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NBC: The Rape Network

Posted on | November 3, 2019 | Comments Off on NBC: The Rape Network

Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

Certainly by now it’s clear that Me Too has not gone too far in canceling powerful men. Harvey Weinstein is popping up at industry networking events in New York City. Louis C.K. just announced tour dates.
Perhaps the most glaring sign that the boys’ club is still alive — and somewhat well — is flashing at NBC News. At its 30 Rock headquarters, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim and his boss NBC News Chairman Andy Lack are still running the show.
They remain at the helm despite the explosive reporting in Ronan Farrow’s new book “Catch and Kill,” which reveals how Oppenheim and Lack not only shut down the investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s predatory and abusive treatment of women, but how NBC News silenced or ignored multiple allegations of sexual misconduct inside the company ? including overlooking the behavior of “Today” show host Matt Lauer for years before finally firing him in 2017.
What Farrow’s book, and other reporting, shows is a news outlet more concerned with protecting powerful men than reporting the truth ? or protecting its employees from sexual predation. The tactics the company used to silence women — Farrow reports on nondisclosure agreements used to keep women silent — were not unlike the ones employed by Weinstein himself, or so many other sexual harassers.
However, there are some recent signs that those methods are failing the news outlet: On Wednesday, 150 staffers at NBC News’ digital arm announced plans to unionize, in part because they wanted more transparency over how sexual misconduct is handled at the company.
“Recent weeks have highlighted serious questions as to how NBC News has handled incidents of sexual misconduct in the workplace as well as the opaque processes and procedures for reporting on and exposing powerful predators,” said the announcement from the organizing workers.

Normally, as a matter of principle, I believe in due process of law — “innocent until proven guilty” — but if the feminist #MeToo movement is going to destroy powerful institutions of the liberal media establishment, I’m willing to waive my principles: #BelieveWomen!

(Via Memeorandum.)


 

Category: Uncategorized

FMJRA 2.0: Away From Home

Posted on | November 2, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hard to believe that dope-addled slattern beat out Countess Dracula this week, but there you are. Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links and sent me $$ though PayPal. It’s helped a LOT.

Naked Bisexual Democrat Katie Hill Announces Resignation from Congress
Wizbang
Dark Brightness
Locomotive Breath
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Ingrid Pitt
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Self-Destructive Illusions of ‘Social Justice’
EBL

Report: U.S. Special Operations Raid Kills ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Locomotive Breath
A View From The Beach
EBL

Al-Baghdadi ‘Died Like a Coward’
Dark Brightness
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Too Late To Be Late Again
A View From The Beach
EBL

How Newsweek Became a Clickbait Farm
EBL

‘Austere Religious Scholar’
EBL

About That Yellow Button…
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.28.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Back on the Bisexual Democrat Beat
EBL

Barrett Brown’s Long, Sad Story
Bacon Time
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.29.19
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Katie Hill Blame Game
First Street Journal
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.30.19
Proof Positive
EBL

BREAKING: Suspected ‘Whistleblower’ Met With DNC’s Alexandra Chalupa
A View From The Beach
EBL

Party-Line Impeachment Vote
A View From The Beach
EBL

Hillary in Greenface Excites the Muse
EBL

Katie Hill and Her Victimhood Narrative
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.31.19
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Deep State and UkraineGate
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Democrats’ 2020 Implosion
EBL

Jabba the Hut Gets Hired by Seattle Schools to Humiliate White Racist Kids
357 Magnum
EBL

BREAKING: O’Rourke Drops Out
EBL

How #StickToSports Became the New #LearnToCode — Deadspin Is Dead
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.01.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending November 1:

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Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

‘The Most Vulnerable Among Us’

Posted on | November 2, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘The Most Vulnerable Among Us’

 

Ed Driscoll calls our attention to this Daily Caller item:

Writers bashed former President Barack Obama after he criticized “woke” social justice warriors during a speech Tuesday.
Obama spoke at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago and hit back at alleged activists who attack other people on the internet because of their “flaws,” according to the former president. His comments saw bipartisan support, but some liberals disagreed with his thought that this rhetoric is “not activism.”
Journalist Ernest Owens wrote that he “gasped” when he heard Obama’s comments and called the former president’s views that of a “boomer” in an op-ed featured in The New York Times Friday.
“But the former president’s disdain for the kind of criticism that has become popular to dismiss as ‘cancel culture’ … is misguided,” [Owens] wrote, adding:

“His eagerness to dismiss one part of what happens when young people stand up for what they believe in as ‘casting stones’ is a reminder of a largely generational divide about whether it’s impolite to speak out in favor of the most vulnerable among us and the world we’d like to live in. While there’s some debate about which generation Mr. Obama belongs to, he’s solidly in the older camp.” . . .

