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February 11, 2017
WELL, THE CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES SOMETIMES GO LEFT, BUT THE LEFTIST JUDGES NEVER GO RIGHT: “As seriously botched as this Ninth Circuit opinion is, all sides assume that all 4 Democrat-appointed Justices on the SCOTUS would vote to uphold it if it were appealed to an 8 Justice Court. That perception, more than any disparaging words of Donald Trump, should dishearten any lawyer or judge in the USA.”
SPIRO AGNEW’S MEDIA LEGACY: TRUMP, OBAMA AND TIME MAGAZINE:
What Spiro Agnew accomplished with that speech in Des Moines was to quite openly and publicly turn the tables on the mainstream media by casting doubt on their ability to tell the truth in an unbiased fashion. From that moment on, the media – television networks and newspapers and magazines all — found their credibility increasingly under assault. This before Fox News and talk radio — and the Media Research Center — were even a gleam in the conservative eye.
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The difference this time? The difference is that the Trump White House — led by the President himself — is forcefully fighting back. Directly and routinely singling out various outlets and questioning everything from the accuracy of specific facts to the reporting of specific reporters.
How will this end? The betting here is that it won’t end. For the duration of the Trump White House the media writ large and writ small is going to be given what might be called “extreme vetting” by this White House. There will be an endless back and forth between president and press that once upon a time would have been unthinkable.
Good. Far better to fight back than to simply allow yourself to be pummeled endlessly by the DNC-MSM as George W. Bush did.
CONSCIOUSLY AND DELIBERATELY? Bryan Caplan: How Econ Textbooks Sanitize the Horrors of Communism.
LOOKING AT THE PICTURE, I WONDER IF TRUDEAU’S HAIR IS HIS OWN: Canadians deeply dislike Trump, but prefer him to Trudeau on economy, security: poll.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Georgetown Prof Defends Islamic Slavery.
UN ERUPTS IN UPROAR AFTER TRUMP AND NIKKI HALEY VETO HIGH POST FOR EX-PREMIER OF ‘PALESTINE:’
A new administration in disarray botches one of its first big moves, gets overruled, and then cries foul. Sounds familiar? Welcome to the United Nations under Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
On Thursday, Mr. Guterres nominated a former Palestinian Authority prime minister, Salam Fayyad, to be the United Nations’ envoy in Libya. He asked for Security Council approval. On Friday, America’s new permanent representative at the UN, Ambassador Nikki Haley, unceremoniously declined to approve.
Much of the commentariat rushed to criticize Ms. Haley, contending she, rather than Mr. Guterres, didn’t think through the ramifications of the affair. The Trump administration, which Mrs. Haley represents, has botched a few operations of late.
This one, though, is on Mr. Guterres, who assumed office January 1 and has yet to get administration in order. “You don’t send a nomination for Security Council approval before making sure all involved are on board, especially when it’s so full of obvious sensitivities,” said a veteran United Nations official.
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“The United States does not currently recognize a Palestinian state or support the signal this appointment would send within the United Nations,” Ambassador Haley wrote in a statement Friday night, adding she was “disappointed” to see Mr. Guterres’ letter.
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WELL, IT WAS WRITTEN ABOUT COMMUNISTS, SO YEAH: Brendan O’Neill: Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Describes the Authoritarian Left Better Than It Does Trump.
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AS GLENN NOTED YESTERDAY, SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, WAPO SUCKERED BY FAKE FRED TRUMP 1969 MAYORAL CAMPAIGN ADS:
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, who writes the paper’s “Fact Check” column, also shared the videos on Twitter, before later deleting the tweets.
The videos were created and uploaded to Youtube and Vimeo last year by “Historical Paroxysm,” an art project that creates and shares “found footage from alternate realities.” Other videos uploaded by Historical Paroxysm include (fake) saran wrap ads supposedly from 1988 and sex-free pornography supposedly from 1991. Both the saran wrap ads ad the porn videos were created by Laura Moss, a freelance filmmaker.
Historical Paroxysm identifies itself as an anonymous collective, but it appears to be run by Moss and her husband, Brendan O’Brien. On IMDb, Moss is credited as the co-writer and director of “Porn Without Sex,” the fake 1991 porn film, while O’Brien is credited as the co-writer and co-producer. And it was O’Brien who posted the supposed Fred Trump campaign ads on Historical Paroxysm’s account in October.
On the same day that O’Brien posted the Fred Trump ads, independent producer Devin Landin shared the “Dope Man” video with a comment suggesting that it was deliberately created as a commentary on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Here’s the fake ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF73wOI1sz0
It’s funny though, the “racist” fake Fred Trump ad isn’t that far removed from the real campaign ads of the “Progressive” John Lindsay’s 1969 reelection bid; one ad’s thinly disguised racist motto was vote for Lindsay because, hey, at least New York isn’t the war-torn urban moonscape of Newark:
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SCOTT JOHNSON ON the Ninth Circuit’s sua sponte en banc motion. “In other words, no party moved for the rehearing; one of the court’s many judges did so on his own (i.e., sua sponte). I’m guessing it might be Judge Kozinski or Judge Bybee. I would love to hear from a knowledgeable court watcher on this point. . . .The Ninth Circuit is so unwieldy it doesn’t actually rehear cases en banc; it rehears them in enlarged panels drawn from the whole roster of regular active judges on the court and calls the enlarged panels en banc.”
Related: Jeffrey Toobin: The Vulnerabilities in the Ninth Circuit’s Executive-Order Decision.
Plus, thoughts from Michael McConnell: ‘A flawed restraining of a flawed order.’
CHRISTIAN TOTO: 5 Lousy Movies That Killed Their Franchises.
Not on the list? Either of the Alien vs Predator movies should have been enough to kill both franchises, but sadly, no.
THE NEW DODGE DEMON: It Will Probably Be the Fastest Muscle Car Ever at Over 900hp.
The Demon will weigh about 215 pounds less than a Hellcat, reported Motor Authority. A Hellcat weighs in at about 4,448 pounds. To cut the weight, Dodge has reportedly removed the passenger front seat and rear bench seat.
Dodge has also introduced the Demon Crate, a special equipment pack that turns the car from a regular street ride into to an all-out drag-strip demolisher. Dodge claims the crate will boast 18 parts that set the car up for the drag strip, including performance parts, track tools, spare wheels and something it calls the “Demon Track Pack System.”
But, some new fuel to the fire on what the Demon will be just got tossed on the fire.
In the below Instagram post by Ryan Nagode on Tuesday evening, a designer at Fiat/Chrysler (the photo is taken from HQ; a Dodge spokeswoman confirmed Nagode’s employment), an image appears to show the Demon’s refreshed infotainment system. On the performance page, there is a dyno graph showing a peak horsepower of about 900. The graph goes up to 1,000 horsepower. If true, the Demon will have significantly more power than the already ludicrous Hellcat.
Wow.