IT’S COME TO THIS: “CNN political commentator Hilary Rosen accused a Georgetown student of anti-semitism and bigotry because he wore a bacon-themed onesie to a basketball game.”

He’s an anonymous potential viewer – better doxx the daylights out of him, CNN! Or hire him as a newsreader, if he actually is anti-Semitic.

UPDATE: CNN contributor jumps to conclusions and is left eating crow. “It turns out the fan’s name is Michael Bakan, and he regularly wears the get-up just because his last name is pronounced like the non-Kosher breakfast staple.”

This is CNN.

PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT WHO’VE BEEN WARNING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS HAVE BEEN CALLED RACIST ISLAMOPHOBES, BUTU NOW IT’S REACHED THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Uncomfortable Truth About Swedish Anti-Semitism. “Historically, anti-Semitism in Sweden could mainly be attributed to right-wing extremists. While this problem persists, a study from 2013 showed that 51 percent of anti-Semitic incidents in Sweden were attributed to Muslim extremists. Only 5 percent were carried out by right-wing extremists; 25 percent were perpetrated by left-wing extremists. Swedish politicians have no problem condemning anti-Semitism carried out by right-wingers. . . . There is, however, tremendous hesitation to speak out against hate crimes committed by members of another minority group in a country that prides itself on welcoming minorities and immigrants. In 2015, Sweden was second only to Germany in the number of Syrian refugees it welcomed. Yet the three men arrested in the Molotov cocktail attack were newly arrived immigrants, two Syrians and a Palestinian.”

Yet.

VIDEO: The Al Jazeera Interview With Israeli Scholar I Bet They Now Regret.

THERE’S A LOT OF WEIRD SEX IN JAPAN: Scientists Say Japanese Monkeys Are Having ‘Sexual Interactions’ With Deer. My question is, was the deer’s consent “affirmative and enthusiastic?”

THE DARK NIGHT OF FASCISM IS ALWAYS DESCENDING IN THE UNITED STATES AND YET LANDS ONLY IN EUROPE: “Pupils of the St-Gregorius College (a high school) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, recently participated in an event organized by DOX, a left-wing organization. DOX got the pupils to sing and dance to a song with lyrics such as ‘[Geert] Wilders rot op!’ (‘Wilders F— Off!’).”

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: IT’S FOR KEEPS. “But perhaps the most salient and disturbing lesson of the Alabama campaign is both sides are truly at political war. The sound of the closing polls was the sound of the door of history shutting behind us.”

A WHOLE WORLDVIEW IN A NUTSHELL: “The species may stop reproducing, but who the hell cares.”

SCOTT PRUITT, THE MAN THEY LOVE TO HATE:

Listing his principles, he started with one he often mentions. “We must reject as a nation the false paradigm that if you are pro-energy, you are anti-environment, and if you are pro-environment, you are anti-energy. I utterly reject that narrative. .  .  . It is not an either-or proposition.”

The New York Times is Pruitt’s most vigorous media critic. In August, it featured a front-page story under the headline “Scott Pruitt Is Carrying Out His E.P.A. Agenda in Secret.” The story, among other things, noted he’s “the first head of the agency to ever request round-the-clock security.”

Smart move by Pruitt. Given the way he’s been demonized, he needs the security. In September, the Washington Post reported that his guards—“triple the manpower” of his predecessors—are pulling agents away from “pursuing environmental crimes.” The story didn’t mention the EPA has 15,000 employees.

Read the whole thing.

Earlier: Think “Progress” melts down because “More than 700 employees have left the EPA since Scott Pruitt took over.” The rest of us think “faster, please.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, WAR ON CHRISTMAS EDITION: ‘Bows’ and ‘wrapped gifts’ now offensive on campus.

An academic department at the University of Minnesota declared that “bows/wrapped gifts” are “not appropriate for gatherings and displays at this time of year.”

According a copy of the guidelines obtained by Campus Reform, UMN’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) encouraged its employees “to recognize holidays in ways that are respectful of the diversity of our community,” recommending a series of steps to take.

“Consider neutral-themed parties such as ‘winter celebration,’” the flyer suggests, adding that “decorations, music, and food should be general and not specific to any one religion.”

I believe Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden are still allowed.

SCOTT JOHNSON: What happened in Wisconsin, cont’d. “The wrongdoing detailed in the WisDoJ report is of the deeply fascist variety that exceeds my poor powers of denunciation. Suffice it to say that it combines the instruments of tyranny — physical torture omitted — in the service of the suppression of conservatives. The story is shocking almost beyond belief. One might ask where the outrage is, but at this point we should probably ask if anyone is paying attention.”

Well, I wrote a column about it. But yeah. It’s gotten about 1% the attention it would get if the parties were reversed.

Related: Wisconsin, The Surveillance State.

HEH: ‘Internet Service Providers Should Not Be Able To Decide What People Can See Online,’ Says Man Who Decides What People Can See Online. “‘All content should be treated equally,’ he added, the slightest hint of a grin curling up the side of his mouth as the video ended.”

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AND ANOTHER ONE: NBC Made Payment To Staffer After Sexual Harassment Claim Against Chris Matthews.

