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FMJRA 2.0: Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade

Posted on | August 27, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade

— compiled by Wombat-socho

At this time last week, I was in the Las Vegas VA hospital with IV drips of Rocephin and Vancomycin going into my veins in a successful effort to exterminate the vile bacteria that were trying to kill me. I’m home now, feeling better, and have another four days of Levaquin ahead of me until I’m 100% again.
Turning to the subject of baseball, the Senators had a largely successful fortnight, taking series from the Twins and Cardinals before sweeping the Tribe at home in RFK; unfortunately, Friday night we went to Oakland to face the A’s and got stomped, losing all three games. So now we’re five games behind them in the AL West. Could be worse.
Shortly before the long weekend at the VA, I received Volume 11 of Klaus Schulze’s La Vie Electronique. I finally got around to ripping and listening to it this week, and it’s okay. The first disc has some operatic tracks on it that I don’t much care for, but the other two discs are more of the same electronic classical music I have come to love. I will note that the cover art for this volume reminds me of Klaus’ appearance in SAVAGE HENRY #27, a Matt Howarth comic book in which Henry and Klaus are hijacked into a pocket dimension by a spoiled rich kid who also forces Klaus (much to his displeasure) to appear in his long-haired hippie “space rock” getup from Trancefer. Spoiled rich kid hasn’t reckoned with Henry’s dimension-traveling skills or the power of music, though…
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21st-Century Digital Stalinism
The Pirate’s Cove
The Political Hat
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

THEY’RE CANCELLING BIG BUTTS?
The DaleyGator
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

On ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Music Cue: ‘Immigrant Song’
EBL

How Am I Related to Pocahontas?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.21.23 (Lost Weekend Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

A Smoking Gun, Next to a Bloody Corpse: Joe Biden Is Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
A View From The Beach
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.22.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Did Anybody Watch the Debate?
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.24.23 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Debate Aftermath: The Media React
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In The Mailbox: 08.25.23 (Morning Edition)
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A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 08.25.23 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending August 25:

  1.  EBL (13)
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‘The Blind Side’ and Business Reality

Posted on | August 26, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘The Blind Side’ and Business Reality

Former NFL tackle Michael Oher filed a lawsuit against the Tuohy family, who helped him become a football standout, a story made famous in the 2009 film The Blind Side, for which Sandra Bullock won an Academy Award. Oher recently filed a lawsuit claiming that the Tuohys cheated him out of his rightful share of the proceeds of that film, a claim which the producers of the film have now rebutted — or, at least, they’ve tried to clarify the facts, contrary to misinformation promoted by the media.

According to the producers, the entire payment to the Tuohy family and Oher was less than $800,000. That’s all they made from this Academy Award-winning movie about their lives, and why? Because the movie is, in turn, based upon a book of the same title by Michael Lewis. So the producers paid Lewis for the rights to his book, and also contracted with Oher and the Lewis family, for what seems rather a small sum, all things considered. Should Oher have gotten more money for the movie rights? Perhaps, but it’s not as if the Tuohy family made a fortune off it:

The producers explained how the rights to Lewis’ book and associated rights contracts were negotiated by “Twentieth Century Fox and inherited by Alcon when the film was put in turnaround.” The film would go on to be released by Warner Bros. They also pointed out that in 2006, contracts and “the limitations of what college athletes were able to do and maintain eligibility, were very different than they are today.”
“The deal that was made by Fox for the Tuohys and Michael Oher’s life rights was consistent with the marketplace at that time for the rights of relatively unknown individuals. Therefore, it did not include significant payouts in the event of the film’s success,” they said.
“As a result, the notion that the Tuohys were paid millions of dollars by Alcon to the detriment of Michael Oher is false,” they added, before sharing how much Alcon paid the talent agency that represented the Tuohys and Oher.

The producers explain that, prior to the movie’s release, nobody thought it would be the smash hit it subsequently became, which in turn explains why it “was put in turnaround” — sold from one studio (Fox) to another (Warner Brothers) during the development process.

