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The Media ‘Think They’re Living in a Cartoon and White Men Are the Villains’

Posted on | February 19, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

We do not yet have an official statement about what happened to Jussie Smollett, but we do know what didn’t happen to him. He was definitely not assaulted at 2 a.m. in Chicago by white Trump supporters shouting “This is MAGA country!” Who could believe such a thing?

Over the years, the MSM has fallen for hundreds of hate crime hoaxes, reporting on them as if they were confirmed facts, rather than mere allegations. By the time the story is proven to be a hoax, the media has already moved on to the next manufactured outrage. This phenomenon has only increased since the election of President Trump. Yet people still expressed shock and surprise when it became obvious that Smollett had staged his own hate crime.

Matt Walsh explains the media’s gullibility:

 

 

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Apparently, those of us who doubted Smollett’s story from the start — Republicans stalking the streets of Chicago at 2 a.m.? Really? — are guilty of hate for not believing the media’s “hate crime” narrative, as Stephen Green has pointed out:

But it is awful that a hate crime didn’t happen. It’s always awful whenever a hate crime doesn’t happen. Because America is a hateful place full of hateful people who attack virtuous non-hateful intersectional people out of hate.
And when, on rare occasion, a hate crime doesn’t happen, that in itself is a hate crime because it allows the criminally hateful to pretend that they aren’t such hateful criminals.

Well, let’s leave it to police and the grand jury:

Chicago police are investigating a tip that on the same night “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett reported being attacked, he was seen in an elevator in his apartment building with two brothers who were arrested and later released from police custody in relation to the probe, according to a police spokesperson.
Smollett reported being attacked by two masked men who hurled racist and homophobic slurs at him, beat him and looped a rope around his neck in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood on the night of Jan. 29.
A person who lives in Smollett’s building or was visiting a resident reported seeing the three men together on the night in question, according to CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Police have yet to confirm the person’s account, Guglielmi said. Detectives plan to interview the person on Tuesday.
The brothers and their lawyer were seen at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Tuesday. The attorney was seen leaving about 3:45 p.m. without comment. Chicago police told ABC News that the brothers met with prosecutors and police but did not testify before a grand jury Tuesday.
On Monday, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told ABC News that the brothers told police that Smollett staged the attack on himself because he was upset a threatening letter he received a week prior did not get enough attention.

Oh, let’s talk about that letter, shall we?

If the remarkable grassroots journalists at CWBChicago are correct (as they have been all along), Jussie Smollett has a lot more to worry about than the state rap of a class four felony of making a false police report.  If he was indeed responsible for the sending of a letter to the Fox Chicago studios where Empire is produced, he has triggered federal charges that carry hard time.  Importantly, the feds don’t parole early to relieve overcrowded prisons the way the Great State of Illinois does.
You see, using the mail to make a threat that can be seen as a terroristic threat — even to oneself — is no small deal to Uncle Sam. . . .

According to CWBChicago, the investigation of this threatening letter “has been before a federal grand jury and multiple subpoenas have been generated over the course of the investigation.”

Again, we have no official confirmation at this time, but if this turns out to be the case, Smollett is likely to be in big, big trouble.

How many white guys were involved in this hoax? Zero. Exactly zero. We didn’t have to do anything at all to persuade this Trump-hating gay black guy to wreck his career and maybe earn a prison sentence.

We cartoon villains are fiendish like that.

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Category: Chicago, Crime, Media Bias, Racism

Preparing Their Excuses in Advance

Posted on | February 19, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

It’s only February 2019, and feminists are already playing the gender card in the Democrat primary race, Paul Mirengoff at Powerline observes:

The race for the Democratic presidential nomination has barely commenced, but already Margaret Sullivan, the Washington Post’s media columnist, is whining about “sexist” coverage of female candidates. As evidence she mentions the “mocking” of Kirsten Gillibrand’s uncertainty about how to eat fried chicken.
However, candidates of both genders are routinely mocked when they eat “down home” food in an uptown manner. It happened to Donald Trump and John Kasich in 2016 and Mitt Romney in 2012. Sullivan ignores this history.
Sullivan notes that Kamala Harris’ “long-ago love life has been parsed.” I assume she’s referring to the story of her affair with Willie Brown, the then-married California power broker who got Harris appointed to two commissions.
Sullivan offers no explanation as to why this story should be off-limits. Instead, she conceals the reason why it shouldn’t be — the fact that the “love life” in question involved the most powerful figure in Bay Area, and arguably California, politics.
Is there any reason to believe that, if a male politician’s rise had been aided by a powerful female lover, the media would ignore it? Certainly not if the male politician were a Republican. .  . .

