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Despite Big Night for Virginia Democrats, “HotWifeExperience’ Loses Election

Posted on | November 8, 2023 | 1 Comment

Susanna Gibson claimed to be the victim of “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family” when it was discovered that the Democratic candidate for a Virginia House of Delegates seat had raised money by performing sex acts on livestream internet videos under the handle “HotWifeExperience.” Tuesday’s election was a big night for Virginia Democrats, who maintained control of the state Senate and captured a majority in the House of Delegates.

Unfortunately for “HotWifeExperience” fans, however, Gibson lost the District 57 seat to Republican David Owen by a margin of about 900 votes out of some 34,000 votes cast. So now Gibson can go back to showing her nasty gash to strangers for money, and I will remain in awe of Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak, who got paid to watch the “HotWifeExperience” videos. Nice work, if you can get it.



 

Category: Democrats, Election, Scandal, Sex, Virginia

Election Results HQ: The Check Engine Light Is Flashing for ‘Bidenomics’ UPDATE: Dem Reelected Ky. Governor UPDATE: Dems Hold Virginia Senate

Posted on | November 7, 2023 | Comments Off on Election Results HQ: The Check Engine Light Is Flashing for ‘Bidenomics’ UPDATE: Dem Reelected Ky. Governor UPDATE: Dems Hold Virginia Senate

UPDATE 8:50 p.m. ET: The networks just called the Kentucky election. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear holds off GOP challenger Daniel Cameron.

UPDATE 9:15 p.m. ET: The networks have also called Ohio’s abortion rights referendum, which appears set to pass with about 57%. By the way, I’m watching election coverage on CNN (so you don’t have to) and, oh, they’re just so happy happy happy tonight.

UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET: It appears Democrats will maintain control of the state Senate and, in fact, Republicans may lose control of the House of Delegates. In Mississippi, GOP Gov. Tate Reeves looks like he’ll defeat Democratic challenger Brandon Presley, second cousin of Elvis.

*** PREVIOUSLY (5:15 p.m. ET) ***

Tonight there will be election results in Kentucky, Virginia, New Jersey, Mississippi, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The most closely watched contest will be the governor’s race in Kentucky, where the Trump-backed Republican challenger, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, had a late poll surge and is now tied with Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. What could explain this huge change — Cameron has gained 15 points in a matter of weeks, according to the Emerson College poll — in a race that Beshear had been leading by double digits? My first guess would be the Gaza war, which probably doesn’t make a lot of real-world difference to Kentucky voters, but has sowed discord in Democratic Party ranks.

On the other hand, based on past experience, when you see a massive swing in the polls in such a race, the explanation is usually that the surging candidate got a huge boost from a TV ad blitz. A really effective attack ad, run in saturation, can destroy a vulnerable candidate, and my guess is that the GOP waited until October to unleash it’s hardest-hitting attack on Beshear, pouring in a few million dollars worth of ads that have tied the incumbent Democrat to Joe Biden’s disastrous policies.

Democrats have spent the past three days wringing their hands in anguish over the New York Times/Sienna College poll:

“I am concerned,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in an interview. “I was concerned before these numbers. I am concerned by the inexplicable credibility that Donald Trump seems to have despite all of the indictments, the lies, the incredible wrongdoing.”
New York Times-Siena College polls found Biden trailing Trump in five of the six most competitive battleground states: Trump led Biden by 10 percentage points in Nevada, six in Georgia, five in Arizona and Michigan and four in Pennsylvania. Biden led Trump by two in Wisconsin. In 2020, Biden defeated Trump in all six of those states, though generally by very narrow margins.
Of particular concern to Biden allies are indications that his support among Black voters, who were critical to his victory in 2020, may be softening. . . .

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) If black voters expected anything good from Joe Biden, they have been as disappointed as anyone else foolish enough to think “Bidenomics” would work. The basic truth is, good policy is good politics, and however much anyone may have hated Donald Trump personally, his economic policies were far better than Biden’s. So now the check engine light is flashing for Democrats, and they may be planning to rerun the “Torricelli Gambit” for 2024, but in the meantime, there will be election results tonight.