So basically, all the people on the teevee going on about “have you no decency, sir?” are predators and pervs. Our media crowd is just one big Harper Valley PTA.

UPDATE: “MSNBC refused to say whether or not this is the only claim against Matthews.”

SALENA ZITO: Why depression and suicide are rampant among American farmers.

“There is particularly a lot of depression in rural society. It happens for a lot of different reasons. A lot of it is our roller-coaster economics. People outside of farming, I think, understand that farming is hard work. What they don’t understand is the depth of the lows that can hit you at any one time, with just one small problem that can lead to hundreds of little problems.

“I just had the discussion today with my son-in-law,” he explained. “We sold feeder steers. We missed by about 50 pounds what we were hoping to get. Well, that was about another $15,000 worth of income we’re not going to have. That’s a big deal, because the margins are so tough.”

His brother, who works on the ranch and keeps the books, told him that their diverse operation of crops and livestock should bring in enough money to keep the 3,500-acre ranch going next year. “You know, pay taxes, make sure you have money to pay people, pay for your seed, your fertilizer. And hope to hell no big catastrophes hit you in the side of the head.”

The 2016 CDC study of approximately 40,000 suicides reported in the US in 2012 — the most recent year for which statistics are available — showed that the rate for agriculture workers is 84.5 per 100,000. The next occupation most at risk were construction, extraction, installation, maintenance and repair workers who had a suicide rate hovering around the 50 per 100,000 mark. Meanwhile, the suicide rate among American male veterans is 37 per 100,000, according to a 2016 study by the Veterans Affairs department.

Read the whole thing.

ANOTHER RUBE SELF-IDENTIFIES: I’m A Brown Woman Who’s Breaking Up With The Democratic Party: I realize now that the love has been one-sided.

The first vote I ever cast, at 18, was for Bill Clinton. The last vote I cast was for his wife, Hillary. My adoration for Hillary bordered on mania. In college, I named my ficus plant after her. Twenty years later, I canvassed, held fundraisers, dragged my 8-year-old daughter door to door, proudly wore HRC’s face on T-shirts and housed campaign volunteers in my home.

I loved you so much that I cried each time I voted. Thinking about the women who died fighting for my right to vote did it every time. I cried when I voted for Bill. For Barack Obama. I wept when I voted for Hillary. You’ve been that kind of mad love to me.

And now I want to break up.

I realize now that the love has been one-sided, unrequited. You’ve never recognized me, as a brown woman. You’ve taken my love, my money, my tokenism, with nary anything in return. You married the white woman and hooked up with me on the side.

Oh dear. It’s much worse than that.

ONCE YOU START THE IMMIGRATION FLOOD GOING, THINGS GET UGLY ALL OVER: Angry about the slave trade in Libya? Spare some anger for Europe.

While Libya has been known for horrific abuses in its migrant detention centers, Europe has a large role to play in the horrific conditions that have led to black Africans being sold like livestock in Libya. A new report by Amnesty International says that European governments have been “knowingly complicit in the torture and abuses of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities …by actively supporting the Libyan authorities in stopping sea crossings and containing people in Libya.” The report, called “Libya’s Dark Web of Collusion,” says that “the use of aid, trade, and other leverage to push transit countries, including some where widespread and systematic human rights violations against refugees and migrants has been documented, to implement stricter border control measures … risks trapping [them] in countries where they are exposed to serious human rights violations.” Italy and other member states have been supporting the Libyan coast guard to return migrants.

When it comes to Libyan attitudes toward other Africans, the report says that there is a “general acquiescence about detaining sub-Saharan Africans as a means of deterrence”; an unnamed Libyan official said off the record that the migrants and refugees “cannot be left to roam freely, and they will swarm the country.”

Hillary’s unauthorized war against Khadafy, plus Angela Merkel’s open-door policy, produced human tragedy. As virtue-signaling often does.

HAS AL FRANKEN RESIGNED YET? #MeToo? Star guest at last night’s Andrew Cuomo birthday party fundraiser was … Bill Clinton.

It’s like all this concern for women was just a political ruse that’s expired now that Roy Moore lost.

FLASHBACK:

Today: Maria Bartiromo: Dow 24,000 and the Trump boom. “The next morning, with the Trump victory confirmed, I told my colleague Martha MacCallum that I would be ‘buying the stock market with both hands.’ Investors began doing the same. U.S. markets have added $6 trillion in value since the election, with investors around the world wanting in on America’s new growth story. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is now forecasting the third straight quarter of U.S. gross domestic product growth around 3%.”

AND ANOTHER ONE: Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott Accused Of Sexual Harassment. “Another member of the Congressional Black Caucus has been accused of sexual harassment, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA). According to WTKR, Congressman Scott now stands accused of forcing himself on a female staffer and then firing her when she rejected his advances.”

A NICE BOOK FOR THE RIGHT KID: Galoop-a-Doodle: A story about a little girl who really really REALLY wanted a real horse.

FIRST MATTIS, NOW THIS: While Most Of D.C. Slept, Sec. Zinke Wandered A Frozen Arlington Cemetery With A Christmas Wreath.

ANOTHER OPEN THREAD: Talk about whatever you like.