To further quote Owens:

The issues that my fellow millennials, along with even younger people in Gen Z, tend to be “judgmental” about are the same ones many of our parents and grandparents have been debating for decades. Being outspoken about climate change, women’s rights, racial justice, LGBTQ inclusivity and gun control — and critical of those who stand in the way of progress on these issues — is work that’s been left to us. . . .
The group that Mr. Obama joins in his scolding of outspoken young people is dominated by white straight men, far-right conservative talking heads, and celebrities who feel entitled to audiences who appreciate their art and dutifully ignore their missteps. It’s no surprise that Fox News fretted that his comments were “snubbed” and didn’t receive sufficient coverage from broadcast television networks.

Whatever one might say about this controversy, it is obvious that Ernest Owens is profoundly ignorant, despite his Ivy League education. He is a man who thinks in slogans, and has never made any effort to understand the reasoning of anyone who might sincerely disagree with him, instead dismissing them in terms of identity-politics formulations and ideological labels — “white straight men, far-right conservative talking heads.” Why would any intelligent person take me seriously if, in offering a rebuttal of Mr. Owens, I made a point of his being a gay black man?

 

Well, ad hominem arguments are sometimes relevant, as a way of understanding motives in an age of identity politics. Democrats seek power by leveraging our tribal impulses — “You are [insert identity category] and therefore should vote Democrat” — and this formula has the effect of turning every policy debate into tribal warfare. The perpetrators of identity politics claim to be on the side of Progress, with a capital P, and define their opponents as advocates of Hate, with a capital H. In reality, however, “progressives” are the ones fomenting hatred and, rather than leading us into a utopia of enlightenment, instead point us toward the darkest depths of a degenerate and atavistic barbarism.

How does one refute the libelous accusations implied by Mr. Owens’ argument (which, I hasten to add, is not actually an argument as any student of formal logic would define an argument)? For you see that his assertion is that he and his generation have a monopoly of wisdom and charity, while their elders are all selfish fools. According to Mr. Owens, we of older generations are ignorant — we don’t know nothin’ about no “progress on these issues” — and are guilty of insufficient sympathy for “the most vulnerable among us.” Obviously, I don’t have an Ivy League diploma, and therefore can perhaps be forgiven my ignorance, but how is Mr. Owens (Penn, Class of 2014) better qualified than me to determine whether our former President is “misguided”? Upon what credentials does Mr. Owens claim this authority to sit in judgment of his elders?

Did I mention — because I think it’s relevant — that Ernest Owens fell hook, line and sinker for the Jussie Smollett hoax?

On Monday night, a black gay man was attacked for existing in both of these identities.
Empire actor Jussie Smollett was hospitalized after allegedly being assaulted in Chicago by two individuals who also tied a noose around his neck, and who poured an unknown chemical substance on him. The unidentified culprits appear to be Trump supporters who, according to TMZ, yelled at Smollett, “This is MAGA country,” along with hurling racist and homophobic slurs. . . .
It shouldn’t be a coincidence that such bigotry escalated from written hate mail to physical violence. History often showed us during the Jim Crow era of the 20th century that discriminatory laws led to lynchings and other legalized acts of white supremacy. What happened to Smollett was a form of white terrorism that targeted both his racial identity and sexual orientation simultaneously.

 

Of course, Jussie Smollett was not a victim of “white terrorism,” yet having been so naïvely credulous as to believe this hoax — which never fooled any intelligent person — now Mr. Owens expects us all to accept his authority to pass judgment upon former President Obama.

As a “white straight . . . far-right conservative,” of course, I could never expect the New York Times to publish anything I wrote (even if I would consent to have my byline appear in that disgraceful publication, which of course I wouldn’t), but they do not hesitate to provide a platform for the opinions of Mr. Owens, who is demonstrably a fool.

