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CNN: Failure, Denial and Nostalgia

Posted on | November 10, 2021 | Comments Off on CNN: Failure, Denial and Nostalgia

John Nolte ripped CNN a new one Tuesday, pointing out the laughable bogusness of the failing network’s recent polls, and Ace of Spades did a happy dance over CNN’s abysmal ratings — they don’t even reach a million viewers for most of their primetime shows. There are YouTube podcasters and teenagers on TikTok with bigger audiences than CNN.

Why hasn’t Jeff Zucker been fired yet? Is there any realistic possibility that CNN will get better under Zucker’s continued leadership? If they’ve just decided to accept permanent residence in the cable-ratings basement — literally, CNN is losing to Paw Patrol reruns on Nick Jr. — it probably doesn’t matter who’s running the show, but what’s the point of airing “news” that nobody watches? And what kind of “news” is it?

Yesterday was one of those days when I decided to watch CNN (so you don’t have to) and their Big Story — leading every hour, the subject of breathless “reporting” and multiple discussions with Trump-hating panelists — was that Nancy Pelosi’s special January 6th committee had issued subpoenas to 10 former Trump administration officials.

Very simple question: Who cares?

Maybe CNN’s 600,000 or so hardcore viewers are permanently fascinated with the Capitol “insurrection,” but how is it top-of-the-hour news that Pelosi is continuing her pointless witch hunt into something that happened 10 months ago? I say this witch hunt is pointless because the Justice Department has already investigated and is prosecuting more than 600 people who were involved in the “insurrection.” So what exactly is Pelosi’s handpicked committee investigating? What is the rationale of this inquiry that justifies issuing all these subpoenas? What do Democrats (and their pals at CNN) expect to find?

It’s not my habit to boast about sources, but a person with direct knowledge described it to me as the “fishing expedition from hell.”

Pelosi’s committee is asking all these people to turn over every email, text message and whatever else might relate to the “Stop the Steal” rally despite the fact that none of the people being subpoenaed had anything to do with the crowd rampaging through the Capitol on Jan. 6.

If you are inside the echo chamber where CNN viewers dwell, you know that their fear and loathing of Trump is obsessive, and that they (at least claim to) believe that the “Big Lie” — the belief that Biden didn’t really win the 2020 election — is a Threat to Our Democracy. From their (objectively deranged) perspective, getting to the bottom of Jan. 6 is necessary to driving a stake through the heart of this threat.

But it’s all a snipe hunt, a pursuit of imaginary phantoms. While it may be true that some kooks (including Trump himself, apparently) believed Vice President Mike Pence could thwart congressional ratification of the Electoral College vote, that is a separate matter from the gut-hunch suspicion of many voters — myself included — that Democrat shenanigans of one sort or another tipped the 2020 election to Biden. In other words, even if we don’t believe Biden was really elected president, we have to accept that it was not possible to prove massive voter fraud in a timeframe that could prevent him from being inaugurated.

We don’t want to overthrow the U.S. government for this. We’re not a bunch of wacky conspiracy theorists; we continue our lives as law-abiding citizen, despite our beliefs about cheating in 2020.

Most Republican voters are unhappy with this situation, but we’re not crazy — and that’s something CNN doesn’t want to admit. They want their audience to believe that every GOP voter is a fringe character like that bare-chested QAnon shaman or the militia wackos. As evidenced by CNN dwindling audience, there’s not much market demand for this kind of “news,” but Jake Tapper, Brian Stelter and the rest of their crew are committed to promulgating this paranoid worldview, where the “Big Lie” is an existential Threat to Our Democracy.

What CNN can’t accept — the reason they keep up this mindless Trump Derangement Syndrome drumbeat, despite ratings that indicate everybody’s sick and tired of it — is that Biden’s presidency is a failure of world-historic proportions. No matter how much they hate Trump, that doesn’t change the fact that Biden is demonstrably incompetent (and perhaps, also, incontinent). What they’re doing is a sort of Cargo Cult ritual, an attempt to bring about a return of the Nielsen magic by doing what they did during the Trump years. It’s a nostalgia trip, really, a yearning for a lost Golden Age, when CNN took pride in being leaders of the #Resistance: “Old times there are not forgotten.”