What’s most interesting to me in all this is that the original book The Blind Side wasn’t really about Michael Oher. His personal story — plucked out of poverty in Memphis to become a football star for suburban Briarcrest Christian School — was merely the narrative vehicle by which author Michael Lewis told the story of how changes in the game of football had impacted the value of offensive tackles:

The book is an examination of how offensive football strategy has evolved over the past three decades in large part due to linebacker Lawrence Taylor’s arrival in the 1980s and how this evolution has placed an increased importance on the role of the offensive left tackle. Most quarterbacks are right-handed and in order to throw, they stand with their left shoulder facing down field. Thus, they turn their backs to linebackers and other defenders pass rushing from the left side, creating a vulnerable “blind side” that the left tackle must protect. Taylor’s speed and power changed the role of outside linebacker to become a more attacking, aggressive position. This in turn caused teams to emphasize larger and more agile left tackles.

In other words, because extraordinary pass rushers like Lawrence Taylor had made it more difficult for offensive linemen to protect quarterbacks on passing plays, this created an incentive to find linemen — and particularly the left “blind side” tackle — with the rare combination of size and speed necessary to deal with the improvements on defense. The story Lewis was telling about football in the book The Blind Side was similar to what he’d done with baseball in his 2003 book Moneyball.

Lewis has a background in economics, and worked for Salomon Brothers before becoming an author. His specialty is as a storyteller explaining how economic incentives function — where there is an opportunity to make big money, people have a strong motive find a way to gain a competitive advantage. The real human lives affected by this, for better or worse, are at the heart of the storytelling that Lewis does with such success. As for Michael Oher, after playing college ball for Ole Miss, he was picked in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft by the Baltimore Ravens, and signed a five-year contract reportedly worth $13.5 million. Three seasons later the Ravens won Super Bowl XLVII, and a year after that, Oher became a free agent, signing a four-year contract with the Tennessee Titans reportedly worth $20 million, but he lasted only one season in Tennessee before being released, and then was signed by the Carolina Panthers in 2015 on a reported $7 million two-year contract. His NFL career ended two years later, when Oher was 31.

It is impossible to know exactly how much Oher actually earned during his eight seasons in the NFL. The reported value of a contract usually includes incentives which a player may or may not make. However, it’s a safe guess that Oher’s total career earnings were somewhere above $20 million, which is a heckuva lot more than the Tuohy’s earned during the same timespan, so why is he suing them now? It makes no sense.

We can only speculate on Michael Oher’s motives in turning against the Tuohy family like this. If I had to guess, I’d imagine Oher’s experiencing some financial difficulty in his post-NFL life, and listened to some of his “friends” telling him he had been unfairly exploited. The explanation from the film producer makes that seem unlikely, and this sad chapter in Oher’s life is an unfortunate turn in what had been an inspiring story.



 

Category: Football

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | August 26, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Everybody agrees Portia Odufuwa is dangerously crazy, and yet officials keep releasing her to terrorize others:

Portia Odufuwa, 39, was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the July 25, 2022 shooting at Dallas Love Field Airport.
Dallas County Judge Stephanie Huff issued her judgement Aug. 14, stating Odufuwa didn’t place any officers in imminent danger during the shooting but was insane when she fired several rounds into the air by the Southwest ticketing counter area that day. Police said witnesses heard Odufuwa rambling about marriage, incarceration and blowing up the airport before she began shooting.
Odufuwa was injured during the incident.
Veteran Dallas Police Department Officer Ronald Cronin shot Odufuwa in the legs after she ignored his commands to drop the gun. She survived and was taken to a Parkland hospital for treatment where she underwent surgery for her injuries.
Odufuwa, who has a history of being deemed incompetent to stand trial on prior criminal charges due to mental health issues, was initially charged with aggravated assault against a public servant.
Additionally, the gun she used in the shooting wasn’t registered to her, since she was prohibited from possessing a firearm since 2018. Odufuwa tried twice in 2016 to buy a firearm from a pawn shop, according to Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia, but was denied due to an outstanding traffic warrant in New Mexico.
Odufuwa was previously arrested in April 2019 in connection to a Bank of America robbery in Wylie. Police said she gave a note to the teller demanding money, then fled on foot but was eventually caught. Also in 2019, Odufuwa was arrested in connection to arson. A year later, she was taken in for a mental health evaluation, according to police.

