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In The Mailbox: 12.26.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 27, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.26.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I would like to take this opportunity to thank one of our most prolific linkers and commenters, EBL. Here we have a photo taken by noted werewolf novelist & birder Julie Frost on the occasion of EBL’s escape from a secret government research facility where USDA researchers were attempting to create actual spherical cows for physics research purposes.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Just kidding, it’s Grok.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: California Isn’t Sure If You Can Defend Yourself from Wild Animals, also The Hanukkah Song
EBL: Good King Wenceslas|English Christmas Carol, MONDO CANE, Tammy Hembrow, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, and Long Life Yoga?
Twitchy: Did Americans Vote For Trump Or Is Something Darker Going On? Political Post-Mortem, and Sean Hannity & Ainsley Earhardt Announce Engagement
Louder With Crowder: Boxer Imane Khelif Gets Third Place For AP’s Female Athlete of the Year
Vox Popoli: At Least They’re Good for the Economy, Wailing at the Roman Wall, and The Ice Expands
Stoic Observations: Big Data 1997
Jim McCoy: The Disappearance Of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Leave Syria to the Syrians, also, If Elite Composition Matters, Skilled Immigration Matters
American Greatness: Lefty Legal Experts Call on Congress to Disqualify Trump in Last Ditch Effort to Keep Him From Taking Office, Occasional Cortex Loses Battle for Top Democrat Slot on Oversight Committee, Could 2024 Trump’s Victory Counter a 2026 ‘Midterm Curse’? What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election? and Trump-mentum!
American Thinker: The Seminal Event in the First Quarter of the 21st Century, also, A World Without Christ?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, also, Merry Christmas!
Babalu Blog: South Korea delays embassy opening in Cuba due to shortages in essential materials, such as furniture, The Castro dictatorship’s end of year gift to Cubans, Cuba healthcare crisis: 32,586 professionals quit or fled island in one year (in addition to 37,000 sent as slaves abroad), and Cuban women spend 30% of their income on menstrual hygiene products if they are lucky enough to find them
BattleSwarm: Paxton Sues NCAA Over Men In Women’s Sports, Stellarscope’s “Silent Night”, and ASML Exits, China Screwed
Behind The Black: The real meaning of the Apollo 8 Earthrise image, Russia launches earth resources satellite, The known history of the Colossus of Rhodes, Just one of many potential hiking trails down into Valles Marineris, and New climate research debunks CO2’s ability to warm the atmosphere, even as other research shows CO2 greens the Earth
Cafe Hayek: Slandering Friedman and Hayek
CDR Salamander: Cables, Pipelines, & Consequences
Chicago Boyz: Two Hundred Years of Christmas, A Memory – Christmas in the Barracks, 1978, Nothing Personal, It’s Just Business. Well, Actually, It Is All Personal. Because Business is Personal., and January 6th and the Dog That Didn’t Bark
Da Tech Guy: ,Get Yourself to Mass ,Starting Christmas with the Most Spectacular Gift of All Communists and Nazis also waged War on Christmas, and The Feast of Stephen and Two Reminders
Don Surber: Back to politics
Gates Of Vienna: Diversity Has Become a Synonym for “Stay at Home if You Want to Stay Alive Longer”, A Light Has Come Into the World, A Christmas Message From Marine Le Pen, Iranian Women Courageously Resist Sharia Hijab Oppression, and An Allahu Akhbar Christmas in Germany
The Geller Report: President Erdogan’s Son Calls for Turkey to Takeover Israel:”Yesterday Hagia Sophia, today the Umayyad Mosque, tomorrow Al-Aqsa.”, also, ‘Palestinians’ violently attack Bethlehem church during Christmas rehearsals
Hollywood In Toto: Kathy Griffin Claims Rogan & Musk Fans Declared War on Women, Babygirl Capsized by Woke, Wobbly Ending, Late-Night TV Has a Luigi Mangione Problem, Sony CEO in Deep Denial about Madame Web & Kraven, and Candace Owens vs. The Babylon Bee
The Lid: Microsoft Billionaire Bill Gates Wants to Destroy Vax Skepticism with Artificial Intelligence Censorship, also, Jerrold Nadler’s Anti-Trump Manifesto
Legal Insurrection: European Energy Firm Ordered to Remove 84 Wind Turbines from Osage Lands In Oklahoma, Congress Must Stop Trump From Being Sworn In, Argues Column in The Hill, 20 Big Cats at a Washington State Sanctuary Die of Bird Flu, Israel Conducts Retaliatory Airstrikes in Yemen, Hits Houthi-Held Airports and Ports, and Tufts University’s Latest Course is About ‘Transcestors’
Nebraska Energy Observer: And so this is Christmas, Christ Mass (as it used to be written), and Our Help in Troubled Times
Outkick: Colorado, Deion Sanders Did Right By Travis Hunter And Shedeur Sanders With Alamo Bowl Insurance Coverage, Joe Burrow’s Sometimes Lesbian ‘Friend’ Olivia Ponton Accused Of ‘Queer Baiting’, NFL Pro-Bowl WR Desean Jackson Finalizing Deal To Become Delaware State Coach, Joining Michael Vick In MEAC, NFL Delivers Record Numbers On Netflix And LeBron James Must Be Crying, and Carmen Electra Wrapped Up In A Red Bow For Christmas, LeBron’s A Fool & Mark Cuban Takes Another L In 2024
Power Line: Pictures from the Biden family business, You Can’t Subsidize It Enough, and Cuba Runs Out of Sugar
Shark Tank: Patronis “Inspired” To Serve In Congress
Shot In The Dark: Follow The Bouncing Imperative, also, Missing Inaction
STUMP: 2024 Twelve Days Of Christmas Costs – Data Update
The Political Hat:  12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 12)
This Ain’t Hell: Christmas in war, Ethics group calls out ethically suspect pols, and Government agency accused of censoring conservatives closes its doors
Transterrestrial Musings: The Mendacity Of The Media, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, The Year In Review, Climate Research, and Tech And Immigration
Victory Girls:  Kamala Harris’s Attitude Explains Why Dems Are Flailing Now, also, Let’s STOP Telling Democrats Where They’ve Gone Wrong
Watts Up With That: OECD Pushes Recruiting 15yr Old Child Climate Activists, European Energy Firm Ordered to Remove 84 Wind Turbines from Osage Lands In Oklahoma, New York’s New $75 Billion Climate Law – Legal, Economic, and Scientific Questions, and Biden Admin Invoked ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ To Cut Alaska Drilling, But Some Tribal Leaders Are Ready For Trump
The Federalist: The Most Politically Absurd Things Americans Had To Endure This Year, The Future Of The American Experiment Depends On Mothers With Large Families, Shunning Friends And Family For Their Political Beliefs Is An Affront To The Spirit Of Christmas, Animosity Against Jews Demonstrates Leftist Icon Greta Thunberg’s Extremism, and How Trump And The Republicans Became The Party Of George Bailey
Mark Steyn: The Depravity of Diversity, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Christmas Day with Mark and Friends, and Christmas/Chanukah/Boxing Day Links