Alas for Jake Tapper, Brian Stelter and their friends, the world has moved on, and CNN’s Golden Age ain’t coming back. Yet they remain huddled inside their cocoon, telling each other how relevant they are, how they’re Making a Difference and Defending Our Democracy.

Their response to cognitive dissonance is denial, which is understandable from a psychiatric perspective, but isn’t much of a business strategy.

But is CNN really in the “news” business anymore? Don’t they function as a sort of ongoing contribution-in-kind to the Democratic Party, proving them with 24/7 free advertising to promote (what they conceive to be) narratives favorable to the party’s political interests?

And one other thing: Remember how CNN (and the rest of the liberal media) kept riding the “Russian collusion” hoax all the way through the 2018 midterm elections? Do they imagine that they can use the January 6 “insurrection” the same way, keeping up the hysteria into 2022?

“Insurrection now! Insurrection tomorrow! Insurrection forever!”

Yeah, well, good luck with that. Nobody’s watching this sad carnival.




 

Category: CNN

In The Mailbox: 11.09.21

Posted on | November 10, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.09.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

From the Kekistani Meme Market on MeWe.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Potassium Metathorinate
357 Magnum: How’s That Affordable Bail Working Out?
EBL: So How is The Rittenhouse Trial Going?
Twitchy: Biden Treasury Nominee Says We Want The Oil, Coal, & Gas Industries To Go Bankrupt
Louder With Crowder: Gov. Attacks GOP Truck Driver As “Dangerous Man”; Senator-Elect Durr Hits Back Hard
Vox Popoli: Perhaps God Will Show Them Mercy, Did You Get A Hot Shot?, and Why They Didn’t Stop The Trials
Gab News: Craving The Cup – Logos Reignited 


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Hotel Australia
American Conservative: How Did Armenia Lose Nagorno-Karabakh?
American Greatness: Dozens Of SEALS File Suit Against DOD For Denying Religious Exemptions To The Jab, also, Where Are The Neon-Hatted Proud Boys?
American Thinker: In Defense Of The Bourgeoisie
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Robot Ants News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dissidents Not Backing Down In Face Of Regime’s Historic Oppression
BattleSwarm: The Mainstream Media Are Lying Liars Who Win Pulitzers For Their Lies As Long As Their Lies Help Democrats, also, Anti-Woke Academics Found New University Of Austin
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, NASA Admits Manned Lunar Landing Can’t Happen Before 2025, also, Japan’s Epsilon Rocket Launches Nine Smallsats
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
Da Tech Guy: Dumb Energy Policy? That Depends On Their Goal, also, Pork, Pork, & More Pork
Don Surber: Bob Woodward Missed The Scoop Of His Life, also, Trump’s Support Grows
First Street Journal: Gov. Beshear Hurts The Poor In Ky., also, Gov. Tom Wolf Dances To Avoid Court Ruling
Gates Of Vienna: Life In The Corona GULAG, It’s Time For Millstones, and Oceania Has Always Been At War With Eastasia
The Geller Report: Calif. Gov. Newsome Missing For 12 Days After Booster Jab, also, Powerful Democrat Senator’s Son Says Dad “Hates The American Dream”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Stars & Teeth, and This Too Shall Pass
Hollywood In Toto: Confessions Of A Burned-Out Film Critic, William Shatner Calls Former  Fellow Star Trek Alumnus George Takei “Unsettled Individual”, and Defending Nothing But Trouble…Really
The Lid: Democrat-Led Michigan Refuses To Remove 25,000 Dead People From Voter Rolls
Legal Insurrection: MIT Alumni Withdrawing Financial Support Over School’s Drift Into Wokeness, SC & MT School Board Associations Withdraw From NSBA Over “Domestic Terrorist” Letter, and Recall Petition For LA DA Chesa Boudin Certified 
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fuido & Brandon, also, Done Right
Outkick: Charles Barkley Tells KD “I’m Anti-Social Media”, Idea Of Odell Beckham Jr. Landing In Seattle Gathering Steam, and ESPN’s Monday Night Football Lies That Najee Harris Slept On Floor At Alabama
Power Line: James O’Keefe Speaks, Pete Buttigieg’s Slush Fund, and Climate Of Dystopia
Shark Tank: In-N-Out Burger Heading For Florida?
Shot In The Dark: So Then This Happened, Weird, and There Was A Time
STUMP: A Deeper Dive Into Increased Deaths By Race/Ethnicity and Geographic Patterns, U.S. 2020-2021
The Political Hat: Yes, Critical Race Theory IS Taught In Schools
This Ain’t Hell: Now This Is The Army We All Know & Love, The Transportation Secretary & America’s “Racist Roads”, and Metallurgist Who Falsified Navy Sub Steel Tests Pleads Guilty
Transterrestrial Musings: Durham’s Investigation, Begun, The Woke Wars Have, and Pr0n
Victory Girls: Pentagon Memo Says Military Family Members Left Behind In Afghanistan
Volokh Conspiracy: Theater Prof Facing Possible Firing For Being Insufficiently Outraged
Weasel Zippers: Biden Flack On Jab Requirement For Domestic Travel – “Everything’s On The Table”, also, “Meatflation” To Ruin Thanksgiving & Christmas
The Federalist: How Kyle Rittenhouse’s Persecutors Destroyed Their Own Case With Their Own Star Witness, also, Top Spygate Hoaxer Adam Schiff Squirms Under First Tough Questions In Five Years On The View
Mark Steyn: Steyn In For Farage, also, Poets Cornered

