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In The Mailbox: 02.05.19

Posted on | February 6, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Reporter Doesn’t Understand Why .Gov Shouldn’t Take Care Of Every Problem
EBL: Put Down That Bong!
Twitchy: Democrat Women Wearing White Again Tonight – No, Not For That Reason
Louder With Crowder: Bernie Sanders Fakes A Phone Call To Dodge Questions About Justin Fairfax’s Accuser

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #101 – The Didact Interview, also, The Steps To Become A Man
American Power: Leftists Don’t Share The Same Goals, also, Leo Strauss, Natural Right And History
American Thinker: Democrats, The Party Of Destruction
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Mad Max News
BattleSwarm: Houston ISD School Board  – “A Step Below Hell”
Camp Of The Saints:
CDR Salamander: Your Motivational Picture Of The Month
Da Tech Guy: Democrats, A Union. And Corruption, also, Antidote To Trump Anxiety
Don Surber: Brad Pitt Trumpenfreude
Dustbury: This’ll Kill You
First Street Journal: True Confession – I Made Hangman’s Nooses!
The Geller Report: Pope Hugs & Kisses Sheikh Who Calls For Murder Of Those Leaving Islam, also, NYC – It’s The NYPD Lookalike Muslim Community Patrol
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Child Abuse?
Hollywood In Toto: DVD Autopsy – Speed Kills, also, HiT Episode #104 – Jon Levine
Joe For America: SOTU – Pelosi Frowns As Trump Lists America’s Great Achievements
JustOneMinute: Those Scary, Annoying Russians
Legal Insurrection: Trump’s SOTU – “Tonight, We Renew Our Resolve That America Will Never Be A Socialist Country”, also, Uh Oh – Fauxcahontas Registered With Texas Bar Association As American Indian
The PanAm Post: El Salvador’s New President Could Be More Dangerous Than FMLN Communists
Power Line: DNA Testing & College Admissions, also, The Epic Fraud Of Elizabeth Warren
Shark Tank: FL Republicans Ask Commerce Dept. To End Agreement With Mexican Tomato Growers
Shot In The Dark: It’s Technically Only Satire If It’s Not 100% True
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – We’re Number One!
The Political Hat: Volonte Generale – The Dawn Of The Hive Mind?
This Ain’t Hell: NOT MY PRESIDENT, also, Family Of Slain Navy Linguist Fights Reg That Forced Her Deployment To Syria
Victory Girls: Nancy Pelosi Needs Polident, STAT!
Volokh Conspiracy: Why The Demand For Fake News Is A More Serious Problem Than The Supply
Weasel Zippers: Democrat Senator Blocks Bill Banning Infanticide For Babies Surviving Abortion, also, Video – Northam Refuses To Shake Black Opponent’s Hand
Megan McArdle: In Attacking Neomi Rao, Democrats Are Arguing Against Progress In More Ways Than One
Mark Steyn: Aquarius, also, Getting There From Here


Amazon Warehouse – Post-Holiday Sale

Category: Linkagery

The Fetid Left-Wing Origins of @chick_in_kiev (Talia Lavin)

Posted on | February 5, 2019 | Comments Off on The Fetid Left-Wing Origins of @chick_in_kiev (Talia Lavin)

 

You may not remember the name Talia Lavin, but her anti-American prejudices were revealed in June 2018 when she falsely accused an ICE agent of having a neo-Nazi tattoo. It turned out that, in fact, the ICE agent was a Marine veteran who lost both his legs to a Muslim terrorist’s bomb in Afghanistan and that the tattoo Lavin mistook for a Nazi symbol was, in fact, the insignia of his Marine platoon. As a result of her idiotic blunder, Lavin was forced to resign from her job as a “fact-checker” for The New Yorker (while claiming victimhood, of course). Probably no one will be surprised to learn that Ms. Lavin is a Harvard alumna and a militant feminist who in 2014 wrote a Huffington Post column about being the victim of a “sexual assault” during her sophomore year. This wasn’t exactly a horrific trauma — she and some friends “drank heavily,” and she was “stumble-drunk and giggly” when a classmate, who was also drunk (and “totally into me,” she says) attempted to kiss her. That’s pretty much it. The guy was so drunk that the next day, he didn’t even remember what happened, but #MeToo or something. Whatever.

