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June 9, 2018
‘ARE YOU JESUS-SPLAINING IMMIGRATION TO ME?!?’ Kurt Schlichter Blows Up Fox News Panel On Illegal Immigrants.
Somebody’s read his Rules for Radicals…
(Via Small Dead Animals.)
BOBBY KENNEDY, FIFTY YEARS ON:
A lot of the gauzy image of RFK owes to his horrible killing and a lot of romantic revisionism by liberals, just as they did with JFK and the contrived “Camelot” legend after JFK’s killing in 1963. Perhaps the worst thing that could have happened to Robert Kennedy’s reputation is if he had not been killed. First of all, it is unlikely he’d have won the Democratic nomination in 1968. On the morning of the California primary 50 years ago today, Hubert Humphrey remarked to an aide: “I want Bobby to win big. Number one, there are too many party leaders opposed to him for him to have any real chance of winning the nomination. Number two, since Oregon [where Kennedy had lost to McCarthy], he can’t use the argument that he went right through the primaries.” Bobby didn’t win big; his margin over McCarthy was only 5 percent—short of the landslide he needed. Incidentally, Kennedy played the racial demagogue with McCarthy in their one TV debate, with the totally false charge that “You say you want to move 10,000 black people to Orange County. . .” So much for the “racial healer.”
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The more durable strain of romantic myth is that King and Kennedy’s killings spelled the end of hope, the end of the dream, that America could redeem itself through politics. “With King and Kennedy dead,” New Left historian Todd Gitlin wrote, “a promise of redemption not only passed out of American politics, it passed out of ourselves,” and Carl Oglesby of the SDS said “When these two heroes were killed, the movement was silenced. The whole procedural foundation of our politics was shattered.” This is nonsense, an exercise in selective memory and convenient revisionism: prior to their death the Left had little use for King, and no use for Kennedy. Remember that after King’s killing Stokely Carmichael said, “Bobby Kennedy pulled that trigger, just as well as anybody else.” Kennedy especially was a threat to the New Left precisely because he appealed to the same youth constituency the New Left needed to survive and prosper. Kennedy’s position on Vietnam was to the right of McCarthy (and was not that far different from the “Vietnamization” policy that Nixon later embraced). Tom Hayden always made great show about attending RFK’s funeral, holding his Cuban army cap in hand, tears streaming down his face. Yet only a few days before Kennedy was killed Hayden had referred to Kennedy as “a little fascist.”
I’m not sure how much room Hayden had to talk on that last subject, but as RFK told Kansas State U in March of 1968, quoting from early “Progressive” William Allen White, “If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all their youthful vision and vigor then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.”
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
GREAT MOMENTS IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Mayor Dances For Joy After Judge Protects Philadelphia’s Sanctuary City Status.
AT AMAZON, save on Men’s Khakis and Chinos.
DISNEY’S RUN OF BAD LUCK CONTINUES: John Lasseter is leaving Disney and Pixar for good after misconduct allegations.
BILL CLINTON DEFENDS AL FRANKEN: It Was a ‘Difficult Case’ and the SNL Women Defended Him.
NOW THIS IS DOING PR RIGHT: Bureaucrats Shut Down Your Kids’ Lemonade Stands? Country Time Will Pay the Fines.
THE PRESS IS DETERMINED TO CLAIM TRUMP IS “POLITICIZING” FOOTBALL. Have They Not Noticed Their Leftist Allies Politicizing Football, and Everything Else, For a Decade?
The left wanted a culture war. Apparently they forget that the other side can fire back during one.
ALWAYS TRUST THE STATE. IT KNOWS BEST: Florida Issued Concealed Weapon Permits for a Year Without Required Background Checks.
TIME-WARNER-CNN-HBO SPOKESMAN WANTS YOU UNEMPLOYED. Bill Maher: “I’m hoping for it because one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession.”
As Kurt Schlichter likes to say, “The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly.”
Was O’Brien’s story an intrusion into a private citizen’s personal life for the purpose of shaming her before a mass audience, was it an overzealous exposé of a newsworthy subject that went too far by prying into her family members’ lives, or was it a righteous piece of investigative journalism that unmasked an insidious hatemonger? People disagreed. Some who chose the first answer, people we might label right-wing Internet trolls, decided to do something that by now should be decidedly unsurprising: publish the personal information of several Huffington Post employees and their families on the Internet.
Who could have seen it coming?
Read the whole thing.
LEAVING LAKENHEATH: An HH-60G Pave Hawk departs the RAF base at Lakenheath, England, for Aviano, Italy.
AT AMAZON, ASICS Womens Gel-Kayano 25.
NOW THAT HE AND HILLARY ARE NO LONGER USEFUL TO THE PARTY, THEY CAN SAFELY AIRBRUSHED AWAY: Bill Clinton’s #MeToo Reckoning.
STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF FARRAKHAN, THE FEMINIST. Farrakhan on #MeToo and the Jews. What could go wrong?
Farrakhan, who denies he is anti-Semitic, contends that Jews control most of the media, entertainment, and global politics. Farrakhan even referenced the #MeToo movement, saying: “The #MeToo Movement is real, women are tired of being misused by men in power.”
In calling out Harvey Weinstein, Farrakhan insisted the disgraced mogul is not really a Jew:
Mr. Weinstein is not a Jew. He’s Satanic. But he’s committing blasphemy by saying he’s a Jew. The name Jew is a good name, it means one who has a covenant relationship with God.
A righteous Jew will practice righteousness; the false Jew will lead you to filth and indecency. That’s who runs show business, that’s who runs the record industry, that’s who runs television. And in that, there are Jews that have no respect and now they are being outed with the #MeToo Movement.
This week, the Final Call tweeted more lines from Farrakhan’s address about the Weinstein question: “Do you know that many of us who go to Hollywood seeking a chance have to submit to anal sex and all kind of debauchery and they give you a little part? It’s called the casting couch. See that’s Jewish power.”
Related: “Twitter Blocked The Wire Creator David Simon, And He Isn’t Having It.” Farrakhan though? So far though, he’s golden with Twitter management, despite tweeting on Wednesday, “Thoroughly and completely unmasking the Satanic Jew and the Synagogue of Satan,” along with a link to one of his YouTube videos.
(Classical allusion in headline.)
June 8, 2018
NO OPEN THREAD TONIGHT: The PJM technical boffins are performing a server migration tonight and any comments posted here will not survive tonight’s upgrade. The open thread will return tomorrow, same Insta-time, same Insta-channel.
TRUMP: YES, I’LL PROBABLY BACK ELIZABETH WARREN’S BILL TO FORCE THE FEDS TO FOLLOW STATE MARIJUANA LAWS.
Democrats are surely going to press this issue in the next few years when they retake power and doing something on legalization now will weaken Democratic efforts to use marijuana as a rallying-point issue this fall for younger voters. Plus, I think it tickles Trump to see himself getting good press for measures like pardons and marijuana liberalization that Obama, the great progressive hope, was too timid to pursue. Only Nixon can go to China, only Trump can pardon Nat Turner while smoking a bowl.
As Red State notes, Today President Trump May Have Put the Libertarian Party Out of Business And Locked Up the Millennial Vote For 2020.
Heh, indeed.™
THE BARBARY PIRATES: ISLAMIC TERRORISM AND AMERICA’S FIRST MILITARY VICTORY.
An excerpt from Raymond Ibrahim’s forthcoming book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, with a foreword by Victor Davis Hanson.
“I LEAVE WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT I LIVED THE LIFE THAT I INTENDED”–CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: That’s really a remarkable sentiment–both because it’s true and because he knows it’s true. May we all be so fortunate.