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Miss Knoxville and ‘White Privilege’

Posted on | November 9, 2021 | Comments Off on Miss Knoxville and ‘White Privilege’

One of the most toxic phrases of left-wing social-justice rhetoric is “white privilege,” which serves to demonize white people as beneficiaries of unfair advantages. This phrase originated in elite academia, where many white people do, in fact, come from privileged backgrounds. But the vast majority of white people in America are working class or lower-middle class, working hard just to pay their bills. To accuse such people of benefitting from “privilege” is an insult, but this rhetoric is necessary to the “social justice” calculus of the Left who, in search of a scapegoat to blame for hardships experienced by racial minorities, stigmatize white people — all white people — as malevolent perpetrators of oppression.

J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy was an effort to correct this record, to make clear that minorities do not have a monopoly on poverty, and to portray lower-class whites as deserving of sympathy.

Thinking of people as collective groups, and then presenting group averages (income, etc.) as evidence of injustice, is a dishonest endeavor, but whatever lies are necessary to help elect Democrats, their media allies will enthusiastically promote. Don’t expect anyone at CNN or the New York Times to point out how deceptive group averages can be, when discussing complex social phenomena. The fact that both Bill Gates and I are white males — members of the same group — illustrates what’s wrong with this group average way of talking about “social justice.” If you combined my annual income with Bill Gates’s annual income, then divided by 2, our “average” income is pretty high, but I don’t actually have any access to Gates’s wealth, so being part of the same identity-politics category doesn’t benefit me at all.

Glenn Reynolds calls attention to a local news story in Knoxville:

East Tennessee Children’s Hospital nurse Paige Clark is one of the hardest workers that WATE’s Lori Tucker says she has ever met. At one point during undergrad studies at the University of Tennessee, Clark was working 60 hours a week clogging at Pigeon Forge musical theaters just to help keep her grandmother from losing her home.
And she’s also Miss Knoxville.
Clark has been clogging for most of her young life. She turned her talent into a full-time job at the Comedy Barn and The Hatfield and McCoy show just a few years ago at the age of 19. It was a gift of love for her grandmother.
“She was no longer able to afford her mortgage,” Clark said. “No one else in my family could get a loan to help her out. My parents, they have their own bills. My aunts and uncles also do, too.
“So I took it upon myself, and I actually signed my name to a mortgage just after I turned 19 years old and I currently still own the house.”
Paige admitted she had no idea what she was getting into, but she took it upon herself to do whatever she could to help her grandmother.
“Some days, I would be doing one to two shows and some days I’d be doing four shows,” Paige said. “There were weeks where I’d put in sixty-plus hours into performing while also going to school and doing clinicals.
“So I lived out of my car. All my clothes were in my car, and I was just driving back and forth from Knoxville to Pigeon Forge; barely saw my parents, but I just knew that in the end, I had the strength to make it work.”

