursuit continued until the Leeds exit where the Leeds Police Department was deploying a spike strip. He said Lanier avoided the strip but lost control of the vehicle which came to rest in a nearby ditch.
Irwin said Lanier was arrested after the chase without incident, but was transported to the hospital because of injuries sustained in the crash.
Jail records show Lanier was booked into the St. Cir County Jail in Asheville Sunday afternoon. He is being held without bond on charges of two counts of buying or receiving stolen property, reckless endangerment, fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement and a charge as a fugitive from justice.

Now, you might think that would be the end of it. He had already escaped custody in South Carolina, become an interstate fugitive and led police on a pursuit in a stolen car. Lock him up and throw away the key, particularly given the fact that he had originally been arrested for terrorizing an ex-girlfriend. I was under the impression that violence against women was a crime category taken seriously by our criminal justice system, but perhaps I was mistaken. Also, I was generally under the impression that progressive soft-on-crime leniency hadn’t spread as far as St. Clair County, Alabama — which, last time I checked, was a redneck stronghold where Donald Trump got 81% of the vote — and yet, in this too I was mistaken, because a judge there sent Lanier to a drug-rehab facility. And of course, the career criminal just waltzed right out of there, and went on a crime spree that ended shortly after he decided to carjack somebody at Waffle House, in Oxford, Alabama.

Let me tell you folks, I went to college at Jacksonville State University, just up the road from Oxford, a place I spent a fair amount of time (although on the advice of Bert the Samoan Lawyer, I’ll invoke my right to remain silent as to what I was doing there, and as to exact dates, well, I’m sure I’ve got an alibi). But the thing is, Oxford is nearly as redneck as St. Clair County, if not indeed more so. It was the site of a rather notorious incident during the civil rights era — the locals didn’t take kindly to the “Freedom Riders” passing through — and Oxford is just not the kind of place where a fugitive on a crime spree can expect lenient treatment. Hell, you try to carjack somebody there, and they’re likely to pull out their own gun and shoot you dead. And dear God, a Waffle House? You’re playing Russian roulette trying to carjack somebody at a Waffle House in a redneck town like Oxford. I think we can discard the idea that Alexander Kade Lanier was a criminal mastermind:

Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge released the name of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Oxford early Monday morning.
During a news conference Monday afternoon, Partridge said Alexander Kade Lanier, 26, of Louisiana, had a 48-page rap sheet. Chief Partridge said he had prior arrests for felony assault, escapes and other charges. Partridge said, “This individual shouldn’t be walking our streets.”
The chief said at 12:11 a.m. an Oxford Police Officer was doing a report before his lunch when the suspect, Lanier, carjacked someone at gunpoint at Waffle House.
Investigators said Lanier shot at officers and then led them on a chase from I-20 to Airport Road. Partridge said Lanier shot at officers while driving on I-20.
The officer-involved shooting happened at Airport Road and Alabama 21. Lanier was killed in the shooting.
Partridge said Lanier was using a weapon that was stolen from Moody Sunday.

So, out of all the Waffle Houses in Alabama to try a carjacking, this young genius just happens to pick the one where there’s a cop sitting in a patrol car across the street. More from Chief Partridge:

