The Other McCain

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How @CNN and Other #FakeNews Media Are Now Working to Silence Dissent

Posted on | August 11, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

Headline at Ace of Spades HQ:

Journalists or Activists? CNN,
Which Admitted They Were Responsible
for Getting Alex Jones Deplatformed from
YouTube, Apple, and FaceBook, Now Admits
It’s Also Pressuring Twitter to Deplatform Him

This is shameful. When I was working for The Washington Times, we did not seek to prevent the distribution of The Washington Post, nor during my years as a correspondent for The American Spectator have we ever sought to silence any competing publication. Yet CNN and other so-called “mainstream” media operations are now actively engaged in a smear campaign intended to “de-platform” alternative voices online.

It is now considered de rigueur to stipulate, before protesting against such social-media bans, that one does not like the banned person or agree with everything he says or does. People did this when Twitter suspended my @rsmccain account, which annoyed me to no end, because Twitter never even bothered to specify what had precipitated this banishment. I’d been on Twitter for seven years and had tens of thousands of followers, none of whom saw anything in my TL that would justify this suspension. Yet when I got banned, several journalists who wrote about this incident felt the need to describe me as “controversial” or whatever in the process of lamenting this evidence that commissars of the Thought Police had obtained hegemonic authority at Twitter.

Why? Isn’t it obvious that these journalists wanted to convey the idea that I must be a special case, “controversial” in some way that made me different from other accounts which had not been banned?

The fact of the matter was (a) that I was simply more effective than some others in calling attention to obstreperous leftists on Twitter, and (b) that I had made influential enemies as a result of this.

Keep in mind that I was hate-listed by the SPLC long before it became routine for them to traffic in such dangerous libel. Circa 1999, the SPLC decided that “neo-Confederates” were a menace and, because I had then just recently been hired by The Washington Times, my name got mentioned in their account due to my previous association with the League of South. Now, it is a mistake to get down in tall grass discussing all the so-called “evidence” involved in the kind of smear campaigns the Left pursues against its chosen enemies. However, after more than a decade of being an independent blogger, don’t you think that if I were a “white supremacist” (as the SPLC has called me), that I would have published something that would suffice as proof of this?

Nothing of the kind ever happened, however, and when Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs tried to revive this “white supremacist” nonsense in September 2009, he made himself an object of ridicule and has long since departed into irrelevant obscurity: “Charles Who?”

Vindicating myself in l’affaire de LGF had the effect of making me a target for the Left during the Tea Party era leading up to the 2010 election, in large measure because leftists are incapable of admitting when they’re wrong. If the SPLC has called me a “white supremacist,” the leftist believes, I must be a very bad person, and this belief becomes the premise for further “investigation” of my allegedly hateful opinions.

So I was continually monitored by the Left all during the many ensuing years, as I ping-ponged around the country doing campaign-trail coverage and occasionally engaging in conflicts with personalities like Neal Rauhauser, Brett Kimberlin and Barrett Brown. Some readers may recall, for example, how the Kate Hunt case in 2013 involved covering the swarm of #FreeKate lunatics who thought there ought to be a lesbian loophole in Florida’s age-of-consent laws, so that she could get a free pass for diddling a 14-year-old. When you cover stories like that in Gonzo mode, you may acquire particularly obnoxious and persistent enemies.

 

All of this is by way of offering the most likely explanation of why, in February 2016, my @rsmccain Twitter account was permanently suspended for “participating in targeted abuse,” even though no one could say (a) who was “targeted”; (b) what kind of “abuse” they had suffered; or (c) how I was “participating” in this harmful activity.

Having accumulated many enemies, who on prior occasions had called on others to “block and report” my account, there was probably quite a large file of complaints about me at Twitter by the time someone — Anita Sarkeesian, perhaps — reported one of my tweets as “abuse.”

When my banishment made headlines in February 2016, various writers (including conservative journalists I consider friends) felt obligated to describe me as “controversial” or to otherwise indicate that, somehow, in some sense, I might have done something to deserve my fate. And this is why I deplore the habit of people who, in opposing the suppression of someone like Alex Jones, feel an obligation to characterize him in a negative way, as if he is a special case in some way substantially different from those who are not (yet) de-platformed.