The key point I’ve highlighted here is that no one else in Miss Clark’s family — her parents, her aunts and uncles — had sufficient income, assets or credit to be able to help her grandmother. What does that tell you about the socioeconomic strata to which Miss Clark belongs?

As far as the national media or the Democratic Party are concerned, however, Paige Clark represents a non-existent category.

There is no such thing, according to the liberal elite, as a white person whose life is not defined by unearned “privilege.” There are no white people working 60-hour weeks just trying to get by as best they can. No, according to our media overlords, white people are oppressors — guilty beneficiaries of “systemic racism,” endowed from birth with unfair “white privilege” — and therefore deserve to be insulted.

And, of course, if any white person dares object to being routinely insulted this way, well, that just proves how racist they are.




 

Category: Racism

In The Mailbox: 11.08.21

Posted on | November 9, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.08.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Off to Las Vegas tomorrow for medical stuff and Veterans Day pillaging. Posting may be intermittent.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

After four kids? This is de wae.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: But The Navy Is WOKE!
EBL: Our GOPe Elites Betray Us Again, also, Dexter: New Blood
Twitchy: “Knew This Was Going To be A Bad Day For The Prosecution But Holy F***”, also, Amy Siskind Rages Against “Racist” Non-College White Women, Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk Destroys Sen. Wyden (D-OR) With Single HIlarious Tweet About His Face
Vox Popoli: Independence Is Not Imperialism, Fake President, Alleged Abuse, and When Nemesis Strikes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Kamala Harris  – Weakest VP Since Dan Quayle
American Greatness: Conspiracy Theory Or Conspiracy In Fact? also, The Biden Regime Will Turn The Military On The People Unless We Push Back
American Power: Nicaragua Becomes A Police State
American Thinker: The Pick Of The Left’s Litter, also, Pro-Transgender Censorship Is Tearing Univerities Apart
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: “This Is A Preview Of What Can Happen If You Go Out On 11/15”, also, Uncovering The KGB Roots Of Pope Francis’ Love For The Cuban Dictatorship
BattleSwarm: Astrowhatthehell? also, Did Austin Justice Coalition Break Federal Law?
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Ingenuity Completes 15th Flight, and Chicoms Begin Test Of “Space Debris Mitigation” Satellite
Cafe Hayek: Hooray For The Fifth Circuit, also, When Benefits Are Reckoned Absent Their Costs, Policy Becomes Deranged
CDR Salamander: Hopes & Lessons From The NATO Training Mission In Afghanistan On Midrats, also, We Know What Red China Wants To Do
Da Tech Guy: The Hale-Bopp Comet Democrats, Fr. Leonard In Fitchburg, and Report From Louisiana – Road Trip To Fredericksburg Texas
Don Surber: So You Think You Know More About Aaron Rodgers’ Body Than He Does?, Toppling Rappers Like Confederate Statues, and Impeach Buttigieg
First Street Journal: Court-Ordered Idiocy, also, Killadelphia!
Gates Of Vienna: German Citizens Are Safer Than Ever, The Pureblood Signage Project, and Salah Abdeslam On Trial
The Geller Report: THE BIGGEST LOSER – CNN October Primetime Plunges To 661,000 Viewers, also, DeSantis Moves To Stop Biden’s Midnight Importations Of Illegals Into Florida
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Early Images From Landsat 9, and Are The President & VP’s Poll Numbers Collapsing?
Hollywood In Toto: Last Night In Soho Stuns In More Ways Than One, also, Variety Claims Film Critics Have “hidden Agenda” Against Eternals
The Lid: Occasional Cortex Tries To Redefine “Woke” To Slander Conservatives
Legal Insurrection: U. Minn. Looking to Hire “Design Justice” Architecture Prof, Brown U. Profs Think Biden’s Doing A Great Job, and Native American Lawsuit Challenges Colorado Ban On Native American “Mascots” As Discriminatory
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Troy
Outkick: LSU “Truly Better” Than Alabama Despite 20-14 Loss, Orgeron Claims, Tenn. Outruns Ky. As Vols Win Shootout In Lexington, and The ManningCast Is The New Madden Cover Curse
Power Line: Vax You, The “Racial Reckoning’s” Reckoning, and Biden Yanks Our Supply Chain
Shark Tank: Lauren Book Whines That Special Session “Threatens Freedom”
Shot In The Dark: Privilege In Action, News You Can Use, and Compare & Contrast
STUMP: On COVID, Excess Mortality By Race/Ethnicity, & Geographic Patterns
The Political Hat: Ma Bell Goes Woke, also, The Latest Funny Joke Among The Nomenklatura? People Suffering From High Gas Prices!
This Ain’t Hell: Stupid People Of the Week, Another Is Known, and Navy Launches USNS Harvey Milk
Victory Girls: In Space, No One Can Hear You Cackle, also, Ortega Rigs Nicaragua Election, Biden Weakly Protests
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Temporarily Stays OSHA Employer Vaccination Mandate
Weasel Zippers: Afghan Baby Handed Over The Wall To U.S. Troops Still Missing, Ron Klain Is Frustrated That His Puppet Can’t Get The Economy Moving, and As Gas Prices Surge (And Heating Season Looms), Biden Considers Shutting Down Another Pipeline
The Federalist: Federal Appeals Court Freezes Biden’s Jab Mandate, Why Does Michigan Still Have 25,000 Dead People On Its Voter Rolls?, and Energy Secretary Granholm Laughs At Your High Gas Prices
Mark Steyn: Duel In The Sun – Ben Kingsley & Sexy Beast, Unforgettable, and House of Windsor Meets House Of Wind

