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What’s Wrong With Tomi Lahren?

Posted on | November 12, 2020 | Comments Off on What’s Wrong With Tomi Lahren?

As recently as February, Tomi Lahren was engaged to California businessman Brandon Fricke, a 6-foot-1 former college football quarterback who is now a sports agent. But the couple broke up because “the controversial Fox News star wasn’t ready to settle down,” according to the Daily Mail. That seems rather odd, considering that when she and Fricke announced their engagement in June 2019 — he bought her a $50,000 diamond ring — Lahren declared on Instagram: “I love you more and those are my Final Thoughts and you are my forever.”

What changed? We don’t know, and this would be entirely a personal and private matter, of no interest or concern to me, except that a few months ago, Lauren posted a video on Facebook denouncing men quite generally. This drew the attention of columnist Suzanne Venker:

In her Facebook screed, Lahren railed against today’s men, whom she claimed are “trash,” and then proceeded to offer said men advice on how to land “talented, skilled, ambitious women” like Lahren and her friends “who have something going on.”
She then contrasted women like herself with the “other” kind of women: those who are presumably less ambitious and, according to Lahren, have nothing going on. . . .
Lahren is tired of being ghosted and tired of dealing with men who don’t measure up. “All of my friends are attractive and successful. Almost every single one of them has an issue with men. If all of these women, including myself, are having issues, then I have to think it might not be us. It might be you. It might be men.” . . .
“Don’t call us difficult because we’re not,” Lahren said. “We work hard. We’re successful. We take care of ourselves. We try to look cute. That’s why we have the ability to be what you call ‘difficult’ … We are not ‘not good enough.’ We are too enough, and you can’t handle it.”

Well, doesn’t this invite rebuttal? And since Lahren has made this personal, does it not invite examination of her personal behavior?

Scarcely a year before denouncing men as “trash,” Lahren had declared Fricke her “forever,” before later deciding she “wasn’t ready to settle down” with the guy who bought her a $50,000 ring.

Lahren is now 28. From age 25 to 27, she was involved with Fricke, and before that, when she was 22 or so, she dated a Navy SEAL officer.

Do you think Lahren might be an “Alpha widow”? Do you think her Facebook rant might have something to do with approaching “The Wall”?

These are merely thoughts, you understand. Far be it from me to suggest that Tomi Lahren is damaged goods, exhibiting symptoms of borderline personality disorder, a bundle of neuroses who craves drama and thus is too emotionally unstable to be deemed “wife material.”

It would be wrong to suggest such things, since I don’t know her at all, but on the other hand, I know the type. Every guy knows the type, and that’s probably what inspired her Facebook rant. You see, even the most beautiful woman’s romantic options are never infinite, although it may seem that way to her when she’s young. If she breaks up with her college boyfriend, no big deal, she’s got lots of other options. But what is true at age 21 is not so true at age 28. With a few more miles on the odometer, so to speak, her market value has begun to decline, and she notices that she’s not attracting the same quality of men that she previously attracted. There is a simple explanation for this: By age 30, all the really good guys are already taken — if not married with children, they’re in a relationship heading in that direction. So as she herself approaches 30, the young woman starts finding that the guys she’s meeting all seem to be flawed. It’s like the Island of Misfit Toys.

What she doesn’t want to admit is that she herself is a Misfit Toy.

If she was really so perfect, wouldn’t some guy have married her already? Think about Tomi Lahren. Why didn’t she marry the Navy SEAL boyfriend she had when she was 22? What went wrong with that relationship? We don’t know, but there must be some explanation. People don’t break up for no reason. You can shrug and say, “It just didn’t work out,” but what are we to deduce when the same story happens over and over again? And that’s what we are talking about when the subject is an attractive 28-year-old who, rather mysteriously, has never been able to sustain a relationship for more than a couple of years.

Draw your own conclusions. As I say, I wouldn’t have ever paid attention to it if she hadn’t recorded a 15-minute Facebook rant denouncing all men as “trash.” You have the right to remain silent.




 

Category: Celebrities

Tucker Carlson’s Tightrope Walk

Posted on | November 12, 2020 | Comments Off on Tucker Carlson’s Tightrope Walk


Scott Johnson at Powerline ponders the plight of Tucker Carlson, who finds himself stuck at a network that has declared war on its audience.

What has surprised me most about Carlson’s tenure at Fox is what we might call his Buchananite streak. He’s far more paleoconservative than I had any reason to imagine prior to 2017, and this populist, “America First,” Old Right tendency puts him at odds with Fox News management.

