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Married Homosexual Couple Accused of ‘Bareback’ Raping Man in Texas

Posted on | February 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Married Homosexual Couple Accused of ‘Bareback’ Raping Man in Texas

Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Scott Walters (left) and David Daniels (right).

Recall that it was a Texas law against sodomy that was at issue in the crucial 2003 Supreme Court 5-4 ruling that struck down such laws, a decision which Antonin Scalia at that time accurately predicted would lead to striking down laws against same-same marriage, which it did 12 years later. In 2014, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who was in the Lawrence v. Texas majority — officiated at the ceremony in D.C. where opera singer David Daniels married conductor Scott Walters.

Tuesday night, the couple were arrested in Michigan for extradition to Texas on charges that they raped a man in Houston in 2010:

A famous opera singer and his husband have been arrested on suspicion of raping a young singer who claims he was left bleeding from the rectum after blacking out at an after-show party with the pair in Texas, in 2010.
David Daniels, 52, and his conductor husband Scott Walters, 37, were arrested in Michigan, where they live, on Tuesday night.
They are being held in county jail and are awaiting extradition to Houston where they are accused of raping Samuel Schultz after a performance in 2010.
Schultz came forward last August with his allegations, waiving his anonymity as the possible victim of a sex crime to describe how the couple allegedly preyed on him.
He reported his claims to the Houston Police Department at the same time.
In his complaint, Schultz, who was 23 at the time, described how he rarely drinks but accepted a drink from Daniels once they got back to the home the couple was staying in.
He said he ‘blacked out’ afterwards and came to the next day when he found himself in severe pain, alone in the house.
‘I was sore and I didn’t know why.
‘I made my way to the bathroom to figure out why I hurt. I was bleeding from my rectum.
‘I became numb. I was paralyzed with fear. What had happened?
‘How could I escape? How would I get out? Where were my clothes?’ ‘ he wrote.
Daniels and Walters were out at breakfast at the time but when they returned, he claims Daniels told him they had had unprotected sex.
”I remember David saying, “Don’t worry about the BB thing, I’m totally negative.”
‘BB in this case meant bareback, otherwise known as raping me without a condom,’ Schultz wrote.
He said he decided to report the pair to police after eight years because he was emboldened by the #MeToo movement.

Scott Walters (left) and David Daniels (right) were arrested in Michigan.

Did I mention that one of the accused rapists has faculty tenure?

Daniels is also a tenured professor at the University of Michigan, where he has been teaching since 2015. University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen confirms to PEOPLE Daniels has been on paid leave and off campus since August 2018.
“We will continue to closely monitor the situation as we determine the appropriate next steps,” Broekhuizen said in a statement.
The UM Board of Regents voted to give Daniels approval for tenure in May 2018, less than two months following an anonymous complaint against him.
In March 2018, Daniels was accused of sexual misconduct by a student who claimed the professor offered to pay him for sex over Grindr, according to MLive. Pittsfield police investigated the matter but found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Daniels is also named in an October 2018 federal civil lawsuit filed by former University of Michigan student Andrew Lipian, who claims he was sexually assaulted after being given bourbon and tricked into taking sleep medication, according to NYT.

The homosexual elite are different than you and me. They teach at universities, and Supreme Court justices officiate their weddings.

 

Category: Crime, Gays, Michigan, Supreme Court, Texas

In The Mailbox: 02.01.19

Posted on | February 2, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Who Is Jussie Smollett And Why Exactly Should I Care?
EBL: Punxsutawney Phil, We Have A Message For You
Twitchy: Top Ten Ralph Northam Burns In The Wake of His Blackface/Klan/Coonman Photos
Louder With Crowder: Ashton Kutcher Shares Powerful Pro-Life Video – Are We About To See A Cultural Shift?
According To Hoyt: You Are Not Psychic
Monster Hunter Nation: To The Book Community – Go Fuck Yourself (An Anti-Apology)
Vox Popoli: Amazon Takes Down Castalia House, also, Reinstated