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Category: Linkagery

AOC Goes to War With James Carville

Posted on | November 8, 2021 | Comments Off on AOC Goes to War With James Carville

You wanted more Democratic infighting? You got it:

The open and proud socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared on Sunday that Republicans have been using wokeness as a means to distract Democrats from pursuing racial justice.
In a series of tweets, the congresswoman said that Democrats believing in a “woke problem” will hurt their chances for reelection because they “rely on the racial justice issue of voting rights.”
“One dangerous aspect of thinking there’s a ‘woke problem’ is that Dem chances for re-election or majorities in House, Senate, & WH rely on the racial justice issue of voting rights,” she tweeted. “Dems distancing from racial justice makes protection of voting rights less likely, ensuring losses.”
According to AOC, the term “woke” has been appropriated by Republicans as a “derogatory euphemism for civil rights & justice,” charging that Fox News not only serves to indoctrinate right-wingers but also to trick Democrats into believing that racial justice is “controversial.” . . .
AOC waded into woke apologetics over the weekend when she publicly bashed Democratic strategist James Carville for arguing that “stupid wokeness” cost the Democrats in multiple elections last Tuesday, from Virginia to New Jersey to Seattle.
“[W]hat went wrong is just stupid wokeness,” said Carville. “Don’t just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Wash. I mean, this ‘defund the police’ lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln’s name off of schools. I mean that — people see that.” . . .
AOC then charged Carville was merely repeating talking points straight from the echo chamber of Fox News.
“Like the average audience for people seriously using the word ‘woke’ in a 2021 political discussion are James Carville and Fox News pundits so that should tell you all you need to know,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Friday.
“And before people disingenuously complain ‘woke’ is denigrating to older people, it’s actually pundits like Carville using terms like ‘woke’ to insult voters under 45 that’s denigrating,” she later added. “Don’t wonder why youth turnout falls when Dems talk about them like this. We need everyone.”