Is Alex Jones more “racist” than, say, Jordan Peterson or Charles Murray? Is Alex Jones a “conspiracy theorist” in a way that, say, Jim Hoft or Pamela Geller are not? Is Alex Jones more “controversial” than, say, Glenn Reynolds or Rush Limbaugh? Do you see my point here?

There are many reasons I should include disclaimers to “distance” myself, as they say, from Alex Jones. He was a 9/11 “Truther” back in the day, and personally I have a hard time forgiving him for siccing a mob of his supporters on Michelle Malkin at the 2008 DNC in Denver. Yet this is not why Alex Jones is being de-platformed now. Rather, CNN and others on the Left are seeking to silence Alex Jones because he has been effective in calling attention to various facts that the Left desperately seeks to conceal from the general public. Please go read the entirely of the Ace of Spades post about this and ask yourself: “Who’s next?”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

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Category: Ace of Spades, CNN

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | August 11, 2018 | 1 Comment

How many times do I have to repeat this?

A “suicidal” airline mechanic stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night, officials said.
Preliminary information suggests the crash occurred because the 29-year-old mechanic was “doing stunts in air or lack of flying skills,” the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said.
Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, said on Twitter the man was suicidal and there was no connection to terrorism.
Video showed the Horizon Air Q400 doing large loops and other dangerous maneuvers as the sun set. There were no passengers aboard.
Witnesses reported seeing the plane being chased by military aircraft before it crashed on Ketron Island, southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Troyer said F-15 aircraft scrambled out of Portland, Oregon, and were in the air “within a few minutes” and the pilots kept “people on the ground safe.”
The sheriff’s department said they were working to conduct a background investigation on the Pierce County resident, whose name was not immediately released. Horizon said the mechanic was an employee of the airline and that the aircraft was stolen about 8 p.m..
Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor said the man “did something foolish and may well have paid with his life.”
The man could be heard on audio recordings telling air traffic controllers that he is “just a broken guy.”
An air traffic controller called the man “Rich,” and tried to convince the man to land the airplane.
“There is a runway just off to your right side in about a mile,” the controller says, reffering to an airfield at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
“Oh man. Those guys will rough me up if I try and land there,” the man responded, lateer adding “This is probably jail time for life, huh?”
Later the man said: “I’ve got a lot of people that care about me. It’s going to disappoint them to hear that I did this…Just a broken guy, got a few screws loose, I guess.”

We don’t yet have an identity for “Rich,” and so it’s impossible to know why he was suicidal. Maybe he had been watching too much CNN lately, which is enough to inspire existential despair. Some days, I watch CNN (so you don’t have to) and it’s profoundly depressing, but I’m a journalist with over 30 years in the business, whereas other people may not be able to cope with hour after hour of Russia! Russia! Russia!

Crazy People Are Dangerous.

 

Category: Crime, Washington State

Further Correspondence Regarding Deranged Ex-Professor Deborah Frisch

Posted on | August 11, 2018 | 1 Comment

Deborah Ellen Frisch, Ph.D., after her Jan. 5 arrest in Bend, Oregon.

Effective written communication requires attention to details of spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammar. These orthographic details may seem insignificant, and are something we often take for granted until we encounter writing full of obvious errors. People who write badly create a negative impression of themselves, and so we must choose our words carefully when conducting important correspondence:

Date: Thursday, 11 Aug 2018 8:24 am
From: Robert McCain
To: [15 Addresses Redacted]
CC: Jeff Goldstein