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Deplatforming Edition
American Power: New Arrests In Southern California Birth Tourism Industry, also, Voters Want Political Moderation?
American Thinker: Notice How Democrats Are Never Indicted?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Living Dead Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For February 1
CDR Salamander: So The French Are Lapping Us In Frigates – Again? also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Non-Tweets Under The Fedora For February 1, also, Democrats Will tolerate Infanticide But Not The Stupidity Of Youth
Don Surber: Red China’s Economy Collapses, also, Northam Story Shows We Don’t Need The Media
Dustbury: Toil, Interrupted
First Street Journal: Matt Bevin Is Right
The Geller Report: Khan’s London – No Prison Time For Teen Who Left Former Ambassador With Horrific Injuries, also, Jew-Hating Jihad Caucus Demands Full Cutoff Of Funding For Homeland Security
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day plus Encore, also, Seize Is The New Pounce
Hollywood In Toto: Mike CErnovch’s Hoaxed Torches Media Bias
Joe For America: Antifa Member Shot By Police In School After Drawing Down On Cops
JustOneMinute: So Was The Governor Of Virginia In Blackface Or The KKK Robes?
Legal Insurrection: Sen. Booker Running For President In 2020, also, MSM Continuing To Ignore Growing Attacks On Brooklyn Jews
The PanAm Post: Venezuela, Don’t Be Intimidated By Russia – Dictators Always Fall In The End
Power Line: The Democrats’ Death Cult, also, McClatchy Circling The Drain?
Shark Tank: FL House Speaker Oliva Not Convinced On Medical Pot
Shot In The Dark: A Conservative Is A Liberal Who’s Been Mugged
STUMP: The Undeniable Corruption Of Chicago & Illinois, Part II
The Political Hat: Nonconsensual Puberty
This Ain’t Hell: Man Who Reportedly Swindled Veterans Out Of Retirement & Disability Pay For Seven Years Fined, also, So Just When Were “Vietnam Times”, Anyway?
Victory Girls: But Russia! CNN Reports Don Jr.’s Mysterious Trump Tower Calls Weren’t To Dad
Volokh Conspiracy: Northam Shouldn’t Resign Over Blackface/KKK Photo
Weasel Zippers: Undocumented Pharmacist At Bay Area Walgreens Filled Over 700,000 Prescriptions, also, Fauxcahontas ApologizesTo Cherokee Nation
Megan McArdle: What The Push For Legal-Until-Birth Abortion Tells Us About The Abortion Debate
Mark Steyn: The Age Of The Woke Billionaire, also, Vortex Of Fear


Amazon Warehouse – Post-Holiday Event

Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | February 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

The Association was composed of off-the-net greasepits and cars that people could still “work” on.

He’d fetch the strongbox cached securely within the engine compartment, extract the optical media, mount it on the creaky old laptop (running some Slackware release that hadn’t been updated or rebooted in a decade–up the network!) and un-tar the files.

He’d rely on a deck of one-time pads for decrypting the instructions.

. . .weeks later. . .

The plan’s masterful dots appeared randomly, yet managed to connect. The altercation was minor, yet DeepFakes gradually turned it into a full-on global economic meltdown.

Their machine learning foresaw naught.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Virginia Democrat Governor Posed in KKK/Blackface Yearbook Photo

Posted on | February 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Virginia Democrat Governor Posed in KKK/Blackface Yearbook Photo

 

Well, this is certainly embarrassing:

A photo from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook shows him and another person in racist costumes — one wearing blackface and one a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, though it was not clear which person was the future governor.
The photo, which The Virginian-Pilot obtained a copy of Friday from the Eastern Virginia Medical School library, comes from the 1984 yearbook, the year Northam graduated.
On the half-page set aside for Northam, there is a headshot of him in a jacket and tie, a photo of him in a cowboy hat and boots and a third of him sitting casually on the ground, leaning against a convertible.
The fourth photo on the half-page has two people, one wearing white Ku Klux Klan robes and a hood, the other with his face painted black. The person with the black face is also wearing a white hat, black jacket, white shirt with a bow tie and plaid pants. Both are holding canned drinks.
In a statement Friday evening, Northam, a Democrat, confirmed he appears in the photo “in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive,” but did not specify which person is him.
“I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now,” Northam said. “This behavior is not in keeping with who I am today and the values I have fought for throughout my career in the military, in medicine and in public service. But I want to be clear, I understand how this decision shakes Virginians’ faith in that commitment. I recognize that it will take time and serious effort to heal the damage this conduct has caused. I am ready to do that important work. The first step is to offer my sincerest apology and to state my absolute commitment to living up to the expectations Virginians set for me when they elected me to be their governor.”

