ROGER SIMON ON THE SELLING OF AMERICA—BY THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN.

2016, MAN: Julian Assange’s internet link to the world ‘is shut down by America’ hours after crazy rumours sweep the web that Pamela Anderson ‘killed him with a poisoned vegan Pret sandwich’

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GREAT MOMENTS IN SELECTIVE AMNESIA, PART DEUX:

Shot: Trump accuses SNL of being part of media conspiracy to ‘rig’ the election: The Donald hits out at Alec Baldwin’s ‘hit job’, says his portrayal ‘stinks’ and calls for the ‘unfunny’ show to be cancelled.

—Headline, the London Daily Mail, yesterday.

Chaser:

But many of the show’s writers say..without equivocation, that Saturday Night was out to get [Gerald Ford’s Press Secretary, Ron Nessen when Nessen stupidly agreed to host a show in April of 1976]. The attitude, [writer] Rosie Shuster said, was: “The President’s watching. Let’s make him cringe and squirm”…[Producer Lorne Michaels] is proudest of the time Saturday Night replayed, three days before the 1976 election between Ford and Jimmy Carter, the speech in which Ford announced his pardon of Richard Nixon. The feeling on the 17th floor was that the pardon had been conveniently forgotten by the press and that a reminder was in order.

—Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, 1986.

As Jazz Shaw writes at Hot Air, “Stop complaining about Trump’s ‘war on the media’ because he’s right.”

THE 1980S CALLED AND… WELL, YOU KNOW THE REST: Russia Is Building Fallout Shelters to Prepare for a Potential Nuclear Strike.

WELL, THAT’S KIND OF HEARTWARMING: Dems Raise $13K to Reopen Firebombed GOP Office.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SELECTIVE AMNESIA, PART I.

Shot:

In light of the numerous women who have come forward to accuse GOP nominee Donald Trump of sexually assaulting them, many in the media have questioned why leaders of the party continue to endorse him. The National Organization for Women President Terry O’Neill appeared on Politics Nation with Al Sharpton Sunday to discuss their petition to get them to unendorse their nominee. “Are you surprised that such Republican leadership seems to be sticking with him through all of this,” inquired Sharpton.

— MSNBC Guest: GOP Leaders Threaten Women’s ‘Very Lives’ with Policies, Newsbusters, yesterday.

Chaser: Twenty-Five Years Later, Tawana Brawley Tracked Down In Virginia And Hit With Roughly $500,000 Bill.

—Jonathan Turley, February 1st, 2013.

Hangover: A Note to Democrats Over Forty Years Old.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: ‘Band-Aid on a bullet wound’: What America’s new war looks like in Afghanistan’s most violent province.

NOBEL PEACE PRICE UPDATE: Iraq Braces for New Wave of Refugees as 1.5M Threatened by Battle for Mosul.

Flashback: President Obama Has Ended the War in Iraq.

HE SAID THAT ABOUT BUYING HEALTH INSURANCE, TOO. HOW DID THAT WORK OUT? Filing Taxes Should Be As Easy As Ordering Pizza, Obama Says.

CLINTON TEAM RAN* HIGHLY SCRIPTED CAMPAIGN, WIKILEAKS EMAILS INDICATE:

Many of the messages, if authentic, would appear to demonstrate the huge size of Clinton’s campaign team. Based on these emails it is not uncommon for six or seven of Clinton’s senior staff, including Podesta, Mook and three or four members of her communications team to weigh in on, edit and re-edit a single proposed tweet, let alone scrutinize proposed, formal campaign statements.

“A team of 7 people editing your tweets is God’s way of telling you you shouldn’t be president of the United States, Iowahawk correctly notes. “If you don’t vote for the rabid orangutan, you’re voting for the animatronic pantsuit operated by a committee of campaign consultants,” he added, writing that in November, “your choice is between someone who tweets like an idiot and someone who requires a small army of editors to avoid tweeting like an idiot.”

* Note the use of the past tense.

WORST. ELECTION. EVER. New Poll Shows Trump-Clinton Tied In Alaska.

Neither major party candidate has even 40% of the vote, and even at this late date 17% of Alaskans remain undecided.

WIKILEAKS: HILLARY PITCHED AS ‘KIND OF FUNNY, SLIGHTLY B*TCHY PERSON’ TO BROADEN APPEAL TO YOUTH VOTERS.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

If the parties were reversed in the NC firebombing, we'd be gearing up for a big national conversation about dangerous rhetoric.

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 16, 2016

After eight years of Obama, mostly I’m tired of the official harangues.

I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS. BUT IT’S ALIENS. Strange signals from 234 stars could be ET – or human error.