Does the judge have no concern for public safety? Here’s video of the incident that terrorized air travelers last year:

So the judge rules that Odufuwa can’t be sent to prison because she was insane when she committed her crimes, but if she is non compos mentis — a Latin phrase meaning “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs” — shouldn’t she be locked up in a psychiatric ward somewhere? Straitjacket, padded cell, daily Thorazine injections? She has proven herself to be a danger to the community often enough to justify such treatment.



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 08.25.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 26, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.25.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts, plus some book reviews and Son of Silvercon news!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Biden’s social media people are even more dumb than their boss, which I didn’t think was possible.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Just An Average Weekend In Our Nation’s Capital
EBL: The Media and Dems Are Literally Sleeping Together, Kristina Raspopova, RIP, So what will come of this latest outrage out of Georgia?, and Maui Government Officials Should Be Prosecuted For Criminal Negligence
Twitchy: “Insufferably Stupid & Malicious”, “Good Idea, Slick”, and Sleepy Joe’s Attempted Whiteboard Whitewashing Of The Economy
Louder With Crowder: Maui resident who lost everything offers harsh message for Joe Biden, Hawaiian business goes viral for sign blasting Joe Biden’s tone-deaf visit, School board orders security to forcibly remove father reading from book in kid’s library, and Warning – Joe Biden’s alcohol CZAR wants to limit how much beer you should drink a week
Vox Popoli: US Democracy 2023, Officially Denied, Predictive Models, and The Mugshot
According To Hoyt: Pedophilia And Power, The Vexed Question Of Student Loans, The Fraud Is Afoot, and Where Do We Go From Here?
Monster Hunter Nation:
Gab News: CEO Andrew Torba On Europe’s Digital Services Act