UPDATE 6:30 p.m. ET: Early results from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 5,415 (54.6%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 4,496 (45.4%)

Polls are still open in Western Kentucky (in the Central time zone) and these numbers represent just 1% of the expected total.

UPDATE 7:25 p.m. ET: Now 27% reporting from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 174,054 (43.4%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 227,201 (56.6%)

Doesn’t look good right now for Cameron.

UPDATE 7:45 p.m. ET: A ballot measure in Ohio would amend the state constitution to guarantee the legality of abortion:

YES ………. 125,686 (70.6%)
NO ……….. 52,409 (29.4%)

That’s with just 5% of the vote counted.

UPDATE 8 p.m. ET: The situation in Virginia is this: Republicans came into today’s election holding the House of Delegates with a four-seat margin, 52-48, while Democrats held the state Senate by a four-seat margin, 22-18. With Gov. Glenn Youngkin, GOP could consolidate their control by flipping the Senate and holding the House. So far, everything is still too close to call. Now 55% reporting from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 375,589 (46.9%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 424,213 (53.0%)

The Democrat incumbent maintains a 50,000-vote lead.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: Now 65% reporting from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 457,011 (48.0%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 495,398 (52.0%)

Beshear’s lead is now less than 40,000 votes.

With 22% of the vote on the Ohio abortion-rights referendum:

YES ………. 551,815 (63.4%)
NO ……….. 320,788 (36.6%)

UPDATE 8:40 p.m. ET: Remember Susanna “HotWifeExperience” Gibson, the Democratic candidate who got caught selling sexy videos on the Internet? Well, she’s currently leading her Republican opponent by about 150 votes with 66% of the vote counted in House District 57.



 