 

What kind of guy would be “totally into” Talia Lavin? A drunk Harvard guy, allegedly, but I’d rather not think about such pathetic desperation, which is a distraction from Ms. Lavin’s journalism career. After she resigned from the New Yorker, Ms. Lavin was hired by “Media Matters, a left-wing organization funded by socialist billionaire George Soros . . . to cover ‘far-right extremism.’” And it is from her “far-right extremism” beat that she produced her latest paranoid screed for the New Republic:

 

The Fetid, Right-Wing Origins
of “Learn to Code”
How an online swarm has developed a sophisticated mechanism to harass and gaslight journalists—and to get mainstream media outlets to join in.
By TALIA LAVIN
February 1, 2019
Last Thursday, I received the news that the HuffPost Opinion section — where I’d been opining on a weekly basis for a few months — had been axed in its entirety. The same opinion column had had a home at The Village Voice for some 21 weeks before that entire publication shuttered as well. “This business sucks,” I tweeted, chagrined at the simple fact that I kept losing my column because of the cruel, ongoing shrinkage of independent journalism in the United States. Dozens of jobs were slashed at HuffPost that day, following a round of layoffs at Gannett Media; further jobs were about to be disappeared at BuzzFeed. It was a grim day for the media, and I just wanted to channel my tiny part of the prevailing gloom.
Then the responses started rolling in—some sympathy from fellow journalists and readers, then an irritating gush of near-identical responses: “Learn to code.” “Maybe learn to code?” “BETTER LEARN TO CODE THEN.” “Learn to code you useless bitch.” Alongside these tweets were others: “Stop writing fake news and crap.” “MAGA.” “Your opinions suck and no one wants to read them.” “Lmao journalists are evil wicked cretins. I wish you were all jail [sic] and afraid.”
I looked at the mentions of my editors, who had been laid off after years at HuffPost, and of other journalists who had lost their jobs. There they were, the swarm of commentators, with their same little carbuncular message: “Learn to code.” . . .

Now, before we go wading into the, uh, fetid swamps of left-wing conspiracy theory where Ms. Lavin is leading us, permit me to remind readers that I wrote a lengthy post (“‘Learn to Code’ and the Collapse of the Millennial SJW Clickbait Bubble,” Jan. 25) about this meme. As has been pointed out, critics of the media began using this phrase to mock laid-off journalists because the media themselves used “learn to code” as advice to coal miners and other working-class people who lost their jobs as a result of Obama’s economic policies. All of which is make the point that the conspiracy theory Talia Lavin is about to lay on you is both (a) false and (b) an irrelevant distraction from the really important question: Why is the media so hated that everybody celebrates when journalists get laid off? But please, continue, Ms. Lavin:

But it was clear from the outset that this “advice” was larded through with real hostility — and the timing and ubiquity of the same phrase made me immediately suspect a brigade attack. My suspicions were confirmed when conservative figures like Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr. joined the pile-on, revealing the ways in which right-wing hordes have harnessed social media to discredit and harass their opponents.
What’s a brigade attack, you may ask? It’s a rather dramatic name for coordinated harassment, usually migrating from one social media site to another. Often hatched in the internet’s right-wing cesspools, these campaigns unleash a mass of harassment on unsuspecting targets. 4chan’s /pol/ board — a gathering-place for people who want to say the n-word freely, vilify feminists, and opine on nefarious Jewish influence — has an oversize role in organizing brigade attacks, in part due to the fact that all its users are anonymous.
While it’s difficult to trace the origins of brigading — like most of internet history, its beginnings are ephemeral — the term, and its tactics, came to new prominence during the loosely organized and militantly misogynist harassment campaign known now as GamerGate, which unfolded over the course of 2014 and 2015. . . .

Oh, dear God, #GamerGate! In case you’ve forgotten, that drama began with Zoe Quinn, a tattoo-covered, mentally ill ex-stripper whose real name is Chelsea Van Valkenburg, who was accused of trading sex to journalists for favorable coverage of her wretched game “Depression Quest.” What the participants in #GamerGate sought to do was to expose how feminists and other so-called “social justice warriors” (SJWs) were trying to gain control of the billion-dollar videogame industry by shady manipulative methods. Predictably, SJWs were able to recruit dishonest journalists to attack #GamerGate by portraying it as a “misogynistic harassment campaign,” of which Zoe Quinn and other no-talent losers claimed to be victims. The truth, however, was quite different:

Zoe Quinn is not an innocent victim of “harassment.” She deserves everything bad anyone might ever say about her. . . .
As Ethan Ralph says, Zoe Quinn is a fraud, who couldn’t program her way out of a wet paper sack, and whose status as a “game developer” is as fictional as the “blame-the-patriarchy” narrative she has created to depict herself as a saintly martyr for the feminist cause.