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Bureaucrats Rewriting Pandemic History, also, Racial Trouble in the Vietnam Era
American Greatness: House Judiciary GOP Concerned About Fulton County DA’s Political Motivations; Launch Investigation Into Trump Indictments, also, Biden DOJ Sues SpaceX For Preferring American Citizens Over Asylum Seekers and Refugees in its Hiring Practices
American Thinker: Was New York’s 2022 General Election Valid?, Executive Orders and the End of Liberty, and Country Music and the Revolution
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Political Violence Friday
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: Vietnam makes third donation of rice to Cuba this year to compensate for shortages, Cuban family in Havana has been living without electricity for a year, and Revolutionary Marxist Students organization arrives at Florida International University
Baldilocks: Fact is…and isn’t, Further down the slippery slope, 
BattleSwarm: Rolling Stone Very Concerned That Random YouTuber Might Fight The Man, also, LinkSwarm for August 25
Behind The Black: China launches remote sensing satellite using rocket from pseudo-company, Both Vikram and Pragyan functioning as planned on the Moon, SpaceX completes successful 6-second static fire test of Superheavy, Flow channels on Mars, Reality strikes: Democrats in Democratically-controlled cities complain about the consequences of Democratic Party policies, and Today’s blacklisted American: Real estate company fires a mother for expressing her opinions
Cafe Hayek: On the Rise In America of Maternal Mortality
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Worse and Worse
Da Tech Guy: The American Medical System makes it difficult to get help, also, Five Quick Tucker Carlson Donald Trump Interview Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: What do you mean “we”, Republicans?
First Street Journal: SEPTA should be paid for by the people who use it, not people who can’t use its service, also,Will Bunch really, really, really hates Joe Manchin!
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Attack on a Church in Turin, Bowling For Allah, Reforming Islam is None of Our Business, and Just Snap Your Fingers, and You’re German
The Geller Report: Capitol Police Officer Who Murdered Ashli Babbitt Gets Promoted, Former Ukraine Prosecutor Shokin Says Joe and Hunter Biden DID Take BRIBES and Were Behind His Firing In EXPLOSIVE New Interview, and Fox News Debate Numbers Are In And They Are Dismal, A Mere 4.5% Of What Trump Got
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, In Re Those Indictments, and ISRO Releases Video from the Vikram Lander
Hollywood In Toto: 10 Perfect Comedy Duo Performances, Clay Travis – Cancel Culture Made Aldean’s ‘Small Town’ Even Bigger, Gran Turismo Expertly Blends Gamer Culture, Sports Film Glory, Jimmy Dore Shreds Late Night Comics for Ivermectin Misinformation, The Independent Shares Laughable Attack on Oliver Anthony Fans, ‘Canceled’ Scott Adams Crushes Amazon Book Sales, and ‘Trump’s Rosebud’ – My Cinematic Odyssey Through Citizen Kane’s Lens
The Lid: Biden Admin. Has Welded Open More than 100 Border Gates to Allow Illegals Access
Legal Insurrection: Georgia Judge Approves October 2023 Trial Date for One Trump Co-Defendant, Federal Court Rejects Muslim Parents Lawsuit to Opt Kids Out of LGBTQ+ Ideology in Montgomery County (MD) Schools, NJ Governor Sues Schools To Halt Parental Notification Of Gender Social Transitioning of Their Kids, How Many People Actually Watched Trump On Tucker?, Self-Absorbed NY Times Reporter Whines About Jewish Religious Practices at Western Wall , and Michigan State Prof Calls Parents’ Rights Issue a ‘Made up Crisis’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday; The Sound of Freedom
Outkick: WNBA Champ Las Vegas Aces Snubbed By Vacationing Biden At White House Ceremony, USWNT Drops To Lowest FIFA Ranking Ever After Early Exit From World Cup, Bray Wyatt, Former WWE Champion And Son of Hall-of-Famer, Dead at 36, Ryan Clark Wants You To Know He’s Very Sorry For Calling Tua Tagovailoa Fat In Hostage-Like Apology Video, Mike Golic And Mike Golic Jr. Launching New Show, and Big & Rich Leave ESPN College GameDay Without Much Explanation, Ready To ‘Pass The Torch’
Power Line: Former Mob Boss Sheds Light on Biden Family Corruption, America’s Public Schools Are Terrible, The Philosophical Chicken, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rep. Cory Mills Introduces Bill To Impeach SecDef Austin
Shot In The Dark: The Definition Of “Insanity”, also, Erin Maye Quade Props Up The Overton Window With Berg’s 24th Law
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order-New Voices-Part III
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, DeSantis wants to send troops to deal with Mexican cartels, Father of veteran killed by police believed that the killing could have been avoided, and Tommy Targets Woke Generals
Transterrestrial Musings: The Only Reason To Explore Space, The Biden Clan’s Con, and Obeying Authority
Victory Girls: DOJ To SpaceX: Hire Illegal Immigrants Or Else, FEMA Still Focused On DEI Training While Maui Mourns, and Joy Reid Loses Her S**t On Live TV Over Trump Mugshot
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Judge: “Public Interest” Requires That Restrictions on “Medical Misinformation” Not Be Enjoined
Watts Up With That: GOP Pres. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘The Climate change agenda is a HOAX’, Carbon Offsets from Forest Conservation Projects have Been Overestimated, and The Unserious Case for CO2 Taxation Domestically and at the Border
The Federalist: Consumer Watchdog Launches Campaign Exposing Duke Energy ESG Priorities Over Reliable Power Grid, Nikki Haley Says Trump Is The Most ‘Disliked Politician’ In America, Polling Shows It’s Mitch McConnell, Gender Studies Professor Blasts Fight Against Obesity As ‘Fatphobic’, New Bill Would Stop VA Bureaucrats From Gaming The System To Grab Veterans’ Guns, ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Star Tom Sandoval Paid For Fame With His Humanity, and Jon Stewart’s Real Legacy Is A Generation Of Smug, Lazy, Dishonest News Consumers
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

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In The Mailbox: 08.25.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | August 25, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.25.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Viva America! Arriba America!

