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Archive for 2016
February 21, 2016
LIFE IN OBAMA’S AMERICA: Nashville library reminds local chapter of Black Lives Matter that segregated meetings aren’t permitted on public property. BLM blames — no, I’m not making this up — “white supremacy.”
Michael Graham, call your office!
You too, Jon Gabriel:
POPEHAT’S KEN WHITE: #FreeStacy — But From What? In Defense of Free Speech Legalism:
When I say #FreeStacy, I mean “Twitter, you’ve providing an increasingly shitty product, I’m expecting to be banned from it arbitrarily soon, and I’ve been thinking for some time about where to focus social media attention instead.” Or “Twitter, before I thought this was mostly about low-level employees acting on their own biases. But I’m increasingly convinced by the argument that you’ve decided to offer a product aimed at a specific political group.” Or “Twitter, you sell yourself as separating harassment from free speech, but you don’t deliver.”
Read the whole thing, which is coming from someone who admits (in no uncertain terms) that he’s not a fan of Stacy, but that there are larger issues at stake.
By the way, note the trend-line – Newsweek, NBC, CNN, ESPN, the New York Daily News and now Twitter all go into hard left activism just as their stock price, market value or ratings crater. Perhaps it’s the YOLO school of business. Back in the 1960s, American Spectator founder Bob Tyrrell coined the term “coat and tie radicals,” but who knew that lurking underneath so many seemingly levelheaded CEOs was a raging SJW just waiting to Hulk-out?
Related: “It’s true, Popehat hates me,” Stacy McCain tweets from his backup account. “The Freedom to Hate is what makes America great!”
FIREWORKS ERUPT BETWEEN FOX SPORTS 1’S WHITLOCK, BLACK LIVES MATTER’S KING OVER PEYTON MANNING:
King accused Whitlock of being a puppet for white people because he now works for Fox Sports 1 and even called Beyonce’s Super Bowl 50 halftime show “cowardly.”
“See what happens is, throughout history, there have always been black men who have been paid by white men to speak negatively about black folks and their movements. You are now that guy. You are the guy that white folks prop up to tear down black folks and their movements,” King said to Whitlock.
He later added that there will always be a job for a “black man who will say what white men are thinking.”
Whitlock responded, “I actually know who I am and know what I represent. I don’t have an identity crisis going on. My parents — both black. My birth certificate, my existence — black. I’m not under some identity crisis where I’m trying to prove something to people over Twitter about who I am. I don’t have to pretend to be somebody I’m not. To some degree, I feel sorry for you.”
King addressed the not being black issue, saying “Yes, you are of a darker hue than me. But brother, I am blacker than you every day of the week.”
That’s an interesting non-denial denial.
I’M NOT DETECTING A PARTICULARLY LIBERTARIAN TONE TO THE 2016 CAMPAIGN: Donald Trump & Bernie Sanders Are Burning the GOP & Democratic Party To The Ground, Thank God. This is happening at the same time Gallup finds libertarian voters outnumber conservatives, liberals, and populist voters. Do the math, reformers!
OUR PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE MEDIA: Who ‘Emerged’ Bernie Sanders’ Civil Rights Arrest Photo?
Read the whole thing.
IT’S BAD WHEN YOU’RE HEARING THIS FROM MOTHER JONES: Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Has Crossed Into Neverland.
I’ve generally tried to go easy on Sanders. I like his vision, and I like his general attitude toward Wall Street. But this is insane. If anything, it’s worse than the endless magic asterisks that Republicans use to pretend their tax plans will supercharge the economy and pay for themselves. It’s not even remotely in the realm of reality. If it were, France and Germany and Denmark would by now be consumer paradises to make Croesus blush.
A group of stuffy establishment economists says “no credible economic research” supports Friedman’s analysis, which “undermines our reputation as the party of responsible arithmetic.” Or, in Austan Goolsbee’s more colorful language, Sanders’ plans have “evolved into magic flying puppies with winning Lotto tickets tied to their collars.”
Enough is enough. Everyone needs to get back to reality. This ain’t it.
Do tell.
Shades of the infamous Freudian slip by the hard left former editor of the New York Times, Howlin’ Howell Raines, specifically citing Jayson Blair “before the National Association of Black Journalists in 2001 as the first fruits of a hiring campaign that ‘has made our staff better and, more importantly, more diverse.’”