Category: Economics, Election, Joe Biden, Kentucky

In The Mailbox: 11.07.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | November 7, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.07.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: I Can’t Wait Until We Have Socialized Medicine
EBL: Even Bernie Sanders Rejects A Ceasefire In Gaza, also, Five Nights at Freddy’s
Twitchy: “Spelled MURDER Wrong”, If Gaza Has No Electricity How Do They Explain This? and Two Officers To Be Fired Over Leak Of Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto
Louder With Crowder: We have obtained EXCLUSIVE access to the Nashville Covenant shooter’s manifesto, “Listen to the screams:” Female field hockey player severely injured by male allowed to play on girls’ high school team, and Woman confuses Black Hebrew Israelites for Jewish school, drives car through building in EPIC antisemitism fail
Vox Popoli: Ben Shapiro and the Inevitability of Defeat, GenX Critique of Boomer Pride, Why EVERYONE Hates the Media, and In Which I Express A Heartfelt Apology
Draw & Talk Comics: The Secret Problem In Comics Is…The Fans?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Clueless Kunstler
American Conservative: Can a Hedge-Fund Patriot Win a U.S. Senate Seat in Pennsylvania?
American Greatness: House GOP to Introduce FISA Reform Bill Blocking Surveillance of Americans’ Phone Records, The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites, and This Time Israel Will Finish The Job
American Thinker: Pennsylvania’s 2020 Election Was Invalid — Says Who? The DNC Con Job to Come, and Keep Your Head on a Swivel
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: If Latin American ‘solidarity’ doesn’t kill Cuba, it won’t be for lack of effort, Rationed bread roll thrown at Cuban government office was so hard, it broke the plate glass window, Cuban troops in Angolan war earned the Castro dictatorship between $4.8 and $9.6 billion, and Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship acts like a socialist regime, cancels opposition elections
Baldilocks: I Only Know What I Read
BattleSwarm: How Bad Off Is The Russian Ruble?, also, Spongebomb Squareboom Meets The Stainless Steel Throwbot
Behind The Black: Astra defaults on debt agreement, Commercial hi-res Earth imaging satellite constellations limiting Gaza imagery to the public, Middle East Arabs know Hamas is wrong and Israel is right, even if America’s stupid college students don’t, and Galaxies within galaxies within galaxies
Chicago Boyz: Edward Said
Commander Salamander: Germany’s Delusions Come Home To Roost
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora, Don’t complain about the systems you built! Rules for the Next Season of 1997 of the Short Season Draft League, and The migrant crime wave is here
Don Surber: Israel’s 15 Ceasefires
First Street Journal: Rashida Tlaib thinks that you are too stupid to understand what Hamas are, also, In Which Trudy Rubin Tells Us That She Doesn’t Understand War
Gates Of Vienna: Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Mujahid, The German State Pays the Jizya, Geert Wilders: “It is an Ideological Conflict, Not a Conflict Over Land”, and There Will Be Blood
The Geller Report: Rape Jihad: Hamas Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women Follows Islamic Doctrine, CHAOS: Screaming “Allahu Akbar!” Pro-Terror, Genocidal Rioters Storm White House Fence, Try To Tear it Down, Attack Secret Service, Statues Desecrated in DC, WATCH: Young Muslims in Germany and Belgium say they will become the majority, abolish the Constitution and Institute Sharia law, and Hamas Had Planned Massacre During Passover But Iran Forced Delay Until They Got Biden’s $6 Billion
Glenn Reynolds: The Wheels Are Coming Off The Biden Administration
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Dance of the Asteroids, An Astronomer Uses a Telescope, and A Binary Asteroid
Hollywood In Toto: Royal Hotel Wallows in Toxic Masculinity, To Hell and Back: TV’s Best Depictions of Hell, Adam Carolla: Gavin Newsom Is a ‘Sociopathic, Tyrannical Dictator’, and Best ’80s Vampire Movies
The Lid: Poisoning The Jews, Then And Now
Legal Insurrection: Army Plans Major Cuts to Special Forces – Over Objections, “Cornell really needs to get a handle on the poisonous ideology which has now inflicted campus”,‘Pro-Palestinian’ Students Arrested at Dartmouth College for Trespassing After Threat Virginia: Today’s Election A Big F’ing Deal As Democrats Fear-Monger Abortion, Gun Rights, and MAGA, Oh My! U.S. Naval Academy Sued Over Use of Race in Admissions, Jewish Students at Cornell Question Their Allegiances to Left Wing Groups After Pro-Hamas Controversies, Rashida Tlaib Gaslights on ‘From the River to the Sea,’ Gruesome Nova Festival Footage Proves She’s Lying, and Multiple Students Hospitalized After Boozy Lingerie Party at Rice University
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, All Saints’ Sunday, and Reflecting on Coach Knight
Outkick: God-First C.J. Stroud Playing As If He’s A Gift From Heaven For Houston Texans, Field Hockey Captain Slams Massachusetts Law Allowing Boys On Girls Teams After Brutal Injury To Her Teammate, Mike Vrabel Is Patriots’ ‘Home Run Choice’ To Replace Bill Belichick: REPORT, JJ Watt Sounds Off On Out Of Control NFL Fines: ‘This Is STEALING’, NBA Official Embarasses Himself By Letting Draymond Green Berate Him For 40 Seconds Without Blowing Whistle, Alabama Saved Its Best For LSU, And For The Last SEC West Duel Between These 2 Division Dynamos, and Paige VanZant Calls Out Haters With Spicy Instagram Post
Power Line: Genocide Is Popular, A Paid Agent of a Foreign Power, and Obama’s Subtle Tactics of Division
Shark Tank: Rubio Condemns Political Violence In Honduras
Shot In The Dark: History Talking
The Political Hat: School Smut Hypocrisy, Florida Edition Redux
This Ain’t Hell: A-10 vs. F-35 report released – sorta, Astronaut RADM Ken Mattingly, USN passes away, Crypto-Clown Guilty, and Chinese sub allegedly down
Transterrestrial Musings: The Gaza Tunnels, Starship, World War III, Science Influencers, and Europe’s Rocket Woes
Victory Girls: Ponzi Scam Artist Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty On All Counts, Ilhan Omar Just Can’t Add It Up, and Anne Frank Not “Diverse” Enough In Germany Anymore
Volokh Conspiracy: S. Ct. Will Hear NRA’s Case Alleging That N.Y. Government Coerced Companies to Stop Doing Business with NRA
Watts Up With That: Shell Pulls Out of US Offshore Wind Farm Contract, Judge Interrupts Just Stop Oil Protestor’s Flight to India, and California EV HELL: QUEUING for chargers at MIDNIGHT!!!
The Federalist: Every Ohio Pastor Has A Duty To Urge His Congregants To Vote No On Issue 1, Rolling Stone Dishonestly Demonizes Speaker Mike Johnson For Protecting His Son From Porn, How To Pump The Brakes On Runaway Government Spending Without Ramping Up Inflation, With More Smoke And Mirrors About Hunter Biden Charging Decisions, DOJ Covers Up A Cover-Up, Destroying Robert E. Lee’s Statue Marks A Historic Low Point, But Hungary Shows It Doesn’t Have To Be The Endpoint, and National Review’s Guilt-By-Association Smear Of The Heritage Foundation Is Cowardly Nonsense
Mark Steyn: Interstellar with Dr Mann Super Villain, Light My Fire, and The Flagging Spirit

