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In The Mailbox: 10.10.18

Posted on | October 10, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.10.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #404
EBL: Foods That Are A Lie
Twitchy: “Dear Diary” – Trump Adds Insult To Acosta’s Injury
Louder With Crowder: Envy Is Not Compassion!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #93 – The Environmentalism v. Feminism Episode
American Power: Hillary Incites Violence Against Republicans, also, Scott Greer, No Campus For White Men
American Thinker: Trump, Declassification, And Leverage
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Google Embraces Censorship
Da Tech Guy: Ten Truths Under My Fedora
Don Surber: Six Reasons Democrats Want To Abolish ICE, also, Angry Mob Complains Republicans Aren’t Graceful
Dustbury: Minus Plus
Fred On Everything: Vacation
The Geller Report: Shaheed Hussain & Son Arrested After Deadly Limo Crash, also, Here’s Why WH Leaker Dina Habib Powell Shouldn’t Replace Nikki Haley At The UN
Hogewash: White Progressivism’s Problem, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: The Cotton Theory Of The Ford Leak Overlooks Feinstein Speculation About “Friends”
Legal Insurrection: Eric Holder – “When They Go Low, We Kick Them”, also, Kavanaugh Bounce? Republicans Surge In Four Senate Races
Michelle Malkin: The Most Important Movie You’ve Never Heard Of – Gosnell
The PanAm Post: Brazil 2018 – Why Haddad Doesn’t Have A Prayer Of Beating Bolsonaro
Power Line: Was Rosenstein Serious About Wiretapping Trump? also, Political Correctness & Other White Elitist Fads
Shark Tank: Governor Rick Scott Warns “It’s Too Late To Get Out”
Shot In The Dark: Layers & Layers Of Gatekeepers
The Political Hat: The Grievance Studies Affair
This Ain’t Hell: Wednesday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, Ambassador Haley’s Letter Of Resignation
Victory Girls: Amazon Won’t Be The Downfall Of Our Country
Volokh Conspiracy: The Unintended Consequences Of “Ban The Box”
Weasel Zippers: Gun Grabber Emma Gonzalez Frets About Being Run Off The Road by Gun Owners, also, SCOTUS Allows SD To Enforce Full Voter ID Law For Upcoming Midterms
Megan McArdle: There’s No Excuse For Undermining SCOTUS’ Legitimacy


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What Media Bias Looks Like

Posted on | October 10, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Rush Limbaugh has remarked that if all he wanted to talk about was media bias, he could spend all day, every day talking about it. As someone who’s been in the conservative journalism business for more than 20 years of my 32-year career, I know exactly what Rush means. Our job, as communicators on the Right, is to attempt to counteract the tsunami of left-wing propaganda from the major media establishment. When I was working the national desk at The Washington Times, my job often involved editing wire copy to remove liberal bias. For example, take the latest item from the Associated Press and remove those phrases and clauses that represented an intrusion — subtle or explicit — of political prejudice. I became very adept at such work, and also was a master of what you might call the compiled summary. A mass shooting happens, for example, and you assemble a 500-word story with bits and pieces from multiple sources (AP, Reuters, local newspaper coverage, etc.) to present the event in a neutral way, rather than as a rallying cry for new gun-control laws (which is how the Washington Post would report it).

Most journalists live inside an echo-chamber of liberalism, and therefore have no concept of what’s wrong with their worldview. Limbaugh has pointed out that many liberals go into the journalism business because they “want to make a difference.” They consider themselves missionaries of enlightenment, battling the forces of ignorance, and the only way they ever look at a Republican is down. The type of people who work at CNN or the New York Times view GOP voters as so far beneath them — morally and intellectually inferior — that they don’t even deserve to be noticed, except insofar as they deserve to be hated. It is impossible to exaggerate the contempt with which Jim Acosta or Carol Costello regard the 63 million people who voted for Donald Trump. And what the soi-disant “elite” media cannot be bothered to contemplate is that their prejudice is a result of their own ignorance. It would be interesting, if you just happened to encounter Mika Brzezinski at a cocktail party, to say, “Have you ever read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed?” Or: “Have you ever read The Long March by Roger Kimball?”

Those are just a couple of titles on the list of Books Liberals Never Read, and the fact that they became “educated” (usually at very expensive private universities) without ever being exposed to any well-argued criticism of their beliefs is your first clue as to the source not only of their own political prejudice, but the general decline of intellectual standards in elite academia. Why is it that I’ve read so much Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky — picture me, circa 1995, with The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte as my bedtime reading — and yet none of the liberals who get paid to talk on cable-TV news programs can be bothered to read any of the books that well-informed conservatives have generally read? Do the anchors at CNN suppose that, for example, Heather Mac Donald is just a bigoted dimwit? Do they think Charles Murray is a clown?