“We need everyone,” says Sandy Cortez, even while shouting at the top of her lungs how much she hates white people with jobs — which is, basically, who Republican voters are. If you’ve got a “career,” you might vote Democrats, but if you’ve got a job, you vote a Republican.

MSNBC devoted a weekend panel to denouncing Carville because they’re “sick of these white men whining and complaining.”

This “War on White People” theme is their 2022 campaign platform.




 

Category: Democrats

Guess Who’s in the NFL Playoff Hunt?

Posted on | November 8, 2021 | Comments Off on Guess Who’s in the NFL Playoff Hunt?

On Oct. 17, after the New England Patriots lost a home game to the Dallas Cowboys, NBC Sports ran a story with this headline:

Could Patriots make the playoffs despite
2-4 record? Here’s what history says

Three weeks later — and three wins later — the AFC East standings:

Buffalo Bills ………………. 5-3
New England Patriots … 5-4
New York Jets …………… 2-6
Miami Dolphins ………… 2-7

The AFC playoff competition is wild this year. The Patriots and the Bills are among seven teams (along with the Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers, Bengals and Browns) with five wins after Week Nine.

It helps New England that Buffalo got upset Sunday by the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars, but the Patriots now control their own playoff destiny, thanks to a crucial road victory against the Carolina Panthers:

Bill Belichick has the blueprint for beating Sam Darnold, and it starts with disguising coverages.
His players just seem to do the rest.
New England’s defense intercepted Darnold on three consecutive possessions in the second half — including one that J.C. Jackson returned 88 yards for a touchdown — and the New England Patriots cruised past the Carolina Panthers 24-6 on Sunday for their fourth win in the past five games. . . .
Mac Jones overcame two early turnovers and threw for 139 yards and a touchdown, rookie running back Rhamondre Stevenson had 106 yards from scrimmage before leaving the game with a head injury and Damien Harris and Hunter Henry scored touchdowns as the Patriots (5-4) improved to 4-0 on the road.
“Getting a win on the road is a hard thing to do and we’ve done a good job of that this year,” Jones said. “The defense was lights-out.”


Like I said about Alabama: Defense wins football games.




 

Category: Football

Rule 5 Sunday: Dina Meyer

Posted on | November 7, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Dina Meyer

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Lot of discussion in the comments to yesterday’s post of the wretched Starship Troopers movie,* which as we all know had little to do with the famous book by Uncle Bob. Passing over the numerous flaws of Verhoeven’s crappy adaptation, though, one of the enjoyable bits of the movie was Dizzy Flores, played by veteran actress Dina Meyer. Meyer got her start on Beverly Hills 90210 and since then has had numerous guest appearances on quite a few TV series as well as continuing roles on Birds Of Prey, Miss Match, and Point Pleasant. Here she is in the movie Lethal Seduction. 
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Not the shower scene from Starship Troopers, but that’s NSFW.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1526, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: The Saturday Gingermageddon, but since he was out all last week hunting, he posted totty every single day last week. 

EBL: Lauren Boebert, Brigitte Bardot, The 5th Of November, LGB Song, Winsome Sears, Suzanne Youngkin, Sarah Blasko, Braves Win!, Army Of Thieves, The House Next Door: Meet The Blacks, The Unholy, Kate Beckinsale, Chapelwaite, and the New York Dolls. 

A View From The Beach: Virginia Madsen, Fish Pic Friday – Tina Weaver, Gone Fishin’, Something to Do With Your Hands, A Long, Long Time Ago (with cavegirls), The Wednesday Wetness, Big Fish Have Little Bugs Upon Their Back to Bite Them, Tattoo Tuesday, Trick or Treat!, Some Music to Greet Trick-or-Treaters By, Happy Pumpkin Day! and Palm Sunday.

Brian J. Noggle: Helen Slater from The Secret of My Success.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

*It turns out there’s five of them. The original, two direct-to-video sequels, and two more animated sequels.

