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October 27, 2018
WELL, ALSO IT WAS A CRAPPY VACCINE THAT YEAR: Did low vaccination rates help make the last flu season so deadly?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: These are the bad things about early retirement that no one talks about.
(Via Newsalert.)
BLUE WAVE? Flop Sweat: Democrats Pour Nearly Three Million More Dollars Into…New Jersey.
Don’t get cocky.
MORE ON PITTSBURGH: Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Allegedly Entered Shouting “All Jews Must Die.”
Meanwhile, the brave moral arbiters of the press are here to tell us that Jews kinda deserve it, since Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem or something.
THIS WEEK IN MEDIA BIAS HISTORY: Then-ABC News President David Westin Can’t Say If Pentagon Attack Was Wrong.
NOBODY’S PERFECT: U.S. Air Force Accidentally Drops Humvee on Civilian Neighborhood. “An Army spokesman said that the airdrop had been conducted by the service’s Operational Test Command as they tested a new parachute system for heavy equipment. The three parachutes designed to gently lower the Humvee to the ground worked, he said, and the test ‘went as planned—except for the early release.'”
IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN: Obama Says Politicians Lying Is Something ‘We Have Not Seen Before.’ Here Are Three Of His Biggest Whoppers.
Of course, we’re dealing with the guy who was quoted as saying, “I actually believe my own bullshit,” so perhaps he’s living out George Costanza’s belief that “it’s not a lie, if you believe it.”
MEGYN KELLY IS BEING FIRED BECAUSE SHE SHONE TOO MUCH LIGHT ON NBC’S #METOO PROBLEM:
But most damningly, Kelly has made it clear that she will not welcome back abusers. When asked about Matt Lauer, NBC’s lovely, $20 million anchor who had a door lock on his desk to more easily prey on female subordinates, Kelly minced as few words as she could without condemning her employers for their complicity in Lauer’s persistent harassment.
“I know too much that others don’t know,” Kelly said when asked about the allegation. Kelly interviewed his accusers on her morning show, sending a public warning shot not just to Lauer, but to his many remaining NBC loyalists, that a remorseful comeback would not be tolerated.
Hollywood gossip giants have known of the tension between Kelly and NBC News chairman Andy Lack due to her reporting for half a year. But beware of the all-too convenient narrative that Kelly’s demise would come from a since-rectified gaffe. NBC knew they bought an anchor used to Fox News prime time rather than the ease of morning shows. But Kelly also fought a president and a prime-time guru. No doubt Andy Lack underestimated her potential to doggedly cover her own company’s malpractice.
Gentlemen (and ladies), you can’t do journalism here — this is NBC News!
IN THE MAIL: From Bill Lee, This Road I’m On: The Power of Hope in the Face of Adversity.
“IN TIMES LIKE THESE, IT IS HELPFUL TO REMEMBER THAT THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TIMES LIKE THESE.” – Paul Harvey. “Yes, things are going crazy. Someone in an article on a news site commented that this year has been tumblr fan fiction weird. It has. Yet this has not been the first crazy year ever — or necessarily the craziest year.”
Read the whole thing.
IT’S COME TO THIS: HBO To Have An ‘Intimacy Coordinator’ On Set For All Sex Scenes Now.
AMERICA’S 18 MOST DANGEROUS VOLCANOES: Hawaii’s Mount Kilauea is number one. Seattle and Portland are uncomfortably close to two others on the list, Mount Rainier and Mount Hood, respectively.
TODAY IN HISTORY: On October 27, 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers (this one written by Alexander Hamilton) was published and handed out on street corners in New York. Over the course of the next 10 months, 85 short little essays were hastily written by Hamilton, John Jay, or James Madison and distributed. Each explained some aspect of the proposed Constitution and advocated for its ratification. They weren’t written for the ages, but a few of them nevertheless became classics of political theory. And they are worth reading as a group.
I once wrote a paper that asked whether law professors were following in the footsteps of the authors of the Federalist Papers by blogging instead of writing battleship law review articles that hardly anybody reads. But upon reflection … I must have been on drugs.
SWEDISH ROYAL NAVY CORVETTE KARLSTAD: Docks in Trondheim, Norway. Swedish forces are participating in NATO’S Exercise Trident Juncture.
IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SHE CUTS A DUET WITH THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS CAT STEVENS. Singer Sinéad O’Connor Becomes A Muslim: ‘All Scripture Study Leads To Islam.’
MEDIA WHIPLASH ALERT: Time magazine asks, “Why Are We All Having So Little Sex?,” just a few weeks after the DNC-MSM scolded Brett Kavanaugh en masse about his sex life 35 years ago.
Earlier: The Sexual Revolution Is Over.