FAKE NEWS: ‘Morning Joe,’ did you really just pretape your post-Thanksgiving banter? “The hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” did the usual day-after Thanksgiving kibitzing on the air on Friday morning, telling viewers about their turkey dinners and mentioning the big football game the night before. One problem: None of those things had actually happened at the time Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Co. started talking about them. The program that aired Friday morning was taped Wednesday, but made to look and sound as if it was airing live.”

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Flies Spread Germs Around Cities. “The insects are not only annoying by trying to land on your meal or crawling over kitchen countertops, they also carry more diseases than previously thought. And their legs and their wings are teeming with pathogens that hitch a ride after the flies land on dead carcasses or feces and then spread them to new surfaces.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “One of the rituals of Thanksgiving weekend is heading out to see a movie. And so, with that in mind, let me do you a mitzvah: Do not see Justice League. Under any circumstances do not go to see Justice League.”

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HMM: Why Is This Bacterium Hiding in Human Tumors? Whether Fusobacterium nucleatum causes colon tumors is unknown. But a new study hints that it may be ‘an integral part of the cancer.’

LEFTIES WILL REGRET THE PRECEDENT: Targeting Ajit Pai’s children, house. I contacted Pai, who confirms this happened, and adds: “Many other issues, too, from specific online threats to the kids to harassment of my wife on her work email accounts.”

CHANGE: Mark Cuban Provides Roadmap for Trustbusting the Tech Lords of Silicon Valley.

DOES EASY DIVORCE LEAD TO MORE ASSORTATIVE MATING? “These are my words, not hers, but I think of this as yet another way that elites selfishly have pushed for looser social and sexual and romantic norms, without much worrying about the resulting broader impact on inequality and lower earners and the less educated.”

THIS IS TERRIBLE CRIMETHINK, UNLESS YOU CAN WORK IT OUT SO THAT WOMEN COME OFF AS SUPERIOR: Male and female brains wired differently, scans reveal. But there’s this: “I was surprised that it matched a lot of the stereotypes that we think we have in our heads.”

THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS: It appears the next wave of problems for social media is “comment poisoning.” I can see a group (The Russians!!! The Russians!!!) sabotaging opponents and forcing removal of YouTube channels by simply adding offensive comments. Sez The Wall Street Journal:

“The Times of London reported that YouTube videos featuring young girls—in many cases apparently filming themselves, sometimes in underwear—drew hundreds of pedophiliac comments, including encouragement to do lewd acts and links to child-abuse content. The Times reported that the site displayed recommendations for similar videos, such as a view of naked toddlers taking a bath […] Videos, if posted innocently, might not in and of themselves violate YouTube’s terms of service; however, many comments posted by viewers clearly do.”

This is the same reason that many blogs, like AboveTheLaw have simply dropped their comment sections. The cost of policing trolls, ‘bots and spam is simply not worth the return on investment.

BECAUSE, AS A WHITE REPUBLICAN MALE, HE’S THE DESIGNATED VILLAIN IN EVERY STORY: Why is WaPo treating Joe Barton like a villain rather than a victim after someone published his nude pic? “He used laughably poor judgment in sending the photo to begin with but the recipient behaved less morally by violating his confidence than he did in sending it to her. And yet, to read WaPo, you’d think he had wronged her, not vice versa. How come?”

And suddenly lefties are skeptical about the whole concept of “revenge porn.”

THE PARTY LINE CHANGES WITH THE PARTY’S NEEDS. THAT’S WHY YOU HAVE A PARTY LINE. Kathleen Sebelius is the latest Democrat apologist to sing a new tune.

Related: Linda Tripp on the left’s reassessment of Bill Clinton: ‘They have nothing to lose, and this is now permissible.’

JOURNALISM: #PIEGATE: Sarah Sanders accused of using stock photo for Thanksgiving tweet.

They told me if Trump were elected, women would be reduced to making catty remarks about each other’s baking skills. And they were right!

GOOD FOR ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: Berkeley law prof: ‘All ideas and views can be expressed on a college campus. Period.’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: SUNY Albany event calls Thanksgiving ‘a day of mourning.’

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JOURNALISM: CNN Fails To Report These 24 Democrat Sex Scandals. Think of them as . . . oh, hell, you know the rest.

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