Hillary Clinton basically endorsed terrorism against Republicans the other day, and nobody at CNN thought to call it what it was. How can we explain this tone-deafness except as evidence that the mainstream media has succumbed to a cult mentality? But I digress . . .

Sometimes media bias is so pervasive that we wouldn’t notice it — fish don’t notice water — if no one bothered to measure it analytically:

Between June 1 and September 30, mainstream media TV networks obsessed over negative stories about President Donald Trump and his administration, while almost entirely ignoring the good news about the booming Trump economy.
Coverage of Trump from ABC, CBS, and NBC was 92 percent negative, according to a Media Research Center (MRC) analysis. Even worse, the booming Trump economy received less than one percent of air time on these three networks.
The networks dedicated 342 minutes to the Russia “collusion” investigation, with coverage that was 97 percent negative on Trump. They spent 308 minutes discussing immigration policies, with 94 percent of that coverage negative. They spend 291 minutes on the Supreme Court battle over Brett Kavanaugh, 82 percent negative. The networks gave 179 minutes to the diplomacy with North Korea, 90 percent negative. They spent 151 minutes discussing Trump’s relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, 99 percent negative.
“Amid this sea of coverage, the networks spent almost no airtime — a mere 14 minutes, or 0.7 percent — on the administration’s economic achievements, including the positive effects of the tax cuts and deregulation, plus historic job growth,” MRC’s Rich Noyes reported.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) 



 

Category: Media Bias

Taylor Swift, SJW

Posted on | October 10, 2018 | Comments Off on Taylor Swift, SJW

 

Pop culture in the Age of Wokeness:

When did Phil Bredesen become a heroic figure in “the fight for LGBTQ rights”? That was the first thought that hit me when I read pop singer Taylor Swift’s endorsement of the Tennessee Democrat’s Senate campaign on her Tumblr fan page. Miss Swift seems to be under the impression that Bredesen, a 74-year-old former governor, is some kind of progressive Trojan Horse. While the Democrat has been trying to paint himself as a common-sense moderate, Miss Swift conveyed to her impressionable young fans the idea that Bredesen is secretly a Social Justice Warrior (SJW) committed to fighting “any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender” and ending the allegedly “terrifying, sickening and prevalent” problem of “systemic racism.”
Are those the themes of Bredesen’s campaign ads in Tennessee? Did I somehow miss the news that the septuagenarian former governor underwent an ideological makeover to become a radical clone of Cory Booker? Or is Miss Swift’s endorsement of Bredesen an ill-considered attempt by the singer to dispel the criticism she received from the Left for avoiding political commentary during the Trump era?
For months, leftists have been hammering Miss Swift for her failure to support Hillary Clinton’s campaign, or to condemn President Trump since his election. Despite being one of the most successful female entertainers in history, Miss Swift was accused of doing feminism wrong. The website Everyday Feminist slammed her in September 2015 with a headline: “5 Ways Taylor Swift Exemplifies White Feminism — And Why That’s a Problem.” . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.



 

Category: Celebrities, Election, Sex Trouble, Tennessee

In The Mailbox: 10.09.18

Posted on | October 9, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.09.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Strange Hybrid Fruits
Twitchy: The New Talking Points Are Out – Republicans Seizing On Those Angry Mobs We All Saw
Louder With Crowder: Watch Hillary Clinton Lecture Republicans On Lacking Civility

