#RNCinCLE Facts Are RAAAAACIST!

Posted on | July 20, 2016 | 63 Comments

CLEVELAND
A typically absurd three-day long “controversy”:

Rep. Steve King is still trying to explain what he meant with his comments earlier in the week in which he initially suggested that “white people” had done more for civilization than any other “subgroup” and later said he meant “Western civilization.”
The Iowa Republican, speaking at a Washington Post event on Wednesday, criticized media coverage of his remarks as lacking the proper context in which he had made them during a panel discussion on MSNBC.
Fellow panelist Charlie Pierce, of Esquire, had said on Monday: “If you’re really optimistic, you can say that this is the last time that old white people will command the Republican Party’s attention, its platform, its public face,” adding, “That hall is wired by loud, unhappy, dissatisfied white people.”
“Now, that’s disparaging a group of people, and ‘old white people’ — can you trade that language out by adding any other group in there as an adjective?” King said Wednesday. . . .
“And by the way, Charlie Pierce is not a young white guy,” King quipped.

The original spark between Pierce and King:

“This ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie,” King said. “I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you’re talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”
Hayes asked: “Than white people?”
“Than, than Western civilization itself,” King said. “It’s rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That’s all of Western civilization.”

This is simply a fact of history. You can trace a line of Western culture through millennia from Mesopotamia to Greece to Rome, and then up to Gutenberg’s invention of movable type in the 1400s. From there, via various influences, you arrive at Philadelphia in 1776. This history is a matter of documented fact, not opinion or speculation, and Charles Pierce’s deliberately insulting sneers about “old white people” are what should be truly controversial, rather than anything King said in response.

Does “equality” mean that white people are required to ignore insults? This is the same distorted idea of “social justice” that feminists exploit to claim that they are victims of oppression. Rich girls who attend elite colleges are constantly shrieking about “male privilege” and demanding “safe spaces” to protect them against “microaggressions.”

The whole world must be tilted to one side to accommodate this victim mentality, and it’s the same way with race. Because nobody is ever allowed to say anything bad about any group other than white people, therefore everybody takes turns slagging white people (e.g., “The white race is the cancer of human history,” to quote Susan Sontag) as if no white person in the world ever did anything useful. Yet if anyone ever objects to this slander, as Congressman King did, suddenly it’s a huge controversy.

Just remember, there are 5 A’s in “RAAAAACISM!”

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Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

In The Mailbox: 07.20.16

Posted on | July 20, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
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EBL: #FreeStacy #FreeMilo #F*ck Twitter
Michelle Malkin: Who Gets Absolute Moral Authority?
Twitchy: “Honestly, Go To Hell” -Lefty Media Outlets Attack Tiffany Trump’s Convention Speech

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Adam Piggott: Some Links & News For July 20
American Power: Geert Wilders Endorses Donald Trump At “Gays For Trump” RNC Party
American Thinker: Republican Primaries Stolen By Democrats
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Ice Station Nautilus by Rick Campbell
Da Tech Guy: Apparently $TWTR And @Safety Believe Feminists Are Weak And Fragile Women
Don Surber: Second Night Of RNC Was A Guilty Pleasure
Dustbury: There’s Always Someone More Useless
Fred On Everything: Jewish Decline And The Rise of China In The US
Jammie Wearing Fools: Ready for Hillary! Pennsylvania Democrat Delegate Shoots Her Husband
Joe For America: Sheriff Clarke Obliterates CNN Reporter On Anti-Police Rhetoric
JustOneMinute: Ted Cruz On Deck
Pamela Geller: LA Times Suggests Military Coup Against President Trump
Shark Tank: Immigration Reform Could Play Big Role In Congressional Race That’s Leaning Republican
Shot In The Dark: The Little Monetary Fund That Cried “Doom!”
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Don’t Drink With White People
The Lonely Conservative: So, What Are You Doing For The RNC Trump Coronation?
The Political Hat: Perpetual College Living And The Marxist Dream
This Ain’t Hell: “Source” – Baton Rouge Murderer Caught The PTSD
Weasel Zippers: Trump Reportedly Will Purge Government Of Obama Appointees
Megan McArdle: Republicans Can’t Praise Trump, So They Bash Clinton

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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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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

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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
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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

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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.