Ace has discovered that at VMI, Northam’s nickname was “Coonman.”

Credit for the original scoop goes to Patrick Howley at Big League Politics. Everybody’s piling on now.

 

Category: Democrats, Virginia

‘Persons of Interest’

Posted on | February 1, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Persons of Interest’

 

Obviously they must be Republicans:

The two persons of interest in the alleged attack on Empire star Jussie Smollett are only seen on the opposite side of the street in the surveillance footage reviewed by Chicago police, according to a local reporter.
On Wednesday, the Chicago Police Department released screenshots of two persons of interest in the alleged attack on Smollett. The Empire star told police he was returning from a fast food restaurant at around 2 a.m. when two men began hurling racial and homophobic slurs (Smollett is gay and black).
During the alleged attack, Smollett says a rope was put around his neck, bleach was poured on him, and one of his attackers yelled, “This is MAGA country,” referring to President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

We’re all suspects now:

Are you a “far-right extremist”? There’s a simple test to find out. If you doubt that homophobic Trump supporters are prowling the streets of Chicago looking to beat up gay TV stars, you’re a “far-right extremist,” according to Alex Henderson of AlterNet. Henderson declared that “some extremists on the far right” — including syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin — are responsible for suspicions that actor Jussie Smollett was not attacked by Republicans in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Only an “extremist” could doubt Smollett’s story, according to Henderson, although Chicago police have so far been unable to verify it. As Patrick Poole of PJMedia observed Thursday, “the ongoing investigation into the alleged hate crime… has raised more questions than it has answered.” While the area near where Smollett claims to have been attacked is “heavily monitored,” Poole noted, police who “have reviewed hundreds of hours of surveillance video” couldn’t find any that showed the alleged attack. But Patrick Poole is probably an “extremist” by Henderson’s standards, and maybe the Chicago cops are, too.
Getting labeled “far right” is astonishingly easy in the Trump era, when Democrats and their media allies would have us believe that the White House is occupied by the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and that the nearly 63 million Americans who elected him are “white nationalists” or “alt-right” or some other scary term. If you vote Republican, you don’t actually have to do anything to be accused of crypto-Nazi sentiments by the purveyors of progressive paranoia. Merely express support for the president’s agenda (or opposition to the Democrats’ agenda) and you’re a latter-day Eichmann. . . .

Read the rest of my latest American Spectator column.

 

Category: Uncategorized

Contraception by Zoning

Posted on | February 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Contraception by Zoning

If you’ve got a large family, you know why my family prefers to live as far as possible from a major city. But if you need a further clue, consider this article about zoning policy:

At the end of last year, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission weighed a proposed zoning change that would effectively ban new day-care centers — along with tire stores and car repair shops — in a large chunk of northwest Philadelphia. The bill swiftly encountered fierce resistance, and it now appears dead. But the effort to block additional child-care facilities with a zoning overlay hints at a broader relationship between city planning and the cost of raising children. A growing body of research indicates that restrictive zoning — which often blocks the services and housing that families need—may help to explain why family sizes are shrinking in the United States.
The U.S. birth rate recently sunk to a 30-year low, a trend that’s been blamed on everything from economic anxieties and climate change to the rise of smartphones and the Millennial “sex recession.” Perhaps we should also lay some of the responsibility at the feet of city planning.
As bizarre as an anti-day-care bill may seem, the fear of more children coming into a community is a mainstay at new housing proposal hearings. Particularly in high-cost suburbs along the coasts, the mere inclusion of three-bedroom apartments — the kind of units young families need — can get a project in hot water with elected officials. While the justifications for blocking this kind of housing vary from preserving rural character to preventing (real or imagined) school overcrowding, the result is that more and more municipalities are adopting policies designed to keep out children and the families who care for them.
In the New York suburb of Garwood, New Jersey, city officials adopted a master plan earlier in 2018 that places a total prohibition on units with three or more bedrooms. In Nutley, New Jersey, another New York suburb, a July zoning fight came with assurances that three-bedroom units—and the children that come with them — weren’t part of the plan. In the Garden State more broadly, municipalities increasingly meet their state-mandated fair-share affordable housing requirements by building only senior housing. Affordable housing proposals that include three-bedroom units are rejected out of hand, leaving working families with few options.