As for “brigading” as a tactic, it is more or less exclusive to Twitter, which did not exist before 2006 and did not become widely used until 2008. It was not until 2014, when the Left began complaining of “harassment” on Twitter, that I ever heard this swarming effect of hostile replies called “brigading,” although I myself had been targeted for orchestrated harassment on Twitter in 2012 after I started reporting on the Brett Kimberlin saga. Of course, nobody in the media notices harassment when the Left is attacking conservatives, so it’s as if that never happened, so far as liberals like Talia Lavin are concerned. (I was the intended target of a SWATting, and the guy responsible was sentenced to federal prison.)

Liberals consider it “hate” if you disagree with them, and it’s “harassment” if you criticize them, and yet Talia Lavin doesn’t seem to understand that the media’s blatant attempt to silence their critics might have something to do with why everybody hates journalists:

GamerGate was essentially a public test of weapons online trolls would use to inflict hell on anyone who they perceived as enemies, with a central focus on journalists. Its tactics have only grown in sophistication in the intervening years. . . .
When I smelled the putrid odor of a brigade attack, I decided to do a little research into the origins of this sudden, and plainly coordinated, bombardment of “learn to code” tweets. (There were also death threats and a flood of anti-Semitic Instagram comments.) It was a fairly simple operation: I clicked over to 4chan’s /pol/ board and searched for the phrase.
In a thread entitled “HAPPENING – Huffpo / Buzzfeed / other MSM garbage (((journalists))) FIRED,” which discussed the extant and impending layoffs, there were dozens of responses laying out the “learn to code” plan. . . .
Tucker Carlson, Fox News’s most openly white-supremacist host and a frequent amplifier of far-right meme warfare, ran a segment about the trolling campaign for his roughly three million viewers. . . .
For me, the open hostility of “learn to code” was, from the first moment, compounded by escalating misogyny and anti-Semitism . . . .
The experience of the “learn to code” campaign was being bombarded with harassment that others stridently claimed wasn’t harassment; being told death threats were a joke; having my name broadcast mockingly on Fox News — all for the temerity of tweeting about losing a column. It was an experience of being mugged by gaslight.

Here’s a suggestion for Ms. Lavin that I’m sure she will ignore: Maybe consider the possibility that the reason people hate you is . . . you.

YOU SMEARED A WAR HERO AS A NAZI! THE GUY YOU FALSELY SMEARED WAS WORKING TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL PREDATORS! YOU ARE A BAD PERSON, TALIA LAVIN!

And this applies more or less equally to everyone who got laid off at BuzzFeed and HuffPo, especially including Chloe Angyal, who boasted of imposing quotas to discriminate against white males at HuffPo. While she was busy preventing white men from publishing opinions at HuffPo, what sort of columns did Chloe Angyal pay for?

If Democrats Want To Win, They Need
To Embrace The Power Of Rage
— Talia Lavin, Jan. 1

I Want A Woman President.
I’m Not Afraid to Say So Anymore.
— Talia Lavin, Jan. 6

Tax The Rich, Then Tax Them Some More
— Talia Lavin, Jan. 12

If You Think Trans Rights Are A Distraction, You’re Part Of The Problem
— Talia Lavin, Jan. 22

Real thought-provoking stuff, eh? Ms. Lavin’s dumbed-down partisan drivel served no useful purpose, and nobody will miss her weekly columns at HuffPo, which was only published to inflate the numbers for Chloe Angyal’s “diversity” quotas. Now she’s peddling paranoia at The New Republic, trying to convince her fellow dimwits that a bunch of guys on 4chan who “say the n-word freely, vilify feminists, and opine on nefarious Jewish influence” are a menace to democracy or something.

And look at what results Ms. Lavin produces:

 

Yes, Ben Popken of NBC News is encouraging journalists to report any account that tweets “learn to code” at them. Stephen Green quips:

You know, this little snitch is probably patting himself on the back and thinking, “Not all heroes wear capes.”