And that, you see, is the point of my argument. Once it can be shown that one’s antagonist is a fool, the debate has concluded, because no intelligent person would take advice from a fool. Selah.


 

Category: Barack Obama, Gays, New York Times, Racism

Trouble for the Anti-White, Anti-Male, Anti-Heterosexual, Anti-American Party

Posted on | November 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Trouble for the Anti-White, Anti-Male, Anti-Heterosexual, Anti-American Party

Identity politics is organized hatred, and the problem with the Democratic Party is that they have become a party that is unequivocally against the interests of a majority of Americans:

“Despite demographic trends that continue to favor the Democrats, and despite Trump’s unpopularity among wide swathes of the electorate, it will still be difficult for the Democrats to prevail against an incumbent president who has presided over a growing, low-unemployment economy and retains strong loyalty among key sectors of the electorate,” write Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin of the Center for American Progress. No conservatives they.
The Democratic difficulty has a name: the Electoral College. Twice in the twenty-first century, the level of the presidential vote has mattered less than its distribution. Trump’s people are spread much more evenly across the country than his opponents are. His base of white voters without college degrees, say Teixeira and Halpin, “make up more than half of all eligible voters in critical Electoral College states he won in 2016—including Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—and in key target states for 2020 such as New Hampshire.”
Non-college white voters comprised the largest part of the electorate in 2016. Trump won them 63 percent to 31 percent. That margin more than compensated for his 7-point loss among whites with college degrees. Teixeira and Halpin predict that the number of white voters without college degrees will drop next year. But they also recognize that Trump can still win. “If he increased his support across states among these voters by 10 margin points, he would in fact carry the popular vote, albeit by just 1 percentage point.”
White voters without college degrees are the reserve army of the GOP. They are a falling percentage of the U.S. population but a rising percentage of the Republican Party.

(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas at American Power.)

Why did Hillary Clinton lose in 2016? It wasn’t just because working-class white men didn’t vote for her — a majority (53%) of white women also voted for Trump — but also because Hillary failed to generate the level of turnout among black voters that Obama got in the two previous elections. In other words, after Obama, some black voters have decided they won’t vote for white Democrats any more. That’s why candidates like Beto O’Rourke and Kirsten Gillibrand never caught on this cycle, and it’s why the likely nomination of Elizabeth Warren in 2020 will almost certainly be a disaster for Democrats. Does anyone think black voters are going to be excited about the fake Cherokee Harvard professor? In a desperate (and misguided) effort to win in 2020, Democrats and their media allies have doubled-down on identity politics, with feminists promoting an angry anti-male message and LGBTQ activists promoting insulting and offensive rhetoric against heterosexuals. Democrats are now the “Drag Queen Story Hour” party and the Angry Fat Woman party, and I don’t think that message will resonate with Middle America.

Democrats think that Trump is so unpopular that they can be as extreme as they want to be — confiscate all the guns! free college tuition for illegal aliens! abolish private health insurance! — and still win. And they never seem to consider the possibility maybe they’re wrong.

Why should white working-class voters in Michigan vote for Democrats, when Democrats have gone to such lengths to demonstrate how much they hate the white working class, simply for being white?


 

Category: Election

In The Mailbox: 11.01.19

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357Magnum: How To Survive The California Blackouts
EBL: Clint Eastwood’s Not Dead But Beta O’Rourke’s Campaign Is
Twitchy: Greta Thunberg’s No Air Travel Plan Has Hit A Hilarious Snag
Louder With Crowder: Pelosi Tells Colbert Impeachment Doesn’t Have To Be Bipartisan (Earlier, She Said It Did)
According To Hoyt: NANO NANO & Odds & Ends
Vox Popoli: Creepy Joe Is Over

