AS FOR THAT RUSSIAN INFLUENCE THING: Emails: Clinton Foundation sought State Department OK for work with Russians. All together now: of course they did!
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November 8, 2016
THE PROBLEM IS OUR ELITES, LIKE ANY FOURTH GENERATION SOCIALISTS ARE SO BACKWARD THEY COULDN’T ORGANIZE A BONK IN A BROTHEL. BEHOLD, SOCIALISM, CAN ACCOMPLISH IN FOUR GENERATIONS WHAT INBREEDING TOOK TWENTY TO DO: The death of elitism.
THE SOLUTION IS ROMAN. PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER IN A BARREL WITH SPIKES AND THROW IT OVER A WATERFALL: Clinton-Obama officials negotiated for jobs with Clinton-connected Teneo while agency subsidized Teneo client Dow. I mean, who doesn’t like the classics?
NO, THEY’VE ONLY HAD SIXTY EIGHT YEARS TO PREPARE, AFTER ALL: Are Palestinians ready for #peace?
IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL IT WHEN SOMEONE SELF-NECKLACES WITH BURNING LIES? A pyrrhic victory for the partisan press?
IS HILLARY OJ? Members of the Jury, What Say You?
IT’S ALL A MATTER OF WHICH ONE YOU THINK IS THE GREATEST DANGER: Why the Anti-Trump Commentariat are not Trusted. I will confess ultimately my choice was not finding some amazing virtue in Trump (would that it were) but discovering how in the tank for Hillary the media was. And I knew they were in the tank for her, just not how far. Ultimately, I don’t care to have someone in the White House who “can do no wrong” in the eyes of the media.
WHO WILL INVESTIGATE THE DOJ? WikiLeaks exposes multiple and major conflicts of interest.
“JURORS AWARDED A UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ADMINISTRATOR $3 MILLION MONDAY FOR HER PORTRAYAL IN A NOW-DISCREDITED ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE ARTICLE ABOUT THE SCHOOL’S HANDLING OF A BRUTAL GANG RAPE A FRATERNITY HOUSE,” AP reports tonight, adding, “Jurors found that the magazine and its publisher, Wenner Media, acted with actual malice because they republished the article on Dec. 5 with an editor’s note after they knew about the problems with Jackie’s story. The jury also found that Erdely acted with actual malice on six claims: two statements in the article and four statements to media outlets after the story was published. Jurors awarded $2 million to Eramo for statements made by Erdely and $1 million for the republication of the article by Rolling Stone and Wenner Media. Rolling Stone could appeal the verdict.”
“Rolling Stone is currently facing a $25 million defamation lawsuit from the UVA fraternity whose house was where Jackie claimed she was raped,” Bre Payton of the Federalist adds.
Earlier: “Rolling Stone Can Take Their Defamation Statement And Shove It,” Mollie Hemingway wrote on Friday:
When Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus” in 2014, it was attempting to drive a sketchy narrative for progressive political results. That’s what Sabrina Erdely has done with many of her pieces over her career. That’s why Rolling Stone hired her. They took a very serious issue of how the sexual revolution has led to all sorts of abuses on college campuses and decided instead to focus on the dubious “rape culture” message pushed in recent years by progressive activists. Abuses on college campuses — and especially off college campuses — are real, but the recent “rape culture” craze has led to attacks on the civil liberties of men and created a panic built on emotion more than reality.
Rolling Stone has spent the last half century fostering that aforementioned sexual revolution, and has pushed hard for numerous additional examples of relaxing social mores. As Jonah Goldberg wrote in a recent G-File, “If we can’t immediately grasp why some old practice, some ancient tradition, some venerable custom or Chestertonian fence is worthwhile, we tend to instantly dismiss it as outdated and old-fashioned. But again, as Chesterton and Hayek alike understood, simply because something is ‘old-fashioned’ doesn’t mean it wasn’t fashioned in the first place. And by fashioned, I mean manufactured and constructed. Customs are created because they solve problems. But they get less respect in our present age because they have no identifiable authors. They are crowd-sourced, to borrow a modern phrase for an ancient phenomenon. The customs and institutions we take for granted are crammed full of embedded knowledge every bit as much as prices are. But most intelligent people are comfortable admitting they can’t know all the factors that go into a price, but we constantly want to dissect the whys of every custom.”