They are trying to ban Republicans from using the Internet at all — that’s the real bottom line of all this. Journalists are now partisan operatives for the Democrat Party, and consider it part of their job to smear anyone who disagrees with them as a right-wing “white supremacist.”

And they wonder why we hate them . . .




 


Category: Media Bias

Left-Wing Journalist Hacks Email of Republican Billionaire Joe Ricketts

Posted on | February 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Left-Wing Journalist Hacks Email of Republican Billionaire Joe Ricketts

GOP billionaire Joe Ricketts (left); left-wing journalist Molly Osberg (right).

John Joseph “Joe” Ricketts got rich from the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade, and retired from the business in 2011 to concentrate on philanthropy. Ricketts is a staunch conservative, a Nebraska native and Catholic father of four, and his family bought the Chicago Cubs in 2009. Ricketts is also interested in journalism, and in 2009 created DNAinfo-dot-com, a site devoted to local news in New York and Chicago. He shut down the site in 2017, one week after employees voted to unionize. Ricketts hates unions, considering them a divisive force, destructive of the esprit de corp necessary to business success. God bless him.

In December 2018, a left-wing journalist named Molly Osberg, who writes for the Gizmodo-owned website Splinter News, began publishing a series called “The Billionaire’s Inbox,” with emails apparently obtained from hacking Joe Ricketts’ personal account. The legality of the methods by which Ms. Osberg obtained these emails is a matter on which I would be hesitant to offer an opinion. The hacking of John Podesta’s emails is currently being investigated by a federal special prosecutor, but hacking a private citizen’s email? That’s what is now considered “investigative journalism,” I guess. At any rate, Molly Osberg keeps publishing batches of Ricketts’ private correspondence, e.g., “The Ricketts On Capitalism and Electoral Politics” (Dec. 17), and “How to Get Filthy Rich in America Without Anyone Knowing Your Name” (Jan. 31), and one would suppose Ricketts might hire a squad of top lawyers to stop this embarrassing drip-drip-drip disclosure, but for some reason it continues.

Monday, Osberg published the latest batch of Ricketts emails (“Here Are The Racist Conspiracy Emails Rotting Right-Wing Billionaire Joe Ricketts’ Brain“), which include some Obama “birther” stuff and other offensive materials, and these revelations finally caused a public reaction:

A series of emails obtained and published by Splinter News on Monday appears to show Joe Ricketts, the patriarch of the family that owns the Cubs, sharing and endorsing racist jokes and conspiracy theories.
Ricketts, 77, and his son and team Chairman Tom Ricketts, issued separate statements regarding the emails after they were posted.
“I deeply regret and apologize for some of the exchanges I had in my emails,” Joe Ricketts said in a statement. “Sometimes I received emails that I should have condemned. Other times I’ve said things that don’t reflect my value system. I strongly believe that bigoted ideas are wrong.” . . .
Tom Ricketts emphasized that his father isn’t involved in the operations of the Cubs, although Joe Ricketts sold 34 million shares of the TD Ameritrade company he founded for about $403 million to cover the equity needed to purchase the Cubs in 2009.
“We are aware of the racially insensitive emails in my father’s account that were published by an online media outlet,” Tom Ricketts wrote in his statement. “Let me be clear: the language and views expressed in those emails have no place in our society.
“My father is not involved with the operation of the Chicago Cubs in any way. I am trusted with representing this organization and our fans with a respect for people from all backgrounds. These emails do not reflect the culture we’ve worked so hard to build at the Chicago Cubs since 2009.”

Well, why and how is this happening?

That’s the real question. Let us stipulate that almost anyone has stuff in their email account which, if made public, could be embarrassing, and furthermore stipulate that any 77-year-old Republican’s frank opinions about such subjects as Islam and immigration might be a public-relations disaster for any institution with which he was associated, if a left-wing journalist somehow hacked his private communications.

But I don’t think Molly Osberg has super-hacker skills, nor do I think Joe Ricketts’ account got hacked by some shadowy crew of hostile online antagonists. No, my hunch is this is an inside job.