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The No Thinking Edition
American Greatness: The Impeachment Schiff Show, also, TPUSA Officers At KSU Quit En Masse
American Power: Whites Without College Degrees Are The GOP’s Reserve Army
American Thinker: Media-Democrat Tantrum Is A Fear Response
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Income Inequality Friday
Babalu Blog: Charlotte NC Museum Partners With Castro Regime For Cuba Exhibit, Tells Cuban He Has To See It To Experience Cuba
BattleSwarm: Linkswarm For November 1
Cafe Hayek: Don’t Minimize The Negative Effects Of Minimum Wages
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: 30 Tips To Stay Married 30 Years – Take Lucy’s Advice On Starting The Day Right
Don Surber: NYC Loses The Man Who Saved It, also, Court-Martial The Spy Vindman
First Street Journal: I Paid My Property Taxes Today
The Geller Report: Seven French Muslim Cops Ordered To Disarm, One Suspended For Radicalism, also, Muslim Migrants In MN Charged With Sending Drones To Hezbollah
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Bit Behind Schedule
Hollywood In Toto: Greener Grass Shows Ugly Side Of Suburbia & Indie Comedy
Joe For America: Alleged Identity Of Whistleblower Leaked, Attorneys Threaten Journalists
JustOneMinute: She Had A Plan
Legal Insurrection: Low-Polling Beto Bows Out, also, Impeachment-Crazy CNN Already Measuring WH Drapes For President Pelosi
The PanAm Post: Universal Surrender?
Power Line: The Impeachment Schiff Show, also, Ho Hum
Shot In The Dark: And They Say Progs Are Illiterate About Economics
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Is There A Liberal Crackup?
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Military PII Stolen To Compromise Bank Accounts & Benefit Payments
Victory Girls: Quid Pro Quo, Impeachment, & The Deep State
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Rules It’s Not A Taking If Cops Destroy Innocent Person’s House During Op
Weasel Zippers: Michelle Obama – White People “Still Running” Out Of Black Neighborhoods, also, NYT Says Airing National Anthem On TV Could Trigger People
Megan McArdle: Actually, We Don’t Want Facebook & Twitter Making Too Many Judgment Calls
Mark Steyn: Put Some Records On While I Snore

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Category: Linkagery

How #StickToSports Became the New #LearnToCode — Deadspin Is Dead

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | Comments Off on How #StickToSports Became the New #LearnToCode — Deadspin Is Dead

 

“There was a time, about ten years ago, when I could write like Grantland Rice. Not necessarily because I believed all that sporty bullshit, but because sportswriting was the only thing I could do that anybody was willing to pay for. And none of the people I wrote about seemed to give a hoot in hell what kind of lunatic gibberish I wrote about them, just as long as it moved. They wanted Action, Color, Speed, Violence.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72

What would Doctor Gonzo say to the former staff of Deadspin?

Deadspin is dead, for the time being.
The site is now without any editors or writers — after a staff revolt that erupted this week when parent company G/O Media demanded that the sports and culture site confine its coverage to sports.
As of Friday morning, all 20 of Deadspin’s previous editorial employees are no longer working for the company, a G/O Media rep confirmed. The spokesman added, “The company is recruiting new staff.”
The exits started after G/O Media fired interim editor-in-chief Barry Petchesky when he refused to follow the company’s mandate to stick to sports in Deadspin’s editorial coverage. That directive, from G/O editorial director Paul Maidment, appeared to be in response to a Deadspin article (which has since been deleted) complaining about autoplay video ads that the company was running on the site.
Managing editor Samer Kalaf, the last remaining senior edit staffer as of early yesterday, tweeted his resignation Thursday afternoon: “OFFICIAL STATEMENT: I have self-yeeted from Deadspin.” Word came Friday that staff writer Dave McKenna also had resigned.
Former Deadspin editor-in-chief Megan Greenwell wrote in a tweet Friday, “And with that, it’s over. Deadspin no longer employs a single writer or editor. I am gutted but so very proud of this group of people.” Greenwell exited Deadspin in August, which she previously said came “after months of being undermined by G/O Media management.”
In a statement earlier about the staff resignations, G/O Media had said, “We’re sorry that the staff that resigned couldn’t work within this incredibly broad coverage mandate.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders joined the discussion over the chaos at Deadspin, writing in an Oct. 31 tweet, “I stand with the former Deadspin workers who decided not to bow to the greed of private equity vultures like [G/O Media CEO] Jim Spanfeller. This is the kind of greed that is destroying journalism across the country, and together we are going to take them on.”
Deadspin was part of Univision’s sale in April of this year of Gizmodo Media Group to G/O Media, which is backed by private-equity firm Great Hill Partners and Spanfeller. Univision had acquired the assets of the former Gawker Media in a bankruptcy auction in 2016.

