Miss Universe’s Reality TV Sex Scandal

Posted on | September 29, 2016 | Comments Off on Miss Universe’s Reality TV Sex Scandal

Hillary Clinton’s reference to Alicia Machado in Monday’s debate (“No, Miss Universe Can’t Be 170 Pounds”) drew attention to the Venezuelan beauty queen’s sordid past, e.g., the time she wrecked her engagement to a baseball star by having sex with another man on a reality TV show:

In a now infamous 2005 episode of ‘La Granja,’ [“The Farm”] Alicia apparently had sex in front of the cameras with Spanish TV host Fernando Acaso.
Machado was engaged to Philadelphia Phillies baseball star Bobby Abreu at the time.
He quickly called off the wedding after clips of the show appeared online.
The broadcast showed Acaso on top of her, with Machado whispering in Spanish about his manhood.

Ms. Machado is now a U.S. citizen, a Democrat voter and, according to Hillary Clinton, a role model for America’s young women.

Category: Hillary Clinton

In The Mailbox: 09.28.16

Posted on | September 28, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.28.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hillary’s New BFF Alicia Machado Has Some Serious Baggage
Michelle Malkin: Hillary, Interrupted
Twitchy: Juanita Broaddrick’s Tweetstorm Rips Chelsea Clinton’s Statement On Her Father’s Affairs
Louder With Crowder: NFL Ratings Drop MAJORLY After Athlete Protests

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Fathers Guilty Until Proven Innocent
American Power: Shimon Peres, RIP
American Thinker: Uh, Hillary, Your Hubby Caused The 2008 Recession
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – Free Trade, The GOP, And The Part Of 1984 That’s Usually Forgotten
Don Surber: What You Endorse When You Endorse Hillary
Dustbury: Life Has Indeed Been Good
Jammie Wearing Fools: New Clinton Mascot Alicia Machado Was Accused Of Threatening To Kill Judge, Had Baby With Infamous Drug Lord
Joe For America: Child Prostitution Legalized In California
Pamela Geller: Ohio Honor Killing – Father Shot Daughter In The Head While She Slept
Power Line: Lester Holt’s Blatantly Biased Performance
Shark Tank: David Jolly Attacks “Pro-Life” Charlie Crist’s “Credibility”
Shot In The Dark: A Heart-Aching Work Of Staggering Genius
STUMP: Get Ready For The Next Chicago Teachers Strike!
The Political Hat: Equity Vs. Essentialism
The Quinton Report: Maryland’s Crossland Banner
This Ain’t Hell: Nailing The Networks, also, Another Sailor Won’t Stand For Anthem
Weasel Zippers: FBI Says Three Times More Americans Were Stabbed To Death Than Killed By Rifles & Shotguns Combined, also, NAACP Says African-Americans Who Become Police Aren’t Black Any More
Megan McArdle: Affordable Housing Is Easy, In Theory

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No, Miss Universe Can’t Be 170 Pounds

Posted on | September 28, 2016 | 2 Comments

It should not be necessary to explain why a beauty queen is obliged to maintain her physique at or near her pageant-winning form during her yearlong tenure as the reigning Miss Whatever. She wins a local beauty contest, which qualifies her to compete at higher levels, on up to a national title and, perhaps, eventually to become Miss Universe. To be acclaimed the most beautiful woman in the world is a high honor, and those who wear the crown must uphold the prestige of that title.

Only in the Through the Looking Glass world of 21st-century feminism — and amid a presidential campaign where the media are Hillary Clinton’s propaganda squad — would former Miss Universe Alicia Machado’s claims of victimhood make it into the New York Times:

For 20 years, Alicia Machado has lived with the agony of what Donald J. Trump did to her after she won the Miss Universe title: shame her, over and over, for gaining weight.
Private scolding was apparently insufficient. Mr. Trump, who was an executive producer of the pageant, insisted on accompanying Ms. Machado, then a teenager, to a gym, where dozens of reporters and cameramen watched as she exercised.
Mr. Trump, in his trademark suit and tie, posed for photographs beside her as she burned calories in front of members of the news media. “This is somebody who likes to eat,” Mr. Trump said from inside the gym.
On Monday night, Hillary Clinton turned Ms. Machado’s pain into a potent political weapon on the biggest stage. . . .

Question: When did it become the job of the media to amplify, and give credibility to, the Democrat Party’s campaign themes?

