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#RNCinCLE Legion of the Banned

Posted on | July 20, 2016 | 14 Comments

 

CLEVELAND
The biggest news out of the Republican National Convention today is that the media have finally solved “MelaniaGate,” as the woman responsible for writting Mrs. Trump’s speech Monday has explained how she accidentally lifted three lines from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech.

The media bias is out of control:

The liberal media’s determination to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House has become blatantly transparent in their coverage of the Republican National Convention here. Anyone who ever doubted that major network news operations are staffed with partisan Democrats needed only have observed the way allegedly “objective” reporters inflated Melania Trump’s opening-night speech into a phony scandal that absorbed hour after hour of coverage. The immediate reaction to Mrs. Trump’s speech was positive, but then someone pointed out uncanny similarities between three sentences in her speech and Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention. The media went into hysterics: “Plagiarism! Scandal!”
This rather minor incident was treated as The Biggest Story in American Political History. The morning shows on the networks — CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS, NBC and ABC — devoted a combined total of 130 minutes to covering “MelaniaGate,” according to an analysis by Mike Ciandella and Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center. CNN alone spent nearly 45 minutes talking about Mrs. Trump’s alleged plagiarism Tuesday morning, as if this was a matter of major national importance.
Why? The most obvious explanation is that the TV networks are run by Democrats who consider it their professional duty to provide negative coverage of Republicans. After a protester from the far-left group Code Pink attempted to stage a disruption Monday inside the Quicken Loans Arena, ABC New reporter Terry Moran claimed this incident was symbolic of what “a dark night” the convention had been. “Donald Trump has been a candidate whose approach has divided many people, drawn protesters,” Moran said, terming the lone protester’s act an illustration of “the kind of unsettled emotions that Donald Trump has sparked in many people around the country.” Of course, kooks from Code Pink — founded in 2002 by radical leftists Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin — have staged disruptive protests in all kinds of settings, but Terry Moran blamed their bizarre antics on Trump. . . .

You can read the rest at The American Spectator.

 

Dutch politician Geert Wilders speaks in Cleveland.

Last night, I went to the “Wake Up” party sponsored by LGBT for Trump and featuring Geert Wilders, Pamela Geller and Milo Yiannopoulis. The banning of Milo from Twitter is major news, and at the party I gave a few quotes to Rosie Gray of BuzzFeed about the Trump era:

Taking the scene in was Robert Stacy McCain, a longtime conservative activist and journalist who is in town covering the convention for the American Spectator, he said, and who has also been banned by Twitter. For McCain, this party was emblematic of the new order under Trump: a rejection of 2000s-era Republican moderate-conservative coalition politics.
“The failure of Bushism has made this happen,” McCain said. “You have gay libertarians and white nationalists, frankly, who are on the same side.”
“People who are marginalized on the right during the Bush years have sort of formed an ad hoc coalition,” McCain said.

Perhaps I should have added, “And it’s about damned time, too.”





 

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Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

In The Mailbox: 07.19.16

Posted on | July 19, 2016 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Resisting Arrest In Australia – “Get Your Hand Off My Penis!”
Michelle Malkin: Jamiel Shaw, Sr. – An American Patriot’s Voice At The RNC
Twitchy: Whoa – Alaska Delegation Challenges RNC’s Vote Count


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #10 – The Ghostbusters Episode
American Power: Patricia Smith – “I Blame Hillary Clinton Personally For The Death of My Son”
American Thinker: How Democrats Steal Elections
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – And After The Fire by Lauren Belfer
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – The Great Outing
Don Surber: Paul Ryan – The Next Eric Cantor?
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, #546
Fred On Everything: Walter Williams, Catholics, The Projects, And Schooling For Blacks – Something Is Wrong Somewhere
Jammie Wearing Fools: GQ “Journalist” On Pat Smith – “I Would Like To Beat Her To Death”
Joe For America: California Dumping Fresh Water Into The Ocean During Drought To Protect Bait Fish
JustOneMinute: Holding On For A Hero
Pamela Geller: RNC Live Coverage – Protesters Face Off, Throwing Bags Of Urine At Police
Shark Tank: Melania Trump’s Speech Destroys Anti-Immigrant Narrative
Shot In The Dark: Nope
STUMP: The Horrors Of Income Inequality – Numbers Check
The Jawa Report: Ministry Of Boobies – Die, Whitey! Die!
The Lonely Conservative: I Guess An Explanation Is Due
The Political Hat: Labor Secretary Calls Out The Brownshirts
This Ain’t Hell: It’s Called Principles
Weasel Zippers: Prosecutors Of Officers Accused In Freddie Gray Case Face Calls For Disbarment
Megan McArdle: Convention Ruckus Gives Republicans A Clear Choice