You can read the rest. Let me say that I am against “affordable housing” mandates, which are another harmful utopian regulatory scheme. If New Jersey has enacted a state law that disrupts the normal mechanism of supply and demand in the housing market, that’s the root of their problem, but good luck getting the Democrats who run the state legislature to understand that. And let’s not overlook the issue of racism involved here: The kind of nice suburban liberal who supports restrictive zoning laws is a hypocrite who is all in favor of “inclusion” and “diversity,” so long as it doesn’t his neighborhood and guess what kind of family typically needs a three-bedroom apartment?

Yep — Mexicans, or some other “people of color” that the nice suburban liberal doesn’t want living in his neighborhood.

Families like mine — a white couple with six kids — are rare enough nowadays that most people think we’re non-existent, and certainly the people who support zoning restrictions that ban three-bedroom apartments don’t do this because they fear an influx of white Christian families. No, they don’t want Mexicans (or Puerto Ricans or Dominicans or whatever) moving into their communities, and zoning is the NIMBY (not in my back yard) method of preventing the liberal agenda they otherwise support from actually affecting them directly.

 

Category: Economics

In The Mailbox: 01.31.19

Posted on | February 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Can You Stay Alive For Five Minutes?
EBL: Thank You Prof. Jacobson & Rush – Trump Continues To Change The Courts
Twitchy: Here’s a Great Thread Staking Out The Middle Ground Between The #MAGA & #NeverTrump Camps
Louder With Crowder: Rabid Pro-Death Monica Klein Refuses To Condemn Gov. northam’s Infanticide Comments

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Clementine Ford Goes Off The Deep End
American Power: Extreme Cold Kills Several As Polar Vortex Spreads Into Midwest
American Thinker: The Ruling Class & An Undeclared Civil War
Animal Magnetism: Mom (1928-2019)
BattleSwarm: No Deal Brexit?
CDR Salamander: Bad Ideas Never Go Away
Da Tech Guy: Five Patriots Super Bowl Worries, also, Democrats Are Trying To Take Control Of The Electoral System
Don Surber: Chicago Chases Fake Case While Ignoring 400 Murders
Dustbury: Forward To February
First Street Journal: The Perfect Democrat Spokesman
The Geller Report: Devout Indian Muslim Sets Little Neighbor Girl On Fire For Refusing Sex, also, The New Nazi Party  – House Dems Defend Omar, Tlaib Amid Anti-Semitic Accusations
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, On Economies Of Scale
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s What’s Missing In Dystopian Stories
Joe For America: Pelosi Claims Democrats Do “God’s Work” While Republicans “Dishonor God”
JustOneMinute: SCOTUS Takes A 2A Case
Legal Insurrection: Networks, Liberal Cable News Ignore Gov. Northan’s Infanticide Endorsement, also, FL Gov DeSantis Order Common Core Removed From Schools
Michelle Malkin: Conservatives, Don’t Fall All Over Yourselves Defending Howard Schultz
The PanAm Post: Spain’s Failure To Recognize Guiado Could Cost 41 Million Euros
Power Line: Why “Green” Energy Is Futile, In One Lesson, also, Ilhan Omar – Why I Hate Israel, Continued
Shark Tank: DeSantis Ends Common Core In FL, Renews Efforts In Civics Education
Shot In The Dark: Buzzkill
STUMP: NJ – Battle Over Public Finance Between Democrats
The Political Hat: Purging The Pledge Of Allegiance: In NYC, In San Francisco, & In College
This Ain’t Hell: Thousands Answer The Call To Attend “Unaccompanied” Air Force Vet’s Funeral, also, Leftist Loon Rieckhoff Stepping Down From IAVA
Victory Girls: Democracy Of Israel Almost Gets A Chuckle From Ilhan Omar
Volokh Conspiracy: Second & Fourth Amendments
Weasel Zippers: VA Delegate Tran (D-Fairfax) Submits Bill To Save Caterpillars On Same Day As Late-Stage Abortion Bill, also, Bill Nye Predicts Climate Change Will Force US To Grow Food In Canada
Megan McArdle: Could Howard Schultz Be The Common Ground We Need?
Mark Steyn: Macedonians & Macchiato


Amazon Warehouse Post-Holiday Event

Category: Linkagery

My Kind of People: Junior Johnson and the End of the American Way of Life

Posted on | January 31, 2019 | Comments Off on My Kind of People: Junior Johnson and the End of the American Way of Life

NASCAR legend Junior Johnson and his 1940 Ford.