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Category: Linkagery

‘Kill All You Little Crackers’

Posted on | November 6, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Kill All You Little Crackers’

“I’d be willing to speculate,” my brother Kirby said, when I mentioned that the Nashville shooter’s “manifesto” had finally been leaked, “that this person’s brain got poisoned during the lockdown. They went down a rabbit hole, and never came back.” And that’s almost certainly correct.

Like me, my brother is a longtime student of criminal behavior — a tendency I attribute to our mother’s love of TV detective shows — and one can imagine Lieutenant Columbo waving his cigar as he’s about to depart his interview with the prime suspect: “Oh, just one more thing . . .”

The lockdown hit in early 2020, but it was not until three years later, in March 2023, that Audrey “Aiden” Hale went on her/“his” murder spree. We know that Audrey/“Aiden” identified as transgender, but what we don’t know is when (or if) she/“he” started getting testosterone injections. How far had she/“he” gone down the “transition” road and what, if anything, did this gender obsession have to do with the attack on The Covenant School (which Hale had previously attended)? What purpose was achieved by murdering three 9-year-old children?

Answer: We don’t know.

Thanks to Steven Crowder, however, we at least know what Audrey/“Aiden” scrawled on three notebook pages:

Louder with Crowder has exclusively obtained three pages of Nashville shooter AudreyHale’s alleged manifesto.
Hale, a transgender 28-year-old man going by the name “Aiden” Hale, entered The Covenant School on March 27, 2023 in Green Hills, Tennessee – killing six, before being shot and killed by responding officers.
The manifesto detailed thoughts Hale had leading up to what was referred to as “DEATH DAY”, as well as a timeline in which the shooting would take place.
Audrey Hale: “Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready…I hope my victims aren’t.”
Hale: “I hope I have a high death count.”
Hale: “Kill those kids!!!”
Hale: “going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”
Hale: “Wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little faggots w/ your white privileges”
Hale: “There were several times I could have been caught especially back in the summer of 2021.”

Weird. Considering that Hale was part of the “LGBTQ+ community” (as we’re supposed to call it), why would she/“he” use the slur “faggot” to disparage her/“his” intended victims? And considering that Hale was as white as a mayonnaise-and-Wonder-Bread sandwich, why would she/“he” use the anti-white slur “cracker”? Again, we have no answers to these questions, because the FBI seized the manifesto, and has suppressed whatever information they found in their so-called “investigation” of this incident, leading many (myself certainly included) to deduce that the “investigation” is, in fact, a cover-up.

However, as I said last week (“Carnac the Magnificent Knows the Answer,” Oct. 31), there is one thing we do know:

CRAZY PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS

You can take that to the bank.

UPDATE: Because Big Tech has become a willing servant of the federal “Deep State,” this was entirely predictable:

Who gave the order to suppress this? DOJ? CIA?