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.) What is this really about? It’s about feminists maintaining their psychological buffer against reality. They still cannot accept that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. Having convinced themselves that they were “on the right side of history” — that Hillary was predestined to become Our First Female President — feminists were emotionally traumatized by her defeat. They marched in their pink pussy hats, listened to conspiracy theories about “Russian collusion” and indulged fantasies about the impeachment of Orange Man Bad.

More than two years later, however, Trump is still president, and feminists are subconsciously beginning to doubt their own narrative. Brett Kavanaugh is sitting on the Supreme Court, and every time the MSNBC/CNN nexus finds a “bombshell” that is supposed to finally destroy Trump, something goes wrong. Mueller’s investigation still hasn’t proved any “collusion,” those Catholic kids in MAGA hats really weren’t racists, and Jussie’s hate crime turns out to be a hoax. It’s like an old Chuck Jones Warner Brothers cartoon, with Trump in the role of Road Runner and Democrats playing Wile E. Coyote.

“SJWs Always Double Down,” as Vox Day says, and feminists are determined that next time, they’ll find a woman to defeat Trump. Jessica Valenti has declared her support for “Not a Man 2020,” i.e., she’s in favor of any of the women seeing the Democratic nomination. But anyone looking at these candidates — Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, et al. — must recognize how unlikely it is that any of them could accomplish in 2020 what Hillary failed to do in 2016.

We already know what’s going to happen: Joe Biden.

 

Biden will be 77 years old by Election Day 2020, and he is everything feminists profess to hate — a white male heterosexual. Except he is a Democrat, and he has a natural affinity for the Middle American white working-class voters Trump flipped in 2016. Every smart strategist in the Democrat Party (including those on the payrolls of other primary candidates) has to figure that Joe is the front-runner, and the ambitions of feminists are actually helping Biden’s chances. Think of what will happen in Iowa and New Hampshire, when there are five or six women competing for the feminist vote, with Bernie Sanders winning the Left-of-Lenin socialists, and there is Joe Biden, all alone appealing for the Regular Democrat vote. A year from now, after the Democrat primary field has been winnowed down to two or three candidates, Biden will be steamrolling to the nomination, and feminists will be forced to make excuses for why this old white guy best represents women’s interests.

This is not a vision that excites much enthusiasm among feminists, and so they have already begun complaining about “sexism” in the media coverage of female Democrat 2020 candidates. Pity them much?




 

 

Category: Democrats, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 02.18.19

Posted on | February 19, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.18.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Bruno Ganz, RIP
Twitchy: Strangely Identical Tweets Cover Very Hysterical, Deeply Nonexistent Conservative Malia Obama Wine Freakouts
Louder With Crowder: Lesbian Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Says Trans Athletes Are Cheaters