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How To Get Things Done
American Power: Mitch McConnell – I Never Thought Of Quitting, also, Happy Columbus Day
American Thinker: The Democrats’ Moral Confusion
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Road Rage News
BattleSwarm: Kavanaugh, The Aftermath
CDR Salamander: American Aircraft On Royal Navy Carriers. It’s A Thing.
Da Tech Guy: Hysterical Females Are Deadly, also, Fake News & The Academy
Don Surber: Bitter Old Rich White Man Angry Over Loss Of Political Power
Dustbury: Still Not Dead Yet
First Street Journal: A Proactive Bishop
The Geller Report: Islam & Freedom Cannot Coexist, also, German Father Charged For Protecting Daughter Against Migrant Rape
Hogewash: Two Views Into The Lagoon, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Legal Insurrection: Hillary Says Civility Not Possible Until Democrats Back In Control, also, Nikki Haley Resigns As UN Ambassador Effective 12/31, Will Campaign For Trump In 2020
The PanAm Post: Venezuela – One Of The Worst Cases Of Hyperinflation In History
Power Line: The K Smear & The Schumer Connection, also, Nikki Haley Resigns
Shark Tank: Trump Pushes Red Wave, But Not All Republicans Are Worthy
Shot In The Dark: October – But No Surprise
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Shenanigans! Illegality! Something!
The Political Hat: Normalizing Organ Harvesting As A Form Of Euthanasia
This Ain’t Hell: Army Vet Patrick Shields Stops Shooter At High School Game, also, Doxxing Boy Denied Bail
Victory Girls: Lisa Murkowski Facing Alaska GOP Backlash After Kavanaugh Vote
Weasel Zippers: Bernie Sanders Touts New World Order That Promotes Shared Misery Over State Sovreignty, also, Teaching Assistant Placed On Leave Following “Kill Kavanaugh” Tweet, FBI Investigating
Megan McArdle: It’s Anti-Woman To Judge Susan Collins Solely As A Woman
Mark Steyn: Darkest Hour Of The Eternal Present, also, Swingin’ Supremacists


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Anti-Male Georgetown Professor Uses Tumblr Blog to ‘Dox’ Her Critics

Posted on | October 9, 2018 | Comments Off on Anti-Male Georgetown Professor Uses Tumblr Blog to ‘Dox’ Her Critics

 

We have covered Georgetown Professor Christine Fair in the past:

Unhinged by Hate: Georgetown Professor
Harasses Trump Voter @AsraNomani
— Dec. 28, 2016

BREAKING: Anti-Male Georgetown
University Professor Now on Leave
— Oct. 5, 2018

Professor Fair is a textbook example of Herbert Marcuse‘s 1965 “progressive tolerance” (i.e., intolerance to conservatism) in action. Because the Left considers opposition to its ideology to be evil, leftists like Professor Fair believe they are justified in fighting their opponents “by any means necessary.” The Left recognizes no law or social norms that restrain them in attacking their chosen enemies.

PJMedia’s Toni Airaksinen reports the latest:

The Georgetown University professor who called for the “miserable deaths” of GOP senators admitted Thursday to PJ Media that she runs a “doxxing” blog where she posts the names, phone numbers, and addresses of people who send her rude emails.
The blog — “Sh*tMenSay” on Tumblr — was launched by Professor Christine Fair in January 2017. First, she began by posting screenshots of the “hate mail” she was sent by Facebook and email, typically only including names and people’s email addresses.
But as early as May 2017, Fair changed course. Instead of simply screenshotting the person’s email or Facebook message, Fair appears to have subscribed to a service that would help her figure out where these people exactly live.
PJ Media reviewed hundreds of posts (yes, hundreds) on “ShitMenSay” and identified 11 accounts of full-on doxxing, for which home addresses, phone numbers, photos, aliases, and occasionally work phone numbers and other family members were made public.
“When will these male trolls learn?” she wrote on September 28.
“I do research for a living. Locating their residences (these folks live in a town in [redacted] near an elementary school on [redacted] St.), their wives, employers, etc. is mental sport for me,” wrote Fair in one doxxing post.
“I will be notifying his current and past employer as well as his wife,” she wrote on a separate doxxing post. (PJ Media is not linking or screenshotting any of these posts due to privacy concerns for the victims of her blog.)
While Fair justifies her doxxing by calling it “accountability” for “harassment,” the emails that she received are garden-variety hate mail, and wouldn’t in any case rise to an illegal level of harassment. . . .

You can read the whole thing at PJMedia.

Let me say that I am against “hate mail,” whoever does it, on whatever side, and I am against “harassment” generally. On those occasions when I feel a need to express my indignation to someone via email, my language tends to be very formal, like a gentleman taking notice of an offense to his honor and challenging the offender to “pistols at dawn.” When a Southerner makes a point of calling you “sir” (“Pardon me, sir, if I have mistaken your intent in impugning my integrity …”) you know you’ve pissed him off bad. Furthermore, when you are communicating to a journalist or academic or anyone else who considers themselves an “intellectual,” it is important to avoid crude insults, sloppy grammar or misspellings. You don’t want to communicate in such a way as to confirm their opinion of you as an ignorant bigot. Remember: Always take the high road when responding to deranged totalitarian moonbats.

“What is best in life? To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.”