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In The Mailbox: 12.26.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 26, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.26.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Happy Boxing Day! Hope you all got what you wanted for Christmas.
If I had posted yesterday (or even Tuesday) I would have used this cool pic of Komi Shouko dressed as Santa. But since I didn’t, I get to use it today.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0, also, Police Hate Free Speech
Born Lucky: Merry Christmas & Other Sentiments
EBL: Nativity of the Lord
Twitchy: Biden’s Pardon Attorney Says Racial Disparity Is A Consideration In Clemency, Pardons, Here’s Where donations To Wikipedia Really Go, and The HIll Tries To Make A Case For Preventing Trump From Taking Office
Vox Popoli: Women in Tech Fail, The Limited Lessons of the Ukraine War, and The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Toni Airaksinen: Study alleges Santa movies promote “capitalism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy”, also, Merry Christmas – did you get your shopping done yet?
Defending The Wood Perilous: Merry Christmas Everyone!, also, Stories are a thing in and of themselves
Stoic Observations: AI Sprawl, 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: All I Want For Christmas, also, Merry Christmas
Dana Loesch: The Matt Gaetz Ethics Report Is Out There, also, Wise Men Still Seek Him
Don Surber: Illegal burns a woman alive. Enough already, also, The Most American Christmas Ever
Glenn Reynolds: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, 
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Season’s Greetings!, 
STUMP: Actuarial Professionalism & AI, 