An angry Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge identified the slain man as 26-year-old Alexander Kade Lanier and lashed out at a judicial system that he said puts police officers in danger of career criminals every day.
The past offenses include assault, first second and third degree, assault and battery of detention officers, hit and run in a stolen vehicle and possession of a gun during a burglary, Partridge said. Many of the offenses happened outside Alabama.
“You name it, he’s done it,” Partridge said of Lanier. “This individual shouldn’t be walking our streets. He should be in jail, and we shouldn’t be standing here today.”
“We’ve got problems with individuals walking our streets like this every single day and being let out of jail or walking away from rehab facilities who have major felonies and then we have to stand here, and we have to justify what we had to do.” . . .
“If this individual will shoot at police officers and carjack a vehicle right across the street from a uniformed marked unit, just imagine what he’d do to our citizens,’’ Partridge said. . . .
This is a very unfortunate incident,’’ Partridge said. “We shouldn’t be standing here because this man should be in jail.”
Partridge, a fierce advocate for law enforcement who is often outspoken about violence against police officers, tweeted this just hours before the shootout: “We continue to see officers shot and killed because individuals think it’s their right to pull gun on officers and resist. It’s never okay to resist or shoot at (law enforcement). Comply. Follow directions, complain later.”
Nationwide, he said, police officers are being shot at record pace by career criminals. On Friday alone, 13 police officers were wounded in shootings over a 24-hour period across four states.
“I’ll tell you what needs to be done. We need to stop passing laws that water down our criminal justice system and allow these individuals to walk our streets,’’ Partridge said.
“We shouldn’t be dealing with this,’’ the chief said. “These men and women shouldn’t be out here every day on our streets putting their life on the line because judges and courts allow these individuals to walk out of a door without bond or putting them in a rehab facility that is not as secure so they can just walk off and obtain a weapon and do this type of thing.”

Certainly, I agree with Chief Partridge, being “a fierce advocate for law enforcement” myself, although this is a stance I came to rather belatedly, long after I’d been in the vicinity of Oxford, Alabama, on dates which I cannot recall, your honor, although I’m sure I could come up with an alibi, if I needed one. But you’d have to talk to my Samoan attorney about all this. The main point is, I’m completely innocent, as far as you know.

See, there’s a reason I don’t have a 48-page rap sheet and didn’t die in a hail of police gunfire, the way Alexander Kade Lanier did. Unlike the deceased Mr. Lanier, I was not dumber than a box of rocks. The ancient proverb “crime doesn’t pay” is perhaps not literally true (some criminals do get rich), but the longer you stay in that game, the more likely you’ll end up behind bars or, as in this case, die in a hail of police gunfire.

Notice that Alexander Kade Lanier is of the Caucasian persuasion. That’s why CNN isn’t running the story 24/7 and nobody looted Walmart or toppled any Confederate monuments after the cops shot him dead.

“Social justice”? White guys don’t get none of that, so we can’t expect any televised news conferences by Ben Crump about this case.




 

Category: Alabama, Crime

Gregory William Robert Fulchino, R.I.P.

Posted on | February 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Gregory William Robert Fulchino, R.I.P.

The blogger known as Bob Belvedere died last Friday at his home in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Back in the day, circa 2009-2012, when I was a road warrior on the campaign trail, I’d speak to Bob by phone whenever I was in that area, covering first the Scott Brown campaign for Senate and later the various presidential candidates in New Hampshire. Somehow, we never were able to meet in person, but Bob was a friend anyway, as these things go, and Ms. EBL informed us of his death, at age 60:

FULCHINO, Gregory William Robert Of Tewksbury, formerly of Everett passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer on Friday, February 11, 2022 at his home. He was a good husband to his loving wife Darlene Marie (Pratt) Fulchino, with whom he celebrated his twenty-second wedding anniversary in October. He was a son of the late Salvatore Fulchino and the late Wilma E. (Palmore) Fulchino, he was born on December 19,1961 in Everett. He grew up and was educated in Everett, and he graduated from Everett High School with the class of 1978. He made his home in Everett, and for over thirty years he worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Office of the Jury Commissioner as an IT Manager. He was a solid American, generous and sincere, he was gifted artistically in his music, and writing. In his younger days he was a member of a band, and he never let go of a firm belief that there was a great writer within him waiting to burst forth. This writer came out under the stage name Bob Belvedere, he published books and for many years a well established conservative blog “The Camp of the Saints”. In addition to his wife Darlene, he is survived by his brother, Stephen A. Fulchino, wife Barbara; niece Kelly and Cynthina and their husbands Josh and Dan, and 3 great nephews, Peter, Malcoml and Sebastian; his sister-in-law Debra Sabbagh, husband Phillip; Niece, Stacey Ann Leray, husband Eric, great-nieces, Shelby and Sophie Leray; great-grand nephew, Luca Leray; two cousins, Al Fulchino and his wife Susan, and Andy Fulchino and his wife Cookie, and their families. He was the uncle of the late Christopher Sabbagh. Visiting Hours: In accordance with his wishes there will be no funeral services. A remembrance for him is being planned for a later date.