Let’s assume for a moment that Rolling Stone’s base story was true. Or as Jann Wenner was quoted as saying late last month by the New York Times while defending the story as being fake but accurate (to quote a Times-approved phrase):
“We did everything reasonable, appropriate up to the highest standards of journalism to check on this thing,” Mr. Wenner said in a libel trial in federal court here. “The one thing we didn’t do was confront Jackie’s accusers — the rapists.”
As he has previously, Mr. Wenner assigned much of the blame to the woman at the center of the article, identified as Jackie, whose account of being raped began to fall apart shortly after the article was published two years ago. Mr. Wenner said there was nothing a journalist could do “if someone is really determined to commit a fraud.”
He said that while the magazine rightly retracted “the Jackie stuff,” he disagreed with the decision to retract the entire article in the wake of a damning report on it in April 2015 by The Columbia Journalism Review. He said the bulk of the article detailed ways that the University of Virginia could improve its treatment of victims of sexual assault.
Does Wenner feel that Rolling Stone, his life’s work, bears any responsibility for creating the conditions he describes in the above passage?
November 7, 2016
2016, MAN: Former Washington Times reporter and Drudge editor Joseph Curl shares the best voting sticker of Election 2016:
AT AMAZON, fresh deals on Cellphones and Accessories.
Plus, pre-Thanksgiving savings on Kitchen Utensils and Gadgets.
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Government Workers Now Outnumber Manufacturing Workers by 9,977,000. To be fair, the manufacturing sector has gotten more efficient. The government sector not so much. In fact, efficiency in government is a bad thing, since it produces fewer dedicated pro-government voters.
AND MOST OTHER CYCLES: Educated White Liberals Are The Intolerant Ones This Election Cycle.
I’VE BEEN ENJOYING THE PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK WHO DON’T REALIZE THIS IS A PARODY: Too Far: Dunkin Donuts Holiday Cup Is Richard Dawkins Giving The Finger. Then again, it’s 2016 and what ought to be parody is instead the daily news. . . .
JEFF CARTER: The Oligopoly And Monopsony.
I’VE GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS: ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Might Give Sheldon a Prequel Spinoff.
So a live-action version of Muppet Babies, but with lots more Richard Feynman and Stan Lee name-drops. What could go wrong?
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: An electric-powered long-range folding scooter.
For years, Clinton partisans have blindly defended every criticism of the Clinton Foundation by pointing to the good work the charity has done. But the WikiLeaks emails from John Podesta, Hillary Clinton‘s campaign chair, have confirmed nearly every criticism of the Clinton Foundation, debunking the claim that it is solely a philanthropic endeavor run by the Clintons.
Jeff Stein, a writer at the generally pro-Clinton Vox, rescinded previous claims he made that the Clinton Foundation wasn’t used to personally enrich the family’s wealth after WikiLeaks released an email revealing Chelsea Clinton used the foundation to direct investors to her husband’s hedge fund and treated Clinton Foundation funds as a personal bank account.
“His raising money for his own fund hasn’t been going well and he has cvc making some calls for him to get mtgs with some clinton people,” Teneo president Doug Band, who has some close ties with the foundation, wrote in a January 2012 email to Podesta and other Clinton staff. “Marc has invited several potential investors and a few current business ones to the poker night. I assume all are contributing to the foundation, which of course isn’t the point. What is the point is that he is doing precisely what he accused me of doing as the entire plan of his has been to use this for his business which he is.”
Previously-released emails have revealed a pay-to-play exchange between the government of Morocco and then-Secretary of State Clinton. Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk used his prolific donations to the Clinton Foundation to solicit political favors.
Read the whole thing.
2016, MAN: Frightening moment on an Aeromexico flight when a large snake fell from overhead mid-flight.
Where’s Samuel L. Jackson when you need him?
J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Leaked Documents Reveal Expansive Soros Funding to Manipulate Federal Elections.
TROLL LEVEL: GRAND MASTER. “North Korea has demanded that two Australians return to Pyongyang and apologise on national TV for fooling the regime into thinking they were professional golfers.”
BOLIVAR OF BROKEN DREAMS: Venezuela’s Currency Is Dying. Bad luck. (Pun credit — or blame — goes to Richard Fernandez.)