Let’s go through some background: During the 2016 GOP primaries, Joe Ricketts poured his money and effort into stopping Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination. He bankrolled something called “Our Principles PAC,” led by Katie Packer, a former aide to the Romney and Jeb Bush campaigns, which ran ads attacking Trump as a misogynist. After Trump secured the nomination, however, Ricketts had a change of heart and began spending millions to support Trump. “The Ricketts decided they could not sit back and watch Hillary Clinton become the next president of the United States,” Ricketts adviser Brian Baker told the Wall Street Journal in September 2016. Todd Ricketts was recently named finance chair of the Trump 2020 campaign.

If the leak of Ricketts’ private emails were an inside job — which is the most obvious explanation of how Molly Osberg got this scoop — doesn’t it make sense that the culprit might be some “Never Trump” type within the billionaire’s inner circle? Suppose that there was someone working for Ricketts who grudgingly went along with that 2016 switch from anti-Trump to pro-Trump, but secretly disagreed with the decision and, instead of quitting his or her job for the Ricketts political operation, became a sort of mole engaged in espionage and sabotage.

While I know nothing about who has worked for Ricketts, if I were betting money, I’d put $20 on such an explanation for how and why Molly Osberg got hold of those emails — never trust a Never Trumper.

On the other hand, maybe one of Joe Ricketts’ children decided to throw Dad under the bus because they don’t like being under the old man’s thumb. The prime suspect in that scenario would be his daughter, Laura Ricketts, a lesbian Democrat who is chairwoman of LPAC, a lesbian Super PAC that launched the “Lesbians for Hillary” website in 2015. So if Laura Ricketts ever had access to her father’s account, this could explain how his personal emails got dumped in Molly Osberg’s lap.

My hunch is that Joe Ricketts already knows who leaked his emails, and I wonder why this information hasn’t already become public. But speculation is mere speculation, and I suppose that if we’re patient, the truth about this sasbotage operation will eventually become known.

On a completely unrelated note, the fundraiser to support Gavin McInnes’s lawsuit against the SPLC has now raised nearly $30,0000 — more than double what it was Monday evening when I gave $10.

 

Category: Journalism, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 02.04.19

Posted on | February 5, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: No MAGA Hats In Streeterville
EBL: Happy Chinese New Year!
Twitchy: Guess What Justin Fairfax Was Up To At The Time Of The Alleged Physical Assault
Louder With Crowder: USA Powerlifting Bans Transgender Women From Female Competition

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Telstra Is An Anti-Australian Company, also, Clementine Ford Rescued By White Male Taxpayers
American Power: Life Without The “Big 5” Tech Giants, also, Justice Democrats To Wage War On Their Own Party
American Thinker: Infanticide Abortion May Be Only The Beginning, also, Homo RICO – The Feds Need To Bust Big Gay
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Europe’s Dysfunctional Defense Dilemma, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: The Stalingrad Schoolhouse
Da Tech Guy: A Deeper Look At Northam, also, Five Super Bowl LIII Thoughts
Don Surber: The Video The Media Should Fear, also, Ram Trumpenfreude
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Teardrops On Your Router
First Street Journal: The Democrats & The Politics Of Division, also, A Pusillanimous Cardinal
The Geller Report: Dem Rep Tlaib Lied About Residency To Run For Office, Registered To Vote At False Address, also, VT Democrats Elect Nation’s First Muslim Party Chair; Has Deep Terror Ties To Al-Qaeda
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Manufacturing Outrage
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s Why The Superbowl Halftime Show Bombed
Joe For America: Mary Poppins Branded Racist By Professor Over Soot On Face
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile, Back In West Texas
Legal Insurrection: Typhus Crisis In Los Angeles Worsens, also, Study Reveals Extensive Links Between BDS, Terrorist Organizations
The PanAm Post: With Bolsonaro, Brazil Is Wall Street’s New Favorite, also, Guaido Tells Mexiso & Uruguay – No Talks With Human Rights Violators
Power Line: A Sandmann Lawsuit Preview, also, Democrats Near Meltdown In Virginia
Shot In The Dark: Echoes Over The Desert
STUMP: The Undeniable Corruption of Chicago & Illinois, Part III
The Jawa Report: Breaking! Elmer Doesn’t See Shadow!
The Political Hat: Who Runs Venezuela?
This Ain’t Hell: CBS Rejects Pro-Flag, Anti-Kaepernick “Just Stand” Super Bowl Ad, also, War Crimes Prosecution Against Navy SEALS Takes Double Hit
Victory Girls: The Fall Of Northam – It’s About Time We Started Fighting Back
Volokh Conspiracy: The Northam & Kavanaugh Controversies, And Long-Past Misbehavior
Weasel Zippers: Shocker! Gov Who Endorsed Infanticide Got $2 Million From Planned Parenthood, also, Gladys Knight Schools Don Lemon After He Questions Her Singing national Anthem At Super Bowl
Mark Steyn: The Johnnie Cochrane Of The Great White North? also, The Day After Tomorrow


