IT MADE ME CHEER: Cruz Eviscerates CNBC Moderators: Questions Illustrate Why Americans Distrust Media. Like a trout on a filleting board he eviscerated them. And good for him.
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October 29, 2015
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BOSTON HERALD: Candidates take aim at moderators in GOP debate.
Adriana Cohen: Ted Cruz calls out media bias.
Plus: Tonight’s the night the rest of the media learned that media bias is real.
Also: Wait a minute — Harwood admitted this mistake two weeks ago, but not tonight?
Related: Surprise! John Harwood Lied About Marco Rubio’s Tax Plan.
Proven right: Mollie Hemingway.
SURPRISE! CNBC DEBATE MODERATOR JOHN HARWOOD LIED ABOUT MARCO RUBIO’S TAX PLAN: “Harwood got his facts wrong. Very wrong. Embarrassingly wrong. We know this because Harwood himself admitted as much on Twitter earlier in October…Harwood refused to issue a correction before the debate audience he deliberately misled. The clock is now ticking on whether he’ll issue any correction at all.”
Related: FURIOUS Reince Priebus BLASTS CNBC debate moderators during CNN interview.
What did he expect hosting the debate on any network with the initials N.B.C. in its callsign? Or as Jon Gabriel of Ricochet asks, “We get it, CNBC moderators, you oppose all the GOP candidates. So why are you moderating our primary debate?”
IT’S LIKE THEY’RE AFRAID OF UNFILTERED VIEWS: The Left’s War On Comment Sections.
Likewise the Campus Crusade Against Yik Yak.
ORDERED A GUN SAFE FROM GANDER MOUNTAIN. They called me — at the crack of dawn — yesterday to tell me it would be delivered this afternoon, and that the driver would call 45 minutes before arrival. Driver called while Helen and I were out at lunch, said he wouldn’t wait 45 minutes (we could easily have been back by then); if we weren’t home to take delivery immediately, he wouldn’t deliver. Now just spent time getting the runaround from Gander Mountain, telling me to contact the trucking company directly.
That’s what I get for not using Amazon.
JUDGING FROM WHAT I’M SEEING ON TWITTER, CNBC AND JOHN HARWOOD ARE THE BIG LOSERS OF TONIGHT’S DEBATE. Watch Ted Cruz point that out.
Vid: @TedCruz blasts @CarlQuintanilla & @JohnJHarwood. Why public doesn’t trust media #CNBCgopdebate #TTT16 pic.twitter.com/rbLL8FOxz1
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) October 29, 2015
UPDATE: I see that Ed got to this already, but it’s worth posting twice.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Ted Cruz had a social media *mic drop* moment when he slammed CNBC debate moderators and the media in general as partisans more interested in starting a fight than discussing substantive issues:
“The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media,” Cruz said. “This is not a cage match.” From there, he listed the questions candidate were asked and said, “How about talking about the substantive issues people care about?”
The crowd erupted in applause.
Well deserved, too. But as Ace asks, why does the RNC sanction these moderators?
Update: Marco Rubio adds, “The Democrats have the ultimate super-PAC; it’s called the mainstream media.”
More: Chris Christie piles on: “John, do you want me to answer or do you want to answer? Even in New Jersey, what you’re doing is rude.”
SO TINFOIL HATS MAY BE A JOKE, BUT TINFOIL WALLPAPER MAY BE A NECESSITY: ‘X-RAY VISION’ DEVICE USES WI-FI REFLECTIONS TO SEE THROUGH WALLS.
CAR OF THE FUTURE? A Mercedes “Luxury Autonopod.”
The Tokyo concept is designed to be autonomously driven—although it is possible to get behind a steering wheel and drive it yourself. Conceptually, it’s fitted with an electric powertrain driven by a hydrogen fuel cell; the theoretical range is more than 600 miles. A peek inside reveals that any semblance of a conventional front/rear seating arrangement has been ditched in favor of a couch wrapped around a central area designed to allow the passengers to play with an assortment of electronic gizmos. The lounge-style arrangement is supposed to bring people together, as Daimler believes that “even though the members of ‘Generation Z’ are frequent users of social media, they nevertheless prefer personal contact whenever possible.” We hope so, too.
Hmm.
STEVE GREEN AND HIS TITANIUM LIVER ARE DRUNKBLOGGING TONIGHT’S GOP DEBATE ON CNBC.
Related: This sums up tonight all too well, alas:
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WHO’S AFRAID OF MILO YIANNOPOULOS? The ultimate troll: The terrifying allure of Gamergate icon Milo Yiannopoulos.
Why would a San Francisco Chronicle reporter be “terrified” of an openly gay journalist?
(By the way, yet another reminder: For Chronicle journalists, Milo=terrifying. Democrat candidate promising to bankrupt entire industries? Party on, Barry!)
QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED:
The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.
We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the red states.
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq, and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?
—Then-Sen. Candidate Barack Obama (D-IL), speaking at the Democrat National Convention, July, 2004.
But somebody apparently didn’t get the message: “Obama pollster: Voters divided in ‘tribes,’ politics ‘increasingly segregated, tribal,'” as Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Examiner today.
Yes, America post-November 4th, 2008 truly is Paradise Lost.