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‘I Am Trying, and Admittedly Failing, to Understand How This Makes Sense’

Posted on | December 26, 2024 | 2 Comments

Amanda Marcotte

One should never try to “make sense” of Amanda Marcotte. Ever since she first burst upon the national consciousness in 2007 — as one of two feminists (the other being the execrable Melissa McEwan) hired to blog on behalf of Democratic presidential aspirant John Edwards — Marcotte has been an inspiration for mockery hereabouts, and it is still difficult for me to imagine that anyone actually takes her seriously.

Nevertheless, Dana Pico has undertaken to analyze one of Ms. Marcotte’s recent outbursts, concluding that her enthusiasm for transgender athletes is rooted in a secret fear of inferiority: “To Miss Marcotte, any differences [between men and women] at all are a mark of inferiority, and she just can’t let the facts get in her way.” Yes, exactly so.

At the root of the issue is sex-role differentiation, as social scientists used to refer to such things, back before the Thought Police had established their totalitarian regime in academia. Young people may not be able to imagine this, but there was a time when professors and researchers in such fields as sociology sought to understand and explain why things are the way they are, rather than beginning with the premise that the existing social order must be viewed as a state of systemic oppression.

Sex-role differentiation is the most fundamental division of labor and, as most anthropologists once understood, is a necessary precondition for any economic advancement. Specialization is not possible if everybody is doing the same tasks, so that dividing up various duties as “men’s work” or “women’s work” makes possible greater cooperation and efficiency, not to mention more happiness. What feminism does is to encourage men and women to view each others not as teammates and partners, voluntarily cooperating for their mutual benefit, but rather to see themselves as rivals engaged in a competition. Guess which way of viewing male-female relations produces more conflict?

Women like Amanda Marcotte cannot stand to see men happy. They are enraged to see any man succeed in life, because their “feminism” (as they call it) is nothing more than the rationalization of envy. Because their worldview is irrational — they are motivated by emotional disturbances they do not recognize or understand — such people then project upon their chosen scapegoats some sort of malign motive as an explanation of their presumed evil. In the feminist mind, the male occupies the same moral position that the Jew occupied in Nazi ideology, and pronouncements about male evil from someone like Amanda Marcotte make no more sense than any of Hitler’s ravings about Jewish evil.

“I am trying, and admittedly failing, to understand how this makes sense,” Dana said of Marcotte’s argument about transgender athletes, but that’s just the point — no argument by Amanda Marcotte ever “makes sense,” when evaluated on the basis of facts and logic, because facts and logic are just tools of systemic oppression. Her arguments are always either non sequiturs or tautologies, except when they’re both.



 

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In The Mailbox: 12.23.24

Posted on | December 24, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.23.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“Okay, men, Colonel Claus needs a few volunteers for a working party…”