My wife has recently re-arranged my office and, in the process, moved some books that I hadn’t read in a while, so the other day I picked up Tom Wolfe’s The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) and began re-reading it. The best journalism — and Tom Wolfe, who died last year at age 88, was certainly the best — has an enduring value, and a lot of the stories collected in Streamline Baby were innovative works of cultural anthropology. The titular essay, first published by Esquire in 1963, examined the rise of hot-rod and custom-car culture in Southern California after World War II. Drag racing on L.A.’s Sepulveda Boulevard in the 1940s, a scene that centered around the Picadilly drive-in — that’s where the hot-rod culture originated, and Wolfe got the story directly from George Barris, king of the custom designs. It was this California trip that truly launched Wolfe’s career as an essayist. A writer for the old New York Herald-Tribune, Wolfe had gone out West to explore the custom-car craze, but couldn’t figure out how to write the story until finally, with deadline looming, his editor said, just send us your notes and we’ll have somebody else write it up. Wolfe sat down at his typewriter and cranked out a 49-page memo in about 10 hours and Esquire published the whole zany, wonderful mess.

Streamline Baby also includes brilliant little word-portraits of celebrities from early-1960s teen culture — “The Fifth Beatle” (DJ Murray “The K” Kaufman), “The Girl of the Year” (model Baby Jane Holzer), “The First Tycoon of Teen” (record producer Phil Spector) — but the real masterpiece is an article Wolfe wrote for the March 1965 issue of Esquire, “The Last American Hero,” about NASCAR legend Junior Johnson.

Robert Glenn Johnson Jr., a native of Wilkes County, N.C., got his start hauling moonshine through the hills of Appalachia, where his innovative methods of out-running federal revenue agents included a move that became known as “the bootleg turn,” a 180-degree reversal that set him running back through and past his hapless pursuers. Johnson’s father was a moonshiner who spent a total of 20 years in prison, and Junior was one of three sons who specialized in delivering the merchandise via souped-up cars. One day someone asked him to drive in a race at a local dirt track, where he was the first driver to develop the “power slide” technique in turns, and by 1955, he won five races on the NASCAR circuit. In 1960, he won the Daytona 500, where he invented the technique of “drafting” behind a faster car.

 

As should be obvious, Junior Johnson was highly intelligent, not in a bookish or abstract way, but in a hands-on practical way. He became a successful businessman, and as a NASCAR team owner helped develop such champions as Cale Yarborough and Darrell Waltrip. Now 87, Johnson is a living legend, his life made famous in the 1973 film The Last American Hero starring Jeff Bridges, and in 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him a pardon for his 1956 federal moonshining conviction.

Tom Wolfe’s 1965 article is a sort of sociology text, and includes such spendidly written and insightful passages as this:

To millions of good old boys, and girls, the automobile represented not only liberation from what was still pretty much a land-bound form of social organization but also a great leap forward into twentieth-century glamour, an idea that was being dinned in on the South like everywhere else. . . . It got so that on Sundays there wouldn’t be a safe straight stretch of road in the county, because so many wild country boys would be out racing or just raising hell on the roads. A lot of other kids, who weren’t basically wild, would be driving like hell every morning and every night, driving to jobs perhaps thirty or forty miles away, jobs that were available only because of automobiles. . . . After the war there was a great deal of stout-burgher talk about people who lived in hovels and bought big-yacht cars to park out front. This was one of the symbols of a new, spendthrift age. But there was a great deal of unconscious resentment buried in the talk. It was resentment against (a) the fact that the good old boy had his money at all and (b) the fact that the car symbolized freedom, a slightly wild, careening emancipation from the old social order. Stock-car racing got started about this time, right after the war, and it was immediately regarded as some kind of manifestation of the animal irresponsibility of the lower orders. It had a truly terrible reputation. It was — well, it looked rowdy or something.

