The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

In The Mailbox: 06.25.19

Posted on | June 26, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Knowledge Buffet: Diversity Is Tyranny
EBL: Occasional Cortex Should Go Visit Real Concentration Camps
Twitchy: Enjoy This Video Of A Screaming Antifa Protester Being Arrested For Assault
Louder With Crowder: YouTube Pulls Project Veritas Video Exposing Google’s Anti-Trump Schemes, also, Leaked Google E-Mail Describes Prager U., Ben Shapiro, And Jordan Peterson As “Nazis”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Don’t Shoot The Messenger, Girls
American Greatness: The Steele Dossier Has Been Discredited – Is The IC Report Next?
American Power: Too Many F**king Democrats In The Race
American Thinker: Democrats Are Planning To Steal The 2020 Election
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty II
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Socialist Dictatorship Backing Iran’s Religious Dictatorship In Conflict With U.S., also, Top Defector Confirms Venezuela Under Cuba’s Thumb…And Other Unsavory Details
BattleSwarm: The Case Against Narrowing The Democratic Presidential Field, also, The Twitter Primary  – June 2019
Camp Of The Saints: On The Strategy Of Despots
CDR Salamander: Orwell’s China
Da Tech Guy: Let It Go, also, Ravelry Gets Woke And Other Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: The Donald Has Dirt On Biden
Dustbury: Lack Of Stodge
First Street Journal: The Neocons Are Aghast!
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Claims Student Loan Debt Held Her Back From Fulfilling Her Dreams, also, Shocking Honor Killing – Toronto Muslim Neurosurgeon Beats Wife To Death, Stuffs Body In Suitcase
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, This Is My (Un)Shocked Face
Hollywood In Toto: Roger Waters Sings Maduro’s Praises While Venezuela Burns
Joe For America: General Flynn Goes For The Jugular
JustOneMinute: Here We Go Again
Legal Insurrection: South Bend Police Union Accuses Buttigieg Of Focusing On Shooting For Political Gain, also, Oberlin College Asks For Reduction In Damages Under Ohio Tort Reforms
Power Line: Looking At Clouds From Both Sides, also, Slow Learners On The Left
Shark Tank: Rubio Calls Out Biden For Opposing Maduro Sanctions
Shot In The Dark: Suckin’ On A Chili Dog Outside The Tastee Freeze
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Connecticut Advertising To Me
This Ain’t Hell: Tanker Tuesdays
Victory Girls: Medal of Honor Recipent David Bellavia Is Someone You Should Know
Volokh Conspiracy: Facebook Posts Lewdly Insulting Public Official Are Criminally Punishable If They Relate To A Private Dispute
Weasel Zippers: House Approves $383 Billion Spending Package; Crenshaw Excoriates Democrats For Not Passing Border Aid, also, Occasional Cortex Claims We Need To Cancel Student Loan Debt So People Can Go To Their “Dream Colleges”
Megan McArdle: Sanders Had A Good Brand, But He Knew He Needed A Refresh
Mark Steyn: The Man That Got Away, also, When Normal Is Insufficient


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Category: Linkagery

New Left-Wing Website Is Doomed

Posted on | June 25, 2019 | Comments Off on New Left-Wing Website Is Doomed

The story is about former Fox News correspondent “Campaign Carl” Cameron joining a website called Front Page Live, but that’s not the real story. Instead, what caught my eye is that the site is run by Joseph Romm, a former Clinton administration official who has spent more than a decade at John Podesta’s Center for American Progress:

Cameron teamed up with Joseph Romm, the founding editor of ClimateProgress, to create Front Page Live, the Post reported, which describes itself as “a site dedicated to helping diverse voices and content go viral, and a news source that reflects the values of the majority of good people on our amazing planet.”
“Part of our goal is to be an antidote to the Drudge Report. But whereas Drudge aggregates and viralizes right-wing content, which includes a lot of disinformation and climate science denial, we will aim to aggregate and viralize accurate news,” Romm, who serves as editor-in-chief and CEO, said in a statement to The Hill. “We are ‘liberal’ only in the sense that climate science has been labeled ‘liberal’ by climate science deniers.”
“We are trying to be a place that will save people time because it’s simply way too hard for anyone to sip quality water from the open fire hydrant that is online news and social media — especially because there is so much sewage thrown in,” he added.
Romm told The Washington Post that he views the organization as a “viralizing engine” for the left.