R.I.P., Bob — a great patriot to the end.

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Category: Camp of the Saints

CNN and the Ukraine ‘Crisis’

Posted on | February 18, 2022 | Comments Off on CNN and the Ukraine ‘Crisis’

Today, mainly out of curiosity but also perhaps revealing a deep-seated masochistic tendency, I switched my office TV to CNN, where today there were three main stories: (a) the walls are still closing in on Trump, (b) the sentencing of the cop who accidentally shot Daunte Wright in Minnesota, and (c) ZOMG THE CRISIS IN UKRAINE!!!

President Joe Biden will speak at 4 p.m. ET Friday to address the latest developments in the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, as his White House is now blaming Russian intelligence for a massive cyberattack on Ukraine.
“We believe that the Russian government is responsible for widescale cyberattacks on Ukrainian banks this week. We have technical information that links the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, as known GRU infrastructure was seen transmitting high volumes of communication to Ukraine based IP addresses and domains,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology.
The attribution for the attack was unusually fast for the US government, and Neuberger noted that Russia has previously benefited from US delays in attributing Russian hacking operations.
“Russia likes to move in the shadows and counts on a long process of attribution so it can continue its malicious behaviour against Ukraine in cyberspace, including pre-positioning for its potential invasion,” Neuberger told reporters in the White House briefing room.
The comments came about an hour before Biden was set to speak about the situation in Ukraine. The President last spoke about the crisis on Thursday as he departed the White House for a trip to Ohio, when he said there is “every indication” a Russian invasion of Ukraine “will happen in the next several days,” and the threat of an attack is “very high.”
“It’s very high because they have not moved any of their troops out. They have moved more troops in, number one. Number two, we have reason to believe they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in. Every indication we have is they are prepared to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine,” he said.

Biden was supposed to speak at 4 p.m., but now it’s 4:30 and he still hasn’t started speaking. He likes ice cream, you know. Probably being spoon-fed some chocolate chip ice cream, as warm-up for his big speech.




 

Category: CNN, Joe Biden, Ukraine

Early Front-Runner Emerges for 2022 ‘Media Gaslighter of the Year’ Award

Posted on | February 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Early Front-Runner Emerges for 2022 ‘Media Gaslighter of the Year’ Award

Gaslighting is . . . loosely defined as making someone question their own reality. The term may also be used to describe a person (a “gaslighter”) who presents a false narrative to another group or person which leads them to doubt their perceptions and become misled (generally for the gaslighter’s own benefit), disoriented or distressed. Generally, this dynamic is possible only when the audience is vulnerable, such as in unequal power relationships, or when the audience is fearful of the losses associated with challenging the false narrative.

Patients in the Trump Derangement Syndrome psych ward are being “treated” (if that is the appropriate word) by the media in such a way as to sustain their delusions, rather than to relieve them. Liberals watching CNN or MSNBC are like schizophrenics seeking out a therapist who will tell them that yes, it’s true that their brains are being controlled by radiation from outer space. The daily drumbeat of updates on the January 6 “investigation” repeats the motif of the Russiagate narrative, where the walls were always closing in, and everybody was going to get indicted, right up until the moment when Robert Mueller issued his report which found that there never was any “collusion.” And then the same perpetrators of media malpractice, who had spent more than two years convincing their audience that it was only a matter of time before the proof of the Trump-Putin conspiracy emerged, moved on as if the collapse of their theory did nothing to damage their credibility.