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Category: Rule 5

Defense Wins Football Games

Posted on | November 7, 2021 | Comments Off on Defense Wins Football Games

The University of Alabama survived a scare Saturday against LSU, coming away with a hard-fought 20-14 victory to keep alive the Crimson Tide’s hopes of another trip to the college football playoffs.

LSU stopped Alabama’s running game — something that is cause for concern going forward — and forced the Tide to rely on quarterback Bryce Young’s passing arm. The sophomore did well enough, throwing for 302 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions, but it was close.

During the fourth quarter, my brother Kirby needed an extra dose of his heart medicine. Fortunately, the ’Bama defense stepped up.

Sophomore linebacker Will Anderson Jr. put on a tackling seminar, with 12 tackles, including 8 solo tackles, one solo sack and another shared with fellow linebacker Christian Harris. In the fourth quarter, when LSU drove more than 70 yards to threaten Alabama’s lead, senior tackle Phidarian Mathis came up with a sack which caused what looked like a fumble, but was ruled an interception. In another key play late in the first half, Harris broke up an LSU pass, tipping the ball into the air where it was intercepted by junior safety Jalyn Armour-Davis:

That pickoff gave the Tide possession at the LSU 39, and Young then hit three of his next five passes, connecting twice to Jameson Williams before hitting John Metchie III for the touchdown.

Just by the way, as my brother commented during last night’s game, Jameson Williams — a junior transfer from Ohio State — has been a “godsend” for Alabama. If he can avoid injury, Williams bids fair to follow DeVonta Smith’s path to the Heisman Trophy and first-round NFL pick. Here he catches a 58-yard touchdown bomb from Bryce Young:

Now I should perhaps mention that Kirby is not a Bryce Young fan. Although Young is listed as six feet tall, that’s three inches shorter than Mac Jones, and Kirby thinks Young, whom he calls our “midget quarterback,” is in reality no taller than 5-10. Regardless of that, even a three-inch difference in height is very significant, in terms of a quarterback’s ability to see over the onrushing defensive linemen, who tend to be very tall, and Young’s limitations are obvious enough to anyone who seriously studies the videos. Young hits most of his passes toward the outside, perhaps because of his difficulty in seeing receivers in crossing routes over the middle. While this factor may not prevent Alabama from making another run at the national championship, I think it could reduce Young’s future value in the NFL.

But of course, this is getting way ahead of where Alabama is right now. Their one loss to Texas A&M won’t hurt the Tide in terms of making the playoffs, because A&M is 7-2 (their two losses to Arkansas and Mississippi State) and will move up in the rankings this week. However, a second loss would be fatal to ’Bama’s playoff hopes. The Crimson Tide have two remaining regular season games, against Arkansas (6-3) and archrival Auburn (6-3), and if Alabama struggled against a 4-4 LSU team, how will they do against two arguably superior opponents? This is headache enough for Tide fans, but even if ’Bama manages to win those two games, then they would have to face No. 1 Georgia in the SEC title game. And my God, have you seen Georgia this year?

The Bulldogs average 38.4 points and 180 rushing yards per game. Alabama averages more points per game (43.0), but fewer rushing yards (152.7). Beyond that, Georgia’s defense has been phenomenal, allowing just 59 points in nine games — 6.55 points per game — while Alabama has given up 179 points in nine games, 19.88 average points per game.

Of course, Jesus warned his disciples against borrowing tomorrow’s troubles, and it is therefore un-Christian of Alabama fans to be looking ahead to Georgia, when we know that the Tide will have their hands full against Arkansas next Saturday and Auburn in the Iron Bowl. We must be faithful to Christian teaching, and take them one game at a time, without fretting about a possible apocalypse against Georgia.

It all comes down to the defense, I believe. Alabama returned nine defensive starters from last year’s national champions, but so far this year, they haven’t produced the kind of signature performance that many fans expected. Maybe this win over LSU is a good omen for the future.

But there I go again, borrowing tomorrow’s troubles. Forgive me.




 

Category: Alabama, Football
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