Have you ever noticed that Fox News has a lot of Catholics from Long Island? The network started with Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity as its biggest stars, and this New York Irish-Catholic vibe — a throwback to the Al D’Amato era — has persisted for 25 years, almost unnoticed. To a large extent, I believe, this explains a lot about the particular brand of “conservatism” that Fox News sells its audience. In New York politics, “conservative” almost always means Catholic, because Northern Protestantism (the National Council of Churches type) drifted leftward on a tide of Rockefeller foundation grants, embracing liberalism and especially becoming “pro-choice” back in the 1960s and ’70s. Meanwhile, led by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Paige Patterson, conservative Protestants put their foot down in defense of the Bible, at almost the exact same time that saw the conservative political triumph that put Ronald Reagan into the White House. But there is nearly zero representation of Southerners at Fox News, because the network was based in New York and so many of the guys Roger Ailes hired in the network’s early years (e.g., Brian Kilmeade, from Nassau County) were Long Island Irish-Catholics. And one thing you must know about such people is that they have a misty-eyed sentimental view of America as a “nation of immigrants,” getting choked up at the mere thought of those “huddled masses” coming through Ellis Island in the early 20th century, and they quote Emma Lazarus as if her poetry were more force of law than the Constitution. And then there’s Tucker Carlson.

He’s not from Long Island and he’s not Catholic, and while there seem to be no hillbilly Bible-thumpers in his family tree, Carlson doesn’t have the reflexive sentimentality about immigration that is typical of so many personalities on Fox News. That distinction has gotten him tagged as a “white nationalist” — welcome to the SPLC hate list, pal — and the departure of writer Blake Neff from Carlson’s staff brought to light the possibility that Tucker has been reading samizdat.

The way Fox News went in the tank for Democrats on Election Night has almost certainly widened the breach between Carlson and the network’s management. While I’m basically done with Fox News — any network that employs Chris Stirewalt is not to be trusted — I still try to catch Carlson’s opening monologue, which remains the best 15 or 20 minutes of TV anywhere. My suspicion is that Carlson will keep pushing the envelope in an attempt to force the network to fire him; that way, he won’t be saddled with a “non-compete” clause when he leaves, and can immediately hire on at NewsMax or some other outfit.




 

Category: Fox News

In The Mailbox: 11.12.20 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | November 12, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.12.20 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll look down and whisper “No.”

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1168
357 Magnum: 82nd All The Way
EBL: Poland Independence Day
Twitchy: Everybody Point & Laugh! “Shlubby White Dudes” At The Lincoln Project Fail Again In Alaska & Other States, And It’s Glorious
Louder With Crowder: FL Gov DeSantis Proposes New Law Legalizing Shooting Looters & Threatening Mobs
Vox Popoli: An Informative Distribution, also, Another “Glitch”, WI Edition

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Quitting All Mainstream Media, also, Site Issues
American Conservative: It’s Not Your Father’s GOP
American Greatness: USPS Whistleblower Says He Didn’t Recant His Claims About Backdating Ballots, Was Coerced By Interviewers To Sign Statement, also, Trump Is Still Fighting. Don’t You Give Up.
American Power: Trolling Level Off The Charts
American Thinker: Nobody Believes This Election Farce, also, Why Scott Adams & I Say Trump Wins This Thing – Bigly
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Veteran’s Day Well Wishes
Babalu Blog: Cuban/Greek-American Nicole Malliotakis Seeking To Form “Anti-Socialism Squad” In Congress
BattleSwarm: Celebrating Hiroshi H. Miyamura
Cafe Hayek: More Faulty COVID Data
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – #AmReading, also, Another Visit To The Twitter GULAG
Don Surber: In Defense Of Jim Stirewalt
The Geller Report: Dominion Voting Systems Whistleblowers Are Coming Forward, also, Georgia To Conduct Hand Recount Of Presidential Votes
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, You’re Welcome
Hollywood In Toto: John Cusack’s Sad Decline Explained, also, Seven Killer Pluto TV Channels You Must See
JustOneMinute: Is There A Winner?
The Lid: The Washington Post Lied – The Postal Whistleblower DID NOT Recant
Legal Insurrection: Joy Reid Doesn’t Know What 538 Represents, also, “Defund The Police” Efforts Could Be Key To Georgia Senate Runoffs
Power Line: Should Republicans Pick The Next House Speaker? also, Meet Raphael Warnock
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Tapped To Lead NRSC
Shot In The Dark: Veterans Day
STUMP: Joe Biden’s Pick For COVID Team – Zeke Emanuel
The Political Hat: For Those Who Remain, Still
This Ain’t Hell: The Moment The Guns Went Silent, also, The Last Casualty (Valor Wednesday)
Victory Girls: Biden Transition Team’s Road To Socialism
Volokh Conspiracy: Daily Coronavirus Deaths In Europe Have Returned To March/April Peak
Weasel Zippers: Thousands Of NY Voters Can Fix Faulty Ballots A Week After The Election, also, PA County Election Board Votes To Count 2000 Undated Ballots
The Federalist: Calls For Unity From Those Demonizing Opponents As “White Supremacists” Aren’t Serious, also, Democrats Know Mail-In Voting Means Mass Fraud, And Pushed It Anyway
Mark Steyn: Valiant Hearts & Kindly Lights