So here is Nicolle Wallace telling her MSNBC audience that coverage of special counsel John Durham’s recent filing in the criminal case against Democratic Party lawyer Michael Sussmann is “dangerous disinformation” peddled by “right-wing media”:

 

Now, as Karen Townsend at Hot Air acknowledges, there are some problems with the way the Durham filing is being presented by Fox News, in terms of what the filing actually alleges and what it means in terms of the larger effort by the Clinton campaign and its allies to falsely accuse Trump of Russian “collusion.” Rather than explaining any of this, however, what Nicolle Wallace does is to insist that there is nothing of significance in the Durham filing, essentially telling her audience to ignore that whole story because it’s just Fox News “disinformation.”

Permit me to quote a CNN account of what the filing actually says:

Durham says in the filing that Michael Sussmann, the Democratic lawyer, spoke about internet data related to Trump in a meeting with a federal agency, which sources say was the CIA, more than five years ago. Sussmann claimed the information “demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations,” according to the filing.
Durham’s office said it found nothing to support the allegation. The special counsel also noted that the data showed a Russian phone provider connection involving the Executive Office of the President “during the Obama administration and years before Trump took office.”
The data was compiled by a tech firm that had special access to the purportedly suspicious internet data through an “arrangement” with the US government, and that firm was in touch with Sussmann, according to the filing.
An executive at the tech company, Rodney Joffe, and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining domain name system traffic associated with the Executive Office of the President and other data “for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump,” Durham’s prosecutors wrote.

This may not be the “smoking gun” proof of a conspiracy against Trump, but certainly it is significant, and if Nicolle Wallace were actually a journalist (instead of a political hack) she would feel a duty to explain this to her audience, instead of dismissing it as “dangerous disinformation.”

Notice that chyron on the MSNBC screen:

DURHAM COURT FILING SETS OFF
CONSPIRACIES IN RIGHT-WING MEDIA
ABOUT DEMOCRATS SPYING ON TRUMP

Is the contention that Democrats were not spying on Trump? Because I think “mining domain name system traffic” from the president’s office sounds a lot like “spying,” and the allegation that this was done “for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump” suggests that Democrats were behind it. And considering that these allegations are part of a filing in the prosecution of a lawyer for the Democratic Party — well, exactly how are we promoting a conspiracy theory if we add 2 plus 2 and get 4 as the answer?

Nicolle Wallace isn’t interested in facts, or simple common-sense deductions. No, her job is to tell the MSNBC audience — the same audience that they fed lies about “Russian collusion” for more than two years — that there is nothing to see here, no real news, despite the fact that a lawyer for the Democratic Party may go to federal prison for lying to the FBI. Trump Delusion Syndrome forever!




 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, MSNBC

In The Mailbox: 02.17.22

Posted on | February 18, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.17.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I might get off work in the tax mines early tomorrow night, which would get me home to Tonopah around 10 or 11, but then I might not. Assume this will be the last linkagery of the week until you wake up Saturday morning and see another one. 

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Hold hard, Kekistani!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: People You Know Can Be A Threat
EBL: CODA
Twitchy: Oilfield Rando Does Work MSM Won’t – Digs Into Org That Bailed Out Quintez Brown, Connects Some Disturbing Dots
Louder With Crowder: Mom Shows Maskless Pix Of Hypocrite School Board Members, They Flip Out & Call Security
Vox Popoli: It’s A Hell World After All, Portrait Of A Promethean, and They Were Always Bluffing
Stoic Observations: Understanding American Gun Culture

