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September 12, 2016
THIS MORNING’S RUMOR HAS LEGS ENOUGH FOR POLITICO TO RUN WITH IT: Former DNC chairman calls for Clinton contingency plan.
“Now is the time for all good political leaders to come to the aid of their party,” said Don Fowler, who helmed the DNC from 1995 to 1997, during Bill Clinton’s presidency, and has backed Hillary Clinton since her 2008 presidential bid. “I think the plan should be developed by 6 o’clock this afternoon.”
Fowler said he expects Clinton to fully recover from her bout with pneumonia, which forced her to leave a Sept. 11 memorial event early and cancel an early-week fundraising swing. But he said the Democratic Party would be mistaken to proceed without a contingency plan. The party’s existing rules empower the DNC to name a replacement candidate but include few guidelines or parameters.
Fowler has been out as DNC chair for almost 20 years, but the next person to float this will be someone a bit closer in.
THE SEPTEMBER 12TH OTTOMAN DEFEAT THAT SHOCKED MUSLIM SUPREMACISTS: Vienna, September 12, 1683. Vienna turned the tide. Other defeats would follow.
A MILLION TO ONE SHOT, DOC: Mysterious Catfish Falls From The Sky, Hits Woman In The Face.
BRINGING NEW MEANING TO THE PHRASE “VIRAL MEDIA:”
Hey kids! Today’s secret desperation focus group phrase is “powers through”https://t.co/I52FDXrorc
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 12, 2016
It’s like the DNC and the MSM secretly collude their stories and catch phrases on a listserv of journalists or a journalism listserv, or something.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: MIT And Georgia Tech Develop System To Read Closed Books Using Terahertz Radiation. “The system uses terahertz radiation, which unlike X-Rays, can distinguish between ink and paper. It also gives better depth resolution when compared to ultrasound. Paper and ink bend light at a different degree, which helps the system in distinguishing between them. The 20-micron deep air pockets between the pages help the system differentiate between the pages of a book.”
AT AMAZON, save in Arts, Crafts & Sewing.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: We need more lawyers, seriously. At least, more lawyers like the ones at the Institute for Justice.
THIS ISN’T THE 21st CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Leprosy Scare in California Elementary School; there are now approximately 6,500 reported cases in the United States.
WELL, THAT DIDN’T TAKE VERY LONG: Syria Cease-Fire Is Violated After Less Than an Hour.
Several residents in the divided northern city of Aleppo said via text message that a government helicopter had dropped explosive cylinders on a rebel-held district. And in the southern province of Dara’a, a rebel faction said in a statement that it had killed four government soldiers.
There had been widespread doubts that the cease-fire, timed to coincide with the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, would be respected.
On the other side of the Caliphate, there’s this:
Baghdad hopes that Moscow will continue to provide Iraqi security forces intelligence data on the location of Daesh militants and their capabilities during the upcoming operation to free Mosul, the second largest city in the country seized by the group in 2014, Izvestiya reported, citing an unnamed source in the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Take Izvestia with a grain of salt — or perhaps a shot of vodka — but Iraq knows who the new strong horse is in the Middle East.
DOES A BUSY BRAIN mean a hungry body?
SO DAVID SHUSTER REPORTS DNC INTEREST IN REPLACING HILLARY WITH JOE BIDEN. But this will require a pivot from Hillary’s woman-centric male-bashing campaign.
Flashback: Joe Biden’s Woman-Touching Habit.
Related: Talking Points Memo: Why Does Creepy Uncle Joe Biden Get A Pass From Liberals?
Plus:
NONPROLIFERATION IS DEAD AND OBAMA KILLED IT: North Korea ready for another nuclear test any time.
“Assessment by South Korean and U.S. intelligence is that the North is always ready for an additional nuclear test in the Punggye-ri area,” the site of the North’s five nuclear explosions, South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun told a news briefing.
“North Korea has a tunnel where it can conduct an additional nuclear test,” Moon said.
South Korea is pushing for more sanctions against Pyongyang to close what it says were loopholes left in the last United Nations Security Council resolution adopted in March.
Both China and Russia backed sanctions imposed in March following the North’s January nuclear test, but their apparent ambivalence about fresh sanctions cast doubt on the Security Council’s ability to quickly form a consensus.
It was a big deal when Russia and China signed on to the new sanctions regime, but they haven’t been nearly as interested in following America’s lead since the Obama-Kerry nuclear deal with Iran.
I QUESTION THE PREMISE OF THIS HEADLINE: Hillary’s media is torching its standards to cover the election, Michael Goodwin writes in the New York Post.
Considering that we read earlier drafts of this same article in October of 2008 by then-ABC/PJM contributor Michael Malone and immediately after the 2004 election by then-Newsweek columnist Howard Fineman, what standards are left?
Former CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson writes that until her debacle on the 15th anniversary of 9/11 (and fourth anniversary of Benghazi), Hillary’s health (or the lack thereof) “was ‘the stuff of conspiracy theorists’ until the reporters who appear to have been proven wrong, decided it was not. It’s almost as if we in the media take an editorial position with no factual basis, dare critics to prove us wrong, and then when events do, we modify our stance.”
Exactly. Or as Ann Althouse noted last month, “The media feel like lawyers for the Clinton campaign, taking whatever the evidence is and presenting it as advantageous to their client.”
It all makes sense when you think of them as Democrat operatives with bylines—and hopefully hazmat suits as well, when they’re flying with Hillary these days. Perhaps we should set up some sort of quarantine ward stat for these potential asymptomatic pneumonia carriers:
GEORGE KORDA: Hillary Clinton and continuing to wilt Tennessee’s Democratic ‘garden.’ “In 1992 Tennessee Democrats held both houses of the state legislature, the governor’s office, both U.S. Senate seats, and a majority of U.S. House seats. Everything flipped in 1994, the first mid-term election of Bill Clinton’s first term. Tennessee elected a Republican governor, two Republican U.S. senators, a majority of the U.S. House delegation, and the process began by which Republicans rose to the point in the Tennessee state legislature at which they hold 73 seats in the 99-seat House of Representatives, and 28 seats in the Senate. Senate Democrats could hold a caucus meeting in a mid-sized sedan; there are only five in the 33-member body.”
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Scholar of Islam predicts civil war across Europe as more young Muslims facing poor job prospects turn to radical groups.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: We need more lawyers, seriously. At least, more lawyers like the ones at the Institute for Justice.
QUESTION ASKED: Donald Trump Asks What Half of His Military Supporters ‘Does Hillary Clinton Deem Deplorable?’
Note that this is appearing at show biz site The Wrap and also in the headlines of the Internet Movie Database Website, which means that Hillary’s “deplorable” bitter clingers gaffe has made it past the DNC-MSM’s firewall.
GREAT MOMENTS IN JOURNALISTIC INQUISITIVENESS: I don’t want to see Hillary Clinton’s medical records, and neither should you.
Woodrow Wilson and JFK, call your office.
UPDATE: “In 1996, after Bob Dole released all of his health records and challenged the president to do the same, the White House released 11 pages of letters from doctors summarizing laboratory tests. President Clinton sat down for a lengthy interview with Lawrence Altman of the New York Times, who was also a medical doctor. Bill Clinton told Altman he didn’t think of the interview as an invasion of privacy. ‘The public has a right to know the condition of the president’s health.’”