You will recall that Nick Denton’s Gawker got bankrupted by an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit from former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan. This result was cheered by #GamerGate because Gawker also owned Kotaku, a videogame blog that promoted “social justice warrior” (SJW) nonsense. Deadspin’s demise was another #GetWokeGoBroke episode:

Deadspin writer Drew Magary on Thursday morning said he was quitting. Writers Dom Cosentino, Luis Paez-Pumar and Dan McQuade also tweeted their farewells Thursday, adding to the seven who had resigned Wednesday.
Management fired back on Thursday, claiming that the staffers’ contention that non-sports were among the most popular posts was not true.
“In September, unsurprisingly, 24 of the top 25 stories on Deadspin were sports-related while non-sports content accounted for less than 1% of the page views on the site,” a spokesman said.
“While amusing, our readers haven’t actually come to Deadspin for stories like ‘Classic Rock, Ranked,’ or ‘You’re Goddamn Right It’s Layering Season,’ or ‘It’s OK to Logoff.’?”

“Kazika the Mad Jap” could not be reached for comment.


 

Category: Journalism, Media Bias, Sports

BREAKING: O’Rourke Drops Out

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | Comments Off on BREAKING: O’Rourke Drops Out

 

The avowed gun-grabber has run out of money:

Former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas is dropping out of the presidential race, ending a campaign in which he struggled for months to recapture the energy of his insurgent 2018 Senate candidacy on a national stage full of other big personalities and liberal champions.
Mr. O’Rourke made the decision to quit the race in the middle of this week, on the eve of a gathering Friday of Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa, according to people familiar with his thinking. He is not expected to run for any other office in 2020, despite persistent efforts by party leaders and political donors to coax him into another bid for the Senate.
His campaign has been under extreme financial strain, and Mr. O’Rourke’s advisers concluded that proceeding in the race might have meant making deep cuts to his staff in order to pay for advertising and other measures to compete in the early primary and caucus state.
Mr. O’Rourke planned to announce his withdrawal from the race in Iowa on Friday evening and follow up with an email message to his supporters. In that message, a draft of which was reviewed by The New York Times, Mr. O’Rourke said he was proud of championing issues like guns and climate change but conceded that his campaign lacked “the means to move forward successfully.”

Good-bye, and good riddance, Robert Francis O’Rourke. On Fox News minutes ago, Juan Williams asked, “Who gets Beto’s support now?” To which Dana Perino replied, “Well, he doesn’t have any support.”

UPDATE: Guess this fund-raising idea didn’t work out:

 

How about, “Hell, no, you won’t!”


 

Category: Democrats

Jabba the Hut Gets Hired by Seattle Schools to Humiliate White Racist Kids

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Say hello to Tracy Castro-Gill:

In October, Seattle public schools unveiled a “framework” to inject “math ethnic studies” into all K-12 math classes, teaching “how math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.”
Students will be asked to “identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color” and “explain how math dictates economic oppression.”
“Why/how does data-driven processes prevent liberation?” it asks. “How important is it to be Right? What is Right? Says Who?”
The curriculum was pushed by the school district’s ethnic studies program manager, Tracy Castro-Gill . . .
“I am an educator of color in Seattle whose job is anti-racist work within the school district. Seattle is very white — nearly 70%. It’s also one of the most liberal cities in the US, and these liberal, white Seattleites hate being called racist, but the thing is – a lot of them are,” she wrote. . . .
“I’m fairly radical atheist and consider myself a far left anarchist who fights for racial justice,” she wrote. “My parents are both Trump supporting Republicans.”

If you knew someone was a radical atheist anarchist, would you let them anywhere near your children? No, of course not, but the Seattle public school system hired this deranged lunatic to teach kids that “math dictates economic oppression” against “communities of color.”

2 + 2 = RAAAAACISM!

Jabba the SJW Hutt here is actually part of a national trend, as public schools are instituting “social justice” programs and eliminating honors classes which are deemed “racist.” Ace of Spades comments:

Academic achievement is racist.
This is, of course, the inevitable end-point.
Do they even realize what they are strongly, strongly implying when they make claims like this?

I don’t know. Maybe they could read a racist book or something. But who am I kidding? These people are too stupid to read books.


 

Category: Education
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