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Category: Linkagery

Fox News Still Will Not Admit Bungling Election Night Call on House Races

Posted on | November 11, 2020 | 5 Comments

In addition to botching the presidential call in Arizona, Fox News was even more disastrously wrong in their congressional projections on Election Night, claiming that Democrats would “expand” Nancy Pelosi’s House majority by as many as 15 seats.

Deb Heine at American Greatness:

The Fox News Decision Desk made its wildly inaccurate projection early on Election Night, saying that Democrats would win at least five seats in the House. The bad call was devastating to Republican morale and set the false narrative that President Trump had no coattails.
As [Christopher] Gage noted, “this happened while Californians were still voting.” . . .
Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram tweeted out the short-lived good news for Democrats at 9:16 p.m. ET on Nov. 3rd.
“The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Dems will retain control of the House & expand their majority by at least 5 seats,” Pergram wrote. “This is a major boost for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has pledged to roll back much of Trump’s first-term agenda if he loses reelection.”

You could see the happiness — the absolute giddy glee — on Martha MacCallum’s face when she reported this on Fox News:

This projection was false. It was either an incredibly stupid error or it was a deliberate lie, and it really doesn’t matter which it was, because Fox News has never even admitted it was wrong, much less have they explained why they misled their audience on Election Night.

Ace of Spades has been on a rampage against Fox News, where ratings have collapsed because they hate their audience.

That’s right — if you voted for Trump, Martha MacCallum hates you. She thinks you’re a stupid racist bigot, and she doesn’t want you watching her show. Same thing with Chris Wallace and Chris Stirewalt. They would rather hang out with Antifa looters than with Republican voters.

It’s time to stop watching Fox News, forever.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

At almost the exact time that I was writing this post, Bret Baier was on Fox News admitting that their Election Night projection of Democrats gaining House seats “did not occur”:

Eight days later, you admit this, Bret? But no explanation, no apology? It doesn’t matter. Nobody’s watching. You’re dead to us now.

Even if you fired the people responsible — particularly that bloated failure Chris Stirewalt — it wouldn’t matter. Too late. And we still could never forgive you for employing that saboteur Chris Wallace.




 

Category: Fox News

Dallas Rapper ‘Mo3’ Dies of Structural Oppression and Gunfire, But Mainly …

Posted on | November 11, 2020 | Comments Off on Dallas Rapper ‘Mo3’ Dies of Structural Oppression and Gunfire, But Mainly …

Yeah, it was the gunshot wounds:

Dallas-based rapper Melvin Noble a.k.a. Mo3 has died after being shot by a suspect who chased him on foot on I-35E Wednesday, sources close to the investigation told CBS 11 News.
Police said the incident began as the victim was traveling on northbound I-35E at Clarendon Drive just before 12 p.m. A suspect got out of a vehicle armed with a gun and began approaching the victim’s vehicle, according to police. Police did not say if the vehicles had been stopped.
Police said the victim, who sources identified as 28-year-old Noble, also got out of his vehicle and began running southbound on the freeway. The suspect chased the victim and fired multiple rounds at him, striking the victim at least once, police said.

It was not Mr. Noble’s first encounter with gunfire:

The Dallas-based rapper claimed he’d survived a shooting last year. He was also arrested back in 2017 in connection with a Dallas-Fort Worth nightclub shooting that left one person dead.