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy Birthday Barbara Eden, also, Trump’s Post Debate Dance
Twitchy: “Bro, Have You Seen YOU?”, Cleanup On Aisle 5! Dan Bongino Unloads On Stephen King, and Fani Willis’ Campaign Director Tries Locking Her Account After Anti-Trump Tweets Discovered
Louder With Crowder: Canada orders Jordan Peterson to undergo re-education and he’s hitting back HARD, Vivek Ramaswamy vs. Nikki Haley was a highlight of the GOP Debate and we NEED a 1-on-1 foreign policy debate, Taco Bell sells out to globalism, pledges to support digital currency and go cashless, and Jen Psaki Bombs: claims Dems don’t support abortion until birth, gets reminded when she supported abortion until birth
Vox Popoli: Beat the Heat, They Want to Believe, US Historical Hypocrisy, Prigozhin’s Plane Crashes, and BRICS Gets Bigger

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s a Journey
American Conservative: Ukraine’s Vain Search for Wonder Weapons, How the Ownership Revolution Saved Britain, and The Do in Brew City
American Greatness: McCarthy Threatens Investigation into Biden’s Maui Response, The Biden Clan’s Con Is Coming to an End, Trump Triumphant Again, and Hunter Biden Traveled to at Least 13 Countries with then-Vice President Father
American Thinker: Trump and the Tower of Lies, Will New EPA Regulations Starve Millions Of People?, What Caused the Maui Fires?, and How America Becomes Zimbabwe
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Biden Embarrassment News
Babalu Blog: Red China pledges to protect communist Cuba’s ‘sovereignty’, Former political prisoner in Cuba reveals how he was tortured and sexually assaulted in a Castro gulag, and Che Guevara’s face on Cuba’s money–for Cubans can never be humiliated enough
BattleSwarm: After Police Cleared Out Homeless Camp Because They Were Breaking Into Businesses, They’re Back. Guess What?, also, Wagner Head Prigozhin Reported Dead In Plane Crash
Behind The Black: Rocket Lab launches a satellite reusing one rocket engine from previous flight, India’s Pragyan rover has successfully been deployed on the lunar surface, North Korea fails again to get a military reconnaissance satellite into orbit, and Biden’s Justice Department sues SpaceX
CDR Salamander: Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad BRICS?
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora No Promises for Dodger Stadium, Three Cheers for My Bishop, Duck and Cover, The Price of Cowardice and Paradise Burnt, To combat food deserts in Illinois, shoplifters need to be prosecuted–Pritzker responds with retail tax rebates instead, Forgetting his Own Snake Song, and Five Quick GOP Debate Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: New Poll Calls Debate For DeSantis, also, President Trump Booked In Georgia Jail
Don Surber: Tranny Sanity
Gates Of Vienna: Contempt for the Governed, Old Wine in New Wineskins, and “This is the End of Freedom of Expression in Europe”
The Geller Report: Tucker Carlson’s Interview With President Trump Garners 76+ Million Views During Fox Snoozefest Debate, “Trump Will Be Treated as a Common Prisoner,”, and Tucker’s TRUMP Interview Gets 200 MILLION Views UPDATE: 214 MILLION and Climbing
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, JWST Looks at Neptune
Hollywood In Toto: Who Had a Worse Week, Rachel Zegler or Taryn Manning?, I Was Dead Wrong about William Friedkin’s The Hunted, Why Are Children Being Exposed to John Waters Films? UPDATED, Is This the Very Best Part of Oppenheimer?, and Bill Maher’s Self Own Is One for the Ages
The Lid: Debate Night In The Cream City