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#RNCinCLE COMMIES!

Posted on | July 19, 2016 | 67 Comments

 

CLEVELAND
So I went down to Public Square today to see what the protest scene was like and you have never seen so many police in one place in all your life. If there were 1,500 people there, 300 of them were protesters, 400 were media covering the protests, and 800 were cops. This was cool, because the protesters absolutely hate cops. That’s basically what the protest was about — hating cops, hating capitalism, hating America quite generally, because the protesters are Communists:

“There will be no peace unless there is justice,” Professor Cornell West said Tuesday in a speech to an anti-police rally here organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Speaking through a megaphone amid a crowd of protesters gathered at Public Square in downtown Cleveland, West invoked “the legacy of white supremacy in this country that goes back 400 years” to condemn police.
West spoke in front of a giant RCP banner declaring, “Time to Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution. STOP MURDER BY POLICE.” Activists with the RCP held aloft signs that read, “America Was NEVER Great! We Need to OVERTHROW This System!”

You can read the rest at The American Spectator.

 

 

 

 

We really need to revive the Smith Act, so we can put some of these filthy Commie subversive traitors in Leavenworth, where they belong.





 

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Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

#RNCinCLE: No More Bushes

Posted on | July 19, 2016 | 30 Comments

 

CLEVELAND
The Bush family is “effectively in self-imposed exile,” Jonathan Martin of Politico said on CNN’s midday broadcast, noting that it has been decades since Republicans were Bush-less at their national convention. He said this like it’s a bad thing that Republicans have finally rid themselves of the dynastic dominance of Bushism. It’s as if the GOP presidential nomination is a family heirloom the Bushes pass along from one generation to the next, like grandma’s antique silver service. If they don’t get their way, they take their ball and go home. Not very “party unity” of them.

“That’s their choice,” Ivanka Trump told ABC News. “If they don’t want to be part of the narrative, if they don’t want to be part of the future — that this really is about a forward-looking moment.”

Meanwhile, your Daily Absurd Controversy Update:

“There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech,” Manafort told CNN’s Chris Cuomo this morning. “These were common words and values that she cares about her fmaily and things like that. I mean, she was speaking in front of 35 million people last night, she knew that. To think that she would be cribbing Michelle Obama’s words is crazy. I mean, it’s so — I mean, this is, once again, an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she seeks out to demean her and take her down. It’s not going to work.”

 

Category: Election, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, No More Bushes, Republicans

CLEVELAND: The Heat Is On the Street

Posted on | July 19, 2016 | 10 Comments

Ohio state troopers guard the corner of 4th and Prospect.

CLEVELAND
Got here Sunday morning and immediately had to deal with news of the shootings in Baton Rouge, so I went and met with Louisiana delegates:

Roger Villere was in church Sunday morning “and my phone kept vibrating,” the Louisiana Republican Party chairman said. Villere said he did not want to check his text messages during the Catholic service, but as soon as it ended, he stepped outside and turned on his phone and saw the news: Police had been attacked in Baton Rouge. “It’s a terrible way to end a Sunday service,” Villere said after a prayerful meeting with the Louisiana GOP delegation here. . . .