 

 

Category: Education

In The Mailbox: 10.08.18

Posted on | October 8, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.08.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Lady Mormont Calls Out Those Who Didn’t Support Brett Kavanuagh
Twitchy: Democrat Phil Bredesen May Have Just Erased Whatever Boost He Got From Taylor Swift
Louder With Crowder: Democrats Dismiss Keith Ellison Accusations For Lack Of Evidence

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Apparently Milo Is Going To Save Australia, also, Muh Gross Domestic Products!
American Power: U.S. Has Highest Share Of Foreign-Born Since 1910, also, Crux Of A Cold Civil War
American Thinker: Four Reasons Why “Climate Change” Is A Flat-Out Hoax
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: “We Ain’t Cray Cray Like Y’All!”
CDR Salamander: Russia’s Red Banner Year – On Midrats, also, Zumwalt – The Stillborn Transformation
Da Tech Guy: Yes, Money Drove The Anti-Kavanaugh Mob, also, Report From Louisiana – A Little Good News?
Don Surber: The Numbing Dumbness Of DC Reporters, also, How We Knew They Were Fake Republican Women
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Doc Octane Plots Against Us
First Street Journal: The WaPo Gives Space To A Conservative, But…
The Geller Report: Deadly Limo Owner Shaheed Hussain Was Arrested For Murder In Pakistan, also, “London Is More Islamic Than Many Muslim Countries Put Together”
Hogewash: BK v.BK, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Happy Colonialist Oppression Day
Legal Insurrection: Hillary & Bill Announce National Tour, also, New Poll Has Ted Cruz Up By 5 With Undecideds Moving Toward Him
The PanAm Post: Nicaraguan Universities Expelling Students For Protesting The Ortega Regime
Power Line: Hitler Learns The Democrats Have Failed To Block Kavanaugh, also, Minnesota Teacher – Let’s Murder Kavanaugh!
Shark Tank: Broward GOP Continues To Fail, Endorses Democrat Over Republican
Shot In The Dark: The Voice Of Minnesota!
STUMP: CALPERS Quickie – President Pushed Off The Board Due To ESG Over Pension Security
The Jawa Report: Blog Sabbath Caption Contest – Ultraloser Edition
The Political Hat: Public Schooling, Indoctrination, & Totalitarianism
This Ain’t Hell: Another Seven MIA Accounted For, also, 1LT Katie Blanchard Seeks $3.5 Million
Victory Girls: Trump On Kavanaugh Protesters – Don’t Give Power To A Left-Wing Mob
Volokh Conspiracy: Yet Another Federal Court Rules Against The Administration On A Sanctuary Cities Case
Weasel Zippers: Wells Fargo Bucks Corporate Gun Control Trend, Issues $40 Million Line Of Credit To Ruger, also, Felonia Von Pantsuit Says Kavanaugh Could Bring Back Slavery
Mark Steyn: Gosnell, also, Taking A Mile So They’ll Move An Inch


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The Last Kavanaugh Post, Ever

Posted on | October 8, 2018 | Comments Off on The Last Kavanaugh Post, Ever

 

Since my first post on the subject (“Democrats Pull the Sleaziest Smear in Their Long History of Sleazy Smears,” Sept. 15), I’ve written dozens of posts about the Kavanaugh confirmation circus, and I’m sure you’re as weary of the subject as I am. Neverthless, once the confirmation went through, I felt a need to eulogize this fit of political insanity:

Deranged and desperate, driven mad by President Trump’s successes, Democrats disgraced themselves in defeat as their dishonest smears failed to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as the 114th justice of the Supreme Court. As the nomination process culminated in a 50-48 Senate vote, Americans witnessed the stark insanity of howling mobs the Democrats unleashed on Capitol Hill.
The Senate vote was repeatedly interrupted by outbursts of screeching from protesters. J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department official, was in the gallery and was disturbed by one female protester’s insane screams: “She was like a feminist automaton: ‘I will not consent, I will not consent.’ Capitol Police… dragged her out the doors and down the hallway. I have visited hospitals for the seriously mentally ill, and the shrieks from this woman were as odd and unearthly as anything I ever heard inside a mental hospital.”
Democrats own this insanity. They are responsible for the madness unleashed by the tactics with which they sought to derail the Kavanaugh nomination. It is difficult to imagine that voters in next month’s midterm elections will reward Democrats for such embarrassing behavior. . . .

Read the rest of my latest American Spectator column.



 

Category: Supreme Court

Those Karlie Kloss Rumors Were True?

Posted on | October 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Those Karlie Kloss Rumors Were True?

Taylor Swift comes out as a Democrat, and Vox Day suggests this proves the rumors about her, uh, sexual fluidity. Video, or it didn’t happen.

Category: Celebrities
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