Let us make no mistake about why the New York Times devoted 600 words to this story: To help Hillary Clinton win the election. This “news story” is in fact an unregulated contribution-in-kind to the Clinton campaign, written to reinforce the Democrat’s message. And what is that message? Well, apparently, the message was that Trump should have ignored the fact that the former Miss Valenzuela — who weighed 116 pounds when she won the Miss Universe title in 1996 — reportedly ballooned to almost 170 pounds within months of winning the crown. How much weight Ms. Machado gained is a subject of dispute, as she claimed at the time it was only 19 pounds. Trump discussed the controversy in a 1997 broadcast of the Howard Stern radio show:

Stern introduces the topic by saying, “The Miss Universe, it turns out, the woman who won last year, blows up to a fat pig. I mean, like obese.”
Trump can be heard chuckling in the background as Stern recapped the events.
“You whipped this fat slob into shape,” Stern continued. “I don’t know how you did it. I see all these diet plans, everything else. God bless you. You whipped her into shape, and you held the whole pageant together. Congratulations.”
“Well, that was an amazing one,” Trump responded. “She went from 118 to almost 170.”
“And you got her right down again to 118, didn’t you?,” asked Stern.
“Well, she’s going to be there,” replied Trump. “She’s probably 145 or something.”
Trump and Stern said Machado looked beautiful when she won. “Right,” said Trump. “She gained about 55 pounds in a period of nine months. She was like an eating machine.”
“What does a girl eat in less than a year to gain [55 pounds]?” Stern asked.
“I think she ate a lot of everything,” answered Trump.

Let me say this: I have never liked Howard Stern, a man who became a leading agent of cultural degradation in the 1990s, treating porn performers as legitimate celebrities. Calling a woman a “fat pig” is certainly not the worst thing Stern ever said, but this was “shock jock” radio in New York in the late 1990s, and Trump was just doing that circus as part of the usual publicity stuff he did as a businessman.

Ah, but now Trump is not just a New York businessman, and the Clinton campaign team (which includes the New York Times) is promoting Ms. Machado as a victim of “fat-shaming” and misogyny:

Ms. Machado, in a series of interviews this year with The Times, recalled the experience and its long-term effect on her life for an article about how Mr. Trump treats women. . . .
“Over the past 20 years,” Ms. Machado said, “I’ve gone to a lot of psychologists to combat this.”

Don’t cry for me, Miss Valenzuela! This bizarre idea, that a beauty pageant contestant’s weight problems are a political issue, shows how far the media is willing to go in its servile loyalty to the Democrat Party. Whatever Team Clinton decides is an “issue,” the media feels obliged to convince us really is an issue, no matter how silly and trivial it may be.

UPDATE: Huge hat-tip to Kathy Shaidle for pointing out Steve Sailer’s column on Ms. Machado, which includes a 1998 Associated Press item:

VENEZUELAN BEAUTY QUEEN ACCUSED
Associated Press
Jan. 23, 1998 6:39 PM ET
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan beauty queen who made headlines two years ago for putting on weight after being crowned Miss Universe is back in the news.
A lawyer for a man who was shot outside a church in November said Friday that Alicia Machado, 21, was seen driving the car in which her boyfriend sped away from the scene of the shooting. Francisco Sbert Mousko suffered brain damage when two bullets punctured his skull outside a church where his dead wife was being eulogized.
Sbert’s family said the alleged gunman, Sbert’s brother-in-law Juan Rodriguez Reggeti, had accused Sbert of driving his sister to commit suicide.
“Our accusations against Alicia Machado are based on coinciding testimony from witnesses, who place her in the vehicle in which Juan Rodriguez fled the scene,” said Omar Arenas Candelo, one of three attorneys who presented the allegations to a criminal court late Thursday.

Steve Sailer details a lengthy list of scandals Ms. Machado has been involved in over the years. She’s a typical Democrat, I guess.

Alicia Machado, victim of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and, also, 2006 Playboy cover girl. pic.twitter.com/yic4unQCfR

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 28, 2016

Category: Donald Trump, Election, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias, Rule 5, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 09.27.16

Posted on | September 27, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Post-Debate Musing
Twitchy: Howard Dean Hangs Tough (And Mostly Alone) On Charge That Trump Was On Coke During Debate
Louder With Crowder: OUTRAGE! LeBron James Says He’ll Stand For National Anthem – “All Lives Matter”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Debate Mashup – I Told Ya!
American Power: Alan Taylor – The Internal Enemy
American Thinker: The “Refugee” Agenda
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Debate Recap News
Da Tech Guy: Another Debate “Win” Or Two Like That For Hillary And She’s Finished
Don Surber: What Trump Won Last Night
Dustbury: Dashing Dreams As We Go
Jammie Wearing Fools: Fresh Off Muslim Terror Attack, NYC Launches Ad Campaign To Fight “Anti-Muslim Rhetoric”
Joe For America: Media Research Center Slams Last Night’s Debate “Moderator”
JustOneMinute: Checking The Fact-Checkers
Pamela Geller: Clinton Reportedly Received Questions A Week Before The Debate
Power Line: Trump Wins Most Immediate Polls
Shark Tank: Divided Senate Pressured To Unanimously Pass Rubio’s Veterans Bill
Shot In The Dark: Near As I Can Tell…
STUMP: Texas Trouble – Pensions In Dallas And Houston
The Jawa Report: How Not To Win Friends In The Western World
The Political Hat: How The University Of Iowa Warns You Not To Hire
The Quinton Report: Maryland Students Miss School For Union Convention
This Ain’t Hell: A Few More “Private” E-Mail Facts Come To Light, also, Suicide News
Weasel Zippers: Obamacare Falling Apart – Another 131,000 Lose Coverage After Blue Cross Bails On Tennessee
Megan McArdle: Maybe Crime’s Not Rising, But If Voters Think It Is…

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Ask @HannahSmothers_: Is Cosmo Now a Lesbian Feminist Magazine?