Legal Insurrection: Only Paved Road Out of Maui’s Devastated Town of Lahaina Was Barricaded During Wildfire Evacuation, Migrants Enter U.S. Through 114 Gates Welded Open Along Arizona Border, Law School Administrators Supposedly Advised Schools on How to Circumvent Ban on Affirmative Action, Penn State Offering In-State Tuition to Illegal Immigrants Despite Budget Crunch, and Jordan Peterson Loses Free Speech Legal Battle in Canadian Court
Nebraska Energy Observer: There’s a game
Outkick: Stephen A. Smith Knew Titans QB Will Levis ‘Had To Be White’ Given His Love For Mayonnaise, Urban Meyer’s Coaching Philosophy At Florida Was Brutally Honest: ‘Treat My Sh*t Like Sh*t’, Wisconsin’s Football Team Sings Taylor Swift With Gusto, Angels Doomed After Shohei Ohtani Tears UCL, Won’t Pitch For Remainder Of Season, The Trey Lance – San Francisco 49ers Saga Could Be Nearing An Awkward Ending, and Notre Dame AD Whines College Football Has Become ‘A Complete Disaster’
Power Line: What Was Brewing In Milwaukee, Debate performance changed my mind on Ramaswamy, and The Daily Chart: The Overlooked Immigrants
Shark Tank: Frustration Grows As National Disaster Relief Legislation Stagnates
Shot In The Dark: Dancing With The Ones That Brung Em, also, Berg’s 24th Law In Action
This Ain’t Hell: Beating the lying (dead) horse, Polling places looking for a few good men, and “Talk to me Goose” Navy Call Signs Explained
Transterrestrial Musings: Impeach Biden
Victory Girls: School Punishes Student for Flying the Flag, also, Kim Jong Un Channels Travolta While Second Spy Satellite Fails
Volokh Conspiracy: “Big Parma Is Putting Microchips in People”
Watts Up With That: German Scientists Say Global Warming A “Corrupt”, Fear-Mongering Scheme “Headed By Super-Rich”, Energy Density is the Answer, and Will Soaring Insurance Costs Derail the EV Revolution?
The Federalist: Trump: ‘We Have A President Who Can’t Walk, Can’t Talk’, Tucker And Fox News’ Failure To Press GOP Presidential Candidates On Covid Tyranny Is A Disservice To Its Many Victims, Why Taiwan Getting Caught In A Proxy War Would Be An Epic U.S. Failure, Jen Psaki Says ‘No One’ Supports Abortion Until Birth But She And Other Democrats Support Exactly That, What If The Answer To Skyrocketing Childcare Costs Is Staying Home With Your Kids?, and The First Republican Debate Was Only A Game Changer For The Delusional Media Desperately Hoping For One
Mark Steyn: Foiling Freedom

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Debate Aftermath: The Media React

Posted on | August 25, 2023 | Comments Off on Debate Aftermath: The Media React

When I asked Thursday if anybody had watched Wednesday’s Trump-less Republican debate, I didn’t realize my blog buddy John Hoge had subjected himself to that ordeal, his account of which concludes with the question: “Is it 2025 yet?” Meanwhile, in the corporte media . . .

Chris Christie hit with ‘lots of boos’
after GOP debate introduction
— Fox News

The winners and losers
from the first Republican debate
— Washington Post

The Most Unsettling
Presidential Debate Spectacle Ever
— Talking Points Memo

 ‘Climate Change Agenda Is a Hoax,’ Says
Surging GOP Candidate at Debate
— Rolling Stone

 Nikki Haley Is the Best Trump Alternative
— David Brooks, NY Times

The GOP’s Dispiriting Display
— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic

Vivek Ramaswamy is America’s
demagogue-in-waiting
— The Guardian

The way you can tell that Vivek Ramaswamy did well in the debate is that the media have now begun attacking him, in quite the same way that they’ve been attacking Ron DeSantis for the past several months. Whereas, by the same token, you know Asa Hutchinson has no chance of winning because the media never say anything bad about him.