YOUR POST-APOCALYPTIC VEHICLE: The Ford Gurkha. “Terradyne builds these trucks off a Ford F-550 chassis, and similarities between the Gurkha and the stock Ford end right then and there. The truck is armored from top to bottom and is able to move its bulky body through whatever terrain and through whatever type of firepower you might come up against. According to the company, the Gurkha’s body can withstand hours of AK-47 fire, .50 caliber sniper fire, and is blast protected from small explosives, which definitely makes it more durable than your average F-550. The truck features a 6.7-liter V8 turbo diesel that makes 300 horsepower and 660 lb-ft of torque. It can fit up to 12 people, and has a fuel capacity of over 40 gallons, thus ensuring you have enough fuel to get you out of those sticky situations. The downside of such a vehicle? It weighs almost 10 tons and starts at $278,000.”
#DEATHBALLOON OVER PENNSYLVANIA (PHOTO):
That long-awaited Hollywood mashup of Black Sunday and Witness has finally begun its location shoots.
(Photo and caption from the AP wire: An unmanned Army surveillance blimp which broke loose from its ground tether in Maryland floats through the air about 1,000 feet about the ground while dragging a several thousand foot tether line just south of Millville, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. (Jimmy May/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise via AP.))
CHANGE: British Vulcan bomber touches down forever after final flight — The world’s last airworthy Vulcan bomber has completed its final flight, which had to be kept secret until the last minute for fear huge crowds would attend.
I don’t know — I suspect Europe’s rough and ready defense ministers would have liked having this proven aerial technology on standby in case Putin or ISIS get any new ideas.
CABLE NEWS LOSES ITS MIND OVER THE TERROR OF THE #DEATHBALLOON!
If you guys don’t know to be panicked and screamey, a missile-sensor balloon with a long trailing antenna got free, and Shep “Sensationalist” Smith is trying to make it sound like aerial Armageddon.
He insisted “It doesn’t work!” despite having never heard of this missile-detection system before. All we know is that the anchor failed. But Shep is in screaming and hysteria mode.
This is a real quote. He noted that the long cable trailing the balloon had hit a transmission tower, and knocked out local power. Then he said, and remember, I’m not joking about this, “It’s all fun and games to talk about power outages, but what happens when it crosses a baby carriage?!”
Or words to that effect. “Baby carriage” was in the mix, there.
Always eager for a Car Chase or a Superdome Slaughter Cannibal-a-rama, Shep Smith is beclowning himself about the #DEATHBALLOON that has come to kill us all.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer wasn’t doing much better keeping his own bladder in check:
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer had the channel’s Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr analyze how the blimp could be brought down, whether the United States’ military would have to shoot it — and if or when — that time would come.
“We’ll stay on top of this very disturbing story. And we’ve never seen anything like this in the United States before,” Blitzer said. “Hopefully they’ll be able to bring that blimp down peacefully in an unpopulated area — some field somewhere. We’ll see what they can do.”
“We’ve never seen anything like this in the United States before!” Wait’ll somebody informs Wolf about the Hindenburg.
Update: “#DEATHBALLOON is extremely low energy. @smod2016 knows how to get things done.”
ROAD AND TRACK really likes the new Mazda RX. We Need This Car. Now.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: NYC hipsters can now rent a mom:
A Brooklyn woman is looking to profit on her more than 30 years of motherhood — and is using needy hipsters to cash in on her experience.
After raising her sons in the suburbs of Connecticut, Nina Keneally relocated to Bushwick and launched Need A Mom — a service where she rents out her maternal know-how to millennial neighbors in need, according to her website needamomnyc.com.
A former drug rehabilitation counselor and Tony-wining theater producer, Keneally conceived the idea of her rent-a-mom business when she noticed the residents in her hipster enclave kept confiding in her.
“As I started to live in the neighborhood, do yoga and frequent coffee shops, I’ve noticed that a lot of young people in the neighborhood wanted to talk to me about what was going on in their lives,” she told Bushwickdaily.com.
Customers of Need A Mom can hire Keneally to keep them company while watching a flick at home, have her do their holiday shopping, or simply have her listen to their problems over a hot beverage.
Other than making housecalls, how does this differ from the age-old New York occupation of hiring a therapist?
IT WOULD CERTAINLY EXPLAIN A LOT: LIMBAUGH: REPUBLICAN LEADERS WANT HILLARY IN WHITE HOUSE!, shouts headline currently up at the Drudge Report.
LENA DUNHAM’S PLANNED PARENTHOOD HALLOWEEN COSTUME SHOWS SHE’S A CULTURE WAR DOUBLE AGENT, Mollie Hemingway writes:
Writer and actress Lena Dunham is a proud woman of the left. She strenuously supports Hillary Clinton. She famously compared voting for Barack Obama to losing one’s virginity. She’ll kind of do anything in support of liberal candidates and causes. And I do mean anything.
But a solid 70 percent of the time I wonder if that’s just an act. Because if you really look at her art, she makes a powerful case for conservatism. The best argument in favor of this theory is Girls, a very stealthily conservative HBO series that shows the devastation wrought by changing sexual mores. Every week is a morality tale in how urban people suffer as they attempt to navigate a world made harrowing by leftist dogma. If Family Research Council knew how to make art, this is what they’d produce. I watched the first season because it was well done, but each episode made me more and more conservative. By the end, I wondered if Phyllis Schlafly was a silent producer.
That would certainly fit Conquest’s Third Law of Politics.
GETTING HIGH ON your body’s own mood-altering chemicals.
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SHE SPINS HARD FOR THE MONEY: Turns Out Melissa Harris-Perry Uses the Term ‘Hard Work’ All the Time.
NONSENSE. I’M SURE EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE, JUST LIKE EUROPE: DHS, White House Tout Ability To Screen Syrian Refugees. But Under Oath, FBI Says Opposite.