You want to launch a news site and you start by smearing Drudge?

The assertion that what Drudge does is “right-wing . . . disinformation” shows how out of touch with reality Joseph Romm is. He is a monomaniacal fanatic, obsessed with “climate change,” and if you put somebody like that in charge of a news site, failure is guaranteed.



 

Category: Journalism

In The Mailbox: 06.24.19

Posted on | June 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: My First Chick-Fil-A
EBL: Brexit 2019 – Leave Means Leave, also, Erdogan’s AKP Loses Again In Istanbul Mayor Election
Twitchy: Chicago PD Releases More Smollett Hate Crime Hoax Footage, And We’re Going To Need A Lot More Popcorn
Louder With Crowder: Only Losers Demand Their Student Debt Be Canceled, also, Google Exec Admits Plan To Stop “Trump Situation” In 2020

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s Better To Be A Man Than A Woman, also, Aging Hag Claims Trump Raped Her
American Greatness: Project Veritas Video – Google Is “A Highly Biased Political Machine”, also, Crackups At The Crossroads Of Intersectionality
American Power: Blacks Unload On Mayor Buttigieg, also, Herman Wouk’s True Subject Was Moral Weakness
American Thinker: Clapper Hears Barr’s “Chilling” Footsteps
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty I
Babalu Blog: Son Of Former Mexican President Embroiled In NXIVM Cult Scandal Reportedly Fleeing To Cuba, also, John McAfee Takes Time Off From Whale Sex To Open Presidential Campaign HQ In Havana
BattleSwarm: Gutfeld – “The Side That’s Having The Most Fun Usually Wins”, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp Of The Saints: “A New Birth Of Freedom”
CDR Salamander: Small Boats & Daring Men On Midrats, also, Weak Knees & Clay Feet At The Army War College
Da Tech Guy: Limitless, also, Tales From The Illinois Exodus, Part 4
Don Surber: Peggy Noonan Is Tired Of Trump Winning, also, Why No One Believes Trump’s Accuser
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, The American Space Program
First Street Journal: Harvard Normalizes Pedophilia, Goes Out Of Their Way To Say It Has Nothing To Do With Homosexuality
The Geller Report: UN Poised To Launch Global Ban On Criticism Of Islam, also, US Hits Iran With Cyberattacks Instead of Missiles, Cripples Iranian Command & Control Systems
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, First Amendment News
Hollywood In Toto: Why Andrew Dice Clay & Roseanne Pairing Matters In 2019
Joe For America: DHS Chief Accused Of Leaking ICE Raid Info To WaPo, Sabotaging Operation
Legal Insurrection: Google Employee Discusses Google’s Plan To Prevent “Trump Situation” In 2020 (update: Google Removes Video) also, Newly Released Documents Shine Brighter Light On Rep. Omar’s Alleged Immigration, Marriage, & Tax Fraud
The PanAm Post: SCOTUS Rules Against Argentina In YPF Nationalization Case
Power Line: From The Mixed-up Files Of Ilhan Omar – Finale, also, The Bad Economics Of Reparations
Shark Tank: Julian Castro Claims He’ll Beat Trump, Win Hispanic Vote
Shot In The Dark: MyLyssa Has Questions. Mitch Has Answers.
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Even More Deaths In The Dominican
The Political Hat: Authoritarian Pixels & Brexit, also, Hiatus For Jury Duty
This Ain’t Hell: President Trump Nominates Army Secretary Esper For SecDef, also, Spotting Incels In The Wild
Victory Girls: Kamala Harris Adopts “America Was Never Great” Strategy
Volokh Conspiracy: Rhode Island Court Issues TRO Requiring Blogger To Take Down All Posts About A Person
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi On Enforcing Immigration Laws – “What’s The Point?” also, Ravelry.com Bans All Posts Supporting President Trump
Mark Steyn: The Least Worst Man, and Pather Panchali


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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Monday: Camila Cabello

Posted on | June 24, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Cuban-American pop singer Camila Cabello made her debut as a member of girl group Fifth Harmony via The X Factor back in 2012, and went on to a successful solo career – her debut album Camila went platinum – in December 2016. She’s been the opening act for Taylor Swift on the latter’s Reputation tour, been a model for Guess, and is going to star in a remake of Cinderella.