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: End Goal – Replacement, also, An Invitation To Join The Illuminati
American Conservative: The Dangerous Dreamworld Of Bret Stephens
American Greatness: Funeral Directors Disturbed By Weird, Freakishly Large Blood Clots In The Corpses Of The Jabbed, also, Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Air Force Officer Who Defied Jab Mandate
American Power: Justin Trudeau, A Liberal Despot, also, Edward Luttwak – The Rise Of China Vs. The Logic Of Strategy
American Thinker: Can The Democrats Undermine The Midterms? also, The Vanishing American Work Ethic
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Economic Freedom News
Babalu Blog: Fidel’s Plan To Infect Latin America With Cuban Communism, also, The Forced Exile Of Anamely Ramos
BattleSwarm: Trudeau The Thieving Bully, also, Facebook Manager Of Community Development Allegedly Busted In Child Sex Sting
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Chandra In Safe Mode, and Firefly Savior Max Polyakov Gives Away His Stock
Cafe Hayek: “We Don’t Owe It To Ourselves”, also, Tyranny & Its Resistance In Canada
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Omar Has Learned The Lesson Of Harry Reid, also, Administration Declares Those Who Spread The Truth Are Online Are Domestic Terrorists
Don Surber: DWB & Rising Traffic Deaths, Senate Candidate’s Trans Ad Triggers Libs, and Globalism Is Dying Of COVID
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer Wants Us To Know They’ll No Longer Tell The Truth In The News
Gates Of Vienna: The Muslim Brotherhood In The EU, Part Three, Syria Says Exiles Should Return Home, and Was It The Vax? Or Something Else?
The Geller Report: DeSantis Blocks Biden’s International Child-Trafficking Scheme In Florida, also, Quebec Rejects Trudeau’s Martial Law, Drops COVID Mandates
Hogewash: Messier 77’s Black Hole
Hollywood In Toto: Seth Swirsky’s “Sunny Day” Brightens Up Winter, Wallace Shawn Stands Up To Cancel Culture, and Channing Tatum’s Dog Delivers Heartland Humor & Heart
The Lid: Always Wrong Fauci Says It’s Time To Move Toward Normalcy
Legal Insurrection: Biden Surrenders The “War On COVID”, California To Offer Financial Assistance To Would-Be Abortionists, and Strong Support From San Francisco’s Asian Districts Was Key In School Board Recall
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Millennium, also, No Imagination Required
Outkick: Enes Kanter Freedom Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize, Stephen A. Smith Told ESPN He’d Leave First Take If They Kept Max Kellerman On, and NFL Hires Obama’s AG Loretta Lynch To Fight Flores Lawsuit
Power Line: Kevin Roche – Lessons Learned
Shark Tank: Eskamani Calls Parental Rights Bill “100% Homophobic”
Shot In The Dark: Three Steps Forward, One Step Back, also, Dispatches From Planet DFL
STUMP: Political Mortality
The Political Hat: School Transparency In Oregon? also, The California Way – You Should House The Homeless Yourself, Recycling Is Mandatory, and Breaking Into Cars
This Ain’t Hell: Texas Guardsmen On The Border Start Unionizing, also, VP Travels To End Ukraine Crisis
Transterrestrial Musings: Good NASA Vs. Bad NASA, A Promising Life-Extension Drug, and Getting Their Own Ride
Victory Girls: Melissa Lantsman Demands Apology From PM Zoolander
Volokh Conspiracy: WaPo Removes Claim That Justice Thomas’ Opinions “Often Resemble The Thinking Of White Conservatives” 
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex Brags About Helping Illegals Get Taxpayer Relief Money, Tom Hanks’ Son Chet Says He Had No Male Role Model Growing Up, and Trudeau Tells Jewish MP She Stands With Swastika-Waving Nazis
The Federalist: P.J. O’Rourke Had No Sacred Cows, The CIA Got Caught Spying On Americans Again, and Trudeau Wants Violence
Mark Steyn: Durham Reportwatch Update! also, Not With A Bang But With A Honk

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 02.16.22

Posted on | February 17, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.16.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1630
357 Magnum: That Thing The Left Says Never Happens, Happened
McG’s Tally Book: GiveSendGo Fights Back
EBL: God-King Trudeau Imposes Emergency Powers On Canada, also, Zuck’s Squeeze Allison Gollust Gets The Boot From CNN
Twitchy: A New Low For Trudeau, also, Defiant L’s Gets The W, Returns Triumphantly To Twitter
Louder With Crowder: Popular Yellowstone Actor Won’t Be Attending SAG Awards Because Of Jab & Mask Mandates
Vox Popoli: Portrait Of A Promethean, The Tribe Of Gamma, and RIP PJ