Posted on | September 27, 2016 | 2 Comments

As LGBTQ Culture Becomes
More Mainstream, Queer Women Struggle
to Find a Place of Their Own

That’s the headline on an article published last month by Cosmopolitan magazine’s “sex and relationships editor,” Hannah Smothers. The Cosmo website features so much “LGBTQ” content nowadays that one wonders if the magazine has been taken over by lesbian feminists.

Girl Meets World Star Rowan Blanchard
Opens Up to Fans: “I Identify as Queer”
— Jan. 18

This Girl Sued Her High School
After They Sent Her Home for
Wearing a T-Shirt With the Word “Lesbian”
— Feb. 22

Does Your Sexual Identity Really Need a Label?
— April 30

These 50 Photos of Pride Celebrations
Around the World Are Beautifully Powerful
— June 13

16 Girls Get Real About the Moment
They Knew They Weren’t Straight
— July 9

After This Same-Sex Couple’s House
Was Vandalized, Their Neighbors
Fought Back With Love
— Aug. 24

Well, why do the editors of Cosmo assume so many of their readers are lesbians or “queer women” or some other “LGBTQ” identity? Perhaps this can be attributed to the fact that Cosmo has ceased to be a fashion magazine. It has been transformed into a political journal for feminists, and feminism is an ideology based on implacable hatred of men.

“you just throw it all in at once, right?” —men doing their laundry and also having sex with a woman

— hannah (@hannahsmothers_) April 25, 2016

men are so tiresome

— hannah (@hannahsmothers_) June 27, 2016

@hannahorens men: what will they suck at next!

— hannah (@hannahsmothers_) June 7, 2016

what I'm saying is why hang out with men if you don't have to

— hannah (@hannahsmothers_) March 18, 2016

what are we going to do about men

— hannah (@hannahsmothers_) October 28, 2015

men haven’t evolved, only women have evolved

— hannah (@hannahsmothers_) October 16, 2015

According to Cosmo “sex and relationships editor” Hannah Smothers, men are equally bad at sex and laundry, and no good for anything else, either. Males are entirely clueless about sex and incompetent at more or less everything, according to Cosmo, a magazine now devoted to promoting this feminist belief in universal male ineptitude:

Hannah Smothers gets paid to write nonsense as “sex and relationships editor” for Cosmopolitan, and she is certainly productive. To understand what level of expertise she brings to this subject, it helps to know that until last year, Ms. Smothers was a student at the University of Texas. Being an expert on sex and relationships at age 23 is rather a precocious accomplishment, but girls grow up quick down in Texas, I reckon. . . .

You can read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree, a channel on Medium.com I created Monday, more or less on a whim.

Just a random search result … pic.twitter.com/oBDosMBqaT

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 27, 2016

Category: Sex Trouble

No, Donald Trump Won the Debate

Posted on | September 27, 2016 | Comments Off on No, Donald Trump Won the Debate

Liberals are calling Monday night’s debate a win for Hillary Clinton, as might be expected, and even producing snap polls claiming to support this claim as a fact, as might also be expected, I guess. However, the reality is that Donald Trump did not lose the debate, and thereby won.

What was Trump’s basic challenge going into the debate? That he was “not presidential,” without the necessary standing to challenge an experienced politician like Hillary. And yet there he was, side-by-side on stage with her, clearly unintimidated by her.

Did he score any knockout blows? No. Did he persuade any liberals? No. But no one could have reasonably expected such an outcome. Trump committed no great gaffes or blunders, he evaded moderator Lester Holt’s “gotcha” questions and, if at times Trump was “not presidential,” he was not so un-presidential as to disqualify himself in the eyes of any voter who prior to Monday night had considered voting for Trump.

Ross Douthat makes some apt criticism of Trump’s debate performance, but it’s not Harvard-educated pundits who are Trump’s core constituency. This is one of the basic problems with political punditry: Highly educated (and highly ideological) commentators have difficulty imagining how things look to the average voter in Ohio or Florida. Remember how the Bernie Sanders boom during the Democrat primaries caught much of the journalistic world by surprise, in much the same way that Trump’s success in the GOP primaries shocked professional pundits on the Right.

Five Times Lester Holt Shilled for Hillary Clinton at Debate. His Questions Repeated Her Talking Points

NBC… https://t.co/XMTRzuKza3

— Rep Security Council (@RSCGOP) September 27, 2016

Category: Debates, Donald Trump, Election, Hillary Clinton

Not the Droids You’re Looking For

Posted on | September 27, 2016 | Comments Off on Not the Droids You’re Looking For

Move along:

The Turkish immigrant accused of gunning down five people at a Washington mall smirked at his first court appearance Monday even as reports revealed he had a blog with photo posts of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. . . . Authorities said they have not ruled out terrorism as a motive in the shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Islam, Terrorism