Rocking it on stage

Ninety Miles From Tyranny has Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #657, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Bigfoot Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Gloria Vanderbilt, I Am Mother, Shaft, Minnesota Nice vs. Wisconsin Whiny, Allison Mack & Kirsten Gillibrand, Summer & Summer Music, Judy Garland, and Brexit 2019.

A View From The Beach brings it bigly with The Chinese Wonder – Mai Ping Guo, It’s in C# minor, Sir, Russiagate Recession, Busted Russian Spy Fears Mammoth Infection, A Bad Year for Bees, Russiagate: A New Hope?, That’s One Way to Foil a Blackmailer, Frederick County Floats a Plastics Ban, Banning Bags Won’t Save the Bay, What Was She Thinking?, Reason #6377 that Trump was Elected, Too Soon Old,Too Late Smart, The Last Straw, Can Beavers Save the Bay?, Nothing Exceeds Like Excess, Snakeheads Attempt Invasion of Pennsylvania and Buying into Russiagate.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Rachel Clugston, and his Vintage Babe is Marilyn Monroe. At Dustbury, it’s Kerry Washington and Rebecca Black.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Cody’s Excellent Fourth of July Plan

Posted on | June 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Cody’s Excellent Fourth of July Plan

It’s that time of year, when patriotic Americans have their garages stacked to the rafters with cases full of fireworks:

 

“Yeah, I know what you’re thinking — this has ‘divorce’ written all over it. . . . I did some math on this stuff, because we’ve got such a ridiculous quantity of fireworks here. So I did some math, and I found out that I have enough fireworks here that, if sold at retail value in the U.S.A., I could pay off all of my credit-card debt and the remaining loan on my pickup, and still have money left over to buy more fireworks.”

Nice you’ve got a sense of humor about it, Cody. Remind me some day to tell you the story about the time the ATF raided my house . . .

 

Category: Fireworks

Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead: The Broke Wokeness of Anita Sarkeesian

Posted on | June 23, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Remember when the name “Anita Sarkeesian” was influential? When the feminist commissar was named to Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council”? The anti-male hatemonger rose to fame from 2012 to 2016 by demonizing men in the videogame industry and claiming to be a victim of sexist harassment. In 2014, the year of the #GamerGate controversy, Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency project raised more than $400,000 and, over a five-year-period, her organization raised nearly $1.6 million. Yet as Brad Glasgow explains in a remarkable YouTube video, Sarkeesian’s non-profit is now essentially bankrupt, having begun the year with a balance of barely $30,000 and laying off its employees:

 

John Sexton at Hot Air calls attention to a recent profile of Sarkeesian at the videogame blog Polygon, which is interesting in terms of confirming pretty much everything you’d expect about her, for example that she has always hated America. She was 15 when her immigrant family moved from Canada to Orange County, California, and instead of being happy — sunshine! beaches! palm trees! — Sarkeesian was miserable and angry:

“I went hard into counterculture. . . . I liked anything that was angry. I didn’t like anything that was normal.”

The teenage misfit never grew up, extending her adolescent tantrums into adulthood by protesting against the Iraq War in college:

“There were rooms where the Anarchists would meet across the hall from where the Marxists would meet and they didn’t get along,” she says. “I didn’t know any of the philosophy or politics behind any of this stuff, so I started reading a lot more political theory.”
“I learned about public speaking and audience analysis and understanding what gets people emotionally engaged,” she adds. “I ended up doing a lot of organizing; spending time in horribly ventilated back-rooms, having meetings and discussions.” . . .
Sarkeesian gained a bachelor’s degree in communications studies at California State. Her work was increasingly focused on economic theory and alternatives to modern capitalism.
She then moved to New York, where she once again joined forces with political action groups, while working various jobs.
“I got really interested in performance and guerrilla theater as a mode of activism,” she says. “I supported nonviolent direct actions. . . .
“We would figure out how to send out press releases, and how to get the media to cover this. He worked on crafting our message. I was interested in getting the message out there.”
Sarkeesian did not want the protestors’ actions to go unnoticed. “You can do a die-in in front of the [military] recruiter’s office, but it doesn’t matter if only three people see it. You need to get more people to see it.” . ..
Sarkeesian recalls attending workshops and group meetings and speeches by activists like Noam Chomsky. “I had already been politicized but I realized then that this is a life of work that people commit themselves to doing,” she says.
She began to focus more on feminist ideas. “I had done all this work on economic theory but I literally had no idea about identity politics. So I started learning about feminism.” She linked up with women who had been activists since the Vietnam era, who had experienced hostility and marginalization from male protest leaders. She listened to the stories of how women had to force their way into the conversation, sometimes storming the stage.
“The thing about the activist’s life is there are a lot of meetings,” she says. “You’re sitting on these conference calls with a hundred people. There’s all this sectarian politics and all this strife. It’s just the same bulls–t that is everywhere else. I was watching these young people reproduce the same systems as white, male-dominated spaces.”

So, she hates males, she hates white people, she hates the military, she hates capitalism — why would you give money to such a person? And of course, the money she raised was squandered to no good purpose, concluding with the same misfit attitude she began with:

But she knows that the job of educating game-makers about representation is far from over. “There is progress being made, but I struggle with how to talk about it. It’s like a pendulum swinging: This one thing is great, and then, oh, this other thing is shitty.
“When we talk about, oh, we solved the problem, we’re moving forward … no, we haven’t even begun to solve the problem. We’re just taking the next step to the greater vision. I’m always trying to remind people to look at the vision of what we’re fighting for. Understanding that helps influence how we work. It influences how we tell our stories and what stories we want to tell. It influences students coming out of school and the careers and jobs that they want.”
Part of the problem is that many of those who are willing to be persuaded have been persuaded. And those who are not will never come around. “They’re either not paying attention to the conversation or they are, and they’re on the other side of it. And I don’t like talking about it as a ‘sides’ thing. Because you either care about the humanity of people or you don’t. That’s the side you’re on.”

Despite wasting $1.6 million, Sarkeesian “hasn’t even begun to solve the problem,” and if you disagree with her, that’s because you don’t “care about the humanity of people.” Is anyone really surprised that sane people don’t want to support this fanatical ideologue?

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)



 

Category: Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Space Age Love Song

Posted on | June 23, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Space Age Love Song

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Tuesday: Halle Berry
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Hermione Granger At The Marco Polo Bridge
EBL

Marianne Williamson Will Share DNC Debate Stage With Biden and Bernie
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Welcome To The Club
A View From The Beach
EBL

Naming Names
EBL

LGBT Totalitarians Lose Again
Living In Anglo-America
357 Magnum
EBL

Horny Teacher Sentenced to Prison
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.17.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.18.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Trump Launches Re-Election Campaign With Monster Rally in Orlando
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

‘Parents Would Be Wise to Monitor the Activity of Their Children Online’
Dark Brightness
EBL

He Survived Two Tours of Afghanistan, But Then His Crazy Wife Killed Him
Dark Brightness
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.19.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Dear Democrats: Please Nominate the Notorious Gaffe Machine Joe Biden
EBL

‘All the Leaves Are Brown …’
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.20.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Report: Trump Cancels Strike Against Iran
EBL

Real Courage: Jewish Journalists Address Jewish Role in Communist Subversion
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.21.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending June 21:

  1.  EBL (19)
  2.  A View From The Beach (9)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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The Fake Ukrainian Ledger Angle: How the Media Colluded With the ‘Deep State’

Posted on | June 22, 2019 | Comments Off on The Fake Ukrainian Ledger Angle: How the Media Colluded With the ‘Deep State’

 

Look at the date on that New York Times story — how did it happen that, in August 2016, Ukraine’s “newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau” took an interest in Donald Trump’s campaign manager and these reporters had no trouble finding sources in Kiev telling them all about these “ledgers”? What that just a coincidence? Or does it seem to you more likely, as Ace of Spades suggests, that this story was about protecting the interests of the U.S. political establishment?