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue:  Top 20 Scandals From The Obama-Biden Weaponization Of Government Report
357 Magnum: All For Metal
EBL: Put One Foot in Front of the Other : Santa Claus is Coming to Town, The Gift of Diversity, Krampusnacht, and Bing Crosby and David Bowie : Peace On Earth and Little Drummer Boy
Twitchy: Rand Paul’s Annual Festivus List Of Grievances Highlights One TRILLION Dollars In Government Waste, Fire On The Water, and Former President Bill Clinton Hospitalized With Fever
Louder With Crowder: Man on the street gives the PERFECT response to Don Lemon about how much corporate media sucks
Vox Popoli: The Regime Change Cycle, This is Not a School Failure, False Marketing, All “Success” is Manufactured, and 95 Percent Vaccinated Deaths
Stoic Observations: The Data Studio Concept, Nikki Giovanni Just To Name A Few
Ammo.com: Why Do Americans Own Guns In 2024?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Paul Festivus Report: A Great Start for DOGE
American Greatness: Biden Commutes Sentences of Most Death Row Inmates, Including Child Murderers and Cop Killers, Beat the Press, Fixing the Biden Border, A Popular Killer Demonstrates Obamacare’s Failures, and After Hunter, How About Pardoning the Gun Owners Biden Criminalized?
American Thinker: Trump and Musk Demolish the Obama Hallucinatory Permission Structure
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship claims it is eliminating the ration book in place since 1962, The Cuban Communist Party needs dollars to dedollarize the economy, Amnesty International: ‘The repression in Nicaragua means that no one is safe’, and Stepson of Cuba’s fake president enjoys luxurious Italian dream holiday with actress girlfriend Ana de Armas
BattleSwarm: How Not To Make A Pistol, Texas Democratic Congressman: Hispanics Are Stupid For Voting Against Open Borders, and Ghosts In The Machine
Behind The Black: SpaceX and Rocket Lab complete two launches overnight, Defunct Pentagon weather satellite breaks up, A Martian river of sand, NASA awards four companies contracts to provide communications for operations in Earth orbit, and Post COVID data in the UK: Those who got the jab substantially increased their chances of death
Cafe Hayek: And Yet Another Open Letter to Oren Cass, Vernon Smith on Oren Cass on Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on “It’s a Wonderful Life”, and On Stephen Miran On Trump’s Tariffs
CDR Salamander: The SHIPS Act – From Glory To Buffoonery In 305 Pages
Chicago Boyz: Winter Solstice 2024, also, Enjoy the Festive Season
Da Tech Guy: The national media failed on Biden, the Chicago media failed on Mayor Brandon Johnson, Why Would Anyone Risk the NYC Subway Under the Democrats (Particularly a Tourist), and Kids with Cancer as a Prop and Talking Point (And a Christmas Miracle)!
Don Surber: NYT Goes Wile E. Coyote Again
First Street Journal: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to (foul) things up.”, ‘Sanctuary’ policies could, and should, send those who obstruct justice to jail, and How does it work, going on strike in a job for which a replacement can be trained in half a day?
Gates Of Vienna: The Killer Shrink, Pinning The Magdeburg Massacre on the AfD, Fake Accounts to Fight Fake News on Social Media, and Alice Weidel in Magdeburg: “We Demand True Accountability”
The Geller Report: Trump team planning to pull US out of corrupt World Health Organization on first day in office
Glenn Reynolds: Never Give Up! Never Surrender!
Hollywood In Toto: ‘The View’ – From Legal Notes to Blaming the Family Cat, Nosferatu Refuses to Hold Anything Back, Joe Rogan: Biden, Harris Like Last Blockbuster Managers, Daily Beast Podcast: ‘Colbert Is Just Not Funny Anymore’, and The Fire Inside Avoids Rocky Template at Every Turn
The Lid: Differences Between Christmas And Hanukkah: The 2024 Snarky Edition
Legal Insurrection: Biden Commutes 37 of 40 Federal Death Sentences to Life in Prison, Israel’s Pager Operation Disoriented and Severely Damaged Hezbollah, Here’s How They Did It, Sen. Joe Manchin Says Democrat ‘Brand got so Bad…It’s Toxic’, Crime Crackdowns Start as California’s Tough-on-Crime Prop. 36 Goes Into Effect, and Vanderbilt Graduate Workers Union Drops Efforts to Organize Following Legal Setbacks
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Carols at King’s, and Merry Christmas – Hic
Outkick: Las Vegas Raiders Win For First Time In Months Which Means They Are Actually Losing, Saints Suffer First Shutout of the NFL Season, Joel Embiid Throws Tantrum At Female Ref, Gets Ejected For Heated Outburst, NFL Trounces College Football Playoffs Head-To Head In Saturday TV Ratings, and Jennifer Aniston Wraps Herself In A Christmas Bow, Danica Patrick’s Trump Dance & Herbie Vs. Shannon Sharpe!
Power Line: The Least Successful Conspiracy, Biden’s jailbreak, death row edition, and The Fight for America’s Past
Shark Tank: Gimenez Raises Concerns Over Red China’s Influence On Panama Canal
Shot In The Dark: They Had One Job, Debatable, The New Old Normal
STUMP: Holiday Advice – On Nutrition, Stu, & Fried Foods
The Political Hat: 12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 9), 12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day10), and 12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 11)
This Ain’t Hell: Joe Biden’s napping allegedly kept families of the fallen waiting 3 hours, “Friendly Fire” Claims Navy Jet, Donald Trump to Panama, return to principles or we will demand the canal back, Putin proposes test, and Art Evans dead
Transterrestrial Musings: I’m Looking Forward To This, The latest NASA Rumors, Tonsils, Crime Rates In Britain, and A Golden Oldie On SLS
Victory Girls: Dems’ Attempt to Paint Musk as Super Enemy of Democracy Fails, Ella Emhoff’s Manufactured Persona, and It’s Not About Matt Gaetz, It’s About Justice
Watts Up With That: Let the Hate Flow: 13 Types of Climate Activist Anger, No, Associated Press, Extreme Weather Events in a Single Year Are Not Climate Change, Feminism Can’t Fix Climate Change (But Nothing Else Can Either), and As Germany’s Energy Crisis Heightens, Two Brief Windless Periods Pushes Grid To The Limit!
The Federalist: North Carolina Elections Board Allows Potentially Illegal Votes Because They Probably Didn’t Affect Outcomes, Report: Nevada Investigates 180 Cases of Double-Voting, Hundreds More Potential 2024 Election Violations, How Trump Can Restore Integrity And Lethality To America’s Declining Military, Leftist Group That Drew Up Blueprints For ‘Get Trump’ Prosecutions Was On Retainer To ‘Advise’ Arizona AG, and Someone Please Tell The Washington Post The Real Meaning Of Christmas Is Not Self-Care
Mark Steyn: Stuffed Turkey: Barbara Stanwyck in Christmas in Connecticut, Analysing the Analyst, Christmas in the Age of Bollards, Market Forces, and Fifty Years of Festive Frank!