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: You Can’t Banish To History The Poison In Your Veins, also,  To Be Deep In History Is To Cease Being Protestant 
American Conservative: Genuine Culture War – Accept No Substitutes
American Greatness: Canadian Hacker Claims Credit For GiveSendGo Hack, also, FDA Exec Admits On Hidden Camera That Jab Will Be Mandatory For All Americans, Including Toddlers
American Power: Three San Francisco School Board Members Recalled
American Thinker: Why Nearly 40% Of Gen Z Identify As LGBTQWTFBBQ
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Surprise! Another Top Member Of Cuba’s Military Junta Dies Suddenly, also, Today In 1959 – Fidel Declares Himself Supreme Leader For Life
BattleSwarm: Satyagraha, Eh, also, A Revolution In San Francisco
Behind The Black: Red China Wants A Hotline To Avoid Space Collisions, Cracking Ice On Mars? and Pushback – Three San Francisco School Board Members Recalled
Cafe Hayek: “And The Answer Is?” also, A Fiery Spech For Freedom
CDR Salamander: Indo-Pac Strategy Quicklook, also, The Soviet Navy’s Last Picture Show
Da Tech Guy: Why Is There No No-Confidence Motion In Canada? also, The Left Didn’t Suddenly Become Totalitarians
Don Surber: Give Republicans Time, Not Money, Trump Must Sue The NYT, and Media Obsession With Trump Kills Democrats
First Street Journal: Could Philly Be Ending Its COVID Mandates Soon?
Gates Of Vienna: Stay Away From Those Swedish Whores!, Murphy Rears His Ugly Head Again, and Liberty Convoy En Route To Paris
The Geller Report: Hebrew U Reports Jabbed Women Suffer Abortion, Miscarriages, & Stillbirths 34% Above Normal, also, Watch Trump’s Peace In Action 
Hogewash: Martian Dust Storms, First Virginia, Now This, and Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Basement-Rated Trevor Noah Can’t Touch Greg Gutfeld, also, How The Temp (Barely) Survived Its Extreme Makeover
The Lid: The Camera Doesn’t Lie – It Reveals Biden’s Lifeless Shell
Legal Insurrection: Judge Ho – “If Ilya Shapiro Deserves Cancellation, You Should Cancel Me Too”, #BLM-Supporting Gun Control Activist Arrested For Attempted Murder Of Mayoral Candidate, and CSU San Marcos Cancelling Senator Who Helped Found School
Michelle Malkin: Who Murdered All The Asian Women, And Who’s Covering It Up?
Nebraska Energy Observer: Two Men, also, Citizen Journalists
Outkick: #16 Tennessee Proves It’s A Team To Be Reckoned With After Beating #4 Kentucky, More COVID Mania For Rams’ Victory Parade, and “Bum” Hub Arkush Voted Cooper Kupp MVP Over Aaron Rodgers
Power Line: Not Funny – P.J. O’Rourke Dies At 74, Hillary’s Defense, and A Public Statement About Our Current Internal Drama
Shark Tank: Progressive Group Furthers “Whitewash” Narrative Against DeSantis’ “Stop The Woke” Bill
Shot In The Dark: “I’m Not A Liberal, So I’m Not An Expert At Stuff I Know Nothing About”, also, Redistricting
STUMP: Positioning For A Potential Interest Rate Hike
The Political Hat: Fish-Eating Mayor Warns Of The Cheese Scourge, also, When Racial Segregation In Schools Becomes Woke
This Ain’t Hell: Retired Col. Owen Ray May Lose His SF Tab & Green Beret, Durham Probe Delivers Details, Media Unenthusiastic, and Guilty Plea For Attempting Sub Secrets Sale
Transterrestrial Musings: P.J. O’Rourke, RIP, Privatize The Moon, and Lileks
Victory Girls: Illinois School Board Gestapo Strikes Again
Volokh Conspiracy: Walter Dellinger, RIP
Weasel Zippers: Administration Begs Court To Bury Dominion Voting Machine Report – But Why?, Hillary Confronted In Public About Being Evil Old Spy Lady, and The Drudge Report Is Officially Dead
The Federalist: The Parents Are Restless & Must Be Crushed, Meet The Sex Shop Founder Who’s Grooming Kids Through School Libraries, and Why Is The Right Betting The Constitution On An Article V Convention? 
Mark Steyn: Canada’s Bad Cop/Bad Cop Routine, The Merger Of The Party & The State, and Holding The Line…And Crossing It