Amazon Warehouse – Post-Holiday Deals

Category: Linkagery

Gavin McInnes Sues SPLC

Posted on | February 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Gavin McInnes Sues SPLC

 

This is a very important development:

Conservative commentator and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes is reportedly suing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for “defaming” him, publishing “false, damaging and defamatory statements,” and attempting to “deplatform” him.
McInnes’ lawyer, Ron Coleman, published the full complaint online, Monday. McInnes is raising money for the legal fight at defendgavin.com.
“Mr. McInnes, his associates and his family have been successfully targeted for personal and professional destruction by a self-appointed enforcer of such orthodoxy, defendant SPLC, to achieve SPLC’s own ideological, political and financial (i.e., fundraising) ends, as alleged further below,” the complaint alleged. “As also detailed below, the primary method SPLC uses to achieve its goals and those of its donors is by identifying activists, political figures and groups as targets or enemies of society and designating its enemies ‘extremists,’ ‘white supremacists,’ ‘hate groups’ and the like… Although the SPLC Hate Designations are not empirical statements of fact, and are frequently entirely counter-factual, the SPLC Hate Designations are nonetheless intended by SPLC and treated by the mainstream press, law enforcement, courts and social media organizations not as SPLC’s opinion but rather as objective, empirical factual determinations.” . . .
Last year, it was revealed that at least 60 groups were considering legal action against the SPLC following anti-extremist activist Maajid Nawaz’s successful lawsuit against the organization.
The SPLC paid Nawaz a $3.3 million settlement and made a public apology after the organization included him in a list of “anti-Muslim extremists,” despite Nawaz being Muslim himself.
In June, a Washington Post columnist claimed the SPLC had lost “all integrity and credibility.”
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Spotify, and Twitter all reportedly work with the SPLC, and the organization even works with YouTube to police the platform.
The SPLC has received millions of dollars in donations from Apple CEO Tim Cook and Hollywood actor George Clooney.

You should read the entire complaint online, as McGinnes’s legal team go point-by-point in explaining how the SPLC’s “hate” label is being used to silence conservative voices. When McGinnes started Proud Boys, it was basically a social thing — meet-ups for fans of his podcasts — but then the media started paying attention, Trump got elected, and “Antifa” started harassing the Proud Boys. Last year, SPLC evidently decided to target McInnes for destruction, and this lawsuit is about his refusal to be destroyed. Keep in mind, SPLC is also being sued by Baltimore attorney Glen Keith Allen, and many other organizations are said to be contemplating their own lawsuits. Whatever the ultimate outcome of these suits, they are valuable in that (a) the SPLC is forced onto the defensive, and (b) if the lawsuits get to the discovery phase, we could learn a lot about the internal workings of their billion-dollar smear machine. The fact that SPLC was willing to pay $3.3 million to Nawaz shows how much they fear what might be revealed in discovery.

You can click here to donate to DefendGavin.com — as of 8 p.m. ET, they’d raised about $12,000, including $10 from me.

 

Category: Racism

MS-13 Kills Man on NY Train Platform

Posted on | February 4, 2019 | Comments Off on MS-13 Kills Man on NY Train Platform

Fox News reports:

A suspect reportedly has been taken into custody Monday following the murder of a man on a New York City subway platform a day earlier in what is being investigated by police as a “gang-related” attack, possibly involving an MS-13 member.
The identity of the suspect is unclear, but a police source that spoke to the New York Post said the individual is currently being questioned by police at a precinct house.
“We have a person in custody,” the source told the newspaper. “Motive is gang-related.”
Law enforcement sources told NY1 earlier today that the shooter belongs to MS-13 and the victim was a member of the 18th Street gang, one of MS-13’s rivals. An interactive map created by the New York Daily News shows both gangs have been active in the area where the killing happened.
Police have been looking for two persons of interest seen in a graphic video of the shooting that has been circulating on social media. Police also have released an image of one of the persons of interest — the suspected shooter — fleeing the 90th Street-Elmhurst Avenue subway station in the Queens borough. It was not immediately clear Monday if that person is the one in custody.
Police say the incident happened around noon Sunday when the victim and two men started arguing on a train and the dispute spilled out onto the platform.
It’s uncertain what the disagreement was about – but the video first shows the men wrestling with the victim on the ground amid the cries of terrified passengers.
The shooter then breaks free, pulls out a small handgun and is heard firing at least six shots at the victim, sending those on the platform running for their lives.