We may speculate that he was killed in retaliation for some earlier beef, but maybe this is just further evidence of the overlap between the hiphop community and criminal gang violence. And also, of course, structural oppression. Joe Biden will fix that, I’m sure.

Too late for Mo3 and King Von. Probably all President Trump’s fault.




 

 

Category: Crime

Timothy ‘Lil Tim’ Leeks, 22, Charged With Murdering Rapper King Von in Atlanta

Posted on | November 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

Since we reported Friday (“Rapper Killed by ‘Systemic Racism’ and Semiautomatic Pistol Fire, But Mainly …”) on the death of Dayvon Bennett, a/k/a “King Von,” Atlanta police have moved forward with their investigation of the homicide of the Chicago-born rapper. On Saturday, they arrested Timothy “Lil Tim” Leeks, 22, on a felony murder charge.

Leeks, who is from Savannah, was reportedly part of a crew associated with Atlanta rapper Tyquian Terrel Bowman, a/k/a “Quando Rondo.” In the wee hours of Friday morning, outside a hookah club in downtown Atlanta, some kind of quarrel broke out (reportedly over a woman) between King Von’s crew and Quando’s crew. What began as a beatdown quickly escalated into a shootout captured on video.

There is still some question of who shot whom in the incident. In addition to King Von, 34-year-old Mark Blakely of Chicago was also killed and four others were wounded, including Leeks. One source of confusion is that Atlanta police were on the scene at the time of the shooting, and officers also fired shots, but police say none of them shot King Von; rather, police started firing after the gun battle between the rival crews started, in an attempt to end the shootout, and it is so far unclear if anyone was hit by police gunfire. What this incident highlights is the overlap between the hiphop culture and street crime.

The reason King Von moved to Atlanta was because he was wanted by police, and also hunted by gang rivals, in his hometown of Chicago. Last year, King Von and his rap buddy were charged with robbery and attempted murder in Atlanta. The guy charged with killing King Von is also a criminal; three months ago, Leeks was busted in Savannah:

In August, the Savannah Police Department charged Leeks with attempt or conspiracy to violate the Georgia Controlled Substance Act, theft by receiving stolen property and obstruction after an investigation led to the seizure of guns, more than 15 pounds of marijuana and nearly $16,000. He was one of five arrested in the investigation.

Guns, dope, thousands of dollars in cash — this is what it’s all about. Just more victims of “systemic racism,” like Joe Biden says.




 

 

Category: Crime, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 11.10.20

Posted on | November 10, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Life seems harsh, and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: “Treatment is simple. The great clown – Pagliacci – is in town. Go see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. “But doctor,” he says “I am Pagliacci.” Good joke. Everybody laugh.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Improvised & Craft-Built Firearms
EBL: The Plot Against The President, also, “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”
Twitchy: Ted Cruz Points Out Miraculous Change In CNN COVID Reporting After Calling The Race For Biden And Jake Tapper Can’t Deal
Louder With Crowder: Hear Kayleigh McEnany’s Full Statement Without Being Cut Off By Fox News, also,  Murder Turtle Tells Democrats Where To Stick “Lecture On Civility” As Trump Challenges Results
Vox Popoli: The Attack On Benford’s Law, also, Out Of The Frying Pan
Stoic Observations: The Black Sierra Club