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Category: Linkagery

Corporate PR Coochie-for-Hire Exits Praising CNN’s ‘Journalistic Integrity’

Posted on | February 16, 2022 | Comments Off on Corporate PR Coochie-for-Hire Exits Praising CNN’s ‘Journalistic Integrity’

Totally stolen from Ace, this statement by adulteress Allison Gollust just boggles my mind at so many levels I don’t know where to start. Insofar as “journalistic integrity” is concerned, is Gollust completely unaware of why she and her boyfriend Jeff Zucker got shitcanned at CNN? Like, she somehow missed the fact that they were acting as propaganda operatives for disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo? Or what about the problem — which Gollust, inside her bubble, apparently doesn’t recognize — that CNN torched its credibility by becoming a televised psych ward for Trump Delusion Syndrome patients? Or the related problem that, in the post-Trump era, CNN has lost 90% of its audience?

One would have to have spent the past few years inside a hermetically sealed vault not to understand how the intertwining of Gullust, Zucker and the Cuomo brothers was a formula for corruption, utterly contradicting the “journalistic integrity” that Gollust attributes to CNN, because everybody — and I do mean everybody — raised eyebrows about this cozy political media arrangement. Even liberals, who totally shared the Trump Derangement Syndrome fever that infected CNN, were astonished by the way the network had Chris Cuomo interviewing his brother the governor. Leaving all that aside, however, exactly what does Allison Gollust know about “integrity,” journalistic or otherwise? She has never been anything but a P.R. flack, and her primary qualification for her position at CNN was her willingness to service the sexual demands of Jeff Zucker. It was, as they say, an “open secret” for years.

Ace points out that Gollust’s claim that Warner Media is trying “to retaliate against me and change the media narrative” should be viewed as a veiled threat of litigation, but considering that her main responsibility at CNN was being Zucker’s girlfriend — a corporate-paid mistress — how does she imagine she can make a wrongful termination claim? Like, if your job was to provide fellatio to Zucker, and Zucker gets fired? We must assume that the new president of CNN doesn’t expect to get the same service from Gollust that she was providing Zucker, so exactly why should CNN keep paying her? Self-awareness doesn’t seem to be Allison Gollust’s strong suit, however, or she would have resigned as soon as Zucker got the boot. Instead she foolishly tried to hang on, and then claims Warner Media is at fault for its “disastrous handling” of a situation for which she herself was largely responsible: “Exit, lying.”

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In The Mailbox: 02.15.22

Posted on | February 16, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.15.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Too wiped to post after eight hectic hours in the tax mines yesterday. Not sure if I’ll have time to post Friday, either, since it looks like I’m driving home to Tonopah right after work.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Much like Joe Biden

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Everything You Learned Watching Cop Shows Was Wrong, also, The 37th America’s Cup
EBL: Valentines Day With Angie Dickinson, also, P.J. O’Rourke & Ivan Reitman, RIP
Twitchy: Twitter Suspends Defiant Ls, also, “The Definitive Happy Warrior”
Louder With Crowder: Family Of Cinematographer Slain By Adam Baldwin Suing Him For Reckless Conduct, also, Five Most Soviet Things PM Zoolander Said While Declaring Insane “Emergencies Act”
Vox Popoli: Empire’s End, The Benefits Of Imposed Protectionism, and The Hate Is Real