You can read the rest of that. Meanwhile, of course, there is the convention itself — which is Ground Zero for a massive security presence:

Squads of uniformed police and state troopers patrolled on foot through the downtown streets here Monday, deployed to protect the Republican National Convention. A double-ring perimeter of eight-foot tall steel-mesh fencing surrounds the convention site at Quicken Arena on the banks of the Cuyahoga River. Only those with credentials can enter the access gate at the intersection of East 4th Street and Prospect Avenue, then walk past armed officers with police dogs in a high-security gauntlet that leads to the white tents where Secret Service agents put them through metal detectors.
“Make America Safe Again” was the theme of the convention Monday and, in an increasingly dangerous world, keeping the convention itself safe was a massive undertaking. Thousands of law enforcement officers are on the scene in Cleveland, including police from as far away as Florida and California. In the wake of terrorist attacks in France and Turkey, and assassinations of police in Texas and Louisiana, perhaps never in history was America so attuned to the kind of law-and-order message delivered from the RNC stage last night.
“What I did for New York, Donald Trump will do for America,” said former New York City Mayor Giuliani in his prime-time speech Monday. Like the man the GOP is expected to nominate Thursday as the next president of the United States, Giuliani is a tough-talking New Yorker. And the former mayor seemed genuinely angry at the way his fellow New Yorker has been maligned.
“I am sick and tired of the defamation of Donald Trump by the Clinton campaign,” Giuliani said in his convention speech. “I am sick and tired of it. This is a good man, and America should be sick and tired of this vicious, nasty campaign.” . . .

You can read the rest of that at The American Spectator.

Here are a few photos of the festive scene in Cleveland:

A fired-up Trump supporter inside the convention all.

Not all of these T-shirt designs are officially approved.

Of course, it’s Hillary he’s running against, but it’s the thought that counts.

Hurry! Get your limited edition Trump bobblehead! While they last!.

My work covering the convention may not win a Pulitzer Prize, but at least I didn’t plagiarize any speeches by Michelle Obama.





 


Category: Donald Trump, Election, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, Republicans

In The Mailbox: 07.18.16

Posted on | July 18, 2016 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


More is better, so I decided to add the following blogs to “Ripped From The Headlines”: Adam Piggott (designated correspondent from Oz), Animal Magnetism, Dustbury, and Fred On Everything. Honestly, I don’t know why I waited so long to add Fred and Chaz.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: I Have A Plan To Use Pokemon Go As A Tool To Defeat ISIS
EBL: Ode To Mary Jo
Michelle Malkin: Stop Playing Social Justice Warriors, Facebook!
Twitchy: Utah Delegate’s Life Reportedly Threatened By Trump Supporters In Cleveland


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Don’t Invite Me To My Own Bloody Country
American Power: Sheriff David Clarke Slams “Hateful Ideology Called #BlackLivesMatter”
American Thinker: Obama’s Divide-And-Rule Presidency
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig
Da Tech Guy: The Unexpectedly Chronicles – Stacy McCain Or The Baton Rouge Shooter, Which One Did Twitter Ban?
Don Surber: Large Donors Bail On Democratic Convention In Philadelphia
Dustbury: Let Us Not Speak Of Honor
Fred On Everything: New Rossum’s Universal Robots – Toward A Most Minimal Wage
Jammie Wearing Fools: #ThanksObama – 74% Say Race Relations In America Are Bad
Joe For America: Cleveland Police Union Official Says “Obama Has Blood On His Hands”
JustOneMinute: Stuck On Baton Rouge
Pamela Geller: Germany Axe Attack – More Than 20 Injured By Migrant On Train
Shot In The Dark: This Changes Everything!
STUMP: Comparing Murder Rates – Fact Check
The Jawa Report: Fatwa This! Australopithecus Islamicus
The Lonely Conservative: I Don’t Want To Do This Any More
The Political Hat: Belgium Forces Catholics To Kill
This Ain’t Hell: Army to Dump LRS Companies
Weasel Zippers: #BlackLivesMatter Accuses Pokemon Go Of Inherent Racism. No, Seriously.


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GAVIN LONG: ‘Cosmo Ausar Setepenra’ and the Dangerous Kind of Crazy

Posted on | July 18, 2016 | 46 Comments

 

My conclusion that Baton Rouge gunman Gavin Long was “both racist and insane” drew some criticism from commenters who said that such a judgment “plays into the Left’s hands and provides it with deniability.”