BREAKING: Trump son-in-law makes approach on post-election TV start-up.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has informally approached one of the media industry’s top dealmakers about the prospect of setting up a Trump television network after the presidential election in November.

Mr Kushner — an increasingly influential figure in the billionaire’s presidential campaign — contacted Aryeh Bourkoff, the founder and chief executive of LionTree, a boutique investment bank, within the past couple of months, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

Their conversation was brief and has not progressed since, the people said. Mr Bourkoff and Mr Kushner both declined to comment.

However, the approach suggests Mr Kushner and the Republican candidate himself are thinking about how to capitalise on the populist movement that has sprung up around their campaign in the event of an election defeat to Democrat Hillary Clinton next month.

There doesn’t seem to be much meat to this story, or at least not yet.

RATS ON THE WEST SIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN: Business is booming for lice-removal entrepreneurs.

2016, man.

MURDER IN BRENTWOOD: “As much as I worry for residents of Brentwood, I also get angry when I look at the lack of nationwide reporting. Other than a couple of stories on Fox News, and in conservative-leaning outlets like The Daily Caller, the Brentwood murders are not getting any coverage outside of New York. Try searching for the names of any of the four victims on Google. I challenge you to find any other outlet outside of New York reporting on this story. In a mainstream media very supportive of Black Lives Matter and unchecked Hispanic immigration, I fear that the reason this story isn’t being covered nationally is because it goes against too many narratives. That’s unacceptable.”

WHY COULD THAT BE? While gaining female support, voters still question Clinton’s truthfulness.

But then there’s this:

In the ABC poll, Clinton beats Trump by +8 on who voters trust more to handle ethics in government. CLINTON WINS THAT. Let that sink in.

— Kristen S Anderson (@KSoltisAnderson) October 16, 2016

2016, man.

SO WHEN I SHARED THIS ON FACEBOOK A FEW DAYS AGO, SOME PEOPLE DOUBTED THAT IT WAS REAL: Flight attendant to black female doctor: ‘We’re looking for actual physicians.’

But it seems to be, which is sad. And crazy — who, at this point, hasn’t met black female doctors?

HE WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE. HE WHO CONTROLS THE PRESENT CONTROLS THE PAST: Leftist Historians Lie To You So Their Politicians Can Win.

Read the whole thing.

RESET: Russia’s War With The US Isn’t A Possibility, It’s Already Here.

After months of speculation regarding the hacking of recent political figures and organizations, the U.S. intelligence community announced last week that it is “confident” that Russia is responsible. Wikileaks, a primary publisher of the documents resulting from those hacks, is making it evidently clear that it is targeting U.S. politics. U.S. intelligence officials also acknowledge that Russia may have a hand in hacks of various state electoral systems.

The massive amounts of information contained in the hacks is nothing short of damning, especially for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, but the releases could also be one of the largest information warfare campaigns in history. While there are questions over whether diplomatic differences between the Kremlin and Washington could go from harsh words to actual combat, kinetic attacks may not be necessary to constitute a dangerous conflict.

“There are certain modes of conflict going on now,” Peter Singer, a strategist and senior fellow specializing in modern security threats at New America, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The current conflict between the U.S. and Russia may not fit a traditional definition of war, but it is a conflict nonetheless, he added.

Moscow isn’t trying merely to discredit an American presidential candidate, but to discredit our entire election process. The goal is almost certainly to weaken America abroad by weakening America at home, and in that Putin has had plenty of help from Barack Obama and other American politicians.

PERENNIAL HEADLINE: Another Yale Fail:

In what can only be characterized as a new low in the university building re-naming mania, Yale University, an alma mater of which I am increasingly embarrassed, has recently seen fit to establish a “Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming.” Needless to say, the committee, composed of faculty, alumni and students, has, as a matter of pure demographics, checked all the requisite “diversity” boxes (African-American, Hispanic, Asian, etc.), but it has failed to check the far more basic box of whether or not its fundamental mission would pass the laugh test in a sane society.

Private Ogilvy could not be reached for comment.

SMOD COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: The apocalypse is off for now; ISIS flees village where it prophesied doomsday battle.

Instead of waging an epic battle, however, the last Islamic State fighters defending Dabiq fled Sunday without a fight in the face of an advance by a small force of Free Syrian Army rebels, backed by Turkey and by U.S. airstrikes.

The loss of Dabiq was of more symbolic than strategic importance to the wider war, a fresh humiliation for the Islamic State, which lured volunteer fighters from around the world with promises of building a mighty Islamist empire.

ISIS-held Mosul is under attack by Iraqi-American forces, too.