Does anyone remember 2019? The media spent most of that year acting as unofficial cheerleaders for Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris because — to explain their likely reasoning — Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton had aroused the wrath of women (the pink pussy-hat wearing Women’s March) and therefore, it was time for the Democratic Party to nominate another woman. But Kamala ran out of gas before she ever got to the Iowa primary, then Elizabeth Warren flopped badly in New Hampshire and, rather suddenly, the media were faced with the certain-defeat scenario of Democrats nominating Bernie Sanders. Suddenly, James Carville was all over MSNBC and CNN proclaiming that the party MUST rally behind Joe Biden, and that’s what happened. And the media messaging was transparently partisan the whole time.

Ergo, the fact that the media want us to pay attention to a bunch of losers like Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie means . . . ? Yes, exactly: We should ignore those clowns, because the media are our enemy.

UPDATE: NBC News went full Godwin’s Law:

So, the secret Nazi is . . . a brown guy named “Ramaswamy.” Gotcha.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)



 

Category: Debates, Media Bias, Republicans

In The Mailbox: 08.24.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | August 24, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.24.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Where I’m at now…”The most dangerous soldier in the Nationalist Army is a Requete who has just been to Confession.” – Loyalist officer

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Chicago Rideshare Driver Defends Himself
EBL: Attorney John Eastman vows to fight Georgia Indictment, Is Democrat King Maker Tom Steyer trying to take out Biden and run Newsom?, Yevgeny Prigozhin ‘on board’ crashed Russian plane?, and MAGA X
Twitchy: Sad, Weepy Adam Kinzinger Flips Out When People Clap Back At His Attack On DeSantis’ Service, Haley Goes For Ramaswamy’s Throat On Foreign Policy, and Glenn Kessler’s “Fact-checking” Of GOP Debate Abortion Claims Goes Really, Really, Really Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Oliver Anthony blasts blindly believing the media in latest banger, “I Wanna Go Home”, It’s NOW official! Bud Light dethroned as the #1 beer in America after the Dylan Mulvaney debacle, and Jennifer Aniston claims to be against “cancel culture” now, but remember when she wasn’t during the pandemic?
Vox Popoli: Spain 1 Lesbianesses 0, How Doctors Create Customers, We’re Number 20, When Gunboat Diplomacy Fails, Carrie Bradshaw, Antichrist, and Fake Man South of Richmond
Gab News: The Boniface Option* Lifts The Veil On Society

