FAKE NEWS ABOUT FAKE NEWS: “In a lengthy essay posted today, Politico considers what it called the ‘long and brutal history of fake news’ — and offers up, as if it were true, the fake tale of William Randolph Hearst’s vowing to ‘furnish the war’ with Spain.”
This is by Prof. W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism. Because “fake news” wasn’t invented yesterday, or by the Russians.
I THINK OKLAHOMA’S STATE LEGISLATURE NEEDS TO LOOK INTO THIS: Hate Speech Hysteria at the University of Oklahoma. “The University of Oklahoma, like other American institutions of higher education, has become hopelessly politicized. The fact that Oklahoma is a conservative state doesn’t help, rather it exacerbates the aggravation of the faculty. Most faculty at OU are not native Oklahomans, they are transplants from other states and foreign countries. They view themselves as a besieged island of sanity in a sea of bigotry. Eternal vigilance and zero tolerance are necessary, because the Ku Klux Klan lurks around every corner, carrying ropes and burning crosses. While conservatives view leftists as people with bad ideas, leftists don’t look upon conservatives as people who even have ideas — they’re just bad people who must be rooted out, suppressed, and excluded. This quest has now superseded any pretense to education. The OU Campus is in the grip of a moral frenzy, the very definition of a witch hunt.”
DAVID WARREN ON TRUMP’S NON-IVY APPOINTMENTS:
Today, the populist Trump is doing something remarkable. He is making appointments not from the “Ivy League.” Candidates from Harvard, Yale, and Columbia — who overwhelmingly populate the senior bureaucacy of Obama, as other administrations going back to FDR, if not to Woodrow Wilson, or Adams — suddenly evacuate the gene pool. This, to my mind, is a significant development; one I was not entirely expecting. Trump has the nerve to look across the rest of America for talent and good sense. Somehow he noticed in his flyovers from Manhattan that there were people down there.
Well, he hasn’t abolished the Ivy League yet, but there’s hope. And this is pro-equality, right? So the left should love it.
21ST CENTURY CRIME: New York Man to Be Sentenced in Plot to Target Muslims With X-Ray Gun.
STEVEN HAYWARD ON The New York Times’ talk of its restructuring: “This is Spinal Tap territory. Playing the Ian Faith role in explaining that the New York Times‘s appeal isn’t shrinking but is merely becoming ‘more selective’ is publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.”
PRIVACY: Turkey blocks Tor’s anonymity network.
Turkey’s President Erdogan and the ruling AKP party are increasingly bent on silencing online dissent, and that now affects you even if you’re smart enough to evade typical censorship methods. Watchdog group Turkey Blocks has confirmed that Turkey is blocking the Tor anonymity network’s direct access mode for most users. You can still use a bridge mode for now, but there are hints that internet providers might be hurting performance even then. The restrictions come alongside a recent government ban on virtual private network services.
While this doesn’t completely shut off anonymity, it marks the start of a disconcerting chapter in the Erdogan regime’s bid to hold on to power. Previously, it was focused on blocking publicly available social networks whenever there are signs of unrest, making it harder for opposition movements to solidify and organize protests.
Turkey remains a member of a military alliance founded to defend one another from dictatorial control.
Related: The Deranged Twitter Thread That shows How Establishment Liberals Have Lost Their Minds. “Clearly something horrifying has happened to America’s great liberal intellects. One moment they were yapping along in the train of a historic political movement; now, ragged and destitute, they wander with lolling tongues in search of anything that might explain their new world to them.”
Send them Surber’s post.
ANN ALTHOUSE PARSES DONNA BRAZILE: As I watched that live, I thought Brazile said “leaked” then caught herself and substituted the word “stolen.” I think she did not mean to say “leaked.” That made me suspicious! Did the truth slip out? Video at the link.
If it turns out that the emails were leaked by a DNC insider — as many believe — then what does that say for the narrative?
WHY DO FEMINISTS HATE WOMEN? Feminists’ mom-shaming of Kellyanne Conway is out of control.
REMEMBERING THE GREATS: An Interview with Poul Anderson. Minicon 10, Minneapolis, MN, April 18-20, 1975
HE’S A SURVIVOR: A Bizarre New Species Of Fish Has Been Discovered At A Record Depth .
WELL, I CERTAINLY THINK THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO HONOR OBAMA: New Species of 2016.
As US President Barack Obama prepares to leave the White House, he can rest assured that his name will live on in a new genus of parasitic flatworm, which infects turtles in Malaysia. The proposed name: Baracktrema obamai.
NOT FOR THE ARACHNOPHOBES AMONG US: Watch Baby Spiders Emerge From Mysterious “Silkhenge” Structures.
THE MSM IS DOING WHAT THEY ALWAYS DO: ‘Fake news’ didn’t become a problem until Nov. 11.
OH, 2016, COULD YOU GET MORE SURREAL? Black Father-Daughter Trump Electors Receive Death Threats, Called Bigots for Supporting Trump.
DANCING WITH THE DEVIL: Meth gangs of China play star role in Philippines drug crisis.
IT’S LIKE THERE IS REALLY IS AN AXIS OF EVIL OF SOMETHING: The Audacity Of Silence On Possible Iran-North Korea Nuclear Ties.
I DON’T CARE WHAT THE EARTH IS DOING, PROVIDED THEY STOP PRESCRIBING ANTI-CAPITALISM AS A SOLUTION: Sorry Global Warming Alarmists, The Earth Is Cooling. Mind you, I never understood WHY one would be scared of global warming. When the Earth warms up, humanity prospers. When the Earth cools, humanity suffers. Unless of course, they don’t like humanity. Oh, wait…
YOU’RE GOING TO NEED A TOUGHER PAJAMAS: BED-WETTERS UNITE: [A FISKING OF] Guide To Violently Prevent Trump From Taking Power
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