Remember, it was critical to Hillary Clinton that the FBI have active investigations opened into the Trump campaign, because she had a high profile investigation into her own actions, and she desperately needed to be able to play the They Do It Too Card.

Do you believe in coincidences like that? A powerful politician needs to smear her opponent and — oh, what a coincidence! — sources direct reporters for the New York Times to the Ukraine, where investigators cite a “secret ledger” that appears to prove wrongdoing by the opponent’s campaign manager. Well, guess what? Three years later, we discover that (a) the “ledger” was probably a forgery, and (b) the FBI was actively engaged in feeding this stuff to the media:

In search warrant affidavits, the FBI portrayed the ledger as one reason it resurrected a criminal case against Manafort that was dropped in 2014 and needed search warrants in 2017 for bank records to prove he worked for the Russian-backed Party of Regions in Ukraine.
There’s just one problem: The FBI’s public reliance on the ledger came months after the feds were warned repeatedly that the document couldn’t be trusted and likely was a fake, according to documents and more than a dozen interviews with knowledgeable sources. . . .
Manafort’s Ukrainian business partner Konstantin Kilimnik, a regular informer for the State Department, told the U.S. government almost immediately after The New York Times wrote about the ledger in August 2016 that the document probably was fake.
Manafort “could not have possibly taken large amounts of cash across three borders. It was always a different arrangement — payments were in wire transfers to his companies, which is not a violation,” Kilimnik wrote in an email to a senior U.S. official on Aug. 22, 2016. . . .
[T]he FBI and Mueller’s office did not cite the actual ledger — which would require agents to discuss their assessment of the evidence — and instead cited media reports about it. The feds assisted on one of those stories as sources.
For example, agents mentioned the ledger in an affidavit supporting a July 2017 search warrant for Manafort’s house, citing it as one of the reasons the FBI resurrected the criminal case against Manafort.
“On August 19, 2016, after public reports regarding connections between Manafort, Ukraine and Russia == including an alleged ‘black ledger’ of off-the-book payments from the Party of Regions to Manafort — Manafort left his post as chairman of the Trump Campaign,” the July 25, 2017, FBI agent’s affidavit stated.
Three months later, the FBI went further in arguing probable cause for a search warrant for Manafort’s bank records, citing a specific article about the ledger as evidence Manafort was paid to perform U.S. lobbying work for the Ukrainians.
“The April 12, 2017, Associated Press article reported that DMI [Manafort’s company] records showed at least two payments were made to DMI that correspond to payments in the ‘black ledger,’ ” an FBI agent wrote in a footnote to the affidavit.
There are two glaring problems with that assertion.
First, the agent failed to disclose that both FBI officials and Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who later became Mueller’s deputy, met with those AP reporters one day before the story was published and assisted their reporting.
An FBI record of the April 11, 2017, meeting declared that the AP reporters “were advised that they appeared to have a good understanding of Manafort’s business dealings” in Ukraine.
So, essentially, the FBI cited a leak that the government had facilitated and then used it to support the black ledger evidence, even though it had been clearly warned about the document.
Secondly, the FBI was told the ledger claimed to show cash payments to Manafort when, in fact, agents had been told since 2014 that Manafort received money only by bank wires, mostly routed through the island of Cyprus, memos show.

So, Manafort was forced to resign from the campaign after someone fed this fake “secret ledger” story to the New York Times and then, in order to justify search warrants for Manafort’s bank records, the FBI leaks more “secret ledger” stories to the media, then cites those stories as “evidence” to claim probably cause on the warrant application. I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me the people responsible for this need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This kind of “Deep State” stuff — government bureaucrats acting improperly to exercise a corrupt political infleunce, and exploiting the news media in the process — is why every American should be glad Hillary lost. If she had won, we never would have learned what kind of shenanigans were going on at the FBI.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Media Bias, MuellerGate, Ukraine
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