As with the Times replacing reporting after 9/11 with activism, presumably, the CIA is in the process of getting out of the spy profession if the recent history of NASA is any indication. During Obama’s first term, that government agency decided to simultaneously get into the business of LGBT and Muslim outreach (good luck squaring that circle) right around the time it was exiting what was called — in a less enlightened era — the manned space program. In those dark ages, American engineers developed the technology to go the moon, but the horrible sexists and bigots at NASA (some with evil wrongthink shirts, no doubt) sent only WASPy males.
Life was so horrible throughout the millions of years of history that all led up to the glorious revolution that is the Obama era.
JEB: WHAT WENT WRONG? “If there’s anything to be critical about in hindsight, it’s the original, pre-firewall conception of Jeb’s campaign. The flawed conceit of his candidacy was that Bush Legacy × Wonkish Technocrat + $100 million = 2016 GOP nomination. Now that might have been a can’t-miss formula for success circa 2006, but a decade later it appeared shaky to anyone who looked closely.
Or to put it another way, as NRO contributor Liam Donovon tweets, “assumptions of the strength of Jeb or even Mitt vastly underestimate the level of scar tissue left from McCain/Romney.”
Earlier: Trump as “Nemesis for the hubris of the George W. Bush years.”
February 20, 2016
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SORRY, INSUFFICIENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT: The Remedy for Social Inequality Starts at Home: We can no longer ignore or downplay the ripple effect of broken families.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “Last night a disturbing racist post that was made to social media was brought to my attention.”
“This post was hurtful and destructive to our campus community. While social media can certainly bring about positive change, it can also be a place that deeply hurts and harms others.”
Said the statement by the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater chancellor about a Snapchat photograph of 2 students who posed in the middle of having a facial that had dark goo spread on their faces. The students say they just thought it looked funny and had no thought of imitating black people.
We’re told the students won’t face any discipline — why would they? — but that “Following the incident and the reaction caused by the image, the college is planning to host a number of race awareness seminars for staff and students.”
A better idea: Resign, and do something you’re qualified to do, like clean out chicken coops. Plus, a pointed criticism of Chancellor Beverly Kopper: “Is there a policy for when it’s appropriate for university officials to describe student speech as ‘racist’? The university should want all students to feel welcome, but part of welcoming all students is taking care to understand and not to mischaracterize what individual students are saying and doing.”
They don’t really want all students to feel welcome. They want certain students to feel welcome, and the rest to feel like they’re constantly walking on eggshells.
IT’S POTEMKIN VILLAGES ALL THE WAY DOWN: Be Suspicious Of Online Movie Ratings, Especially Fandango’s. “Several sites have built popular rating systems: Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and IMDb each have their own way of aggregating film reviews. And while the sites have different criteria for picking and combining reviews, they have all built systems with similar values: They use the full continuum of their ratings scale, try to maintain consistency, and attempt to limit deliberate interference in their ratings. These rating systems aren’t perfect, but they’re sound enough to be useful. All that cannot be said of Fandango, a NBCUniversal subsidiary that uses a five-star rating system in which almost no movie gets fewer than three stars.”
Do not trust content from NBC Universal.
IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Drinking more coffee may undo liver damage from booze.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Donald Trump wins SC; Cruz and Rubio battle for second.
UPDATE: “By the way, this is the real scary part. ‘Trump won this week despite coming out for health care mandate, defending planned parenthood, blaming Bush for 9/11, standing by impeachment.'”
TWEET OF THE DAY:
I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED THAT THIS COURSE DIDN’T ACCOMPLISH ITS OBJECTIVE: Teenage Afghan migrant, 16, ‘rapes worker at Belgian asylum centre two weeks after attending a course on how to treat Western women.’ These classes would be more effective if they explained that the penalty was hanging. Instead, it will probably be more classes and a surprisingly short sentence in a prison that’s probably nicer and safer than the guy’s home in Afghanistan was.
WHO’S STAYIN’ ALIVE AFTER SOUTH CAROLINA? Tyler O’Neil is liveblogging the South Carolina primary.
THE ANN COULTER REFERENCE IS MOSTLY PROOF THAT INSIDE HIGHER ED ISN’T IMMUNE TO CLICKBAIT, BUT THE ARTICLE ISN’T BAD: Milo Yiannopoulos: The Next Ann Coulter?