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Requested Guidance For A Young Man
American Conservative: Biden Can Start To Heal America By Exercising Foreign Policy Restraint
American Greatness: On Electoral Fraud In 2020, also, The Voter Fraud Scheme Called #MaidenGate
American Power: “I Don’t Know Why I’m Convinced I Get Mick Jagger, But…”
American Thinker: What Would George Patton Do?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Election Shenanigans News
Babalu Blog: No Medication In Socialist Cuba For Children Suffering From Scabies, also, Cuban-American Musical Group That Recorded The “Trump Song” Receiving Death Threats
BattleSwarm: Three Cheers For Drug Legalization
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: The Best Joint Programs Are Not Joint Programs
Da Tech Guy: Twitter & Facebook Hate Conservatives – Hello Parler! also, Twitter/Left Censorship A Sure Sign You’re Hitting The Target
Don Surber: Sit Down, Mrs. Obama, also, What’s Up With Parler?
First Street Journal: Oh, Please Let It Be True! also, Karens Gotta Karen!
The Geller Report: Tens Of Thousands Of PA Ballots Arrived Before They Were Sent, Says Researcher, also, Republicans Flip Nine House Seats In California
Hogewash: M14, also, A Reminder To A Certain (Allegedly) Practicing Catholic
Hollywood In Toto: Amazon Ignores Black Conservatives, also, Fatman Is The Christmas Coal To Cap 2020
JustOneMinute: Tom Brady, What??
The Lid: Sworn Affidavits From Michigan, Nevada Detail Voter Fraud, also, Happy 245th Birthday, U.S. Marine Corps!
Legal Insurrection: Sen. Tillis (R-NC) Wins Re-Election As Cunningham Concedes, also, Tucker Carlson Accuses Big Tech Of “Worst Form Of Election Tampering”
Power Line: Massive Election Corruption Documented In Michigan, also, Jennifer Rubin & The Neo-Leninists
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio To Run For Third Term Next Year
Shot In The Dark: As Assigned
The Political Hat: The Gaia Cult vs. Florida
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans & Gold Star Families Given Free Access To National Parks, Other Federal Properties, also, Happy Birthday, Devil Dogs!
Victory Girls: Media Demand Conformity Amid Confusion
Volokh Conspiracy: Thoughts On Today’s Oral Arguments In California v. Texas (The Obamacare Severability Case)
Weasel Zippers: PR Election Officials Have Found 174 Boxes Of Uncounted Ballots, also, Biden’s COVID Adviser In March – Wearing Masks & Gloves “Largely Nonsense”
The Federalist: I Was In Philadelphia Watching Fraud Happen, also, Totalitarian Left Promises Punishment & Purges For Trump Voters
Mark Steyn: The Best Is Yet To Come, also, Election Day Plus Seven

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Category: Linkagery

‘Chris, We Haven’t Called Texas Yet’

Posted on | November 10, 2020 | 3 Comments

Millions of Republicans have stopped watching Fox News after the Election Night debacle in which the network’s “Decision Desk” (i.e., a Democrat named Aaron Mishkin) called Arizona for Joe Biden at a time when they were still claiming that Ohio and Texas were “too close to call.”

When the “Decision Desk” called Arizona for Biden, it shocked Bill Hemmer and Brett Baier. The results at the time showed Biden with about a 200,000-vote lead in Arizona, but as Baier said in an on-air discussion with Chris Stirewalt, it was known that the counties had begun by reporting their early-vote totals (which favored Democrats) and that the Election Day voting (which favored Republicans) had just begun to be reported. Furthermore, at the time, Fox still hadn’t called Ohio for Trump. He won the state by an eight-point margin (more than 450,000 votes) and 94% of the results had already been reported in Ohio, yet it was “too close to call” at the time Fox called Arizona for Biden. And, exactly as Baier pointed out to Stirewalt, the Trump vote in Arizona continued increasing, so that the numbers this morning have Biden with only a 15,000-vote margin, about 4/10ths of a percentage point, with many challenges left to resolve. Despite this, Stirewalt stared dumbly into the camera and defended the “Decision Desk”:

“Ohio is close. Obviously we see the president has
an advantage and he’s had an advantage in polling
in Ohio, in the same way he has in Iowa
for the closing stretch of the election.
I would point out, pre-election polls in this cycle
have so far turned out to be really, really good.”

No, sir, that was false.

Polling errors were catastrophic in size, so enormous as to discredit public opinion polling quite generally. The Real Clear Politics average of Ohio polls was 7 points off; Quinnipiac’s final Ohio poll had Biden +4 — a 12-point error. Similarly, the RCP average of Texas polls was nearly 5 points off; the Dallas Morning News poll had Biden leading by 3 points; he lost by 5.8, with Trump winning by nearly 650,000 votes.

These errors were so large that they could not be explained as mere incompetence; they were part of a political psyops campaign. And, we must now admit, Fox News was part of the same campaign.

Brett Baier: “But Chris, we haven’t called Texas yet. Why haven’t we called Texas?”
Chris Stirewalt: “Because it’s too close to call.”

No honest person could say that. Chris Stirewalt is not an honest person. The margin in Arizona is barely 15,000 votes, but the Fox News “Decision Desk” could call that a win for Biden, whereas Texas — where the margin was more than 40 times larger — was “too close to call.”

Chris Stirewalt stacked his credibility into a large pile on Election Night, doused it in gasoline, and tossed a match at it. Any news organization that would employ Chris Stirewalt is not trustworthy. Ace of Spades has some further thoughts on why Fox News committed suicide.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

 

Category: Election, Fox News, Media Bias
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