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Rule 5 Sunday: Merry Christmas!

Posted on | December 23, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Emotions are prohibited, but 2B wishes you a Merry Christmas anyway.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Continuing Resolution Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon, and a Winter Solstice bonus!

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Juror 2, Wyrd Sisters, MAGA – Take A Load Off Fani, “Last Christmas” (Postmodern Jukebox), “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”, Presumed Innocent, Drone Girls, The Thin Man, Inside Story – Caddyshack, Day of the Jackal, How Lea & Perrins Makes Worcestershire Sauce, Red One, and Pachinko Season 2

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH:  Santa’s Little Helpers, Fish Pic Friday – Jess Stiëgél, Feds Punt on Striper Protection, Midnite Music – Santa Baby, The Wednesday Wetness, Science Finds Bears DO Shit in the Woods, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Sunday Sunrise

FLAPPR: Serious Matters & Unfolding Trends for December 20 

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Yes, I Will Have A Beer

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

 

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FMJRA 2.0: A Christmas Break From Baseball

Posted on | December 22, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, the draft is done, and Pete says we’ll start playing after Christmas. I’m fairly happy with my picks, and we’ll see how it works out during the upcoming season. Especially with the DH in effect for the American League teams.
Today’s illo is taken from the Korean Playstation 5 game Stellar Blade, which was caused much pearl-clutching among radical feminists and game “journalists” (but I repeat myself) on account of the main character’s sexy design. Not that that’s ever happened before. Anyway, since Shift Up, the company that made Stellar Blade, is South Korean and its president has balls and likes boobs, he paid no attention to the noise and in fact had the company push out a couple of mods this month so people could dress up the main character in costumes suitable to the season, body-swap her with 2B from Nier: Automata. Or both. Enjoy.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Eve invites you to have a Merry Christmas!