 

Category: Crime, The Transgender Cult

Rule Five Sunday: O, Canada

Posted on | November 6, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Your seasonal reminder that the N in National Hockey League does not stand for los Estados Unidos, and that as long as Canada’s Sun newspapers are still publishing their Sunshine Girls, not everything has turned to crap north of the border in the Old Country*. This week’s example of Canadian pulchritude is Caroline from the Calgary Sun, who likes beer and yoga and sports. Sounds like a good combo to me.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Code Duello Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Melania, “Wagon Train”, What’s Your Opening Line? All The Light We Cannot See, Claire Lise, Weirdo Democrats In Virginia, The Gilded Age Season 2, Is Dracula Misunderstood? A Very Vintage Halloween, “Monster Mash”, Shadow Of Doubt, Painkiller, and Reptile

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Will the Real Mary Nabokova Stand Up?, Fish Pic Friday – Christin Kruger, I Believe I Can Fly, Wednesday Wetness, Happy Halloween!, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Better Than Eating Bugs I Guess and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for November 3

STICKS, STORIES, & SCOTCH: Rule Five Warships – Sao Martinho

AVERAGE BUBBA: Lady Liberty Edition

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

*Paternal grandfather was from Prince Edward Island. 

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Category: Rule 5

Seems Kind of … Insurrection-y

Posted on | November 5, 2023 | Comments Off on Seems Kind of … Insurrection-y

Some insurrections are more equal than others:

A group of anti-Israel protesters who participated in a large demonstration Saturday in Washington, DC, attempted to storm the White House and chanted slogans such as “Allahu Akbar” while calling for the destruction of Israel in favor of a Palestinian state. . . .
There were reports of protesters desecrating and vandalizing war memorials in the vicinity of the White House as well . . .
Protesters also yelled obscenities about the president, whom they resent for backing Israel’s war effort against Hamas terrorists.

I’m in favor of yelling obscenities about Joe Biden, without regard to the motives of whoever does it, but I’m also in favor of rounding up everybody who yells “Allahu Akbar” and deporting them to Gaza.



 

Category: Israel

FMJRA 2.0: Miracle on East Capitol Street

Posted on | November 5, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Miracle on East Capitol Street

— compiled by Wombat-socho

In the long and mostly inglorious history of the Washington Senators in Pete’s continual draft league, there is no team that has defeated us more often than Dom Carden’s Minnesota Twins, now the Kansas City Royals. So it was with some foreboding that our lads awaited the arrival of the Royals at RFK last week, but when the dust had cleared, Marichal and Coleman had notched their 18th and 12th victories, and Dobson had missed his 12th by *that much*. The Curly W flag continued to wave as the Senators went to the Launching Pad and took two of three from the Braves before returning home for another two wins, this time against Pete’s struggling Brewers. It probably would have been a sweep had I not started Jim Kaat in the third game, having forgotten that Pete’s lineup absolutely destroys left-handers. Still: six out of nine wins this week gets us to within 7.5 games of the A’s, and we have a long break before heading to Anaheim for a series against the Angels.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Senators win! Senators win!
-Shelby Whitfield*, August 16 1971

While Hamas Supporters Terrorize Jews, Can You Guess What Noah Berlatsky Considers a More Important Menace?
The Daley Gator
First Street Journal
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Doom-Scrolling a New Holocaust: TikTok’s Pro-Hamas Propaganda
The Pirate’s Cove
The Daley Gator
Average Bubba
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Dinosaur Tales
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Halloween Treats
Average Bubba
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.30.23
Daybreak Bulletin
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Carnac the Magnificent Knows the Answer
The Daley Gator
Flappr
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.31.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Engineering Majors Are Dangerous: Feds Arrest Student Who Threatened Jews
The Daley Gator
Living In Anglo-America
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.01.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

An Addition to the ‘Do Not Date’ List
The Daley Gator
Average Bubba
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.02.23
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘The Freedom Struggle’
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.03.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

*Play-by-play announcer for the RL Senators in 1969-70.

Top linkers for the week ending November 3:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  (tied) 357 Magnum and A View From The Beach (10)
  3.  The Daley Gator (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Rolling Stone Has Become the SPLC?

Posted on | November 4, 2023 | Comments Off on Rolling Stone Has Become the SPLC?