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Links & Chicks – The Single Mother Edition, also, Australia – It’s Not Our Country Any More
American Power: Republicans Already Demonizing Democrats As Socialists & Baby Killers?
American Thinker: For The Record, Obama Made Mincemeat Of The Constitution
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Caliphate Kaput, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: Back In Africa – Portuguese Edition
Da Tech Guy: Not Dead, Just Resting, also, Make America Nuclear Again
Don Surber: Happy Not My President Day
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, A Shot To The Exhaust Port
First Street Journal: College Sophomores Running Our Government
The Geller Report: Farrakhan Praises Omar For Anti-Semitic Language, also, NYT Blames Jews For 9/11
Hogewash: Kentucky, MAGA Hats, & Violence, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Seven Ugly Lessons From Jussie Smollett’s “Attack”
Joe For America: Occasional Cortex Doesn’t Understand The Difference Between The Berlin Wall & The Border Wall
JustOneMinute: Amazon’s Now Abandoned Special Deal Not So Special
Legal Insurrection: Journalist Andy Ngo Documents Many Hoaxes Amplified By Democrats & MSM (BIRM), also, Fauxcahontas Running Scared
The PanAm Post: Richard Branson To organize Mega-Concert On Colombian/Venezuelan Border
Power Line: Another Fake Hate Crime? Of Course It Is, also, Coup’s Next
Shark Tank: Congressional Democrats DREAMing About In-State Tuition
Shot In The Dark: Unexpected
STUMP: Pritzker’s Plan For Illinois Pensions
The Political Hat: The Ongoing Assault On The 2nd Amendment In Nevada
This Ain’t Hell: Gary Sinise Surprised With Star-Studded Tribute Video Celebrating His Work For Veterans, also, Former AF T/SGT Who Defected To Iran Charged With Spying
Victory Girls: Joe Biden – An Embarrassment To America
Volokh Conspiracy: Community College Bans Pro-2A Banner With Pictures Of Rifles
Weasel Zippers: Protesters Overrun Border Patrol Museum, Deface Pictures Of Fallen Agents, also, All The Politicians Who Rushed To Judgment On The Smollett “Hate Crime”
Megan McArdle: The Only Clear Winner From Amazon’s NYC Pullout
Mark Steyn: Amazon & Borders, also, A Presidential Medley, Part I


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Category: Linkagery

Police: Off-Duty ICE Officer O.L. Jones Shot Man in Ga. Wal-Mart Parking Lot

Posted on | February 18, 2019 | Comments Off on Police: Off-Duty ICE Officer O.L. Jones Shot Man in Ga. Wal-Mart Parking Lot

 

Possibly important news from my hometown:

The gunman in Sunday afternoon’s deadly parking lot shooting at the Lithia Springs Walmart store was an off-duty Department of Homeland Security ICE officer, according to Major J.R. Davidson with the Douglasville Police Department.
When officers responded to the shooting scene, shortly before 1 p.m., they found 45-year-old Johnathan Liddell of Austell dead in his car from a gunshot wound.
They said they found the off-duty ICE officer, O.L. Jones on the scene.
When contacted on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office released a statement to 11Alive:

“On Feb. 17 an off-duty officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) discharged a personally owned firearm in Douglas County, Georgia, resulting in the death of one person.
The ERO officer was not on duty at the time of the incident and was traveling in a personally owned vehicle with his wife and children. Douglasville police and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the incident. Additionally, ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility investigates ICE officer-involved shootings in coordination with our law enforcement partners. Due to those ongoing investigations, no additional information is available at this time.”

Witnesses told 11Alive on Sunday afternoon that Liddell and Jones were arguing before the shooting.
According to Davidson, the entire exchange was recorded on parking lot surveillance video, and investigators are continuing to interview witnesses about what led to the shooting.
One witness, Erick Wright, told 11Alive it sounded like the two men had been arguing, he believes, over Liddell driving too close to, and apparently nearly hitting, Jones’ car.
When the victim was actually shot is unclear, but Wright said he saw the officer approach the car with his gun drawn, yelling for the man inside the car to put his hands up. The victim, Wright said, never got out of his car.

Watch the interview with the witness, Erick Wright:

 

Road rage? My brother Kirby called to tell me about this story, which is not getting national media attention, for some reason.




 

 

Category: Crime, Georgia

Feds Arrest Illegal Aliens Who Ran Mexican Drug Gang in North Carolina

Posted on | February 18, 2019 | Comments Off on Feds Arrest Illegal Aliens Who Ran Mexican Drug Gang in North Carolina

 

News we can expect CNN to ignore:

Six illegal immigrants with ties to a Mexican drug cartel — a rival of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, whose notorious leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was convicted last week— were arrested in an elaborate drug trafficking operation in North Carolina, according to reports.
The massive drug operation included transporting large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine across state lines — for instance, from Texas to Georgia and North Carolina, WSOC reported.
The feds identified the suspects as Oscar Rangel-Gutierrez, Regulo Rangel-Gutierrez, Francisco Garcia-Martinez, Rodolfo Martinez, Raul Rangel-Gutierrez and Rigoberto Rangel-Gutierrez.
“Members of the investigative team believe — based on wire intercepts, surveillance and other facts discovered from the investigation — that Oscar and Regulo transport illicit proceeds, derived from the sales of narcotics, when they travel from Myrtle Beach to Charlotte,” according to federal court documents, as WMBF reported.