So what? What we hate about the Left is how they politicize everything. We should not imitate them by politicizing everything in reverse.

Besides which, I am a well-known expert in craziness. I’ve been studying kooks for years, and when I say somebody’s crazy? Trust me.

Gavin Eugene Long was deranged, daft, demented, cracked, zany, wacko, bonkers, off his rocker and a few fries short of a Happy Meal:

The suspect in the fatal shooting of three Baton Rouge cops maintained a robust social media presence and a website called Convos With Cosmo in which he describes himself as a “freedom strategist, mental game coach, nutritionist, author and spiritual advisor.” . . .
Long officially filed paperwork in Jackson County, Missouri, last year declaring himself Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, a “sovereign citizen” of the United Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah Mu’ur nation, a loosely affiliated network of mostly African Americans who claim to be Native American and don’t believe the U.S. government has jurisdiction over them.

(Via Memeorandum.) More from the Kansas City Star:

Online the shooter called himself Cosmo Setepenra, and more than a week before he killed three police officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., he told a YouTube audience he didn’t want to be associated with organized groups in case anything happened to him.
“I’m affiliated with the spirit of justice: nothing else, nothing more, nothing less,” he said in the clip.
Cosmo Setepenra’s real name was Gavin Eugene Long, and he was from Kansas City. . . .
He was a military veteran without a criminal record. He had a robust online presence, where in “Convos with Cosmo” he doled out everything from health tips to advice to help men reach “complete and full masculinity.”
He took up anti-government views, and while he said he didn’t want to be affiliated with any organized groups, he was a member of a bizarre offshoot of the sovereign citizen movement and had been associated with the Nation of Islam. He saw police as part of the government and was outraged by the recent spate of police shootings of black men.
Followers of the sovereign citizen movement believe the government is corrupt and has no jurisdiction over them. Federal authorities consider the movement a domestic terrorist threat, and the movement continues to swell, with violent incidents erupting regularly.

Gavin Long’s bizarre Afrocentric cult mentality is neither new nor uncommon. Here is a 2004 Associated Press story about one such cult:

EATONTON, Ga. — Pyramids, obelisks and a lonely sphinx stand deserted on the Egyptian-themed compound where as many as 500 members of a quasi-religious sect lived only five years ago.
The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors has gone quiet since its leader, Malachi York, was sentenced to 135 years in federal prison in April for molesting 14 boys and girls whose parents were members of his group.
The federal government has seized the Nuwaubians’ 476-acre farm in this middle Georgia town and the group’s members have dispersed.
“York was it. Everything flowed from York. There was never any mistake about that,” said Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, who has clashed with the Nuwaubians since York moved his followers from New York City’s Brooklyn borough to this rural county in 1993.
“He was the absolute ruler. There was no one else,” Sill said.
At their height, the Nuwaubians brought 5,000 people to Eatonton for Savior’s Day to celebrate York’s birthday.
In 1999, as many as 500 people lived on the compound, practicing York’s malleable religion that shifted from Islamic roots to Judaism, Christianity and Egyptian mysticism, with members at times dressing as cowboys and American Indians. At one time, York even incorporated space aliens into his teachings, claiming that he was an extraterrestrial from the planet “Rizq.”

This kind of kook cult conspiracy stuff is always floating around out there. You’ve got white people who are into weird pagan sex cults, feminists who are into astrology, tarot, “goddess spirituality,” et cetera.

Was it entirely coincidental that a crazy kook cultist like Gavin Long was inspired to drive to Louisiana and shoot cops? No, because the “Black Lives Matter” movement appeals to the same kind of Afrocentric racial insanity that led Gavin long to rename himself “Cosmo Setepenra.”

This is the problem with media coverage that deliberately feeds into racial paranoia in the black community, as I explained last week:

CNN has a long history of going into round-the-clock coverage mode for stories like the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida and the subsequent trial of George Zimmerman, which fit into a certain social-justice narrative of racial victimhood. CNN devoted many hours of coverage to the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, that gave birth to the Black Lives Matter movement. When the Ferguson protests turned into riots, however, nobody at CNN seemed to wonder what part their coverage had played in inciting the racial resentments behind the chaos of looting and arson. Going back as far as the 1991 Rodney King arrest and the deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots that ensued, CNN’s coverage of race and crime has been problematic, and the network’s apparent willingness to act as a publicity agency for Black Lives Matter is part of a troubling pattern.