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Money can Never Stop on Asylum Seeker profits
American Conservative: Not Enough Punishment in the World, also, Why Russia’s Moon Mission Failed
American Greatness: Government-Funded Science Journal Admits Over 2,600 of its Papers May Have ‘Exaggerated Claims’, also, Livid Maui Residents Flip Off Biden’s Motorcade
American Thinker: The Blunt Truth about Global Warming Models
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: We remember Beny More (1919 — 1963), Reports from Cuba: School year to begin in Las Tunas with a 700-teacher deficit and uniforms shortage, Apartheid tourism update: Seven out of every ten hotel rooms in Cuba are vacant, and Cuban dictatorship’s doctor slave trade brought $2 billion in revenue in 2022
Baldilocks: A Woman Plans
BattleSwarm: Nuclear Weapons Expert Rates Movie Nukes, Homeless Repeatedly Break Into Austin Apartment Complex, and Chacon Retires And The APD Stalemate
Behind The Black: India successfully lands Vikram on the Moon, Space junk that ESA demo mission intends to de-orbit as been struck by another piece of space junk, First mission in Isaacman’s private space program delayed again, Where the Martian landscape begins to dry out, and Blacklisted 12-year-old appeals lower court decision saying he has no free speech rights
Cafe Hayek: Further Thoughts on Industrial Policy
CDR Salamander: So You Like The UUV Concept, Eh?
Da Tech Guy: Has Anyone Explained the Words “Streisand Effect” to Ohio Right to Life or Rep Max Miller?, Public Schools align with Satan, A Reminder Concerning Twitter And Other Social Media, I’m Old Enough to Remember When CNN Editing A Conservative’s Speech To Change It’s Meaning Was Frowned Upon by Trump Primary Supporters, and Hope and baseball
Don Surber: Killing The Middle Class
First Street Journal: Whenever there is a truth you cannot tell, that is a truth you must tell!
The Geller Report: FYI: I Won’t Be Watching the Irrelevant Debate on Fox Tonight, But I Will Be Watching Tucker Interview President Trump, also, Democrat Presidential Frontrunner Newsom Proposes at Legislative Crackdown on Parental Rights
Hogewash: A Star Is Destroyed By A Black Hole, Watched the Show Tonight, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Can’t We See The Onania Club?, Dark Windows Craves More Than Mindless Thrills, Blue Beetle Blends Heroics with Victimhood 101, 11 Top-Notch Netflix Action Films, and Why Twilight Zone: The Movie Is Less than the Sum of Its Parts
Legal Insurrection: Lawsuit: White House Press Office Unconstitutionally Targeted Reporter With New Credentialing Requirement, Activist Behind Harvard Affirmative Action Case Now Suing Law Firms, NY Times: Ron DeSantis Was an ‘Arrogant’ Yale Baseball Captain, Frat ‘Bully,’ ‘Bored’ With Woke Students, Pearl-Clutching Over New COVID Variant Begins, and University of San Diego Rejects College Republicans’ Plan to Host Matt Walsh as Speaker
Nebraska Energy Observer: Over the Parapet
Outkick: Baltimore Orioles Owner Tells Fans He Can’t Keep Young Stars Without Raising Prices, Stephen A. Smith Is Wrong That ESPN Treated Sage Steele The Same As Her Colleagues, Tua Tagovailoa Tells Ryan Clark To Watch His Mouth After ESPN Analyst Called Dolphins QB A Fat Stripper, New Fansville Commercial Takes Brutal Shot At Realignment, Lindsey Horan Admits USWNT Wasn’t Fully Prepared For World Cup Days After Complaining About Carli Lloyd’s Criticism, and Italian Model Shuts Down Her OnlyFans To Become A Nun After Boyfriend’s Family Sees Her Leaked Content
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Shot In The Dark: DFLiars – Flimmed & Flammed, also, On The One Hand
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Transterrestrial Musings: Mainstream Media Propaganda, So Much For Prigozhin, and Biden’s Lies
Victory Girls: Maui Demonstrates Again Why You Can’t Trust Government, also, Los Angeles: Parents Protest LGBTQ Indoctrination
Volokh Conspiracy: Maine High Court Finds “Bad Faith” in Denial of Public Records Request, Orders Payment of Requesters’ Fees
Watts Up With That: New Book—Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure, NASA’s Running a Mental Ward, and From Poverty to Moon Landing: How Coal Propelled Indian Economy
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Mark Steyn: Prigozhin Pass?

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Did Anybody Watch the Debate?

Posted on | August 24, 2023 | Comments Off on Did Anybody Watch the Debate?

The Network That Fired Tucker Carlson™ hosted a debate Wednesday night between Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy and six people who will definitely not get the Republican presidential nomination. Like, why is Asa Hutchinson even doing this? Or, who exactly thinks Chris Christie is going to win anything? And . . . Doug Freaking Burgum?

DeSantis is governor of the best state in the country right now. Ramaswamy at least has the “outsider” businessman thing going for him. The rest of them . . . Well, they’re wasting their time, and because Trump declined to participate, the whole thing was pretty pointless, since he’s 40 points ahead of everybody else. Politico has some “highlights” of the debate, if anybody actually cares, which I don’t think so.



 

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