Nothing to see here. Move along, people.

 

Category: Crime, Immigration, North Carolina

Lynching America: Jussie Smollett and the Prejudice of Anti-Trump Hatred

Posted on | February 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

“The media have summoned into existence a Hate-Hoax Industrial Complex that keeps manufacturing fake ‘incidents’ …”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Jan. 28

Americans nowadays consider “racist” the worst thing you could call someone, but I’m old enough to remember a time and place where quite the opposite was true. There is an 11-letter hyphenated compound that, in the South in the old days, was perhaps the foulest insult imaginable. The French phrase Amis des Noirs might be the most acceptable euphemistic substitute to describe white people who exhibited unusual sympathy toward African-Americans, an attitude considered philanthropic in 18th-century France, but less so in the Deep South circa 1964.

Have I ever mentioned that I’m from Georgia, and that when I was in second grade, Lester Maddox was elected our governor? So whenever I hear some allegedly clever liberal speak of “racism” or “white supremacy” in America now, it offends me because it insults my intelligence.

Buddy, I know what real racism looks like, and this ain’t it, OK?

Pete Da Tech Guy actually uses that 11-letter hyphenated compound while invoking To Kill a Mockingbird as an analogy for the liberal prejudices we’ve seen in the Jussie Smollett case. Tom Robinson was wrongly convicted “not only because the accusations fit [the jury’s] existing prejudices but they understand that to suggest in public that they believe a black man instead of a white woman might mark them as outside of their community beliefs and norms.” To say the least.

The profound racial prejudice once typical of the Deep South is quite nearly unknown in America today, but has been replaced among liberals by a partisan political prejudice, the belief that “racism” (or some other species of “hate”) is the only reason anyone votes Republican. The relevant “community” in this case are the Democrats and their media allies, whose “beliefs and norms” are offended whenever a Republican wins an election. Consider this news item:

Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker told reporters Sunday that he would withhold judgment on the alleged attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett after calling the incident “an attempted modern-day lynching” when it was first reported last month.
“I’m gonna withhold until all the information actually comes out from on-the-record sources,” the senator from New Jersey said after meeting with voters in Rochester, N.H. “We know in America that bigoted and biased attacks are on the rise in a serious way, and we actually even know in this country that since 9/11, the majority of the terrorist attacks on our soil have been right-wing terrorist attacks — the majority of them white supremacist attacks.”
Booker cited the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue this past October as well as the June 2015 shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C.

According to the FBI, more hate crimes have been reported in recent years, however (a) this does not mean “bigoted and biased attacks” have actually increased, nor is it correct to conclude that (b) attacks by “right-wing terrorists” or “white supremacists” are a majority of such crimes. Many incidents that might not have been reported as “hate crimes” in previous years are now being reported because of heightened attention to such crimes, and the category “hate crime” includes a lot of different offenses committed by different people for different reasons.

Go look at the actual FBI statistics for 2017, the most recent year available, and you’ll find that 21% of reported hate crimes (1,359) were committed by black people, and 9% (454) were committed by Hispanics. Whatever sort of “hate” motivated these offenders, I doubt their crimes can be described as “right-wing terrorist attacks.” In terms of motive, of the 7,175 hate-crime incidents reported by the FBI for 2017, more than 10% (741) were classified as “anti-white,” 13% (938) were “anti-Jewish.” There were 1,130 hate-crime incidents (16%) motivated by “sexual orientation” (including 32 “anti-heterosexual” hate crimes) and another 165 incidents (2.3%) motivated by gender or “gender identity,” including 22 “anti-male” hate crimes. My point is that not everything counted as a “hate crime” reflects what Senator Booker intends to suggest, i.e., that such crimes are “on the rise” because of President Trump.