To whom it may concern:
Deborah Ellen Frisch, I am informed, is free on bond pending an October sentencing hearing in Weld County, Colorado, after previously pleading guilty to felony charges. She has sent me no fewer than 18 emails during the past 48 hours. She falsely accuses me of crimes against her, as a result of my reporting about her continued online harassment of myself and others (see “Email to a Lawyer Regarding Deranged Ex-Professor Deborah Frisch, Ph.D.,” Aug. 8, 2018). You are receiving this email because you were among more than a dozen people she has CC’d on these messages, by which she has endeavored to defame and further harass me.
Among those CC’d in Dr. Frisch’s torrent of obscenity-filled emails was Ryan Chun, a prosecutor in Weld County whom she has previously made the target of racial slurs. Similarly, she has called me an “IRISH CATHOLIC FAGGOT” (all caps in original) although I am neither Catholic nor homosexual. In another email, she described me as the “lover” of Jeff Goldstein (CC’d), the blogger she has been harassing since 2006. It should go without saying that this is also merely another of Dr. Frisch’s deranged insults.
It is my understanding that Dr. Frisch’s defense attorney has requested that he be removed from her case, and that she has been scheduled for a hearing later this month (Aug. 31) to change conditions of her bond. While I have no direct knowledge of the purpose for this hearing, it seems reasonable to suspect the court will order Dr. Frisch to discontinue her pattern of online harassment aimed at Weld County officials and others.
Anyone reading Dr. Frisch’s lunatic email diatribes, full of obscene insults and orthographic errors, must be disturbed to think that a former university professor who holds a Ph.D. in psychology could have deteriorated to such a level of crudity and incoherence. Some of those she has CC’d on these messages may become concerned that Dr. Frisch’s condition has reached the point that she is now a danger to herself and others. It has been suggested to me, by acquaintances who have professional experience dealing with the criminally insane, that Dr. Frisch exhibits symptoms of a chronic degenerative neurological condition, from which she is unlikely to recover. While I am merely a journalist, unqualified to provide a professional assessment of her mental health, I think anyone concerned for Dr. Frisch’s well-being should consider her recent irrational behavior symptomatic, perhaps necessitating a period of supervision and psychiatric evaluation in an institutional setting.
Sincerely,
Robert Stacy McCain

Gonna file this one under Neutral Objective Journalism.



 

 

Category: Neutral Objective Journalism

The Party of Hate (Continued)

Posted on | August 11, 2018 | 3 Comments

Just yesterday, I discussed how the slap-on-the-wrist sentence for violent “antifa” attacks on Trump supporters in California signified the Democrat Party’s endorsement of hate. Now there’s further evidence:

Progressive protesters lined up along a fence on Tuesday to protest Rep. Jeff Denham (R., Calif.) as he exited a vehicle, prompting one female protester to denigrate his Hispanic wife by saying, “Shame on your Mexican wife.”
The Modesto Progressive Democrats and other groups aligned with Josh Harder, a Democratic congressional candidate running against Denham in California’s 10th Congressional District, were in attendance at the protest. Denham’s campaign manager Josh Whitfield posted a video of the interaction on Twitter. . . .
The female protester, who was holding up a sign in Spanish, not only called Denham “garbage,” but also said “Shame on your Mexican wife” multiple times. It is unclear what several of the other protesters were chanting.
National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Jack Pandol also tweeted out the video of the incident, which led Harder to “like” the tweet. It was later “unliked” by Harder, but Pandol saved a screenshot. . . .
Denham slammed the Democratic candidate on Twitter Wednesday, saying it was “reprehensible” for Harder to endorse what was said about Sonia Denham, his wife of 25 years. . . .
The NRCC slammed the “toxic and corrosive” culture among Harder’s supporters.
“Josh Harder needs to address the toxic and corrosive culture among his supporters to end these dangerous confrontations right away,” Pandol said.
Sonia Denham is not the first minority supporting his candidacy to be targeted. The GOP candidate sent out a statement earlier this week denouncing a hate crime against Surjit Malhi, the chair of Sikhi’s for Denham Campaign Coalition, after he was assaulted on July 31 while helping place signs for Denham’s campaign.
“Mr. Malhi is a respected leader in our community & a proud American. This is the 3rd incident in less than 2 weeks members of my team were targeted. Hate Crimes have no place in our society. The people responsible for this reprehensible act of hatred must be brought to justice,” Denham tweeted.

As Tom Knighton explains:

You see, they believe that all minorities owe their allegiance to the progressive cause because progressives say they’re working for minorities. Minorities aren’t permitted to have the agency to decide for themselves whom they will and will not support. They’re supposed to do as they’re told by their leftist betters.

Democrats are the party of hate, and it keeps getting worse.