You can watch the video:

Remember that New York politicians like Sen. Chuck Schumer claim it’s “racist” to demand deportation of illegal immigrants.

Category: Uncategorized

‘Chaos’ in Virginia: Northam Besieged, Lieutenant Governor Denies Sex Assault

Posted on | February 4, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Chaos’ in Virginia: Northam Besieged, Lieutenant Governor Denies Sex Assault

 

Interesting lead from the Washington Post:

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax issued a statement early Monday denying a sexual assault allegation that appeared on the same conservative website that posted a racist photograph from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page.

They’re trying to discredit the story by attacking the messenger, Patrick Howley’s Big League Politics, which scooped them on the story:

A woman named Vanessa Tyson, who is a fellow at Stanford University, says that a man who allegedly sexually assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention is now an office-holder about to get a “very big promotion,” according to a screenshot provided by a tipster. A friend of Tyson’s named Adria Scharf, based in Richmond, Virginia, shared the “heartbreaking” message, which Tyson wrote as a private post.
Tyson is a fellow at California-based Stanford University and professor at California-based Scripps College, which means the alleged sexual assaulter must hold office on the East Coast. Tyson says her alleged attacker won statewide office in 2017.
Justin Fairfax was a John Kerry staffer in 2004, and won an election in 2017 in an East Coast state. Now, he is poised to become governor of Virginia if racist Ralph Northam resigns as Democratic leaders and his own state party demand. . . .
Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax took to Twitter around 3:00 AM to release a statement confirming the alleged sexual assault victim Vanessa Tyson took her allegations to the Washington Post “more than a year ago,” after which the Washington Post spiked the story.

So, in denying the allegation, Lt. Gov. Fairfax reveals that the Washington Post sat on this story for a full year. But now Northam is in trouble because of his blackface yearbook photo, and the guy who would become governor if Northam resigns is under a cloud of scandal but — plot twist — Virginia Democrats had no idea about the allegations against Fairfax because the Post was complicit in burying Vanessa Tyson’s story.

The New York Times describes the chaos in Richmond:

Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, abandoned by allies in the Democratic Party and besieged by demands that he resign, met with his cabinet Monday morning as state legislators returned to a Capitol thrown into chaos by the governor’s insistence on staying in office despite revelations that a photograph showing people in blackface and Ku Klux Klan robes was displayed on his medical school yearbook page.
But even after meeting Sunday night with a group of his African-American aides, most of whom told him the only way he could clear his name would be to quit, Mr. Northam was giving no indication that he intended to step down.
As Mr. Northam dug in, his onetime allies in the state and national Democratic Party intensified their pleas that he quit, angry and embarrassed at the prospect of being saddled with a governor suddenly compromised by his past. . . .
And the turmoil enveloping the state only grew when, at 2:55 Monday morning, aides to Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who would succeed Mr. Northam were he to resign, issued an extraordinary statement denying an online report that the lieutenant governor had once committed sexual assault.
“He has never assaulted anyone — ever — in any way, shape or form,” said two of Mr. Fairfax’s top staff members. They were responding to an accusation published late Sunday that in 2004 he sexually assaulted a woman while at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

Patrick Howley has single-handedly wrecked the Democrat Party in Virginia. Remind me to buy him a beer at CPAC. By the way, I don’t claim to know whether Justin Fairfax is innocent or guilty, but the liberal media didn’t care about such things when it came to Brett Kavanaugh.