CNN and other media act like a warped mirror, reflecting back to the audience a distorted view of the world, a sort of alternative reality, and some people are unable to cope with the cognitive dissonance this creates. TV shows us a world full of rich people, important people and famous people, whereas the vast majority of viewers are poor, insignificant and obscure, at least in comparison to the people they see on TV. There is a seemingly unbridgeable gap between TV life and real life. A dangerous kind of craziness takes hold when an obscure loser becomes obsessed by the idea that they can Be Somebody — that is to say, they can become one of the Important People on TV — by committing a spectacular act of violence. Whether it’s Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris perpetrating the Columbine Massacre or Gavin Long shooting cops in Baton Rouge, the deranged mental process involved is essentially the same.

Are there political lessons to be learned from this? Yes.

Can “Black Lives Matter” be blamed for the murders in Baton Rouge? Yes.

However, the really important lesson here is about the intersection between mental illness, politics, and life in a world where the shows on TV seem more “real” to some people than their own actual lives. And guess what? A lot of the “news” on TV is staged with the audience in mind. What is a modern political convention except a big TV show? And what’s the point of “Black Lives Matters” protests? To get on TV.

Turn off your TV! Your TV is making you crazy!

Trust me on this, brothers and sisters, because I’m a “freedom strategist, mental game coach, nutritionist, author and spiritual advisor.”

Crazy? It’s 2016 — the whole world has gone crazy.

It’s OK to be crazy. Just don’t be the dangerous kind of crazy.





 


Category: Crime, Racism, Terrorism

Rule 5 Sunday: Playmate Turns Showgirl

Posted on | July 17, 2016 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Buckaroo Banzai: You ever thought about joining me full time?
New Jersey: Whatya mean, you serious, do you have an opening?
Buckaroo Banzai: Uh huh. Can you sing?
New Jersey: A little, yeh, I can dance.
-from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension

If I were still doing Live at Five (currently on hiatus due to ongoing strange overnight work schedule) I would have linked to the flap this week over former Playboy Playmate Dani Mather and her egregious stupidity, but even without the link she’s a good counterpoint to Claire Sinclair, 2011 Playmate of the Year, who is currently building a nice career for herself as star of the show Pin Up here at the Stratosphere Casino. Ms. Sinclair is rather obviously entitled to the All This And Brains Too t-shirt. As usual, the management is not responsible for any dire consequences arising from your failure use discretion when clicking on the following links, many of which are NSFW.

Claire Sinclair doing her thing and doing it well.

Goodstuff kicks off this week’s Rule 5 Sunday with an exploration of Steampunk, followed by Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Martial Law Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon; Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns; The Last Tradition with Amber Heard and Lena Chase; and First Street Journal with Working For A Living.

EBL explores new frontiers this week with Kayaking, #FishBra, The Golden Age Of Air Travel, Why Does The All-Female Ghostbusters Suck?, Embrace Immortality With Lobsters, Katherine Ross, and Catherine Deneuve.

A View from the Beach chips in with Natalie Gulbis Speaks for Trump, Are Bluefish in Trouble?, Beware the Turtles!, Sturgeons Throw Scientists A Curve, FBI Guys Sign Nondisclosures on Clinton.com, A Real Charmer, Holy Mackerel, A New Use for Fish!, A Short Film, Well, Did She or Didn’t She?, “Cruel Summer” and Went Fishing…

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Elle Evans, his Vintage Babe is Yeoman Janice RandGrace Lee Whitney, and Sex in Advertising this week is (un)covered by Kate Upton. Dustbury is getting back into gear this week with Barbara Stanwyck.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially those of you who linked Rule 5 Sunday in the FMJRA to make it (once again) the most-linked post on The Other McCain last week! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, July 23; deadline for submitting links to the Wombat-socho mailbox for the FMJRA is noon on Saturday.


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