Now, Tom Wolfe was a genuine intellectual — he had a Ph.D. from Princeton, for crying out loud — but he was also a Southerner, a native of Virginia, and unlike so many other journalists who have written about the South, he had sympathy for the people he wrote about. He wasn’t out to write an exposé or to do what is nowadays called “investigative journalism,” but sought to explain the folkways of small-town Appalachia to the urban sophisticates who read Esquire, to make the reader see how wholesome and quintessentially American these people really were.

If you want to know why nobody gives a damn about magazines like Esquire anymore, it’s because the progressive politics of the 21st century forbid any sympathy for the kind of people who like NASCAR. Everything in big-league journalism now is about left-wing politics, more or less, and because North Carolina rednecks probably aren’t too excited about the Left’s agenda of open borders and transgender rights and all that, there is zero possibility a latter-day Tom Wolfe could get any New York-based magazine to publish an article like “The Last American Hero.”

The whole thing is basically a celebration of toxic masculinity, as the Gender Studies majors would say. Junior Johnson was not one of these “sensitive” modern guys, but a big muscular fellow who thrived on ferocious competition in one of the most masculine of sports.

 

What struck Tom Wolfe as so heroic in Junior Johnson was the man’s reckless daredevil courage. Johnson set speed records in qualifying simply because he was willing to take curves at tire-smoking speeds that even his fellow NASCAR drivers considered insanely risky. Going all-out on a straightaway is one thing, but it was Johnson’s absolute fearlessness in those high-banked curves that made him legendary. Wolfe captures perfectly the milieu of Appalachia that bred such courage:

The people there were already isolated, geographically, by the mountains and had strong clan ties because they were all from the same stock, Scotch-Irish. Moonshining isolated them even more. They always had to be careful who came up there. There are plenty of hollows to this day where if you drive in and ask some good old boy where so-and-so is, he’ll tell you he never heard of the fellow. Then the next minute, if you identify yourself and give some idea of why you want to see him, and he believes you, he’ll suddenly say, “Aw, you’re talking about so-and-so. I thought you said—” With all this isolation, the mountain people began to take on certain characteristics normally associated, by the diffident civilizations of today, with tribes. There was a strong sense of family, clan and honor. People would cut and shoot each other up over honor. And physical courage! They were almost like Turks that way.
In the Korean War, not a very heroic performance by American soldiers generally, there were seventy-eight Medal of Honor winners. Thirty-nine of them were from the South, and practically all of the thirty-nine were from small towns in or near the Appalachians. The New York metropolitan area, which has more people than all these towns put together, had three Medal of Honor winners, and one of them had just moved to New York from the Appalachian region of West Virginia. Three of the Medal of Honor winners came from within fifty miles of Junior Johnson’s side porch.

What were the odds, eh? Wolfe’s point is that the same conditions that produced such an extraordinary concentration of military heroes in the small towns of Appalachia also explained the kind of daredevil courage required to run 140 mph neck-and-neck with a man who might give you a bump and send you spinning into a concrete retaining wall.

Naw, Esquire would never publish an article like “The Last American Hero” in the 21st century. It doesn’t fit their narrative, which is all about Diversity and Inclusion and Progress. Esquire editor Jay Fielden’s hand-wringing over the #MeToo revelations and his virtue-signalling over “gun culture” signify his contempt for the sort of manly men who admire Medal of Honor winners or NASCAR drivers. The suspicion that these men vote Republican — 68% of white males in North Carolina voted for Trump, who carried Wilkes County with 77% of the vote — is enough to render them “deplorables” in the eyes of Esquire editors, all of whom voted for Hillary and are probably lined up to back Kamala Harris in 2020. Everything in journalism is politics now, and it’s not the kind of politics that celebrates moonshine runners or dirt-track racers or any other kind of authentic all-American masculinity. Esquire used to be a men’s magazine, but what is it now? I don’t know, and I don’t reckon Jay Fielden could explain it, either. It’s a ghost of its former self, another once-great institution the liberals have ruined in their decades-long crusade to destroy the American Way of Life. Selah.



 

Category: Culture, History, Journalism, Media Bias
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