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)

 

Category: California, Democrats

In The Mailbox: 08.10.18

Posted on | August 10, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.10.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Because Privacy Is Such A 20th Century Concept
EBL: GAB – The Eye Of Redmond Is Upon Them
Twitchy: Gavin McInnes, Proud Boys Accounts Suspended By Twitter
Louder With Crowder: The Spectator Tries Shaming men For Self-Improvement – It’s Cr@p!
According To Hoyt: Hate Speech
Monster Hunter Nation: Back From Gencon
Vox Popoli: Ben Shapiro DEBATE-RAPES Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Free My Butt Edition
American Power: Progressives Outraged At Ingraham Exposing Left’s Program To Remake America, also, Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We?
American Thinker: White Republican Voters In Michigan Chose A Black Guy
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Field-Dressing Whales Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 10
Da Tech Guy: Eric Boehlert Is Right, The Trump Presidency Isn’t Normal
Don Surber: How Trump Beats Erdogan And Other Dictators
Dustbury: This Bologna Has A First Name
The Geller Report: Singer & Actress Shot Dead By Husband – Another Pakistani Honor Killing, also, Muslim “Refugee” Douses Gay Roommate With Boiling Water, Gets 17 Months In Jail
Hogewash: Casting Decisions, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: One More “What Does It Mean” Moment In A Year Full Of Them
Legal Insurrection: Ocasio-Cortez Claims Ben Shapiro’s Debate Challenge Is Like Being Catcalled On The Street, also, Massachusetts Man Arrested For Offering $500 Bounty To Killers Of ICE Agents
The PanAm Post: How The Mexican Opposition Can Effectively Oppose AMLO
Power Line: Leftism’s Dire Consequences, Chicago Edition, also, Eye Of The Hurricane
Shark Tank: Clay County Is Turning Blue
Shot In The Dark: Orwell Was A Pollyanna
STUMP: Having Fun With Mortality
The Jawa Report: Imam’s Report Led To Disabled Grandson Too Late
This Ain’t Hell: Army No Longer Giving Immigrants The Boot, also, Crazed Loony Stalks Dakota Meyer
Victory Girls: Vox Claims MS-13 Are Just The Kids Next Door
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Woman’s Studies Prof Claims Trump Supporters Will Ignite Civil War To Keep Him In Office After Second Term, also, Scores Of Registered Voters Over 116 Years Old Found In Hotly Contested OH-12
Megan McArdle: Show Me The Victims Of Insider Trading. I’ll Wait.
Mark Steyn: Tuning Out The Oscars, also, Valedictorians With Machetes


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Category: Linkagery

Democrats Nominate Pro-Abortion Lesbian Feminist for Congress in Texas

Posted on | August 10, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Yesterday, I explained that Democrats have nominated an anti-white hate-monger to challenge Republican Pete Sessions in Texas’s 32nd Congressional District. Today, I’m highlighting another extremist Democrat in Texas, Gina Ortiz Jones, who finished first in a five-way primary, with 42% of the vote and then defeated Rick Trevino in the May runoff, to challenge Republican Rep. Will Hurd in the 23rd District.

This is one of the most competitive districts in the country, and has changed hands five times between Republicans and Democrats in the past 25 years. Hurd, a former CIA officer and the only black Republican member of Congress from Texas, won the seat in 2014 with only a 2,500-vote margin over the Democrat incumbent, and was re-elected in 2016 with a margin of only 3,000 votes. In a mid-term where Democrats are energized by anti-Trump mania, Hurd faces a tough fight, and Democrats have poured more than $1 million into the Jones campaign.

Fortunately for Republicans, however, Jones is way out of step with the values of this largely rural district, which stretches all the way from the suburbs of San Antonio in the east to El Paso in the west. The district is 55% Hispanic, and Jones has made a point of using her mother’s maiden name, with the slogan “One of Us, Fighting For Us” in her campaign.

 

Except she’s not Hispanic. Her mother immigrated from the Philippines and her father (who never married her mother) was a white drug addict.  While she’s using “Ortiz” to play the identity-politics game with Texas voters, however, she’s using a lesbian-feminist message to solicit support nationally from Trump-haters, promising to become the “first Filipina-American and first out-lesbian to represent Texas in Congress, and she’ll be the first woman to represent her district.“ She has been endorsed by all the usual suspects of left-wing extremism, including pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List, pro-homosexual groups like Equality PAC, Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Victory Fund, and the anti-Israel JStreetPAC, as well as the Feminist Majority, People for the American Way and the AFL-CIO. Her agenda includes socialized medicine, taxpayer funding for abortion, gun control, amnesty for illegal aliens, and every other issue you might expect from someone who attended elite Boston University.