What appears to have happened in the Jussie Smollett case is an effort to inflame and exploit prejudice against Trump voters — a vicious and deliberate slander against 62.9 million Americans:

Four below zero — that’s how cold it was at 2 a.m. in Chicago on Jan. 29, when actor Jussie Smollett claims he was the victim of a racist, homophobic hate crime perpetrated by two white Trump supporters. There were many reasons to be skeptical of Smollett’s story, but the fact that Chicago was experiencing a “polar vortex” of arctic cold was high on the list of doubts. Even if you could believe that two right-wingers would be stalking a not-very-famous actor in downtown Chicago, waiting for a chance to attack him on his way back from a wee-hours trip to a sandwich shop, why would they be doing this in -4°F weather?
Smollett’s story never made sense, and it came completely unraveled last week after Chicago police apprehended two of the Empire actor’s friends when they flew into O’Hare Airport, returning from a trip to Nigeria. According to reports by Chicago’s WBBM-TV and other outlets, brothers Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo and Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo were paid $3,500 by Smollett to stage the fake hate crime. Police have not yet filed any charges or given an official explanation of exactly what happened, and Smollett’s attorneys issued a statement Saturday asserting his innocence, but there is now every reason to believe that the whole thing was a complete hoax. If this proves to be the case, will any of the liberals who rushed to exploit Smollett’s tale face any consequences for smearing Trump supporters? . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.




 

 

Category: American Spectator, Chicago, Crime, Media Bias, Racism

Rule Five Sunday: Post-Valentine’s Day Pinup

Posted on | February 17, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hope everyone had a fun & happy Valentine’s Day. Today’s appetizer is courtesy of @kbdabear on Twitter.

Looks like somebody wants more sweets.

First out of the box is Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #531, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Friday Hot Stuff and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL starts out with Hot Lincoln Babes, followed by National Cheddar Day, Happy Valentines Day, Cupid, A Whole New World, Cat Lives Matter (Game of Thrones),  Gilly Is Coming, Game Of Thrones Pinups, Game Of Thrones Reunion We Want To See, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Gloomy Sunday.

A View From The Beach offers Shameless’ Emmy Rossum, Maryland to Reward Anglers, I Credit Global Warming, Happy Valentine’s Day, Some Retail Russiagate, The End of An Era, Terrible Choices Tuesday, Bay News Today, Throwing Out Some Red Meat for the Crowd, She’s a Black Magic Woman, Nipple Still Imprisoned in New Hampshire and Bearly Any Russiagate

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Daniela Rush, his Vintage Babe is Christie Brinkley, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Got Milk? At Dustbury, it’s Logan Browning and Annika Beck.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious links!


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Category: Rule 5

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | February 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

 

Skylar Williams was a student at Madison High School in Mansfield, Ohio, when she started dating Ty’rell Pounds, who was four years older than her. Their relationshiip was “toxic,” one of Skylar’s former teachers, Laurie Dean, told Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS-TV: “She dated him in high school, and I can remember students telling her then, ‘You should not be with him,’ and if only she listened.” Skylar had a baby with Pounds, but she broke up with him and had a protection order against him. She was attending the Mansfield campus of Ohio State University when Pounds abducted her at gunpoint shortly before 2 a.m. Monday. Pounds was driving a stolen car and headed south.

About four hours later, in Gallatin County, Kentucky, a man saw the couple at a gas station and said Skylar looked at him and mouthed the words: “Help me.” He went outside, called 911 and grabbed his pistol. When the couple exited the gas station, the man told Pounds to stop, but he put Skylar in the car and drove away, headed south on I-71. Police were soon in a high-speed pursuit and did a “pit” maneuver at the Crestwood exit. Pounds fatally shot Skylar inside the car, and then a Kentucky State Police trooper opened fire, killing Pounds.

Although the heartbreaking story of Skylar Williams’s death was widely reported in Ohio, national media have ignored this crime. Feminists, who so often talk about “toxic masculinity” as a factor in “violence against women,” have said nothing about this case, for some reason.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)




 

 

Category: Ohio, Violence Against Women
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