 

Category: Democrats, Racism, Scandal, Virginia

Another Victory for ‘White Nationalism’

Posted on | February 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Another Victory for ‘White Nationalism’

 

Wide receiver Julian Edelman was the MVP of last night’s Super Bowl in Atlanta, with 10 catches for 141 yards to lead the New England Patriots to a 13-3 victory over the L.A. Rams, the sixth NFL championship for Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Eight times, Edelman caught passes that produced first downs for New England in a defensive struggle where field position and time-of-possession were crucial factors. And, according to liberal journalist Corbin Smith of the Daily Beast, this was a victory for (you guessed it) racism:

[T]he Super Bowl-bound New England Patriots held a rally [Jan. 27] for their sweatiest fans at Gillette Stadium. Brady gave a speech. It ended… unnervingly.
WE’RE STILL HERE! WE’RE STILL HERE! Obviously, Brady is referring to his aging, decrepit, cheating-ass squad’s progression to the big game. But, imagine you didn’t know anything about football, or who Tom Brady was, or anything like that. You would think that you were watching some square-jawed grifter throwing red meat to the hogs at an alt-right rally, screaming at the libs who thought Nancy Pelosi and her gender warriors were gonna keep DECENT AMERICAN FOLKS from BEING HERE.
Of course, even if you do know stuff about Brady you may still think he’s on his way to pursuing this line of grifting. He flashed a red MAGA hat, an accoutrement that is gaining more and more traction as a symbol of white nationalism in America, in his locker back in the primary days. He wasn’t the only one! Patriots’ Coach Bill Belichick wrote a goddamn letter to Trump right before the end of the campaign that basically amounted to an endorsement, that Trump then read on stage. And Pats’ owner Robert Kraft is also his pal, and was even shouted out at Trump’s pre-Inauguration dinner in D.C. for his most deep-pocketed donors. . . .

(Note the logic: According to The Daily Beast, “white nationalism” is the only reason Donald Trump is president, therefore everyone who voted for Trump — all 62.9 million — is a racist. In this childishly simplistic liberal worldview, America is divided into two camps — good people, who vote Democrat, and racists, who vote Republican.)

Look, it doesn’t matter if the Patriots like it or not, they are the official team of American White Nationalism, the MAGA Boys On the Field. You can’t implicitly or explicitly support Trump, who reads speeches written by Stephen Miller as a matter of course, play in a market whose sporting culture is renowned for its racism, have a decade-plus organizational obsession with undersized white receivers, and be called, no shit, the Patriots, without getting the vile Fox News Soup that poisoned half the country on your shirt. Try to put on a bib of distancing yourself, deflecting questions, telling everyone your wife told you to stop talking about it, that shit isn’t gonna work. You’re the MAGA Kid. It’s on you forever. It stalks and haunts you.
When you root for the Patriots, you are associating yourself with a virulent and revolting strain of politics that seeks to Make America Great Again — which is to say, white, European, English-speaking.

You can read the rest of that deranged screed, and I should point out that the writer Corbin Smith is himself “white, European, English-speaking,” which raises the question: What’s wrong with that?

This is a question liberals avoid. In post-Obama America, the assumption that “white” is a synonym for bad or wrong permeates their minds, and you might think the only way Corbin Smith could fully expunge his sense of white guilt would be to commit suicide, but he won’t do that. Instead, his self-hatred manifests itself as Trump Derangement Syndrome, and as should be obvious by now, this is an incurable mental disorder.

What liberal journalists don’t seem to consider is the consequences of their increasing tendency to identify something that is popular or successful in American life, and then label it “racist.” If everything people actually like is denounced as “white supremacy,” well . . .?

 

But speaking of “undersized white receivers,” Edelman is remarkable. He played quarterback in college at Kent State, and he was the 232nd draft pick overall when the Patriots got him in the seventh round in 2009, for a signing bonus of less than $50,000. For his first couple of seasons, he was mainly used as a punt returner, also occasionally filling in at defensive back, and didn’t emerge as a real star until 2014, when he made 92 catches for 972 yards and caught the winning touchdown in the 2015 Super Bowl. At 5-foot-10, Edelman is indeed “undersized” for an NFL wide receiver, but he is fast and muscular and he runs patterns with moves that make defensive backs look like stumbling fools. Sunday night, he was the best he’s ever been:

“I was always taught as a young boy, work as hard as you can, put in the extra time and we’ll see where it goes,” Edelman said. . . .
“Tough times don’t last. Tough people do,” Edelman said. “I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.”

Yeah — hard work is now “white nationalism,” I guess.



 

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