 

Even without all her other baggage, her support for abortion might be enough to defeat Jones. When I say this district is 55% Hispanic, some Republicans might roll their eyes and write it off as a lost cause, but Texas isn’t Brooklyn or L.A.. Most of these “Texicans” are solid, hard-working folks who drive pickup trucks and love Jesus and BBQ. They won’t automatically embrace a half-Asian lesbian feminist with a radical agenda just because her middle name is “Ortiz.”

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Category: Abortion, Democrats, Election, Gays, Planned Parenthood, Texas

Democrats: The Party of Hate

Posted on | August 10, 2018 | 2 Comments

Eric Clanton attacked Trump supporters in Berkeley.

Once upon a time — perhaps as recently as 2012 — it was possible to assume that Democrats merely disagreed with the rest of America. Through ignorance of economics or misjudgment of foreign-policy issues, perhaps their destructive agenda was an innocent error. This benign interpretation of politics allowed patriotic Americans to believe that their friends and neighbors who voted for Democrats were well-meaning, decent, sincere people who had simply made a mistake.

No one can believe this, now that Democrats have taken off the mask:

A former Diablo Valley College professor who used a bike lock to assault seven Trump supporters at a free speech rally last August will only receive three years of probation as part of a plea deal.
Eric Clanton, a former philosophy professor at Diablo Valley College, will receive only a three-year probation for his assault on Trump supporters at a Berkeley Free Speech rally in August 2017. Clanton was captured on video smashing a Trump supporter’s head with a bike lock. His victim ultimately fell to the ground, covered in his own blood.
Court documents revealed that Clanton struck at least seven people in the head at the Berkeley free speech rally on April 15, 2017. One of his victims had a head laceration that required five staples to fix. Clanton was initially charged with four counts of felony assault.
During a search of Clanton’s home, investigators found documents that linked him to local Antifa groups. Investigators also found bike locks and clothing that were similar to the items used by the assailant in the assault video that was published online. Additional,y, cell phone tower data placed Clanton close to the location of the assaults on the date they took place.
Clanton entered into a plea agreement on Wednesday for a misdemeanor battery charge. All felony charges against Clanton were dismissed. A charge against Clanton for wearing a mask during the assault was also dropped as a result of the plea deal.

This is who Democrats are. This is what Democrats believe. This is what your friend or relative who votes for Democrats is actually voting for — political violence against anyone who disagrees with them, so that Democrats are free to commit assault in the name of “social justice,” to deny the constitutional rights of citizens who vote Republican.

Make no mistake. This slap-on-the-wrist sentence of Eric Clanton signifies an endorsement of anti-Republican violence by the Democrat Party officials who control California, in the same way that California’s “sanctuary state” law signifies hostility against American citizens.

 

Democrats are an anti-American party. They hate you. If you express disagreement with Democrats, they will resort to violence to silence you, and expect the courts to set them free to do it again.

Do not forget that Eric Clanton was a professor, employed at taxpayer expense to teach philosophy to college students in California. Democrats control the schools — data on the political campaign contributions of teachers unions and university professors show that discrimination against Republicans is pervasive in the education system. The partisan activists who control this system take extraordinary measures to prevent Christians from being employed as teachers and professors, instead hiring atheist radicals like Eric Clanton to indoctrinate students with the Democrat Party’s crypto-Marxist ideology of “social justice.”

This incident must be viewed in the context of what is happening elsewhere in California, where Democrats have obtained a monopoly on power. The streets of San Francisco are a public sewer, where human feces pile up on the sidewalks next to the hypodermic needles of heroin addicts. In Hollywood, vandals destroyed the star commemorating the show-business career of President Trump. It is California Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters who now define the party’s agenda.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.



 

Category: California, Crime, Democrats

Ode To Overlingering

Posted on | August 10, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Sometimes no matter what you do,

You find yourself an unfortunate tree,

Whose decades, though more than a few,

Will end both soon and a-brupt-ly.

When sprout you did, all was so good,

Weather fair and danger far,

None to say that flee you should,

As danger was a distant star.

Closer it crept, but you held your ground,

And laughed at the alarmist talk,

That’s ever readily nearby found,

As seasons pass and people walk.

The point you should have calmly fled,

Held so many rationales,

For holding fast, despite the dread,

That pending danger oft entails.

So we come to present time.

A die was cast; remain you will,

Admonishing neighbor further in,

Busy rationalizing still.

Category: Uncategorized
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