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In The Mailbox: 12.16.24
A View From The Beach
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.18.24 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 12.18.24 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
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EBL

A Product of the Crazy-Making Factory
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In The Mailbox: 12.19.24
A View From The Beach
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.20.24
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

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Against Euphemisms

Posted on | December 21, 2024 | 2 Comments

However much you hate the creeping totalitarianism of our time, you don’t hate it enough. Let me quote this:

One of Orwell’s most important messages in 1984 is that language is of central importance to human thought because it structures and limits the ideas that individuals are capable of formulating and expressing. If control of language was centralized in a political agency, Orwell proposes, such an agency could possibly alter the very structure of language to make it impossible to even conceive of disobedient or rebellious thoughts, because there would be no words with which to think them. This idea manifests itself in the language of Newspeak, which the Party has introduced to replace English. The Party is constantly refining and perfecting Newspeak, with the ultimate goal that no one will be capable of conceptualizing anything that might question the Party’s absolute power.

To control language is to control thought, and the Thought Police of our time keep quite busy in preventing us from thinking clearly:

“OnlyFans model” is a euphemism, like calling a stripper an “exotic dancer.” Basically, any old-fashioned slang for sexual behavior is now prohibited as somehow harmful, so that whore is banned for the same basic reason that shemale or tranny is banned. The use of old-fashioned language implies an old-fashioned attitude, and is thus considered derogatory because (once upon a time, in Ye Olde Dark Ages) most people did not approve of the behaviors such words describe. It’s like how bums and winos got promoted to “homeless people,” while kooks and looneys became part of the “neordivergent community.” This sort of censorship, making it mandatory to employ the preferred politically-correct terminology for deviant behavior, exploits the desire of civilized people to avoid offending others — the Dictatorship of Niceness. . . .

You can read the rest of that at my Substack (and, while you’re there, please subscribe). What I resent is the manipulation of language by those who apparently think we’re too stupid to figure out that we’re being manipulated or why. Their arrogance is an insult, and the people who engage in this insulting manipulation — the Thought Police — expect to get away with it because they’re always hiding behind the human shields of their Official Victim Groups. You’re being “anti-woman” if you criticize their pro-prostitution activism, and this is just one example of how the Thought Police enforce mental conformity as “social justice.” It is not enough for them merely to make pornography legal, but they must also silence criticism, to prevent anyone from expressing disapproval of pornography. Because you might hurt somebody’s feelings is you call a whore a whore, and these hurt feelings might discourage young women from becoming whores, and we can’t allow such discouragement, can we?



 

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2024: The Year the Media Lost

Posted on | December 21, 2024 | 1 Comment

The Gloat Zone is a great place to be. Whether it’s in football or politics, the aftermath of a big victory is an occasion for soaking in the feel-good endorphin bath, and laughing at the follies of your defeated opponent. Victory is always sweetest when it’s an upset, staging a fourth-quarter comeback after your opponent thinks he’s already got it in the bag. Fans of the New England Patriots get a smile on their face at the mere mention of “28-3,” the greatest Super Bowl comeback of all time.

Wishing to squeeze the last ounce of pleasure from this year’s victory, I’ve spent a lot of time watching highlights of Election Night coverage, and one particular moment stood out as Peak Media Bias:

Shortly before 8 p.m. Eastern time on Election Night on CBS News (America Decides: Election ’24), anchor Lindsey Reiser cut away to Philadelphia, where polls were just about to close in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. CBS had good news for Democrats and Kamala Harris. “The Harris campaign says tonight that they are feeling confident,” CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang told the network’s viewers.
Early in the next hour, with Norah O’Donnnell now in the anchor chair, the network again cut away to Jiang in Philadelphia, where there was still more good news for Democrats. “I just heard from a [Harris] campaign source that says that they are overperforming the internal turnout expectations here in Philly and it continues to look very strong,” Jiang reported, later adding, “The Harris campaign ground game has been like a well-oiled machine.”
As we all now know, the Harris campaign was lying about the turnout and therefore the reporting by CBS News was completely wrong about Pennsylvania. . . .

Read the rest of my most recent American Spectator column.



 

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