One sentence in this Rolling Stone article caught my attention:

Dolly Parton knows Kid Rock can be, uh, polarizing but she decided to release “Either Or,” her duet with the Bud Light-blasting personality anyway. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Country Music (and Rock & Roll) Hall of Fame member said she could accept Kid Rock for who he is. The recording will feature on her upcoming Rockstar album.
“Of course I did that before the controversy that he had, but somebody was talking to me the other day, ‘How could you do this [song] with Kid?’” she said. “I said, ‘Hey, just because I love you don’t mean I don’t love Kid Rock. Just because I love Kid Rock don’t mean I don’t love you.’ I don’t condemn or criticize. I just accept and love.” (Note: It’s unclear which controversy Parton was referring to when she said she recorded it “before the controversy,” since Billboard has a timeline of Rock gaffes that goes back to 2004.)

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) If you tune into tonight’s episode of The Other Podcast (7 p.m. ET), you’ll probably hear my friend John Hoge, who used to be a recording engineer in Nashville, share some Dolly Parton anecdotes which (as usual with John’s anecdotes) won’t have anything to do with the point I’m trying to make, which is that many journalists nowadays seem to think it’s their job to act like Grand Inquisitors pursuing heretics. Like the Southern Poverty Law Center, they compile dossiers on people who’ve somehow strayed into Wrongthink, so that they can expose these Thought Criminals and destroy their careers.

Let’s be clear about what the glib phrase “cancel culture” actually means: The Left wants to prevent anyone who disagrees with them from earning a living in any occupation that has cultural or political influence. If you look at the climate on university campuses, you see what we’re facing if this neo-Stalinist project succeeds. “Cancel culture” is a very serious thing, and its methods are being enthusiastically embraced by journalists like this Rolling Stone writer who gleefully exults, “A-ha! We have here a list of every ‘gaffe’ that Kid Rock ever made!” To wit:

May 2011: Defends Use of Confederate Flag
Rock was slammed for his notorious use of the Confederate flag onstage and accused of racism by protesters, which he defended was an act of homage to his idols Lynyrd Skynyrd. “I’ve never flown that flag with any hate in my heart. Not one ounce,” Rock said after receiving an award from the NAACP’s Detroit chapter for his work in the community. “I love America. I love Detroit, and I love Black people.”

Love that adjective “notorious.” Some first-class objectivity there. It would be both unnecessary and tedious for me to recount here what I’ve explained before that, in the 1970s, when Lynyrd Skynyrd toured the world with a giant Confederate battle flag as their stage backdrop, the flag was seen as signifying a regional identity, not a symbol of racist belief.

Jimmy Carter was president, OK? He was the first president from the Deep South elected in a long, long time, and expressions of Southern pride were not remotely controversial in the 1970s, when the whole family tuned into CBS on Friday night to watch The Dukes of Hazzard, with Bo and Luke Duke riding in the General Lee.

Maybe it was Daisy Duke that most of us tuned in for, but the point is, nobody in 1979 was looking at that and yelling, “White supremacy!”

Is it surprising that Kid Rock, who was 7 years old when The Dukes of Hazzard began its seven-season run on CBS, should think the Confederate flag is cool? He grew up in the Detroit suburbs of Macomb County, Michigan, and nobody ever accused him of racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — until he openly supported the Republican Party.

But sure, anyone associated with that flag is a racist.

Oh, y’all expected us to forget that one, did you? In their attempt to turn America into a one-party totalitarian dictatorship, Democrats emulate Stalin in their efforts to re-write history and erase any “problematic” issues from the past that might impede their ambitions. But while we’re expected to forget anything that reflects unfavorably on the Democratic Party, liberal journalists emulate the SPLC in compiling dossiers on their chosen enemies, chronicling every “gaffe” and controversy that might aid their character assassination campaigns.

Dolly Parton wants no part of this vindictive agenda:

Speaking of God, Parton invoked her faith in the interview as the reason why she doesn’t like cancel culture. “I think that’s terrible,” she said of cancel culture. “We all make mistakes. We don’t all get caught at it. But also when somebody makes a mistake, it depends on who they are. That’s what God is there for.
“Now I happen to believe in God; I’m a faith-based person, so therefore I am able to see it like that,” she said. “A lot of people don’t, but even still, everybody deserves a second chance. You deserve to be innocent until you’re proven guilty. Even when you’re proven guilty, if God can forgive you, so can I. If God can forgive you, we all should forgive one another.”

Amen, sister! And speaking of forgiveness, forgive me for reminding you of the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Music, Racism
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