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Russia! Russia! Russia! also, Pushing Rubber Podcast Update
American Conservative: “Go Home, America”, also, The Nazis Globalist Liberals Prefer To Ignore
American Greatness: The January 6 Pipe Bombs Look Like Another FBI Hoax, also, “I Was Proven Right About The Spying And I Will Be Proven Right About 2020!”
American Power: The World’s Workers Have Arisen! also, Sarah Palin’s Libel Claim Against NYT Rejected By Jury
American Thinker: The Silent Coup, also, We Are All Truckers Now
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Cultural Relativity News
Babalu Blog: A Cuban-American Valentine, also, Why Hispanics Reject Leftist Policies
BattleSwarm: Audiences Know CNN Is Lying To Them And Joe Rogan Isn’t, also, Clinton’s Crimes Are Worse Than We Thought
Behind The Black: The Lie That Was COVID, LockMart Cancels Merger With Aerojet, and FAA Delays Boca Chica Approval Again
Cafe Hayek: Tyranny Isn’t Excused By Good Intentions, also, In Respectful Disagreement With Alex Salter
CDR Salamander: The Untold Story Of The CIA Mission To Avenge 9/11, also, Summary Thoughts On The U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy
Da Tech Guy: Five Things The Left Would Have Gained If They Didn’t Steal The Last Election, She’s A Nun All Right, and Malice Toward Malice
Don Surber: Justin Castreau’s Approval Hits 16%, NYC Locks Up Toothpaste Not Thieves, and Biden Won’t Get A War To Save His Presidency
First Street Journal: The Neo-Cons Beat The Drum For War, also, A Prayer Vigil For Officer John Pawlowski
Gates Of Vienna: The Muslim Brotherhood In Sweden Part 11, The Year Of The Jackpot, and Austria Having Second Thoughts About The Mandatory Jab
The Geller Report: Ottawa Police Chief Resigns, also, “Multiple Indictments”
Hogewash: Breitbart Unmasked, Rust In Pieces, Nothing To See Here, Move Along, and Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Marry Me Won’t Bring Back Rom-Coms, Is Russell Brand The New Joe Rogan?, and You Better Buckle Up For The Cursed
The Lid: LBJ Turned U.S./Israel Casual Friendship Into Strong Alliance, also, SD Senate Bill Supporting Gun Industry Up For Hearing
Legal Insurrection: Jon Stewart Defends Joe Rogan, GWU Student Government Demands Firing Of Two Professors, and CBC Ties The Word “Freedom” To “Far-Right” Groups
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Sunday Miscellany
Outkick: ESPN Allows Hosts To Appear On Joy Reid’s Show, CTU Leader Insists On Masking Kids – Attends Super Bowl Maskless, and Alabama Football Completes Its Staff
Power Line: Inside The Bizarre Hellworld Of Minneapolis – Andy Brehm Brings The News, Who’s Wagging Whose Dog?, and The Dirtiest Trick Gets Dirtier
Shark Tank: FL Rep Smith Calls “Putting Parents First” A Political Attack, also, Rubio Leads Effort To Allocate More National Guard Funds
Shot In The Dark: “Captain Obvious? Your Promotion To Admiral Came Through,” also, Putin A La Poutine
STUMP: Homicide Trends 1968-2020
The Political Hat: Flannel Is Now Racist, also, Public Education – Another Day, Another Assault 
This Ain’t Hell: Another Accounted For, You Call That An Insult? and Sub Steel Test Falsifier Sentenced
Transterrestrial Musings: Our Greatest Domestic Threat, News For The Elite, and Rockets Vs. Airplanes
Victory Girls: Super Bowl? More Like Hypocrisy Bowl, also, Palin Libel Case Tossed During Jury Deliberations
Volokh Conspiracy: Why Efforts To Throw Rep. Cawthorn Off The Ballot Are Likely Unconstitutional
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Claims Nobody Is Better At Strategic Thinking Than Biden, also, 30th Democrat Congressman Says She’s Not Running For Reelection 
The Federalist: Why Abraham Lincoln Still Towers Over His Critics, Biden’s DHS Announces It Will Investigate Thought Crimes, and Press Calls Trump Fascist For Opposing Violent Riots, Meanwhile Trudeau…
Mark Steyn: For The Duration – The More The Merrier, As Time Goes By, and “Freedom” Is Just Another Word For, Er, “White Supremacism”

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